Show #602 1987-03-31 (taped 1986-12-03) Regular

Contestants

Wendy Scott-Williams — a computer operator originally from Williamsville, New York

Jorge Miyares — a college recruiter originally from Havana, Cuba

Ira Fishman — a high school teacher from Daly City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ira $1,000 $1,800 $6,800 $1,800
2nd place: trip to Ocho Rios, Jamaica
$6,800
17 R, 2 W
Jorge $-800 $100 $5,300 $10,500
New champion: $10,500
$6,300
21 R (including 1 DD), 10 W (including 1 DD)
Wendy $0 $1,300 $4,100 $1,200
3rd place: Lloyd/Flanders love seat, lounge chair & end table
$4,100
11 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

INVENTIONS THEATER EASY MATH FAST FOODS POP MUSIC THE RODEO
$100 [1]
Before the 11th c., this eating utensil wasn't placed on the left, because it hadn't been invented
a fork
Wendy
$100 [2]
In 1965, Mike Nichols directed Art Carney & Walter Matthau as this Neil Simon duo
The Odd Couple
Ira Wendy
$100 [4]
2000 ml equals this many liters
2
Ira Jorge
$100 [12]
Worldwide, this company adds over 500 restaurants yearly & does it all for you
McDonald's
Ira
$100 [18]
In a 6th grade production of "Alice in Wonderland", he made his 1st appearance with Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
Jorge
$100 [7]
Most common breed used in bull riding
a Brahma
Ira
$200 [5]
In 1478, the 1st recorded reference to this camping aid called it a "wind bed"
an air mattress
Jorge Wendy
$200 [3]
There were only 2 acts, but 23 scenes, in this 1964 Barbra Streisand musical
Funny Girl
Jorge
$200 [22]
Basic operation in which you would use a minuend
subtraction
Ira
$200 [13]
According to a Gallup poll, a slice of this is the most popular addition to a restaurant sandwich
a tomato
Ira Jorge Wendy
$200 [19]
She taught in a segregated high school before hitting #1 with "The 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
Roberta Flack
Jorge
$200 [8]
Rodeos are popular not only in the U.S. & Canada but also on this English-speaking continent
Australia
Ira
$300 [6]
According to AT&T archives, "dialing" by use of this system was 1st tried in 1892
push-button dialing
$300 [14]
Sport featured in the musicals "Hold Everything" & "Golden Boy"
boxing
Wendy
$300 [23]
Until 1985, Ralston Purina, the Dog Chow co., owned this drive-thru chain which serves people chow
Jack-in-the-Box
Ira
$300 [20]
According to their hit, these & Mondays always got The Carpenters down
rainy days
Wendy
$300 [9]
Of 8, 12, or 20 sec., the minimum length of time a buckeroo has to stay on a bucking bronco
8
Ira Jorge
$400 [16]
Of rayon, radar or the radio, the one invented first
rayon
Ira Jorge
$400 [15]
Broadway musical famous for the line "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera"
The King and I
Jorge
$400 [24]
In 1966, this company wasn't chicken to hire an aerospace engineer as its food engineer
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Jorge
$400 [26]
In 1970, Diana Ross' solo career reached an early "peak" with this, her 1st #1 hit
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Jorge
$400 [10]
In calf roping, at least this many legs must be tied together
3
Ira Jorge
$500 [17]
Shoppers 1st used these at Oklahoma City's "Humpty Dumpty Store" on June 4, 1937
shopping carts
Jorge
$500 [21]
In "The Mikado", when Koko became Lord High Executioner, he became Lord-High-Everything-Else
Poo-Bah
$500 [25]
Some fast-food cha1ns spray this on French fries so they cook up brown, not pasty white
sugar
Jorge
$500 [27]
"Could It Be Magic" that only Sinatra, Mathis, & he have each had 5 albums simultaneously on the charts
Barry Manilow
Wendy
$500 [11]
The youngest world champ in rodeo was 11-year-old Metha Brorsen in this event
barrel racing

Double Jeopardy! Round

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS WEATHER CHICAGO ART SICKNESS & HEALTH "T" TIME
$200 [2]
This TV lawyer lost a case only once--when his client was covering for someone else
Perry Mason
Ira
$200 [16]
This falls on only about ⅓ of the Earth's surface
snow
Jorge
$200 [13]
In 1978, she became Chicago's 1st woman mayor
Jane Byrne
Jorge
$200 [1]
The Louvre, built for his patron, aptly houses this artist's most famous painting
da Vinci
Wendy
$200 [19]
In the 1840s, a German pathologist coined this term for cancer of blood cells
leukemia
Jorge
$200 [3]
A tree's bole, a human's torso, or elephant's proboscis
a trunk
Jorge
$400 [6]
In emergencies. these siblings often consult the "Junior Woodchuck Manual"
Donald Duck's nephews (Huey, Dewey, & Louie)
Ira Jorge Wendy
$400 [21]
In most countries thermometers use this scale to measure temperatures
the Celsius scale (or centigrade)
Ira
$400 [14]
Of ¼, ½, or ⅔, fraction of Illinois' population represented by Greater Chicago
Jorge
$400 [4]
In 1826, this painter helped found the Nat'l Academy of Design, years before perfecting the telegraph
Morse
Jorge
$400 [20]
Streptomycin is an example of this type of drug
an antibiotic
Jorge
$400 [7]
From French for "turnstile", you turn this to keep blood from passing thru
a tourniquet
Wendy
$600 [11]
Infamous D.H. Lawrence character whose maiden name was Constance Reid
Lady Chatterley
Ira
$600 [23]
Term for modern weather eco-hazard caused by sulfur dioxide's reaction to moisture in air
acid rain
Ira
$600 [15]
1 of 2 '70s sitcoms that customarily opened with shots of contemporary Chicago
The Bob Newhart Show (or Good Times )
Jorge
$600 [5]
This NYC art museum, largest in the Western Hemisphere, has over 34 acres of floor space
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wendy
$600 [22]
Country which has more registered dentists than any other
the United States
Jorge
$600 [9]
To rumple, as with hair
to tousle
Jorge
$800 [29]
For flunking 4 of his subjects at Pencey Prep, he was kicked out of school
Holden Caulfield
$800 [27]
Meteorologically, if there is 10% cloud cover or less, a day is defined as this
clear
Jorge
DD $1,000 [17]
Scandalous highlight of the 1893 Columbian Exposition & title of thefollowing:"She had a ruby on her tummy and / A diamond big as Texas on her toe, whoa whoa / She let her hair down and / She did the hoochie coochie real slow, whoa whoa"
"Little Egypt"
Jorge
$800 [8]
Viewed in China as the highest & purest art, you can write about it while doing it
calligraphy
Ira Jorge
$800 [24]
From Greek for "working with the hand", branch of medicine practiced by Dr. M. DeBakey
surgery
$800 [12]
Lukewarm, like your coffee gets during a phone call
tepid
Jorge
$1,000 [30]
Though not named in this Shakespearean title, they were Valentine & Proteus
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Wendy
DD $1,000 [28]
Admiral Beaufort designated this wind, "that which no canvas could withstand", #12 on his scale
a hurricane
Jorge
$1,000 [18]
According to the song, Chicago was the town this evangelist "could not shut down"
Billy Sunday
Ira
$1,000 [10]
Though English, John Constable & J.M.W. Turner were forerunners of this French movement
impressionism
Wendy
$1,000 [26]
Egyptian mummies have revealed evidence of this, also known as hardening of the arteries
arteriosclerosis
Jorge
$1,000 [25]
A black rock related to flint once used to test purity of gold & silver
a touchstone
Ira

Final Jeopardy!

VICE PRESIDENTS

1st vice president who did not become president, he's famous for other reasons

Aaron Burr

Wendy "Who is Hamilton?" — wagered $2,900
Jorge "Who was Aaron Burr?" — wagered $5,200
Ira "Who was Gerry?" — wagered $5,000

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