Show #784 1988-01-21 (taped 1987-09-29) Regular

Contestants

Mike Procopio — a student from Anaheim, California

Pam Myers — a special investigator for the Department of Justice originally from London, England

Paul Tidwell — a tutor from Mission Hills, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $900 $2,800 $10,800 $15,800
3-day champion: $40,200
$10,800
27 R, 3 W
Pam $-100 $300 $1,300 $1,000
3rd place: Villeroy & Boch Naif breakfast set for 8 + Jeopardy! computerized version or Jeopardy! box game
$1,300
5 R, 2 W
Mike $1,600 $2,900 $7,400 $14,800
2nd place: Soundesign audio/video center + Sam Moore wing chair + Jeopardy! computerized version or Jeopardy! box game
$5,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE '40S ACTORS & ROLES "WISH"FUL SONGS TRAVEL & TOURISM POETIC ANIMALS HOT DOG!
$100 [1]
This president tossed out the 1st ball of the 1946 baseball season
Truman
Paul Mike
$100 [2]
Hal Holbrook 1st played this author in a 2-man show with his wife for a hospital suicide ward
Mark Twain
Paul
$100 [16]
When you do this in "Pinocchio", it "makes no difference who you are"
wish upon a star
Mike
$100 [8]
To visit former inhabitants of L.A.'s defunct Marineland, you have to go to this San Diego attraction
SeaWorld
Paul
$100 [10]
These animals "couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again"
the king's horses & king's men
Paul
$100 [22]
The 1st ever hot dog stand in the U.S., it's said, opened over 70 years ago at this NYC beach
Coney Island
Mike
$200 [3]
Time magazine selected this Russian leader as Man of the Year for 1942
Stalin
Paul
$200 [5]
Jeffrey Hunter's most famous role, in "King of Kings"
Christ
Paul
$200 [17]
Carol in which singers demand "some figgy pudding & a cup of good cheer"
"We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
Paul
$200 [21]
U.S. Travel & Tourism Adm'n surveys indicate this East Coast is most popular with foreign visitors
New York City
Pam
$200 [11]
When asked "Is there balm in Gilead?", this bird replied in the negative
the raven
$200 [27]
At 55%, an average dog is mostly this liquid, not meat
water
Mike
$300 [4]
In 1944, the Blue Network applied to the FCC to change its name to this, & it was granted 1, 2, 3
ABC
Mike
$300 [7]
Called "the finest American Hamlet since John Barrymore", he's also hammed it up as Mike Hammer
Stacy Keach
Pam
$300 [19]
Stevie Wonder's 1976 #1 song of nostalgia
"I Wish"
Paul
$300 [23]
American Express surveys indicate this West Coast city is most popular with U.S. tourists
San Francisco
Paul Pam
$300 [12]
Thomas Gray wrote an "Ode on the Death of" 1 of these pets, "drowned in a tub of goldfishes"
"a Favourite Cat"
Paul
$300 [28]
Beatrice gives us Wesson Oil, Fisher Nuts & these "Premium" hot dogs
Swifts
Paul
$400 [6]
On October 14, 1947, he became the 1st pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound
Chuck Yeager
Mike
$400 [14]
Polly Rowles, Gene Autry's leading lady in a 1937 Western, now plays this role in Hanes' TV commercials
Inspector 12
Pam Mike
$400 [20]
Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David, this song was Dusty Springfield's 1st Top 10 hit
"Wishin' and Hopin'"
Paul
$400 [24]
In Odessa Texas you can visit a full-size reproduction of this theatre associated with Shakespeare
the old Globe Theatre
Mike
$400 [13]
In William Blake's poem, it was "burning bright in the forests of the night"
Tyger Tyger
Mike
$400 [29]
The 2 common names for hot dogs derived from the names of a German & an Austrian city
frankfurter & weiner (Frankfurt & Vienna)
Paul
$500 [9]
Heavens to the Betsy, his novel "The Dream Merchants" was published in 1949
Harold Robbins
$500 [15]
Both these stars of "Viva Zapata!" have played Stanley Kowalski on Broadway in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Marlon Brando & Anthony Quinn
Paul Mike
DD $1,000 [25]
3 of The Beach Boys did backup vocals on this Chicago hit:"And I'd like to change my life, and you know I would / Just to be with you tonight..."
"Wishing You Were Here"
Mike
$500 [26]
Atlantic City is New Jersey's leading ocean resort while Ocean City is this state's leading Atlantic resort
Maryland
Pam
$500 [18]
By the end of "The Walrus & the Carpenter", the title gluttons have eaten every 1 of these
oysters
Mike
$500 [30]
This brand of hot dogs says they "have to answer to a higher authority"
Hebrew National
Paul Mike

Double Jeopardy! Round

FLAGS FLOWERS FRENCH ROYALTY WORLD LITERATURE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 10-LETTER WORDS
$200 [2]
Floridians expect this when they see 2 red flags with black squares flying at shore stations
hurricanes
Paul
$200 [19]
Popular garden flower named for the hooded blossoms that snap open when you squeeze their sides
a snapdragon
Paul
$200 [7]
Mammal pictured on Louis XII's crest, with its quills stuck through his crown
a porcupine
Paul
$200 [3]
Though he also wrote historical romances, he's best known for stories of 221B Baker Street
(Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle
Mike
$200 [20]
British scientists report a seasonal "hole" in the ozone layer above this southern continent
Antarctica
Mike
$400 [18]
The relationship of 16 ounces to 1 pound
equivalent
Paul
$400 [8]
Predator featured on the flag of California
the (grizzly) bear
Pam
$400 [25]
About 10% of all wildflowers in the U.S. are rare enough to be considered this
endangered species
Mike
$400 [14]
This code was enacted in 1804, the 1st year its namesake was emperor
Napoleon
Paul
$400 [4]
To keep her husband from killing her, she told him the tales of the "Arabian Nights"
Scheherazade
Paul
$400 [21]
350 years too late for Gutenberg, Friedrich Konig added a steam drive to this device
a printing press
Paul
$600 [28]
Productivity with a minimum of waste, it can precede apartment or engineer
efficiency
Paul
$600 [12]
Another name for a flag pole or your household servants
a staff
Mike
$600 [29]
The term "perfect flower" refers to a flower that has both a stamen & this
the pistil
Pam
$600 [15]
Heiress of Aquitaine who was queen of France before she was queen of England
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Mike
$600 [5]
Omar Khayyam could have told you this Persian word means "quatrains"
the rubaiyat
Mike
$600 [22]
Though code-named this, research for the U.S.'s 1st atomic bomb also took place in Calif., N.M. & Ill.
the Manhattan (Project)
Paul Mike
$800 [9]
In the formula for the Pythagorean theorem, A2plus B2equals C2, it's the C
the hypotenuse
Paul
$800 [13]
4 of the 7 Central American flags have a central stripe of white between 2 stripes of this color
blue
Mike
$1,000 [27]
Daffodils are long-trumpet, & jonquils are short-trumpet types of this spring flower
the narcissus
$800 [16]
The last Bourbon king to be absolute ruler of France, before he lost his head
Louis XVI
Mike
$800 [10]
Language in which Sir Thomas More wrote "Utopia"
Latin
Paul
$800 [23]
He also invented ballistite & blasting gelatine
Nobel
Paul
$1,000 [1]
A branch of medicine dealing with problems & diseases of old age
geriatrics
Paul
$1,000 [26]
This African country's is the only national flag that's 1 solid unadorned color, green
Libya
$1,000 [17]
Name by which Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, mistress of Louis XV, was better known
Madame (de) Pompadour
Mike
$1,000 [11]
The 1st issue of this Russian's Epokha magazine featured the 1st part of his "Notes From the Underground"
Dostoevsky
Paul
$1,000 [24]
Scotsman credited in 1823 with a way to make waterproof garments
(Charles) Macintosh
Paul
DD $1,500 [6]
1 of 3 forms of "flying" transport that start with "H" & are able to take off & land in water
(1 of) a hydroplane (hovercraft or helicopter)
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN'S RIGHTS

U.S. women finally won the right to vote in nat'l elections during this president's administration

(Woodrow) Wilson

Pam "Who is Truman" — wagered $300
Mike "Who is Wilson???????" — wagered $7,400
Paul "Who was Wilson?" — wagered $5,000

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