Show #1123 1989-06-21 (taped 1989-02-14) Regular

Cathy Boggs game 4.

Contestants

Suzi Peterson — a bookkeeper from Baltimore, Maryland

Steve Hinshaw — a professor originally from Columbus, Ohio

Cathy Boggs — a telecommunications policy analyst originally from Appleton, Wisconsin (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cathy $-100 $1,500 $3,100 $100
4-day champion: $35,200
$3,100
14 R, 6 W
Steve $1,400 $1,600 $1,800 $10
2nd place: trip Eastern to the Bahamas & stay at the Bahamas Princess
$1,800
11 R, 3 W
Suzi $300 $2,300 $3,000 $5
3rd place: Krementz jewelry
$3,100
18 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PHILOSOPHY COMIC BOOKS MEN'S NAMES 1966 IN OTHER WORDS... MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
$100 [12]
To both a fish & a philosopher, it's a group or movement to which he belongs
a school
Cathy
$100 [17]
With rodents as the lead characters, "Miami Vice" became this title for the comics
Miami Mice
Suzi
$100 [8]
First name of 5 presidents, 6 signers of the Declaration of Independence & 10 men on the Mayflower
John
Cathy Suzi
$100 [1]
Some criticized this new health care plan for the elderly as a step toward socialized medicine
Medicare
Suzi
$100 [2]
Purchase one sack-encased sow
buy a pig in a poke
Suzi
$300 [27]
A popular kids' song written back in 1945 is about a tuba named this
Tubby
$200 [13]
Plato considered him his brightest student and called him the "mind of the school"
Aristotle
Steve Suzi
$200 [18]
A Marvel comic chronicles his adventures on both Earth & Melmac
ALF
Cathy
$200 [9]
The Greek word for sovereign or tyrant gave us this first name of a "power"ful actor
Tyrone
Steve
$200 [5]
On July 17 Jim Ryun set a new record by running this race in 3 min. 51.3 sec.
the mile
Suzi
$200 [3]
Allow little bits of wood to plummet haphazardly
let the chips fall where they may
Steve Suzi
$400 [26]
It's the national instrument of Spain
the guitar
Cathy
$300 [14]
Zeno's followers were called this after their meeting place on Athens' Painted Porch, the Stoa Poikile
the stoics
Cathy
$300 [19]
In the titles of their current comics, Spider-Man is "Amazing" & the Hulk is this
Incredible
Suzi
$300 [10]
Palindromic name that's also a verb meaning to move up & down, like a cork in water
Bob
Steve
$300 [11]
One of the fashion fads of the year was the disposable dress made of this
paper
Steve
$300 [4]
Rehearsal produces flawlessness
practice makes perfect
Steve
$500 [25]
On "The Addams Family", Lurch was known for his recitals on this piano-like instrument
a harpsichord
Suzi
$400 [15]
We're pretty sure Pyrrho of Elis initiated this school of philosophy, but you can never be certain
skepticism
Cathy
$400 [20]
Archie's girlfriend who has her own comic in which she jet sets around the world
Veronica (Lodge)
Suzi
$500 [24]
Meaning "he gave" in Hebrew, it's the name of a patriot who gave his life for his country
Nathan
Cathy
$400 [22]
Bill Cosby took home an Emmy for his role as Alexander Scott in this series
I Spy
Suzi
$400 [6]
Use one's teeth to tear out a hunk whose size exceeds one's mastication ability
bite off more than you can chew
Suzi
$500 [16]
Leibniz's optimistic view of the world was ridiculed by Voltaire in this work
Candide
Cathy
$500 [21]
In 1941 "The 3 Musketeers" became the 1st book to be transformed into a comic in this series
the Classic Comics
Cathy
$500 [23]
Arthur Schlesinger's history of the Kennedy administration that won a Pulitzer in 1966
A Thousand Days
Cathy Suzi
$500 [7]
Pleasant tourist spot, yes; residence, no
it's a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there
Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD WEST DESIGN MOVIE TRIVIA WORLD LITERATURE NUMBER, PLEASE JOAN OF ARC
$200 [20]
Shot for hides, 3,500 tons of their bones were hauled by the Santa Fe railroad in 1874
buffalo
Cathy
DD $100 [27]
Mies van der Rohe designed a famous chair that shares its name with this Spanish city
Barcelona chair
Suzi
$200 [1]
Return of the Killer tomatoes", 1988 sequel to this "classic", grossed a whopping $20,000
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Cathy
$200 [4]
Sappho of Lesbos was considered the best lyric poet of this ancient civilization
the Greek civilization
Steve
$200 [6]
On T\/'s "Get Smart", this was the number of the agent who gave birth to twins
99
Cathy
$200 [13]
She was tried under procedures of this tribunal, often associated with Spain
the Inquisition
Suzi
$400 [21]
In the old West if an outlaw died of "hemp fever", he died in this way
hanging
Suzi
$200 [15]
Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, has been called a museum of his Prairie School style of architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
Steve
$400 [2]
When Gene Kelly broke an ankle, he came out of retirement to stroll down the avenue in "Easter Parade"
Fred Astaire
Suzi
$400 [5]
Lady Sei Shonagon wrote "Pillow Book", gossipy stories considered a classic in this country
Japan
Suzi
$400 [9]
Amazingly on July 8, 1987 the Dodgers lost this many baseball games in St. Louis
3
Steve
$400 [14]
Joan's executioner said afterwards he found this intact amid her ashes
her heart
Cathy
$600 [22]
In 1891 this was discovered in Poverty Gulch, Colorado by Robert Womack, a cowboy who died in poverty
gold
Suzi
$400 [19]
The Romans used colored stone or glass backed by gold foil to make these intricate art works
mosaics
Cathy
$600 [3]
In "Beaches", 46-year-old Lanie Kazan plays the mother of this 43-year-old
Bette Midler
Steve
$600 [16]
In "A Christmas Carol", it's described as a jolly giant wearing a simple green robe with white fur
the Ghost of Christmas Present
Cathy Suzi
$600 [10]
WWI doughboys used to say this many "Frenchmen can't be wrong", even though there weren't that many
50 million
Suzi
$800 [23]
Group of California-bound settlers who made the fatal mistake of taking the "Hastings Cut-Off" in 1846
the Donner party
Cathy
$600 [25]
After the Great Fire of London, he oversaw the rebuilding of 51 churches in addition to St. Paul's
Christopher Wren
Cathy Suzi
$800 [7]
In 1947 he played Macy's Santa both on film & in its Thanksgiving parade
Edmund Gwenn
Cathy
$800 [17]
The last name of this squire who served Don Quixote means "paunch"
(Sancho) Panza
Steve
$800 [11]
Number of "lords a-leaping" in the song "The Twelve Days Of Christmas"
10
Suzi
$1,000 [24]
During the peak year, 1871, Texans drove about 600,000 cattle north to Abilene, Kansas on this route
the Chisholm Trail
Steve
$800 [26]
These fantastic figures, human & animal, were so named because they were 1st found in a grotto
grotesques
Suzi
$1,000 [8]
"Hercules" & "Hercules Unchained" starring this muscleman are available, uncut, on home video
Steve Reeves
Cathy
$1,000 [18]
You can see this, the most famous of the Irish illuminated manuscripts, at Trinity College in Dublin
the Book of Kells
$1,000 [12]
In Italian art & literature "quattrocentro refers to the style of this century
the 15th
Steve Suzi

Final Jeopardy!

THE CABINET

Department whose 1st secretary was Oveta Culp Hobby & whose last was Patricia Roberts Harris

HEW (Health, Education & Welfare)

Steve "What is HUD?" — wagered $1,790
Suzi "What is dept of Treasury" — wagered $2,995
Cathy "What is HUD?" — wagered $3,000

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