Show #626 1987-05-04 (taped 1987-01-13) Regular

Missing introductions & 26th clue of Double Jeopardy! Round.

Contestants

Jean Volk — an attorney from North Brunswick, New Jersey

Shannon Carrero — from San Diego, California

Betsey Kay — an alcohol and drug abuse counselor from Carson City, Nevada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Betsey $900 $900 $4,200 $0
3rd place: Chinon 35mm camera
$3,100
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Shannon $600 $1,800 $5,400 $10,800
2nd place: Hotpoint range & microwave + Donvier ice cream maker
$5,400
13 R, 3 W
Jean $2,300 $2,800 $7,000 $10,900
New champion: $10,900
$7,300
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES NURSERY RHYMES 17THC. FASHION BASEBALL ADAPTATIONS DON'T MISS IT!
$100 [1]
Even a baby can say this official postal abbreviation for the state of Washington
WA
Jean
$100 [2]
"Frogs & snails, & puppy dogs' tails"
What are little boys made of?
Betsey
$100 [24]
These were worn outdoors to protect the skin, not for trick-or-treat
a mask
Jean
$100 [9]
Major league team with the letters "SOX" on their caps
Chicago (White Sox)
Shannon Jean
$100 [16]
Basil the barber & Kitri are the romantic leads in a ballet based on this Cervantes novel
Don Quixote
Jean
$100 [7]
Tourists can shake hands with a dead Crusader who's never decomposed, in a crypt in this Irish capital
Dublin
Shannon
$200 [13]
Of Michigan, Minnesota, or Wisconsin, the only state whose land mass borders on Canada
Minnesota
Betsey
$200 [3]
"That's what little girls are made of"
sugar and spice and everything nice (or all things nice)
Betsey
$200 [26]
Spanish ladies carried little books of paper covered with vermilion powder used to color these
their cheeks
Jean
$200 [20]
The penalty when a pitcher balks
all runners advance one base
Betsey
$200 [17]
Yes, there really was a stage musical version, with whip-cracking prostitutes & Atlanta aflame
Gone with the Wind
Jean
$200 [8]
The world's largest champagne glass bubbles away in this maestro's "Wunnerful" museum
Lawrence Welk
Shannon
$300 [14]
Reason why in 1959 the geographic center of the U.S. moved from Kansas to South Dakota
Alaskan statehood
Jean
$300 [4]
"She had so many children she didn't know what to do"
the old woman who lived in the shoe
Shannon Jean
$300 [27]
A "bosom bottle" tucked inside a dress kept these fresh
flowers
$300 [21]
Known for years as "The Baseball Bible", this weekly paper now covers other sports as well
The Sporting News
Betsey
$300 [18]
Clifford Odets' drama of the same name became a musical about boxing starring Sammy Davis Jr.
Golden Boy
Shannon
$300 [10]
Swan upping, the marking of the Queen's swans, takes place on this London river once a year
the Thames
Shannon
DD $500 [15]
3 of 5 neighboring states from which you can go marching through Georgia
(3 of) Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina
Jean
$400 [5]
"He put her in a pumpkin shell, & there he kept her very well"
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Betsey
$400 [28]
Duck, dornex, Damascus & dimity were all these
materials (or fabrics)
Jean
$400 [22]
In 1938, pitcher Johnny Vander Meer became only man ever to do this in 2 consecutive games
pitch no-hitters
Betsey Shannon
$400 [19]
Medieval mystery plays dramatized events from this book
the Bible
Betsey
$400 [11]
At museum devoted to him, a wax replica of this 1930s criminal on the slab greets every "lady in red"
(John) Dillinger
Shannon
$500 [25]
This state has the most Interstate miles, over 3000, including parts of I-10, 20, 30, & 40
Texas
Shannon
$500 [6]
"He wears whiskers on his chinnegan"
Michael Finnegan
Jean
$500 [29]
These facial decorations were called "mouches" because they looked like flies
patches
Betsey Shannon
$500 [30]
In 1986, this S.F. Giants 1st baseman became only 16th man elected to Hall of Fame 1st year he was eligible
Willie McCovey
$500 [23]
Rodgers & Hammerstein musical based on "Liliom", a play about a sideshow barker
Carousel
Shannon Jean
$500 [12]
Evangelist Jim Bakker wants to build a Golgotha theme park on the site where this occurred
the crucifixion
Jean

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD TRADE GRAMMAR FAMOUS WOMEN CLASSIC COMMERCIALS FIRE ROCK & ROLL SIBLINGS
$200 [26]
=
World Trade Center
Betsey
$200 [1]
Of "-ness", "-ing" or "-ly", suffix which, when added to "like", will cause it to lose the "E"
-ing
Jean
$200 [14]
Following this mother's lead, Irene Joliot Curie also won a Nobel Prize for chemistry
Marie Curie
Jean
$200 [4]
It was way back in 1972 that his brothers 1st got him to try Life cereal
Mikey
Jean
$200 [11]
In Revelation 20:10, the 2 things God will use to destroy sinners
fire & brimstone
Shannon Jean
$200 [10]
The 4 older brothers made a comeback in 1982 as a country group--without Donny
the Osmonds
Jean
$400 [27]
Newest members of the E.E.C., or European Economic Community, are these 2 Iberian neighbors
Spain & Portugal
Jean
$400 [2]
Minimum number of words a simple imperative sentence can contain
1
Betsey
$400 [15]
Her daughter said this 1st lady still thinks Watergate was an int'l scheme involving double agents
Pat Nixon
Betsey
$400 [5]
Because of their TV ads for these, many thought James Garner & Mariette Hartley were husband & wife
Polaroid cameras
Jean
$400 [20]
Collective term for pistols & guns
firearms
Jean
$400 [12]
Don & Phil
the Everly Brothers
Jean
$600 [28]
Ending 3rd World debt crisis is major goal of Barber Conable, president of this global institution
the World Bank
Betsey
$600 [3]
Grammatically, it's what's wrong with the sentence "Virtue is it's own reward."
the apostrophe in "it's"
Jean
$600 [16]
Of this event Hana Mandlikova said, "I wore leather; white is for Wimbledon"
her wedding
Betsey Jean
$600 [6]
If you opened your bathroom cabinet & saw Chuck McCann, he was using your can of this deodorant
Right Guard
Jean
$600 [21]
Insurance company whose TV ads featured different people wearing the same funny red hat
Fireman's Fund
DD $400 [13]
Consisting of 2 sisters & a cousin, they're the trio heard here:"So won't you please (Be my, be my baby) / Be my little baby? (My one and only baby) / Say you'll be my darling (Be my, be my baby) / Be my baby now (My one and only baby)"
the Ronettes
Jean
DD $2,100 [29]
Over 70 countries signed the "GATT" which the "General Agreement" on these
trade & tariffs
Betsey
$800 [9]
From Latin for "thrown in between", these words are attention-getters
interjections
Shannon
$800 [17]
Though she didn't speak Russian, Anna Anderson spent most of her life trying to prove she was this woman
Anastasia
Shannon
$800 [7]
Proverbial definition of chaos calmly recreated in a 1980 Merrill Lynch TV ad
a bull in a china shop
Shannon
$800 [22]
In kids' TV series, ID number on the side of Col. Steve Zodiac's jet fighter "Fireball"
XL5
Jean
$800 [18]
The 2 Bee Gees who are twins
Robin and Maurice
$1,000 [25]
In an expository paragraph, the sentence functioning as this is usually the 1st
the topic sentence
$1,000 [24]
Dian Fossey's '85 murder might have been due to her torturing poachers who threatened these animals
gorillas
$1,000 [8]
A TV ad for this product showed the making of a commercial for "Mama Magadini's Meatballs"
Alka-Seltzer
Jean
$1,000 [23]
From French for "to blaze" it describes a person whose manner is highly elaborate or showy
flamboyant
Betsey
$1,000 [19]
"Deep Purple" was a 1963 #1 hit for the duo of Nino Tempo & this woman, his sister
April Stevens
Shannon

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTS

Number of Vice Presidents of the last 50 years who later became President

4

Betsey "What is 5?" — wagered $4,200
Shannon "What is 4?" — wagered $5,400
Jean "What is 4?" — wagered $3,900

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