Show #627 1987-05-05 (taped 1987-01-13) Regular

Missing introductions.

Contestants

Phil Marino — a dentist from Clearwater, Florida

Joanne Skelly-Gearhart — a nursing instructor from East Aurora, New York

Jean Volk — an attorney from North Brunswick, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jean $100 $400 $2,000 $2,000
2nd place: trip to New Orleans, Louisiana
$2,000
12 R, 4 W
Joanne $-300 $200 $400 $790
3rd place: Frigidaire washer & dryer
$400
6 R, 2 W
Phil $2,100 $2,100 $4,200 $4,190
New champion: $4,190
$4,100
15 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY SOAP OPERAS AUSSIE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BOTTOMS UP ANIMALS IN SONG
$100 [19]
It wasn't until 1931 that this North American dominion gained full independence from Britain
Canada
Joanne
$100 [11]
CBS' new "The Bold & The Beautiful" is a sort of spin-off from this soap
The Young and the Restless
Phil
$100 [16]
Australians call them "roos"
kangaroos
Phil
$100 [26]
The initials G.O.P., referring to the Republican Party, stand for this
Grand Old Party
Jean
$100 [6]
Take away a White Russian's cream, & you've got a drink named this
a Black Russian
Jean Phil
$100 [1]
"Here comes" this rabbit, "hoppin' down the bunny trail, hippity hoppity, Easter's on its way"
Peter Cottontail
Joanne
$200 [20]
To gain control of Indonesia, this country's East India Co. massacred British East India Company reps
the Netherlands
$200 [12]
Kathryn Leigh Scott has recently published a scrapbook about her life on this '60s Gothic soap
Dark Shadows
Phil
$200 [17]
The "good guts", the whole "good guts", & nothing but the "good guts"
the truth
Joanne
$200 [27]
Term "solid south" referred to the fact that in the past, the South tended to do this
vote Democratic
Joanne
$200 [7]
A large jigger of whiskey with a beer chaser on the side
a Boilermaker
Jean
$200 [2]
A song written for but not used in the Disney film "Peter Pan" advised, "never smile at" 1 of these
a crocodile
Jean
$300 [21]
Called highest ranking Soviet to shake hands with Hitler, gasoline firebombs are named for him
Molotov
Phil
$300 [13]
1st name of a Brady on "Days of our Lives" & a Buchanan on "One Life to Live"
Bo
Jean Phil
$300 [18]
In "Waltzing Matilda", it's the Aussie term for a hobo
a swagman
Jean
$300 [28]
If the president won't sign a bill but retains it up to 10 days until Congress adjourns, it's called this
a pocket veto
Jean
$300 [8]
This liqueur is half benedictine, half brandy
B&B
Jean
$300 [3]
In a Beatles song he "checked into his room only to find Gideon's Bible"
Rocky Raccoon
Jean
DD $400 [22]
Though the U.S. paid Spain $20 million for this island country, we no longer own it
the Philippines
Phil
$400 [14]
The 2 current network daytime soaps with "World" in their titles
Another World & As the World Turns
Phil
$400 [24]
While Americans are "Yanks", "Pommy" or "Pom" refers to one of these people
British
Phil
$400 [29]
In 1986, he won the seat Tip O'Neill just vacated & his uncle had filled 40 years ago
Joseph P. Kennedy II
Jean Phil
$400 [9]
The Official Mixer's Manual's "Cincinnati" is half beer & half this; talk about light beer...
soda water
Joanne
$400 [4]
Peter, Paul & Mary's "Stewball", who never drank water, but always drank wine, was one
a racehorse
$500 [23]
This country's forces sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in 1937
Japan
$500 [15]
Among his roles on soaps were Jeb Hampton, Mike Gallagher, & Scotty Baldwin
Kin Shriner
Jean
$500 [25]
It's what you're drinking if you're sipping "plonk" or "lunatic soup"
wine
$500 [30]
"Citizens' lobby" with over 200,000 members, founded by former HEW secretary John Gardner
Common Cause
$500 [10]
Botanical name of the most appropriate drink to toast Anita Bryant & Lawrence Welk at the same time
a mimosa
Phil
$500 [5]
Though the Tokens were initially embarrassed by this song set in the jungle, it went to #1
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Phil

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW TESTAMENT CLASSICAL MUSIC SEE THE USA WEAPONS FARCE AFRICA ON FILM
$200 [10]
The Book of Romans quotes God as saying this "is mine; I will repay"
vengeance
Jean
$200 [4]
This keyboard instrument's name is the Anglicized form of the Italian "arpicordo"
harpsichord
Joanne
$200 [9]
If a show is playing in Peoria, you've got to go to this state to see it
Illinois
Jean
$200 [3]
Toy which uses compressed air to fire a cork attached to a string
a pop gun
Jean
$200 [1]
The Cold War became a cola war in this Billy Wilder farce starring James Cagney
One, Two, Three
DD $100 [26]
Of Hope & Crosby's 7 "Road" movies, 1 of the 2 set in Africa
Road to Morocco (or Road to Zanzibar )
Phil
$400 [11]
Only physician referred to by name in the Bible is this gospel writer
Luke
Phil
$400 [5]
Beethoven work containing Schiller's "Ode to Joy"
the Ninth Symphony
Phil
$400 [15]
Winter Park, Winter Garden & Winter Haven are all in this state to which many flee in winter
Florida
Joanne
$400 [19]
According to Webster's, this policeman's club was named for the time it was originally carried
a nightstick
Jean Joanne Phil
$400 [2]
Straightforward title of Alan Ayckbourn's 1975 bedroom farce
Bedroom Farce
$800 [27]
"Out of Africa" & "The Flame Trees of Thika" were both set on coffee plantations in this country
Kenya
$600 [12]
In the New Testament book of Revelation, this warrior angel leads the fight against Satan
Michael
$800 [7]
When they're played in order, it's the 1st of Vivaldi's 4 Seasons
spring
$600 [16]
While Seattle held a World's Fair in 1962, this 2nd-largest city in Washington held one 12 years later
Spokane
Phil
$600 [20]
Old weapon with a bladed head mounted on a handle, or slang for an overbearing woman
a battle axe
Jean
$600 [23]
Title object sought in Rene Clair's film of the Labiche play "Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie"
the Italian straw hat
Phil
$800 [13]
According to I Corinthians, "it is better to marry than to" do this
to burn
$1,000 [8]
German-born composer of Italian operas who is buried in Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey
George Frideric Handel
$800 [17]
Lined with banks & investment firms, this city's 17th Street has been called "the Wall Street of the West"
Denver
$800 [21]
Kinds of these include the Kris, Kukri, & Kuttar, all found on pp. 1256-57 in our Webster's 3rd
knives
$800 [24]
Once the stage is lit in Peter Shaffer's "Black Comedy", we watch people stumble about in this
darkness
Phil
$1,000 [14]
Jesus told the soldiers, "do violence to no man... & be content with" these
your wages
DD $2,000 [6]
If you're too old to sing in this Italian's operas, you can retire to his home for opera singers:
Giuseppe Verdi
Phil
$1,000 [18]
Only city that's birthplace of 2 Presidents, both Adamses were born there
Quincy, Mass.
$1,000 [22]
From Latin "flagellum", whip, it's a staff with a shorter, free swinging stick attached to its end
a flail
$1,000 [25]
Georges Feydeau put this bug "in her ear" in title of his 1907 play
a flea

Final Jeopardy!

ART NEWS

In December 1986, a computer analyst claimed that the model for the "Mona Lisa" was this person

Leonardo da Vinci

Joanne "Who was Leonardo da Vinci" — wagered $390
Jean "Who was Da Vinci?" — wagered $0
Phil "Who is Da Vinci's wife?" — wagered $10

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