Show #748 1987-12-02 (taped 1987-08-31) Regular

Contestants

Elizabeth Holloway — a writer from New York City, New York

Jeff Siggins — a wanderer originally from Warren, Pennsylvania

Jennifer Daniels — a graduate student from Rensselaer, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jennifer $1,200 $1,400 $6,200 $5,700
2nd place: trip on Continental to Puerta Vallarta & stay as the Villa del Mar
$5,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Jeff $1,000 $3,000 $7,400 $2,399
3rd place: Bayley luggage
$7,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Elizabeth $200 $1,700 $4,100 $8,200
New champion: $8,200
$4,100
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LANDMARKS TESTS A.K.A. AMERICAN FISH TV WESTERNS TRIPLE TALK
$100 [11]
A 28-story building, the tallest in Utah, is the office building of this church
the Church of the Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church)
Elizabeth
$100 [6]
To renew yours in California, you can't miss more than 3 out of 18 on the written part of the exam
the driver's exam
Jeff
$100 [3]
Kublai Khan's grandfather, named "Temujin" at birth, was better known as this
Genghis Khan
Jeff
$100 [1]
Southerners love to fry this fish, but most don't eat its feline whiskers
a catfish
Jennifer
$100 [13]
On "Broken Arrow", Michael Ansara played this famous Apache chief
Cochise
Jeff Elizabeth
$100 [12]
The Whiffenpoofs' words following "We're poor little lambs who've lost our way"
baa, baa, baa
Jeff
$200 [14]
The statue of this president inside his Washington, D.C. "Memorial" portrays him standing
Jefferson
Elizabeth
$200 [7]
Types of these include the alpha, Wechsler, & Binet-Simon
intelligence tests
Jeff
$200 [4]
Magnificent mime, Marcel Mangel
Marcel Marceau
Jeff
$200 [2]
You might catch this state's state fish, the walleye, in 1 of its "10,000 lakes"
Minnesota
Elizabeth
$200 [27]
Relationship of Hoss, Adam, & Little Joe Cartwright to each other
half-brothers
Jennifer
$200 [15]
In 19th c. hymn, words preceding "Lord God almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee"
Holy, holy, holy
Elizabeth
$300 [21]
Mesa Verde in Colorado is famous for these "homes"
cliff dweller homes
Jeff
$300 [8]
When taking college exams, you often write your answers in "books" with this color cover
blue
Jennifer
$300 [5]
Born Thelma Booth Ford, she-,"maid" it as a TV star playing "Hazel"
Shirley Booth
Jennifer
$300 [24]
American fish are protected by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, part of this department
the Department of the Interior
Elizabeth
$300 [28]
Sugarfoot spent his spare time taking a correspondence course to become a member of this profession
a lawyer
$300 [16]
In "The Omen", Gregory Peck found this ominous number on his adopted son's scalp
666
Elizabeth
$400 [22]
Only non-Germans can pass thru divided Berlin's Friedrichstrasse entry, known as this
Checkpoint Charlie
Jeff
$400 [9]
1st used in early 1920s, this projective test was named after its creator, a Swiss psychiatrist
Rorschach
Jeff
$400 [19]
Bernadette Lazzara, who spent "Sunday in the Park with George"
Bernadette Peters
Elizabeth
$400 [25]
This bass, Georgia's state fish, was named for its huge facial orifice
a large mouth bass
Jeff
$400 [17]
Possible monogram on a movie "Misfit"s towels when she was married to the author of "The Misfits"
MMM
Jeff
$500 [23]
Soviet president Podgorny & Egypt's Sadat waited 6 months to dedicate it on Gamal Nasser's b'day, Jan. 15, 1971
the Aswan High Dam
Jeff
$500 [10]
The Scholastic Aptitude Test for college admission measures skills in these 2 areas
verbal & mathematical
Jennifer
$500 [20]
Using this name, Louise Hovick became the "nomadic flower" of burlesque
Gypsy Rose Lee
Jeff
$500 [26]
The "cutthroat" variety is the state fish of New Mexico; the "steelhead" holds the title in Washington
the trout
Jeff
$500 [18]
Tho he may never have said it himself, most people imitate Cary Grant by saying this
Judy, Judy, Judy
Elizabeth

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE '60s "B.B." BUSINESS & INDUSTRY IRELAND HISTORICAL WOOD ROMEO & JULIET
DD $400 [3]
In 1965, shebecame 1st British female to top Billboard's Rock Era Pop Charts:"When you're alone, and life is making you lonely / You can always go / Downtown..."
Petula Clark
Jeff
$200 [10]
Frank Sinatra sang this Cher hit on an album called "She Shot Me Down"
"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
Elizabeth
$200 [8]
When he opened his 1st store in Utica, N.Y., in 1879, nothing cost more than 5¢
Woolworth
Elizabeth
$200 [20]
According to the legend, if you kiss the Blarney Stone, you'll get this
the gift of gab
Jeff
$200 [21]
She took the blame for the missing 18 1/2 minutes in the Nixon tapes
Rosemary Wood
Jeff
$400 [11]
Juliet's father thought she should marry him & a capital idea it was at that, N'est ce pas?
Paris
Jennifer
$400 [4]
Many wondered why LBJ, 2 after declining to go himself, didn't send this VP to Churchill's funeral
Hubert Humphrey
Jeff
$400 [13]
Actor whose Martian "uncle" wasn't green, but whose other self, the Hulk, sure was
Bill Bixby
Elizabeth
$400 [9]
Name of this company that makes video games & computers is a Japanese word meaning, roughly, "I got you"
Atari
Elizabeth
$400 [26]
In "Finian's Rainbow" Sharon longs for Ireland, asking "How are things" there
Glocca Morra
Jennifer
$400 [22]
Telephone poles with lines linking NYC to SF went up in 1915, during his administration
Woodrow Wilson
Jennifer
$800 [2]
1 of the 2 Franciscan friars named in the play
Friar Lawrence (or Friar John)
Jeff
$600 [5]
N. Vietnam's alleged 1964 attack upon U.S. destroyers in this body of water has never been proven
the Gulf of Tonkin
Jeff
$600 [14]
He calls himself "the anonymous correspondent from '20/20'" but we've heard of him
Bob Brown
$600 [17]
Now in insurance, toys & clothing, they've modified their motto, "Babies are our business, our only business"
Gerber
Elizabeth
$600 [25]
Enslaved in Ireland, this 5th c. Eng. youth escaped & later returned preaching Christianity
St. Patrick
Jeff
$600 [23]
He could have been 1st to write in Cherokee that he had a giant tree named for him
Sequoyah
Jeff
DD $1,000 [1]
Juliet said this surname "is... nor arm, nor face, nor any part belonging to a man"
Montague
Jennifer
$800 [6]
In the '40s, he was writing for parents; in the '60s, he was urging their children to evade the draft
Dr. Spock
Jennifer
$800 [15]
"Billy Rose's Jumbo?" was the last film that "tapped" this choreographer's talents
Busby Berkeley
Jennifer
$800 [18]
Nearly all packages sent by air with this company, regardless of destination, go thru Memphis, Tn.
Federal Express
Jeff
$1,000 [24]
A granite shaft marks the spot where this legendary tree stood in Hartford, Conn.
the Charter Oak
$1,000 [12]
Lady Capulet's fiery nephew, he stabbed Mercutio under Romeo's arm
Tybalt
Elizabeth
$1,000 [7]
After Congress barred him in 1967, his Harlem constituents re-elected him to fill his vacant House seat
Adam Clayton Powell
Jeff
$1,000 [16]
This songwriter's father, the columnist, spelled his own first name "B-E-R-T"
Burt Bacharach
Jennifer
$1,000 [19]
He's bought back the discount securities brokerage firm he sold to Bank of America
Charles Schwab

Final Jeopardy!

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

With N.H. delegates signing 1st, Constitution wasn't signed in alphabetical order, but in this order

geographically north to south

Elizabeth "What is geographically north to south" — wagered $4,100
Jennifer "What is in order of entrance to Union?" — wagered $500
Jeff "What is size of population?" — wagered $5,001

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