Show #939 1988-10-06 (taped 1988-07-26) Regular

Contestants

Jeff Mayhew — an attorney from Newport Beach, California

Gladys Brass — a high school librarian from Pilesville, Maryland

Gail Hoffman — an associate manager originally from Ridgefield, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gail $600 $2,000 $5,400 $1
3rd place: Lucien Piccard his & hers watches
$5,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Gladys $100 $800 $6,200 $1,599
New champion: $1,599
$5,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jeff $500 $1,700 $2,100 $2
2nd place: La-Z-Boy sofa + St. Michel serigraph by Mark King courtesy Martin Lawrence Galleries
$4,100
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FANCY FOODS MULTIPLE CHOICE FAMOUS PAINTINGS ICE HOCKEY TELEVISION!
$100 [1]
In "Joshua", Thomas Morell wrote, "See, the conquering hero comes! sound" these
trumpets
Gladys
$100 [2]
This term literally means "fat liver" in French, but it usually refers to fat goose liver
foie gras
Gladys Jeff
$100 [3]
Of Mary, Tyler or Moore, the one who wrote "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
(Clement) Moore
Gail
$100 [20]
Appropriately, da Vinci painted this masterpiece on the wall of a dining hall in Milan
The Last Supper
Gail
$100 [9]
He's been the National Hockey League's most valuable player the most times
(Wayne) Gretzky
Jeff
$100 [4]
It was hosted by John Davidson, Fran Tarkenton & Cathy Lee Crosby
That's Incredible!
Gladys
$200 [11]
You won't get bad "vibes" listening to Lionel Hampton play this instrument
the vibraphone
$200 [15]
"Joy of Cooking" calls this raw beef dish "cannibal mound"
steak tartare
Gladys
$200 [16]
Of Semi, Demi or Hemi, the one married to Bruce Willis
Demi (Moore)
Gail
$200 [30]
Look closely at Velazquez's "The Maids of Honor" to see the king & queen of this country in a mirror
Spain
Gladys
$200 [10]
This country won the gold in 6 of the 1st 7 winter Olympics, but hasn't won it since 1952
Canada
Gail
$200 [5]
In this show's last season, Nell & Joey moved from California to New York
Gimme a Break!
$300 [12]
The descant or soprano is the most popular size of this instrument, often the 1st a child learns
the recorder
Gail
$300 [21]
Served on meat, maitre d'hotel butter contains salt, pepper, parsley & this juice
lemon juice
$300 [17]
Of $20, $240,000 or fired, what a Dallas DJ got when he asked listeners to send him $20 each
$240,000
Gladys
$300 [27]
In 1889 he painted a self-portrait showing himself with a pipe & bandaged ear
Van Gogh
Gail
$300 [23]
Number of periods in a regulation ice hockey game
3
Jeff
$300 [6]
This PBS series, hosted by Vincent Price, keeps you on the exclamation point of suspense
Mystery!
Gail
$400 [13]
A band in Japanese noh theater consists of a flute & 3 of these
drums
Gail
$400 [22]
The eggs in Eggs Benedict are traditionally cooked this way
poached
Jeff
$400 [18]
Of Roman numerals, Arabic numerals or none at all, the numbers on the clock faces of "Big Ben"
Roman numerals
DD $300 [28]
In many of Degas' paintings, these girls are wearing long black ribbons around their necks
ballerinas
Gail
$400 [24]
"Trick" term for a player scoring 3 goals in 1 game
a hat trick
Gail
$400 [7]
Saturday morning series about Captain Marvel
Shazam!
$500 [14]
On a standard guitar, the strings stretch from the bridge to these
the tuning pegs
Gladys
$500 [25]
Antoine's original recipe for this oyster dish doesn't include spinach, though most recipes do
oysters Rockefeller
Gladys
$500 [19]
Of Rolleiflex, Rolodex or Rolex, the one invented in America
Rolodex
Gladys
$500 [29]
Rembrandt painted this man "Contemplating the Bust of Homer"
Aristotle
Gladys
$500 [26]
He was selected as an NHL All-Star more times than any other player
Gordie Howe
Jeff
$500 [8]
Paramedics in this series included Gage & Desoto
Emergency!
Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

19THCENTURY AMERICA GAMES MATHEMATICS 4-SYLLABLE WORDS RHODE ISLAND NOSEY "PARKER"s
$200 [1]
In 1881 Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Inst. & Clara Barton founded this
the Red Cross
Gail
$200 [4]
The "casino" type of these are handmade & more perfectly cubical than the machine-made "drugstore" type
dice
Gladys
$200 [2]
It's the inverse of multiplication
divisions
Gail
$200 [22]
This state is 1st alphabetically
Alabama
Gail
$200 [9]
After having moved to New York City for a while, this city's jazz festival is back now
Newport
Jeff
$200 [17]
If you have a bloodhound's nose for detection, you might try their game of "Clue"
the Parker Brothers
Gladys
$400 [10]
The World's Fair, celebrating the U.S. centennial in 1876, was held in this city
Philadelphia
Jeff
$400 [5]
While on a cruise in 1925, Harold S. Vanderbilt developed the contract form of this card game
bridge
Jeff
$400 [3]
Unit of area used for sizes as small as the cross sections of an atom, it'd be tough to hit the broadside of one
a barn
Gladys
$400 [23]
This scientific study of earthquakes is a shaky field to get into
seismology
Jeff
$400 [18]
As both Davy & Daniel, he stuck his nose in troubles between the settlers & Indians
Fess Parker
Gail
$600 [11]
Constitutional Union Party, which nominated John Bell for pres. in 1860, was the last remnant of this party
the Whigs
Gail
$600 [6]
Each couple lines up with opposite legs tied together & then hobbles to the finish line
a three-legged race
Gail
$600 [7]
It's a straight line having 1 point in common with a curve; you might go off on one
a tangent
Gail
$600 [24]
Name that precedes Montgomery, McGovern & Dole
Elizabeth
Gail Jeff
$600 [19]
She followed her nose in robbing banks, till she blew it in 1934
Bonnie Parker
Gladys
$800 [12]
At the Battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston captured this president
Antonio López de Santa Anna
$800 [14]
Game whose operator is often called "the caller"
bingo
Gladys
$800 [8]
Full spelling of the trigonometric function commonly abbreviated "sin"
S-I-N-E
Gladys
$800 [25]
The only U.S. president whose last name fits this category
Eisenhower
Jeff
$800 [20]
As half of "Simon & Simon", he often got his nose put out of joint
Jameson Parker
Jeff
DD $2,000 [16]
This president's withdrawal of all government funds from the Bank of the U.S. led to the bank's demise
(Andrew) Jackson
Gladys
$1,000 [15]
"The Complete Book of Games" says Parcheesi is this country's variation of backgammon
India
Gladys
$1,000 [13]
1 of the 2 people usually credited with creating a calculus system in the 17th century
Newton (or von Leibniz)
Gladys Jeff
DD $2,000 [26]
Movie which gave us thefollowing No. 1 hit from 1976:"Do you know where you're going to? / Do you like the things that life is showing you? / Where are you going to? / Do you know? / Do you get what you're hoping for? / When you look behind you, there's no open doors"
Mahogany
Jeff
$1,000 [21]
As a Hardy Boy on TV, he often nosed around in police business
Parker Stevenson
Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

THE CABINET

The flag of the secretary of this department bears a clipper ship & a lighthouse

the Department of Commerce

Jeff "What is the Transportation Dept?" — wagered $2,098
Gail "What is the Dept of Defen" — wagered $5,399
Gladys "What is the Dept of Interior" — wagered $4,601

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