Show #940 1988-10-07 (taped 1988-07-26) Regular

Contestants

Alec Iorio — an international freight forwarder originally from St. Louis, Missouri

Donna Maurillo — an owner of a public relations agency from Aptos, California

Gladys Brass — a high school librarian from Pilesville, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gladys $800 $1,200 $5,800 $0
3rd place: Baldwin brass desk accessories
$4,800
13 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Donna $700 $2,100 $5,900 $100
2nd place: Ashley bedroom furniture + Capri Lighting track lighting
$5,700
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Alec $1,300 $1,400 $8,800 $4,000
New champion: $4,000
$8,800
20 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

TECHNOLOGY ODD WORDS ARTISTS WESTERN SONGS PICKLES PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES
$100 [22]
A new process lets people watch a TV show in normal fashion or slip on glasses & see it this way
3D
Donna
$100 [6]
A "slugfest" isn't a big party for slimy creatures, it's this
a boxing match (or fight)
Alec
$100 [14]
As chief architect of this basilica, Michelangelo took no money
St. Peter's in Rome
Donna
$100 [16]
Place described as the "Prettiest town I've ever seen. Women there don't treat you mean"
Abilene
Donna
$100 [11]
This company is the No. 2 pickle producer in the U.S., & that's just one of its varieties
Heinz
Donna
$100 [1]
"The Sage of Mount Vernon"
George Washington
Alec
$200 [23]
2 dentists have developed a horsehoe that doesn't need these to stay on a hoof
nails
Donna
$200 [7]
If you tell a, man he's "ursine", you mean he looks like one of these
a bear
Alec
$200 [15]
His estate, sold off in 1988, included Navajo blankets, Dali ear clips & 2 Campbell soup can piggy banks
Andy Warhol
Gladys
$300 [26]
"Your hair is red, your eyes are blue, I'd swap my horse & dog for you," the cowboy told this city's Sue
Sioux City
Gladys
$200 [12]
One study shows that pickle craving by pregnant women is the body saying it needs more of this
salt
Donna
$200 [2]
"The Sage of Monticello"'
Jefferson
Gladys
$300 [24]
An erasable form of this audio product will allow a PC to store 275,000 pages of print
a compact disc (CD)
Gladys Donna Alec
$300 [8]
A "cameleer" is a person who does this
drives camels
Donna
$300 [17]
A series of illustrations for this 14th C. Dante poem are among Botticelli's finest works
The Divine Comedy
Alec
DD $400 [25]
2nd-biggest hit single of 1949, it'ssubtitled "A Cowboy Legend""An old cowpoke went riding out one dark and windy day"
"Ghost Riders In The Sky"
Donna
$300 [13]
Character on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" whose wife was known as Pickles
Buddy Sorrell
Alec
$300 [3]
"The Sage of Springfield"
Abraham Lincoln
Alec
$400 [9]
People who "rusticate" aren't corroding, they're living here
living in the country
Alec
$400 [18]
This Impressionist's "Luncheon on the Grass", showing a nude woman picnicking w/2 men, shocked 1863 Paris
Édouard Manet
Alec
$400 [27]
With the credits rolling over their faces, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans closed their TV show singing this
"Happy Trails"
Donna
$400 [20]
To make kosher dill pickles, add this seasoning to the regular dill brine
garlic
Gladys
$400 [4]
"The Sage of Kinderhook"
(Martin) Van Buren
Gladys
$500 [10]
From the Sanskrit word for circle, it's a playing period in a polo match
chukka
Alec
$500 [19]
Sold for $4.2 million on May 3, 1988, "Diver", by this painter, set the record for a work by a living artist
Jasper Johns
$500 [28]
Title of song which says, "I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow, never roped a steer 'cause I don't know how"
"I'm An Old Cowhand"
Donna
$500 [21]
On "St. Elsewhere" she played nurse Helen Rosenthal
Christina Pickles
Alec
$500 [5]
"The Sage of Montpelier"
James Madison

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 20TH CENTURY BLACK AMERICA ACTORS & ROLES TRAVEL & TOURISM THE FUNNIES SPEAK OF THE DICKENS
$200 [25]
In 1950 its command in Korea included the U.S. 8th Army & the Republic of Korea Army
the U.N.
Gladys
$200 [7]
Ralph Abernathy became head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference upon this man's death
Martin Luther King
Gladys
$200 [15]
Peter Behn was only 4 years old when he began recording the voice of this rabbit in "Bambi"
Thumper
Alec
$200 [10]
Fantasy world, S.E. Asia's 1st high tech theme park, is next to a huge slum in this Indonesian capital
Jakarta
Gladys
$200 [4]
This fat cat celebrated his 10th anniversary with a TV special in May 1988 on CBS
Garfield
Gladys
$200 [1]
Almost every year from 1843 to 1867 Dickens wrote a special story or book for this holiday
Christmas
Alec
$400 [26]
Albania declared itself independent of this empire in November 1912
the Ottoman Empire
Alec
$400 [8]
Of 6, 9 or 12, no. of children Joseph & Katherine Jackson have had, including Michael
9
Donna
$400 [16]
Perhaps her 5 marriages helped prepare this actress for her role as a sexy "Golden Girl"
Rue McClanahan
Alec
$400 [11]
You can visit the U.S.S. Missouri & the largest U.S. naval shipyard on the West Coast at Bremerton in this state
Washington
Donna
$400 [9]
In June 1988 she fell in love with Sluggo, but he was afraid to commit so it only lasted a week
Nancy
Gladys
$400 [2]
George Cruikshank did these for "Oliver Twist"; Hablot K. Browne or "Phiz" did them for other works
illustrate them
Alec
$600 [28]
In June 1947, 90 tons of food were sent to war-ravaged Italy by this Argentine president
(Juan) Perón
Alec
$800 [21]
After fighting in the Civil War, she set up a home for needy Blacks in Auburn, New York
Harriet Tubman
Donna
$600 [17]
8 years after co-starring in "Tenspeed & Brown Shoe", he returned as Tenspeed Turner on "J.J. Starbuck"
Ben Vereen
$600 [22]
There's a walking tour of this Colonial capital of Virginia given from the viewpoint of an 18th C. slave
Williamsburg
Alec
$600 [12]
This creator of "Steve Canyon" died in April 1988
Milton Caniff
Donna
$600 [3]
The Defarges run a wine shop in this novel
Tale of Two Cities
Donna
$800 [29]
Born in a Tennessee log cabin, Cordell Hull held this cabinet post from 1933-44
Secretary of State
Alec
DD $1,000 [20]
Last name common to the mayors of Atlanta & Detroit
Young
Gladys
$800 [18]
He played Jane Fonda's fiancé in "On Golden Pond" 1 year after bossing her around in "9 to 5"
Dabney Coleman
Alec
$800 [23]
This country boasts a youth hostel that used to be Prince Henry's center for navigation
Portugal
Alec
$800 [13]
He rules his legion fort with an iron fist, literally
Crock
$1,000 [6]
"A London particular" was how Dickens described this condition in the novel "Bleak House"
fog
$1,000 [30]
In 1927 the Supreme Court ruled the lease of these Wyoming oil reserves fraudulent
Teapot Dome
Alec
$1,000 [27]
Benjamin Banneker assisted L'Enfant in planning this city
Washington, D.C.
Donna
$1,000 [19]
Kim Novak said this "Vertigo" co-star "was the sexiest man who played opposite me in 30 years"
James Stewart
Gladys
$1,000 [24]
Texas city famed for its river walk, the Paseo del Rio
San Antonio
Alec
$1,000 [14]
The last name of this comic strip title couple is sometimes Flagston
Hi and Lois
Alec
DD $1,400 [5]
It was the 1st novel Dickens wrote in the 1st person, probably because it was so personal
David Copperfield
Gladys

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS & GAMES

Invented in 1895 in Massachusetts, it became an Olympic sport at the 1964 Tokyo games

volleyball

Gladys "What is basketball?" — wagered $5,800
Donna "What is box" — wagered $5,800
Alec "What is football" — wagered $4,800

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