Show #745 1987-11-27 (taped 1987-08-26) Regular

"Signature game" with all clues prepared byJeopardy!research writer Barbara Heller.

Contestants

Michael Miller — a labor relations representative from Mission Hills, California

Sheryl Krieger — an advertising executive from San Diego, California

Adella Ravitch — a teacher from Anaheim Hills, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Adella $700 $1,900 $3,200 $0
3rd place: Brother Compactronic AX-33 daisy-wheel electronic typewriter with 5,000 character memory, Word Spell electronic dictionary, word out & line out
$3,300
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Sheryl $900 $1,700 $6,300 $3,599
New champion: $3,599
$6,300
13 R, 1 W
Michael $100 $0 $4,500 $0
2nd place: Berkline Supramotion Wall-Away Sofa + Emerson Deluxe 25" stereo color TV with dual speakers, 139-channel cable TV capability & wireless remote
$4,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE '60s CACTUS STAMPS & COINS MOVIE TRIVIA TORNADOES NUMERICAL PHRASES
$100 [2]
The top-rated single TV program of the '60s was the final episode of this David Janssen show
The Fugitive
Michael
$100 [24]
It's said Indians once used the tough curved spines of the barrel cactus as this article of fishing gear
a fishhook
Adella Michael
$100 [19]
That darn narcissist Ptolemy I was 1st to put this on a coin
his face
Sheryl
$100 [1]
Animals featured in the 1987 film "Project X"
chimpanzees
Michael
$100 [11]
In the U.S., most tornadoes strike the Midwest & the states that border this body of water
the Gulf of Mexico
Michael
$100 [14]
Numerical phrase synonymous with an expletive
four-letter word
Adella
$200 [3]
Dr. Robert Cade analyzed body fluids in sweat & came up with formula for this drink
Gatorade
Adella
$200 [25]
Most cacti lack sizable green leaves, which enables them to retain this
water
Sheryl
$200 [20]
U.S. coins with a mint mark "S" were minted in this city
San Francisco
Michael
$200 [7]
Of "The Hustler", "Hud", or "Hombre", the Paul Newman film in color
Hombre
Michael
$200 [12]
A tornado that occurs over a lake or ocean, or what the itsy bitsy spider crawled up
a waterspout
Adella
$200 [15]
It's setting an airplane down with the 2 main wheels & the nose wheel touching simultaneously
a three-point landing
Adella Michael
$300 [4]
It's said poet Allen Ginsberg introduced this, the hippies' floral rhyming rallying cry
flower power
$300 [26]
Including a species called Indian fig, this cactus is highly valued for its bristly fruit
prickly pear
Adella
$300 [21]
Commemorative with her portrait issued for 1892 Expo is only U.S. coin depicting a Spanish monarch
Queen Isabella
Adella
$300 [8]
UA could have used St. Peter's protection on this 1980 film that incurred highest loss in film history
Heaven's Gate
Adella
$300 [13]
Though tornadoes are most severe in March & April, more occur in this month than any other
May
Adella
$300 [16]
A fire that can be controlled by firefighting equipment from the 1st call issued by a fire dept.
a one-alarm fire
$400 [5]
1st of its kind approved by the FDA, Enovid became known by this 2-word generic phrase
the pill
Adella Sheryl
$400 [27]
Most of the over 1000 known varieties of cactus are found primarily on this continent
North America
Michael
$400 [22]
"The Penny Black", on May 6, 1840 in Great Britain
the first postage stamp issued
$400 [9]
Movie in which Miss Parton played Miss Mona
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Adella Michael
$400 [17]
CB slang for a standard large trailer ruck & its tractor
an eighteen-wheeler
Adella
$500 [6]
Called the most destructive racial outbreak in the U.S. in decades, riots occurred here Aug. 11-16, 1965
Watts (in the City of Los Angeles)
Sheryl
DD $400 [28]
1 of 2 cactus species that have their own national monuments in Arizona
saguaro & organ pipe
Michael
$500 [23]
1909 was the last year this U.S. 1¢ coin was issued
the Indian-head penny
Adella
$500 [10]
Guinness says longest makeup job ever done on 1 artist was on Rod Steiger for this 1969 film
The Illustrated Man
$500 [18]
Also called Monday-morning quarterbacking, it's looking back with perfect vision
twenty-twenty hindsight
Sheryl

Double Jeopardy! Round

BEST SELLERS THE CARIBBEAN COUNTRY MUSIC PHILOSOPHY WEST VIRGINIANS "B.H."
$200 [9]
This Stephen King novel had shortest title & highest dollar volume among 1986 fiction best sellers
It
Adella
$200 [1]
In 1986, a Nat'l Geographic team found that Samana Cay, not San Salvador, was site of this historic event
Christopher Columbus's landing in the New World
Adella
$200 [4]
"If it weren't for Dottie West, I'd probably be a lawyer in Houston," said this leader of the Gatlin Bros.
Larry Gatlin
Adella
$200 [18]
It's the immediate result of "cause"
effect
Adella
$200 [23]
Tho she had no kids of her own, Anna Jarvis of Grafton, W. Va., initiated observance of this day
Mother's Day
Adella
$200 [6]
In "Hannah & Her Sisters", she played 1 of the sisters
Barbara Hershey
Adella
$400 [10]
In 1934, her "Seven Gothic Tales" was best seller, 52 yrs. before her "Out of Africa" became Best Picture
Isak Dinesen
Adella
$400 [2]
Even tho Sun is up, Voodooists consider this time of day dangerous, since people cast no shadows
noon
Sheryl Michael
$400 [5]
Though his 1st 2 initials don't stand for any names, he's often called "The Good"
T.G. Sheppard
Sheryl
$400 [19]
He say, key to orderly social life is the gentleman of noble character, not of noble birth
Confucius
Adella
$400 [24]
He won 5 Emmys for his role as Barney Fife & a lot of laughs for his role as Ralph Furley
Don Knotts
Sheryl
$400 [14]
Weighing only about 135 pounds, he's the "bantam" of golfing champs
Ben Hogan
Sheryl
$600 [11]
"North to the Orient" & "Listen! The Wind" were her accounts of flying with her husband
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sheryl
$600 [3]
The 3 European countries that own political units in the Caribbean are Britain, France, & this one
Holland (the Netherlands)
Adella Michael
DD $500 [7]
1 of the 2 singers heard in thefollowing:"Hey, Louisiana woman" / "Mississippi man" / "We'll get together every time we can / The Mississippi River can't keep us apart" / "There's too much love in this Mississippi heart" / "Too much love..."
(1 of) Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Adella
$600 [20]
From Greek "to examine", it's one who constantly doubts or questions
a skeptic
Michael
$600 [25]
Tho Belle Boyd was noted for her writing & acting, she 1st gained fame in her teens doing this for the Confederacy
spying
$600 [15]
Belize, before 1973
British Honduras
Sheryl
$800 [12]
The longest-running hardcover fiction best seller for 1986 was this huge work by Jean Auel
The Mammoth Hunters
Adella Sheryl
DD $1,500 [28]
These 2 countries on the W. Indies 2 largest islands are the only 2 with Spanish as their official languages
Cuba & the Dominican Republic
Michael
$800 [8]
Sum total of the numbers of the Oak Ridge Boys, the Statler Brothers & The Judds
10 (4, 4 & 2)
Adella Sheryl
$800 [21]
Many sophists believed people clever enough to evade laws had no moral obligation to do this
obey laws
Michael
$800 [26]
Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, he was the big wheel of the UAW from 1946-1970
Walter Reuther
Michael
$800 [16]
The only U.S. president who fits this category
Benjamin Harrison
Adella
$1,000 [13]
Perhaps her 1987 best seller "Fine Things" reflects the fine things all her best sellers have given her
Danielle Steel
Sheryl
$1,000 [22]
Nearly all of Plato's works are written in the form of these
dialogues
Adella
$1,000 [27]
Sec'y of State under Carter, he resigned because he could not support plan to rescue hostages in Iran
Cyrus Vance
$1,000 [17]
Though we know it as the Battle of Bunker Hill, the real action took place here
Breed's Hill
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

CONSTELLATIONS

1 of the 2 constellations that are mother & daughter in mythology & are adjacent in the sky

Cassiopeia & Andromeda

Adella "What are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor?" — wagered $3,200
Michael "What are Castor & Pollux?" — wagered $4,500
Sheryl "What are Hera & Aphrodite?" — wagered $2,701

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