Show #1055 1989-03-17 (taped 1988-11-29) Regular

Contestants

Paul Curry — a training consultant from Laguna Hills, California

Marsha Hymanson — a law student from La Cañada, California

Frank Silvey — an administrator from Lawndale, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,700)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Frank $2,000 $2,100 $3,900 $7,500
2nd place: Meade telescope + Cazal sunglasses
$3,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Marsha $700 $1,500 $3,700 $7,400
3rd place: Pinseeker golf clubs
$3,700
10 R, 2 W
Paul $1,000 $1,300 $5,400 $7,801
New champion: $7,801
$4,300
15 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

IRELAND ODD JOBS SPORTS TRIVIA COSMETICS POETRY THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
$100 [13]
1st used by St. Patrick to represent the trinity, it's now the national symbol
the shamrock
Frank
$100 [2]
Philippine worker Bonifacio Santos is in charge of keeping these polished--all 2,400 pairs
Imelda Marcos's shoes
Frank
$100 [22]
Wild cow milking & steer decorating are sometimes part of these sports competitions
rodeos
Frank
$100 [11]
If you want to smell like this Disney rodent, Avon will sell you her cologne
Minnie Mouse
Marsha
$100 [1]
Thomas Decker's "Cradle Song" reads, "Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, & I will sing" one of these
a lullaby
Marsha
$100 [21]
Rob 1st met Laura Meehan during his stint in this
the Army
Paul
$300 [15]
The 4-letter Irish name for the Republic of Ireland
Eire
Frank
$200 [5]
An osteologist can determine the size & living habits of a human just from these
its bones
Paul
$200 [23]
The "snowplow" is a beginning ice skater's way of doing this by skidding slowly with toes turned inward
stopping
Frank Paul
$200 [12]
Barielle nail streng thener cream was originally developed to protect these animals' hooves
horses
Frank
$200 [3]
The last 2 words of every stanza of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
"marching on"
$400 [16]
Irish group whose album "The Joshua Tree" won the "Album of the Year" Grammy Award in 1988
U2
$300 [6]
The Khayyam in Omar Khayyam means "a maker of" these
tents
Frank
$300 [24]
In 1935 Leo Seltzer of Chicago invented these extremely rough skating contests
roller derby
Frank
$300 [18]
Cellophanes, the beauty product, not the food wrap, add color & shine to this
hair
Frank Marsha
$300 [4]
In a poem about her, Tennyson wrote "then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity"
Lady Godiva
Paul
DD $500 [14]
It's what these people are lined up to do:
kiss the Blarney Stone
Frank
$400 [9]
An arrow maker of old, or a mutiny maker of the Bounty
a fletcher
Frank
$400 [25]
It was the 2nd Asian city to host the Summer Olympics
Seoul
Frank
$400 [19]
This sweet, blue-eyed folk singer has her own line of beauty products called Harmonics
Judy Collins
$400 [7]
Completes the line from "The Children's Hour", "I hear in the chamber above me" this
"the patter of little feet"
Frank
$500 [17]
In the early 20th century a great theatrical revival centered around this Dublin theater
the Abbey Theater
Marsha
$500 [10]
Only time this "Family Ties" star modeled for an ad was as the girl on the hangtag of Teenform bras
Justine Bateman
Paul
$500 [26]
It was the 1st Asian city to host the Summer Olympics
Tokyo
Paul
$500 [20]
Spokesman for Estée Lauder's cosmetics for men, he sure doesn't look like a "Scarecrow"
Bruce Boxleitner
Frank Paul
$500 [8]
John Saxe's 6 blind men likened it to a wall, a spear, a snake, a rope, a fan & a tree
an elephant
Marsha

Double Jeopardy! Round

1889 PEOPLE OATHS & CREEDS PHYSICAL SCIENCE MUSICAL TERMS AUTHORS' LAST NAMES
$200 [20]
This company produced the 1st electric sewing machine in the U.S.
Singer
Paul
$200 [13]
The September 27, 1988 headline "Plains buries a favorite son" referred to this man's funeral
Billy Carter
Frank
$200 [14]
Witnesses taking an oath in court swear all their statements will be this
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
Frank
$200 [6]
In his relativity theory, Einstein proposed a space-time continuum made up of this many dimensions
4
Paul
$200 [1]
If you play pizzicato, you do this to the instrument's strings
pluck
Frank
$200 [8]
Thomas Stearns
Eliot
Frank
$400 [23]
In April 1889 New York City celebrated the centenary of his inauguration
George Washington
Paul
$400 [25]
Besides Armenian, Turkish & French ancestry, Cher is descended from these Indians
the Cherokee
Paul
$400 [15]
In the Oath of Allegiance, an alien becoming a U.S. citizen swears to bear these when required by law
arms
Marsha
$400 [7]
"Colorful" radiation from the Sun that causes the earth's ionosphere to replenish itself
ultraviolet
Frank Marsha
$400 [5]
Both descrescendo & diminuendo mean to do this
play more softly
Paul
$400 [9]
Gilbert Keith
Chesterton
Frank Marsha
DD $700 [28]
7 weeks after B. Harrison took office, the land rush officially began in what is now this state
Oklahoma
Paul
$600 [26]
The first name of this "Growing Pains" star came from his dad's being a big fan of "Star Trek"
Kirk Cameron
Paul
$600 [16]
In the Boy Scout Oath, a scout pledges to keep himself physically strong & mentally this
awake
Frank
$600 [21]
NASA plans to use this natural force as a booster to help propel its Galileo space-craft to Jupiter
gravity
Paul
$600 [4]
In the 10th c. Guido d'Arezzo invented this set of parallel lines used for placing notes according to pitch
the staff
Frank
$600 [10]
Elwyn Brooks
White
$800 [27]
Antoinette Giancana, noted for this autobiography, has now come out w/ a new book of Gangland recipes
Mafia Princess
$800 [17]
The Nicene Creed says, "We believe in one God... one Lord, Jesus... & in" this
the Holy Ghost
Marsha
$800 [22]
Term for the handcranked machine that coils the rope holding a well bucket
winch (or windlass)
Frank
$800 [3]
Found at the lower right-hand corner of sheet music, "volti subito" means to do this quickly
turn the page
Paul
$800 [11]
James Matthew
Barrie
$1,000 [19]
Gorbachev praised the wonderful job this man did as president & then took over his job
Andrei Gromyko
Marsha Paul
$1,000 [18]
The 3 things the president swears he'll do for the Constitution the United States
preserve, protect & defend
Frank
DD $2,000 [24]
The study of sound is acoustics, & the study of light, this
optics
Paul
$1,000 [2]
If you come to "da capo" while playing a composition, you'd go back to this point in the music
the beginning
Marsha
$1,000 [12]
Pelham Grenville
Wodehouse
Marsha

Final Jeopardy!

MONARCHS

In her will, she wrote of her hope of just rule for the Indians of the New World

Queen Isabella

Marsha "Who was Queen Isabella" — wagered $3,700
Frank "Who is Isabella" — wagered $3,600
Paul "Who was Queen Isabella?" — wagered $2,401

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