Show #786 - Monday, January 25, 1988

Final Jeopardy! logo flashes on the game board's monitors instead of the show's logo.

Contestants

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Sue Kelly, an office manager from Switzerland, Florida

Lennie Edwards, a teacher originally from Fort Dix, New Jersey

Stephanie Scott, a title officer assistant from Anaheim, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,900)

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Jeopardy! Round

SOUTH DAKOTA
CHILD CARE
BIBLICAL GARDEN
PITCHMAN & PRODUCT
(Alex: We give you one, you're expected to supply us with the other.)
KNIGHTS
RHYME TIME
    $100 26
Suprisingly, South Dakota's nickname is this, the same as Florida's
    $100 16
Dr. Spock says though it's fun to apply this to baby after a bath, it's not usually needed
    $100 21
Moses saw one of these burning but not consumed
    $100 9
Mrs. Olson
    $100 1
By the 1300s, knights were losing importance in warfare due to growing use of this explosive
    $100 6
A grandstander, or one especially good at pistol target practice
    $200 17
Produced by bacterial action, the chief cause of diaper rash is this, NH3
    $200 22
Psalm 92 says, "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in" this country
    $200 10
Snap!, Crackle!, and Pop!
    $200 2
In battle with his face covered, a knight's only identification was often this, emblazoned on his shield
    $200 7
Counterfeit cash
    $300 18
It's rare for this manual dominance to appear before the age of two
    $300 23
1963 Sidney Poitier film whose title comes from the flowers Jesus referred to in Matthew 6:28
    $300 13
Brother Dominic
    $300 3
Despite its name, this protective armor worn by a knight was not delivered by a postman
    DD: $500 8
Title of the following, it was Shirley Ellis' follow-up hit to "The Nitty Gritty":

"Tony, Tony, bo Bony banana fanna fo Fony
Fee fy mo Mony, Tony!
(Pretty good! Let's do Billy!)
Billy, Billy, bo Billy..."
    $400 19
It's the process that starts when the cup begins to replace the bottle or breast
    $400 24
Isaiah predicted, "The desert shall rejoice & blossom as" this flower
    $400 14
Mother Nature
    $400 4
This word for a tilting match comes from the Latin for "close together", "juxta"
    $400 11
This fruit-garnished rum cocktail isn't indigenous to Hawaii but arrived there in 1953
    $500 20
Common in babies, this ocular condition, "strabismus", can improve spontaneously, tho rarely so
    $500 25
In Mark chapter 11, Jesus found 1 of these trees w/out fruit & said, "No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever"
    $500 15
Euell Gibbons
    $500 5
Before a boy could become a knight, he usually had to serve these 2 apprenticeships
    $500 12
The queue at the cashier's widow to pay your traffic ticket, or what's drawn by a pen with a 0.3mm point

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 8):

Stephanie Lennie Sue
$700 $300 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Stephanie Lennie Sue
$1,700 $1,700 $1,700

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPAIN
LEGAL TERMS
PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS
COLONIAL AMERICA
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
COUNTRY CROONERS
    $200 21
Spanish department stores now stay open through this traditional 3-hour period
    $200 16
"Another" or "otherwise" in Latin, either way it's an assumed name
    $200 1
Pearl Buck's only Pulitzer-winning novel
    $200 11
Before the founding of New England in our country, New France was founded in what is now this country
    $200 6
The "Rimsky" in Rimsky-Korsakov's name is Russian for this Italian city
    $200 26
Long before she "fell to pieces", she won 1st prize on Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts
    $400 22
A statue of them, Cervantes' famous pair, rides through a plaza in Madrid
    $400 17
Shortened from "procuracy", it's the power of attorney given to another to vote your shares of stock
    $400 2
John Steinbeck's 1940 novel about the Joad family's journey
    DD: $2,000 12
3 of the 5 main cities of the 13 colonies
    $400 7
He was born under the sign of Pisces, the fish, so it's not surprising he wrote "Water Music"
    $400 27
This Oklahoman, a former rodeo rider, won CMA's female vocalist of the year in '84, '85, & '86
    DD: $2,500 23
For a brief time in the early 19th c., his brother was installed as King Joseph I
    $600 18
You can win a case by this if the other party doesn't show up in court
    $600 3
Booth Tarkington won in 1919 for this novel, perhaps best known as an Orson Welles film
    $600 13
In colonial times, this state, which doesn't touch Massachusetts, was part of it
    $600 8
One of the "Three B's" himself, he was an ardent admirer of the other two
    $800 24
Meaning "the red" in Arabic, this famous fortress in Granada was originally built by the Moors
    $800 19
Type of warrant issued by the court itself for the arrest of a party
    $800 4
He won 2 Pulitzer prizes for drama & 1 for a novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
    $800 14
This founder of Georgia lived to see the colony he established become a state
    $800 9
It's said the pathetic life of this Russian composer is the real subject of his "Pathetique" symphony
    $1000 25
By 1825, Spain had lost all its American colonies except these 2 islands, which it lost by 1898
    $1000 20
An article of personal property as distinguished from real estate
    $1000 5
Virginia-born Wm. Styron won for his book, "The Confessions of" this actual leader of a slave revolt
    $1000 15
The mother of this founding father's illegitimate son William has never been identified
    $1000 10
While writing "Tannhauser", he also wrote a funeral cantata for C.M. von Weber who'd been dead 18 years

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Stephanie Lennie Sue
$2,600 $9,500 $1,300
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

THE MOVIES
This musical drama was made in 1927 & remade in 1953 and 1980

Final scores:

Stephanie Lennie Sue
$0 $9,000 $1,000
3rd place: an Oneida Silversmiths gift certificate New champion: $9,000 2nd place: a Gibson side-by-side refrigerator/freezer + a Helix 4 1/2" black & white TV/clock/radio

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Stephanie Lennie Sue
$4,900 $7,900 $1,300
15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 8 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $14,100

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Game tape date: 1987-10-19
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