Show #941 - Monday, October 10, 1988

Contestants

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Paul Katz, a lawyer from Flagler County, Florida

Sue Nelson, a travel agent from Austin, Texas

Alec Iorio, an international freight forwarder originally from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD WEST
SAINTS
SPORTS
MOVIE TRIVIA
COLORS
THE TELEPHONE
    $100 26
This hat, originally called "Boss of the Plains", is better known by the name of its maker
    $100 4
Simeon the Stylite sat atop one of these for some 36 years, a Guinness record
    $100 13
In 1902, 1st year this bowl game was played, the final score was
Michigan 49
Stanford 0
    $100 7
In 1936 this Oriental detective, not Groucho, was "...at the Circus", "...Opera" & "...Race Track"
    $100 1
This snappy spice is also a girl's name & a color
    $100 18
World Book says, to make a simple telephone set you need 2 tin cans & 1 of these
    $200 11
We don't know much about St. Bartholomew except that he was 1 of this group's original 12
    $200 14
In 1987 she won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon for the 6th year in a row
    $200 8
David Denby's review of this film in New York Magazine was titled "Wallow"
    $200 2
If you're in excellent health you're "in" this
    $200 22
The international calling code for this country is "1"
    $300 19
The calendar of saints says they were the 1st non-Jews to have worshipped Jesus
    $300 15
The Figure Skating Hall of Fame is in Colorado Springs; this other skating hall of fame is in Newburgh, N.Y.
    $300 9
Only the 3rd, 4th & 7th installments of this film series opened on the date in their titles
    $300 3
Key lime pie, when made with true key limes, is not green but this color
    $300 23
On a standard 12-button touchtone phone, number of buttons that have no letters on them
    $400 20
The emblem of St. Nicholas; no wonder Christmas puts gift-buying parents in hock
    $400 16
This company, not Wilson or Spaulding, holds the contract to make baseballs for the Major Leagues
    $400 10
He starred in 1937's "Elephant Boy" & 1952's "Hello Elephant"
    $400 5
An Irish Protestant, usually from Northern Ireland
    $400 24
After a fire wiped out a Chicago area switching center in May 1988, sales of these rose 40%
    $500 21
The name of this South American capital is Spanish for St. James
    $500 17
The 1992 Winter Olympic Games will be held in this country that hosted the 1968 Winter Games
    $500 12
If you need a bio-exorcist, say this name 3 times, but we can't guarantee the results
    DD: $600 6
Name of the group heard here:

"We all came out to Montreux / On the Lake Geneva shoreline / To make records with a mobile / We didn't have much time..."
    $500 25
Alexander Graham Bell made this lab assistant a partner in the Bell Telephone Company

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

Alec Sue Paul
$600 $700 $100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alec Sue Paul
$400 $1,800 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS
"P"s & "Q"s
GEOLOGY
MUSIC TRIVIA
THOSE FABULOUS ROMANS
    $200 12
It extends 50.71 miles from Limón Bay on the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
    $200 6
The full name of the title character in this Chekhov play is Ivan Petrovitch Voynitsky
    $200 14
In area it's New York City's largest borough
    $200 19
The New York Times reports 20% of U.S. production of this comes from Prudhoe Bay
    $200 9
The only person mentioned by named in "Hail, Columbia!" is this president
    $200 1
According to legend, Romulus & Remus were sired by this war god
    $400 13
Paricutin in Mexico is one of the most recent of these to form in the Western Hemisphere
    $400 7
George & Martha & Nick & Honey
    $400 15
Technically, this is a trademark name for table tennis
    $400 20
Rock crystal is the clear form of this mineral
    $400 24
The 1st line of this song says, "The warden threw a party in the county jail"
    $400 2
After overcoming Antony & Lepidus, Octavian, later known by this name, became emperor
    $600 8
Arthur Miller character who has a wife named Linda & sons name Biff & Happy
    $600 16
The tails of this airline's planes all sport kangaroos
    $600 21
Term given to the erosion of rocks from exposure & variations in humidity & temperature
    $600 25
Of a sheng, a spinet or a sackbut, the one you should never stick in your mouth to play
    $600 3
This poet begins his epic of Aeneas with words meaning "I sing of arms and the man"
    DD: $1,600 10
Her last line in "A Streetcar Named Desire" is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"
    $800 17
On a typewriter, elite type gives you 12 characters per inch while this type give you 10
    $800 22
In January 1978 "Baby Come Back" was No. 1 on the pop charts & this mineral was no. 1 on the Mohs scale
    $800 26
This musical form debuted in the 16th century & some say the 1st production was called "Dafne"
    DD: $1,600 4
This man, known as the Elder or Censor, ended his speeches saying, "Carthage must be destroyed"
    $1000 11
Aristophanes title character whose name means "she who disbands the armies"
    $1000 18
This author of "Boris Gudunov" is widely viewed as the greatest Russian poet of all time
    $1000 23
A rock that's "gneiss" falls into this class
    $1000 27
Told nobody lost much money writing about the South, he decided to compose "Georgia on My Mind"
    $1000 5
Though he died a Roman citizen, Plutarch, author of "Parallel Lives", was born in this country

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alec Sue Paul
$6,800 $2,000 $3,400
(lock-tie game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE CIVIL WAR
1 of 2 states admitted to the Union during the Civil War

Final scores:

Alec Sue Paul
$6,800 $3,990 $0
2-day champion: $10,800 2nd place: trip on Eastern to St. Thomas & stay at Frenchman's Reef Resort 3rd place: Whirlpool microwave & range

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Alec Sue Paul
$8,200 $2,000 $3,400
19 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 2 DDs)		 11 R,
3 W		 13 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $13,600

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Game tape date: 1988-08-01
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