Show #629 - Thursday, May 7, 1987

Contestants

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Mark Stitham, a physician from Kailua, Hawaii

Lynn Taylor, a director of harbor development from Seattle, Washington

Phil Marino, a dentist from Clearwater, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,540)

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Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY
ACCORDING TO SPOCK
FOOD IN SONG
BIRDS
4-LETTER WORDS
(Alex: And something that I have a great deal of...)
USELESS INFORMATION
    $100 22
Australia's Gibson, Great Victoria, & Great Sandy are 3 of these
    $100 2
Author of the book titled "I Am Not Spock"
    $100 7
In their 1964 hit "Bread & Butter," the New Beats also liked "Toast" & this
    $100 1
On the Philippine coat of arms, this bird represents the United States
    $100 13
One does it to a gas tank or a prescription
    $100 19
It's said this mammal should be killed very young if you're going to roast its hump
    $200 27
Say farewell to Greenland's Cape Farewell, sail due south, & this is the continent you'll hit
    $200 3
The Vulcan salutation is "Live long &..." do this
    $200 8
This culinary 1st line of "The Christmas Song" is often mistaken for the title
    $200 12
Oxpeckers, native to this continent, eat insect pests off the hides of big-game animals
    $200 14
From Old English "lufu", Dusty Springfield sang about "The Look Of" it
    $200 23
This pianist's Las Vegas home boasts an ornate portrait of himself on the bedroom ceiling
    $300 28
The 2 Great Lakes connected by Michigan Straits of Mackinac
    $300 4
When experiencing "Pon Farr", a Vulcan male has to find this or die
    DD: $500 9
Musical from which the following song comes:

"Food, glorious food / Hot sausage and mustard / While we're in the mood"
    $300 16
The 2 types of these large endangered vultures are Andean & California
    $300 15
50%
    $300 24
Though not known for its humor, this Russian political party has its own humor magazine, "Krokodil"
    $400 5
Mr. Spock's mother is from this planet
    $400 10
Monkeys and rabbits were 2 of these "in my soup"
    $400 17
Of 1, 4 or 400, number of times per year the average flamingo mates
    $400 20
To speak wildly, or the type of review a critic gives when he's wild about a play
    $400 25
"I'm not sure you can win this game by being smart," said John Davidson of this series he hosts
    $500 6
On TV, while Bones was medical officer, & Scotty was engineering officer, Spock was this officer
    $500 11
1 of 2 foods mentioned in the first verse of Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville"
    $500 18
Its name is derived from Old English words meaning "to sing at night"
    $500 21
The short whip used in horseback riding
    $500 26
On Dec. 1st, 1986, 1.5 of the 40 million documents from this president's administration were made public

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

Phil Lynn Mark
$2,100 $100 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Phil Lynn Mark
$2,900 $400 $3,100

Double Jeopardy! Round

SOUTHERN AUTHORS
WORLD WAR II
QUOTES
TREES & FLOWERS
EXPLORERS
NAMES BY THE MONTHS
    $200 23
Native state of female authors Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers & Margaret Mitchell
    $200 18
The only German city bombed by the French Air Force in its brief career was this capital
    $200 10
In 1461, it's said, heralds 1st proclaimed, 'Le roi est mort, vive le roi", meaning this
    $200 1
Guinness says the most paid for a tree, $51,000, was for a Washington state Starkspur bearing this fruit
    $200 6
Stanley was Welsh-born & Livingstone came from this other neighbor of England
    $200 9
Her partner was Mike Nichols
    $400 26
He rewrote his own play "Summer & Smoke", calling it "Eccentricities of a Nightingale"
    $400 19
Using Colt .45s, a Piper shot down a German spotter in the last of these "canine" conflicts in Europe
    $400 11
2 words which complete Charles Colton's line, "When you have nothing to say,..."
    $400 2
It takes 5000 wolffia-type plants, smallest flowering plant in world, to fill this sewing aid
    $400 7
Tho he claimed to have accompanied his father, John Cabot, to America in 1497, historians disagree
    $400 14
He was Willy Loman in the 1951 film "Death of a Salesman"
    $600 27
He played host to a murderous house party in the film "Murder by Death"
    $600 24
To encourage childbearing, he instituted the "Mother's Cross" in gold, silver & bronze
    $600 20
Reflecting on these, Ogden Nash wrote, "A bit of talcum is always walcum"
    $600 3
In Jim Croce song, "I've Got a Name", these trees were lining the winding road
    $600 8
A lake on the N.Y./Vt./Quebec border is named for this man called the Father of New France
    $600 15
She replaced Cloris Leachman as Ruth Martin on "Lassie"
    DD: $100 25
In the early North African campaign, most of Rommel's troops were from this country
    $800 21
Economist Napoleon was quoting when he called England "a nation of shopkeepers"
    $800 4
This large main root found on some trees
can extend down 15' or more
    $800 12
He went from 15 minutes in space in 1961 to walking on the moon in 1971
    DD: $1,400 16
The man who played Lando Calrissian in "Return of the Jedi" was born with this middle name
    $1000 28
WWII Coast Guard commander better remembered for knocking out Jess Willard
    $1000 22
Line by A.A. Milne which follows, "Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!"
    $1000 5
It's the art, science, & business of growing specifically, flowers
    $1000 13
Norwegian explorer who, in 1906, became 1st to navigate the Northwest Passage
    $1000 17
Stephanie Powers played this "Girl from U.N.C.L.E."

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Phil Lynn Mark
$9,400 $600 $5,100

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ELECTIONS
The only 2 presidential candidates who have won 49 states in an election

Final scores:

Phil Lynn Mark
$8,599 $600 $10,100
2nd place: trip to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 3rd place: Magnavox Videowriter word processor New champion: $10,100

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Phil Lynn Mark
$8,700 $600 $5,100
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)
3 R,
1 W
17 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $14,400

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Game tape date: 1987-01-13
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