Show #1050 - Friday, March 10, 1989

Alex enters wearing a hard hat, explaining it is to protect himself against items falling from the rafters, as a chain and an electric wire had fallen the previous show.

Contestants

Claude Coller, a teacher from Lorain, Ohio

Sandi Kamenir, an attorney from North Hollywood, California

Paul Mathless, an editor from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
THE 50 STATES
MAMMALS
4-LETTER WORDS
POTENT POTABLES
GONE WITH THE WIND
    $100 19
In 1988 Christmas & Easter both fell on this day of the week
    $100 1
Spanish explorers are believed to have visited Mobile Bay in this state back in 1519
    $100 14
Don't worry; when they mate, the female can relax or flatten her quills
    $100 15
To expose oneself pleasantly to warmth, people do it in the sun
    $100 3
Since it's made with this, Barenjager liqueur comes with a plastic bee stuck on the label
    $100 5
Olivia de Havilland said Clark Gable was "terrified" of playing this role
    $200 20
The pre-Lenten festival is celebrated as Mardi Gras in New Orleans & this in Rio
    $200 2
Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy ran this state while its gov. was out on the national campaign trail
    $200 17
1 of the 2 mammals whose names begin with "AA"
    $200 16
Someone you're trailing might figuratively "give you" this piece of feminine attire
    $200 4
Myers's rum is distilled on this island, man
    $200 6
Every single technicolor camera in Hollywood was used to film the burning of this city
    DD: $700 21
AT&T's top 2 "calling holidays" are Christmas & this
    $300 9
It's the top brick-producing state as well as top tobacco producer
    $300 24
The "jack" in jack rabbit is short for this other animal, also known for its long ears
    $300 18
A line of soldiers standing side-by-side is a rank; a line one behind the other is this
    $300 7
The Bible says, "Money answereth all things," while this "maketh merry"
    $300 8
Though this "Great Gatsby" author wrote part of the script, he got no screen credit
    $400 22
Each night of the Afro-American holiday of Kwanzaa this is done, just like during Hanukkah
    $400 10
Acadia National Park, the oldest one east of the Mississippi, is in this state
    $400 25
After being born, an opossum spends the next 2 months here
    $400 27
Swine find this swill swell
    $400 29
Carolans, Emmets & Baileys are all brands of this type of liqueur
    $400 12
George Cukor, Sam Wood & finally, Victor Fleming
    $500 23
The 2 months in which the Chinese New Year can fall
    $500 11
1 of the 2 states whose official song titles begin with the word "On"
    $500 26
Common name given to the reindeer of North America
    $500 28
From the Latin for "crude", it's a light grayish yellowish brown
    $500 13
The only person Vivien Leigh specifically thanked on winning her Oscar was this producer

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Paul Sandi Claude
$1,500 $800 $1,100

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paul Sandi Claude
$3,100 $1,700 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
AWARDS
OPERA
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
FAMOUS NAMES
IN THE OCEAN
    $200 3
Known in Spanish as the "Bahia de Cochinos", it achieved world wide notoriety in 1961
    $200 14
If your cookbook doesn't cut the mustard, you may not win this company's Tastemaker Award
    $200 16
In "Le nozze di Figaro", "le nozze" refers to this event
    $200 1
In May 1988 it became the highest spot on Earth from which a live TV broadcast originated
    $200 2
The media usually refer to this hockey player's wife as "actress Janet Jones"
    $200 18
The book "Seas & Oceans" says this creature resembles a gherkin
    $400 10
In 1964 Malcolm X left this group; the following year 3 of its members killed him
    $400 15
The Downtown Athletic Club of New York City presents this award to the top college football player
    $400 17
Stravinsky wrote an opera about this "complex" mythical ruler
    $400 4
In 1975 this Vietnamese city was renamed to honor the late president of North Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
    $400 6
This comedienne got an Oscar nomination for playing a choir singer in her 1st film, "Nashville"
    DD: $800 19
Related to the pipe fish, its head is at a right angle to its body & it has a prehensile tail
    $600 11
The presidential candidacy of this "Kingfish" threatened to split the Democrats in 1935
    $600 24
Of an Obie, Hugo or Nebula, the one not won by sci-fi author Frederik Pohl's "Gateway"
    DD: $500 21
"La boheme", an opera about Bohemian artists, takes place in the Bohemian section of this city
    $600 5
A strip of land on the Mediterranean is named for this city where Samson brought down the house
    $600 9
In 1967 he became the 1st pro golfer to win a career total of $1 million in prize money
    $600 20
All freshwater species of these from Europe & North America go to the Sargasso Sea to spawn
    $800 12
"Beecher's Bibles" weren't books but these given to Kansans determined to resist slavery
    $800 23
The new Metropolitan Opera opened in this complex on September 16, 1966
    $800 7
The full name of the British city of Newcastle indicates it's "upon" this river
    $800 22
Based in Chicago, this ABC radio newscaster is credited with coining the words "Reaganomics" & "skyjacker"
    $1000 13
An artist, later judged insane, attempted to assassinate this president in 1835
    $1000 8
Tenerife is the largest of this Spanish island group off the northwest coast of Africa
    $1000 25
In 1973 Brezhnev gave this tycoon art collector an apartment overlooking Red Square

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paul Sandi Claude
$5,300 $5,000 $2,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ORGANIZATIONS
Its roots go back to two 1850s organizations: the General Female Training Institute & a prayer union

Final scores:

Paul Sandi Claude
$10,100 $100 $5
2-day champion: $28,300 2nd place: trip on Eastern to Freeport, Bahamas & stay at Xanadu Beach & Marina Resort 3rd place: Greif Companies his & hers clothing

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Paul Sandi Claude
$5,300 $5,900 $2,000
16 R,
4 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $13,200

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Game tape date: 1988-11-28
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