Show #621 1987-04-27 (taped 1987-01-07) Regular

Richard Cordray game 5.

Contestants

Bob Peck — a forensic accountant from Irvine, California

Eileen Oshinsky — a writer and editor originally from New York

Richard Cordray — a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio (whose 4-day cash winnings total $34,902)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Richard	$500	$1,800	$4,200	$5,401 5-day champion: $40,303	$5,200 18 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Eileen	$-300	$-100	$1,100	$2,000 2nd place: handcrafted solid oak entertainment center from Harrison Furniture + Emerson deluxe 25" stereo color television	$1,100 7 R, 4 W
Bob	$0	$2,300	$2,700	$120 3rd place: Liberty Renewed limited edition serigraph numbered and hand-signed by Doug Webb from Martin Lawrence Galleries	$2,700 13 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

TRANSPORTATION	THE HUSBAND MARRIED	YE GODS	WORDS	THE SENSES	MEMPHIS
$100 [4] A 1984 count reportedly indicated this city's streets contained 927,000 potholes New York City Richard	$100 [17] Sybil Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Hunt &Sally Hay Richard Burton Richard	$100 [2] Like a boomerang, this tool named "Mjolnir" always returned to Thor's hand the hammer Richard Eileen	$200 [21] While a knave with "K" is a jack, a nave without the "K" is part of this a church Bob	$200 [12] "If you don't have Schlitz, you don't have gusto," but you still have this, your gustatory sense taste Richard	$300 [24] Memphis is headquarters of this, the world's largest hotel chain Holiday Inn Eileen Bob
$200 [11] While in office, he became 1st president to ride in a car & submerge in a submarine Theodore Roosevelt Richard	$200 [16] Jean Peters& Terry Moore, so Terry claimed Howard Hughes Bob	$200 [3] Of Bingo, Fungo, or Dongo, the one that isn't an African God Fungo Bob	$300 [19] From Latin for "make it similar", it's an exact copy or reproduction of a document a facsimile Bob	$300 [7] Appropriately named "instrument" used by Beethoven to compensate for his hearing loss an ear trumpet Bob	—
$300 [23] Guiness says on a calm night in 1966 one of these became largest object ever stolen by one man a freighter (ship)	$300 [15] Josephine de Beauharnais &Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria Napoleon Richard	$300 [1] This drink of the gods on Mt. Olympus was said to resemble red wine nectar Eileen	$400 [18] Literally meaning "food bet", it's supplies advanced to a miner in return for shares in profits a grub stake Bob	$400 [10] It's primarily this area on your tongue which tastes sweet sensations the tip (the front of the tongue) Bob	—
DD $400 [9] Group which topped the country charts with the followingsong about a truck driver:[Truck noises]"Roll on, highway /Roll on along /Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home /Roll on family /Roll on crew /Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do /And roll on eighteen wheeler, roll on /(Roll on!)..." Alabama Richard	$400 [14] Ballerina Olga Koklova,& then Jacquiline Roque, but not Francoise Gilot, Paloma's mother Pablo Picasso	$400 [5] Though the most beautiful Roman goddess, she married the ugliest god, Vulcan Venus Richard	$500 [20] The job of a nomenclator giving names to things Eileen	$500 [8] Ancient philosophers reportedly called the senses the "windows of" this the soul Richard	—
$500 [22] In production from 1897 to 1924, this car was nicknamed "The Tea Kettle" the Stanley Steamer Bob	$500 [13] Jody Wolcott, Joanne Copeland& Joanna Holland Johnny Carson Richard	$500 [6] Ancient Greeks might have asked if you heard the one about Thalia, the muse of this comedy Eileen Bob	—	—	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR II	MUSIC BUSINESS	THE BIBLE	THE OLYMPICS	NEWSPAPERS	TOUGH TV TRIVIA
$200 [25] Germany's "Desert Fox" Rommel Eileen	$200 [21] RIAA award for sales of 1,000,000 LP's; if solid, it'd be worth over $53,000 a platinum record Richard	$200 [1] Isaiah quotes the Lord as saying "Heaven is my throne, &" this "is my footstool" the Earth Richard	$200 [13] # of events in the women's heptathlon 7 Richard	$200 [8] San Francisco paper which owns TV station KRON the San Francisco Chronicle Eileen	$200 [18] Only sitcom in which Mary Tyler Moore starred playing a mother The Dick Van Dyke Show Richard
$400 [11] He became premier of Japan 2 months before Pearl Harbor Tojo Eileen Bob	$400 [22] It started coming down the cable at one minute after midnight, August 1, 1981 MTV Bob	$400 [6] Naomi's daughter-in-law, she not only gleaned Boaz's wheat, she married him Ruth Bob	$400 [14] It's said after Bob Beamon's 1968 world record, a competitor remarked, "You have destroyed this event" the running long jump Richard	$400 [9] People's Almanac describes the People's Daily as "the ultimate voice of authority" in this country China Bob	$400 [19] "Timely" show which followed "The Tonight Show" for the 1st time Oct. 15, 1973 & the last time Jan. 28, 1982 ( The ) Tomorrow ( Show )
$600 [7] Pvt. Eddie Slovik was the only American since the Civil War to be shot for this reason desertion Richard Eileen	$600 [23] ABC Records, UNI, Impulse!, Decca, Kapp, Coral & Blue Thumb have all been taken over by this label MCA	$600 [5] In the King James Bible, "They shall beat their swords into plowshares &" these "into pruninghooks" their spears	$600 [15] In 1896 games, only men in the navy of this host country could enter the 100m freestyle for sailors Greece Richard	$600 [10] The Chicago Daily Defender & L.A. Sentinel are aimed primarily at these readers blacks Richard Bob	DD $800 [20] The 2 network TV series on in Sept. 1986 that had "Hammer" in their titles Mike Hammer & Sledge Hammer! Richard
$800 [4] Of his 1941 flight to Scotland, Hitler said, "He is crazy; if he comes back, shoot him on sight" Hess Richard	—	DD $1,000 [3] Ecclesiastes says "A man hath no better thing under the sun than to" do these 3 "hedonistic" things eat, drink, & be merry Richard	$800 [16] As late as the 1930s, teachers of this subject were considered pros & ineligible for the Olympics physical education Richard	$800 [12] They call themselves "The Bible of the garment industry" Women's Wear Daily Eileen	—
$1,000 [24] As an officer, this Soviet WWII hero is said never to have lost a battle Marshal Georgy Zhukov	—	$1,000 [2] In Genesis, it's to whom God said "Thou art cursed above all cattle" the Serpent Richard Bob	$1,000 [17] He won the 100m in 1924, & over 50 years later, he "won" it again in "Chariots of Fire" Harold Abrahams Richard Eileen	—	—

Final Jeopardy!

CODES OF HONOR

As bushido was to 16th century samurai, this was to 12th century knights

chivalry

Eileen "What is chivalry?" — wagered $900

Bob "What is knighthood?" — wagered $2,580

Richard "What is chivalry?" — wagered $1,201

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