Show #3 1984-09-12 (taped 1984-08-07) Regular

Third episode.

Contestants

Michael Ellington, Jr. — a police officer from Los Angeles, California

Nancy Teri — a stockbroker originally from Wanatah, Indiana

Gunther Murley — a construction manager from Palos Verdes, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gunther $1,300 $1,500 $5,500 $2,500
2nd place: Pinseeker golf clubs + Vitamaster exercise bikes
$6,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Nancy $0 $2,100 $4,200 $8,390
New champion: $8,390
$5,700
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $-200 $500 $-1,300 $-1,300
3rd place: a Teletec System, Inc. telephone
$-1,300
7 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY 3-LETTER WORDS AUTOMOBILES BROADWAY ANIMALS ROYALTY
$100 [6]
This colonial inventor suggested Daylight Saving Time
Benjamin Franklin
Gunther
$100 [19]
A fedora, homburg or derby
a hat
Nancy
$100 [1]
He'd build you a Model T "in any color, so long as it was black"
Henry Ford
Gunther
$100 [8]
4-letter play about 9-lived creatures
Cats
Michael
$100 [10]
Scooby-Doo, Goofy & Pluto are cartoon versions
dogs
Nancy
$100 [14]
While on the Riviera, she made "To Catch a Thief" & caught a prince
Princess Grace
Nancy
$200 [7]
On the eve of the Civil War, some 2,000 slaveholders were of this race
black (or negro)
Nancy
$200 [20]
Quixote or Drysdale
a Don
Nancy
$200 [2]
This toy company builds more cars than Ford, G.M. & Chrysler combined
Mattel
Michael
$200 [9]
"The avenue we're taken to" in this long-running toe-tapper
42nd Street
Gunther
$200 [24]
"Eager" animal that symbolizes Canada
the beaver
Michael
$200 [15]
King for 72 years, he devoted more than 40 to building Versailles
Louis XIV (of France)
Nancy
$300 [21]
Opposite of flow, tides do it
ebb
Nancy
$300 [3]
Powered by this, the Stanley Special won in Daytona in 1907 at 197 MPH
steam
Gunther
$300 [11]
Nickname of the American Theatre Wing's Antoinette Perry Award
the Tony
Nancy
$300 [25]
They include killers, humpbacks & sperms
whales
Gunther
$300 [16]
Temporarily exiled in '53, this Islamic ruler was permanently banished in '79
Shah of Iran
Gunther Nancy
$400 [22]
Where things are nipped in, or Lou's partner
bud
Michael
$400 [4]
In Japan it's called "rasshu awa"; in L.A, 4 to 6 P.M.
rush hour
Gunther
$400 [12]
2-time Academy Award winner who reprised "Little Foxes" in 1980
Elizabeth Taylor
Nancy
$500 [26]
Tibetan ox used to carry travelers and mail
a yak
Nancy
$400 [17]
Royal families of Germany, Russia, Denmark & Greece could call her "the grandmother of Europe"
Queen Victoria (of England)
$500 [23]
Some people have a quick one, which beats a ½ one
wit
DD $400 [5]
Models of Ford, Chrysler, & Cadillac are all named for cities in this S. European country
Spain
Gunther
$500 [13]
100s of former cast members appeared onstage when it became longest-running show
A Chorus Line
Nancy
$500 [18]
Country where Queens Beatrix, Wilhelmina & Juliana were inaugurated, not crowned
the Netherlands (Holland)
Nancy

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW TESTAMENT COLLEGES WORLD OF FOOD BASEBALL ASTRONOMY MOUNTAINS
$200 [6]
Jesus' first miracle was to turn water into this
wine
Nancy
$200 [11]
A type of shoe or cloth, or where a Rhodes scholarship will get you
Oxford
Gunther
$200 [1]
Like chop suey, this Chinese sweet was invented in America
the fortune cookie
Gunther
$200 [19]
Before 1859 they sat in padded rocking chairs behind the catcher
umpires
Michael
$200 [2]
Self-luminous gaseous body, or Hollywood "celeb"
a star
Michael
$600 [20]
First volcano to erupt in continental U.S. since 1921
Mount St. Helens
Nancy
$400 [7]
According to both New & Old Testaments, how "thou shalt love they neighbor"
as thyself
Nancy
$400 [12]
Home of over 52,000 Buckeyes
Ohio State University
Gunther
$400 [15]
When its coffee crop was destroyed around 1870, Ceylon switched to growing this
tea
Gunther
$400 [3]
The evening or morning "star" is really this planet
Venus
Gunther
$800 [21]
Home to alpacas & llamas
the Andes
Gunther Michael
$600 [8]
The "sea" that Jesus walked on
the Sea of Galilee
Michael
$600 [13]
Latin for field, or college grounds
campus
Nancy
$800 [17]
French for "sour wine", one variety is literally just that
vinegar
Gunther
$600 [4]
Planet once thought unique, it no longer runs "rings" around its neighbors
Saturn
Michael
$1,000 [22]
Tibetans call it Chomolunga, Nepalese call it Sagarmatha, both call it theirs
Mount Everest
Nancy
$800 [9]
In Damascus, "the scales fell from his eyes"
Paul (Saul)
Michael
$800 [23]
In 1934, Gerald Ford was voted MVP of this school's football team
(University of) Michigan
Gunther
DD $1,000 [16]
What Merv has a lovely bunch of in this song:
coconuts
Gunther
$800 [5]
Launched Oct. 4th, 1957, it was Earth's 1st artificial satellite
Sputnik
Nancy Michael
DD $1,500 [14]
"Blessed are" these "for they shall be called the children of God"
the peacemakers
Nancy
$1,000 [24]
Women's college that shares Harvard's classes, housing & facilities but still is separate
Radcliffe
Michael
$1,000 [18]
Stem of a variety of lily, known in Old England as "sparrow grass"
asparagus
$1,000 [10]
Only planet to have seasons similar to Earth's
Mars
Gunther

Final Jeopardy!

LANGUAGE

It is the 2nd most spoken language in the world

English

Nancy "What is English" — wagered $4,190
Gunther "What is Hindu" — wagered $3,000

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