Show #464 1986-09-18 (taped 1986-08-06) Regular

Roger Storm game 5.

Contestants

Marc Wade — a systems analyst originally from Sacramento, California

Karin Hofland — a novelist from Santa Monica, California

Roger Storm — a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio (whose 4-day cash winnings total $31,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Roger $600 $700 $2,800 $1,700
3rd place: a Brother AX12 electronic typewriter
$1,700
11 R (including 1 DD), 7 W
Karin $600 $1,700 $5,900 $4,700
2nd place: a trip to Fort Walton Beach, Florida aboard Eastern Airlines with stay at The Breakers
$5,700
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Marc $900 $2,500 $3,500 $6,500
New champion: $6,500
$4,000
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BEST SELLERS ARMED FORCES WORDS OF THE '60s THE DESERT TV TRIVIA GREAT DAMES
$100 [3]
Edna Ferber's giant best seller of 1952
Giant
Marc
$100 [26]
Besides the Air Force, the other U.S. military branch whose jets attacked Libya on April 15, 1986
the Navy
Karin
$100 [13]
State of having laid back vibes, colored "yellow" by Donovan
mellow
Marc
$100 [10]
Those of the mesquite plant have been measured to reach over 100' below the surface
roots
Karin
$100 [1]
Name shared by Donald Keeler's character on "Lassie" & a plump animated pig from Warner Bros.
Porky
Marc
$100 [21]
The French call this play "La Dame Aux Camelias"; The English call it this
The Lady of the Camellias
Marc
$200 [7]
In 1976, Publishers Weekly initiated a best seller list for these
paperbacks
Marc
$200 [27]
Nike-Hercules, Hawk & Chaparral are air defense guided missiles of this service branch
the Army
Roger
$200 [14]
To talk freely & frankly, or H. Brown's "middle name"
rap
Roger
$200 [11]
South African desert natives use the large shells of this bird's eggs to carry & store water
ostrich
Marc
$200 [2]
Of "Mr. Smith", "Lancelot Link" & "The Monkees", the one with only humans in the lead roles
The Monkees
Roger
$300 [23]
In this nursery rhyme, 1 bag of wool is "for my dame"
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Marc
$300 [8]
First the Bible, then this John Bunyan book, became earliest best sellers in America
Pilgrim's Progress
$300 [18]
Doing it to your mind could do it to your cool
blow
Karin
$300 [15]
Of the equator, Tropics of Cancer or of Capricorn, the 2 lines near which most of the world's deserts lie
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
Roger Karin Marc
$300 [4]
With the divorce & the son's "coming out", you couldn't call this PBS "American Family" quiet
the Loud family
Marc
$400 [24]
Boisterous lament of Rodgers & Hammerstein's lovesick sailors
"There is Nothing Like a Dame"
Roger Marc
$400 [9]
In Jack Higgins' 1975 "The Eagle Has Landed", German troops attempt to kidnap this man
(Winston) Churchill
Roger Marc
$400 [19]
An emotional problem or inhibition, or what you do if a phone call bums you out
hangup
Roger
$400 [16]
Desert with the greatest temperature swing, 113° to -40°F, is this one in Mongolia
the Gobi
Karin
$400 [5]
Actor who was Tucker Kerwin on "The Associates", then became Ed Grimley, a cult hero, I must say
Martin Short
Marc
DD $500 [22]
You'd be in "Seine" if you fell in the river next to this:
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Marc
$500 [12]
From 1901-1913 this Englishman had 5 #1 U.S. best sellers of the yr. including "The Crisis" & "The Crossing"
Winston Churchill
$500 [20]
Precedes "wasted", "down" & "your act together"
get
Marc
$500 [17]
Whether called arroyos or wadis, they're these, which act as desert drainage systems
gulch (or gulley or streambeds)
Marc
$500 [6]
1 of 2 series in which Bill Bixby played a newspaper or TV reporter
My Favorite Martian or Goodnight, Beantown
Karin
$500 [25]
Ruby Keeler was among the "dames" this choreographer set tapping in the 1934 musical of the same name
Busby Berkeley
Marc

Double Jeopardy! Round

KNIGHTS MINI-COUNTRIES SCIENTISTS TWINKIES CRAZY TALK
$200 [21]
This flexible armor made of metal rings sounds like it came parcel post
mail
Karin
$200 [11]
Capital city of Singapore
Singapore
Roger Karin
$200 [1]
Joseph Swan had this bright idea in England at the same time Edison did in the U.S.
an electric light bulb
Roger
$200 [4]
"The Twinkie defense" proved surprisingly successful at the trial of this San Francisco assassin
Dan White
Karin
$200 [13]
Pecan, pine, or pistachio
"nuts"
Karin
$400 [22]
The French word for "knight", it was a courtly "Gigi" star's last name
Chevalier
Karin
$400 [12]
Of Bahrain, Tuvalu, or Nauru, the island country in the Persian Gulf
Bahrain
Marc
$400 [2]
Guillaume Amontons' 17th century thermometer was 1st filled with this & corrected for air pressure
mercury
Roger
$400 [5]
Movie where Harold Ramis compares normal amount of psychokinetic energy in NYC to a Twinkie
Ghostbusters
Marc
$400 [14]
Bid adieu to one's feelings of touch, taste, sight, sound & smell
"to take leave of one's senses"
Roger Marc
$600 [23]
The Knights of Malta paid Holy Roman Emperor Charles V an annual rent of 1 of these birds
a falcon
Roger
$600 [18]
"Monte Carlo of the Orient", this Portuguese dependency draws thousands of gamblers from nearby Hong Kong
Macau
Roger
$600 [3]
John Dalton did the 1st paper on this condition, some say after being told his brown coat was bright scarlet
color blindness
Karin
$600 [6]
This animated character, like Ann Blyth before him, is TV's Twinkie spokesman
Twinkie the Kid
Marc
DD $800 [15]
1 of 2 phrases from which 2 of Carroll's crazy tea party participants were named
"mad as a hatter" (or "mad as a March hare")
Karin
$1,000 [25]
Sir Gawain beheads him in an epic poem, but still lets this knight share the title
the Green Knight
Roger Marc
$800 [19]
World's shortest railroad line runs 300 yards in this, the world's smallest independent state
Vatican City
Roger
$800 [9]
In 1943, the year of his death, the plantation on which he was born was made a national monument
George Washington Carver
$800 [7]
A Minneapolis city council member was accused of this for giving senior citizens Twinkies
bribery
Karin
$800 [16]
Past a road's curve
"around the bend"
Karin
DD $1,900 [24]
Aptly enough, Prince Philip meets with the other Knights of the Thistle in this city
Edinburgh
Roger
$1,000 [20]
Independent since 301 A.D., this "most serene republic" in Europe is the oldest republic in the world
San Marino
Roger
$1,000 [10]
Cornelius Vanderbilt thought this engineer's idea of braking a train with air was sheer nonsense
(George) Westinghouse
Roger
$1,000 [8]
She has termed as "Twinkies" newscasters who "seem as if they've blow-dreid their brains, too"
Linda Ellerbee
Marc
$1,000 [17]
Where you get the main ingredient of your pumpkin pie
"out of your gourd"

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

The number of U.S. presidents in the 20th century to serve out at least 2 full terms

3

Roger "What is 4?" — wagered $1,100
Marc "What is 3?" — wagered $3,000
Karin "What is 4?" — wagered $1,200

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