Show #279 1985-10-03 (taped 1985-07-24) Regular

Chuck Forrest game 4.Chuck sets a new total cash winnings record of $60,000.

Contestants

René Garcia — a law firm purchasing agent from Culver City, California

Claudia Wolfe — an advertising copywriter originally from Chevy Chase, Maryland

Chuck Forrest — a student from Grand Blanc, Michigan (whose 3-day cash winnings total $45,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chuck $1,300 $3,400 $11,800 $15,000
4-day champion: $60,000
$11,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Claudia $-200 $500 $3,100 $6,100
2nd place: a Palm Springs vacation at Royce Resort Hotel
$3,100
9 R, 1 W
René $300 $1,200 $1,400 $2,800
3rd place: a Lane Action recliner + a Chinon compact 35 mm camera
$3,400
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

COMIC STRIPS ENGINEERING MOVIES ZOOLOGY FOOD DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
$100 [20]
Jim Davis named this cat after his grandfather, not the 20th president
Garfield
Chuck
$100 [4]
Used as early as 230 B.C., the 1st successful electric one was developed by the Otis Bros. in 1889
an elevator
René
$100 [16]
Movie question posed by Barbra Streisand & Bugs Bunny
What's up, doc?
Claudia
$100 [2]
The only mammal capable of sustained flight
a bat
Chuck
$100 [9]
Herbs anise & fennel resemble the flavor of this common black candy
licorice
Chuck
$100 [1]
"Tinsel Town"
Hollywood
René
$200 [21]
John Steinbeck wrote the preface of a book about this Al Capp character
Li'l Abner
Claudia
$200 [5]
Begun by Appius Claudius as a public work in 312 B.C., it's one of the roads that lead to Rome
the Appian Way
Chuck
$200 [17]
Dustin Hoffman & Alec Guinness were considered for this role that won an Oscar for Ben Kingsley
Gandhi
Chuck
$200 [10]
Of a rat, a raven, & a spineless jellyfish the one which can be taught to count
raven
Chuck Claudia René
$200 [13]
From the Romanian word for "to preserve", it's served hot with mustard on rye
pastrami
$200 [3]
Unable to speak
speechless
René
$300 [25]
Standard comment of Little Orphan Annie's dog Sandy
Arf!
Chuck
$300 [6]
Type of well named for the French region of Artois where 1 was 1st drilled in 1126
an artesian well
Chuck
$300 [23]
Some of the character names rejected for this classic were "Gaspy", "Daffy", & "Snoopy"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
$400 [12]
Since 1955 ultrasonic vibrations have repelled these crusty creatures from ship hulls
barnacles
Claudia
$300 [14]
When it was 1st introduced into England from France, it was called "butterine"
margarine
Chuck
$300 [19]
Soft white Italian cheese often used as pizza topping
mozzarella
Chuck
$400 [7]
A 1984 survey found an additional 2,500 miles to this barrier, now totaling 6,200 miles long
the Great Wall of China
Chuck
$400 [24]
The make of car that starts up immediately after 200 years in Woody Allen's "Sleeper"
Volkswagen Beetle
DD $500 [11]
A luna moth's are feathered, a june bug's leaflike, & a cockroach's are feelers
antennae
Chuck
$400 [18]
Named for an English dr. who recommended meat as cure-all, it's a hamburger without a bun
a Salisbury steak
Chuck
$400 [26]
A gathering at which Pete Seeger & Joan Baez, or an owl & a goat might sing
hootenanny
René
$500 [8]
This 15th century artist built fortresses, bridges, harbors, & locks
Leonardo da Vinci
René
$500 [15]
Often called the panther, its name was originally given to the cat now known as the cheetah
a leopard
René
$500 [22]
Not a fabric but a cake that's a cross between an angel & a sponge
chiffon

Double Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LITERATURE SINGERS QUOTES GENERALS RELIGION NEIGHBORHOODS
$200 [1]
This author of "The Jungle Book" lived in Vermont for 4 years
Rudyard Kipling
Chuck
$200 [11]
This British/Australian group's name was taken from oldest brother Barry's initials
The Bee Gees
Claudia
$200 [20]
Dorothy Parker said, "Men seldom make passes at girls who" do this
wear glasses
Chuck
$200 [13]
Presidents Hayes, Garfield, & Benjamin Harrison were all generals in this war
the Civil War
Chuck
$200 [2]
In 1965, Pope Paul VI formally exonerated this group of blame for the death of Jesus
the Jews
Claudia
$200 [18]
Largest Chinese community outside Asia lives in this city's Chinatown
San Francisco
Claudia
$400 [3]
Aldous Huxley's 1932 version of "1984"
Brave New World
Chuck
$400 [12]
In '72, he sang "Song Sung Blue"
Neil Diamond
Chuck
$400 [21]
Emerson said, "If a man makes a better" one of these, "the world will beat a path to his door"
a mousetrap
René
$400 [14]
General who told Congress in 1951, "There is no substitute for victory"
MacArthur
René
$400 [4]
It's what the P.T.L. in TV's "P.T.L. Club" stands for
Praise the Lord (or People that Love)
Chuck
$400 [19]
Of a North, East, South & West Side, the 1 Chicago doesn't have
East
Chuck
$600 [8]
James Hilton's schoolmaster father was the model for this novel's title character
Mr. Chips
Chuck
$600 [25]
In '67, this "Lady of Soul" got due "Respect"
Aretha Franklin
Chuck
$600 [24]
"The doctor can bury his mistakes, but we can only advise clients to plant vines", said this architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
Claudia
$600 [15]
Generals Lee, Grant, Sherman, Pershing, & Patton have all had a type of these named for them
a tank
Claudia René
$600 [5]
Well-known nickname of Siddhartha Gautama
Buddha
Chuck
$800 [27]
Founded in 1683, Germantown is now an historic part of this city
Philadelphia
Chuck
$800 [9]
The hero's clubfoot in "Of Human Bondage" represented this author's stammer
Somerset Maugham
Claudia
$1,000 [22]
"Reading is to the mind as" this is "to the body"
exercise
René
$800 [16]
"Old Fuss & Feathers", general Winfield Scott, captured this foreign capital in 1847
Mexico City
Chuck
$800 [6]
North American Protestant group featured in the movie "Witness"
the Amish
Chuck
DD $1,000 [26]
The Village Stompers stomped around this part of Greenwich Village:
Washington Square
Chuck
$1,000 [10]
Ironically Catherine, wife of this poet, painter, & printer, was illiterate
William Blake
DD $2,000 [23]
Completes the quote "Go west, young man"
and grow up with the country
René
$1,000 [17]
With under 200 men, this Revolutionary War general captured 3 British forts in Ill. & Ind.
George Rogers Clark
Chuck
$1,000 [7]
Prayer taken from salutation of Gabriel, it's now said as commonly as the Lord's Prayer
the Hail Mary (or Ave Maria)
René

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD POLITICS

Last Communist party chief of the U.S.S.R. to leave office without dying

Nikita Khrushchev

René "Who was Khrushchev?" — wagered $1,400
Claudia "Who was Kruschev?" — wagered $3,000
Chuck "Who is Kruschev?" — wagered $3,200

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