Show #280 1985-10-04 (taped 1985-07-24) Regular

Chuck Forrest game 5.Chuck sets a new total cash winnings record of $72,800.A very brief clip of this game was seen in the 2019-04-10 episode ofThe Goldbergs.

Contestants

Linda Alznauer — a student and an actress originally from Los Angeles, California

Susan McGowan — an office automation manager from San Francisco, California

Chuck Forrest — a student from Grand Blanc, Michigan (whose 4-day cash winnings total $60,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chuck $1,800 $4,400 $12,800 $12,800
5-day champion: $72,800
$10,400
28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Susan $1,200 $2,200 $6,400 $1
3rd place: package of 9 Waring kitchen appliances (blender, steamer, mixer, ice cream parlor, etc.)
$6,800
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Linda $0 $800 $1,400 $400
2nd place: White-Westinghouse SpaceSave laundry pair + Jules Jurgensen his & hers diamond watches
$1,400
6 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES CELEBRITY SAYINGS WWII TRIVIA SCIENCE 12-LETTER WORDS BEAR FACTS
$100 [1]
Baines
Lyndon Johnson
Susan
$100 [12]
She accepted her Oscar for Best Actress shouting, "You like me! You like me!"
Sally Field
Chuck
$100 [11]
With only 4 ships, this neighbor of Australia had the smallest navy
New Zealand
Linda
$100 [18]
Most living organisms have millions, but a prisoner only has one
a cell
Chuck
$100 [2]
You can get a knish at a Jewish one, or mozzarella at an Italian one
a delicatessen
Susan
$100 [23]
In song, Davy Crockett was said to have "Kil't him a bar when he was only" this age
three
Chuck
$200 [4]
Earl
Jimmy Carter
Chuck
$200 [16]
Completes Mae West line, "It's not the men in my life that count..."
it's the life in my men
Chuck
$200 [13]
The U.S. Navy had a ship whose sole purpose was to make this dessert
ice cream
$200 [19]
A 5th C. B.C. Greek philosopher was 1st to theorize that all matter is made of these
atoms
Chuck
$200 [3]
From Latin for "repentance", San Quentin for example
a penitentiary
Chuck
$200 [24]
The original Smokey the Bear became a popular attraction at this city's zoo
Washington, D.C.
Chuck
$300 [5]
His actual first name was Hiram while his middle name was Ulysses
Ulysses Grant
Susan
$300 [28]
Romantic idol who said, "This king stuff is pure bull... I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio"
Clark Gable
Linda
$300 [14]
In 1942, approaches to the Mississippi River were mined by this type of German vessel
a U-boat (or a submarine)
Chuck
$300 [20]
Term for creatures like vultures or hermit crabs that eat carcasses & refuse
a scavenger
Susan
$300 [6]
Before 1934, the date for this was March 4; after 1934, January 20
inauguration
Susan
$300 [25]
The constellation Ursa Major, meaning the "great bear", is better known by this name
Big Dipper
Susan
$400 [9]
Howard
Taft
Chuck
$400 [15]
This Axis leader had a complete set of dental tools taken everywhere he went
Hitler
Linda
$400 [21]
Days & nights are always 12 hours long there
the equator
Chuck
DD $400 [7]
The univ. choral group whose theme song is the following:"Yes, the magic of their singing /Of the songs we love so well /'Shall I Wasting' and 'Mavourneen' and the rest..."
the Whiffenpoofs
Susan
$400 [26]
Bear who was featured in an exercise book with drawings by Ernest Shepard
Winnie-the-Pooh
Susan
$500 [10]
Abram
(James Abram) Garfield
Chuck
$500 [17]
Over 5,000 of them were pilots in the Soviet air force
women
Susan
$500 [22]
If you're studying mensuration, you're studying this
measurement
Chuck
$500 [8]
From the Latin for "bend the knees", not the cry of a ski instructor, but the act of showing reverence
genuflection
Chuck
$500 [27]
Few Americans got to see this mascot at the 1980 Olympics
Misha
Chuck Susan

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE '50s ODD CUSTOMS THE BIBLE CLASSIC COUNTRY ISLANDS FRUITS & VEGETABLES
$200 [1]
Developer William J. Levitt built 3 suburban communities all named this
Levittown
Susan
$200 [19]
Waving American-style is an insult in this Hellenic country
Greece
Chuck
$200 [12]
In Exodus 3, it burned but wouldn't burn up
the burning bush
Chuck
$200 [20]
Migrants leaving this state's "Dust Bowl" helped bring country music to the West
Oklahoma
Susan
$200 [4]
Papillon, the French "butterfly", was netted & brought to this prison
Devil's Island
Chuck
$200 [2]
Root vegetable that was the root of Peter Rabbit's passion
the carrot
Linda
$400 [3]
After posing for pictures she was asked what she had on & replied, "The radio"
Marilyn Monroe
Chuck
$400 [21]
In Netherlands, a hostess may serve herself 1st, from custom of tasting food to prove it wasn't this
poisoned
Chuck
$400 [15]
Nephew whom Abraham rescued in Gen. 14, he also needed rescuing from Sodom by Gen. 19
Lot
Chuck
$400 [22]
Radio program originally called the "WSM Barn Dance"
the Grand Ole Opry
Chuck
$400 [5]
A cloud of ash circled the Earth when most of this volcanic island was obliterated in an 1883 explosion
Krakatoa
Susan
$400 [9]
Europeans once believed this purple-skinned cousin to the tomato caused insanity
eggplant
Linda
$600 [10]
John & Stewart Alsop revived the word "egghead" to describe this candidate's supporters
Adlai Stevenson
Susan
$600 [26]
Frenchmen kiss cheeks, but in Romania male friends often kiss this way
on the lips
Linda
$600 [16]
King whose reign was so rich that silver was said to have been as common as stones in Jerusalem
Solomon
Linda
$800 [24]
Type of music that's named after Bill Monroe's band
bluegrass
Chuck
DD $400 [7]
1st to claim Calif. gold said he found it on this island named for St. Catherine
Santa Catalina
Susan
$600 [11]
Syrup originally made from pomegranates processed on the Caribbean island of Grenada
grenadine
Chuck
$800 [17]
He wanted to put his finger into the nail marks in Jesus' palms
Thomas (or Didymus)
Chuck
$1,000 [25]
The Texas Troubadour
Ernest Tubb
Chuck
$600 [6]
Spanish for "pelican", but appropriately called "The Rock" by its inhabitants
Alcatraz
Susan
$800 [13]
The "hospitality" fruit, it can keep Jell-O from jelling
the pineapple
Susan
$1,000 [18]
It's the battlefield where good & evil will fight their final battle
Armageddon
Susan
DD $3,000 [23]
1 of 3 original members of the Country Music Hall of Fame
(1 of) Hank Williams, Sr., Jimmie Rodgers & Fred Rose
Chuck
$1,000 [8]
Pt. Udall, in this island group, is called the easternmost American point in the Western Hemisphere
the Virgin Islands
Chuck
$1,000 [14]
Autumn edible which figured in the Alger Hiss case
a pumpkin
Chuck

Final Jeopardy!

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state

Delaware

Linda "What is Texas?" — wagered $1,000
Susan "What is New York" — wagered $6,399
Chuck "Where is Delaware?" — wagered $0

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