Show #449 1986-05-29 (taped 1985-12-16) Regular

Marvin Shinkman game 4.

Contestants

Francis Hambidge — a freelance story analyst originally from Liverpool, England

Robert Wargo — a student from Fairfield, Connecticut

Marvin Shinkman — a stamp dealer from Van Nuys, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $27,003)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marvin $1,000 $1,800 $7,200 $12,200
4-day champion: $39,203
$7,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Robert $300 $-600 $6,000 $11,000
2nd place: a trip to Jamaica aboard Eastern Airlines + a week's vacation at Sandals resort
$6,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Francis $300 $500 $1,500 $2
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer
$1,500
7 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY TABLE MANNERS MUSIC ON THE MAP 20th CENTURY ART GOLF LEFTOVERS
$100 [1]
From 1905-7, Austria & Serbia fought an economic "war" over tariffs, such as over this porcine animal
a pig
Marvin
$100 [25]
While Amy Vanderbilt says a waiter should remove these from the right, Voguesays from the left
(used) plates
Robert
$100 [13]
The girl from here was "tall & tan & young & lovely"
Ipanema
Robert
$100 [11]
Grandma Moses ordered her first set of paints from this Chicago mail order company
Sears, Roebuck
Marvin
$100 [6]
Archie, Edith, or a sand trap
a bunker
Francis
$100 [20]
Innovation introduced in the Middle Ages to distinguish the small "i" from the m, n, & u
the dot
Marvin
$200 [2]
The western jury system is thought to have been brought to England by these peoples in 1066
the Normans
Marvin
$200 [26]
In Spain and Portugal, the proper way to eat asparagus is with these
the fingers
Francis
$200 [14]
It's where I'm sitting "just rolling along, just rolling along"
on top of the world
$200 [12]
Primarily a movement in painting, this "square" trend also influenced sculpture
cubism
Robert
$200 [7]
In 1937, this singer & golf enthusiast put on the 1st celebrity pro-am match
Bing Crosby
Marvin
$200 [21]
Most air conditioners' filters won't trap this, the #1 contaminant of indoor air
cigarette smoke
Marvin
$300 [3]
Century known as the "High Renaissance"
the 16th
Francis
$300 [27]
If napkins weren't provided, 19th c. etiquette permitted a gentleman to use a hanky or this instead
tablecloth
Robert Francis
$300 [15]
Gerry & the Pacemakers ferry crossed this Liverpool river
the Mersey
Francis
$300 [16]
Manhattan's MoMA stands on land once occupied by 2 mansions of this noted N.Y. family
the Rockefellers
Marvin Robert
$300 [8]
In December 1985, Fuzzy Zoeller won $255,000 competing in this type of hole-by-hole contest
a skins game
Francis
$300 [22]
Minton, Limoges, & Spode, for example
chinas
Marvin
$400 [4]
World power whose emperor gave up claims to divinity before it adopted a new constitution in 1947
Japan
Marvin
$400 [18]
"Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies, for you know" this state "will be your new home"
Wyoming
$400 [17]
Famous for his Olympic & sports action paintings, he's appeared in 2 "Rocky" movies
LeRoy Neiman
Robert
$400 [9]
Playboy asked this Australian golfer to pose in the buff, not in the rough
Jan Stephenson
Francis
$400 [23]
According to a survey, "True Story" is the magazine read most by people sitting here
the bathroom
Robert
$500 [5]
1957 U.S. policy allowing the president to use armed force in the Middle East
the Eisenhower Doctrine
DD $400 [19]
2 of the 5 specific places "Travelin' Man" Ricky Nelson had traveled to according to the song
(2 of) Mexico, Alaska, Berlin, Hong Kong, and Waikiki, Hawaii
Robert
$500 [28]
1920 painting by George Grosz shows one of these machines Karel Capek named the next year
a robot
Marvin
$500 [10]
Stanford psychology grad who, in 1980, became 1st player to win over $½ million in 1 year
Tom Watson
$500 [24]
Not a Kawasaki, but this loop knot, makes a lasso circular
a honda

Double Jeopardy! Round

MATHEMATICS COLORADO FASHION RUSSIAN LITERATURE "DAVID"s FUTURISTIC FILMS
$200 [16]
In algebra, numbers can be represented by numerals or these symbols
letters
Marvin
$200 [17]
U.S. 550 between Ouray & Silverton is called "Million Dollar Highway" because it's paved with this ore
gold ore
Marvin
$200 [18]
Though WWII's "Rosie the Riveter" wore them, this war 1st popularized trousers for womenswear
World War I
Francis
$200 [1]
Literary hobby of Dr. Zhivago, whose writing got better, not "verse"
poetry
Robert
$200 [11]
Julie's Ike
David Eisenhower
Marvin
$200 [4]
In it, Woody Allen proves cryogenics works, if you don't mind waking up in a police state
Sleeper
Marvin
$400 [21]
Term for the side of a right triangle that is opposite the 90° angle
hypotenuse
Robert
$400 [24]
This corner of Colorado meets corners of 3 other states at "4 Corners"
the southwest corner
Robert
$400 [19]
Body part on which you'd wear an epaulet
the shoulder
Marvin
$400 [2]
In "And Quiet Flows The Don", Natalia Korshunov tries to commit this with a scythe
suicide
Robert
$400 [12]
Consumers can "fight back" with him
David Horowitz
Marvin
DD $200 [5]
Film which used thefollowingas a greeting:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Marvin
DD $800 [22]
1,000, expressed by using 10 and an exponent
10 cubed
Robert
$600 [28]
In Colo., "people had a careless way ... of firing revolvers ... at each other ...", so he went east, young man
Horace Greeley
$600 [20]
1st sold by the Hookless Fastener Co. in 1913, it didn't get this name until 1923
the zipper
Robert
$600 [3]
In 1927, this Russian leader's book "The State & Revolution" was banned in Boston as obscene
Lenin
Marvin
$600 [13]
1st prime minister of Israel, he could be called the father of his country
David Ben-Gurion
Robert
$600 [6]
In 1997, Kurt Russell & Season Hubley will try to "escape" from this city turned prison
New York
Robert
$800 [23]
A basic math statement whose truth is self-evident & therefore needs no further proof
axiom
Marvin
$800 [29]
U. of Colorado's "Alferd Packer Grill" was named after 1st man in U.S. convicted of this crime
cannibalism
Marvin
$800 [26]
In Japanese, it means "a thing for wearing" or "clothes"
a kimono
Francis
$800 [7]
Most acclaimed novel of Ivan Turgenev, 1st Russian to be widely read and admired in Europe
"Fathers and Sons"
Robert
$800 [14]
Without his lyrics, Dionne Warwick would have only hummed Burt Bacharach's tune
Hal David
Robert
$800 [9]
It took a team of 8 writers to adapt a French comic strip into this 41st century ultra-high camp film
Barbarella
Marvin
$1,000 [25]
The prime factors of 21
3 and 7
Robert
$1,000 [27]
Named for a city in Scotland, it's a type of overcoat with detachable cape
an Inverness
$1,000 [8]
Possibly the greatest Russian poet of all time, this author of "Boris Godunov" was part black
(Alexander) Pushkin
Robert
$1,000 [15]
Name shared by a Union general at Gettysburg & an actor who played TV's "Serpico"
David Birney
Robert
$1,000 [10]
1 of 2 races Rod Taylor meets circa 800,000 A.D. in "The Time Machine"
Elois (or Morlocks)
Marvin

Final Jeopardy!

THE NOBEL PRIZE

It's the only organization to have been awarded 3 Nobel Peace Prizes

the Red Cross

Francis "What is the ?" — wagered $1,498
Robert "What is the Red Cross" — wagered $5,000
Marvin "What is the Red Cross" — wagered $5,000

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