Show #12 1984-09-25 (taped 1984-08-14) Regular

Ed Osawa sets a new single-day cash winnings record of $19,000.

Contestants

Ed Osawa — a student from Torrance, California

Randy Kaplan — a taxi driver originally from New York City

Mary Bowers — a public relations coordinator from San Jose, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mary	$1,200	$2,900	$9,600	$11,200 2nd place: a recliner + a "telephone center"	$8,500 23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Randy	$500	$700	$3,100	$600 3rd place: a boombox	$3,100 8 R, 1 W
Ed	$800	$4,100	$9,500	$19,000 New champion: $19,000	$9,600 23 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS	FOODS	SPORTS	INVENTIONS	MAMMALS	BEGINS WITH "L"
$100 [8] Costa Rican capital people might know the way to San Jose Mary	$100 [25] Southern specialty & America's favorite main dish southern fried chicken Randy	$100 [1] Sport which uses epees, foils & sabres fencing Mary	$100 [20] He invented the Franklin stove Ben Franklin Randy	$100 [11] Romans called this African beast a "tiger horse" a zebra Mary	$100 [6] Erich Segal's "story" Love Story Mary
$200 [16] It's divided into the Kanda, Marunoucki, Asakusa & Ginza districts Tokyo Ed	$200 [28] Deli delight, from Yiddish for Ring a bagel Ed	$200 [2] Name given to annual competition among U.S. amateur boxers the Golden Gloves Mary	$200 [21] Detection of gamma rays was 1 of the uses for this 1947 instant picture taker a Polaroid-Land camera Ed	$200 [12] The only flying mammal a bat Ed	$200 [7] An air bubble tells a carpenter if he's on it a level Ed
$300 [17] Home to NATO & little green sprouts Brussels Ed	$300 [29] Pickle men, not doctors, do this for bacon & ham cure Ed	$300 [3] Number of downs allowed in Canadian football to advance the ball 10 yards 3 Ed	$300 [22] 2,160 people at a time could ride on this at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair a Ferris wheel Ed	$300 [13] A black panther is really the black version of this cat a leopard Mary Ed	$300 [9] The L in L.P.G.A. Ladies' Mary
$400 [18] This capital's street signs are in English, Arabic & Hebrew Jerusalem Ed	$500 [27] East Indians who never ask "Where's the beef?" Hindus Mary	DD $300 [4] Because of WWII, these 2 NFL teams combined squads in '43 to become the "Stegles" the Steelers & Eagles Ed	$400 [23] Edison suggested it be used to record phone calls & make clocks talk the phonograph Ed	$400 [14] Plays dead to escape predators, but one was close friends with an alligator an opossum Mary	$400 [10] A, B, M, P, or Z, for example letters Mary
$500 [19] If the other twin had founded it, it might have been called "Reme" Rome Mary	—	$500 [5] Ex-Boston Celtics' star who has refused induction into Basketball Hall of Fame Bill Russell Randy	$500 [24] The first patent pool was for this invention by Howe, Hunt & Singer the sewing machine Mary	$500 [26] Weighing 1½ tons per foot, this mammal generates up to 500 H.P. with its tail the blue whale	$500 [15] It's what bread has & matzo hasn't leaven Ed

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES	5-LETTER WORDS	MUSIC	LAW	WEATHER	MOVIE TRIVIA
$200 [11] Its Morman founders called it Deseret Utah Mary	$200 [17] Used by a carpenter, a master sergeant, & a dentist a drill Randy	$200 [6] 4th note of the musical scale or "a long, long way to run" fa Mary	$200 [18] A second prosecution for the same offense, or this round double jeopardy Ed	$200 [10] Condition associated with London & pea soup fog Ed	$200 [1] Actress who spoke the immortal line, "Love is never having to say you're sorry" Ali MacGraw Randy
$400 [23] The only state beginning with "A" that does not end in "A" Arkansas Mary	$400 [19] A lady's handbag or something done to lips before a kiss purse Mary	$400 [7] Piano style sprung from the blues, it describes Bette's "Bugle Boy" boogie-woogie Ed	$800 [27] To avoid litigation, this type of insurance or divorce avoids affixing blame no-fault Mary	$400 [12] Mt. Waialeale in Hawaii gets the most, while Calama, Chile, usually gets none rain Ed	$400 [2] Mary Poppins' magical, musical tongue-twister supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Mary
$600 [24] The only state to touch 4 of the Great Lakes Michigan Ed	$600 [20] A police wagon, a rice field, or author Chayefsky "paddy"s Mary	$600 [8] Tyrolean trick of moving the voice from natural to falsetto yodeling Mary	$1,000 [26] While a summons asks nicely, this demands your appearance in court a subpoena Randy	$600 [13] Its winds can reach 400 MPH a tornado Mary Randy	$600 [3] Actor who captained "the mean machine" in "The Longest Yard" Burt Reynolds Mary
$800 [25] 1 of 4 states that's officially a commonwealth (1 of) Massachusetts, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia Randy	$800 [21] To Hamlet, "Frailty, thy name is" this woman Ed	$1,000 [16] Italian for "first lady", the leading opera singer in a company a prima donna Mary	—	$800 [14] Some hygrometers use a human hair to measure this (relative) humidity Ed	$800 [4] Movie whose sequel was "Class of '44" The Summer of '42 Mary Randy
—	$1,000 [22] In Czech, it's herec; in German, schauspieler; & in Hollywood, usually unemployed an actor Ed	DD $1,900 [9] "I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair /Borne, like a vapor..."What we call this singingsansaccompaniment: a capella Mary	—	$1,000 [15] Region near Equator that took the wind out of Sinbad's sails the doldrums Ed	$1,000 [5] This gimmick introduced for the film "Scent of Mystery" was something to be sniffed at Smell-O-Vision Mary

Final Jeopardy!

RIVERS

It carries more water than the longest rivers in Asia, Africa & No. America combined

the Amazon

Randy "What is the Nile? Hi mom!" — wagered $2,500

Ed "What is the Amazon?" — wagered $9,500

Mary "What is the Amazon?" — wagered $1,600

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