Show #484 1986-10-16 (taped 1986-08-20) Regular

Dave Traini game 5.

Contestants

Brian Barrett — a carpenter from Venice, California

Elizabeth Charland — a water engineer originally from Mount Vernon, Indiana

Dave Traini — a teacher from Medford Lakes, New Jersey (whose 4-day cash winnings total $44,002)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $1,000 $3,600 $7,600 $10,500
5-day champion: $54,502
$7,900
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Elizabeth $100 $500 $5,100 $0
3rd place: Frigidaire laundry center
$5,100
14 R, 4 W
Brian $300 $300 $500 $5
2nd place: a trip to Florida via Eastern Airlines
$2,500
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY WILD WEST TRAVEL & TOURISM '60s SONGS POINT IT OUT HOLIDAYS
$100 [13]
To get this 3-toed animal to move faster, you might say, "Ai, wish you'd shake a leg!"
a sloth
Elizabeth
$100 [4]
After playing for Queen Victoria, his Wild West Show's billing read "From prairie to palace"
Buffalo Bill (Cody)
Brian
$100 [2]
Country that is home to Royal Copenhagen Porcelain
Denmark
Brian
$100 [12]
14-week streak of #1 Beatles hits on the 1964 charts was broken when Satchmo sang this show tune
"Hello, Dolly!"
Elizabeth Brian
$100 [1]
In track & field, a runner finishes the race when this part of the body crosses the finish line
the chest
Elizabeth Brian
$400 [24]
Now kept on 3rd Monday in Feb., Washington's Birthday traditionally was celebrated on this date
22nd (of February)
Dave Elizabeth
$200 [14]
Snow geese are found naturally only on this continent
North America
Elizabeth
$200 [8]
After inventing it, he arranged to have his revolver produced in Eli Whitney's factory
Samuel Colt
Dave
$200 [3]
Of trains, buses, or taxicabs, the one you can't ride in Iceland because they haven't any
trains
Elizabeth
$200 [18]
Singer-composer who wore wire-rimmed glasses & played the autoharp for the Lovin' Spoonful
John Sebastian
Dave Elizabeth
$200 [22]
"Stump the Stars" charade symbol for "That's exactly right"
on the nose
Elizabeth
$500 [23]
Holiday observed in the U.S.S.R. on November 7
the anniversary of the revolution
Brian
$300 [15]
Among swine, it's boar, sow & pig, while among the ursids, it's boar, sow & this
cub
$300 [9]
He was born Henry McCarty in NYC; it's not known for sure where he got the name William H. Bonney
Billy the Kid
Dave
$300 [5]
This country's ads invite you to "Come stay with friends"
Israel
Dave
$300 [19]
Bowie & Jagger do it today, but in 1964 this gal & her group were "Dancing In The Streets"
Martha & the Vandellas
Dave
$300 [25]
It's where a Civil War soldier would have worn his kepi
on his head because it's a hat
Dave
$400 [16]
Named for the sound it makes, the dik-dik is the smallest member of this group in the bovid family
antelope
$400 [10]
World's largest cattle market was in this Kan. town where Wyatt Earp & Bat Masterson were marshalls
Dodge City
Dave
$400 [6]
In Vatican City, the big toe of St. Peter's statue has worn away from tourists touching & doing this to it
kissing it
Dave
$400 [20]
The three "words" Manfred Mann sang right after "Do wah diddy diddy"
dum diddy do
Dave Brian
$400 [26]
Gesture of the 3rd & last wise monkey in carving over the door of the sacred stable in Nikko, Japan
speak no evil
Elizabeth
$500 [17]
Moving at speeds of 175-180 mph, this "wandering" falcon is the fastest animal on earth
the peregrine falcon
Dave
$500 [11]
Exactly 187 defenders were killed there March 6, 1836
the Alamo
Dave
DD $500 [7]
Country where 1000s of tourists flock each year to a desolate region to look at thefollowing:
Australia
Dave
$500 [21]
Their "96 Tears" punctuated the charts in 1966
? & the Mysterians
Dave

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN LITERATURE RELIGION STARTS WITH "E" POLITICAL QUOTES SCIENTISTS WW III
$200 [22]
He penned a campaign biography for Franklin Pierce and pinned "The Scarlet Letter" on Hester Prynne
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
Elizabeth
$200 [18]
Few of this country's people are Buddhists, though Buddha spent most of his life there
India
Dave
$200 [13]
The E in EPA
Environmental
Dave
$200 [12]
"The Big Apple does not grow in the Garden of Eden", this mayor explained
Koch
Brian
$200 [6]
Founder of Russian science, Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov, has a crater named for him there
the moon
Brian
$200 [1]
In "Fail Safe", it was the city "offed" as a tradeoff for Moscow
New York City
Dave
$400 [28]
His experiences as a bombardier in WWII were the basis of the novel "Catch-22"
Joseph Heller
Dave
$400 [19]
Currently the only Muslim spiritual leader to head a country
Ayatollah Khomeini
Elizabeth
$400 [14]
Mysterious & puzzling, like the Mona Lisa's smile
enigmatic
Brian
$400 [7]
"Those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God," said this President from Virginia
Jefferson
Elizabeth
$400 [8]
He was the first modern astronomer to chart the Southern Hemisphere, but didn't see one comet there
Edmund Halley
Dave
$400 [2]
Child's game which convinced computer in "War Games" of the futility of nuclear war
tic tac toe
$600 [23]
"Little Women" is set during this war
the Civil War
Brian
$600 [20]
Both Martin Luther King Sr. & Jr. were pastors of this Atlanta church
Ebenezer Baptist Church
$600 [15]
Tradition says that King Solomon wrote this book of the Old Testament containing essays on life
Ecclesiastes
DD $1,000 [27]
Famous quote to which Carl Schurz added, "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right"
"My Country, Right or Wrong"
Dave
$600 [9]
Upon joining the Monastery, this botanist took on the name Gregor & later took up growing peas
Mendel
Elizabeth
$600 [3]
An amanita, or the cloudy shape of things to come
a mushroom cloud
Dave
$1,000 [25]
Author of "A Heap o' Livin'", listed in Avenel's companion to American Literature as "Famous Bad Poet"
Edgar Guest
$1,000 [21]
President Polk's middle name indicates he was a descendant of this Scottish religious reformer
John Knox
Dave Elizabeth
$800 [16]
To bubble, hiss or foam as gas escapes, or what game show contestants are encouraged to do
to effervesce
Elizabeth
$1,000 [26]
Asked what the Constitutional Convention had given us, he said, "A republic, if you can keep it"
Ben Franklin
Dave
$800 [11]
In 1895, Marie Sklodowska married this French chemist
Pierre Curie
Elizabeth
$800 [4]
Actor in "Dr. Strangelove" who dropped in on the Soviet Union astride a bomb
Slim Pickens
Brian
DD $2,000 [24]
Among his pen names were Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman & Diedrich Knickerbocker
Washington Irving
Brian
$1,000 [17]
Adjective that means an inferior & artificial substitute
ersatz
Elizabeth
$1,000 [10]
From cowpox germs, he developed the smallpox vaccine
Jenner
Dave
$1,000 [5]
Official nickname for the MX, it sounds like an example of Orwellian Newspeak
the Peacekeeper
Elizabeth

Final Jeopardy!

ACTORS AND ROLES

2 stars who have portrayed author/reporter Carl Bernstein or a character directly based on him in film

Jack Nicholson & Dustin Hoffman

Brian "Who are Jack Nicholson and Robert Redford" — wagered $495
Elizabeth "Who are J. Nicholson & R. Redford?" — wagered $5,100
Dave "Who are J. Nicholson & Dustin Hoffman?" — wagered $2,900

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