Show #65 1984-12-07 (taped 1984-09-18) Regular

Ric Moser game 1.

Contestants

Ric Moser — a printing broker from Raymore, Missouri

Amy Phillips — a research student originally from Clifton, New Jersey

Jay Mann — an animal control dispatcher from Anaheim, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jay $800 $1,300 $5,800 $1,000
2nd place: bedroom furniture and linens
$6,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Amy $1,000 $1,100 $1,300 $100
3rd place: lamps
$1,300
10 R, 3 W
Ric $500 $1,900 $6,900 $2,000
New champion: $2,000
$6,900
16 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES STARTS WITH "B" THE BIBLE TOYS & GAMES WATER SPORTS ALL THAT JAZZ
$100 [6]
The 2 states that don't border any others
Alaska & Hawaii
Amy
$100 [7]
Goodyear's gasbag
the blimp
Amy
$100 [13]
The 2nd book of the Old Testament
Exodus
Jay
$100 [1]
Parker Bros, has made balls, boomerangs & ping pong paddles out of this soft material
Nerf (or foam rubber)
Jay
$100 [12]
Cypress Gardens show done on water, not on snow
water skiing
Ric
$100 [20]
What "Satchmo" played
the trumpet
Jay Amy
$200 [14]
The Wolverine State, in 1847 became 1st to abolish capital punishment
Michigan
Ric
$200 [8]
Nickname of Gil Gerard's futuristic Capt. William Rogers
Buck
Jay
$200 [23]
Image of worship built of old jewelry while Moses was on the mountain
the golden calf
Jay
$200 [2]
As scissors beats paper, so paper beats this
rock (or a stone)
Jay
$200 [18]
Fishing from a moving boat
trolling
Jay
$200 [24]
As Duke Ellington wrote, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got" this
the swing
Jay
$300 [15]
Region originally called Indian Territory, it now has no Fed. reservations
Oklahoma
Jay Ric
$300 [9]
To give by will
bequeath
Amy
$300 [3]
Total number of dots on the highest standard domino
12
Jay
DD $400 [19]
What an unlucky surfer has just experienced in this song
wipeout
Jay
$400 [16]
Western neighbor of Tenn. & Miss.; it has only diamond field in N. America
Arkansas
Ric
$400 [10]
Quality of a Scot's brogue which makes the "R" r-r-r-oll
a burr
Jay
$400 [4]
Thrown out by G.E. in 1949, this stretchy stuff became a national fad
Silly Putty
Jay
$400 [21]
Competitor in this sport was the model for nude male torso atop L.A.'s Olympic gate
water polo
Ric
$500 [17]
Midwest state whose native sons include Marlon Brando, Nick Nolte & Henry Fonda
Nebraska
$500 [11]
Australian bay named for the many plants growing on its shores
Botany Bay
Amy
$500 [5]
Said to be a weapon in the Philippines, Duncan made them toys for the U.S.
a yo-yo
Ric
$500 [22]
Name of yacht immortalized after winning the 100-Guinea Cup away from England in 1851
the America

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY FAMOUS QUOTES THE DESERT ODD JOBS SOUTH AMERICA HUMAN VISION
$200 [2]
Omar Khayyam's ancient Iran
Persia
Ric
$200 [9]
According to Reader's Digest, it's the best medicine
laughter
Ric
$200 [11]
Old-man, hedgehog & barrel
kinds of cacti
Jay
$200 [16]
Lowest member of a movie crew whose job is to "go for" anything
a gofer (or a runner or a production assistant)
Amy
$200 [22]
Oceangoing boats can travel 2300 miles up this river to Iquitos, Peru
the Amazon
Jay
$200 [1]
People with this deficiency can't get mad and see red
colorblindness
Ric
$400 [3]
Ancient Yucatan tribe that had no schools but were excellent astronomers
the Mayans
Jay Amy
$400 [15]
Alexander Pope said "it springs eternal in the human breast"
hope
Amy
$400 [12]
This "lowest point" figured in Ronald Reagan's career
Death Valley
Jay
$400 [17]
For 10% of the bail, he'll spring you from jail
a bail bondsman
Amy
$400 [24]
Crazed by presence of blood, these carnivorous fresh-water fish even eat each other
piranha
Amy
$400 [4]
Snooty specs on a stick
a lorgnette
Jay Ric
$600 [7]
In '38, the Munich Agreement allowed Germany to partition this country
Czechoslovakia
Amy Ric
$600 [19]
Stuffy British monarch who said when she saw herself imitated, "We are not amused"
Queen Victoria
Amy
$600 [13]
Greek for "fertile land", buildings are built around but not on these watering spots
oases
Jay
$600 [18]
He raises penmanship to a fine art
a calligrapher
Ric
$600 [27]
Over 1/3 of its population lives in its capital, Montevideo
Uruguay
Ric
$600 [5]
Called hyperopia, it's the opposite of myopia
farsightedness
Jay
$800 [8]
With the Angles & Jutes, they conquered 5th century England
the Saxons
Jay
$800 [26]
In "Trees", he claimed that "poems are made by fools like me"
Joyce Kilmer
Jay Ric
DD $900 [14]
Artist famous for her paintings of the deserts of the American southwest
Georgia O'Keeffe
Jay
$800 [20]
Horse racing fixtures the British call "turf accountants"
bookies
Jay Amy
$1,000 [28]
Famous William Hudson novel set in South American jungle
Green Mansions
Jay Ric
$800 [6]
These were first made in 1887 by German physiologist A.E. Fick
contact lenses
Jay Ric
$1,000 [10]
Many of them left France when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes
the Huguenots
Ric
$1,000 [25]
Coldest, most northern desert in the world
the Gobi
Ric
$1,000 [21]
What a fletcher makes
arrows
Jay
$1,000 [23]
You have to keep an eye on this M.D.
an ophthalmologist
Jay

Final Jeopardy!

TITLED HEADS

Queen of France 1559-60; Catholic Europe considered her the rightful queen of England

Mary, Queen of Scots

Amy "Who is Catherine?" — wagered $1,200
Jay "Who was Catherine?" — wagered $4,800
Ric "Who is Catherine of Aragon" — wagered $4,900

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