Show #468 1986-09-24 (taped 1986-08-12) Regular

Contestants

Pat Van Hartesveldt — a music contract administrator originally from New York

Don Tracy — a lawyer originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Heidi Yorkshire — a freelance writer from Beverly Hills, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Heidi $400 $1,100 $2,700 $100
3rd place: Frigidaire Skinny Mini laundry center
$3,100
12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Don $100 $1,000 $4,200 $8,300
New champion: $8,300
$4,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Pat $300 $1,700 $4,600 $1,600
2nd place: Panasonic Color TV + Olympus OM-25 Camera
$5,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY UNDERWEAR FLOWERS COMPARISONS PHONE NUMBERS HAVE A "HEART"
$100 [3]
Spanning from Rock Island, IL to Davenport, IA, 1st railway bridge over this river opened 5/21/1856
Mississippi River
Don
$100 [9]
Purple with pink awnings, it sells sexy lingerie & is a Hollywood Boulevard landmark
Frederick's of Hollywood
Heidi Don
$100 [11]
State flower of Kentucky, this yellow wildflower sounds like it's 14K & 16 1/2 feet long
goldenrod
Pat
$100 [17]
You'd consume 3000 of these eating 15 oz. of butter or 1500 radishes
calories
Heidi
$100 [1]
On Jan. 12, 1968, AT&T announced this would be the nationwide standard emergency phone number
911
Pat
$100 [2]
Though it's neighboring Stanford that's famous for transplants, Tony Bennett sang this in 1962
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Don
$200 [4]
After a series of sit-down strikes at plants in 1936-37, GM agreed to recognize this union
United Auto Workers
Heidi
$200 [10]
They don't say Hanes until she says they say Hanes
Inspector 12
Pat
$200 [12]
The only garden flower under "Z" in the World Book is this hairy-stemmed favorite
zinnia
Pat
$200 [18]
NYC's Central Park is almost twice the size of this country on the Mediterranean
Monaco
Heidi
$200 [5]
Cardialgia, often followed by "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz"
heartburn
Heidi
$300 [13]
While FDR served the longest term, 12 years, this president served the shortest, 1 month
(William Henry) Harrison
Pat
$300 [20]
Of the story he designed her bra, Jane Russell said, "He could design planes, but a Mr. Playtex he wasn't"
Howard Hughes
Heidi
$300 [14]
The color of the actual Poinsettia flower
green (or yellow)
Pat
$300 [19]
The ascaphus, one of these amphibians, dies of overheating at water temps that can kill a man with a cold
frog
Pat
$300 [6]
Lewis Carroll character booked for tart theft
Jack/Knave of Hearts
Heidi Pat
$400 [23]
This Confederate Civil War song became a hit single for Mitch Miller in 1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Heidi
DD $400 [21]
[audio--- music]You might be arrested dancing to this wearing only the same-named undergarment
Merry Widow
Heidi
$400 [15]
From Turkish word "tulbend", meaning turban, comes name of this flower whose blossoms resemble turbans
tulip
Heidi
$400 [25]
This, the largest rigid airship ever built, was over 3 times longer than a Boeing 747
the Hindenburg
Don
$400 [7]
Alabama's nickname
"Heart of Dixie"
Heidi
$500 [24]
French for "the narrows", this city was founded in 1701 on river between Lake Huron & Lake Erie
Detroit
Heidi
$500 [22]
He cavorted as a leaf in a Fruit of the Loom commercial before his Oscar win for "Amadeus"
(F.) Murray Abraham
Don
$500 [16]
The flower is the part of a seed plant that contains this type of organ
the reproductive/sexual organ
Pat
$500 [8]
Blondie hit which shattered the charts in 1979
Heart of Glass

Double Jeopardy! Round

ASTRONOMY FAMOUS PARTNERS RELIGION OCTOBER GOLDEN OLDIES HAMLET
$200 [26]
They can be classified as blue giants or white dwarfs
stars
Don
$200 [11]
Their supporting cast included Sid Fields, Mike the Cop & Joe Besser as Stinky
Abbott & Costello
Heidi Don
$200 [1]
When Nero tried to make this group the scapegoat for the fire in Rome, he was lyin'
the Christians
Pat
$200 [14]
In Oct. 1783, a man 1st ascended in one of these; in Oct. 1797, a man 1st jumped from one--with a parachute
balloon
Don
$200 [12]
In 1963, it was what the 4 Seasons advised their "son" to "walk like"
a man
Don
$200 [5]
John Howard Payne, who wrote the words to "Home Sweet Home", was the 1st Hamlet born in this country
United States
Pat
$400 [27]
Charles Darwin's son George developed the theory the moon was once part of this astronomical body
the Earth
$400 [18]
Once Tony Altomare's tag team partner as "The Sicilians", now he's teamed with Cyndi Lauper in videos
Captain Lou Albano
$400 [2]
They do their publishing through the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania
Jehovah's Witnesses
Don Pat
$400 [22]
Windward island in the Torrid Zone which became a combat zone in October 1983
Grenada
Heidi
$400 [13]
Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls" & Johnny Cash's "Ring" were made of this
fire
Heidi
$400 [7]
This "Kung Fu" star once played Laertes in a Paramus, New Jersey shopping mall
David Carradine
Don
DD $500 [21]
Merrill Lynch, Pierce & Fenner's partner before Smith jumped in
Beane
Pat
$600 [3]
Greek for "place of assembly", it's a Jewish center of public worship
synagogue
Don
$600 [23]
On Oct. 10, 1973 the law caught up with this "Law & Order" politician
Spiro Agnew
Don
$600 [15]
In 1962, 2 years before the Beatles' version, "Twist & Shout" was a hit for them
The Isley Brothers
$600 [8]
Dame Judith Anderson, Eva Le Gallienne & Sarah Bernhardt all played this role in "Hamlet"
Hamlet
Don
$600 [19]
Writing brothers Glen & Les who, with director Jim Burrows, helm the TV hit "Cheers"
the Charles brothers
Pat
DD $600 [4]
He called himself "a transmitter, not an innovator", so the Chinese picked his birthday for Teacher's Day
Confucius
Don
$800 [24]
On 10/4/70 she died, leaving $2500 in her will "so that my friends can get blasted after I'm gone"
Janis Joplin
Don
$800 [16]
In title of a 1956 hit, Pat Boone almost lost it
my mind
$800 [9]
Olivier, Gielgud & Plummer have all played Hamlet at this, its original Danish site
Elsinore
Don
$800 [20]
Detective Sam Spade's partner whose death sent Bogart in pursuit of the Maltese Falcon
Miles Archer
$1,000 [6]
The territory of a church under the jurisdiction of a bishop
diocese
Heidi
$1,000 [25]
This event on 10/4/57 revitalized science education throughout the U.S.
(the launch of) Sputnik
Pat
$1,000 [17]
1961 Elvis Presley hit adapted from Italian song "Come Back To Sorrento"
"Surrender"
Pat
$1,000 [10]
His 3-minute "Hamlet" was a lot shorter than his play "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"
Tom Stoppard
Pat

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

The 2 New England state capitals that are also their states' most populous cities

Boston, MA & Providence, RI

Heidi "What are Boston & Philly" — wagered $2,600
Don "What are Boston & Providence" — wagered $4,100
Pat "What are Providence & Hartford" — wagered $3,000

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