Show #471 1986-09-29 (taped 1986-08-13) Regular

Contestants

Paul Raymond — a professor of political science originally from Buffalo, New York

Tom Rutledge — a freelance journalist originally from Columbus, Ohio

Zanete Barons — a freelance writer from Roseville, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Zanete $-500 $1,400 $2,200 $200
3rd place: Magnavox Videowriter word processor
$2,200
10 R, 2 W
Tom $200 $1,000 $4,800 $5,201
New champion: $5,201
$4,800
12 R, 4 W
Paul $200 $700 $2,600 $5,100
2nd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Krups kitchen products
$3,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S.A. THE RODEO POTPOURRI RIVERS TV "LOVE" 2-LETTER WORDS
$100 [2]
Including the president, it's said only 291 of those living in Washington, D.C. in 1802 were this
federal employees
Tom
$100 [26]
The largest outdoor rodeo anywhere takes place at "The Stampede" held here
Calgary
Zanete
$100 [7]
Total number of Oscars won by "The Color Purple"
zero
Paul
$100 [8]
When someone in N.Y. is sent "up the river" to Sing-Sing, this is the river he's sent up
Hudson
Paul
$100 [11]
"Love and the Pill" & "Love & a Couple of Couples" were a couple of the episodes in its 1st telecast
Love, American Style
Zanete
$100 [1]
Most parents' answer to "I found this snake; can I keep it?"
no
Tom
$200 [3]
After the Winter Olympics of 1980 were held here, the Olympic Village was used as a prison
Lake Placid
Paul
$200 [20]
Characteristic common to "Sunshine of My Life"'s Stevie Wonder & Jeffery Tambor's "Mr. Sunshine"
blind
Tom
$200 [9]
River dammed by Chief Joseph, John Day & the Grand Coulee
Columbia
Tom Paul
$200 [12]
Chuck Woolery presides & the audience "decides" how couples should match up on this show
Love Connection
Tom
$200 [16]
It's paired with "behold" to mean "look & see"
lo
Tom Paul
$300 [4]
From 1961 until it ended in 1975, this cost the U.S. about $28 million a day
the Vietnam War
$300 [21]
Translation of the French warning on '86 Corvettes: "Essence Sans Plomb Seulement"
no lead (unleaded) gasoline
Tom
$300 [10]
Only Middle Eastern country sharing its name with a nearby river
Jordan
$300 [13]
After playing newlyweds on this 1972-3 show, David Birney & Meredith Baxter became real-life husband & wife
Bridget Loves Bernie
Tom
$300 [17]
Interjection used by sailors about to haul on a rope, or Rocky trying to get Adrian's attention
Yo!
Zanete
$400 [5]
Of about 35, 50 or 75%, amount of U.S. population occupying the most densely settled 2.1% of the land
75
Tom Paul
$400 [22]
It's the 1st letter of alphabet that's not the 1st letter of a South American country
D
Paul
$400 [23]
Though not the longest river in the Soviet Union, it is the longest in Europe
Volga
Paul
$400 [14]
Sitcom in which Tony Randall & Swoosie Kurtz formed an odd but loving couple
Love,Sidney
$400 [18]
How a Scot might address his "little woman", or one of Alcott's "Little Women"
Jo
Zanete
$500 [6]
The 53 million acres "given" to the Indians contain 1/2 of the nation's supply of this element
uranium
Zanete
DD $500 [25]
1st line of the Longfellow poem which ends "I found again in the heart of a friend"
"I shot an arrow into the air; it fell to Earth I know not where"
Paul
$500 [24]
Though most of the river is in Brazil, "The Amazon" starts at Francisco de Orellana in this country
Peru
$500 [15]
It was the title for the original "Bob Cummings Show" in syndication
Love That Bob
Zanete
$500 [19]
An ancient Oriental game, or an NBC game show that got old fast
Go
Zanete

Double Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS ROARING '20s WORLD POLITICS MODERN OPERA STATE FLOWERS NOBLE NAMES
$200 [6]
Jayne Meadows claims Noel Coward called this comedian & author "The most talented man in America"
Steve Allen
Zanete
$200 [16]
The term "hooch" came from the Hoochinoo Indian tribe in Alaska, who made this
liquor
Paul
$200 [1]
While Mao put his sayings in a little red book, Libya's Khaddafi has his teachings in a book this color
green
Tom Paul
$200 [15]
"The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Lukas Foss is based on his short story
Mark Twain
Paul
$200 [19]
Not surprisingly, this state's official flower is the Mayflower
Massachusetts
Paul
$200 [11]
Without her, this group would just be known as "The Pips"
Gladys Knight
Paul
$400 [7]
Her Kenya home, now a museum, contains a bed Robert Redford shared with Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa"
Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen
Zanete
$400 [17]
Title of Elinor Glyn novel, Clara Bow was said to have this quality
It
Tom
$400 [2]
Official sovereign of Grenada, Fiji & Papua New Guinea
Queen Elizabeth II
$400 [22]
Using Gertrude Stein's text, Virgil Thompson titled his opera "4 Saints in" this many "Acts"
3
$400 [23]
Logically enough, its state flower is the Orange Blossom
Florida
Tom
DD $500 [12]
[audio--music]He has works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but he's more famous for work on show with the following theme:
Jack Lord
Paul
$600 [8]
Although she's Princess Diana's step-grandmother, we heard she wasn't invited to the royal wedding
Barbara Cartland
Tom
$600 [18]
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad put dictionaries on trains for passengers doing these
crossword puzzles
Zanete
$600 [3]
In 1975, kingdom of Sikkim, where American Hope Cooke was queen, was annexed by this country
India
Paul
$600 [26]
Tho Italian-born, this composer of "Amahl & the Night Visitors" feels English is ideal language for opera
Gian Carlo Menotti
$600 [24]
Included in lists of state flowers is the District of Columbia's, fittingly, this variety of rose
American Beauty Rose
$600 [13]
To play Helen Keller, she trained 15 months, now she works miracles as SAG president
Patty Duke Astin
Zanete
$800 [9]
He was buried at night by torchlight, denied holy rites, perhaps because of "Tartuffe"
Moliere
Paul
$800 [20]
A '20s tune title asked, would you do this, "will ya huh?"
"Give Me A Little Kiss"
Tom
DD $1,000 [4]
It has the largest Communist party in the free world
Italy
Paul
$800 [14]
In the field of blues, he reigns supreme
B.B. King
Tom
$1,000 [10]
He allegedly saw Joan of Arc die, & later wrote of Guinevere saved from the stake in "Le Morte d'Arthur"
Sir Thomas Malory
Zanete
$1,000 [21]
She re-enacted her May 1926 "kidnapping" & escape for the press
Aimee Semple McPherson
Tom
$1,000 [5]
This country, over 250 times its size, looks after Liechtenstein's foreign affairs
Switzerland
Paul
$1,000 [25]
Among his 16 Tonys are those won for directing "Cabaret", "Evita" & "Sweeney Todd"
Hal Prince

Final Jeopardy!

INVENTIONS

The "gin" in Eli Whitney's cotton gin is a variant of this common English word

engine

Zanete "What is again?" — wagered $2,000
Paul "What is Engine?" — wagered $2,500
Tom "What is "Engine"?" — wagered $401

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