Show #511 1986-11-24 (taped 1986-09-10) Regular

Contestants

Jeff Ramsey — a news director from Medford, Oregon

Patty Young — an accountant from Azusa, California

Linda Williams — an engineering reports clerk from Pasadena, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $14,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Linda $700 $2,400 $5,400 $5,400
3-day champion: $19,500
$5,000
14 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Patty $600 $1,500 $1,900 $100
3rd place: New Home 2022 sewing machine
$1,900
12 R, 3 W
Jeff $1,000 $3,300 $6,700 $2,500
2nd place: Maytag washer & dryer & Donvier ice cream makers
$7,700
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

JAZZ NICKNAMES THE HUMAN BODY HATS FEBRUARY PEOPLE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK
$100 [1]
When his trumpet got bepop bopping, John Birks Gillespie got this nickname
Dizzy
Patty
$100 [7]
For most right-handed people, speech area is located on this side of the brain
left side
Patty
$100 [21]
Of Groucho, Chico & Harpo, one whose regular costume didn't include a hat
Groucho
Jeff
$100 [9]
As of Feb. 7, 1943, these were rationed to a limit of 3 leather pairs per civilian per year
shoes
Linda Patty
$100 [2]
This songwriter said, "I've got some brains under this wig & a heart beneath these boobs"
Dolly Parton
Jeff
$100 [26]
New York's "Great White Way"
Broadway
Jeff
$200 [3]
Trumpet player Navarro & "Ain't Misbehavin'"s Waller share this nickname
Fats
Patty
$200 [8]
The lacrimal glands secrete these, espcially at the end of a 3-hanky movie
tears
Linda
$200 [22]
Character known for the line, "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat"
Bullwinkle
Patty
$200 [10]
Mass innoculations against this disease started in Pittsburgh on Feb. 23, 1954
polio
Jeff
$200 [14]
Of 0, 3, or 28, number of children Arnold Schwarzenegger said he "always wanted to have"
28
Jeff
$200 [27]
Stone Street in New York is said to be the 1st of these in North America
paved street
Linda
$300 [4]
A flashy Jazz Age suit, or tenor sax man Jack Sims
zoot
Patty
$300 [11]
Of 57,000, 107,000, or 700,000, approximate # of gallons of blood the heart pumps in a year
700,000
Jeff
$300 [23]
Won by the horse "Citation", it's also descriptive of the pope's tiara
triple crown
Linda
$300 [18]
Day colonists founded Savannah in 1733, & birthday, in 1809 of the 16th president
February 12th
Linda
$300 [15]
"I learnt the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents," said this royal heir & polo player
Prince Charles
Patty
$400 [29]
Though it's officially been the "Ave. of the Americas" for over 40 years, New Yorkers still call it this
Sixth Avenue
$400 [5]
New Orleans pianist Ferdinand Morton took this nickname, but not for love of donuts
Jelly Roll
Linda
$400 [12]
This small organ makes white blood cells & stores red ones, whether you're venting it or not
spleen
Jeff
$400 [24]
Nautical name for a stiff straw hat with a flat crown
boater
Jeff
$400 [19]
Only because it is exactly divisible by 400, the year 2000 will have this date on its calendar
February 29th
Patty
$400 [16]
He wrote "Princess Snip Snip & The Puppykittens" for kids & "Meeting of Minds" for PBS
Steve Allen
Linda
DD $500 [28]
Street mentioned in the followingsong:
Fifth Avenue
Linda
$500 [6]
Though he's not dad to dancers Gregory and Maurice, he's "Fatha" to everyone
Earl "Fatha" Hines
Jeff
$500 [13]
To increase & decrease blood sugar, this gland produces the hormones insulin & glucagon
pancreas
Jeff
$500 [25]
This men's felt hat got its name from the West German town near Wiesbaden where it was 1st made
homburg
Jeff
$500 [20]
New word coined after Governor Elbridge Gerry redistricted Essex County, Massachusetts on Feb. 11, 1812
Gerrymander
Jeff
$500 [17]
Marilyn Mach vos Savant claims that, at 230, hers is the highest one on earth
IQ
Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS ORGANIZED LABOR TOUGH TV TRIVIA GEOGRAPHY GREAT ROMANCES HAPPY BIRD DAYS
$200 [10]
The sequel to this John Milton classic is "Paradise Regained"
Paradise Lost
Jeff
$200 [25]
His 1962 executive order gave federal workers collective bargaining rights
JFK
Jeff
$200 [1]
In 1986 TV series, Caryn Richman plays this Sandra Dee-Sally Field character "all grown up"
Gidget
Patty
$200 [15]
This Greek city was named for the goddess of wisdom
Athens
Jeff
$200 [6]
She was first carried into Julius Caesar's presence rolled up in a rug on the shoulder of a porter
Cleopatra
Linda
$200 [20]
This nurse was born on May 12, 1829 in Florence, Italy
Florence Nightingale
Patty
$400 [11]
Called the most widely read Polish novel ever, it's based on life of early Christians in Rome
Quo Vadis
Jeff
$400 [26]
Term for a business that legally recognizes a sole bargaining agent, not a place to buy UAW hats
union shop
Patty
$400 [2]
He was Chief Dan Matthews of "Highway Patrol" 10-4
Broderick Crawford
Linda
$400 [16]
Known to the Romans as Caledonia, it became a kingdom in 844 under Kenneth MacAlpin
Scotland
Jeff
$400 [7]
This love of Troilus, legendary prince of Troy, wasn't his new Toyota
Cressida
Jeff
$400 [21]
These baseball birds won their last World Series on Oct. 16, 1983
the Baltimore Orioles
Patty
$600 [12]
It's said tales of this mischievous youth made author George Peck so popular he was voted Gov. of Wisc.
Peck's Bad Boy
$600 [27]
Beneath his bushy eyebrows was the vision to found the CIO & lead UMW for 40 years
John L. Lewis
Linda Patty
$600 [3]
Ethel Waters, Louise Beavers, or the buzzer on "Truth or Consequences"
Beulah
Linda
$600 [17]
Northern European country whose name means "the low countries"
Netherlands
Jeff
$800 [9]
To marry her, Jacob worked 7 years, "& they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her"
Rachel
Patty
$600 [22]
Each ides of March the residents of Hinckley, Ohio honor the return of these birds of prey
buzzards
Linda Patty
$800 [13]
He's described some of us as "Hidden Persuaders", "Status Seekers", & "Pyramid Climbers"
Vance Packard
DD $1,000 [4]
2 of the 3 "spin-offs" from "Happy Days"
Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy or Joanie Loves Chachi
Linda
$800 [18]
According to the Britannica, geographic distinction of the city of Ushuaia, Argentina
southernmost city in the world
Jeff
DD $1,000 [8]
Poet Edgar Lee Masters said this man's spirit of forgiveness derived from his love for Anne Rutledge
Abraham Lincoln
Jeff
$800 [23]
On March 23, 1957, the army held public sale of their last of these outmoded means of communication
homing pigeons
Linda
$1,000 [14]
A group of travelers tell 100 different stories in his "Decameron"
Boccaccio
Jeff
$1,000 [5]
He was the band leader on "The Tonight Show" when Johnny Carson took over as host
Skitch Henderson
$1,000 [19]
Resort & tea producing center, this city in India's name is from Tibetan for "town of the thunderbolt"
Darjeeling
$1,000 [24]
October 20, 1632 was the birthday of this great English architect
(Sir Christopher) Wren
Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

MILITARY HISTORY

The famous "Damn the torpedoes" command was shouted by a rear admiral during this war

the Civil War

Patty "What is WWI?" — wagered $1,800
Linda "What is the War of 1812?" — wagered $0
Jeff "What was WWI?" — wagered $4,200

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