Show #524 1986-12-11 (taped 1986-09-17) Regular

Contestants

Debbie Sherry — a nurse from Yuba City, California

Bill Blum — a freelance writer from Studio City, California

Steven Goldstein — a sales manager from Rancho Palos Verdes, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,299)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $100 $0 $3,200 $6,399
3rd place: Panasonic 25" color monitor receiver
$4,200
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Bill $500 $1,700 $8,200 $6,799
2nd place: trip to Palm Springs & Fox tennis racquets
$8,900
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Debbie $2,200 $2,600 $4,800 $9,600
New champion: $9,600
$4,800
15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

GAMES BEER '50s SONGS "ADVENTURE" MOVIES SEE THE USA
$100 [11]
13th century Italian explorer who lent his name to a children's swimming pool game
Marco Polo
Bill
$100 [12]
In '60s ads, they called to this girl for Carling Black Label
Mabel
Bill
$100 [1]
"Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you, if you're" this
"Young At Heart"
Debbie
$100 [6]
Elementary, my dear Watson! It's a 1939 movie starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Bill
$100 [17]
Florida's 9-foot tall "Christ of the Deep" statue is, appropriately, found under this
water
$200 [22]
Color of the "Community Chest" cards in a U.S. Monopoly set
yellow
Debbie
DD $200 [13]
TV series in which title characters worked for this brewery
Laverne & Shirley
Bill
$200 [2]
Of Carl Perkins or Elvis, the one whose "Blue Suede Shoes" stepped higher on the charts
Carl Perkins
Debbie
$200 [7]
In the 1960 version, Jim the runaway slave was played by boxer Archie Moore
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Steven Debbie
$200 [21]
Dummies & real people mix in this 1692 trial city's witch dungeon, where you can't tell which is witch
Salem, (Massachusetts)
Debbie
$300 [14]
While Bud calls itself the "King of Beers", this one calls itself the "Beer of Danish Kings"
Tuborg
Steven
$300 [3]
"If your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye, it's no secret you'll feel better if you" do this
"Cry"
Steven
$300 [8]
Yup, in this film Gary Cooper played the explorer whose name gets shouted out in pools worldwide
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Debbie
$300 [20]
Fictional site of 12 Oaks & Tara, this state plans to build a "Gone With The Wind" theme park
Georgia
Bill
$400 [15]
In 1963, Schlitz became the 1st beer to be marketed nationally in these
tab top or pull top cans
Steven Debbie
$400 [4]
In 1951, Jo Stafford announced "There's dancin' tonight" because these "is a-comin'"
"Shrimp Boats"
Bill
$400 [9]
1948 film about a legendary lover played by legendary lover Errol Flynn
The Adventures of Don Juan
Debbie
$400 [19]
Universal Studios calls him "13,000 lbs. & 30 ft. of howling, growling, living terror
King Kong
Debbie
$500 [16]
In composition, malt liquor is the same as beer except for this
has a higher alcohol content
Bill
$500 [5]
Rosemary Clooney's salutation to "You with the stars in your eyes"
"Hey There"
Debbie
$500 [10]
The title character of this 1984 movie was a rock star, brain surgeon, & nuclear physicist
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Debbie
$500 [18]
At 115,000 carats, the 1 in Liberace's museum is the world's largest
rhinestone

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SENATE THE MIDDLE AGES 20th C. AUTHORS SICKNESS & HEALTH MATH THE TONIGHT SHOW
$200 [1]
Length of a Senate term
6 years
Bill
$200 [11]
Originally one got a smack on the back of the neck, not a tap with a sword, when being dubbed this
knight
Steven
$200 [2]
A professor at Cornell, he translated "Alice in Wonderland" into Russian & wrote "Lolita"
Vladimir Nabokov
Steven
$200 [14]
Disturbance of the balancing mechanism in this organ's semicircular canal causes vertigo
ear
Steven
DD $100 [29]
The value usually given Pi when Pi is expressed not as a decimal but as a mixed number
three and one-seventh (3 1/7)
Bill
$200 [23]
Carson's "psychic" character who would be perfect on our show
Carnac the Magnificent
Debbie
$400 [3]
This long-winded delaying tactic can be used in the Senate, but not in the House
filibuster
Bill
$400 [12]
Since Marco Polo called this city home, he didn't need a swimming pool
Venice
Steven
$400 [4]
Her "Diary of a Young Girl" was published post-humously by her father & trans-lated into more than 30 lang.
Anne Frank
Bill
$400 [17]
It's the most common cause of bunions
tight shoes
Steven
$200 [19]
The denominator in the fraction 7⁄8
8
Debbie
$400 [24]
In September of 1961, Jack Paar took a film crew to shoot this new German landmark
Berlin Wall
Debbie
$600 [8]
Longtime foe of gov't waste, his congressional directory biography reads it its entirety, "Wisconsin"
Proxmire
Steven
$600 [13]
The Pope offered forgiveness of sins & entrance to heaven if killed to those who took part in these
The Crusades
Debbie
$600 [5]
In her very 1st book, she introduced Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie
Bill
$600 [18]
The transfer of skin or bone from one part of the body to another
graft
Bill
$400 [22]
From Latin meaning "by the hundred", Hollywood agents traditionally get 10
percent
Debbie
$600 [25]
Exact title of current version of "Tonight"
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
DD $1,000 [9]
3 of the 6 states whose senators outnumber their representatives two-to-one
(3 of) Alaska, Wyoming, Delaware, North & South Dakota, and Vermont
Steven
$800 [15]
Ethelwulf, Ethelbald, Ethelbert & Ethelred were all kings of this country
England
Bill
$800 [6]
While alive, he only allowed an abridged version of his "7 Pillars of Wisdom" to be sold to the public
T.E. Lawrence
Steven Bill
$800 [20]
Though now illegal, amphetamines like the brand Dexedrine were once prescribed to inhibit this
appetite
Debbie
$600 [28]
Number whose square is 625 & whose square root is 5
25
Bill
$800 [26]
When Steve Allen cut back to 3 nights, this TV comic, cigar in hand, took the other 2
Ernie Kovacs
$1,000 [10]
This Mississippi Senator is #1 on seniority list, having served since Nov. 5, 1947
(John) Stennis
Bill
$1,000 [16]
On Christmas Day, 800 A.D., he became the first Holy Roman Emperor
Charlemagne
Steven
$1,000 [7]
Once nearly blind from an infection as a teenager, this Englishman wrote "Eyeless in Gaza" in 1936
(Aldous) Huxley
Steven
$1,000 [21]
An antitussive drug is used to suppress this cold symptom
cough
Steven
$1,000 [27]
When Jack Paar walked off in mid-show, February 11, 1960, he, the announcer, took over
Hugh Downs
Bill

Final Jeopardy!

FLAGS

The only 2 colors on the flag of the USSR, as well as those of the People's Republic of China & Vietnam

red & yellow

Steven "What are red and yellow?" — wagered $3,199
Debbie "What are red and yellow?" — wagered $4,800
Bill "What are red & white?" — wagered $1,401

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