Show #438 1986-05-14 (taped 1985-12-10) Regular

Contestants

Marie Peterson — a medical technical translator from Hartland, Wisconsin

Joe Schmitz — a helicopter pilot and maintenance officer from Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Stanton Korn — an attorney from Studio City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Stanton $-300 $300 $1,700 $1
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & her watches
$1,700
9 R, 4 W
Joe $1,700 $2,200 $8,600 $7,000
New champion: $7,000
$9,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Marie $400 $1,800 $3,000 $2,200
2nd place: trip on Air Cal to San Francisco & stay at Holiday Lodge
$3,800
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH ISLES BIRDS 3-LETTER WORDS FACTS & FIGURES THE FLINTSTONES "FIRE"
$100 [1]
Since she usually winds down the day with a Scotch, J & B gave this p.m. their billionth bottle
(Margaret) Thatcher
Marie
$100 [23]
Heavy consumption of these avian writing implements led to invention of steel pens
quills
Joe
$100 [2]
Latin for "two", Batman & Robin are a dynamic one
duo
Stanton
$100 [16]
After NYC & Washington, D.C., this New Jersey city is most expensive in U.S. to visit
Atlantic City
Stanton Joe
$100 [7]
Town the Flintstones call home
Bedrock
Marie
$100 [17]
The oldest portable one, invented about 1837, used soda-acid
fire extinguisher
Joe
$200 [3]
The badge of this family is the bell-heather, not the Big Mac
MacDonalds
Joe
$200 [24]
An omelette made with 1 of their eggs is equal in size to 1 made with 24 chicken eggs
ostrich
Marie
$200 [12]
Word cried by the last "little pig" "all the way home"
wee
Joe
$200 [22]
When hearing this term, almost twice as many people think of the movie as Pres. Reagan's defense plan
Star Wars
Marie
$200 [8]
"Chip off the old Flintstone" with her own cereal
Pebbles
Marie
$200 [18]
It's as old as the code of Hammurabi, which didn't mention what the rates were
fire insurance
$300 [4]
In 1839, Englishmen put almost 200 tons of it up their noses
snuff
Joe
$300 [25]
Answer to the children's riddle "Why does a hummingbird hum?"
Because he doesn't know the words
Marie
$300 [13]
As an acronym it's a tombstone title; as a word it means "tear"
r.i.p.
Joe
$300 [27]
Of about 5, 25, or 45, percentage of adults in the U.S. who've been on TV
25
Marie
$300 [9]
It's where Fred took the family in the opening of every show
drive-in theater
Joe
$300 [19]
Most widespread type of this is performed on embers from a wood fire, as in India
walking on fire
Marie
$400 [5]
With the Scotch thistle & English rose this symbol of the trinity is part of British coat of arms
shamrock
Stanton
$400 [26]
Mythology says Hera was so fond of these birds she adorned their tails with the eyes of her love, Argus
peacock
Joe
$400 [14]
A paronomasia, it's a play on similar sounding words
pun
Joe
$400 [29]
In # of phones per 100 people, the U.S. ranks third, behind these 2 European countries that begin with S
Switzerland & Sweden
Joe Marie
$400 [10]
The Flintstones celebrated this anniversary October 14, 1985
25th
$400 [20]
To contain a forest fire, it's created by clearing a strip of land ahead of the flames
fire break
Joe
$500 [6]
On January 1, 1788 the Daily Universal Register assumed this new name
London Times
DD $800 [28]
1/2 an hr. before this song was to be recorded, the title was changed from "Run, Rabbit, Run" to this:
"Fly, Robin, Fly"
Marie
$500 [15]
Abbreviated "Sn", it's the only 3-letter element
tin
$500 [30]
A "Money" magazine survey said people still think this is the best way to get rich
hard work
Marie
$500 [11]
Fred & Barney were lodge members of this "Loyal Order"
Water Buffaloes
$500 [21]
In this 1983 film, Nick Nolte played a journalist in Nicaragua during the 1979 revolution
Under Fire
Stanton

Double Jeopardy! Round

SICKNESS & HEALTH DRAMA LEADERS POP MUSIC THE CIVIL WAR ICE
$200 [3]
Prosthetic device 1st made in 1851, Peter Falk & Sammy Davis Jr. account for a pair of them
false eye
Joe
$200 [21]
In London Puccini saw this popular David Belasco play about Cio-Cio-San & made it into an opera
Madame Butterfly
Stanton
$200 [1]
Founder & leader of the United Farm Workers of America
Cesar Chavez
Stanton
$200 [7]
He had to pay $1/2 million in damages because "My Sweet Lord" was too similar to "He's So Fine"
George Harrison
Marie
$200 [16]
He surrendered at Appomattox Court House without the consent of the Confederate president
General Lee
Joe
$200 [24]
Type of lettuce that might sink an ocean liner
iceberg
Joe
$400 [8]
The University of Kansas found music in the delivery room shortens this part of the birth cycle
labor
Marie
$400 [22]
Henry VIII's lord chancellor, who was a "Man for All Seasons"
Thomas More
Stanton Marie
$400 [2]
Title shared by Nero, Napoleon, & San Francisco's Joshua Norton
emperor
Marie
$400 [12]
Jimmy Buffett "wasted away" here in 1977
Margaritaville
Marie
$400 [17]
Because it opposed high tariffs, this 1st state to secede had threatened to as far back as 1832
South Carolina
Joe
$600 [26]
Coleridge poem with the line "and ice, mast-high, came floating by, as green as emerald"
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Marie
$600 [9]
Health insurance financed by 4 Social Security trust funds
Medicare
Joe
$600 [23]
Philosophical phrase about death & dollars, or a Kaufman & Hart play
You can't take it with you.
$600 [4]
The exiled spiritual leader of tibet who fled to India in 1959
Dalai Lama
Stanton
$600 [13]
One reason this Australian group took its name was to contrast it with the heavy metal sound
Air Supply
Joe
$600 [18]
Nicknamed "Uncle Billy", this general believed in total war & proved it marching through Georgia
Sherman
Joe
DD $800 [25]
Geometric shape water molecules form in ice; it's why snowflakes look the way they do
hexagons
Joe
$800 [10]
Since there was too little to test, this drug of Fleming's sat "undiscovered" for 12 years
penicillin
Joe
DD $800 [29]
In the 4th century B.C., this type of play was forbidden in Greece as demoralizing in time of war
satire (comedy)
Joe
$800 [5]
The 2 top Red Chinese leaders who both died in 1976
Mao Tse-Tung & Chou En-Lai
Stanton
$800 [14]
Stage fright & shyness kept her out of limelight, despite her big hit, "Chuck E.'s In Love"
Rickie Lee Jones
Stanton
$800 [19]
In 1863, Thomas Bishop wrote words to this popular Civil War song
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
Stanton
$800 [27]
Before ice machines, New Englanders got ice by this process also used for marble or granite
cutting into blocks (or quarrying)
Joe
$1,000 [11]
In the '40s, Sister Kenny, an Australian nurse, brought her treatment for this disease to the U.S.
polio
Stanton Joe
$1,000 [6]
Visiting Washington, D.C., this p.m. stated Japan should become an "unsinkable air-craft carrier"
Nakasone
$1,000 [15]
In 1981, her "7 Year Ache" lasted 7 weeks on the charts
Rosanne Cash
Joe
$1,000 [20]
1 of 2 states to join Union during the Civil War
(1 of) West Virginia (or Nevada)
Stanton
$1,000 [28]
His most important work is "Northward Over the Great Ice,...In the Years 1886 & 1891-1897"
Robert Peary

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

The 1st letter in the alphabet that does not begin the name of a state capital

E

Stanton "What is Q?" — wagered $1,699
Marie "What is B?" — wagered $800
Joe "What is "A"" — wagered $1,600

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