Show #495 1986-10-31 (taped 1986-08-27) Regular

Contestants

Brad Geagley — a writer and game designer from Los Angeles, California

Rosemary Woodlock — an attorney originally from Texas

Jeff Suto — a law student originally from Hacienda Heights, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jeff $700 $1,900 $5,200 $600
2nd place: Broyhill 6-piece oak bedroom set & natural white European down comforters, pillows & designer outerwear from The Company Store
$5,900
19 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Rosemary $200 $1,500 $1,500 $0
3rd place: Fox graphite WB-210 tennis racquets
$1,500
11 R, 3 W
Brad $400 $100 $7,400 $4,399
New champion: $4,399
$7,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT AMERICA GILLIGAN'S ISLAND 5-LETTER WORDS MUSIC MIDDLE NAMES HERALDIC BEASTS
$100 [9]
These equines disappeared from N. America some 8000 years ago & were brought back by white explorers
horses
Jeff
$100 [1]
According to the theme, "The tour" was supposed to last just this long
3 hours
Jeff
$100 [18]
Her close ties to this really burned up Joan of Arc
stake
Brad
$100 [6]
Number of beats to the bar in music marked 3/4 time
3
Jeff
$100 [23]
Moses' brother & Elvis Presley's middle name
Aaron
Rosemary
$100 [13]
The Bahamas' coat of arms sports this pink bird; so do the credits for "Miami Vice"
flamingos
Brad
$200 [11]
At height of glaciation, the amount of ice in N. America exceeded that on this icy continent today
Antarctica
Jeff
$200 [2]
This character, named Roy Hinkley, was the only one who slept alone
the Professor
Jeff
$200 [19]
The 1st ordinal number with 5 letters
first
Jeff Brad
$200 [7]
An important part of this country's classical music is the raga
India
Rosemary
$200 [24]
Leslie Stainer used this, his middle name, as his last in such films as "Gone With the Wind"
Howard
Brad
$200 [17]
This beast has adorned the Holy Roman emperor's arms & Merv's stationery
griffin
Rosemary Brad
$300 [14]
As far back as 5000 B.C., this was the most important crop grown in what is now Mexico
maize (corn)
Brad
$300 [3]
Only cast member to come into the show with performances that "drew" 2 Academy Awards
Jim Backus
$400 [21]
According to ungrammatical Sam Harris song, this "Don't Bite"
Sugar
$300 [8]
A flourish of trumpets, its sounds like the price charged for a baseball booster to board a bus
fanfare
Brad
$300 [25]
Middle name of Harry Lewis, author of "Dodsworth"
Sinclair
Rosemary
$300 [28]
Coats of arms of Belgium, Bulgaria & Burundi have all displayed this beast, Panthera leo
lion
Rosemary
$400 [15]
Mayans played a sacred game on special courts using a ball made from this substance unknown in Europe
rubber
Rosemary Brad
$400 [4]
Creator Sherwood Schwartz's 1st choice to play Gilligan was this star of "My Mother the Car"
Jerry van Dyke
Brad
DD $500 [20]
Webster's calls it "a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass"
green
Brad
$400 [10]
From Italian diminutive of "book", the book of an opera or musical company
libretto
Brad
$400 [26]
Joe Barrow dropped his last name & used this, his middle name, when boxing
Louis
Rosemary
$400 [29]
The crane, or "grue", is the symbol for this Swiss region famed for its cheese
Gruyère
Jeff
$500 [16]
Since Aztec p.o.w.s were sacrificed to the gods, their method of warfare was meant to do this, not kill
capture
Jeff
$500 [5]
In the 2nd animated series, the group left "Gilligan's Island" & landed here
Gilligan's Planet
$500 [22]
Navigational device that Captain Kidd wouldn't call a "map"
chart
Brad
$500 [12]
A koto is a Japanese zither with strings made of this
silk
$500 [27]
"Elton John" took this middle name. though he never killed a hydra or cleaned the stables of Augeas
Hercules
Jeff Brad

Double Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS WARS SWIMMING & DIVING MOVIES 1890's "YES" OR "NO"
$200 [2]
Perhaps seeking peace after fathering 13 kids, this "War & Peace" author advocated chastity
Tolstoy
Jeff
$200 [11]
Some U.S. official records call it "The War of the Rebellion"
Civil War
Jeff Rosemary
$200 [16]
The Varsity Match, world's oldest swim meet, is held between these 2 English universities
Cambridge & Oxford
Jeff
$200 [1]
Olympic weightlifting silver medalist Harold Sakata played Oddjob in this James Bond film
Goldfinger
Jeff
$200 [26]
In 1892, at age 53, WCTU founder Miss Frances Willard learned to ride one of these
bicycle
Jeff
$200 [21]
It's said he lived to be 950 years old, including 350 after the flood
Noah
Jeff Rosemary
$400 [3]
To "amuse" his mother, he hid in his pockets bats which he'd found in a Hannibal cave
Mark Twain
Rosemary
$400 [12]
In 1799, during war against Turkey, his army discovered Rosetta Stone in Egypt
Napoleon
Brad
$400 [17]
In judging a dive, these 2 marks are thrown out
highest & lowest
Jeff
$400 [7]
Before fame in "National Velvet", Elizabeth Taylor was in this collie classic
Lassie Come Home
Brad
$400 [27]
In 1896, the director of the Sorbonne's psychology lab, Alfred Binet, devised this test
I.Q. test
Jeff
$400 [22]
"Lone Ranger" announcer asked listeners to "Return with us now to the those thrilling days of..."
yesteryear
Rosemary
$600 [4]
Polish-born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski wrote "Typhoon" under this name
Joseph Conrad
Jeff
$800 [14]
Buffalo, N.Y. was destroyed in this war
War of 1812
Brad
$600 [18]
In diving, 1 of the 2 heights above the water for a springboard
1 or 3 meters
Jeff
$600 [8]
She starred as the "I" in "I'll Cry Tomorrow" & "I Want to Live"
Susan Hayward
Brad
DD $700 [28]
The Chicago Exposition celebrated the 400th anniversary of this
discovery of America by Christopher Columbus)
Jeff
$600 [23]
A subordinate who indiscriminately agrees with a superior
yes man
Rosemary
$800 [5]
Perhaps Edgar Allan Poe's flair for the dramatic came from this, his birth parents' occupation
acting
Brad
$1,000 [15]
A revolution broke out in 1905 as a result of Russia's defeat in this war
Russo-Japanese War
Jeff
$800 [19]
1 of 2 strokes whose finishing touch in a race must be made with both hands
(1 of) butterfly (or breaststroke)
Jeff
$800 [9]
Universal & UA turned down this script, but the film smashed box office records in 1977
Star Wars
Jeff Rosemary Brad
$800 [29]
After previously suggesting that Jews convert to Catholicism, Theodor Herzl founded this movement
Zionism
$800 [24]
From Latin for "nine", it's a Catholic devotion that's repeated 9 times
novena
Jeff
$1,000 [6]
Last name of English sibling poets, Osbert & Sacheverell
Sitwell
Brad
DD $1,500 [13]
According to the followingsong, he's the cause of all the wars in history:
"Universal Soldier"
Brad
$1,000 [20]
Now a sportscaster, at age 13 she was youngest member of American team in 1960 Olympics
Donna de Varona
Jeff
$1,000 [10]
In 1899, he played in "Ben-Hur" on Broadway, long before becoming a silent screen cowboy star
William S. Hart
Rosemary Brad
$1,000 [25]
Its chemical name is p-aminobenzoyl-diethylamino-ethanol hydrochloride
novocaine

Final Jeopardy!

AFRICA

Last 2 countries in world alphabetically; Victoria Falls lies on their mutual border

Zambia & Zimbabwe

Rosemary "What are Zambia & Zaire?" — wagered $1,500
Jeff "What are Zimbabwe & Zaire" — wagered $4,600
Brad "What are Zambia & Zaire" — wagered $3,001

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