Show #21 1984-10-08 (taped 1984-08-21) Regular

First episode to use current Daily Double sound.

Contestants

Diane McCain — a student from Van Nuys, California

Kevin Conway — a computer marketing representative originally from Detroit, Michigan

Joel Davidman — an investment banker from Encino, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joel $300 $-600 $-2,000 $-2,000
3rd place: Char-Broil portable barbecue gas grill
$-1,000
10 R, 9 W (including 1 DD)
Kevin $300 $-500 $2,300 $4,595
2nd place: Mohawk carpet + Alsy-Cycle II table lamps
$2,300
10 R, 4 W
Diane $1,500 $3,000 $5,400 $5,800
New champion: $5,800
$5,400
16 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE '40S BOATS BALLET "MARCH" ON JAPAN TV TRIVIA
$100 [18]
In '45, a U.S. bomber crashed into this N.Y. landmark's 79th floor
the Empire State Building
Joel
$100 [13]
Venice's taxis
gondolas
Diane
$100 [4]
Part of body used to dance on "pointe"
toe
Kevin
$100 [14]
Definitely not Caesar's time of month
the ides of March
Joel
$100 [21]
Raw fish dish
sushi
Joel
$100 [11]
Jim Henson coined this word from a combination of "marionette" & "puppet"
muppet
Joel
$200 [19]
Rudy Vallee recorded it in '31 & Sam played it again in Casablanca
"As Time Goes By"
Diane
$200 [3]
A small boat used to move big boats
tug
Diane
$200 [6]
Tchaikovsky's fowl aquatic ballet
"Swan Lake"
Diane
$200 [16]
Founded by F.D.R. in 1938, it works to prevent birth defects
the March of Dimes
Diane
$300 [15]
Known originally for motorcycles, this Japanese company now operates an auto plant in Ohio
Honda
Diane
$200 [1]
David Janssen's private eye with the last name Orwell
Harry O
Kevin
$300 [20]
Body builder Charles Atlas offered to build up the physique of this Indian leader
Mahatma Gandhi
Joel
$300 [12]
A flat-bottomed boat propelled by a pole, or a 4th down football play
punt
Diane
$300 [7]
New York City Ballet's "Mr. B."
George Balanchine
Diane
$300 [17]
Way of saying "loony as a spring rabbit"
mad as a March hare
Kevin
$400 [22]
The ancient art of paper folding
origami
Kevin Diane
$300 [2]
Yancy's fancy pistol
derringer
Joel
$400 [24]
German for "lightning war"
blitzkrieg
Kevin
$400 [8]
The arrangement of dance movements
choreography
Diane
$500 [23]
Western name for towering tsunamis, clocked at up to 500 MPH
tidal waves
Joel Kevin Diane
$400 [5]
Cook Graham Kerr was known as this
The Galloping Gourmet
Diane
$500 [9]
Formerly England's Sadler's Wells Ballet
the Royal Ballet
$500 [10]
From the Swahili word for "doctor", the show featured a cross-eyed lion
Daktari
Joel Diane

Double Jeopardy! Round

COLONIAL AMERICA MUSICAL NUMBERS DEMOCRATS RELIGION ANATOMY
$200 [5]
N.Y.C.'s "Capital of Black America", named by Dutch for a city in Holland
Harlem
Kevin
$200 [3]
These working numbers don't measure up to Dolly Parton
"9 to 5"
Kevin
$400 [1]
Ex-astronaut who's had "The Right Stuff" to win 2 Senate terms
John Glenn
Joel
$400 [17]
Eastern rite of Christianity or oldest branch of Judaism
Orthodox
Diane
$600 [9]
The sclera; Bunker Hill patriots were ordered not to fire before seeing it
the whites of their eyes
Joel
$400 [4]
Founded by Wm. Penn, it became 2nd largest city in British Empire
Philadelphia
Joel Kevin
$400 [14]
Janis Ian learned the truth at this tender age
"At Seventeen"
Diane
$600 [2]
Behatted 3-term N.Y. congresswoman, still active in feminist movement
Bella Abzug
Diane
$600 [11]
Denomination Reverend Jesse Jackson is minister of
Baptist
Joel
$800 [10]
Peristalsis lets you do this while standing on your head
swallowing
Joel Kevin
$600 [6]
Gov. Peter Stuyvesant's Manhattan farm, now the city's skid row
the Bowery
Joel Kevin
$600 [15]
Hall & Oates played music, not basketball, thus way
"One on One"
Kevin
$800 [7]
For the past 8 years, John D. Rockefeller IV has been gov. of this state
West Virginia
Joel
DD $1,000 [12]
Mormons believe they're Amer. Indians; others say they're Japanese or Anglo-Saxons
the 10 lost tribes of Israel
Joel
$800 [16]
"Pennsylvania Dutch" settlers came from there
Germany
Kevin
$800 [18]
Total of "The Freshmen" & "The Preps"
8
Kevin
$1,000 [8]
Senator who tried for '84 pres. nomination was once sued by Adolf Hitler
Alan Cranston
Joel
$1,000 [13]
Belief in a deity is not part of its 8-fold path to nirvana
Buddhism
Joel Diane
$1,000 [19]
Slavery was at first banned in this southern colony founded by Oglethorpe
Georgia
Joel

Final Jeopardy!

THE ARMED SERVICES

The last military branch to be established

United States Air Force

Kevin "What is the Air Force" — wagered $2,295
Diane "What is the Air Force?" — wagered $400

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