Show #381 1986-02-24 (taped 1985-10-08) Regular

Contestants

Bobbie Harrison — a homemaker from Lake Bluff, Illinois

Jim Bell — a lawyer from Frankfort, Connecticut

Joe Pipp — an engineering graduate from Ann Arbor, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $1,100 $2,600 $4,000 $2,600
3-day champion: $20,100
$4,500
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $400 $1,800 $2,700 $401
2nd place: Windjammer Barefoot Cruise to the Bahamas
$3,200
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Bobbie $1,100 $1,100 $200 $1
3rd place: his and hers Jules Jurgensen watches
$300
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

RULERS BOUNCE THE HUMAN BODY MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY 6-LETTER WORDS MARXISMS
$100 [12]
A descendant of Genghis Khan, this Mongol conqueror was also known as Timur the Lame
Tamerlane
Bobbie
$100 [13]
In slang, you're a "paper hanger" if you bounce one of these
a check
Bobbie
$100 [4]
Part of your body which contains rods & cones
the eye
Joe
$100 [1]
Roger Miller says it "swings like a pendulum do"
England
Joe Jim
$100 [5]
Type of pigeon that doesn't need AAA maps
a homing pigeon
Bobbie
$100 [9]
Groucho said he wouldn't belong to any club that would allow this
having me as a member
Jim
$200 [18]
"King of kings" & "Sun of the Aryans", Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was better known as this
the Shah of Iran
Jim
$200 [14]
Innovation of the Fleischer Brothers to aid cartoon audiences in following song lyrics
the bouncing ball
Joe
$200 [6]
The deciduous or "milk" type are your 1st set of these
teeth
Bobbie
$200 [2]
Though "the Midwest farmers' daughters...make you feel alright", The Beach Boys prefer these
California girls
Joe
$200 [23]
To cut something off, like a magazine subscription
to cancel
Joe
$200 [10]
Completes "I never forget a face, but in your case..."
I'll make an exception
Joe
$300 [19]
In 1613, Michael Romanov founded a dynasty which ruled this country for 300 years
Russia
Joe
$300 [15]
The season with "bounce"
spring
$300 [7]
Secreted by B-cells in the Islets of Langerhans, it controls amount of glucose in the blood
insulin
Bobbie
$300 [3]
It's where "Matilda run" after "she took me money"
Venezuela
Bobbie
$300 [24]
From Latin "robur" meaning "oak", we get this word for possessing great strength
robust
Jim
$300 [25]
Feeling Harpo's pulse, Dr. Hackenbush said, "Either he's dead or" this "has stopped"
my watch
Joe
$400 [20]
Constantine II, exiled in 1967, was last king of this country
Greece
Joe
$400 [16]
Curly Neal is an expert in this bouncing art
dribbling a basketball
Joe
$400 [8]
It's what the messenger RNA gets the message from
DNA
Jim
$400 [22]
In "Arthur's Theme", "The best that you can do is fall in love" when caught between the moon & here
New York City
Joe
$400 [26]
To scoop the mud from the bottom of a channel or harbor; police do it to find the body
to dredge
Jim
$500 [21]
While many rulers have been called "the Great", Turkish sultan Suleiman I was called this
the Magnificent
Jim
DD $500 [17]
During World War II, the Navy used them to improve fliers' coordination & balance
trampolines
Joe
$500 [11]
Sense organ which detects acceleration & position with respect to gravity
the ear
Joe
$500 [28]
In 1977, Glen Campbell asked, "Have you ever felt" these, y'all
"Southern Nights"
$500 [27]
Petty officer in the U.S. Navy who performs clerical duties, or Janice Rand on "Star Trek"
yeoman

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY AUTHORS "YOUNG" & "OLD" AUTO RACING INSECTS HODGEPODGE
$200 [6]
Year in which Ku Klux Klan was founded & Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
1865
Joe
$200 [1]
Though she wrote much about China, she called her native W.V. "World's most beautiful place"
Pearl Buck
Jim
$200 [9]
Paul Robeson popularized this Oscar Hammerstein description of the Mississippi
Old Man River
Bobbie
$200 [20]
1 of 2 colors on the 3 flags used in U.S. to warn drivers of dangerous track conditions
red (or yellow)
Jim
$200 [7]
Most species of adult insects have this many pairs of wings
2 pairs
Jim
$200 [13]
A colony of several thousand prairie dogs, or Grover's Corners
a town
$400 [16]
First lady longer than anyone before or since, she held 1st press conference by a president's wife
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jim
$400 [2]
Expression "I kid you not" comes from this author's "The Caine Mutiny"
Herman Wouk
Joe Bobbie
DD $300 [10]
Actor who played main human role on TV show with this theme:"A horse is a horse, of course, of course, And no one can talk to a horse, of course, That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.Go right to the source and ask..."
Alan Young
Bobbie
$400 [8]
The only major function of certain adult insects is to do just this
breed (reproduce)
Bobbie
$400 [14]
On Oct. 14 1977, Bing Crosby died in Madrid, Spain, after playing this
golf
Jim
$600 [17]
Ironically, people of this W. Indian island gave $6 mil. to the American Revolutionary War effort
Cuba
$600 [3]
Existentialist philosopher who declined 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jim
$600 [11]
He called his Oscar for "They Shoot Horses..." a "lifeline for a drowning actor"
Gig Young
Joe
DD $500 [22]
Because males of this Lucanidae species have jaws resembling deer antlers, they are called this
stag beetles
Jim
$600 [15]
Appropriately, Sigmund Freud's youngest child, Anna, made her career in this field
child psychology
Joe Jim Bobbie
$800 [18]
A former slave who protested segregation on 1840's trains by sitting in cars reserved for whites
Frederick Douglass
$800 [4]
Question asked in title of surprise-ending Frank Stockton short story
The Lady or the Tiger?
$800 [12]
Davy Crockett's trusty rifle
Old Betsy
Joe Bobbie
$600 [21]
A nature sprite, or the larval stage of crickets, cockroaches, or cicadas
a nymph
$1,000 [19]
This 20th century president is the only president buried in Washington, D.C. proper
Woodrow Wilson
$1,000 [5]
Most widely translated Spanish author besides Cervantes, he lost his life in Spanish Civil War
Federico García Lorca
$1,000 [24]
Author of "To Be Equal", he was head of the National Urban League through most of the '60s
Whitney Young
Jim
$1,000 [23]
This specific flying species is said to have caused 50% of "natural" human deaths since Stone Age
the Anopheles Mosquito
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

ELECTIONS

Total of senators & congressman, plus vote of D.C., it's # of electors in Electoral College

538

Bobbie "What is 426?" — wagered $199
Jim "What is 536?" — wagered $2,299
Joe "What is 535?" — wagered $1,400

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