Show #525 1986-12-12 (taped 1986-09-17) Regular

Contestants

Adrienne Bell — a teacher from San Diego, California

Steve Baker — a professor of international politics from Pacific Grove, California

Debbie Sherry — a nurse from Yuba City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Debbie $1,100 $2,500 $4,300 $6,900
2-day champion: $16,500
$4,300
16 R (including 1 DD), 7 W
Steve $800 $1,400 $3,400 $0
3rd place: Carrington House Carpets from Horizon
$3,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Adrienne $600 $400 $2,400 $1
2nd place: La-Z-Boy sofa and chair + Krups kitchen products
$2,400
12 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT RUMORS SPORTS U.S.A. FILM GEOGRAPHY FEMALE SINGERS NUMBER PLEASE
$100 [4]
Though it contradicts the meaning of "B.C.", it's said he was born some time before 3 B.C.
Jesus Christ
Debbie Steve
$100 [26]
Sport in which you can compete in the Nordic World Championships
skiing
Adrienne
$100 [3]
Total number of the heads carved on Mt. Rushmore that are wearing hats
zero
Steve
$100 [12]
"Mr. Smith" & "Billy Jack" both went there
Washington
Adrienne
$100 [1]
Sisters Ruth, Anita, June & once upon a time, Bonnie
The Pointer Sisters
Debbie
$100 [17]
In the U.S., the standard number of separate flavors in Neapolitan ice cream
3
Steve
$200 [5]
He not only "fiddled" while Rome burned, he sang, & may have set the fire himself
Nero
Adrienne
$200 [27]
"Gentleman" who was the 1st champion under Marquis of Queensbury rules
"Gentleman Jim" Corbett
Debbie Adrienne
$200 [18]
Of J.C. Penney, the U.S. Coast Guard, & the L.A. Dodgers, one which doesn't ban beards
J.C. Penney
Debbie Steve Adrienne
$200 [13]
On film, this singer found "Paradise Hawaiian Style" & "Fun in Acapulco"
Elvis Presley
Debbie
$200 [2]
Inducting her into the Jazz Hall of Fame in 1985, they could have played "Thanks For The Memorex"
Ella Fitzgerald
Steve
$200 [22]
Card game, gun salute, or NYC restaurant
21
Steve
$300 [6]
Etruscan women supposedly built up their dowries by practicing this "oldest profession"
prostitution
Adrienne
$300 [28]
Of the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont, & the Preakness, the oldest race of the Triple Crown
the Belmont
Debbie Steve Adrienne
$300 [19]
It's what the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association recommends in pamphlet titled "Get It On"
your seat belt
Steve
$300 [14]
Northern French city known in film for its "Umbrellas"
Cherbourg
Debbie
$300 [9]
The 2 female singers in Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks & Christine McVie
Debbie
$300 [23]
Of 5, 7, or 9, the number of times Elizabeth Taylor has pledged eternal love at the altar
7
Debbie
$400 [7]
Mithridates VI reputedly drank these daily so he'd be immune from attempts to kill him with them
poison
Steve
$400 [29]
Sport in which before the game, you might get in the cage for some BP
baseball
Debbie
$400 [20]
100 years apart, Joseph Pulitzer & Lee Iacocca raised money for this
the Statue of Liberty
Steve
$400 [15]
1986 hit film based on Jean Renoir's 1932 film "Boudu Saved from Drowning"
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Debbie
$400 [10]
It's Martha Davis who sings lead for this group, not the Travelodge sleepy bear
The Motels
Debbie
$400 [24]
For killing his wife & kids while temporarily insane, Hercules was ordered to perform this many labors
12
$500 [8]
Besides Cleopatra, his "royal conquests" were said to include the King of Bithynia
Julius Caesar
Debbie
$500 [21]
In 1986, this state celebrated 150th anniversary of its admittance to the union
Arkansas
Steve
$500 [16]
In '70s films, state which preceded "Split" & "Suite"
California
Debbie
$500 [11]
When asking this singer her name, she might respond, "I'm Not Lisa", I'm Mrs. Waylon Jennings
Jessi Colter
DD $500 [25]
The sum of the ages of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little" thing & when Janis Ian "learned the truth"
33
Debbie

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE SOVIET UNION FICTIONAL CHARACTERS GAME SHOWS HAIL TO THE CHIEF PREACHERS DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
$200 [1]
The Soviet Army is colloquially called this, even though its uniforms are dark green or khaki
Red
Steve
$200 [11]
In the 1958 sequel, this Dr. Seuss character "Comes Back"
The Cat in the Hat
Debbie
$200 [25]
Challenge which followed "I can name it in one note"
Name that tune.
Adrienne
$200 [6]
Texan who said, "For the 1st time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty"
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Adrienne
$200 [12]
Jean Simmons played preacher Sharon Falconer in '60 film version of this Sinclair Lewis novel
Elmer Gantry
Steve
$200 [21]
Some buzz, some sound the Westminster Chimes, while some are just "ding dong"s
doorbells
Adrienne
$400 [2]
Of some 14,000, 156, or none at all, number of religious Sunday schools publicly functioning in USSR
none (at all, publicly functioning)
Debbie Steve Adrienne
$400 [17]
He created the hobbits Frodo & Bilbo Baggins
J.R. Tolkein
Debbie
$400 [26]
Of Winter, Fall, Summer, or Spring, one you'd find introducing contestants on "Sale of the Century"
Summer Bartholomew
$400 [7]
He complained that while 1 "d" was enough to spell God, it took 2 "d's" for Todd
Abraham Lincoln
Adrienne
$400 [13]
Taking Sputnik passing overhead as a sign from heaven to give up rock 'n' roll, he joined the ministry
Little Richard
Steve
$400 [22]
Forms of this include "Your Holiness", the Right Honorable the Earl of", & "To Whom It May Concern"
addresses
Debbie
$600 [3]
Soviet citizens call it "The Great Patriotic War"
World War II
Steve
$600 [18]
Danny Kaye played this Thurber character in a 1947 film
Walter Mitty
Debbie
$600 [27]
1974-1977 game show whose theme began with a racetrack's call-to-post fanfare
Celebrity Sweepstakes
$600 [8]
He changed the name of the presidential retreat from "Shangri-La" to "Camp David"
President Dwight Eisenhower
Adrienne
$800 [15]
Foremost Catholic TV religious broadcaster today is this nun from Alabama
Mother Angelica
$600 [23]
In song, destination of the train "on Track 29"
Chattanooga
Debbie
$800 [4]
There are only 30 of these per thousand people in the USSR, compared with 522 per thousand in USA
automobiles
Debbie Adrienne
$800 [19]
Profession of Donald E. Westlake's John Dortmunder
thief
$800 [9]
During Prohibition, this president patronized a bootlegger to keep the White House stocked
Warren Harding
Debbie Steve Adrienne
DD $1,000 [14]
2 preachers seeking a major party nomination for president in 1988
Jesse Jackson & Pat Robertson
Steve
$800 [24]
People marked by eccentric behavior or thinking, or the 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. on a pool table
oddballs
Steve
$1,000 [5]
Originally showing the czar on horseback & carrying a lance, this smallest money unit means "lance"
a kopek
Steve
$1,000 [20]
Character in "David Copperfield" who epitomizes the word "unctuous"
Uriah Heep
Steve
$1,000 [10]
Asked what a minister had said in a sermon on sin, this man replied, "He said he was against it"
Calvin Coolidge
Adrienne
$1,000 [16]
Author of the book subtitled "A Practical Guide to Mastering the Problems of Everyday Living"
Norman Vincent Peale
Adrienne

Final Jeopardy!

MEDICINE

Condition whose name is Latin for "waterfall", because it's like looking through one

a cataract

Adrienne "What is hydro" — wagered $2,399
Steve "What is glaucoma?" — wagered $3,400
Debbie "What is a cataract?" — wagered $2,600

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