Show #271 1985-09-23 (taped 1985-07-23) Regular

Contestants

Czerni Brasuell — a writer originally from New York City, New York

Susan Kiner — an investment banker from Singer Island, Florida

Joe Alley — a student originally from Huntsville, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $200 $1,400 $3,700 $7,399
2-day champion: $9,199
$3,500
11 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Susan $200 $1,500 $2,300 $4,599
3rd place: American of Martinsville furniture
$4,300
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Czerni $1,600 $2,200 $3,800 $5,600
2nd place: Dresher brass bed & King Koil mattress set
$3,800
15 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY BRITISH ISLES BEER ACTORS & ROLES WEAPONS FAMOUS COWS
$100 [19]
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s stores are known by this name
A&P
Susan
$100 [10]
Favorite alcoholic drink of Scotland
scotch
$100 [3]
In 1954, this Dublin-based brewery hired the McWhirter twins to publicize world records
Guinness
Czerni
$100 [1]
Though he works in California, Lee Horsley's character shares name with this Texas town
(Matt) Houston
Czerni
$100 [2]
To a thug, it's a shiv; to us, a utensil
knife
Susan
$100 [9]
Said to have started the Great Chicago Fire
Mrs. O'Leary's cow
Susan
$200 [20]
This company operates a museum of antique soup tureens in Camden, N.J.
Campbell's
Czerni
$200 [11]
This country's highest mountain range, Macgillycuddy's Reeks, only reach to 3,419 ft.
Ireland
$200 [5]
In this '76 flick, Olivier "drilled" Dustin Hoffman for information
Marathon Man
Czerni
$200 [4]
Indication that a song has the right ammunition to make it to the top of the charts
it has a bullet
Joe
$200 [12]
Wife of Elmer, she's the Borden cow
Elsie
Czerni
$300 [22]
Though it changed its name from Standard Oil of New Jersey, it's still headquartered there
Exxon
Czerni
$300 [21]
Melted cheese & beer on toast dish named for country that made it famous
Welsh Rarebit
Czerni
$300 [6]
In "The Gods Must Be Crazy", this inanimate object has a "starring" role
Coca-Cola bottle
Czerni
$300 [13]
Getting the 1st one from an Australian trainer; Batman now has 100 different kinds
Batarang
Joe
$300 [16]
The emotional state of Carnation Company's cows
contented
Susan
$400 [23]
Averaging over 16c per KW hour, this city's Con Edison has highest residential elec. rates in U.S.
New York City
Joe
$400 [25]
Cats, dogs & budgerigars, an Aussie variety of these, are most popular English pets
parakeets
Czerni
$400 [7]
In 1985, he got "Lost in America" with Julie Hagerty
Albert Brooks
Czerni
DD $500 [14]
Military weapon which falls between flamenco & flamingo in the Funk & Wagnalls
flamethrower
Joe
$400 [17]
1 of 2 breeds named for a British Channel island on which they were developed
Guernsey (or Jersey)
Susan
$500 [24]
America's 4th largest foundation derives from will of this bandage maker
Johnson & Johnson
Czerni
$500 [8]
David Bowie seemed at home portraying an alien in this "76 film
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Czerni
$500 [15]
Greek mathematician who invented a mirror to focus sunlight & set fire to enemy sails
Archimedes
$500 [18]
Cow seen in Mickey Mouse cartoons who shares her name with a male Howdy Doody character
Clarabelle
Susan Czerni

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY TRANSPORTATION TOUGH TRIVIA SEA LIFE SOUTH CAROLINA "GREEN"ERY
$200 [9]
1845 failure of this crop led to famine in Ireland
potatoes
Susan
$200 [20]
Winner of famed 1830 race between Peter Cooper's locomotive "Tom Thumb" & a horse
the horse
Joe
$200 [14]
To achieve a balance in sound, Reagan now wears 2 of them
hearing aids
Susan
$200 [1]
From family Engraulidae, no real Caesar salad is complete without them
anchovies
Joe
$200 [16]
S.C. statesman & diplomat Joel Roberts Poinsett brought this plant back from Mexico
Poinsettia
Joe Czerni
$200 [6]
The owl & pussycat's seagoing vessel
a pea-green boat
Joe
$400 [10]
In 1493, Pope Alexander VI divided the New World between Spain & this country
Portugal
Susan Czerni
DD $500 [21]
Mode of transportation in title of this song:
jet plane
Joe
$400 [15]
When opened, side of an English-language book the even numbered pages are usually on
the left side
Joe Czerni
$400 [2]
A whale's tail fin, or an unexpected stroke of good luck
fluke
$400 [17]
South Carolina is bordered by only this many other states
2 (North Carolina & Georgia)
Joe
$400 [7]
1st line of Kermit's musical complaint about his color
"It's not that easy being green"
$600 [11]
In 1938, he said he had achieved "peace with honor"
Neville Chamberlain
Susan
$600 [22]
By FBI figures, it was the U.S. city with the greatest total number of car thefts in 1984
New York City
Czerni
$600 [3]
Among the most beautiful & most deadly of reef fishes, it could appropriately be called "King of the Ocean"
lionfish
Joe
$800 [25]
State tree said to have helped American revolutionaries by "catching" British cannonballs
palmetto
$600 [8]
According to the folk song, "they're hangin'" Irishmen for this offense
the wearing of the green
Susan
$800 [12]
1st black to win Nobel Prize, he negotiated 1949 Arab-Israeli truce
Ralph Bunche
Susan
$800 [23]
1924 creation of a general, you hear it on elevators & when put on hold by the Pentagon
Muzak
Czerni
$800 [4]
Named for the salad vegetable it resembles, the Chinese use it as a food called trepang
sea cucumber
$800 [18]
U.S. political party of 1800s that believed issuing more paper money would bring prosperity
Greenback
Joe
DD $2,000 [13]
Bartlett's says this courtesan, not the king, said, "Apres nous, le deluge"
Madame du Pompadour
Susan
$1,000 [24]
Before he did this in '85, Prince Charles was asked if he was a homosexual or injected drugs
before he gave blood
Susan
$1,000 [5]
The sand dollar is actually a species of this with tiny spines & flattened "shell"
sea urchin
$1,000 [19]
The 1st one on a label in 1925 was white, wore a bearskin, & scowled
The Jolly Green Giant
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS

With a total of 20, this player holds record for most Wimbledon titles ever

Billie Jean King

Susan "Who is Billie Jean King?" — wagered $2,299
Joe "Who is Billie Jean King?" — wagered $3,699
Czerni "Who is Billie Jean King?" — wagered $1,800

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