Show #272 1985-09-24 (taped 1985-07-23) Regular

Contestants

April Zwick — an attorney originally from St. Petersburg, Florida

Rob Lai — an insurance investigator from Los Angeles, California

Joe Alley — a student originally from Huntsville, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $9,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $1,800 $0 $7,000 $3,100
3rd place: Maytag washer & dryer
$6,900
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Rob $1,300 $1,600 $5,400 $6,399
New champion: $6,399
$5,400
15 R, 1 W
April $-200 $400 $2,200 $4,400
2nd place: Windjammer Bahamas Barefoot cruise
$2,200
13 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

"FOR" WORDS RELIGION MAGAZINES NUMBER PLEASE THE HUMAN BODY FAMOUS DUCKS
$100 [14]
An herb with a small blue or white flower, its name should be easy to remember
forget-me-not
April
$100 [26]
The Arabic name for God
Allah
April
$100 [6]
This "Hustler" publisher was sentenced to jail for wearing an unauthorized Purple Heart
Larry Flynt
Joe
$100 [1]
Total number of colonies involved in the American Revolution against England
13
April
$100 [11]
The skin covering the top of the head
scalp
Rob
$100 [19]
Groucho's duck gave you $100 if you did this
say the secret word
Rob April
$200 [15]
Virtue often called intestinal
fortitude
Joe
$200 [27]
His title comes from the Latin "papa", meaning father
the pope
Rob
$200 [7]
As of October 1985, these will be missing from the centerfolds of Playboy magazines
staples
Joe
$200 [2]
Number of sticks in a traditional "Popsicle"
2
April
$200 [25]
Lumbar refers to this area of the spine
lower back
April
$200 [21]
Sparkling wine, usually a mixture of champagne & sparkling burgundy
cold duck
Joe
$300 [16]
In song "My Darlin' Clementine", her father was this kind of miner
miner forty-niner
April
$300 [28]
The patron saint of messengers, he told Mary she was pregnant
Gabriel
$300 [8]
"InCIDER" is a magazine for users of this company's computers
Apple
Joe
$300 [3]
Number of years in a century minus a decade
90 (100-10)
Joe
$300 [12]
30% of adults don't develop this typical number of teeth
32
Rob
$400 [23]
Teams from this PAC 10 school are nicknamed the "Ducks"
Oregon
$400 [17]
How Shakespeare said "Indeed!"
"Forsooth!"
Joe
$400 [9]
Magazine featured on the Feb. 4, 1985 "Newsweek" cover about Ariel Sharon
Time
Rob
$400 [4]
Total number of Miss Americas in calendar year 1984
3
Joe April
$400 [13]
The 2 bones in it are the radius & ulna
forearm
April
$500 [24]
'30s comic who asked, "Wanna buy a duck?"
Joe Penner
Rob
$500 [18]
Very loudly, as in music
fortissimo
April
$500 [10]
In 1920, a "Popular Science" headline read, "Do We Dare Use This Power?"
nuclear power (atomic energy)
Joe
$500 [5]
Total of each of the digits in this year added together
23 (1+9+8+5)
Rob April
$500 [20]
The hamstrings are tendons located at the back of this
the knee
Joe Rob April
DD $2,100 [22]
He usually ended his '60s TV show with songabout a duck:
Mitch Miller
Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

"BACK" WORDS ELECTIONS WORLD WAR II WOMEN AUTHORS FOLK MUSIC TRAVEL U.S.A.
$200 [3]
After a concert, it's where groupies go to get a glimpse of Michael, Bruce or Madonna
backstage
Rob
$200 [21]
He was the 1st Democrat ever elected to the Senate from Minnesota
Hubert Humphrey
April
$200 [23]
Italian car company that built fighter planes
Fiat
Rob
$200 [1]
In Chinese trilogy by Pearl S. Buck, "Sons" & "House Divided" followed this novel
The Good Earth
Joe
$200 [7]
Once a member of the New Christy Minstrels, this "Gambler" later became a top C&W artist
Kenny Rogers
Rob
$200 [16]
To visit relatives in Athens, Albany & Augusta, you'd go to this "peachy" state
Georgia
April
$400 [12]
An excessive inward curvature of the spine, or Old Dobbin's condition
swayback
Rob
$400 [22]
In 1912, this former president ran a 3rd party campaign & came in 2nd
Theodore Roosevelt
Joe
$400 [24]
Last time FDR met Churchill & Stalin was at this Soviet resort in the Crimea
Yalta
Rob
$400 [2]
Edna Ferber's novel "Giant" raised a giant uproar from natives of this state
Texas
April
$400 [8]
Called "Queen of the Folk Singers", "Black was the color of her true love's hair", & her own
Joan Baez
Joe
$400 [17]
New England's only national park, Acadia is in this "Pine Tree" state
Maine
April
$600 [13]
It can make a big impression on a careless catcher when he runs for a pop foul
backstop
Joe
$600 [25]
At his 1925 court martial, this advocate of U.S. air power predicted Japanese air attack on Hawaii
Billy Mitchell
April
$600 [4]
Pen names "Currier, Ellis, & Acton Bell" used real initials of these three sisters
the Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)
Rob
$600 [9]
Bob Shane, Dave Guard & Nick Reynolds
The Kingston Trio
$600 [18]
If you drove directly north from Kansas to South Dakota, you'd pass through this state
Nebraska
Joe
$800 [14]
To slander the character of someone not present
backstab (backbite)
Rob
$800 [5]
As "Isak Dinesen", Danish baroness Karen Blixen wrote about this continent she chose as her 2nd home
Africa
$800 [10]
Formed in 1948 under the aegis of Pete Seeger, by 1950 they were "On Top of Old Smoky" & the charts
The Weavers
Joe
$1,000 [20]
This California desert town usually has honors for the hottest spot in the U.S., all "sewn up"
Needles
$1,000 [15]
German for twice-baked, it's as often gummed as chewed
zwieback
$1,000 [6]
Jessamyn West's books like "The Friendly Persuasion" center on this religion
Quakers (Society of Friends)
Joe
$1,000 [11]
Sylvia Fricker was the "better half" of this top Canadian duo of the '60s
Ian & Sylvia
Rob
DD $3,000 [19]
The 4 states which meet at the Southwest's "Four Corners
Arizona, New Mexico, Utah & Colorado
Joe

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

On Sept. 8, 1825, he left for France with honorary U.S. citizenship, $200,000 & 23,000 acres in Florida

Marquis de Lafayette

April "Who was Lafayette?" — wagered $2,200
Rob "Who was Lafayette?" — wagered $999
Joe "Who is L" — wagered $3,900

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