Show #483 1986-10-15 (taped 1986-08-20) Regular

Dave Traini game 4.

Contestants

JoAnn Lum — an engineering writer from Carlsbad, California

Tom Grexa — an assistant dean of admissions from Charlottesville, Virginia

Dave Traini — a teacher from Medford Lakes, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $32,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $900 $1,800 $8,600 $12,001
4-day champion: $44,002
$8,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Tom $200 $1,600 $6,000 $1,000
3rd place: WhiteWestinghouse refrigerator/freezer
$6,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
JoAnn $600 $1,500 $2,800 $5,300
2nd place: Dresher brass bed & Sealy Posturepedic mattress
$3,700
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

MUSEUMS GOLDEN OLDIES MONEY U.S.A. ANIMALS RUBBER
$100 [7]
Richmond, Virginia's Old Stone House contains this author's museum & a carved wooden raven
Poe
JoAnn
$100 [2]
In 1965 title, it's what the Supremes pleaded "In the Name of Love"
Stop
Dave
$100 [16]
1909 was last year this type of penny was minted
Indian Head
Tom
$100 [1]
Among the water stops along route of this city's 1st marathon was Frederick's of Hollywood
Los Angeles
JoAnn
$100 [18]
Reason you should run when a spotted skunk does a handstand
so you don't get sprayed
JoAnn
$300 [28]
Anatomical name for people slowing to look at a wreck on the side of the road
rubberneckers
Dave
$200 [12]
Knott's Berry Farm's Mott Museum features this Da Vinci masterpiece painted on the head of a pin
The Last Supper
Dave
$200 [8]
In his only million-selling single, Ray Charles lamented "I Can't Stop" doing this
Loving You
Dave
$200 [17]
1 of 5 countries besides India whose currency is the rupee
(1 of) Pakistan (Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius or Seychelles)
JoAnn
$200 [3]
At over 70 million bushels in 1985, it's the #1 apple grown in the U.S., yum yum
delicious
Dave
$200 [19]
It's said you can hear lions do this from 10 miles away
roar
JoAnn
$400 [27]
In a 1960 hit, Bobby Vee said, "Like a rubber ball, I'll" do this
"come bouncing back to you"
Dave
$300 [13]
This Ozark state's Jesse James Bank Museum claims to be the site of the 1st U.S. bank robbery
Missouri
Dave JoAnn
$300 [9]
According to Connie Francis, it "told a tale on you"
"Lipstick on Your Collar"
JoAnn
DD $300 [23]
U.S. coin mentioned in this song:"They say the neon lights are bright / On Broadway / They say there's always magic in the air..."
dime
Tom
$300 [4]
From its title, what the '86 concert hosted by Williams, Goldberg, & Crystal offered the homeless
Comic Relief
Tom
$300 [20]
Gray & brown in the summer, a ptarmigan's plumage changes to this color in the winter
white
Dave
$500 [26]
Ohio city called "the rubber capital of the world"
Akron, Ohio
Dave
$400 [14]
This designer's fashions were displayed in the Louvre - maybe because he named his perfume "Paris"
Yves Saint Laurent
$400 [10]
On the "Eve of Destruction", "You're old enough to kill, but not" to do this
vote
JoAnn
$400 [24]
The British called this now-obsolete coin a "bob"
the shilling
Dave
$400 [5]
The Supreme Court upheld the Air Force ban on wearing this Jewish clothing accessory with dress uniforms
yarmulke
Dave
$400 [21]
A full-blooded beefalo is 1/4 Hereford, 3/8 Charolais, & 3/8 this
buffalo (bison)
JoAnn
$500 [15]
Visitors are surprised to see a museum of the American Confederacy on this island 586 miles off N.C.
Bermuda
Dave Tom
$500 [11]
In 1958, Bobby Freeman asked, "Do you, do you, do you, do you want to" do this
dance
Dave
$500 [25]
99% of paper currency now in circulation in the U.S. was issued by this body
the Federal Reserve
Dave
$500 [6]
The NYC Ballet derives 1/4 of its annual ticket income from the holiday ballet
The Nutcracker
Tom
$500 [22]
At this U.S. city's zoo you can visit Beaver Valley & giant pandas
Washington, D.C.
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR I GEOLOGY "POISON" CENSORED CINEMA ODD COUPLES EXPLORERS
$200 [16]
Main European powers entered the war in this month; Barbara Tuchman wrote of its "Guns"
August
Dave
$200 [21]
A natural barrier reef is made up of rock or this
coral
JoAnn
$200 [11]
Statement that might draw response "I'll have a scotch & water"
"What's your poison?" ("Name your poison")
JoAnn
$200 [1]
Signed by MGM after appearing nude in the censored film "Ecstasy", Hedy Keisler was given this name
Hedy Lamarr
JoAnn
$200 [4]
He played Wild Bill Hickock, she was 4th President's First Lady
Guy Madison & Dolley Madison
JoAnn
$800 [27]
To recreate Balboa's sighting of the Pacific, you'd have to stand in this country
Panama
Dave
$400 [17]
At age 31, this poet famed for "Trees" was killed in the war
Joyce Kilmer
Dave
$400 [22]
The smallest lithostratigraphic division; make your own & you'll have to lie in it
a bed
Dave
$400 [12]
Type of epistle that could begin "I'll get you, you contemptible piece of slime"
poison pen letter
JoAnn
$400 [2]
N.Y. once banned this studio's "The Vanishing Prairie" because it showed the birth of a buffalo calf
Disney Studios
JoAnn
$400 [6]
An abolitionist & a "Cosmopolitan"
John Brown & Helen Gurley Brown
Dave
$1,000 [26]
Captain of the "Endeavour", he was 1st voyager to stop scurvy with cleanliness & careful diet
Captain Cook
$600 [18]
Though used much earlier, this term for U.S. infantryman was popularized in WWI
doughboy
Dave
$600 [23]
From Spanish for "chain", "cordillera" has this geological meaning
a mountain range
Dave
$600 [13]
The Geneva protocol of 1925, restricting the use of this, was not ratified until the U.S. until 1974
poison gas
Dave
$600 [3]
Rourke/Basinger film shackled when a bondage scene was snipped from its U.S. version
9½ Weeks
Tom
$600 [7]
She took off her clothes; he got to keep his sword at Appomattox Courthouse
Gypsy Rose Lee & Robert E. Lee
JoAnn
$800 [19]
American radio journalist & traveler who brought Lawrence of Arabia to world attention
Lowell Thomas
$800 [24]
Members of the largest organization of geologists in the U.S. work in this industry
the oil or petroleum industry
Dave
DD $1,000 [14]
The krait, the boomslang, & the taipan
poisonous snakes
Dave
$800 [5]
In 1956, Cardinal Spellman warned Catholics to avoid this Elia Kazan film under "pain of sin"
Baby Doll
Tom
DD $900 [8]
She was Billie Dawn in "Born Yesterday"; he lived to see dawn at the O.K. Corral
Judy Holliday & Doc Holliday
JoAnn
$1,000 [20]
Charles Stanton said this on behalf of Gen. Pershing & the U.S. forces in Paris, July 4, 1917
"Lafayette, we are here"
Dave
$1,000 [25]
Name of the theory that the Earth's surface is made of thin, rigid units which move over the material below
plate tectonics
Tom
$1,000 [15]
Rootie Kazootie's arch-enemy
Poison Zumac
$1,000 [10]
Its Production Code banned "profane" terms like "hot", "lousy", "cripes", & "hold your hat"
Hays code
Tom
$1,000 [9]
A star of "Fame" & "Footloose" & a Nobel Prize winning Yiddish author
Laurie Singer & Isaac Bashevis Singer
Tom

Final Jeopardy!

THE CALENDAR

Most recent year which reads numerically the same backward & forward

1881

JoAnn "What is 181 1881" — wagered $2,500
Tom "What is 18 1717?" — wagered $5,000
Dave "What is 1881?" — wagered $3,401

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