Show #293 1985-10-23 (taped 1985-08-05) Regular

Contestants

Mark Jaffe — a computer graphic designer originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Vicki Reed — a housewife from Upland, California

Ginny Crispell — an English teacher from Port Jefferson, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ginny $700 $2,300 $6,100 $5,500
2-day champion: $13,100
$6,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Vicki $300 $1,700 $2,700 $5,400
2nd place: trip to Palm Springs & stay at Royce Resort Hotel + Radio Flyer Town & Country Wagon + Row Cart
$3,700
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Mark $1,000 $1,300 $700 $50
3rd place: Silver-Reed typewriter
$700
11 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE TRANSPORTATION '50's TV BASEBALL BODIES OF WATER SPELLING
$100 [2]
Shakespeare described them as "a pair of star-crossed lovers"
Romeo & Juliet
Ginny
$100 [3]
Mode of transportation Jesus used entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
an ass (donkey)
Vicki
$100 [5]
Ozzie & Harriet's 2 sons
David & Ricky
Mark
$100 [11]
Winners of the All-Star Game 21 out of the last 23 times
the National League
Ginny
$100 [20]
Linda Ronstadt sang about a blue one
a bayou
Vicki
$100 [1]
A space from which all or most of the air has been removed, or a Hoover
V-A-C-U-U-M
Vicki
$200 [4]
Title character who said, "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"
Hamlet
Mark
$200 [15]
The IRT, IND, & BMT are its 3 divisions
the New York subway
Ginny
$200 [6]
Ricky Ricardo's fictional & Desi Arnaz' original homeland
Cuba
Mark
$200 [12]
Courts have upheld local ordinances banning night games in this team's ball park
the Chicago Cubs
Vicki Mark
$200 [21]
Named for the Greek nymph, Io, this sea is the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea
the Ionian
Ginny
$200 [16]
In fish restaurants, restrooms are often marked "gulls" & this
B-U-O-Y-S
Ginny
$300 [8]
"Cry 'havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war", he said, angered at the murder of Caesar
Marc Antony
Mark
$300 [7]
In 1956, they teamed up to co-anchor NBC's evening news
Huntley & Brinkley
Vicki
$300 [22]
Of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, & James T. Kirk, the 1 who currently manages the Expos
Buck Rogers
Ginny
$300 [25]
Rudolf, Albert, & Victoria are 3 of the great lakes of this continent
Africa
Ginny
$300 [17]
Word always used to describe Al Yankovic, who "Lost On Jeopardy"
W-E-I-R-D
Vicki
$400 [9]
Shakespeare's acting company, or '60s rock group noted for "Louie Louie"
The Kingsmen
$400 [13]
In 1954, mysterious periodic rises in Toledo, Oh. water usage were finally linked to these times
the commercial breaks
Mark
$400 [23]
A young boy supposedly said these words to "Shoeless" Joe Jackson after Black Sox Scandal
"Say it aint so"
Mark
$400 [18]
To spell in an incorrect way
M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L
Ginny
$500 [10]
American Shakespeare Festival Theater is in Stratford "on Housatonic", a river in this state
Connecticut
Ginny
$500 [14]
In 1956-57, he was last black to host network variety show until 1966 when Sammy Davis did
Nat King Cole
Vicki
$500 [24]
In 1920, Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman became only Major Leaguer to whom this happened in a game
to be killed in a game
$500 [19]
From the French, a person employed to drive a motor vehicle
C-H-A-U-F-F-E-U-R
Vicki Mark

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR II COLLEGES BOTANY SONGS THAT "MAKE" IT U.S. CITIES PEOPLE
$200 [7]
Hitler invaded Russia almost 129 years to the day that this conqueror did
Napoleon
Mark
$200 [12]
America's oldest fraternity, founded in 1776, in the 1830s it became an honor society
Phi Beta Kappa
Ginny
$200 [6]
Green leaves turn carbon dioxide & water into sugar & this
oxygen
Ginny
$200 [1]
What "Bread" wanted to do in 1970
"Make It With You"
Ginny
$200 [9]
Named for the wife of the infamous King George III, it's N.C.'s largest city
Charlotte
Ginny
$200 [11]
Advice columnist who took 1st name from the Bible & last name from our 8th president
Abigail Van Buren
Ginny
$400 [8]
Veterans of this volunteer air corps for China started a cargo airline of the same name
the Flying Tigers
Ginny
$400 [13]
Most tragic U.S. campus demonstration on record occured in 1970 at this school
Kent State
Vicki
$400 [18]
Honey is made from this scented sugary substance secreted by flowers
nectar
Mark
$400 [2]
In 1959, "24 little hours" were important for Dinah Washington in this, her biggest hit
"What A Difference A Day Makes"
Vicki
$400 [10]
Secret formulas of both Old & New Coca-Cola are kept in a bank vault in this city
Atlanta, Georgia
Mark
$400 [14]
"I have learned my lesson, judge, the hard way", said this husband of Geraldine Ferraro
John Zaccaro
$600 [24]
What Churchill said "Men will still say...if the British Empire & its Commonwealth last 1000 years"
This was their finest hour
$600 [22]
In 1948, Dwight Eisenhower accepted the presidency of this Ivy League university
Columbia
Ginny
$600 [19]
Partially decomposed plant material found in bogs & fens
peat
Vicki
$600 [3]
The "Mary Tyler Moore Show" theme song
"You're Gonna Make It After All"
Vicki Mark
$600 [15]
While St. Louis is in Missouri, East St. Louis is in this state
Illinois
$800 [25]
"Guns will make us powerful, butter will only make us fat", said this fat lieutenant of Hitler's
Goering
Mark
DD $800 [23]
1 of 3 major social advances in which Oberlin College of Ohio was 1st
(1 of) admitting women (accepting students regardless of race and conferring degrees on women)
Ginny
$800 [20]
The union of 2 gametes to form a zygote, or putting horse manure on a plant
fertilization
Mark
$800 [4]
This 1976 Leo Sayer song seemed to express his joy at having a 2nd Top 40 hit
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
DD $1,000 [16]
City in which this opera takes place:Instrumental music plays... "Summertime, and the livin' is easy..."
Charleston, South Carolina
Vicki
$1,000 [21]
In 1839, Mary Ann Smith grafted & budded her way into creating this fruit strain
a Granny Smith Apple
Ginny
$1,000 [5]
This 1963 hit was 1st in a long series of hits for the Bacharach/David/Warwick triumvirate
"Don't Make Me Over"
$1,000 [17]
Largest U.S. city in area outside Alaska & largest in population in Florida
Jacksonville
Mark

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NAMES

1 of the "heroes" of the Alamo, he was also a slave-trader, land-swindler, & notorious brawler

Jim Bowie

Mark "Who was Sam Houston?" — wagered $650
Vicki "Who was Jim Bowie?" — wagered $2,700
Ginny "Who is Sam Houston?" — wagered $600

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