Show #347 1986-01-07 (taped 1985-09-09) Regular

Contestants

Lynne McGrath — a library technician from Pasadena, California

David Green — a law student from Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Steve Willis — a financial analyst from Lynwood, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve $1,200 $2,300 $7,200 $13,200
3-day champion: $31,000
$7,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
David $1,400 $2,600 $6,400 $500
2nd place: a vacation at Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs + Ventura luggage
$6,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Lynne $100 $400 $200 $400
3rd place: Bookcassette unabridged bestsellers performed on tape
$200
4 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

GOLDEN OLDIES ANIMALS GAMES ODDS & ENDS COLORS NAMES
$100 [25]
Though Part 1 was not as popular, he had a #1 hit with "Fingertips Part 2"
Stevie Wonder
David
$100 [21]
If you let them, these insects "wood" eat your house
termites
David
$100 [4]
When a player asks for aces & his opponent has none, he's asked to "go" do this
fish
David
$100 [1]
When saying it, stand at attention or put right hand over heart, & men, please remove hats
the Pledge of Allegiance
Lynne
$100 [12]
The color of an apple blossom
white
Steve David
$100 [2]
From Hebrew for "life", Adam's wife
Eve
Steve
$200 [27]
Reason "he ain't heavy"
he's my brother
David
$200 [22]
The double-crested basilisk, this type of reptile, can run across water
a lizard
Steve
$200 [5]
They were pyramidal, pentahedral, & octahedral before being standardized as cubes
dice
Steve
$200 [17]
The polonaise is the national dance of this country
Poland
Steve
$200 [13]
Willie Nelson, Elton John, & Steve Lawrence all had hit songs with this color eyes in the title
blue
$200 [3]
Anglo-Saxon meaning "happy warrior", it precedes Rice Burroughs & Allan Poe
Edgar
David
$300 [28]
Duo whose biggest hit was "Hey Paula"
Paul & Paula
$300 [23]
Animal that's a spiny "ocean waif"
a (sea) urchin
Lynne
$300 [6]
American Indians made them by dipping gourds into latex & curing them with smoke
balls
$300 [18]
The L.A. Times ran an apology for depicting this alien as a coke-snorting Hollywood mogul
E.T.
Steve
$300 [14]
The tallest known trees in the world
redwoods
David
$300 [8]
Hebrew for "dove", he thought traveling by whale was strictly for the birds
Jonah
Steve
$400 [29]
Paul Anka told her, "I'm so young & you're so old" when he was 15, while she was 20
Diana
$400 [24]
Appropriate name for bird species that sews leaves together to make a nest
tailorbirds
David
$400 [10]
Common card game named for 2 common kinds of alcoholic beverages
gin rummy
Steve
$400 [19]
This governor of New York was picked by Playgirl magazine as one of the USA's sexiest men
Mario Cuomo
David
$400 [15]
The color of the sand on Kaimu Beach on the Island of Hawaii
black
Steve
DD $300 [7]
International variations include Ian, Ivan, Sean, & Giovanni
John
Steve
$500 [30]
'60s British group led by this drummer was called "London's answer to the Mersey Sound"
Dave Clark
$500 [26]
Synonymous with tiny, some of these smallest arachnids live in the air tubes of honey bees' bodies
mites
Steve David
$500 [11]
Some ancient Chinese battles were halted & played out with this complex board game
go
David
$500 [20]
Revived in 19th century USA, king Darius used it in Persian Empire for message delivery
the pony express
Steve David
$500 [16]
Vermont's nickname
the Green Mountain State
David
$500 [9]
Meaning "from the fortress", this Rod fortifies 1st base for the Angels
Carew
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPE ’60s CINEMA DOUBLE “P”s SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA ARCHITECTURE SEWING
$200 [6]
In a bullfight, killing the bull is banned in this Iberian country
Portugal
David
$200 [21]
Telly Savalas playing murderous "Maggot" was scummiest of this "filthy 12"
the Dirty Dozen
Lynne
$200 [7]
Cinderella's was glass
a slipper
Steve
$200 [1]
Pail-of-water fetchers referred to in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Jack & Jill
$200 [16]
Because the only building material available was mud, Sumerians began baking these
bricks
Steve
$200 [26]
Department you'd go to when you get "ideas" to buy buttons, zippers, & pins
notions
David
$400 [8]
Per capita, Germany leads for consuming beer, Portugal for wine, & this country for total alcohol
France
David
$400 [22]
Scary star of Roger Corman Poe series, including "The House of Usher" & "Pendulum"
Vincent Price
Steve
$400 [12]
Spruced up & stylish, like Dan, for instance
dapper
David
$400 [2]
The only dog who actually appears in Shakespeare is "Crab" in this play about a couple of Italian guys
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Lynne
$400 [17]
Albert Speer was his chief architect
Adolf Hitler
Steve
$400 [27]
These scissors cut edges of fabrics in small scallop or zigzag patterns
pinking shears
David
$600 [9]
Dieters should throw caution to the wind when entering one of these Austrian "Konditoreien"
a pastry shop
Steve
$600 [23]
Ads asked "How did they evermake a movie out of" this May-December Nabokov romance
Lolita
Steve
DD $400 [14]
The group singing in the following:"Do you remember when we met /That's the day I knew..."
The Honeydrippers
David
DD $500 [5]
3 of 4 Shakespearean roles for which Olivier won Oscar nominations
(3 of) Hamlet, Richard III, Henry V, & Othello
Steve
$600 [18]
Features of one often include a nave, transept, & apse
a church
Steve David
$800 [10]
Country that's 600 mi. long with average width of only 90 mi. coast to coast
Italy
David Lynne
$800 [24]
Not an animal, but a gem with an animal-shaped flaw stolen in this 1st of the series
The Pink Panther
David
$600 [13]
Breed of horse marked by dappled white area on the rear end
Appaloosa
David
$600 [3]
He played Capt. Bligh, but not Falstaff, saying, "I threw his kind out of our hotel when I was 16"
Charles Laughton
Steve
$800 [19]
Reburial of this architect's remains, from Taliesin to Arizona, touched off stormy debate
Frank Lloyd Wright
David
$1,000 [11]
In 1967, gov't of this tiny country closed all churches & proclaimed it 1st truly atheist state in world
Albania
David
$1,000 [25]
His last screen role was as Nevada Smith in "The Carpetbaggers"
Alan Ladd
$1,000 [15]
Besides Upper Volta, this island nation is the only other country to fit this category
the Philippines
$800 [4]
Italian great whose last 2 operas were based on Shakespeare plays
Giuseppe Verdi
Steve
$1,000 [20]
This Roman site, Latin for "large circle" sat 250,000 people
the Circus Maximus
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

McLean House in Virginia was site of this event

the Confederate surrender

Lynne "Where was Civil War treaty signed?" — wagered $200
David "What is Lincoln's Death" — wagered $5,900
Steve "What was the Confederate Surrender?" — wagered $6,000

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