Show #282 1985-10-08 (taped 1985-07-29) Regular

Contestants

Barbara Dubb — a teacher from Detroit, Michigan

Les Preston — an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Chris Golden — a policy service representative originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Chris $300 $1,800 $6,400 $9,700
2-day champion: $16,600
$6,900
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Les $400 $1,600 $4,800 $9,599
2nd place: Broyhill sofa + LouverDrape vertical blinds
$3,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Barbara $300 $1,000 $1,400 $1,000
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & hers watches
$1,200
8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

TECHNOLOGY FICTIONAL ANIMALS STARTS WITH "Z" ORGANIZATIONS ROCK 'N ROLL WOOD
$100 [22]
Its nicknames include eggbeater, flying windmill, & whirlybird
a helicopter
Chris
$100 [9]
Peter Rabbit's 3 sisters
Flopsy, Mopsy & Cottontail
Chris
$100 [2]
Numerically, nothing
zero
Les
$100 [1]
Each year this auto maker's foundation awards more money than any other in the U.S.
Ford
Barbara
$100 [6]
Full name of "ELO"
the Electric Light Orchestra
Chris
$100 [15]
Wood & losing fighters are beaten into it
a pulp
Barbara
$200 [23]
The Civil War's Gatling gun was the 1st practical version of this
a machine gun
Chris
$400 [27]
Major was a boar whose deathbed speech led to revolution in this 1946 George Orwell novel
Animal Farm
Chris
$200 [3]
Bob Dylan before he became Dylan
Zimmerman
Chris
$200 [13]
It was formed in 1935 when Bill W., a stockbroker, & Dr. Bob S. helped each other stay sober
the Double A (Alcoholics Anonymous)
Les
$200 [7]
Dave Stewart/Annie Lennox group named for the art of harmonious bodily movement
Eurythmics
Barbara
$200 [16]
Fort Wood is the base this famous statue stands on
the Statue of Liberty
Barbara
$300 [24]
1 of 2 metals used for tools in ancient times before iron came into vogue
(1 of) bronze (or copper)
Les
$300 [4]
The condition in which birth rate equals the death rate, known by the initials ZPG
zero population growth
Les
$300 [14]
Youth group founded by Curtis Sliwa in 1979 to patrol NYC's most dangerous subway lines
the Guardian Angels
Chris
$400 [11]
Because she sounds "Black", but is white, Motown left her photo off this "Lovergirls" 1st album
Teena Marie
$300 [17]
Portuguese for "wood", it's the name of their islands famous for wine, my dear
Madeira
Les
$400 [25]
From 1801-1885, forerunners of the automobile had this low-pollution engine
steam
Barbara
$400 [5]
First name of 12th president of the U.S.
Zachary
Chris
$400 [20]
It was formed on Lincoln's birthday in 1909 to improve living conditions of Black Americans
NAACP
Les
DD $500 [10]
"Material" girls who sang thefollowing:"Do-lang-do-lang-do-lang..."
The Chiffons
Chris
$400 [18]
Measure of wood which can produce 7.5 mil. toothpicks, 30 rocking chairs, or 61,370 envelopes
a cord
$500 [26]
Tool designed by London blacksmith Charles Moncke
the monkey wrench
Chris
$500 [8]
From a subordinate clown who mimics the tricks of his leader, it means amusingly absurd
zany
$500 [21]
Prince & Stevie Wonder won awards from this org. March 25, 1985
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Les
$500 [12]
Like in their hit "Spinning Wheel", fame for them went up in the '60s & came down in the '70s
Blood, Sweat & Tears
$500 [19]
The Temple of Solomon was built of this wood
cedars (of Lebanon)
Les

Double Jeopardy! Round

COLONIAL AMERICA MOVIES NUTRITION ENGLISH POETRY POLITICAL QUOTES MATH
$200 [9]
In 1731, he founded America's 1st circulating library
Benjamin Franklin
Chris
$200 [14]
Alternating between Victorian & WWII settings, Basil Rathbone played this sleuth in 14 films
Sherlock Holmes
Chris
$200 [1]
3 oz. of this pickled cabbage has only 18 calories
sauerkraut
$200 [3]
Alexander Pope wrote, it "springs eternal in the human breast"
hope
Chris
$200 [8]
19th c. writer Christopher North said, "The sun never sets on" it
the British Empire
Chris Les
$200 [16]
The 4 basic operations with numbers
addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
Barbara
$1,000 [24]
The only 1 of 13 colonies established by Swedes
Delaware
Les
$400 [15]
Spanky, Alfalfa & Darla appeared in films under these 2 group names
Our Gang & The Little Rascals
Les
$400 [2]
By weight, most common mineral in the body is this, which forms teeth & bones
calcium
Chris
$400 [4]
Herrick wrote "to virgins, to make much time", "gather ye" these "while ye may"
rosebuds
Chris
$400 [10]
John Gunther called it "the only country deliberately founded on a good idea"
the United States of America
Chris
$400 [17]
Total number of humps of 1 Bactrian camel & 2 dromedaries
4
Les Barbara
DD $2,400 [26]
King James I gave this title to George Calvert, founder of Maryland
Lord Baltimore
Les
$1,000 [25]
Made 5 years before "Psycho", this French suspense film scared audiences out of the bathtub
Diabolique
Les
$600 [19]
A primary food type along with proteins & carbohydrates, they help the body prevent viral infections
fats
Barbara
$600 [5]
Milton said this of those "who only stand & wait"
they also serve
Chris
$600 [11]
Russian leader who said, "The capitalists will sell us... the rope with which we will hang them"
Lenin
Chris Les Barbara
$600 [18]
A googol is the number written as 1 followed by this many zeroes
100
Chris
$800 [20]
There are 2 types of vitamins, fat-soluble & this kind
water-soluble
$800 [6]
Coleridge character who cries, "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink"
the Ancient Mariner
Chris
$800 [12]
Pres. who said the Americas "...are not to be considered as subjects for future colonization"
(James) Monroe
Chris
DD $1,000 [21]
1.73 is the approximate square root of this number
3
Barbara
$1,000 [23]
Starches are complex forms of these simple carbohydrates
sugars
Les
$1,000 [7]
Concludes this Browning verse, "The larks's on the wing; the snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven--"
All's right with the world!
Chris
$1,000 [13]
"We should keep the Panama Canal: after all, we stole it fair & square", said this Cal. senator
(S.I.) Hayakawa
Chris
$1,000 [22]
The next number in the series of 1, 3, 6, 10, ____
15
Les

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHY

Other than North America, the continent closest to South America

Antarctica

Barbara "What is Australia?" — wagered $400
Les "What is Antartica?" — wagered $4,799
Chris "What is Antartica?" — wagered $3,300

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