Show #158 1985-04-17 (taped 1984-12-19) Regular

Contestants

Marcia Friedman — a graphic artist from Rolling Hills Estates, California

John Pendleton — a substitute teacher from Ventura, California

Matthew Hubbard — a computer game designer from Palo Alto, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $1,700 $1,400 $9,000 $7,600
2-day champion: $19,700
$9,300
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
John $-800 $-300 $3,500 $3,500
2nd place: Benchmark carpeting & La-Z-Boy sleep sofa
$3,500
15 R, 7 W
Marcia $500 $700 $-3,300 $-3,300
3rd place: Hardwick grill
$-3,300
8 R, 9 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANATOMY TOYS & GAMES COLORS TRIVIA U.S. STATES WINTER SPORTS
$100 [15]
Common name of the patella, often knocked against the coffee table
the kneecap
John
$100 [10]
In a standard deck, the number of red face cards
6
Matt John
$100 [18]
A well-intentioned untruth
a white lie
John
$100 [1]
Nickname sea Capt. William Driver gave to the U.S. flag
Old Glory
John
$100 [2]
For over 150 years, this state ranked 1st in population
New York
Matt
$100 [4]
Motorized sledding
snowmobiling
Marcia
$200 [16]
A man walking places pressure of up to 2000 lbs. per sq. inch on the bones in this
feet
John
$200 [11]
According to The Who, that deaf, dumb & blind kid, Tommy, plays a mean game of this
pinball
Matt
$200 [19]
Streetwalkers' turf named for the lanterns that once beckoned from their windows
the red light district
Marcia
$200 [3]
Until 1600s, diners brought these weapons to the table to use as utensils
knives
Marcia
$200 [22]
Greatest single source of water power in U.S., the Grand Coulee Dam, is in this state
Washington
John Marcia
$200 [5]
To do this, you put 2 "baskets" on your feet & take three giant steps
snowshoe
John Marcia
$300 [17]
Covered with mucous membrane, this muscle lies on the floor of the mouth
the tongue
John
$400 [13]
Stunts in this game include downs & ups, eggs in a basket, sweeps, scatters & over & back
jacks
Matt
$300 [20]
French for "Turkish stone", this gem came to name the color it represents
turquoise
John Marcia
$300 [7]
Due to falling cosmic dust, this "mother" gains up to 30,000 metric tons a day
Mother Earth
Matt John
$400 [25]
This number of nations have flown "flags over Texas"
6
John
$300 [6]
The diagonal stride is the basic move in this popular form of Nordic skiing
cross country
Matt John
$500 [14]
Number of dice thrown in a 1st roll of Yahtzee
5
Matt
$400 [21]
Metaphoric tongue color of an eloquent orator
silver
John
$400 [8]
As a cartoonist he created the clown Weary Willie, then went on to play him in the circus
Emmett Kelly
Matt
$500 [24]
2 of 4 states named after kings
(2 of) Georgia, Louisiana, North & South Carolina
John Marcia
DD $1,900 [12]
Toy title of thefollowing:"I should have known /You'd bid me farewell / There's a lesson to be learned from this / And I learned it very well /Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea /If I never hear your name again..."
a "Red Rubber Ball"
Matt
$500 [23]
Name for cowboys on their 1st cattle drive, it's come to mean any inexperienced person
a greenhorn
Matt
$500 [9]
It falls on the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after March 21
Easter
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHS & LEGENDS A.K.A. EUROPE PROVERBS BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 14-LETTER WORDS
$200 [11]
Controversy has raged since 6th century over this unknown creature in a Scottish "lake"
the Loch Ness Monster
Matt
$200 [1]
The naked truth about this calendar girl is that her given name was Norma Jean Baker
Marilyn Monroe
Matt
$200 [10]
It's the largest Russian city in Europe
Moscow
Marcia
$200 [13]
An idle mind is said to be his workshop
the devil
John
$200 [6]
In 1984, he filed a $225 million lawsuit against MGM/UA for breaking their "Bond" with him
Sean Connery
Matt
$200 [3]
Getting stuck in an elevator might trigger this fear of closed places
claustrophobia
John
$400 [12]
Day of the week named for the chief Teutonic god, called Odin or Woden
Wednesday
John Marcia
$400 [2]
I just called to say his real name is Stevland Morris
Stevie Wonder
John Marcia
$400 [19]
The smaller half of Berlin in both population and area
East Berlin
Matt
$400 [14]
What "He that troubles his own house will inherit"
the wind
Matt
$400 [22]
Coleco infuriated parents all over the country by sending out late birthday cards for these
Cabbage Patch Kids
Matt
$400 [4]
Rich Little's specialties
impersonations
John Marcia
$600 [18]
Legendary cowboy who used a rattlesnake as a whip & taught broncos how to buck
Pecos Bill
John Marcia
$600 [7]
Born Anna Maria Italiano, she's now sometimes known as Mrs. Mel Brooks
Anne Bancroft
Matt
DD $2,000 [20]
This pair of daily astronomical events never occurs in Hammerfest, Norway between May 14th & July 28th
sunrise & sunset
Matt
$600 [16]
According to many, "The only place where success comes before work" is in this book
the dictionary
Matt
$600 [5]
These kinds of differences can be grounds for divorce
irreconcilable
John
$800 [25]
According to Hebrew legend, dark & mysterious Lilith was his 1st wife
Adam
Marcia
DD $1,000 [8]
For Ethel Zimmerman & Ermes Effron Borgnino, their marriage was a very brief encounter
Ethel Merman & Ernest Borgnine
Matt
$800 [17]
Columnist Walter Morrow's "Economics in Eight Words" says, "There's no such thing as" this
a free lunch
Matt Marcia
$800 [15]
Duddy Kravitz went through his in 1974
the apprenticeship
Matt Marcia
$1,000 [24]
At Venus's order, Cupid made this hard-to-please queen of Carthage fall in love with Aeneas
Dido
Matt
$1,000 [9]
Once Arnold Dorsey, he took the name of an opera composer
Engelbert Humperdinck
Matt
$1,000 [21]
It's "how the tree inclines"
the twig is bent
John Marcia
$1,000 [23]
Representing the purest essence, or most typical example of something
quintessential
Marcia

Final Jeopardy!

SOAP OPERAS

CBS soap opera which is the only soap left on the air which began on radio

The Guiding Light

John "What is As the World Turns" — wagered $0
Matt "What is As The World Turns?" — wagered $1,400

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