Show #275 1985-09-27 (taped 1985-07-23) Regular

Contestants

Allen Ury — a public relations director originally from Chicago, Illinois

Diane Cope — a railroad telegrapher originally from Palatine, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,000)

Dane Garrett — a lawyer from Collinsville, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dane $600 $2,000 $6,600 $6,700
3-day champion: $17,900
$6,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Diane $100 $2,200 $3,000 $6,000
2nd place: Action recliner by Lane & Jules Jurgensen his & hers watches
$3,000
13 R, 5 W
Allen $1,700 $1,900 $2,700 $5,310
3rd place: Panasonic stereo rack system
$2,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOLLYWOOD HORSES SOMETHING "OLD" OLYMPIC HISTORY PROVERBS TRANSPORTATION TV TRIVIA
$100 [2]
Name shared by horses of Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson, & the Lone Ranger
Silver
Dane
$100 [14]
By length it makes up more than 3/4 of the Bible
the Old Testament
Allen
$100 [1]
In 1976, she received the 1st perfect score in Olympic gymnastics
Nadia Comăneci
Diane
$100 [26]
They're known to "desert a sinking ship"
rats
Diane
$100 [3]
Its precursors were the curricle, the draisine, & the velocipede
the bicycle
Allen
$100 [4]
Of Kukla, Fran, & Ollie, the one with just 1 tooth
Ollie
Allen
$200 [18]
Appropriately, in 6 movies he rode a white horse named "Duke"
John Wayne
Diane
$200 [15]
Street on which you'd find London's Central Criminal Court, or the court's nickname
the Old Bailey
Allen
$200 [7]
In 1980, the U.S. beat the Finns, not this favored team, in the gold-medal ice hockey game
the Soviet Union
Allen
$200 [27]
"He that fights & runs away may live" to do this
to fight another day
Allen
$200 [10]
Every Dec. 24th NASA issues tracking reports on its safe progress around the world
Santa's sleigh
Dane
$200 [5]
As Jeannie the genie, she was not allowed to bare her navel
Barbara Eden
Allen
$300 [19]
Spanish for "devil", he was ridden by "The Cisco Kid"
el Diablo
Allen
$300 [16]
Song that begins "Way down upon the Swanee River"
the "Old Folks At Home"
Diane Allen
$300 [11]
AT Mexico City, Bob Beamon won this field event by shattering the world record by almost 2 feet
the broad (long) jump
Dane
$300 [28]
According to ancient think Appius Caecus, "Each man is the architect of" this
his own destiny (fate)
Diane
$300 [23]
In 1804, this inventor's steamboat made its debut on the Seine in France
Fulton
Dane
$300 [6]
Like Jackie Gleason before him, he lived "The Life of Riley"
William Bendix
Dane
$400 [20]
To opera goers, it's a silk hat, but to baby boomers, it's Hoppy's horse
Topper
Diane
$400 [17]
General George S. Patton's sanguinary nickname
Old Blood & Guts
Diane
$400 [12]
Decathlon winner at the 1976 Montreal Olympics
Bruce Jenner
Dane
$400 [29]
Ben Franklin wrote, "Some are weather-wise, some are" this
otherwise
Allen
$400 [24]
A 28-year-old woman went 1,135 miles across Alaska on this to win a 1985 competition
a dog sled
Dane
$500 [9]
Profession shared by Gale Storm on "The Gale Storm Show" & Lauren Tewes on "The Love Boat"
a cruise (social) director
Allen
$500 [21]
A letter was once sent to his horse addressed "Just Tony, somewhere in the U.S.A."
Tom Mix
Diane
$500 [22]
Where "I lost my true love from courting too slow"
on top of Old Smokey
Diane
$500 [13]
1 of 2 French cities to host the Winter Olympics
(1 of) Chamonix or Grenoble
$500 [30]
2 word self-help proverb found in temple of the Oracle at Delphi
Know thyself
Diane
$500 [25]
Pushing down on the left rudder pedal will make a plane do this
turn left
Diane Allen
DD $600 [8]
This Rimsky-Korsakov classic opened each episode of 1966's "The Green Hornet": "Instrumental music plays"
"Flight Of The Bumblebee"
Allen

Double Jeopardy! Round

PETROLEUM FOREIGN PHRASES WORLD WAR I CLASSICAL MUSIC MOVIE CITIES LAW
$200 [10]
Petroleum's doubly colorful nickname
black gold
Dane
$200 [5]
French for "in the fashion", or American for French vanilla on mom's apple pie
à la mode
Allen
$200 [16]
Though the war began in 1914, America didn't enter until this year
1917
Dane
$200 [21]
Nationality of Borodin's "Prince Igor"
Russian
Dane
$200 [1]
City where "Beverly Hills Cop" begins
Detroit
Allen
$200 [3]
The 17th c. "Institutes of the Laws of England" states "A man's house is" this
his castle
Dane
$400 [19]
Name for well drilled in area where no oil or gas has yet been found, or an untamed feline
a wildcat
Dane
$400 [9]
A '50s musical, or Turkish for destiny or fate
Kismet
Allen
$400 [17]
Lawrence of Arabia conducted guerilla warfare against this country' forces
Turkey
Allen
$400 [22]
Common translation of "Le Sacre du Printemps", a Stravinsky ballet
The Rite of Spring
$400 [2]
For his '84 flop Michael Caine should blame it on the script, not this city
Rio (de Janeiro)
Dane
$400 [4]
As a result of this 1966 Supreme Court case, police now inform suspects of their rights upon arrest
the Miranda
Diane
$600 [20]
In 1901, the 1st gusher in N. Amer. blew in at the Spindletop Field in this #1 oil producing state
Texas
Dane Diane Allen
$600 [12]
In Spanish, it's "see you"
Hasta la vista
Diane Allen
$600 [18]
Invented by Sir Ernest Swinton in Eng., this weapon was 1st used in 1916 Battle of the Somme
the tank
Allen
$600 [23]
Liszt & Schumann's work mark the Romantic period, major musical movement of this century
the 19th century
$600 [6]
In a "Casablanca" flashback, Ingrid Bergman jilted Bogie in this city
Paris
Allen
$600 [11]
"Where the value in controversy shall exceed $20", you have a right to this type of trial
trial by jury
Diane
$800 [13]
In Latin, an irrational sequence or words or ideas
a non sequitur
Dane
$800 [24]
Organist & Bach authority, he left music to become a medical missionary & Nobel Prize winner
Schweitzer
Diane
$800 [7]
Blue collar backdrop to Jennifer Beals' "flashdancing"
Pittsburgh
Diane Allen
DD $600 [14]
Riparian rights refer to the use of these
waterways (rivers, streams)
Dane
$1,000 [8]
Although filmed in Czechoslovakia, "Amadeus" takes place mostly in this world capital
Vienna
Diane
$1,000 [15]
To prevent a tyrannical government, the Founding Fathers built this system into the Constitution
checks & balances
Dane

Final Jeopardy!

THE FLAG

After a former president's death, the flag is flown at half-mast for this many days

30

Allen "What is 30?" — wagered $2,610
Diane "What is3030" — wagered $3,000
Dane "What is 30?" — wagered $100

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