Show #415 1986-04-11 (taped 1985-11-18) Regular

Donald Burgo game 5.

Contestants

Gregory Charles — a freelance photographer from Studio City, California

Kathy Collins — an attorney from Des Moines, Iowa (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,000)

Donald Burgo — a teacher from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 4-day cash winnings total $19,180)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Donald $1,500 $2,100 $9,000 $7,000
5-day champion: $26,180
$9,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Kathy $1,000 $2,000 $2,400 $2
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & hers watches
$2,400
11 R, 1 W
Gregory $800 $1,600 $3,400 $3,800
2nd place: JP's General Store gift certificate & Benchmark carpeting
$4,400
11 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY THE FOOD STORE WORD ORIGINS SEA LIFE GOLF "LONG" SONGS
$100 [1]
On May 16, 1866 Congress authorized this new coin, nicknamed for its metal composition
a nickel
Donald
$100 [6]
A diet of Foix & Evian, it might be served in a French jail
bread & water
Gregory
$100 [8]
Brother Rezin, not Jim, invented this famous knife which carries the family name
a Bowie knife
Kathy
$100 [21]
Since sharks' skeletons are cartilage, not bone, only spines & these are commonly found fossilized
teeth
Donald
$100 [25]
For an amateur golfer, it isn't a bum leg but the strokes taken off his final score
handicap
Donald
$100 [13]
At the 1984 Olympic closing, this Lionel Richie song came up hours short of its title promise
"All Night Long"
Gregory
$200 [2]
It was formed when the Revenue Cutter Service combined with the Lifesaving Service in 1915
the Coast Guard
Donald
$200 [7]
It's what Campbell's asks you to add to their condensed New England clam chowder
milk
Gregory
$200 [9]
Some say this term for a kind of shopkeeper is from German for "Do you have that?", "Hab' ihr das?"
a haberdashery
Kathy
$200 [22]
Young females trained for the circus & called "seals" are really this sea animal
sea lions
$200 [26]
For righ than ders, a slice curves this way
to the right
Kathy
$200 [14]
No mention of the poet is mentioned in this 1978 Neil Diamond "Serenade"
"Longfellow Serenade"
Kathy
$300 [3]
To give Taft, his hand-picked successor, a little space, he went on an African safari
Theodore Roosevelt
Donald
$300 [18]
Appropriate way Baskin-Robbins participates in the Rose Parade
a float
Donald
$300 [10]
The English thought flavors of cinnamon, cloves & nutmeg were combined in the 1 spice they named this
allspice
Kathy
$300 [23]
L.A. media report the best high tides to grab a handful of these 5-8" fish on the beach
grunions
Gregory
$300 [27]
In 1978, Jack Nicklaus scored 5 of these in a row to win a tournment
birdies
Donald Kathy
$300 [15]
This comparative was the one-word title of a 1980 Dan Fogelberg hit
"Longer"
Kathy
$400 [4]
Young pastor in Montgomery, Alabama who organized city-wide bus boycott protesting Rosa Parks' arrest
Martin Luther King
Donald
$400 [19]
How the Jolly Green Giant might grow a new vegetable or a new assistant
sprout one
$400 [11]
Plain cotton cloth used for sheets, originally made in Mosul, in what is now Iraq
muslin
Kathy
$400 [24]
Though most fish have eyes on left & right, adult flatfish have both eyes on this single side
the top side
$400 [16]
The Beatles' aptly named last # hit, since they'd reached the end of one by 1970
"The Long And Winding Road"
Gregory
$500 [5]
The "Tom Thumb", 1st tested in 1830, was the 1st of these built in the U.S.
a locomotive
Donald
DD $400 [20]
According to the labels, 3 of 4 ways in which Dole doles out pieces of pineapple
(3 of) crushed, chunks, whole slices (tidbits)
Donald
$500 [12]
Describes someone important, based on the size of haircovering they wore
a bigwig
Gregory
$500 [17]
Other than a bass, the only instrument used in this 1984 Billy Joel song was his voice
"The Longest Time"

Double Jeopardy! Round

WARS FIRST AID WORLD CITIES SCIENTISTS BRIDGES TV GUYS
$200 [9]
H.G. Wells called it "The War That Will End War"
World War I
Donald
$200 [18]
1 of 2 recommended actions you should take upon feeling faint
(1 of) put your head down between your legs (lie down)
Donald
$200 [6]
It was so devastated in WWII the Philippines had to move their capital to Quezon city
Manila
Donald
$200 [17]
Specific field of study of Andre Ampere & Count Alessandro Guiseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
electricity
Kathy
$200 [12]
It's the only bridge connecting Manhattan with New Jersey, no lie
the George Washington Bridge
Donald
$200 [1]
Of the 144 shows he hosted in the series, he never took us "In Search of..." Spock
Leonard Nimoy
Kathy
$400 [25]
While our Civil War was between the Blue & the Gray, Russian Civil War involved these 2 colors
white & red
Donald
$400 [20]
Blood flow slows & heart rate speeds in this "state", caused by emotional or bodily trauma
shock
Gregory
$400 [7]
With "Amboy" it's a city in New Jersey, alone it's in Australia
Perth
Gregory
$400 [19]
"Timely" device used by Foucault to prove the Earth rotates
a pendulum
Kathy
$400 [13]
Of New York, Pittsburgh & St. Louis, the city with the most bridges
Pittsburgh
Gregory
$400 [2]
1976 mini-series in which Peter Strauss & Nick Nolte played brothers
Rich Man, Poor Man
Kathy
$600 [21]
A person very allergic to penicillin might wear a bracelet from this Turlock, Ca. foundation
MedicAlert
Donald
$600 [8]
Name shared by the city 58 miles S.E. of Concepcion, Chile & one 58 miles S.E. of Ventura, California
Los Ángeles
$600 [22]
Using $150 earned by developing the Idaho potato, he moved to California
Luther Burbank
Donald
DD $500 [15]
What the title ofthis1954 hit tell you to do: "If you're a guy that's had a gal in each and every port / And you've forgot the rules of love that life has always taught..."
"Cross Over The Bridge"
Donald
$600 [3]
He was dock foreman for Prendergast Tool & Die before he bought his bar
Archie Bunker
Gregory
$800 [10]
City which ranks 2nd in world to Paris in population of French speakers
Montreal
Donald
$800 [23]
Robert Goddard left for N.M. after police made him stop experiments with these in Massachusetts
rockets
Donald
$600 [14]
Term for boats which support floating bridges, or floats which support floating airplanes
pontoons
Donald
DD $1,000 [4]
2 current NBC series starring all or part of William Daniels
St. Elsewhere & Knight Rider
Gregory
$1,000 [11]
The Greeks founded it about 2000 years ago as "Neapolis", a "new city"
Naples
Donald
$1,000 [24]
19th century German mathematician remembered for his "strip", a single-sided loop
(August) Möbius
Donald
$1,000 [16]
Big-budgeted star-studded 1977 WWII film that many thought was also "too long"
A Bridge Too Far
Donald
$1,000 [5]
Edna Babish was the landlord of this male pair, too
Leonard (Lenny) & Squiggy
Gregory

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN LITERATURE

Title of O. Henry's collection of short stories, "The Four Million" refers specifically to this

the population of New York (the citizens of NYC)

Kathy "What is words?" — wagered $2,398
Gregory "What were the citizens of N.Y.C.?" — wagered $400
Donald "What is the winnings" — wagered $2,000

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