Show #162 1985-04-23 (taped 1985-01-08) Regular

Contestants

Doug Miller — an assignment editor from Houston, Texas

Dorian Ellis — a chef from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Bruce Rhodewalt — a musician from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $14,050)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bruce $1,400 $1,200 $-800 $-800
3rd place: La-Z-Boy recliner rocker chair
$200
16 R, 11 W (including 1 DD)
Dorian $100 $400 $1,400 $1
2nd place: Pinseeker golf clubs & Wimbledon tennis rackets
$1,400
11 R, 6 W
Doug $700 $1,200 $1,600 $2,900
New champion: $2,900
$1,500
16 R (including 1 DD), 11 W

Jeopardy! Round

WEATHER TV TRIVIA 50THANNIVERSARIES MOVIE COMPOSERS "T" TIME
$100 [1]
While a cannon shot may be heard 50 or more miles away, this rarely heard beyond 20
thunder
Bruce
$100 [16]
The "Hollywood Squares" board symbol for the male contestant
an X
Bruce Dorian
$100 [17]
Oct. 10, 1985 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of this Gershwin opera
Porgy and Bess
Dorian Doug
$100 [5]
This Beatle gave his music & regards to Broad Street
Paul McCartney
Bruce
$100 [11]
The covering of a mattress, or the sound of a clock
ticking
Dorian Doug
$200 [2]
Direction of spin of a cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere
anticlockwise (counterclockwise)
Dorian Doug
$200 [20]
On "Captain Video", the imaginatively named "Tobor" was this
a robot
Doug
$200 [18]
Founded in 1935, it's concerned with helping people achieve & maintain sobriety
Alcoholics Anonymous
Bruce
$200 [7]
There's something fishy about John Williams' score for this 1975 film
Jaws
Bruce Doug
$200 [12]
In football or pulleys, it pairs with block
tackle
Bruce Doug
$300 [3]
Term for frozen dew
frost
Dorian
$300 [21]
Knighted by the queen, this familiar PBS host can't be called "Sir" because he's now a U.S. citizen
Alistair Cooke
Doug
$300 [19]
If you were working when this gov't prog. was started 50 years ago, you're probably on it now
Social Security
Bruce Doug
$300 [8]
Bernard Hermann scored 1st with "Citizen Kane" & last with this '76 De Niro film about a cabbie
Taxi Driver
Doug
$300 [13]
Completes "All the little birdies on Jaybird Street, love to hear the robin go..."
tweet, tweet, tweet
Dorian
$400 [4]
This Italian's invention of the wind vane about 1500 changed the direction of forecasting
Leonardo da Vinci
Dorian Doug
DD $500 [22]
Tom Lehrer songs were a feature of this mid-'60s news satire nicknamed TW3
That Was the Week That Was
Doug
$400 [24]
Founded by John L. Lewis, 1985 is the 50th anniversary of this association of labor groups
the CIO
Bruce Doug
$400 [9]
Appropriately, this diminutive singer wrote the score for "Bugsy Malone", an all-kids musical
Paul Williams
Bruce
$400 [14]
Headaches & hearts do it
a throb
Dorian
$500 [6]
It happened to W.C. Fields when he opened his door & said, "It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast"
snow getting in his face
Bruce
$500 [23]
He was fired from Abbott & Costello show after biting Costello
Bingo the Chimp
Dorian Doug
$500 [10]
His uncle Alfred won an Oscar for "Alexander's Ragtime Band" while he was nominated for "Ragtime"
Randy Newman
Bruce
$500 [15]
In British rhyming slang, a "tea-leaf" is one; on television, Alexander Mundy is one
a thief
Doug

Double Jeopardy! Round

MONEY RUSSIA BEST SELLERS PRESIDENTS SUPERSTITIONS WOMEN IN HISTORY
$200 [21]
According to 1 Timothy, it's "theloveof money" that is this
the root of all evil
Bruce
$200 [13]
St. Basil's church towers over this Moscow plaza
Red Square
Bruce Doug
$200 [2]
Studs Terkel calls it "The Good War" in his recent best-seller
World War II
Bruce
$200 [3]
Benjamin Harrison was this relation to William Henry Harrison
the grandson
Dorian Doug
$200 [15]
What you traditionally place in your loafer for luck
a penny
Doug
$400 [20]
Nickname given South Vietnam's Madame Nhu, derived from a character in "Terry & the Pirates"
the Dragon Lady
Bruce
$400 [22]
Used as money in Canada from 1685 to 1755, they were as valuable as diamonds, hearts clubs & spades
playing cards
Doug
$400 [14]
Russian for "union", it's also the name of their space program
Soyuz
Bruce
$400 [12]
After spinning his "Wheels", this author now prescribes "Strong Medicine"
Arthur Hailey
Doug
$400 [4]
Only president to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
Bruce
$400 [16]
When thrown instead of eaten, it ensures a couple will have many children
rice
Bruce
$600 [1]
First woman elected to both houses of Congress, she represented Maine in Senate for 24 years
Margaret Chase Smith
Bruce Dorian Doug
$600 [23]
England has announced during 1985 it will be replacing this with an equivalent coin
the pound note
Bruce Doug
$600 [25]
In 1977, he became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet & remained so until his death in 1982
Leonid Brezhnev
Bruce Doug
$600 [11]
Alice Adams' new novel "Superior Women" does to Radcliffe grads what this Mary McCarthy book did to Vassar
The Group
Dorian Doug
$600 [5]
Our 28th president's last, or President Reagan's middle name
Wilson
Doug
$600 [17]
It's never mentioned during a no-hitter
the fact that it is a no-hitter
Doug
$1,000 [8]
Indira Gandhi's aunt, Madame Pandit, was 1st woman president of this body
U.N. General Assembly
Dorian
$800 [24]
Amount of crooked money the crooked man found in children's rhyme
a sixpence
Bruce
$800 [26]
These mountains form the natural boundary between European Russia & Asian Siberia
the Urals
Bruce
$800 [10]
In this Mario Puzo #1 best-seller, the hero is an independent outlaw who bucks the Mafia
The Sicilian
Doug
$800 [6]
Only president elected to a Congress other than that of U.S., John Tyler was elected to this one
the Confederate Congress
Bruce Dorian
$800 [18]
"Port Wine" or "Strawberry", some say these are caused by a pregnant woman eating the wrong things
a birthmark
Bruce
DD $1,000 [27]
Part of the Central Committee, it is the most powerful body in the Soviet Union
the Politburo
Bruce
$1,000 [9]
In the latest in a list of best-sellers, this humorist gives us "Pieces of My Mind"
Andy Rooney
Dorian
$1,000 [7]
First incumbent president ever to publicly debate his opponent
Gerald Ford
Bruce Dorian Doug
$1,000 [19]
As shown in "The Dresser", it's Shakespeare's not-to-be-quoted-from, bad luck play
Macbeth
Dorian

Final Jeopardy!

EDUCATION

The first university in the Western Hemisphere was founded in 1553 in this Latin American capital

Mexico City

Dorian "What is Lima, Peru Lima Peru" — wagered $1,399
Doug "What is Mexico City?" — wagered $1,300

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