Show #155 1985-04-12 (taped 1984-12-18) Regular

Mike Day game 4.Single-player Final Jeopardy!

Contestants

Carol Lubin — a legal secretary from Silver Spring, Maryland

Richard Topp — a real estate developer from Raleigh, North Carolina

Mike Day — a finance and marketing MBA student from Columbus, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $26,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $1,900 $2,500 $8,400 $12,000
4-day champion: $38,600
$8,500
32 R (including 1 DD), 10 W (including 1 DD)
Rick $-800 $-600 $-3,000 $-3,000
3rd place: Vitamaster exercise bike
$-3,000
5 R, 7 W
Carol $-100 $600 $-200 $-200
2nd place: a Broyhill sofa + Andis personal care appliances
$-200
4 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY TRAINS TRIVIA IN THE MIDDLE WHALES HERALDRY
$100 [1]
Largest Central American country in area & least friendly with U.S.
Nicaragua
Mike Rick
$100 [17]
During the Depression, "Boxcar Bertha" claimed there were 1½ million of them riding the rails
hobos
Mike
$100 [6]
A blueprint called a cartoon shows artists how to put together these colored windows
stained glass windows
Mike Carol
$100 [11]
Imaginary line which runs around the middle of the earth
the Equator
Mike
$100 [21]
A whale's nostrils
its blowhole
Mike
$100 [14]
Originally sewn on a knight's surcoat, it's what a heraldic design is called
coat of arms
Mike
$200 [2]
All countries beginning with the letter "Z" are on this continent
Africa
Mike
$200 [18]
His own negligence may have caused 1900 collision which killed this legendary engineer
Casey Jones
Carol
$200 [7]
Though he's also this country's hero, Arnold von Winkelried never got an overture like William Tell
Switzerland
Mike
$200 [12]
It's in the middle of rare & well-done, or small & large
medium
Mike
$200 [22]
Don't look for Eskimo "ice cream" at Baskin-Robbins, because it's made from this
blubber
Mike
$200 [24]
Heraldry dates back to ancient times when the Old Testament referred to the 12 symbols of these
the 12 tribes of Israel
Mike Rick
$300 [3]
Switzerland's largest French-speaking city
Geneva
Mike
DD $300 [19]
Title of this well-known tune refers to a N.Y. subway line
"Take The A-Train"
Carol
$300 [8]
While a moccasin is a shoe, a water moccasin is this
a type of snake
Mike
$300 [13]
It's the black hole in the middle of the iris of the eye
the pupil
Mike Carol
$300 [23]
1 of 2 major countries responsible for more than half of all whales killed
the Soviet Union
Mike
$400 [4]
The southernmost point of mainland Europe is in this country
Spain
Mike Rick
$400 [20]
The 13-mile Dai-Shimizu tunnel, world's longest, serves trains in this country
Japan
Mike
$400 [9]
Animal with a snood, wattle & gobble
a turkey
Mike
$400 [15]
Nabisco calls the creme filling in the middle of this cookie "stuff"
an Oreo
Mike
$500 [5]
Though larger than Boston & Philadelphia combined, this Russian port is further north than Juneau, AK
Leningrad
Mike Rick
$500 [25]
Inventor of the engine now powering nearly all American locomotives
Rudolf Diesel
Mike
$500 [10]
The "stain" stainless steel avoids
a rust stain
Mike
$500 [16]
Viewed from above, the number of the middle bowling pin in a standard rack
5
Carol

Double Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNMENT COLORS MUSIC COLLECTIBLES POST-WAR WORLD SPORTS
$200 [7]
Director of public health service whose title appears on cigarette packages
Surgeon General
Mike
$200 [18]
What Picasso got when he mixed yellow & blue
green
Mike
$200 [2]
Italian for "little opera", it's come to mean "light opera"
operetta
Mike
$200 [12]
These "dogs" hunt celebrities' "John Hancocks"
autograph hounds (signature hounds accepted)
Mike
$200 [15]
On April 4, 1951, Truman relieved him of his military command in Korea
MacArthur
Mike
$200 [1]
This "Rhinestone Cowboy" hosts an L.A. golf tournament
Glen Campbell
Carol
$400 [8]
According to slogan in "1984", what Big Brother was always doing
watching you
Mike
$400 [19]
Color of Prince's "Rain"
purple
Rick
$400 [25]
The flute, oboe & clarinet are all members of this instrumental family
woodwinds
Mike
$400 [13]
If you were at least this old, you'd be an antique, too
100 years
Mike
$400 [16]
At Fulton, MO in '46, Winston Churchill said this had spread across Europe
an iron curtain
Mike
$400 [3]
Famed New York racetrack located in Elmont
Belmont (Park)
Mike
$600 [9]
Speech delivered by the President each Jan. to a joint session of Congress
the State of the Union Address
Mike
$800 [24]
What the Hardy-Rand-Rittler test tests
(red-green) color-blindness
Mike Rick
$600 [26]
Unnaturally high vocal range popularized by Tiny Tim
falsetto
Mike
DD $500 [14]
Ash from these added to white clay gives fine translucent china its name
bones
Mike
$600 [17]
In 1951, this country took over Tibet
China
Mike
$600 [4]
"I forgot to duck" he said, after losing heavyweight crown to Gene Tunney
Dempsey
Mike
$800 [10]
Ineffective precursor to the U.S. Constitution
the Articles of Confederation
Mike
$1,000 [22]
His calculations led to discovery of the spectrum
Sir Isaac Newton
Rick
DD $1,200 [27]
Simultaneous sounding of 3 or more tones
a chord
Mike
$1,000 [23]
Copied from a nun's sketches in the early '30s, these porcelain figurines of boys & girls are made in W. Germany
Hummels
Carol
$800 [21]
50,000 lives were lost when this country rose in revolt against Soviets in '56
Hungary
Rick
$800 [5]
"There's no commitment in relationships anymore", a fan lamented when this team left NY for NJ in '83
the New York Jets
Mike Rick
$1,000 [11]
They number 535
how many Members of Congress there are
Mike Rick
$1,000 [20]
Though still a NATO member, this country withdrew its forces from NATO command in 1966
France
Rick
$1,000 [6]
Only NBA player to win most valuable player award 6 times
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Rick

Final Jeopardy!

MEDICINE

In 1806, France was 1st major Eur. country to forbid this profession from practicing surgery

barbers

Mike "What are barbers?" — wagered $3,600

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