Show #72 1984-12-18 (taped 1984-10-02) Regular

Larry Floyd game 2.Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Pat Sutch — an English professor from Long Beach, California

Mike Linquist — a waiter from Tampa, Florida

Larry Floyd — an accounting clerk originally from Bridgton, Maine (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Larry $600 $3,400 $6,600 $13,000
2-day champion: $23,000
$6,600
20 R, 4 W
Mike $300 $-500 $100 $0
2nd place
$100
9 R, 10 W
Pat $-200 $-300 $-100 $-100
3rd place
$900
10 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES ANIMALS FOOTBALL SITCOMS 1984 DEAR JOHNS
$100 [4]
"The Show Me State"
Missouri
Larry
$100 [15]
Holstein, Guernsey & Jersey
cow
Pat
$100 [1]
Former Jet who's a real Brut
Joe Namath
Larry
$100 [22]
Shirley Jones' fine feathered flock
The Partridge Family
Mike
$100 [7]
"Sexual Healing" singer slain by his father in April
Marvin Gaye
Larry
$100 [9]
Gangster betrayed by "The Lady in Red"
John Dillinger
Pat
$200 [23]
The only East Coast state ever to have been a Spanish colony
Florida
Larry
$200 [16]
Specifically, the only cat with a mane
a male lion
Pat
$200 [2]
Their 1946 move from Cleveland to L.A. took the NFL coast-to-coast
the Rams
Larry
$200 [24]
Series in which Abe Vigoda landed his Fish role
Barney Miller
Larry Mike
$200 [8]
Reagan stopped in Hawaii & Guam on his way to this country in May
China
Larry
$200 [10]
This John is tied up with a beautiful Bo
John Derek
Pat
$500 [25]
State with the largest Black population
New York
Larry Mike
$300 [14]
Adding a C to the front of this animal turns it into a melon
antelope
Mike Pat
$300 [3]
Illegal blocking, or taking a little off around the ears
clipping
Mike
$300 [12]
Because of the close election, this country will have two alternating Prime Ministers
Israel
Mike Pat
$300 [11]
Martha's husband, only Attorney General ever convicted of a felony
John Mitchell
Larry
$400 [17]
3-letter wildebeest of which only 2 are pronounced
gnu
Larry
$400 [5]
Birdcage invented in the '50s by coach Paul Brown
the face mask (face guard)
$400 [13]
After Andropov dropped off in February, he took over, but by August, he was in hiding
(Konstantin) Chernenko
Mike
$400 [20]
Born Karol Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland
Pope John Paul II
Larry Mike Pat
$500 [19]
What most distinguishes a basenji from other dogs
cannot bark (the inability to bark)
Larry
$500 [6]
Moonshine, or when quarterback hides the ball & rolls out
a bootleg
Pat
$500 [18]
Only known to us as David, he spent the 12 years of his life in this environment
a (plastic) bubble
Larry
$500 [21]
Wrote "A Spaniard in the Works" & "In His Own Write"
John Lennon
Larry

Double Jeopardy! Round

BESTSELLERS COLLEGES PROVERBS OPERA AMERICAN REVOLUTION
$200 [7]
Joan's sister who knows all about "Hollywood Wives"
Jackie Collins
Larry Mike
$200 [2]
In 1893, the University of Oregon first opened this type of dormitory
co-ed
Larry
$200 [1]
Crimson-coated riders who "always get their man"
the Mounties (the Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
Larry Pat
$400 [22]
Opera based on Dostoevsky's story or movie based on Kenny Rogers' song
The Gambler
Pat
$600 [12]
Nickname of Gen. Francis Marion, who harassed British forces in the southern marshes
The Swamp Fox
Larry
$400 [8]
More than a few readers spent a few minutes reading this TV commentator's book
Andy Rooney's
Mike
$400 [3]
Smith College didn't appoint one as President until 1975
a woman
Mike Pat
$400 [13]
What too many cooks can do
spoil the broth
Larry
$600 [21]
Extinguishing the torch in her doorway was her signal for Tristan to come
Isolde
Larry
$800 [11]
Colonial Virginia parliament in which Patrick Henry gave his famous speeches
the House of Burgesses
Mike Pat
$600 [14]
Any of the medically-related bestsellers by Dr. Robin Cook
Coma
Larry
$600 [4]
In the U.S., 58% of this ethnic group graduates from college
Jewish
Larry Mike Pat
$600 [17]
Smart farmers make hay then
while the sun shines
Larry
$800 [20]
She came aboard the Pinafore with "snuff and tobaccy, & excellent jacky"
Little Buttercup
Mike
$1,000 [10]
German military expert who trained Americans at Valley Forge
(Baron) von Steuben
Mike
$800 [15]
He told "The Other Side of the Story" as Carter's press secretary
Jody Powell
Mike Pat
$800 [5]
This Ivy League school has the largest library with over 9 million volumes
Harvard University
Pat
$800 [18]
Ben Franklin wrote that "3 can keep a secret if 2 are" this
dead
Larry Mike
$1,000 [9]
Its name means "strolling clowns"
Pagliacci
Mike
$1,000 [16]
Nora Ephron included recipes in this painful first novel about love & food
Heartburn
DD $1,000 [6]
N.Y. State's Madison University changed its name in 1890 to honor this famous soapmaking family
Colgate
Pat
$1,000 [19]
What little strokes fell
giant oak trees (big oaks)
Mike

Final Jeopardy!

THE CALENDAR

Total days in a year which fall in months with 31 days

217

Mike "What is 186?" — wagered $100
Larry "What is248217?" — wagered $6,400

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