Show #93 1985-01-16 (taped 1984-10-16) Regular

Contestants

Gail Sherman — a marketing executive originally from Cleveland, Ohio

Jim Burland — a commodities broker from Chicago, Illinois

Tom Waters — a sporting goods salesman from Savannah, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $12,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $2,000 $2,200 $10,000 $8,400
2nd place: Wood stove + TV dinner table collection
$8,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Jim $300 $3,000 $8,400 $16,700
New champion: $16,700
$7,900
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Gail $-400 $-300 $-1,300 $-1,300
3rd place: Dinnerware set
$-1,300
3 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY SPORTS TOYS & GAMES THEATER BY THE "WAY"
$100 [1]
Though an ethnic Macedonian, she was the most famous queen of Egypt
Cleopatra
Tom
$100 [6]
World Series that's always played in Williamsport, Pennsylvania
the Little League (World Series)
Gail
$100 [16]
Only piece of equipment needed to play mumblety-peg
pocket knife (jackknife)
Tom Gail
$100 [7]
Experimental theater movement that's one step beyond "Off-Broadway"
Off-Off-Broadway
Tom Jim
$100 [11]
1st military highway of ancient Rome, it's still in use today
the Appian Way
Tom Gail
$200 [2]
Reportedly blind, he opened our eyes to the "Iliad" & "Odyssey"
Homer
Tom
$200 [8]
Ironically, pre-Olympic ads showed her winning while another runner fell
Mary Decker
Tom Jim
$200 [17]
Game where Col. Mustard might have done it in the kitchen with a rope
Clue
Jim
$200 [14]
Open performing area with no proscenium & an audience on all 4 sides
theater in the round
Gail
$200 [12]
His "overstrung scale" technique of 1855 greatly improved piano sound
(Henry) Steinway
Tom Jim
$300 [3]
Our word for paper derives from this Egyptian plant
papyrus
Tom
$300 [9]
Baseball's senior circuit
the National League
Tom
$300 [15]
Spiritual game whose name came from combining the French & German for "yes"
ouija board
Tom
$300 [18]
Lee Strasberg's adaptation of Stanislavski's system
method acting
Jim
$400 [23]
Legislative committee most directly concerned with cost effectiveness
Ways and Means
Jim
$400 [4]
He crossed the Rubicon, a giant step toward becoming emperor
Julius Caesar
Tom
$400 [10]
In hockey, where you're sitting if you're in the "sin bin"
the penalty box
Tom Gail
$400 [20]
Bar game in which you "double-on" & "double-off"
darts
$400 [19]
Unlike subdued No theater, this form of Japanese theater uses an exaggerated acting style
Kabuki
Jim
DD $800 [22]
Songin which Steve Lawrence staves off young love with the following:"I know that your lips are sweet, / But our lips must never meet. / I belong to someone else, and I must be true."
"Go Away Little Girl"
Jim
$500 [5]
Student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle
Plato
Tom
$500 [13]
Sport where you could find someone working on the "chain gang"
football
Jim
$500 [21]
From Latin to "produce", plays performed in rotation
repertory
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN INDIANS ANATOMY BOOKS & AUTHORS EUROPE VICE PRESIDENTS 5-LETTER WORDS
$200 [21]
Tribe for whom Wyoming's capital is named
Cheyenne
Jim
$200 [8]
Bipeds have 2 of these
legs (feet)
Tom
$200 [17]
James Fenimore Cooper novel that documents a dying breed of Indian
The Last Of The Mohicans
Tom
$200 [13]
British city whose "Daily Mirror" sells over 4 million papers daily
London
Tom
$200 [3]
State that charged Spiro Agnew with committing bribery while governor
Maryland
Jim
$200 [25]
February or May, for example
a month
Tom
$400 [23]
Jicarilla, San Carlos & Mescalero are tribes of this Indian nation
Apache
Tom
$400 [9]
Cephalic means relating to this part of the body
the head
Tom Jim
$400 [18]
Hawthorne's scarlet letter
an A
Jim
$400 [14]
Capital of East Germany
East Berlin
Tom
$400 [7]
He presides over the Senate when the V.P. is absent
the president pro tempore of the Senate
Jim
$400 [26]
A record climbs one in "Billboard"
a chart
Jim
$600 [24]
In 1877, this Nez Perce chief said "I will fight no more forever"
Chief Joseph
Tom Jim
$600 [10]
Blood component also known as leukocytes
white blood cells
Tom
$600 [19]
His wife said of his "Ulysses", "He's a genius, but what a dirty mind"
James Joyce
Jim
$800 [16]
Netherlands' city that handles more cargo than any other port in the world
Rotterdam
Tom Jim Gail
$600 [4]
Number of vice-presidents FDR had
3
Jim
$600 [1]
The best beef or a number divisible only by itself and 1
prime
Gail
$800 [11]
Skin color is mainly determined by the amount of this dark brown pigment
melanin
Tom Jim
$800 [20]
Readers checked into his "Hotel New Hampshire"
(John) Irving
Tom
$1,000 [27]
Though it has a pop. of only 28,000, this country is hdqtrs. for over 5,000 foreign businesses
Liechtenstein
Jim
$800 [5]
Nixon's vice-presidential running mate in 1960
Henry Cabot Lodge
Jim
$800 [2]
You win it if your horse finishes in it
money
Jim Gail
$1,000 [12]
By age 5, this 3 lb. organ has reached 90% of its adult weight
the brain
Tom
$1,000 [22]
Wilkie Collins novel that's a real gem
The Moonstone
Tom
DD $1,800 [15]
The 2nd largest European nation in area
France
Tom
$1,000 [6]
If the Electoral College fails to agree, this body elects the vice-president
the Senate
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

DANCE

After its appearance in the Black musical "Runnin' Wild" in 1923, it became a national craze

the Charleston

Jim "What is the Charleston?" — wagered $8,300
Tom "What was the Lindy Hop" — wagered $1,600

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