Show #268 1985-09-18 (taped 1985-07-02) Regular

Jay Rosenberg game 4.

Contestants

Brigette Ford — a student from Culver City, California

Bart Brewer — a financial consultant originally from Houston, Texas

Jay Rosenberg — a professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (whose 3-day cash winnings total $33,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jay $1,400 $3,100 $5,100 $6,600
4-day champion: $39,600
$5,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Bart $-800 $-1,000 $3,200 $5,200
2nd place: Panasonic OmniMovie VHS camcorder & Karl-Lorimar VHS workout tapes
$1,400
8 R (including 2 DDs), 7 W
Brigette $400 $100 $2,300 $4,500
3rd place: La-Z-Boy sleep sofa
$2,300
9 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER FAIRY TALES FIRSTS SCHOOL FOOD SPORTS DATES "SHERMAN"s
$100 [16]
The Susquehanna, Rappahannock, & Potomac all flow into this bay
the Chesapeake
Brigette
$100 [11]
The moral of this story is "Slow & steady wins the race"
"The Tortoise & the Hare"
Jay
$100 [6]
The Sumerians, not Fred Flintstone, got this rolling around 3.500 B.C.
a wheel
Jay
$100 [1]
1 of these a day won't keep the teacher away, but kids keep trying
an apple
Brigette
$100 [19]
When he won the U.S. Amateur Golf title in 1959, this "Golden Bear" was just a cub
Jack Nicklaus
Jay
$100 [17]
"Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh" felluh
Allan Sherman
Jay Bart
$200 [18]
River connecting Lake Bala in Wales & the Irish Sea, or letter connecting C & E
Dee
Bart
$200 [12]
Substance of which the emperor's new clothes were made
nothing at all
Jay
$200 [7]
On April 16, 1926, a novel, "Lolly Willowes" was its 1st selection to be mailed
the Book of the Month Club
Jay
$200 [2]
I'll give you my bologna & cheese for your P.B. & J., for example
trading lunches
Jay
$200 [23]
49,234 of these M-4s were built for WWII
Sherman tanks
Brigette
$300 [20]
The Gaza Strip lies along this body of water
the Mediterranean
Bart Brigette
$300 [13]
It was Rumpelstiltskin's secret
his name
Jay
$300 [8]
The 1st trans-U.S. highway was completed from NYC to here
San Francisco
Bart
$300 [3]
"Starch & dairy" duo that's traditional Friday cafeteria fare
macaroni & cheese
Brigette
$300 [24]
TV's George Jefferson
Sherman Hemsley
Brigette
$400 [21]
The Chagres River supplies the water for the locks of this canal
the Panama Canal
$400 [14]
According to James Barrie, every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies", this happens
somewhere a fairy dies
DD $500 [9]
1st president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
Jefferson
Jay
$400 [4]
Plastic utensil that is a combination of a spoon & fork
a spork
Jay
$400 [25]
Way-Back Machine users on "Rocky & His Friends"
Peabody and his boy Sherman
Jay
$500 [22]
1 of 2 straits separating Asia from European Turkey
(1 of) the Straits of Bosphorus (or the Dardanelles)
Jay
$500 [15]
When this bunny insisted, "You should say what you mean", Alice replied, "At least I mean what I say"
the March Hare
$500 [10]
In 1908, while flying with Orville Wright, Lt. Thomas Selfridge became 1st in aviation history
the first person to be killed in an airplane crash
Bart Brigette
$500 [5]
Subject of 1981 controversy, this condiment never wound up as a vegetable
ketchup
Brigette

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS MOVIES CIVIL WAR GRAMMAR
$200 [4]
He was the last king of Egypt
King Farouk
Brigette
$200 [15]
So the Israelites could split from Egypt, Charlton Heston split this
the Red Sea
Bart
$200 [1]
In famous Civil War song, his "body lies a-mouldering in the grave, his soul goes marching on"
John Brown
Jay Bart
$200 [2]
Wurd speled corectly incide this anser
this
Jay
$400 [5]
Appropriately, Stanley Melbourne Bruce was its prime minister 1923-1929
Australia
Bart
$400 [17]
Of the 3 "Rocky" films, the 1 not directed by Sylvester Stallone
Rocky
Bart
$400 [6]
In his 1861 inaugural speech he said, "All we ask is to be let alone"
Jefferson Davis
Bart
$400 [3]
He changed the English "re's" to American "er's" for his 1828 dictionary
(Noah) Webster
Brigette
$800 [11]
Albert, Henry, & George witnessed this king's abdication document Dec. 10, 1936
King Edward (VIII)
Brigette
$800 [19]
"Phoenix, Az... Friday, Dec.11th... 2:43 P.M." appears on screen at beginning of this Hitchcock film
Psycho
$600 [7]
"Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!"
what John Wilkes Booth said when he assassinated Abraham Lincoln
$600 [13]
While our show only has 1, "What's Happening!!" had 2
exclamation points
Jay
DD $1,000 [10]
For the king of Thailand's birthday in '84, 1080 men underwent this surgery to help their country
a vasectomy
Bart
$1,000 [20]
Producer/director of biker & horror films who launched the careers of J. Nicholson & F. Coppola
Roger Corman
Bart
$800 [8]
Southerners call these Virginia battles 1st & 2nd Manassas
the 1st & 2nd Bull Run
Bart
$800 [14]
Unlike a metaphor, this figure of speech compares through use of words like "like"
a simile
Brigette
$1,000 [12]
Countries whose leaders met in a "Shamrock Summit" in March, 1985
the United States & Canada
Jay
DD $2,000 [18]
'63 film in which the world ends to this tune:"We'll meet again / Don't know where / Don't know when..."
Dr. Strangelove ( or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb )
Bart
$1,000 [9]
She supposedly told Rebs, "Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country's flag"
Barbara Fritchie
$1,000 [16]
Complete listing of the forms of a verb
a conjugation
Bart

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. POPULATION

The Census Bureau estimates this state will not exceed any other in population before year 2000

Alaska

Brigette "What is Alaska?" — wagered $2,200
Bart "What is Alaska?" — wagered $2,000
Jay "What is Alaska?" — wagered $1,500

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