Show #296 1985-10-28 (taped 1985-08-06) Regular

Mark Leinwand game 3.

Contestants

Nietzchka Keene — a sound technician originally from Boston, Massachusetts

Steve Hirsch — a teacher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Mark Leinwand — an attorney and a businessman from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,450)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mark $800 $1,700 $5,500 $7,250
3-day champion: $31,700
$5,300
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Steve $100 $1,400 $3,600 $0
2nd place: trip on Eastern to San Francisco & stay at the Holiday Lodge
$4,100
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Nietzchka $900 $500 $3,500 $0
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & hers watches
$3,500
9 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CORPORATE AMERICA SPORTS TRIVIA DROPPIN' THE G BEAUTY SHOP TV WESTERNS FOOD
$100 [1]
Castle & Cooke, maker of Dole products, is 4th largest landholder there
Hawaii
Mark
$100 [20]
Lanky Laker who's an Oriental rug expert
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Steve
$100 [9]
Though Bee Gees dropped the "G" in this "Saturday Night Fever" song, the sequel put it back
"Stayin' Alive"
Steve
$100 [22]
French for "froth", it's a light dessert or a new hair care product
mousse
Mark
$100 [6]
As matriarch of the Barkley clan, she rode "The Big Valley"
Barbara Stanwyck
Mark
$100 [3]
Known to grow not only as high as an elephant's eye, but over 31 feet
corn
Nietzchka
$200 [2]
Campbell's #1-selling soup
tomato
Steve Nietzchka
$200 [21]
Though he didn't throw 1st pitch inventing baseball, he fired 1st shot defending Ft. Sumter
Abner Doubleday
Mark
$200 [10]
1967 hit sung by Frank & Nancy Sinatra
"Somethin' Stupid"
Mark
$200 [23]
Term for makeup less likely to cause an allergic reaction
hypoallergenic
Mark
$200 [7]
Roger Moore became Beau Maverick when this man rode into the sunset over a contract dispute
James Garner
Mark Steve
$200 [4]
Samuel Johnson defined it as a grain which in England is given to horses, but in Scotland feeds the people
oats
Nietzchka
$300 [11]
Since it makes this #1 selling candy bar, M&M/Mars "laughs" all the way to the bank
Snickers
$300 [25]
On April 19, 1974, Thomas Pace caught 48 lb. barracuda this way
bare-handed
$300 [15]
Danced to in films by Fred Astaire in 1946 & Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle in 1974
"Puttin' On The Ritz"
Mark
$300 [24]
Due to absorption of phenol, women should avoid coloring hair while in this condition
pregnant
Steve
$300 [8]
Like Grizzly Adams whom he portrayed, this actor also had his scrapes with the law
(Dan) Haggerty
Mark
$300 [5]
"French" potato & leek soup said to have been created by Chef Louis Diat at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in NYC
vichyssoise
Mark
$400 [17]
Most stores in chain founded by S.S. Kresge have now taken this terse title
Kmart
Steve
$400 [26]
Called "poona" in India, 19th c. British officers took this racquet sport home & called it this
badminton
Mark Steve Nietzchka
$400 [16]
Truckin' TV show starrin' Claude Akins
Movin' On
$400 [12]
This Cybill Shepherd, Sam Elliot vehicle bloomed & withered in one season
The Yellow Rose
Nietzchka
$400 [13]
The leaves of this dessert vegetable, also called pieplant, are poisonous
rhubarb
Steve
$500 [18]
Once notorious for providing strike-breakers, it's still largest armed guard company
the Pinkerton Company
Steve
$500 [27]
19th c. jockey Tod Sloan invented the "monkey crouch" to reduce this
air resistance
Steve
$500 [19]
Double "G"-less Dusty Springfield hit of 1964
"Wishin' And Hopin'"
$500 [14]
When this Western star decided against taking the role of Matt Dillon, he suggested James Arness
John (the "Duke") Wayne
Mark
DD $500 [28]
The 2 countries which together provide half the world's supply of olives
Italy & Spain
Steve

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY 15-LETTER WORDS IN THE MIDDLE GOVERNMENTAL WARNINGS
$200 [3]
The satirist Juvenal complained that all this city's people wanted was bread & circuses
Rome
Mark
$200 [1]
A person from Prague
a Czechoslovakian
Nietzchka
$200 [18]
In the slogan, it comes between "The Few" & "The Marines"
The Proud
Steve
$200 [10]
The Cabinet department that operates 140 embassies
the State Department
Mark
$200 [9]
At the Los Angeles zoo, it's posted per city ordinance number 153027, Code M, Section I
do not feed the animals
Mark
$400 [4]
While the Egyptians wrote on papyrus, the Sumerians usually wrote on these
clay tablets
Nietzchka
$400 [2]
One who tells the news by pictures, a Life magazine reporter, for example
a photojournalist
Mark
$400 [19]
The government puts one in the middle of management & labor when they don't agree
a mediator
Mark
$400 [11]
The Coast Guard is part of this federal department
the Department of Transportation
Steve
$400 [12]
Warnings here include "Please pay first", "Turn off engine", & "No smoking"
gas stations
Mark
$600 [7]
While Hippocrates was "The Father of Medicine", Herodotus was "The Father of" this
History
Steve
$600 [5]
The redrawing of political district boundary lines
reapportionment
Mark Steve
$600 [20]
In crime classification, it falls between treason & misdemeanors
a felony
Nietzchka
$600 [15]
This Cabinet department has spent $600 for a toilet seat & $7,000 for a coffeemaker
the Department of Defense
Steve
$600 [13]
Emergency warning posted outside of elevators
Do not use in the event of fire
Mark
$800 [8]
Hibernia
Ireland
Nietzchka
$800 [6]
If a plane can fly, it's referred to as being "sound" in this way
aerodynamically
Mark
$800 [16]
Since 1975, this powerful federal body has replaced only 1 member
the Supreme Court
Mark Steve
DD $1,000 [14]
4 of 7 warnings the FAA requires a stewardess to announce just before landing
(4 of) extinguish all smoking materials, fasten your seatbelts, put your seat back in an upright position, put up the tray in front of you (return carry-on items to beneath the seat or the overhead compartment, return all loose items to the flight attendant or remain seated until the plane has come to a full stop at the gate)
Mark
$1,000 [22]
Most believe Homer's account of Trojan War accurate due to this German-American's excavations
Schliemann
Nietzchka
$1,000 [17]
Pres. Reagan has proposed fostering econ. development by designating inner city areas as these
enterprise zones
Mark
$1,000 [21]
Woody Allen play about an American family held prisoner in the Iron Curtain country of Vulgaria
Don't Drink the Water
Steve

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

In 1937 & '38, he became only man to win Best Actor Oscar in consecutive years

Spencer Tracy

Nietzchka "Who is Clark Gable?" — wagered $3,500
Steve "Who is Clark Gable?" — wagered $3,600
Mark "Who was Spencer Tracy?" — wagered $1,750

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