Show #95 1985-01-18 (taped 1984-10-16) Regular

Paul Boymel game 1.

Contestants

James Weidman — a pediatrician originally from Roslyn, New York

Paul Boymel — an attorney from Potomac, Maryland

Sheryl Adsit — a word processor from Hawthorne, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sheryl $100 $600 $400 $799
2nd place: Speed Queen washer & dryer + Excalibur food dehydrator
$400
4 R, 2 W
Paul $700 $2,500 $7,200 $11,000
New champion: $11,000
$7,100
25 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $-400 $-800 $200 $0
3rd place: Bushnell telescope
$5,000
18 R, 11 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

1956 POTENT POTABLES WEIGHTS & MEASURES MOVIE COMPOSERS AUTO REPAIR FAIR "SHAKES"
$100 [2]
To finance the Aswan Dam, this country seized control of Suez Canal
Egypt
Paul
$100 [1]
Device used to pop your wine bottle's top
a corkscrew
Paul
$100 [9]
It "helps the medicine go down" in "Mary Poppins"
a spoonful of sugar
Sheryl
$100 [20]
1st he played Dr. Kildare, then Tchaikovsky in "The Music Lovers"
Richard Chamberlain
Paul
$100 [18]
Both angry people & worn-out cars can blow one
a gasket
Paul Jim
$100 [8]
Get a move on it
shake a leg
Paul Jim
$200 [3]
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1st gained prominence leading bus boycott in this Alabama city
Montgomery
Sheryl Paul Jim
$200 [7]
This liquor was watered down & passed around as sailor's "grog"
rum
Paul
$200 [10]
3 survey miles or a group of bowling teams
a league
Sheryl Jim
$200 [23]
Played Cole Porter in "Night & Day" without once saying "Judy, Judy, Judy"
Cary Grant
Paul
$200 [17]
America's largest auto club, they made nearly 17 million service calls last year
Triple A
Paul
$200 [12]
Because of his WWII malaria, Sherwood Johnson's pizza parlors are named this
Shakey's
Paul
$300 [4]
Musical where Julie played Liza for Lerner & Loewe
My Fair Lady
Paul
$300 [21]
What golfers call their clubhouse bar
the 19th hole
Paul
$300 [11]
In pro football, yards being penalized for being offside
5 yards
Paul
$300 [24]
Playing Rodgers & Hart in "Words & Music", he was paired with Tom Drake, not Judy Garland
Mickey Rooney
Paul
$300 [15]
It removes corrosion from your battery & odors from your refrigerator
baking soda
Paul
$300 [13]
Penned Portia's & Polonius' parts
Shakespeare
Paul
$400 [5]
Archbishop Makarios led movement to unite this island with Greece
Cyprus
Jim
$400 [22]
High protein food swallowed whole in a "morning after" prairie oyster
an egg
Paul
$400 [25]
Letter in metric measurement which stands for 1000
K
Paul
$400 [26]
In "A Song to Remember", robust Cornel Wilde played this fragile pianist
Frédéric Chopin
$400 [16]
You shouldn't transfer this type of tire from one side of the car to the other
a radial tire
Paul
DD $1,200 [14]
What Jimmy Buffet was searching for in this song:"But there's booze in the blender / And soon it will render / That frozen concoction that helps me hang on / Wastin' away again in Margaritaville..."
a lost shaker of salt
Paul
$500 [6]
At 21, this gold medalist became world's heavyweight champ
Floyd Patterson
Jim
$500 [19]
Where you look to make sure your car has enough brake fluid
the master cylinder
Sheryl Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE DRAMA BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 5-LETTER WORDS WORLD CAPITALS A.K.A.
$200 [6]
Solid, liquid & this make up the 3 forms of matter
gases
Jim
$200 [15]
It means a "maker" of dramas, not one who can "pen" them
a playwright
Paul
$200 [20]
In 1980 this auto maker recorded the greatest loss in U.S. corporate history, $1.7 bil.
Chrysler
Paul Jim
$200 [19]
From Latin for festival, sometimes it's this or famine
feast
Paul
$200 [11]
Bulgaria's capital, it sounds like an Italian actress
Sofia
Jim
$200 [12]
"Oh, God", it's Nathan Birnbaum
George Burns
Jim
$400 [5]
Fiberglass was 1st used in Germany as a substitute for this fireproof material
asbestos
Jim
$400 [14]
The conversational element of drama
dialogue
Jim
$400 [21]
Citicorp recently surpassed it as America's largest bank
Bank of America
Paul
$400 [18]
It can be by fire, by combat, or by jury
trial
Sheryl
$400 [10]
Started as a trading post for the Roman Empire, it boasts St. Paul's Cathedral
London, England
Paul Jim
$400 [13]
When he got an Oscar for "The Producers", Melvin Kaminsky's mother was very proud
Mel Brooks
Paul
$600 [4]
One-celled plants that are the curse of aquarium keepers
algae
Jim
$600 [2]
He wroteth "The Iceman Cometh"
Eugene O'Neill
Sheryl Jim
$600 [22]
Company that's world's leading producer of mineral water
Perrier
Paul
$600 [23]
A "rash" reaction to strawberries
hives
Jim
$600 [9]
Largest city & capital of Luxembourg
Luxembourg City
Jim
$600 [24]
Gladys Smith,"America's Sweetheart"
Mary Pickford
Jim
$800 [1]
Beneficial partnership among plants or animals, it's from Greek for "living together"
symbiosis
Paul Jim
$800 [16]
Famous medieval morality play showing an ordinary person's moral trials
Everyman
Paul Jim
$800 [29]
Department store & catalogue chain owned by Mobil Oil
Montgomery Ward
Jim
DD $4,800 [27]
The plural of opus
opera
Jim
$800 [8]
As Peking is to the People's Rep. of China, this is to the Rep. of China
Taipei
Jim
$800 [25]
In "Real Life" this "Modern Romance" star changed his name from Albert Einstein
Albert Brooks
Paul Jim
$1,000 [3]
A subdivision of genus whose members are able to interbreed
a species
Jim
DD $2,300 [17]
Meaning "a God from the machine", an external & often unrealistic resolution of conflict
deus ex machina
Paul
$1,000 [28]
European car maker that already offers factory installed air bags as an option
Mercedes
Jim
$1,000 [7]
The largest capital in the Sahara Desert
Cairo
Jim
$1,000 [26]
This James Stewart found "King Solomon's Mines"
Stewart Granger
Jim

Final Jeopardy!

TOYS & GAMES

The highest number under the "N" on an American bingo game

45

Jim "What is 3.14159?" — wagered $200
Sheryl "What is 45?" — wagered $399
Paul "What is 45" — wagered $3,800

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