Show #284 1985-10-10 (taped 1985-07-29) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Lynn Stark — a lawyer from Los Angeles, California

Kim Nasser Jones — a training consultant from Glendora, California

Michael Marks — an attorney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michael $900 $900 $5,600 $11,199
2nd place
$6,700
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Kim $500 $1,300 $300 $1
3rd place
$300
9 R, 3 W
Lynn $400 $1,800 $9,000 $12,000
New champion: $12,000
$9,000
21 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE OLYMPICS FAMOUS SHIPS WESTERN SLANG ARTS & CRAFTS POETRY OUTFOXED
$100 [1]
The heavyweight class in wrestling is 220 lb.s or this round number of kilograms
100 kilograms
Michael
$100 [6]
Millionaires Benjamin Guggenheim & John Jacob Astor went down with this ship
the Titanic
Kim
$100 [22]
Reach for the sky
put your hands up
$100 [7]
Process of printing through a piece of fine cloth, usually silk
silk screening
Kim
$100 [13]
According to John Donne what "No man" is
an island
Lynn
$100 [18]
The "Ties" that bind Michael J. Fox
family ties
Kim
$200 [2]
In this event you can snatch, jerk or press
weightlifting
Michael
$200 [27]
In film it's been captained by Charles Laughton, Trevor Howard & Anthony Hopkins
the Bounty
Michael
$200 [23]
Redeye was only one term for it
whiskey
Kim
$200 [8]
The art of molding paste & pulp, or a 1970 Dionne Warwick song
papier-mâché
$200 [14]
2000 years ago the Roman poet Lucretius wrote that "One man's food can be" this "to another"
poison
Lynn
$200 [19]
They played "Saturday Night Live's" two wild & crazy guys looking for foxes
Dan Aykroyd & Steve Martin
Kim
$300 [3]
Gold medalist Johnny Weissmuller was the 1st to swim this distance in less than 1 minute
100 meters
Michael
DD $1,000 [28]
Comic opera where you hear this song:"We sail the ocean blue / And our saucy ship's a beauty / We're sober men and true / And attentive to our duty / When the balls whistle free / O'er the bright blue sea / We stand to our guns all day / When at anchor we ride / On the Portsmouth tide / We have plenty of time for play / Ahoy! Ahoy!..."
H.M.S. Pinafore
Michael
$300 [24]
A sodbuster was a farmer, but a sinbuster was this
a preacher
Lynn
$300 [9]
Named for an 18th century French finance minister, these black paper cutouts came to mean "cheap portraitures"
silhouettes
Kim
$300 [15]
Town in which "There was no joy because Might Casey has struck out"
Mudville
Michael
$300 [12]
Famous literary figure eaten by Foxy Loxy
Chicken Little
Kim
$400 [4]
Appropriately, flying Dutchman is one event in this sport
sailing (yachting)
Michael
$400 [25]
Hobble your lip
be quiet (stop talking)
Lynn
$400 [10]
Display case of memento-filled compartments, sound like sparring with imaginary opponents
shadow box
Lynn
$400 [16]
"My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing" these
the deer
$400 [20]
Film where Richard Farnsworth played an Old West outlaw learning about modern times
The Grey Fox
Lynn
$500 [5]
In 1968, a West German attacked his horse in frustration during this 5-event sport
(the modern) pentathlon
Michael Lynn
$500 [26]
Oklahoma rain meant this kind of storm
a dust storm
Lynn
$500 [11]
From French, meaning "noose", it's what every kid makes at camp
a lanyard
Lynn
$500 [17]
He wrote, "All hope abandon ye who enter here"
Dante (Alighieri)
Kim Lynn
$500 [21]
This flower is the source for the heart-stimulating drug digitalis
foxglove
Michael Kim

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN AUTHORS SCIENCE "LINE"s MUSICALS KINGS & QUEENS POTPOURRI
$200 [6]
New York City dentist whose "Riders of the Purple Sage" made him a popular Western novelist
Zane Grey
Lynn
$200 [1]
Galileo attempted to measure its speed by having men with lanterns on hills flash each other
light
Michael
$200 [26]
In song, Johnny Cash says he does this because "you're mine"
I walk the line
Michael
$200 [9]
It opens with Tevye touting, "Tradition"
Fiddler on the Roof
Lynn
$200 [15]
Hers was the longest reign in English history
Queen Victoria
Lynn
$200 [19]
Dancers in a 1796 ballet performed this feat later made famous in a Peter Pan production
flying (by wires)
Michael
$400 [7]
Punning author of light verse who wrote, "Cats have kittens, bats have bittens"
Ogden Nash
Lynn
$400 [2]
Nature, according to ancient scientists, abhors it
a vacuum
Michael
$400 [27]
Railroad in Monopoly that fits this category
Short Line
Lynn
$400 [12]
John Van Druten's "I Am a Camera" developed into this musical picture of pre-war Germany
Cabaret
Lynn
$400 [17]
In 19th c. Garibaldi helped King Victor Emmanuel unite this peninsula
Italy (the Apennine Peninsula)
Lynn
$400 [20]
In 1944 this Caribbean ruler appeared as an extra in Esther Williams' film "Bathing Beauty"
Fidel Castro
$600 [8]
"Cuckoo's Nest" author whose lifestyle was the subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Ken Kesey
Kim
$600 [3]
Prepared from alcohol by the action of chloride of lime, it can put you to sleep
chloroform
Michael Lynn
$600 [13]
In "I'd Rather Be Right" George M. Cohan played him, the first sitting president to be featured in a Broadway musical
FDR
Michael Kim
$600 [18]
Louis XVIII became of France after this ruler's exile in 1814
Napoleon
Michael
$600 [21]
It was the instrument of E. Power Biggs
the organ
Michael
$800 [10]
She chronicled her lover Dashiell Hammett's battle with McCarthyism in "Scoundrel Time"
Lillian Hellman
Lynn
$800 [4]
Avogadro's number is the total of these atom groups in a mole of any substance
molecules
$800 [14]
A Pulitzer-prize winning book by James Michener became this Pulitzer-prize winning show
South Pacific
Michael
$800 [24]
Illiterate himself, this great Frankish ruler founded a palace school which he attended with wife & children
Charlemagne
Lynn
$800 [22]
As 1 word it's an American Indian sport, as 2 a city in Wisconsin
lacrosse (La Crosse)
Michael
$1,000 [11]
"A Place in the Sun" with Montgomery Cliff & Elizabeth Taylor was based on this Theodore Dreiser classic
An American Tragedy
Lynn
DD $900 [5]
As the word implies, every carbohydrate contains these 3 common elements
carbon, hydrogen & oxygen
Michael
$1,000 [16]
Gene Kelly originally played this cad who bewitched, bothered & bewildered the ladies
Pal Joey
Lynn
$1,000 [25]
To learn about building a navy, this great czar worked as a ship's carpenter in Holland
Peter the Great
Kim Lynn
$1,000 [23]
The odds are 35-1 against throwing either of these 2 numbers in a single toss of the dice
a 12 & a 2
Lynn

Final Jeopardy!

AGRICULTURE

Though a leader in wheat production, this country also imports more wheat than any other

the USSR

Kim "What is the United States?" — wagered $299
Michael "What is the USSR?" — wagered $5,599
Lynn "What is the USSR?" — wagered $3,000

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