Show #285 1985-10-11 (taped 1985-07-29) Regular

Contestants

Jim Rondoni — a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California

Jeff Carnes — a classics professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Lynn Stark — a lawyer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lynn $100 $0 $2,800 $0
3rd place: his & hers Jules Jurgensen Classic Series diamond dial watches
$2,800
9 R, 1 W
Jeff $1,800 $3,500 $11,800 $5,195
2nd place: Buck Stove "whole-house heating system" + Knight of New Zealand rug of 4 joined matched lambskins
$11,300
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Jim $700 $1,400 $9,200 $5,700
New champion: $5,700
$5,700
16 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE ’60S ODD JOBS ANIMAL GROUPS GEOGRAPHY FOOD & DRINK PHAMOUS PHOEBES
$100 [7]
On Jan. 7, 1963, its rate was raised from 4¢ to 5¢
(first-class mail domestic) postage
Lynn
$100 [25]
From Greek for “life writer”, it’s an author of a book on someone else’s life
a biographer
Lynn Jim
$100 [20]
Beer, cards, & wolves come in them
packs
Jeff
$100 [2]
His appearance on covers & title pages of books of maps got them named for him
Atlas
Jeff
$100 [10]
After months of Bill Cosby’s telling us it’s less sweet, they reformulated it to make it sweeter
Coca-Cola
Jeff
$100 [1]
Stage name of Phoebe Butler, professional markswoman of the Wild West
Annie Oakley
Jeff Jim
$200 [8]
He established the Pres. Medial of Freedom, picked the 1st recipients, but never got to give them
JFK
Jim
$200 [28]
Strong harem guards who were the human equivalent of oxen
eunuchs
Jeff
$200 [21]
If “12-day” Christmas song contained more than 1 of these, they would have formed a covey
partridges
Jeff Jim
$200 [3]
During the winter this continent is said to double in area
Antarctica
Jeff
$200 [16]
The word “salary” comes from early Roman soldiers being paid with this prized seasoning
salt
Jeff
$200 [13]
She had her 1st his in 1975 with “Poetry Man”
Phoebe Snow
Jeff
$300 [9]
Author of 2 books on guerrilla warfare, he was killed in 1967 by the Bolivian Army
Che Guevara
Jim
$400 [26]
Odd job in bowling alleys phased out in 1952 by introduction of an automated machine
a pinboy (or pinsetter)
Jeff
$300 [22]
At an NBC convention you might see a muster of these
peacocks
Jeff
$300 [4]
1 of 2 provinces Labrador is part of
Newfoundland (or Quebec)
Jim
$300 [17]
1st created in Budapest, not France, Burger King serves breakfast on them
croissants
Jim
$300 [14]
Even the fast times she spend at Ridgemont High pale to her life as Lili in “Lace”
Phoebe Cates
Lynn
$400 [11]
Along with its erection in 1961 came a shoot-on-sight order
the Berlin Wall
Jeff
$500 [27]
“Illuminating” profession Edison eliminated
lamplighter
Jeff
$400 [23]
A group of swine or a 1972 Cicely Tyson film
sounder
Jim
$400 [5]
Mt. Sinai is on this peninsula
the Sinai Peninsula
Jeff
DD $500 [18]
Satisfied w/single serving of over 9 tons, Guinness won’t accept new records for this food:
the mashed potato
Jim
$400 [15]
Co-founder of Nat. Congress of Mothers, early kindergarten supporter, & mommy to Wm. Randolph
Phoebe Hearst
Jim
$500 [12]
In 1967, China & France refused to sign a treaty on peaceful use of this area
space
Lynn Jim
$500 [24]
You're in big trouble if you fall into this group of vipers
a nest
$500 [6]
Mountain range you’d be in if you were sanctioned to climb the Eiger
the (Swiss) Alps
Jeff
$500 [19]
From Latin meaning “to fry”, it’s any object dipped in batter & fried in hot oil
a fritter
Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LITERATURE SPACE & AVIATION SPORTS TRIVIA ART DEPARTMENT STORES HOMOPHONES
$200 [1]
To supplement his income, this M.D. wrote “A Study in Scarlet”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jeff
$200 [23]
In 1979, Pioneer II revealed its rings to be composed of ice-covered rocks
Saturn
Jim
$200 [11]
At age 21, Dwight Filley Davis donated this sport’s famous cup
tennis
Lynn
$200 [2]
The “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” was this Dutch master’s 1st large-scale portrait
Rembrandt
Lynn
$400 [25]
Department store featured in the films “Splash” & “Moscow on the Hudson”
Bloomingdale's
Jim
$400 [18]
It can come in apple, coconut cream, or 3.14
pie/pi
Lynn
$400 [12]
Pseudonym of poet George William Russell, or 1st initials of poet Housman
A.E.
Jeff
$400 [24]
The magazine “Gleanings in Bee Culture” published the 1st complete account of their early flights
the Wright Brothers
Jeff
$400 [7]
It’s front line could be abbreviated LE, LT, LG, C, RG, RT, RE
a football team
Jeff
$400 [3]
Marcel Duchamp is famous for jokes like exhibiting a urinal & putting this on the Mona Lisa
a mustache
Lynn
$800 [14]
At the turn of the century, this Chicago merchant was the world’s largest dry goods retailer
Marshall Field
Jim
$600 [20]
A habit-forming drug, or the brave female lead in a movie
heroin/heroine
Jeff
$600 [16]
Her father assumed the name Barrett when he inherited slave plantations in the West Indies
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lynn
$800 [27]
Hughes pres. Steven Dorfman told NASA they’d be reimbursed for trying to save one with a “fly swatter”
a satellite
Jim
$600 [8]
On Mar. 11, 1986, this paper will celebrate its 100th anniversary
The Sporting News
Jeff
$600 [4]
King Tut’s tomb door, an oriental ballet, & Cubism led to this art style of the ’20s
Art Deco
Jim
$1,000 [15]
While many chains started in New York or Chicago, his began in Kemmerer, Wyo.
J.C. Penney
Lynn
$800 [21]
An herb, Morris Day’s group, or a quarter to three
thyme/time
Jeff
$800 [17]
Angered by American piracies of his novels, he put down the U.S. in his “Martin Chuzzlewit”
Charles Dickens
Jeff
DD $4,000 [26]
90,002 Americans currently hold Pan Am reservations to this destination, & they’re not taking any more
the Moon
Jim
$800 [9]
Shoichi Nakajima did it from Korea to Japan & plans to try it from Hawaii to San Francisco
windsurf
Jim
$800 [5]
Somber Spanish artist famous for his “The 2nd of May” & its sequel, “The 3rd of May”
Goya
Jim
DD $1,100 [13]
Loaning money to a young auto maker got this Detroit store owner a car named for him
J.L. Hudson
Jeff
$1,000 [22]
Masticates, or select
chews/choose
Jim
$1,000 [19]
His “Modest Proposal” of 1729 was to cure Ireland’s overpopulation by using babies as food
Jonathan Swift
Jeff
$1,000 [10]
With a win in this April tourney, Bernhard Langer became most famous German golfer since Hermann Tissies
the Masters
Jeff
$1,000 [6]
To distinguish himself from his father, Bernardo, Giovanni Canal signed his work this way
Canaletto
Jeff

Final Jeopardy!

TELEVISION

For 2 years, NBC didn’t call it “Saturday Night Live” because of 18 wk. ABC “SNL” series starring him

Howard Cosell

Lynn "Who is ?" — wagered $2,800
Jim "Who is Chevy Chase?" — wagered $3,500
Jeff "Who is GeraldoRiveraRivera?" — wagered $6,605

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