Show #305 1985-11-08 (taped 1985-08-12) Regular

Harvey Becker game 4.Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Elizabeth Kirby — a homemaker originally from San Diego, California

Tim Hedges — a media specialist from Vancouver, Washington

Harvey Becker — an attorney turned writer from Old Bridge, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $50,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Harvey $1,000 $1,900 $7,300 $4,600
4-day champion: $55,400
$7,300
21 R, 3 W
Tim $400 $2,200 $4,400 $0
2nd place: trip to Trinidad
$5,900
17 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Elizabeth $700 $300 $-1,100 $-1,100
3rd place
$-100
6 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY TRUCKS THE BEATLES SCANDALS SITCOMS "FRONT" RUNNER
$100 [16]
Technical term for a vegetarian animal
a herbivore
Harvey
$100 [7]
Famed for its strength, its symbol is a bulldog
Mack
Tim
$100 [1]
He was their guru
the Maharishi (Mahesh Yogi)
Harvey
$100 [6]
Deep Throat provided Woodward & Bernstein with secret info about this scandal
Watergate
Tim
$100 [25]
Of Latka Gravas, Louie De Palma & Elaine Nardo, the one who regularly drove a taxi on "Taxi"
Elaine Nardo
Harvey
$100 [17]
An offense or slight
an affront
Tim
$200 [18]
In the wild, gorillas eat the tree itself as well as this yellow fruit found on it
a banana
Tim
$200 [8]
British term for a truck
a lorry
Elizabeth
$200 [2]
In 1971 he organized 2 concerts for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden
George Harrison
Elizabeth
$200 [12]
Trying to move MOVE police in this city burned down 61 houses
Philadelphia
Harvey
$300 [27]
Line from "You're In The Army Now" that provided original title for the 1950s "Phil Silvers Show"
"You'll never get rich"
Tim
$200 [21]
After Jessica Savitch's death Judy Woodruff replaced her on this PBS documentary series
Frontline
Tim
$300 [19]
This extremely common, small tropical fish was discovered by a minister in 1866 on Trinidad
guppy
Harvey Elizabeth
$300 [9]
Division of Chrysler Corp. that makes pickup trucks
Dodge
Tim
$300 [3]
Though "Love Me Do" was their first hit single in Britain, this song was their first to top the U.S. chart
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Elizabeth
$300 [13]
1980 scandal where congressmen were caught taking bribes from bogus sheiks
ABSCAM
Elizabeth
$400 [26]
She played Robert Young's oldest girl & Andy Griffith's best one
Elinor Donahue
$300 [22]
You go there to visit Tom Sawyer's Island & ride on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Frontierland
$400 [20]
Most animals have enzymes that convert this nutrient group into vitamin C
the carbohydrates
Elizabeth
$400 [10]
Tractor trailers are often called this, for the number of wheels they have
an 18-wheeler
Tim
$400 [4]
He was The Beatles drummer before Ringo
Pete Best
Harvey
$400 [14]
Claiming fraud & exploitation she's suing Tom Chiapel & Bob Guccione's magazine for a reported $400 million
Vanessa Williams
Harvey
$400 [23]
An illustration preceding the title page in a book
a frontispiece
Harvey
DD $500 [11]
This Dave Dudley number is considered the granddaddy of truck driver songs:"Well, I pulled out of Pittsburgh, rolling down the eastern seaboard / I've got me diesel wound up and she's running like never before / There's a speed zone ahead but it's all right, I don't see a cop in sight..."
"Six Days On The Road"
Tim
$500 [5]
Only Beatle never to have been divorced
Paul McCartney
Harvey
$500 [15]
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall took the fall in this 1920s scandal
the Teapot Dome Scandal
Tim
$500 [24]
After an in-house battle she stands as sole owner of the L.A. Rams
Georgia Frontiere
Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

ABRAHAM LINCOLN DATED FILMS TRIOS THE VIETNAM WAR PLAYWRIGHTS ODDS & ENDS
$200 [5]
He insisted on repaying an $1,100 debt though it took years to earn him this nickname
Honest Abe
Tim
$200 [21]
A recent year as seen by George Orwell
1984
Tim
$200 [26]
The Pep Boys
Manny, Moe & Jack
Harvey
$200 [15]
He said, leaving for Vietnam, "Pres. Johnson says the war isn't really a war without my jokes"
Bob Hope
Harvey
$200 [10]
Though known for stage work he wrote the film "The Misfits" for wife, Marilyn Monroe
Miller
Elizabeth
$200 [1]
You can learn a great deal about this card game from Charles Goren
(contract) bridge
Harvey
$400 [6]
Because biographers say she made his life a hell on earth some consider her the worst first lady
Mary Todd Lincoln
Harvey
$400 [22]
Jason makes this a very unlucky day
Friday the 13th
Harvey
$400 [27]
Director's traditional 3 commands before the actors act
lights, camera & action
Harvey
$400 [16]
System of Communist supply route through Laos named for leader of North Vietnam
the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Tim
$400 [11]
He wrote "Hay Fever" in the '20s, "Private Lives" in the '30s & "Blithe Spirit" in the '40s
Noel Coward
Harvey
$400 [2]
Whether he was called Percival, Perceval or Parsifal, his quest was still this cup
the Holy Grail
Harvey
$600 [7]
In the election of 1860 he won none of this, his native state's, electoral votes
Kentucky
Tim Elizabeth
$600 [23]
It wasted millions & some feel the talents of Aykroyd, Belushi & Spielberg
1941
Tim
$600 [28]
Rock group that had the hit "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" in 1969
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Harvey
$600 [17]
Year in which the first ticker tape parade for Vietnam vets was held in New York
1985
Harvey
$600 [12]
"Six Characters in Search of an Author" presumably never found him, their author
Luigi Pirandello
Harvey
$600 [3]
Dropping sulfur-treated rubber on a hot stove he accidentally discovered vulcanization
Charles Goodyear
Harvey Tim
DD $1,000 [8]
1 of 3 Democrats who ran against him for president
(1 of) John Breckinridge, Douglas or George McClellan
Tim
$800 [24]
Roy Scheider plays midwife at the birth of a new sun
2010
Harvey
$800 [29]
Meaning the entirety, it's derived from the main parts of a rifle
lock, stock & barrel
$800 [18]
First American military advisors were sent to Vietnam by this president
Eisenhower
Elizabeth
$800 [13]
This Athenian's "The Frogs" was revived 2,375 years later with music by Stephen Sondheim
Aristophanes
Elizabeth
$800 [4]
17th century short-pointed beard style named for the artist who used them in his portraits
Van Dyke
Tim
$1,000 [9]
Lincoln was a member of this political party until it dissolved in 1856
the Whigs
Harvey
$1,000 [25]
Half a weekend with a young Albert Finney
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
$1,000 [30]
Sparkly stuff extolled in "Kismet" song
baubles, bangles & bright, shiny beads
DD $1,000 [19]
Besides South Vietnam, 2 other countries that fought alongside us in Vietnam
(2 of) the Australians, the New Zealanders, the Philippines, South Korea or Thailand
Elizabeth
$1,000 [14]
He, "looked back in anger" 1956
(John) Osborne
Harvey
$1,000 [20]
Name by which we better know the crystallized mineral halite
(rock) salt
Tim

Final Jeopardy!

MISS AMERICA

More Miss Americas have come from this populous state than any other

California

Tim "What is New York?" — wagered $4,400
Harvey "What is New York?" — wagered $2,700

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