Show #90 1985-01-11 (taped 1984-10-10) Regular

Contestants

Rick Thierbach — a deputy district attorney originally from Broadview, Illinois

Pam Miller — a freelance writer from Northridge, California

Bill Klippel — a pricing specialist originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (whose 3-day cash winnings total $4,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bill $100 $600 $0 $0
3rd place: Alsy-Cycle II lamp set
$600
6 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Pam $-500 $-400 $3,200 $3,000
2nd place: set of Pinseeker golf clubs & Ray-Ban Leathers sunglasses
$3,200
11 R, 5 W
Rick $1,200 $3,000 $5,600 $6,500
New champion: $6,500
$5,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

TELEVISION MUSICAL ASTRONOMY MEDICINE CARDS PALINDROMES
$100 [1]
He's gone from Chachi in Milwaukee to "Charles in Charge"
Scott Baio
Bill
$100 [8]
Francis Scott Key wrote it
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Rick
$100 [19]
Resistance to a particular disease, or exemption from prosecution
immunity
Rick
$100 [14]
With cards, it's a game, but with armies, it's "hell"
War
Pam
$100 [6]
A chick's chirp
a peep
Pam Rick
$200 [2]
Husband & wife team who starred as "He & She"
Richard Benjamin & Paula Prentiss
Rick
$200 [9]
Tevye's dawn to dusk lament of time passing
"Sunrise, Sunset"
Pam
$200 [20]
Receives treatment through hospital facilities, but doesn't stay there
an outpatient
Rick
$200 [15]
With no wild cards in use, the best hand you can get in poker
a royal flush
Rick
$200 [7]
Men & women engage in the battle of these
the sexes
Pam Rick
$400 [4]
State Dick Louden's Inn is in
Vermont
Pam Rick
$300 [11]
In 1983 it happened to the sun & Bonnie Tyler's heart
a total eclipse
Bill
$300 [21]
Called the fontanel, it's where a baby's skull has yet to fuse firmly
the soft spot
Bill
$300 [16]
Value of face cards when scoring gin rummy
10
Pam
$300 [10]
Type of "tube" viewer who wouldn't watch "Jeopardy!"
boob
Rick
DD $500 [3]
View of the producer we saw during this theme
a side view (or shadow, profile, sketch, or silhouette)
Rick
$400 [12]
Grace Slick has rejoined this "intergalactic" band
the Jefferson Starship
Rick
$400 [22]
Medicines sold by descriptive or chemical names, not by brand
generic
Bill
$400 [17]
Variations of this game include Canfield, Klondike, & Spider
solitaire
$400 [24]
Precedes "Whistle, Plunk & Boom" in classic Disney cartoon
toot
$500 [5]
New Thursday night stars, Phylicia Ayers-Allen & Judith Light both came from this soap
One Life to Live
$500 [13]
"Hair's" "Gliddy glup gloopy, nibby nabby noopy, la la la lo lo"
"Good Morning Starshine"
Bill Rick
$500 [23]
Disease whose medical name is "rubella"
German measles
Rick
$500 [18]
The game bridge developed from
whist
Pam Rick

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY MAMMALS NUMBERS UNITED KINGDOM AUTHORS PUNISHMENT
$200 [1]
Judge John Sirica's most famous case
the Watergate case
Rick
$200 [22]
Named for its yelping & barking, this ground squirrel lives in burrows in the West
a prairie dog
Pam
$200 [6]
Number of times John Glenn orbited the Earth
three
Rick
$200 [13]
The country that makes the difference between Great Britain & the United Kingdom
Northern Ireland
$200 [12]
He based Robinson Crusoe on real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk
(Daniel) Defoe
Pam Rick
$200 [7]
Making an electrical connection, or stay-home punishment for teenagers
grounding
Bill Rick
$400 [2]
Author of "Up From Slavery" & founder of Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Rick
$400 [23]
Slow-moving animal of the seven deadly sins
sloth
Pam
$400 [8]
Number & color of horses she'll be driving while "comin' round the mountain"
six white
Pam
$400 [14]
Its name to the natives is "Cymru"
Wales
$400 [19]
He refused the 1940 Pulitzer for his play, "The Time of Your Life"
William Saroyan
$400 [16]
Most schools have drawn "the bottom line" against this form of corporal punishment
spanking
Rick
$600 [3]
Our first Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
Pam Rick
$600 [24]
Apes of Java, or a late Grape Nuts huckster
a gibbon
Bill
$600 [9]
Numeric system using only 1 & 0
binary
Pam
$600 [15]
Capital city on the Firth of Forth
Edinburgh
Rick
$600 [20]
Nathaniel West went west to write this tale of Hollywood
The Day Of The Locust
$600 [17]
Emotional & mental reconditioning, such as used in "1984"
brainwashing
Rick
$800 [4]
Secretary of State for 8 yrs. under Kennedy & Johnson
Dean Rusk
Rick
DD $600 [25]
Due to their diet, moles & hedgehogs are in this class, Latin for "bug eaters"
Insectivora
Bill
$800 [10]
Number of points on a backgammon board
24
Bill
$800 [18]
Device for compressing the most preaxial digit of the human hand
a thumbscrew
Pam
$1,000 [5]
"Holiday" FDR declared, March 6, 1933
the bank holiday
Pam
$1,000 [11]
Despite Polk's campaign slogan, we neither reached this line nor fought
54-40
Pam
$1,000 [21]
Greek god whose body was bound to a rock while an eagle made pate out of his liver
Prometheus

Final Jeopardy!

HOLIDAYS

Current name of holiday 1st established to mark armistice ending World War I

Veterans Day

Pam "What is Memorial Day?" — wagered $200
Rick "What is Veteran's Day?" — wagered $900

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