Show #101 1985-01-28 (taped 1984-10-23) Regular

Contestants

Ron Mulligan — a production assistant from Los Angeles, California

Robert Miltenberg — a writer originally from Jersey City, New Jersey

Les Miller — a scrap metal dealer from La Mesa, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Les $-500 $300 $2,100 $4,200
2-day champion: $10,300
$2,100
9 R, 4 W
Robert $-600 $0 $2,600 $900
2nd place: Action Recliner + Alsy-Cycle II lamp set
$2,600
14 R, 7 W
Ron $-500 $500 $1,000 $0
3rd place: Teletec Touch II telephone system
$3,300
14 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

"FIRST" GREECE CARTOONISTS MOVIES ROCK 'N ROLL
$100 [19]
Nancy Reagan's White House role
the First Lady
Les Ron
$100 [6]
Central hill of ancient Athens, it survived many wars but is now endangered by smog
the Acropolis
Les Robert
$100 [14]
He's doing "Doonesbury" again
Garry Trudeau
Les
$100 [3]
1942 movie title contemplated by Jack Benny's Hamlet
To Be Or Not To Be
Ron
$100 [8]
She sang & danced on PBS' "Electric Company" before "Fame" hit
Irene Cara
Les
$200 [20]
Gary, Harry, Julie, Suzanne, Michelle, Barbara, Steven, or Jules, for example
first names
Ron
$200 [7]
"Never on Sunday" star who's now Minister of Culture
Melina Mercouri
Les
$200 [15]
Until '83, his girls were foxy fixtures in "Playboy"
Vargas
Les
$200 [4]
Oryctolagus Cuniculuswho was star of WB's 1958 Oscar-winning short
Bugs Bunny
$200 [9]
"Bent sibling" group who shouts "We're Not Gonna Take It"
Twisted Sister
Ron
$300 [21]
The starting line-up
first string
Robert Ron
$300 [13]
Greece's official state religion
Greek Orthodox
Les
$300 [16]
Human arachnid created by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Spider-Man
Ron
$300 [5]
Edward Everett Horton was as crazy as one in "Alice in Wonderland"
a Mad Hatter
Ron
$300 [10]
This Pink Floyd album has been on the Top 200 chart for over 10 years
Dark Side of the Moon
Robert
$400 [17]
Herbert Block signs "Herblock" to political cartoons he draws for this daily, his home paper
The Washington Post
Robert
$400 [1]
1984 fantasy that sounds like a painting of siesta scenery
Dreamscape
Les Ron
$400 [11]
A "bad season" song for Bananarama
"Cruel Summer"
Robert Ron
$500 [18]
His name is synonymous with complicated contraptions to perform simple tasks
Rube Goldberg
Robert
$500 [2]
Meryl Streep won her 1st Oscar for this '79 film
Kramer Vs. Kramer
Robert Ron
$500 [12]
Latest in rock recording technology is this, abbreviated "CD"
compact disc
Robert Ron

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH HISTORY THE SENSES LANDMARKS ECOLOGY THE CIRCUS "LAST"
$200 [1]
Though he had 1 eye, 1 arm & was always seasick, admiral who defeated Napoleon
Nelson
Robert
$200 [22]
Bogart's toast to Bergman in "Casablanca"
"Here's looking at you, kid"
Robert
$200 [9]
According to legend, Galileo dropped weights while "leaning" out of it
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Ron
$200 [14]
From Portuguese word for "silly", this flightless bird has been extinct for 300 years
the dodo
Ron
$200 [6]
Acrobat-turned-actor who used both skills for "Trapeze"
Burt Lancaster
Ron
$200 [12]
The camel's back-breaking burden
the last straw
Ron
$400 [2]
Monarch known for dressing in black, she mourned her husband Albert for 40 years
Queen Victoria
Robert
$400 [23]
You should get a fair one of these in front of an impartial judge
a fair hearing
Ron
$400 [10]
"Sweet" mountain that overlooks harbor of Rio de Janeiro
Sugarloaf
Les
$400 [20]
Founded in Calif. in 1892, this pro-environment group now has 180,000 members nationwide
the Sierra Club
Les
$400 [7]
No 2 are exactly alike & each is painted on an eggshell to be registered
a clown's face
Robert
$400 [13]
Lee, Eisenberg, Davis, Stone, Johnson, Heller, Dorfman, or Minton, for example
last names
Robert
$600 [3]
Jennie Jerome & Lord Randolph's little boy
Winston Churchill
Robert
$800 [25]
Talking body parts used to sell Budweiser on "Saturday Night Live" commercials
taste buds
Robert
$600 [11]
The Brandenburg Gate is in this city
East Berlin
Les Robert
$600 [21]
An island in D.C.'s Potomac River serves as a memorial to this conservationist president
Teddy Roosevelt Island
Robert
$600 [8]
This family's 7-person high-wire pyramid collapsed in tragedy in 1962
the Flying Wallendas
Les
$600 [15]
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Monroe Stahr
The Last Tycoon
Robert Ron
$800 [4]
"Thorny" struggle between the houses of York & Lancaster
the War of the Roses
Robert
DD $1,300 [24]
Title of thefollowingfeaturing a flugelhorn:
"Feels So Good"
Ron
DD $1,000 [18]
City where you'd find Karl Marx's grave
London
Ron
$800 [16]
It's on the wall, not the ceiling, of the Sistine Chapel
The Last Judgement
Robert
$1,000 [5]
Guy Fawkes' explosive effort to blow up Parliament
the Gunpowder Plot
Robert
$1,000 [19]
World's first nuclear reactor is at this national laboratory in Tennessee
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Les
$1,000 [17]
Conrad Birdie's farewell croon
"One Last Kiss"
Ron

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. PRESIDENTS

Since Hoover, number of presidents known to have faced unsuccessful assassination attempts

4

Ron "What is 3?" — wagered $1,000
Les "What is four" — wagered $2,100
Robert "What is 3?" — wagered $1,700

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