Show #494 1986-10-30 (taped 1986-08-27) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Peggy Kroencke — a personnel manager originally from Long Beach, California

Jeff Suto — a law student originally from Hacienda Heights, California

Sarah Frommer — an attorney from Santa Monica, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sarah $-100 $0 $1,400 $1,201
2nd place
$1,400
9 R, 4 W
Jeff $1,800 $2,400 $6,200 $7,000
New champion: $7,000
$8,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Peggy $0 $800 $600 $600
3rd place
$900
6 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

GEORGE WASHINGTON WEIGHTS & MEASURES TOYS IN SONG EUROPE RESTAURANTS "G" WHIZ
$100 [17]
George Washington's picture is on this state seal
Washington
$100 [6]
It's worth a pound of cure
an ounce of prevention
Jeff
$100 [10]
Even though they were boys, The Four Seasons played with this title toy in 1964
a rag doll
Jeff
$100 [1]
Checkpoint Charlie is the nickname for the crossing between halves of this city
Berlin
Jeff
$100 [8]
Windows on the Worldcaps this New York City landmark
the World Trade Center
Sarah
$100 [11]
The only U.S. state that starts with "G"
Georgia
Jeff
$200 [18]
Washington's will ordered that these be set free upon Martha's death
his slaves
Sarah
$200 [7]
An Irish dancer, or about an ounce & a half of liquor
a jigger
Sarah
$200 [24]
According to Roger Miller in 1966, "You can't" do this "in a buffalo herd"
roller skate
Peggy
$200 [2]
The North African mainland lies only nine miles from this European country
Spain
Jeff Peggy
$200 [9]
The majority of Host International restaurants are located in these
airports
Peggy
$200 [15]
Cucumbers, melons & pumpkins are all types of these
gourds
Sarah
$300 [20]
The estate of George's half-brother Lawrence, first known as Little Hunting Creek
Mount Vernon
$300 [12]
Cigarettes called 100s are this length
100 millimeters
Jeff
$300 [25]
In 1971, The Osmonds went up & down & up & down the charts in 12 weeks with this song
"Yo-Yo"
$300 [3]
You'd find the cities of Grunberg, Gdynia, & Gdansk, on a map of this country
Poland
Jeff
$300 [19]
They sneak into fancy restaurants & fool people with their instant coffee
Folgers
Sarah Jeff
$300 [16]
What The Rascals were doing on a Sunday afternoon in 1967
groovin'
Jeff
$400 [21]
Long before the Geneva Convention he insisted the British treat captured American officers as these, not criminals
prisoners of war
Sarah
$400 [13]
Your car might use one in size 215. 60 VR-15
tires
Jeff
DD $300 [26]
Title ofthis1982 hit, which cashed in on a phrase "quarter by quarter":"I got a pocket full of quarters, and I'm headed to the arcade / "I don't have a lot of money, but I'm bringing ev'rything I made..."
"Pac-Man Fever"
Peggy
$400 [4]
Located in the West Midlands, it's England's second largest city
Birmingham
Sarah Jeff
$400 [22]
Among the top U.S. restaurants in sales, Andersen's in Buellton, California, uses this soup in its name
pea soup
Peggy
$400 [23]
Black-footed albatrosses, or a 1985 Steven Spielberg production
goonies
Sarah
$500 [14]
While a troy or apothecary's pound is 12 ounces, this kind is 16
avoirdupois
Peggy
$500 [5]
The words balcony, costume, & umbrella came to English from this modern language
Italian

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE CLASSICAL MUSIC LABOR LITERARY TRIVIA STATE MOTTOS NOISE MAKERS
$200 [6]
From Latin for 100 steps, it's one name for the scale with 100 degrees between freezingand boiling
centigrade
Jeff
$200 [12]
Even in a symphony orchestra, musicians call this a fiddle
the violin
Sarah
$200 [23]
From Old German "gelt", meaning service or income, it's a term for artisan groups of the Middle Ages
guild
Jeff
$200 [1]
At the age of 13, James Fenimore Cooper entered this New Haven university
Yale
Sarah
$200 [20]
"Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono"
Hawaii
Peggy
$200 [8]
Fruit of the palm used in old radio programs to simulate galloping horses
coconuts
Jeff
$400 [7]
A sponge-like solid formed on top of lava as it cools, it can smooth rough elbows
pumice
Peggy
$400 [13]
Mozart usually had a table in his home to indulge his passion for this game
a billiards table
Sarah Peggy
$400 [24]
From 1886 until his death in 1924, he only missed one year as president of the AFL
Samuel Gompers
Peggy
$400 [2]
Harriet Beecher Stowe's father, four brothers & husband practiced this profession religiously
the ministry (clergymen)
Jeff
$400 [21]
"Montani Semper Liberi" means "Mountaineers are always" this
free
Jeff
$400 [17]
William Cullen Bryant called it "the crashing of the chariot of God"
thunder
Jeff
$600 [9]
In the 1800s, Matthew Maury described this current as a river in the ocean
the Gulf Stream
Jeff
$600 [14]
In case anyone asks, the 1st opera sung in Lithuanian was this composer's "La Traviata"
Giuseppe Verdi
DD $600 [25]
Profession of someone who's a member of the AFM
musician
Jeff
$600 [3]
Though he learned to speak French first, he wrote his novel such as "Of Human Bondage" in English
Somerset Maugham
Sarah
$600 [22]
"North to the Future"
Alaska
Jeff
$600 [18]
What an Uzi is
a submachine gun (semi-automatic)
Jeff
$1,000 [11]
A complex colloid that forms the essential living matter of organisms
protoplasm
$800 [15]
After the age of 90, this conductor featured in "Fantasia" recorded another 20 albums
Leopold Stokowski
Sarah
$800 [28]
Wage system where payment base is per unit of outputs
piecework
Jeff
$800 [4]
This Dostoyevsky title refers to Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
The Idiot
Jeff
$800 [26]
Longfellow poem on seeking higher goals, said to have been inspired by New York motto
"Excelsior"
$800 [19]
Jews drown out Haman's name with graggers while the whole Megillah is read on this holiday
Purim
DD $2,000 [10]
Of argon, ozone, & CO2, the one of highest concentration in our air, making up nearly 1% of the atmosphere
argon
Jeff
$1,000 [16]
After surprising people with his "Surprise Symphony", he created "The Creation"
Joseph Haydn
$1,000 [29]
This agreement, not to join a union during a workers' employment, sounds like a colorful canine
a yellow dog
$1,000 [5]
Ulysses' father, or Hamlet's murderer
Laertes
$1,000 [27]
Fact that Wyoming women were the 1st in the U.S. to vote & hold office is reflected in this two-word state motto
"Equal Rights"

Final Jeopardy!

GENERALS

1 of the only 2 generals in American history to serve as Secretary of State

(1 of) (Alexander) Haig or George Marshall

Peggy "Who was Grant?" — wagered $0
Sarah "Who was Sherman?" — wagered $199
Jeff "Who is Haig?" — wagered $800

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