Show #107 1985-02-05 (taped 1984-10-24) Regular

Paul Croshier game 5.

Contestants

Joe Gauthier — a bank trust officer originally from Austin, Minnesota

Pete Kolanowski — a laboratory technician from Los Angeles, California

Paul Croshier — a Marine Corps staff sergeant from Camp Pendleton, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $36,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Paul $100 $1,700 $4,500 $500
5-day champion: $36,500
$4,500
14 R, 4 W
Pete $800 $2,500 $4,100 $100
2nd place: La-Z-Boy sofa + Emerson portable stereo
$4,100
24 R, 7 W
Joe $-200 $-500 $3,500 $1
3rd place: Faema espresso machine
$2,300
12 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

LONDON WEATHER FOOD WORD ORIGINS CATS TRIVIA
$100 [1]
Color of London transport's double-decker buses
red
Pete
$100 [15]
A Russian experimenter was killed by lightning in 1753 trying to match this inventor's 1752 feat
Benjamin Franklin
Pete
$100 [11]
State which raises the most beef cattle
Texas
Pete
$100 [2]
From African word "nguba", common southern term for "peanut"
a goober pea
Pete
$100 [13]
Prehistoric cats with enlarged canine teeth
a saber-toothed tiger
Pete
$100 [22]
Interior sec'y Watt barred this singing group from D.C. July 4th shindig
the Beach Boys
Pete
$200 [5]
Officially Collegiate Church of St. Peter, British monarchs are crowned there
Westminster Abbey
Pete
$200 [16]
It measures air pressure & is either aneroid or mercury
a barometer
Joe
$200 [12]
Candy bar named for President Cleveland's White House-born daughter, not a ballplayer
Baby Ruth
Pete
$200 [3]
This trademark brand has become the common term for petroleum jelly
Vaseline
Joe
$200 [14]
Distinguished from leopards by its spots within spots, it's largest wildcat in W. Hemisphere
jaguar
Paul Pete
$200 [23]
One of their ads read, "Don't take a curve, at 60 per, we hate to lose, a customer"
Burma-Shave
Joe
$300 [6]
Fleet Street is the center of this industry
the newspaper industry
Paul Pete
$300 [17]
Most are mainly water droplets, but cirrus & cirrostratus are formed of ice crystals
clouds
Pete
$300 [28]
Related in fact to the peach, this nut resembles a peach pit
an almond
Pete
$300 [4]
Type of print which means "Italian"
italic
Paul
$300 [19]
Vibrations in wall of blood vessels in the chest are believed to cause this phenomenon
purring
Pete Joe
$400 [25]
Theme song of Leonard Slye & Frances Octavia Smith
"Happy Trails To You"
Paul Joe
$400 [7]
Locale where you'd find Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon & the Rosetta Stone
the British Museum
Pete Joe
$400 [18]
Layered pellets of ice & snow that might be named Alan or Alan, Jr.
hail
Pete
$400 [9]
Drunk czarist officers were the 1st to challenge one another to this dangerous game
Russian roulette
Pete
$400 [20]
The Himalayan gets its long hair from the Persian & its color points from this breed
a Siamese
Pete
DD $500 [24]
Baseball star referred to in this song:"Dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee"
Joe DiMaggio
Joe
$500 [8]
Those born within the sound of the bells of St. Mary-le-Bow are called this
Cockneys
Pete Joe
$500 [26]
Winds blowing almost steadily from N.E., they helped speed westward travel for sailors
the trade winds
Paul Pete
$500 [10]
Cheap cigars favored by Conestoga wagon drivers
stogies
Paul Joe
$500 [21]
From German for "wailing tomcat", it's the harsh feline cry of mating season
a caterwaul
Pete
$500 [27]
In a single year she "played" for the Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Knicks & NY Rangers
the organist (Gladys Gooding)
Paul Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR WORLD POLITICS MYTHOLOGY SPORTS MOVIES PHYSICS 6-LETTER WORDS
$200 [4]
Sherman's March to the Sea was across this state
Georgia
Joe
$200 [1]
Country officially called the German Democratic Republic
East Germany
Pete
$200 [2]
Animal symbolizing healing, because Asclepius, god of healing, had one coiled around his staff
a snake
Pete
$200 [24]
Sport featured in "Ice Castles"
ice skating
Pete
$200 [12]
In electricity, what "AC" stands for
alternating current
Joe
$200 [16]
Describes the age in Europe between 500 & 1450 A.D.
middle
Paul Pete
$400 [8]
The Confederates renamed this ironclad the "Virginia"
the Merrimack
Paul
$400 [5]
Headquarters city of European common market
Brussels
Pete
$400 [3]
Underworld god whose name became synonymous with Hell
Hades
Paul
$400 [25]
Robert Redford takes on snow, not movie moguls
Downhill Racer
Joe
$400 [19]
Newton's 3rd law states for every action this is equal and opposite
a reaction
Paul
$400 [17]
It "barks" out Bach in your stereo
a woofer
Paul
$600 [9]
Union General, his name was synonymous with "sideburns"
(General Ambrose) Burnside
Paul
$600 [13]
It's the legislature of Japan
the Diet
Joe
$600 [6]
Nine goddesses of the arts that artists commune with
the Muses
Pete
$1,000 [26]
1940 movie where Pat O'Brien told the team to "Go in there & win one for the Gipper"
Knute Rockne, All-American
Paul Pete
$600 [20]
He made "relativistic corrections" in Newton's theories which made atomic theory workable
Einstein
Pete
$600 [23]
A trite or hackneyed expression, in Mad magazine it can be "horrifying"
a cliché
Pete
$800 [10]
The Youngers & Jesse James began their infamous careers with this Confederate guerrilla leader
Quantrill
Joe
$800 [14]
Soviet ally in East Africa that has formally turned Communist
Ethiopia
Paul Joe
$800 [7]
The play within a play in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
"Pyramus and Thisbe"
Paul
$800 [21]
Branch of physics dealing with light
optics
Paul
$1,000 [11]
Creole general who led confederate attack on Ft. Sumter
(Pierre G. T.) Beauregard
Pete
DD $2,000 [15]
Name of "ANZUS" treaty is an acronym for these three signatory countries
the United States, Australia, and New Zealand
Joe
$1,000 [18]
Jupiter made the 1st one for his brothers to punish them for stealing fire from heaven
woman
Pete Joe
$1,000 [22]
Term for the amount of twist that a force exerts on an object
torque
Paul

Final Jeopardy!

SHOW BUSINESS

Only actress to win an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy & an Emmy

Rita Moreno

Joe "Who is Diana Ross" — wagered $3,499
Pete "Who is Hepburn" — wagered $4,000
Paul "Who is Diana Ross?" — wagered $4,000

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