Show #183 1985-05-22 (taped 1985-01-23) Regular

Contestants

Kevin Davis — an attorney from Houston, Texas

Bodil Wiggins — a technical editor from Arlington, Texas

Charles Beall — a public relations administrator from Duncanville, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $21,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Charles $800 $2,700 $8,600 $8,700
3-day champion: $30,600
$6,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Bodil $800 $3,100 $4,000 $3,500
3rd place: KangaROOS athletic apparel
$3,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Kevin $0 $1,000 $4,200 $8,400
2nd place: Pinseeker golf clubs + Serengeti Drivers sunglasses
$4,200
11 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS BABY CARE NICKNAMES TEXAS FICTIONAL ANIMALS "NOSE"s
$100 [6]
First president to address congress in a radio broadcast, though we remember him as "silent"
Coolidge
Bodil
$100 [3]
For kids like Linus, it provides social "security"
his blanket
Charles
$100 [16]
The Leathernecks
the Marines
Charles
$100 [1]
Where in Texas "The stars at night are big & bright (clap, clap, clap, clap)..."
"Deep In The Heart Of Texas"
Charles
$100 [17]
Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit & Dancing Bear all visited his TV Treasure House
Captain Kangaroo
Bodil
$100 [18]
A photo finish generally means this is how the horserace was won
by a nose
Charles
$200 [12]
First president to serve more than 8 years
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kevin
$200 [5]
By law, paint on new baby cribs must be free of this element
lead
Charles
$200 [27]
Since 11 of her 12 husbands met untimely deaths, Martha Jane Canary earned this "disastrous" nickname
Calamity Jane
Charles
$200 [2]
This city is largest in Texas & 5th largest in the U.S.
Houston
Bodil
$200 [19]
Appropriate Sonny & Cher song Paul Bunyan might have sung to his ox
"I Got You Babe"
Charles Bodil
$200 [21]
How some pay for expensive rhinoplasty
they pay through the nose
Charles
$300 [13]
The first Republican to win the presidency
Abraham Lincoln
Kevin
$300 [7]
With diphtheria & pertussis, the "T" in DPT
tetanus
Bodil
DD $1,000 [28]
Before "nipping it" off in later life, Burt Reynolds & Marlon Brando shared this childhood nickname
Bud
Charles
$300 [4]
You can get a $65,000 desk shaped like your favorite cow at this Texas-based dept. store
Neiman Marcus
Bodil
$300 [20]
The 1st animal Alice saw in Wonderland
the White Rabbit
Charles Bodil
$300 [22]
It protects a spaceship from heat when re-entering the Earth's atmosphere
the nose cone
Bodil
$400 [14]
First president to visit Communist China
Richard Nixon
Charles
$400 [8]
Doctor Spock says that until he's old enough to put his lost teeth under it, he's better off without it
a pillow
Bodil
$400 [10]
In 1978, William P. Clements became the 1st Republican since 1869 to be elected this
governor
Charles
$400 [25]
Famous animal Sears uses on its line of children's clothing
Winnie the Pooh
Bodil
$400 [23]
Rest & ice & pressure relieve it; polyps or a fight could provoke it
a nose bleed
Bodil
$500 [15]
George Washington's practice of regularly consulting dept. heads gave rise to this concept
cabinet
Kevin
$500 [9]
Most experts agree that nursing mothers should drink at least this much milk a day
a quart
Bodil Kevin
$500 [11]
As big as Rhode Island, this "royal" ranch is Texas' largest
the King Ranch
Kevin
$500 [26]
Nurse Nana was one in James Barrie's "Peter Pan"
dog
Bodil
$500 [24]
A hand-held bouquet in Victorian Eng. which signified "He loves me" or "Not" by type of flowers
a nosegay
Bodil

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL MUSIC GOVERNMENT 20THCENTURY GREEK MYTHOLOGY TOUGH TRIVIA STARTS WITH "G"
$200 [9]
Common name of the instrument known as the pianoforte
the piano
Charles
$200 [1]
British P.M. who said "Democracy is the worst system devised by man, except for the others"
Winston Churchill
Charles
$200 [19]
As a result of this 1912 disaster, all steamships must have enough lifeboats for all passengers
the Titanic disaster
Charles
$200 [14]
She was the patron goddess & guardian of what is now Greece's capital city
Athena
Bodil
$200 [6]
None of the members of this Herb Alpert band are Hispanics
the Tijuana Brass
Kevin
$200 [16]
Francisco Franco's superlative title
generalissimo
Charles
$400 [5]
The instrumental prelude to an opera
the overture
Bodil
$400 [7]
A representative government, or what Plato called his ideal state
the republic
Charles Kevin
$400 [20]
In December '84, the Pentagon announced it would put a spy satellite over this country
the Soviet Union
Bodil Kevin
$400 [13]
To Greeks a race of mighty women; to South Americans, their mighty river
Amazon
Charles
$400 [15]
Words with which Betty Furness assured appliance buyers
You can be sure if it's Westinghouse
Charles
$400 [24]
The study of aging
gerontology
Charles Kevin
$600 [2]
Known in his time as a plagiarist, he composed the "Messiah"
George Frideric Handel
Charles
$600 [8]
Chief executive of a Canadian province, or the French equivalent of prime minister
a premier
Charles
$600 [21]
This world group dissolved in 1946, the same year the first U.N. General Assembly met
the League of Nations
Bodil
$600 [10]
Though known as Helen of Troy, she was actually queen of this warlike city-state
Sparta
Charles
$600 [26]
In 1907, he became a bank robber to raise funds for fledgling Bolshevik Party
Stalin
Bodil Kevin
$600 [25]
Condition caused by too many cars in one area, prohibiting movement in any direction
gridlock
Bodil Kevin
$1,000 [4]
An Offenbach opera is based on his Tales
(E.T.A.) Hoffmann
Charles
$800 [17]
He is the U.S. government's chief law enforcement officer
the attorney general
Kevin
$800 [22]
He was famous for leaving Roosevelt Field, N.Y., May 20, 1927, alone
Lindbergh
Bodil
$800 [11]
Like Lot's wife, this fabled musician should never have looked back
Orpheus
Charles
$800 [27]
Title character's favorite baseball player in "The Old Man & the Sea"
Joe DiMaggio
Kevin
DD $2,500 [3]
Prokofiev's folk fable with title characters played by a string quartet & 3 horns
Peter and the Wolf
Charles
$1,000 [18]
It's West Germany's lower house of parliament
Bundestag
Kevin
DD $1,500 [23]
In March 1979, this mediator signed the Camp David peace treaty as the witness
President Carter
Bodil
$1,000 [12]
With snakes for hair & eyes that weep blood, the "Eumenides" pursued & tormented sinners
the Furies (or the Erinyes)
Charles Bodil
$1,000 [28]
"Unusual" middle name of former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara
Strange

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

From 1978-81, all Oscar winners for Best Supporting Actress had these same initials

M.S.

Bodil "What are L.S." — wagered $500
Kevin "What was M.S." — wagered $4,200
Charles "What is M.S.?" — wagered $100

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