Show #146 1985-04-01 (taped 1984-12-12) Regular

Scattering of clues and responses in Double Jeopardy! entered from audiorecording.

Contestants

David Stern — an attorney originally from New York City

Sara Ingalls — a homemaker and substitute teacher originally from Portland, Oregon

Dan Staub — a retail manager originally from Highland Park, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dan $-200 $500 $10,000 $9,200
2-day champion: $17,000
$7,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Sara $0 $800 $800 $1,595
2nd place: WhiteWestinghouse washer/dryer + Code-A-Phone answering machine
$800
4 R, 2 W
David $100 $900 $5,400 $400
3rd place: Berkline recliner
$4,300
15 R (including 1 DD), 7 W

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY SPORTS FOOD FAMOUS QUOTES TRAVEL & TOURISM POTPOURRI
$100 [3]
By 1969, we had well over half a million troops over there
Vietnam
Dan
$100 [5]
One-on-one in tennis
singles
Dan David
$100 [14]
The "marbling" in meat
fat
Dan
$100 [20]
In typing test, "all good men" come to its aid
the party
Dan David
$100 [1]
Standard tip included on most European restaurant checks
15%
Dan David
$100 [7]
In actuality, this substance is only6/100"thicker than water"
blood
Sara David
$200 [8]
At $25 million, these islands were America's most expensive territorial purchase
the Virgin Islands
David
$200 [10]
The NHL's play-off team trophy
the Stanley Cup
Dan
$200 [15]
It's clarified for lobster eaters
butter
Dan
$200 [21]
When asked why he wanted to climb Everest, George Mallory, who died there, gave this reply
because it's there
Dan
$200 [2]
This completes the travelers golden rule of packing: when in doubt...
leave it (out)
Sara David
$200 [11]
Sylvan Goldman's grocery conveyers, the secret of separating them may have just died with him
the grocery cart (shopping cart)
Dan Sara
$300 [9]
It was America's capital from 1790 to 1800
Philadelphia
Sara David
$300 [12]
A chukker is a period in this sport
polo
Dan Sara
$300 [16]
A letter misprinted as a "V" made the French "grane" this now-used word for sauce
gravy
David
$300 [22]
Charles Dana defined news as not when a dog bites a man, but when this happens
when man bites dog
Dan
$300 [4]
On a cruise ship, he's responsible for all accounts & papers, & for passengers' comfort
a purser
Sara
$300 [19]
This comic strip boxer has hung up his gloves after 44 years in the newspaper ring
Joe Palooka
Dan
$400 [17]
Last governmental position held by Adlai Stevenson
U.N. ambassador
Dan David
$400 [13]
Since 1867, lacrosse has been this country's national sport
Canada
Dan David
DD $500 [6]
Country you'd be in if you were traveling on the following:"On the road to Mandalay / Where the flyin' fishes play, / And the dawn comes up like thunder / Out of China, 'cross the bay..."
Burma
Dan
$500 [18]
Henry Thoreau wouldn't pay taxes to support this conflict which critics called "Polk's war"
the Mexican-American War
David

Double Jeopardy! Round

POLITICS ART SLEEP MOVIES THE BIBLE PARKS
$200 [2]
List of candidates for an office or a handheld blackboard
a slate
Dan
$200 [7]
Number of figures in Da Vinci's "Last Supper"
13
Dan
$200 [17]
He actually never slept in the famous White House bedroom named for him
Abraham Lincoln
Dan
$200 [1]
Their last film & album was "Let It Be"
the Beatles
David
$200 [10]
Sodom's twin city in infamy
Gomorrah
Dan
$200 [24]
Frederick Law Olmsted was 1st to call himself a landscape architect when he designed this NYC park
Central Park
David
$400 [14]
Founded in 1920 as outgrowth of the suffrage movement, it now sponsors political debates
the League of Women Voters
David
$400 [8]
Though he preferred doing landscapes, Gainsborough is best known for this type of painting
a portrait
Dan
$600 [19]
The vibration of the uvula & the soft palate during sleep
snoring
$400 [3]
1966 Lemmon & Matthau film, or a Chinese dessert
The Fortune Cookie
Dan
$400 [11]
From Greek meaning "beginning", it's the 1st book of the Bible
Genesis
Dan
$600 [15]
The system of filling jobs with party members, or what goes to the victor
the spoils system
Dan David
$600 [9]
From Italian for "pity", it's a painting or statue of Mary mourning over the body of Jesus
a pieta
Dan
$1,000 [23]
Prolonged use of sleeping pills can disturb slumber by reducing this, called "dreaming sleep"
REM sleep
David
$600 [4]
In "Hellfighters" John Wayne fought this kind of fire
oil well fires
Dan David
$600 [12]
Evil queen of Israel, or any wicked woman, like Bette Davis in '38 film
Jezebel
Dan David
$800 [21]
In his best-seller, he confessed how "blind ambition" led him into the Watergate scandal
John Dean
David
$800 [20]
His group portrait of "Syndics of the Cloth Guild" has been reproduced on thousands of cigar boxes
Rembrandt
David
DD $3,500 [18]
In 1909, his door bed company was 1st in U.S. to manufacture the concealed bed
Murphy
Dan
$800 [5]
This "grave" movie was Alfred Hitchcock's last
Family Plot
Dan
$800 [13]
What the apostles' epistles were
the letters
David
DD $2,100 [22]
The 2 Alfreds who have been major party presidential candidates in the 20th century
Smith & Landon
David
$1,000 [6]
1980's "Willy & Phil" was an updated American version of this '62 Truffaut film
Jules and Jim
Dan
$1,000 [16]
Land to which the Lord sent Cain after he killed his brother
the Land of Nod
Dan

Final Jeopardy!

THE ZODIAC

Unlike Scorpio, these 2 water signs are actual water creatures

Pisces & Cancer

Sara "What are Pisces and Cancer" — wagered $795
David "What are Pisces and Capricorn?" — wagered $5,000
Dan "What is Cancer + Aquarius" — wagered $800

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