Show #157 1985-04-16 (taped 1984-12-19) Regular

Single-player Final Jeopardy!

Contestants

Tom Smith — a marketing manager from Palo Alto, California

Matthew Hubbard — a computer game designer from Palo Alto, California

Marilyn Campbell — a technical writer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Marilyn $200 $700 $-500 $-500
2nd place: trip to Palm Springs + Crown Luggage luggage set
$-500
3 R, 2 W
Matt $500 $2,700 $7,100 $12,100
New champion: $12,100
$6,700
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Tom $1,300 $1,300 $-1,900 $-1,900
3rd place: Frigidaire refrigerator/freezer
$-900
16 R, 12 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SINGERS & DANCERS LANGUAGES NOSTALGIA POLITICAL QUOTES AUSTRALIA GAME SHOWS
$100 [21]
They waltzed through "Swing Time" & "Carefree"
Astaire & Rogers
Matt
$100 [1]
"Ciao" can be either hello or goodbye in this language
Italian
Tom
$100 [6]
A popular teen style of the '50s was skirts with a silhouette of this dog
a poodle
Tom
$100 [16]
After he first met Hitler, this Italian called him "a silly clown"
Mussolini
Tom
$100 [11]
Airline originally called "Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services, Ltd."
Qantas
Tom
$500 [23]
Completes the slogan, "it's not what you say that counts..."
"it's what you don't say"
Matt Tom
$500 [22]
This famous Russian ballerina's last words were "Get my swan costume ready"
(Anna) Pavlova
Matt
$200 [2]
COBOL, Fortran & BASIC
computer language
Marilyn
$200 [7]
You always sent one of these along with a quarter to Battle Creek, MI
a box top
Matt
$200 [17]
The "Daily News" said this president in effect told New York City to "drop dead" in 1975
President Ford
Matt
$200 [12]
Australian site of '56 Olympic games
Melbourne
Matt
$300 [3]
Two countries besides Germany where German is an official language
(2 of) Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Austria
Tom
$300 [8]
Thomas Sperry began giving one of these for every 10¢ spent by a customer in 1896
green stamps (trading stamps)
Tom
$300 [18]
He was quoting from the Bible when he said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
Abraham Lincoln
Tom
$400 [14]
What the swagman sat by when he sat beside a billabong
a lake (or a pond)
Tom
$400 [4]
Word "boondocks" comes from Tagalog, spoken in this Asian island nation
the Philippines
Matt
$400 [9]
He was the conductor of the "Royal Canadians"
Guy Lombardo
Matt
$400 [19]
"A silent majority & government by the people is incompatible" said this husband of Jane Fonda
(Tom) Hayden
Tom
$500 [15]
It is by far the largest city on Australia's West Coast
Perth
Tom
$500 [5]
These people of northern Spain speak a language not clearly related to any other
Basque
Tom
$500 [10]
Their baby chick still "hasn't scratched yet"
Bon Ami
Matt
$500 [20]
"No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we're all his accomplices," said Edward R. Murrow of him
(Joe) McCarthy
Marilyn Tom
DD $700 [13]
Thissongby Rolf Harris was popular in the summer of '63:"There's an old Australian stockman lying, dying. / And he gets himself up onto one elbow, / And he turns to his mates who are gathered around, / And he says, 'Watch me wallabies feed, mate / Watch me wallabies feed...'"
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BIBLE FAMILIAR PHRASES WORLD HISTORY U.S. CITIES BEST PICTURES 7 WONDERS
$200 [13]
King Darius very reluctantly had him thrown into a lions' den
Daniel
Tom
$200 [1]
French author Alexandre Dumas said, "Nothing succeeds" like this
success
Tom
$200 [18]
In 1040, Macbeth defeated Duncan & seized this country's throne
Scotland
Matt
$200 [7]
Texas city on the Rio Grande whose name in Spanish means "the ford" or "the pass"
El Paso
Tom
$200 [6]
Jack Nicholson was crazy about this Best Picture of 1975
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Tom
$1,000 [24]
Ancient pictures show this statue astride the harbor's entrance, ships passing under its legs
the Colossus of Rhodes
Tom
$400 [16]
Kings of Israel were anointed with this substance
(olive) oil
Tom
$400 [2]
A bye-bye for Bill Haley, it preceded "after while, crocodile"
"See you later, alligator"
Marilyn
$400 [19]
Last fare-paying passengers ever to fly in a Zeppelin rode in this one
the Hindenburg
Matt
$400 [8]
It was here that Wyatt Earp was a lawman & Glen Campbell "a lineman"
Wichita, Kansas
Matt
$400 [9]
Though they never met, the writers won a screenplay Oscar for this 1970 WWII military biography
Patton
Matt Tom
$600 [17]
Of Protestant, Catholic & Jewish Bibles, books of 1st & 2nd Maccabees are only found here
the Catholic Bible
Marilyn Matt Tom
$600 [3]
In "The Muppet Movie", Kermit cleared the bar by yelling drinks were up there
on the house
Tom
$600 [20]
For 30 years, 1878 to 1908, this African country was Belgian king Leopold's personal colony
the Belgian Congo (Zaire)
Matt Tom
$600 [14]
About1/3of all U.S. books are published in this city
New York City
Matt
$600 [10]
Woody Allen first wanted to call this '77 Best Picture "Anhedonia", the inability to feel joy
Annie Hall
Matt Tom
DD $1,000 [25]
One of five prophetesses mentioned in the Bible
(1 of) Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Noadiah & Anna
Tom
$800 [4]
"All hell broke loose" is a phrase appropriately found in this Milton work
Paradise Lost
Matt
$800 [21]
He made his brothers, Louis, Joseph & Jerome, kings of Holland, Spain & Westphalia, respectively
Napoleon
Matt
$800 [15]
The met. area of this East Coast city has the highest average cost for a home, over $160,000
Washington, D.C.
Tom
$800 [11]
With this Oscar winner of 1956, Michael Todd brought "cameo player" into show biz vocabulary
Around The World In 80 Days
Matt
$1,000 [5]
From the practice of touching pieces of the Holy Cross, you say this so good luck will continue
knock on wood
Matt
$1,000 [22]
14th century "Babylonian captivity" of the papacy involved its being moved to this French city
Avignon
Tom
$1,000 [23]
First state university in U.S., the Univ. of No. Carolina, began classes in 1795 in this city
Chapel Hill
Marilyn Matt Tom
$1,000 [12]
In this 1935 film, Clark Gable starred in an Oscar winner for the 2nd consecutive year
Mutiny on the Bounty
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

BOOKS & AUTHORS

Upon completion of his "Answered Prayers", this late author would have received $1 million

Truman Capote

Matt "Who is Truman Capote?" — wagered $5,000

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