Show #172 1985-05-07 (taped 1985-01-21) Regular

Contestants

David Rambo — a real estate agent originally from Spring City, Pennsylvania

Dorian Ellis — a chef from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ralph Pride — a freelance cooking writer from Houston, Texas

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ralph $900 $600 $2,400 $2,400
3rd place: Landes coffee & tea set with tray
$2,400
8 R, 5 W
Dorian $-200 $1,700 $4,500 $8,999
New champion: $8,999
$5,100
17 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 1 DD)
David $100 $400 $5,200 $5,700
2nd place: Frigidaire washer & dryer + Benchmark carpeting
$5,700
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SILLY SONGS STARTS WITH "V" MAMMALS JIMMY CAGNEY DESSERTS
$100 [7]
It's what was going on while Bobby Darin was "splish splash, takin' a bath"
that party going on
Dorian
$100 [8]
B.P., heart rate & respiration are these kinds of signs to a paramedic
vital signs
Dorian
$100 [1]
This bushy-tailed tree top rodent can take falls up to 100 feet without injury
a squirrel (a flying squirrel)
Ralph Dorian
$100 [12]
Three word phrase he's often imitated saying, but claims he never said in films
you dirty rat
David
$100 [6]
Famous Amos, Mrs. Fields & the Keebler elves have all made their names with these
cookies
David
$200 [11]
Hey! This guy he was so fine, he blew Toni Basil's mind
Mickey
Ralph Dorian David
$200 [9]
What Nolan Ryan would be if he threw his voice instead of a ball
a ventriloquist
Ralph
$200 [2]
Renowned for speed, this large carnivore can go from standing to 45 mph in 2 secs.
a cheetah
Dorian
$200 [13]
In "One, Two, Three", Cagney played an overseas executive for this soda co.
Coca-Cola
David
$200 [10]
Dessert stolen by the Knave of Hearts
tarts
David
DD $500 [23]
According to thefollowing, "if you ever saw it", what "you would even say":"Then one foggy Christmas Eve / Santa came to say / Rudolph, with your nose so bright..."
it glows
David
$300 [19]
They're stacked to give a man backbone, unlike a spineless jellyfish
vertebrae
David
$300 [3]
In Europe, this fierce animal is the "glutton", in the Big 10, it's the University of Michigan
a wolverine
Ralph
$300 [14]
In this famous 1949 film, Cagney died, consumed by flames on the "top of the world"
White Heat
Ralph David
$300 [16]
You should find 4 cherry halves in a 17-oz. Del Monte can of this
a tin fruit cocktail
Dorian
$400 [20]
It can be spiked to score a point
a volleyball
Dorian
$400 [4]
Genuine angora, not mohair, is made from the fur of this mammal
a rabbit
Dorian
$400 [15]
Oscar role he said had "all the elements... drama...comedy...hokey-pokey, real hokey-pokey"
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Dorian
$400 [17]
German for "whirlpool", when filled with apples it's a pastry
strudel
Dorian
$500 [21]
Repeated word for word
verbatim
Ralph
$500 [5]
More common name for wapiti
an elk
Ralph
$500 [22]
On doctor's orders, he returned to making movies after 20 years for this 1981 film
Ragtime
Ralph David
$500 [18]
It looks like ice cream, tastes like ice cream, but it's the current curd fad
Tofutti (tofu ice cream)
Dorian

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CITIES 12-LETTER WORDS COMPOSERS CIVIL WAR EQUIVALENCIES
$200 [12]
Only Muslims may enter this holiest Islamic city
Mecca
David
$200 [6]
In Batman's Gotham City, this was the title of the police force's James Gordon
Commissioner
Dorian David
$200 [1]
Rossini really "hit the bull's-eye" when he wrote this overture
the William Tell Overture
David
$200 [21]
First side to resort to drafting soldiers
the South (the Confederacy)
Ralph Dorian
$200 [16]
Canadian equivalent of our states
provinces
Dorian
$400 [13]
This Canadian city is North America's busiest Pacific port
Vancouver
Dorian David
$400 [7]
It's the picture that accompanies the prose
illustration
Dorian David
$400 [2]
His 9th Symphony's "Ode To Joy" was featured in The Beatles' movie "Help"
Beethoven
David
$400 [22]
Son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor who was himself a president during the war
Jefferson Davis (President of the Confederacy)
Dorian
$400 [17]
British equivalent of the Girl Scouts
the Girl Guides
Dorian
$600 [11]
"Dark pool" in Gaelic, it's known for a monumental no. of public monuments
Dublin
Dorian
$600 [8]
It's the art of making or displaying fireworks
pyrotechnics
Dorian
$600 [3]
It took only 3 weeks for him to compose "Rhapsody In Blue"
George Gershwin
David
$800 [24]
"High-Water Mark of the South" was this general's charge at Gettysburg
Pickett
Ralph
$600 [18]
Jewish equivalent of crepes
blintzes
David
$800 [14]
Icelandic capital which uses natural hot springs to heat all its buildings
Reykjavik
Dorian
$800 [9]
Style of swimming that got its 1st medal in the '84 Olympics
synchronized
Dorian
$800 [4]
Though German, he admired Shakespeare and wrote incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Mendelssohn
David
DD $1,000 [23]
1 of 5 slaves states that didn't secede
(1 of) Kentucky (Missouri, West Virginia, Delaware or Maryland)
Dorian
$800 [19]
In 5 states, Calif., Nev., NY, NJ & Wisc., the state House of Representatives is called this
the State Assembly
Ralph David
$1,000 [15]
Founded as St. Petersburg & now called Leningrad, it was this from 1914-1924
Petrograd
Dorian
DD $1,000 [10]
Another name for stevedore
a longshoreman
Dorian
$1,000 [5]
Brahms & Chopin were 2 primary composers of this period which followed the classical
the Romantic period
David
$1,000 [25]
Though there were only eleven states in the Confederacy, the Confederate flag had this many stars
13
Ralph
$1,000 [20]
Naval equivalent of a 2nd lieutenant
an ensign
Ralph

Final Jeopardy!

GOVERNMENT

The highest ranking member of the U.S. President's Cabinet

the Secretary of State

Ralph "What is Secy of State" — wagered $0
Dorian "Who is the Sect'y of State" — wagered $4,499
David "Who is the Secretary of State?" — wagered $500

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