Show #175 1985-05-10 (taped 1985-01-21) Regular

Contestants

Dennis Rickman — a research associate originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Elaine McCauley — a dance instructor from Walnut, California

Carole Blatchford — a dental assistant from Tomball, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Carole $800 $1,100 $9,000 $7,000
2-day champion: $15,799
$8,300
19 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Elaine $-100 $500 $-4,900 $-4,900
3rd place: Panasonic car radio
$-4,900
16 R, 14 W
Dennis $400 $500 $2,900 $5,799
2nd place: Vitamaster exercise machine + Skyway luggage
$2,700
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

WWII SIT-COMS FIRST LINES MUSIC TRIVIA "BIG"
$100 [7]
Disney character name used as password by Allies on D-Day
Mickey Mouse
Carole
$100 [2]
This fatherless musical family might be found in a pear tree
The Partridge Family
Elaine
$100 [17]
The Gettysburg Address
"Four score and seven years ago"
Dennis
$100 [9]
Wild & crazy comic who sang "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" in "Sgt. Pepper" film
Steve Martin
Carole Dennis
$100 [1]
A giant gyroscope, or the largest tent in a circus
the big top
Elaine
$200 [12]
Name for the alliance of Germany, Japan & Italy
the Axis
Elaine
$200 [3]
The title of this current series describes how Ted Knight & family coexist
Too Close for Comfort
Carole Dennis
$200 [18]
In opening narration of his TV series, what Superman was "more powerful than"
a locomotive
Elaine
$200 [13]
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show got their song wish Mar. 29, 1973 when they made this magazine's cover
the Rolling Stone magazine
Carole
$200 [8]
What Californians call the creature Canadians call Sasquatch
Bigfoot
Elaine
DD $300 [14]
His followers were known as "Black Shirts"
Mussolini
Carole
$300 [4]
Robert Young had all the answers in this '50s show symbolizing the "typical American family"
Father Knows Best
Carole
$300 [19]
Flatt & Scruggs opened this series each week with, "Come'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed"
The Beverly Hillbillies
Carole
$300 [22]
Name of the taxi driver in 1972 Chapin hit, "Taxi"
Harry
Elaine
$300 [10]
Where the Barkleys bunked in this '60s family western
the Big Valley
Carole
$400 [15]
French city that was scene of miraculous Brit. evacuation in 1940
Dunkirk
Elaine
$400 [5]
Pat Harrington was a "super" father surrogate in this series
One Day at a Time
Carole
$400 [20]
Elizabeth Browning's poetic question whose answer begins, "let me count the ways"
"How do I love thee?"
Elaine
$400 [23]
The group Chicago began in 1968 with this longer name
Chicago Transit Authority
Elaine
$400 [11]
1938 film in which Bob Hope first sang "Thanks for the Memories"
The Big Broadcast
Carole
$500 [16]
His cartoon GI's Willie & Joe gave the real GI's something to laugh at in WWII
Bill Mauldin
Dennis
$500 [6]
Where Judy Carne & Peter Duel found the heights of love from '66-'71
(on a) rooftop
Elaine Dennis
$500 [21]
Shakespearean title character who enters on the line, "So foul & fair a day I have not seen"
Macbeth
Elaine Dennis
$500 [24]
This ex-Monkee's "Elephant Parts" was the first video to win a Grammy
Michael Nesmith
Elaine
$500 [25]
Last great wilderness area of Texas, it's a national park by the Rio Grande
Big Bend National Park
Carole Elaine

Double Jeopardy! Round

FICTION THE '60S TECHNOLOGY ISLANDS THE BIBLE "LITTLE"
$200 [1]
'20s novel in which Nick narrates the tragedy of Jay & Daisy
The Great Gatsby
Elaine
$200 [16]
In '67, this actor didn't have to "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", since he was the one they meant
Sidney Poitier
Elaine
$200 [22]
Famed aviator who helped create an artificial heart in 1936
Charles Lindbergh
Carole
$200 [6]
England, Scotland & Wales are on this island
Great Britain
Dennis
$200 [18]
After 6 days of creation, what God did on the seventh
rest
Elaine
$200 [11]
He's gone from "Good Golly Miss Molly" to gospel
Little Richard
Elaine
$400 [2]
This Harvard grad based "The Naked & the Dead" on his own war experiences
Norman Mailer
Elaine
$400 [17]
Boxer indicted May 9, 1967 for refusing induction into the army
Muhammad Ali
Carole
$400 [27]
Timepiece invented by Dietrich Winkle, it keeps the beat like a pianist's feet
a metronome
Dennis
$400 [7]
In 1960, Archbishop Makarios became 1st president of this country
Cyprus
Carole
$400 [23]
"The bread" which the Lord provided to the Israelites starving in the desert
manna
Elaine
$400 [12]
The North Star is in its handle
the Little Dipper
Carole
$600 [3]
Russian novel in which Inspector Petrovitch hounds Raskolnikov, a destitute student
Crime and Punishment
Elaine
$600 [19]
65-year-old Sir Francis Chichester took 9 months to do this in the Gipsy Moth IV
circumnavigate the earth
Dennis
$800 [29]
The original use of the umbrella
for sun
Elaine Dennis
$600 [8]
In 1799, Capt. James Cook was killed there
Hawaii
Carole Elaine Dennis
$600 [24]
His father killed "the fatted calf" to welcome him home
the prodigal son
Elaine
$800 [14]
Mothers imitating dandified styles of this novel's hero made boys of the 1880s suffer
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Elaine
$800 [4]
He wears a red hunting hat through most of "The Catcher in the Rye"
Holden Caulfield
Elaine
DD $1,000 [20]
June 5-11, 1967
the Six-Day War
Dennis
$1,000 [28]
In 1883, Oscar Hammerstein's uncle patented this machine, putting Cuban women out of work
the cigar roller
Elaine Dennis
$800 [9]
Islands of this island nation include Long, Crooked, San Salvador & Paradise
the Bahamas
Carole
$800 [25]
Jesus said of them, "Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 1 of these"
the lilies of the field
Carole Elaine
$1,000 [15]
In his "Essay on Criticism", Alexander Pope actually wrote this"is a dangerous thing"
a little learning
Elaine Dennis
$1,000 [5]
This Evelyn Waugh novel was made into a movie featuring Liberace as a coffin salesman
The Loved One
Carole Elaine
$1,000 [21]
After this event on night of 11/9/65, Johnny Carson predicted that in 9 months, "a lot of kids will be named Otis"
the New York City blackout (the East Coast blackout)
Elaine Dennis
$1,000 [10]
Location of Italy's Blue Grotto
Capri
Carole Dennis
$1,000 [26]
Ruth's mother-in-law
Naomi
Carole
DD $1,300 [13]
Broadway musical from which thefollowingsong comes:"Isn't it rich? / Are we a pair?"
A Little Night Music
Carole

Final Jeopardy!

TOYS AND GAMES

Of the six different chess pieces, the only two which can make the opening move

pawn & knight

Dennis "What are pawn + knight?" — wagered $2,899
Carole "What are a pawn + the rook?" — wagered $2,000

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