Show #399 1986-03-20 (taped 1985-11-05) Regular

Contestants

Kathleen Campbell — a production assistant from Los Angeles, California

Stuart Haven — an opera director from New York City

Gerri Miller — a magazine editor from New York City (whose 2-day cash winnings total $7,198)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gerri $500 $1,400 $1,800 $0
2nd place: Merillat oak modular shelving system
$3,300
10 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Stuart $1,400 $2,700 $8,700 $7,400
New champion: $7,400
$8,300
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Kathleen $1,300 $1,600 $-200 $-200
3rd place: Stiffel lamps + Olympia Carrera typewriter
$-200
9 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

ALABAMA THE '50s COLORFUL SONGS NOTORIOUS MONEY LESSER-KNOWN NAMES
$100 [14]
Pleased it turned them away from cotton to other crops, Alabama farmers built monument to this insect
a boll weevil
Stuart
$100 [9]
Norman Vincent Peale promoted the power of this
the power of positive thinking
Kathleen
$100 [1]
Ringo sang the lead while John clanged bells & made absurd U-boat noises in this Beatles' hit
"Yellow Submarine"
Kathleen
$100 [3]
Pair about whom John Dillinger complained, "They're giving bank robbing a bad name"
Bonnie & Clyde
Kathleen
$100 [18]
Country which mints 1 ounce gold maple leaf coins
Canada
Gerri
$100 [2]
Babe Ruth's appropriate first name, since the Yankees "let him do it"
George
Gerri Stuart
$200 [15]
This region gets its name from its rich, dark soil, not a karate champ's symbol
a Black Belt
Gerri
$200 [10]
He said he couldn't carry a tune & his voice was "flat as a table", but he sure could "cry"
Johnny Ray
$200 [7]
Title of the song in which Los Bravos insist "I want my baby back"
"Black Is Black"
Kathleen
$200 [4]
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic," said this Soviet dictator
Stalin
Kathleen
$200 [24]
Last year in which U.S. dimes & quarters were 90% silver
1964
$200 [19]
Reason this last name of Galileo is rarely mentioned may be that it sounds like his 1st
Galilei
Stuart
$300 [28]
In 1967, she became only the 3rd woman governor in U.S. history
Lurleen Wallace
Kathleen
$300 [11]
The day the Soviets launched Sputnik, this labor leader was elected to succeed Dave Beck
Jimmy Hoffa
Kathleen
$300 [8]
Dodie Stevens' boyfriend "wore tan shoes & pink shoe laces... & a big Panama with" this color hat band
a purple hat band
Kathleen
$300 [5]
He promises that those who die in human wave attacks against Iraqis will attain paradise
the Ayatollah Khomeini
Stuart
$300 [25]
Only 2 non-presidents appearing on currently printed U.S. currency, they're on $10 & $100 bills
Alexander Hamilton & Benjamin Franklin
Stuart
$300 [20]
Gandhi was often called Mahatma, meaning "great soul", though his actual 1st name was this
Mohandas
Stuart
$400 [12]
The 2 highest-grossing films of the decade, both set in biblical times
The Ten Commandments & Ben-Hur
Stuart
DD $500 [16]
Written by Harvard grad Leroy Anderson, this was 1st purely instrumental No. to top Hit Parade:[Instrumental music plays.]
"The Blue Tango"
Gerri
$400 [6]
At his 1961 trial he said, "I was only following orders"
Eichmann
Gerri
$400 [26]
Brazil's cruziero is named for this constellation seen in Southern Hemisphere skies
the Southern Cross
Gerri
$400 [21]
Dante's Divine Comedy might not have sold as well if people had to ask for it by this, his last name
Alighieri
Gerri
$500 [13]
Individual who was asked, "Senator, have you no decency?"
Joseph McCarthy
Stuart
$500 [17]
And if these "do the trick, I'll hurry back & pick your best white orchid for her wedding gown"
red roses for a blue lady
Stuart
$500 [23]
"I acted to show my love for Jodie Foster", said this would-be assassin
John Hinckley
Gerri
$500 [27]
Victor D. Brenner's initials are found on this coin
the Lincoln penny
$500 [22]
Last name of rock-&-roller Dion, who used to sing with the Belmonts
DiMucci

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH RULERS WILD CATS NEIGHBORHOODS ANCIENT HISTORY LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS MEDICINES
$200 [2]
Before becoming king of England, James I was this country's King James VI
Scotland
Stuart
$200 [1]
Junior Cub Scouts are named for this small wild cat found over much of the U.S.
a bobcat
Stuart
$200 [22]
Spanish architecture characterizes this city's famed French Quarter
New Orleans
Stuart
$200 [7]
Julius Caesar once had an affair with the mother of this assassin rumored to be his son
Brutus
Gerri Kathleen
$200 [13]
Town of Mole Hill, West Virginia was later aptly renamed this
Mountain
Stuart
$600 [21]
Ointment that 1st advertised, "Rub it on, sniff it in, it's good for you, it's made by Presbyterians"
Vicks VapoRub
Kathleen
$600 [4]
King & queen who as joint rulers signed England's Bill of Rights in 1689
William & Mary
Stuart
$400 [8]
Though they're the largest cats, only 2000 still survive in India
tigers
Stuart
$400 [23]
If Charles Boyer told you "Come with me" here, he would mean Algiers' native quarter
the Casbah
Stuart
$400 [9]
It's estimated 100,000 men worked 20 years to build great pyramid for this Egyptian king
Cheops (Khufu)
Stuart
$400 [14]
Drummer Cozy Cole followed up a big hit called "Topsy" with a number called this
"Turvy"
Gerri
DD $800 [3]
Queen Victoria was a carrier of the gene for this blood disease that's plagued Europe's royalty
hemophilia
Stuart
$600 [18]
This name, usually applied only to black leopards, is the scientific genus name for all leopards
a Panther
Gerri
$600 [24]
People of South Boston often refer to their neighborhood by this nickname
Southie
Gerri
$600 [10]
Not a separate people, the Druids were the priestly class of this ancient British people
the Celts
Stuart
$600 [15]
Powerful king of ancient Persia who was succeeded by Artaxerxes I
Xerxes
Kathleen
$800 [5]
Known for mental problems, this English king had to be placed in a straight jacket in 1788
George III
Stuart
DD $1,000 [19]
In Latin America, this most feared carnivore is called "tigre"
the jaguar
Gerri
$800 [25]
Foggy Bottom, the D.C. neighborhood where this fed. dept. is found, is now synonymous with it
the State Department
Kathleen
$800 [11]
Of the T'ang, the Shang, the Ming, & the Ch'ing, the 2nd century dynasty that's China's oldest
the Shang Dynasty
Kathleen
$800 [16]
Middle name of the founder of the Audubon Society, George Grinnel
Bird
Gerri Stuart
$1,000 [6]
Martin Luther called him "King Heinz, by God's disgrace king of England"
Henry VIII
Stuart
$1,000 [20]
This New World "leopard cat" is often tamed as a kitten but can't be trusted when adult
the ocelot
$1,000 [26]
The financial district, oldest section of this city, is called "The City"
London
Stuart
$1,000 [12]
Ancient times are defined as extending until 476 A.D., date of this pivotal event
the fall of Rome (the fall of the Roman Empire in the west)
Stuart
$1,000 [17]
In 1976 emperor Bokassa I changed the name of the Central African Republic to this
a Central African Empire
Stuart

Final Jeopardy!

THE OLD WEST

Though John C. Fremont was called "The Pathfinder", it was he who served as Fremont's guide

Kit Carson

Gerri "Who is Daniel Boone?" — wagered $1,800
Stuart "Who was Clark?" — wagered $1,300

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