Show #500 1986-11-07 (taped 1986-09-09) Regular

Contestants

Michael Todaro — a real estate broker originally from Los Angeles, California

Todd Russell — a buyer from Santa Ana, California

Linda Williams — an engineering reports clerk from Pasadena, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Linda $1,200 $4,100 $8,900 $8,000
2-day champion: $14,100
$8,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Todd $1,200 $2,100 $3,400 $0
3rd place: Technics portable compact disc player
$3,900
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $900 $3,100 $6,700 $2
2nd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Radio Flyer wagons
$6,700
22 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY RITUALS MUSIC ON THE MAP THE ONLY WOMAN GAME SHOWS "ECK" CETERA
$100 [11]
The mosquitos that "bite" are of this sex
female
Todd
$100 [17]
For luck, many new store owners do it with the 1st dollar they take in
frame it and hang it on the wall
Todd
$100 [2]
"Oh, you'll take the high road & I'll take the low road, & I'll be" there "before you"
Scotland
Michael
$100 [14]
Margaret Thatcher
the only woman prime minister of England
Todd
$100 [1]
Oversized ones were thrown on "The Big Showdown" & "High Rollers"
dice
Michael
$100 [26]
To knock someone down, or, counting the jokers, 54
a deck
Michael
$200 [12]
Creature that has 3 hearts & 8 tentacles
an octopus
Michael
$200 [18]
Every May, Romanians mark their return to pasture with a celebration
sheep
Michael
$200 [3]
"Nothing could be finer than to be" there "in the morning"
Carolina
Todd
$200 [19]
Diane Sawyer
the only female member of "60 Minutes"
Todd
$200 [5]
Host of '60s "Snap Judgment", '70s "Whodunnit?", & '80s "Star Search"
Ed McMahon
Linda
$200 [27]
Four in a bushel, or one on a cheek
a peck
Linda
$300 [13]
Spider, howler & marmoset
monkeys
Linda
$300 [23]
The application of water to a person as a sacrament
baptism
Linda
$300 [4]
City in which sweet Molly Malone sold "cockles & mussels alive, alive-oh"
Dublin
Linda
$300 [20]
Deborah Harry
the only lead singer for Blondie
Michael
$300 [6]
Merv Griffin originally wanted to call this show "Shopper's Bazaar"
Wheel of Fortune
Linda
$300 [28]
Bottles & guitars have them; Long Island has a "Great" one
neck
Michael
$400 [15]
While "equine" is horselike & "vulpine" is foxlike, "porcine" refers to this animal
a pig
Michael
$500 [25]
Anyone doing this during a nightlong Hopi crop ceremony is smacked with yucca leaves
falling asleep
Linda
$400 [9]
Though it's not their home, in 1967, the Bee Gees sang about this New England state
Massachusetts
Todd
$400 [21]
Elizabeth Dole
the only woman in the president's Cabinet
Linda
$400 [7]
Johnny Gilbert's "Music" version came way B4 Anita Hamilton's "Jackpot" version of this game
Bingo
Linda
$400 [29]
Goes with in, off, or out
check
Michael
$500 [16]
Reader's Digest pointed out resemblance of this water creature, aka the sea cow, to G. Cleveland
a manatee
Michael
DD $700 [24]
A new ritual in Japan is the singing of this song in German to ring out the old year:"Freude, schöner Götterfunken, / Tochter aus Elysium..."
(Beethoven's) the "Ode To Joy"
Linda
$500 [10]
"Santa Lucia" takes place in this city's harbor
Naples
Michael
$500 [22]
Lynette Woodard
the only woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters
Linda
$500 [8]
He often signs off with "Help control the pet population; have your pet spayed or neutered"
Bob Barker
Todd
$500 [30]
Baseball team owner who sent 3'7" Eddie Gaedel to bat in 1951
Bill Veeck
Todd

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY CITIZEN KANE SHAKESPEAREAN PROVERBS PRESIDENTS TECHNOLOGY CELEBRITY JEOPARDY!
$200 [11]
This term for Ancient Egyptian script means "sacred writing", not "picture writing"
Hieroglyphics
Michael
$200 [1]
Kane's dying word, it was the first word heard in the film
Rosebud
Linda
$200 [16]
Julius Caesar said cowards do this "many times before their deaths"
die
Michael
$200 [17]
1st president ever to appear on color TV
Eisenhower
Todd
$200 [25]
Common household appliance that lost its wringer & gained an agitator
a washing machine
Michael
$200 [2]
"Hell Town" hero, I sold the lottery ticket to Humphrey Bogart in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Robert Blake
Todd
$400 [12]
The World Almanac says Judaism was founded "about 1300 B.C., reportedly at" this mountain
Mount Sinai
Michael
$400 [10]
Name of the estate Kane built on a Florida mountain, which he also built
Xanadu
Michael
$600 [29]
King Lear cursed, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless" one
a thankless child
Todd
$400 [19]
Inflation fell from 11% to 5% during 2 1/2 year term of this pres. known for "Whip Inflation Now" buttons
Gerald Ford
Michael
$400 [27]
For computer experts, this language stands for Common Business Oriented Language
COBOL
Michael
$600 [4]
"Dynasty" star who asked in health club commercials, "Are you ready for summer?"
Heather Locklear
Linda
$600 [13]
In "The Republic", he wrote "Necessity... is the mother of invention"
Plato
Michael
$600 [7]
Of acting, directing, or writing, what Welles won his "Kane" Oscar for
writing
Todd
$800 [28]
In Henry IV, Pt. I Shakespeare described it as "the better part of valour"
discretion
Michael
DD $500 [21]
1st U.S. president who did not sign the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution
James Monroe
Todd
$600 [26]
Its speeds are set by the American Standards Assoc., 400 being fast, 25 slow
film
Linda
$800 [5]
As Simon Peter in "Jesus of Nazareth", I had scenes with both Marys; in '86 I was "Mary's" boss on TV
James Farentino
Todd
$800 [14]
People of this Greek city left sickly babies to die in the Talyetos Mts.
Sparta
Todd Michael
$800 [9]
Later famous as Endora on "Bewitched", she played Kane's mother
Agnes Moorehead
Linda
$1,000 [22]
In "12th Night" it's said, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness & some have greatness..." this way
thrust upon them
Todd
$600 [20]
20th century president whose actual 1st name was Thomas
Woodrow Wilson
Todd
$800 [24]
Visa added one to their card to stop forgery; Nat. Geographic put one on their Nov. '85 cover
a hologram
Linda
DD $1,000 [3]
In my 4 series, I was a lawyer, rode horses, ran 60 mph, & fell off tall buildings
Lee Majors
Linda
$1,000 [15]
This war-like people of the Tigris Valley was among 1st in history to have a standing army
the Assyrians
Todd Michael
$1,000 [8]
Composer who later did music for "Psycho", "Vertigo" & "Taxi Driver", "Kane" was his 1st feature, too
Bernard Herrmann
$800 [18]
He said, "I don't think any family has ever enjoyed the White House as much as we have"
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
Linda Michael
$1,000 [23]
The combine combines a grain harvester with this machine
a thresher
Michael
$1,000 [6]
I beat out Spencer Tracy to win the 1955 Academy Award
Ernest Borgnine

Final Jeopardy!

ASIA

Only SE Asian nation never a colony of the West, its name aptly means "land of the free"

Thailand

Todd "What is Malaysia" — wagered $3,400
Michael "What is Nationalist China" — wagered $6,698
Linda "What is Pakistan?" — wagered $900

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