Show #420 1986-04-18 (taped 1985-11-19) Regular

Guy Tonti game 5.

Contestants

Kurt Weldon — a comedian and a writer from Beverly Hills, California

Shoshana Rona — a librarian from Los Angeles, California

Guy Tonti — a telecommunications manager from San Francisco, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $28,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Guy $800 $1,900 $5,300 $600
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & hers watches
$5,300
14 R, 2 W
Shoshana $400 $2,200 $5,000 $6,000
2nd place: trip to San Francisco
$5,800
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kurt $1,200 $2,300 $4,200 $8,200
New champion: $8,200
$5,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S.A. CARTOONS 5-LETTER WORDS POP MUSIC ZOOLOGY THE BEST
$100 [14]
In 1985, scientists spent $60,000 & 25 days chasing Humphrey the Humpback Whale out of a river in this state
California
Guy
$100 [1]
Pursuer of the Road Runner & #1 customer of the Acme Corporation
Wile E. Coyote
Shoshana
$100 [13]
You do it to ground to begin a building or bread to begin a meal
break
Guy
$100 [8]
Music known by the abbreviation "MOR"
middle-of-the-road
Kurt
$100 [26]
Volcano rabbits trot instead of doing this
hopping
$100 [2]
Roll out the barrel, this category has been added to the Grammy Awards
Best Polka
$200 [15]
Of TV's "Miami Vice's" budget per episode & the real Miami vice squad's budget per year, the larger
the TV show
Shoshana
$200 [4]
Star of 1950's Oscar-winning cartoon, he didn't speak words but made noises instead
Gerald McBoing-Boing
$200 [16]
Follows "blood", "grey", & "Huckleberry"
hound
Guy
$200 [9]
Singer who lived "The Lush Life" with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra
Linda Ronstadt
Guy
$200 [27]
Since it's related to the mongoose, this mammal may just "laugh" if you say it resembles a dog
the hyena
Kurt
$200 [3]
Mayonnaise whose blue, white & yellow label reads "Best Foods" in the West is this in the East
Hellman's
Kurt
$300 [17]
Arizona has made this paper size "illegal" to use in state, local & school offices
legal size paper
Guy
$300 [5]
Clips from Chuck Jones classic "Duck Dodgers in the 24-½th Century" are seen in this S. Spielberg film
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Kurt
$300 [20]
Precedes "ticket", "infinitive", & "level house"
split
Shoshana
DD $200 [12]
To record thefollowing, she had to remove her jewelry because it made too much noise:"Well, well, well, let's realize that a change can only come"
Cyndi Lauper
Kurt
$300 [28]
Support provided by buoyancy allows these mammals to grow larger than any land animal
a whale
Guy
$300 [23]
This 1946 drama about returning WWII veterans got the Oscar as "The Best" Picture
The Best Years of Our Lives
Guy
$400 [18]
Entertainment in this city includes 1,272 bowling lanes, the Sabres & the Bills
Buffalo
Guy
$400 [6]
Disney's second full-length animated feature
Pinocchio
$400 [21]
To deserve something, like a Boy Scout badge
merit
Shoshana
$300 [10]
11 years after their sibling squabbles, they recorded the album "EB 84"
the Everly Brothers
Shoshana
$400 [29]
Drunk by Laplanders, it has 4 to 5 times the fat of cow's milk
reindeer milk
Kurt
$400 [24]
Once "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", it's moved to Nevada
the Chicken Ranch
Shoshana
$500 [19]
Longest north-south Interstate highway, it runs through 15 states from Maine to Florida
I-95
Guy Shoshana
$500 [7]
Fleischer's Koko the Clown figuratively & literally climbed out of one of these
an inkwell
Guy
$500 [22]
You had to make one before you could solve the rebus on "Concentration"
a match
$400 [11]
"Heartbreaker" who broke his hand out of frustration while recording "Southern Accents"
Tom Petty
Kurt
$500 [30]
18th c. zoologists believed 1st stuffed specimens of this oviparous mammal were frauds
the duck-billed platypus
Kurt
$500 [25]
Type of wood generally considered the best for pipe bowls
briarwood

Double Jeopardy! Round

HALLEY'S COMET CLOTHING WORLD GEOGRAPHY SUPPORTING CHARACTERS 1890's THE WORST
$200 [1]
The solar wind makes the tail of Halley's Comet always point in this direction
away from the Sun
Guy Kurt
$200 [20]
A blouse that ties around a woman's neck or a strap that ties around a horse's
a halter
$200 [7]
The longest river & largest desert are on this continent
Africa
Kurt
$200 [14]
On radio & TV he played Jack Benny's valet Rochester
Eddie Anderson
Kurt
$200 [19]
1st ever was built by G.W. Gale Ferris for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893
a Ferris wheel
Shoshana
$200 [6]
It's fashion designer Mr. Blackwell's major claim to fame
the Worst-Dressed list
Guy
$400 [2]
The story that the Pope did this to the comet in 1456 is nothing but a "comet tale"
excommunicated the comet
$400 [23]
Article of clothing mentioned most frequently in Major League Baseball team names
socks
Kurt
$400 [10]
Birdwatchers must travel to this continent to see kookaburras in their native habitat
Australia
Shoshana
$400 [15]
Richard Crenna as Walter Denton was the student who usually drove her to school
Our Miss Brooks
Kurt
$400 [24]
He survived Little Bighorn & a Wild West Show, but was gunned down by troops in 1890
Sitting Bull
Kurt
$400 [8]
Guinness lists "the sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" as the worst of these
a tongue twister
Shoshana
$600 [3]
The first name of the astronomer for whom the comet is named
Edmond
Shoshana Kurt
$600 [11]
Gulf separating the Mexican mainland from Baja California
the Gulf of California (or Sea of Cortez)
Shoshana Kurt
$600 [16]
Sitcom on which Johnny Brown, playing janitor Mr. Bookman, was called "Buffalo Butt"
Good Times
Guy
$800 [26]
In 1891, this petite painter produced his first music hall posters
Toulouse-Lautrec
Shoshana
$600 [9]
At Death Valley for 43 consecutive days in 1917
the worst recorded hot spell
$800 [4]
Not smog & city lights, but this is the main reason sightings will be less spectacular than the last time
because the comet is going to be much further away
$800 [12]
The only Canadian province to border both Alaska & the U.S.'s Lower 48
British Columbia
Guy
$800 [17]
This actor was fittingly chosen to portray Abraham Lincoln briefly in "How the West Was Won"
Raymond Massey
Shoshana
DD $900 [25]
3 of original 5 prize categories established by Alfred Nobel's will after he died in 1896
(3 of) physics, physiology or medicine, chemistry, literature, & peace
Kurt
DD $800 [21]
1 of 2 presidents whose corrupt administrations rate in Schlesinger surveys as the worst ever
(1 of) Warren Harding or Ulysses Grant
Shoshana
$1,000 [5]
Halley's comet computations were based on this English genius' discovery of orbital parabola
Isaac Newton
$1,000 [13]
2nd-largest island in Europe, this North Atlantic country has no navigable rivers
Iceland
Guy
$1,000 [18]
Herb Woodley is their neighbor
Blondie & Dagwood (the Bumsteads)
Guy
$1,000 [27]
After 1892, this New York City harbor site was called in several languages "the Isle of Tears"
Ellis Island
Kurt
$1,000 [22]
Roman tragedy with beheadings, cannibalism, & rape, thought by many to be Shakespeare's worst
Titus Andronicus
Shoshana

Final Jeopardy!

EXPLORERS

President who sent Lewis & Clark to explore the way to the Pacific Ocean

Jefferson

Kurt "Who was Jefferson?" — wagered $4,000
Shoshana "Who is Jefferson?" — wagered $1,000
Guy "Who was Grant" — wagered $4,700

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