Show #446 1986-05-26 (taped 1985-12-16) Regular

Marvin Shinkman game 1.

Contestants

Gary Galbraith — a waiter and a bartender originally from Paris, Kentucky

Marvin Shinkman — a stamp dealer from Van Nuys, California

Lisa May — a hotel auditor from Hawthorne, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $9,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lisa $-600 $500 $1,500 $1
3rd place: Bauer lamp
$1,500
10 R, 3 W
Marvin $500 $600 $7,600 $9,801
New champion: $9,801
$7,200
19 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Gary $1,000 $900 $4,900 $1
2nd place: Lane recliner + Radio Flyer wagon & row cart
$5,400
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ARIZONA STARTS WITH "A" FOOD & DRINK MODERN HISTORY COLLEGES SINGING GEMS
$100 [1]
About half of Arizona's population lives in & around this, the capital city
Phoenix
Gary
$100 [9]
It can precede pilot, weapon, or transmission
automatic
Lisa
$100 [15]
Cowboy's term for food & for the wagon that brought it
a chuck wagon
Lisa
$100 [2]
It was 1956 before a German court finally & officially declared him dead
Adolf Hitler
Marvin
$100 [10]
The fighting Illini
the University of Illinois
Marvin
$100 [7]
This singer's autobiography is "The Raw Pearl"
Pearl Bailey
Marvin
$200 [16]
He has represented Arizona in the Senate since 1952, with only one 4-year layoff
Barry Goldwater
Gary
$200 [22]
A favorite adjective of newscasters, it means "asserted without proof"
alleged
Lisa
$200 [19]
To eliminate this word, Kellogg's renamed 2 cereals "Super Golden Crisp" & "Frosted Flakes"
sugar
Marvin Gary
$200 [3]
In 1920, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify this treaty ending World War I
the Treaty of Versailles
Gary
$200 [11]
Students in Red Square might wear "MSU" T-shirts for this school, the largest in Russia
Moscow State University
Lisa
$200 [8]
She sang lead with 4 guys known as "The Romantics"
Ruby
$300 [18]
North Arizona city named for the pole from which Old Glory flew
Flagstaff
Marvin
$300 [4]
In 1923, Yokohama & 1/2 of Tokyo were destroyed by one of these
an earthquake
Marvin
$300 [12]
Epitaph he picked for himself reads, "Father of the University of Virginia", but not, "3rd president"
Thomas Jefferson
Gary
$300 [17]
An unsuccessful film was based on this successful song, Glen Campbell's 1st #1 hit
"Rhinestone Cowboy"
Lisa
$400 [23]
Ft. Apache, Ariz., not Ft. Apache, the Bronx, was setting for this kid's TV Western about U.S. Cavalry
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
$400 [5]
British headlines on January 1, 1973 read "We're in" as the country joined this group
the Common Market
Gary
$400 [13]
This service academy's Bancroft Hall, w/4000 seat mess hall, is believed to be world's largest dorm
Annapolis (U.S. Naval Academy)
Lisa Marvin
DD $500 [20]
Group which hadthe following, their biggest hit in 1957:"Ah, ya ya ya ya, ya ya ya ya, ya ya ya ya / Little darling oh little darling"
The Diamonds
Gary
$500 [24]
Community developed by Del Webb which has shopping malls, lakes & golf courses but no schools
Sun City
Lisa
$500 [6]
Though overthrown as Argentina's president in 1955, he returned to power in 1973
Juan Peron
Gary
$500 [14]
Though it went co-ed in 1968, it's still considered by some to be America's oldest women's college
Vassar
Lisa Marvin Gary
$500 [21]
This group was probably "blue" when their "star" rose only to #25 with the song, "Who Do You Love"
The Sapphires

Double Jeopardy! Round

RELIGION THE CARIBBEAN INSECTS REPUBLICANS NUCLEAR PHYSICS ORSON WELLES
$200 [13]
Hindi for a teacher & spiritual guide, such as the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
a guru
Lisa
$200 [18]
The Caribbean sea is technically part of this ocean
the Atlantic
Gary
$200 [11]
This mass of hexagonal wax cells has walls only 1/80-inch thick, but can support 30 times its weight
a honeycomb
Marvin Gary
$200 [3]
Because they were brothers, Ike's CIA director Allen & Sec. of State John Foster both had this name
Dulles
Gary
$200 [25]
To whip atomic particles into a high frequency scientists send them speeding around this machine
a cyclotron
Gary
$200 [1]
In the '70s, Orson assured us that Paul wouldn't sell this before its time
wine
Lisa Gary
$400 [14]
From Latin, "to bend the knee", it's what Catholics do when touching a knee to the floor
genuflect
Marvin
$400 [21]
1 of the 2 U.S. dependencies in the Caribbean
the Virgin Islands (or Puerto Rico)
Lisa
$400 [12]
A baby butterfly
a larva (caterpillar)
Marvin
$400 [4]
Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff was 1948 Rep. nominee for governor of this state
Tennessee
Marvin
$400 [26]
At San Onofre or 3-Mile-Island, it's produced by fission heating water to steam
electricity
Lisa Marvin
$400 [2]
Welles' "amazing" avocation, he practiced it at the Hollywood Canteen & on The Merv Griffin Show
magic
Marvin
$600 [15]
TV minister who preaches from the pulpit of the Crystal Cathedral
Reverend Robert Schuller
Lisa
$600 [22]
The Biminis, part of these islands, lie only 60 miles east of Florida
the Bahamas
Gary
$600 [19]
The bodies of these "white ants" make a liquid capable of dissolving glass
termites
DD $500 [5]
Current distinction of Republican senators Kassebaum of Kansas & Hawkins of Florida
the only women senators
Marvin
$600 [27]
Federal agency currently licensing reactors
the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Gary
$600 [8]
Welles' 2nd wife, she was "The Lady from Shanghai" in the 1948 film
Rita Hayworth
Marvin
$800 [16]
In 20th c. Japan, "Soka Gakkai" blended Western ethics & educational theory with this religion
Buddhism
Gary
$800 [23]
"Caribbean" comes from fierce Indian tribes which natives called "caribales", meaning this
cannibal
Gary
$800 [20]
The ears of a cricket are on this part of its body
the legs
Marvin
$800 [6]
Office of President Pro Tempore of the Senate is held by this South Carolina senator
J. Strom Thurmond
Marvin
$800 [29]
Moving these in & out control the chain reaction going on inside the core
control rods
Marvin
$1,000 [10]
When "Citizen Kane" opened, April 11, 1941, Welles was this old
25
Gary
$1,000 [17]
Org. begun in 1878, "to carry the blood of Christ & fire of the Holy Ghost to every corner of the world"
the Salvation Army
Marvin
$1,000 [28]
This populous former British colony lies farther out to sea than any other Caribbean island
Barbados
Marvin
$1,000 [24]
Bedbug hunter's penchant for biting humans around mouth has given it this osculatory nickname
the kissing bug
Marvin
$1,000 [7]
'60s Senate Minority Leader whose record "Gallant Men" made Billboard Top 40 & won a Grammy
Everett Dirksen
Marvin
DD $1,300 [9]
In 1936, Welles staged a Voodoo version of this classic, set in Haiti, not Scotland
Macbeth
Marvin

Final Jeopardy!

TRADITIONS

It was with widespread use of this that the practice of celebrating birthdays came into being

calendars

Lisa "What are birth certificates?" — wagered $1,499
Gary "What is astrology?" — wagered $4,899
Marvin "What are Calendars" — wagered $2,201

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