Show #437 1986-05-13 (taped 1985-12-10) Regular

Contestants

Bill Carroll — a purchasing agent from North Hollywood, California

Stanton Korn — an attorney from Studio City, California

Molly McClellan — a naval officer from San Diego, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,698)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Molly $600 $1,000 $3,600 $2
2nd place: trip to Marco Polo Hotel in Miami
$3,600
14 R, 2 W
Stanton $500 $500 $2,900 $1,000
New champion: $1,000
$3,500
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Bill $300 $2,100 $1,600 $1
3rd place: Little Lake furniture set
$2,400
16 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS FIRSTS MEDICINES LITERARY QUOTES ACTORS & ACTRESSES PRODUCE STREET SONGS
$100 [8]
The Boston Somersets vs the Pittsburgh Pirates
the first World Series
Bill
$100 [13]
Carter's little pills formerly had this word in its name
liver
Bill
$100 [20]
Expression "out of sight, out of mind" is from his "Odyssey"
Homer
Molly Bill
$100 [1]
A NYC 2nd Avenue Yiddish theater is where this star of "The Great Escape" made his great debut
Steve McQueen
Molly
$100 [19]
Gulfport, Mississippi unloads 16 million lbs. each week of this imported tropical fruit
bananas
Bill
$100 [6]
"All at once am I several stories high, knowing I'm on" this street
"The Street Where You Live"
Molly
$200 [10]
The "Lame Duck" in 1919, not the "Spirit of St. Louis" in 1927
made the first transatlantic flight
$200 [14]
In 1920, Abe Plough bought this aspirin co. & then invented children's aspirin for it to make & sell
St. Joseph's
Bill
$200 [21]
Edgar Guest wrote "it takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it" this
a home
Molly
$200 [2]
Buster Keaton was given start in films by this 320-lb. silent screen actor-producer-director
(Roscoe) "Fatty" Arbuckle
Bill
$200 [25]
Green pasta is most often made by mixing this into the pasta dough
spinach
Molly
$200 [7]
Back in 1956 The 4 Lads were "standing on the corner" doing this
"Watching The Girls Go By"
Stanton
$300 [16]
According to the Bible, Lamech was the 1st man to have 2 of these
wives
Stanton
$300 [15]
Overuse of this laxative bean oil can cause the opposite of its desired effect
castor oil
Stanton
$300 [22]
According to poem's title, what George Pope Morris told the "woodman"
"Spare That Tree"
Bill
$400 [4]
1955's "Guys & Dolls" was only film musical in which this lead actor ever sang
Marlon Brando
Molly
$300 [26]
1 of 3 vegetables that are really flowers
cauliflower, broccoli or artichoke
Bill
$300 [9]
Avenue on which "you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade"
"Fifth Avenue"
Stanton
$400 [17]
"Wings"
the first motion picture to win an Academy Award for Best Picture
Stanton
$400 [27]
R. Chesebrough discovered this waxy substance which he not only used as a salve but also ate
petroleum jelly (Vaseline)
Stanton
$400 [23]
Vocation of man of whom A. Miller wrote, "He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog"
a salesman
Molly
DD $500 [3]
Thisactress was only female to have Billboard No. 1 hit at any time between Aug. '56 & Dec. '58:"I hear the cottonwoods whisperin' above / Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love"
Debbie Reynolds
Bill
$400 [11]
When the Orlons asked "Where do all the hippies meet?" this, not Haight-Ashbury, was the answer
South Street
Bill
$500 [18]
Appropriately-named comic character who was 1st to appear in a newspaper in color
the Yellow Kid
$500 [28]
Along with S.O.S. soap pads & Flintstones vitamins, Miles Laboratories makes this headache remedy
Alka-Seltzer
$500 [24]
Lovelace wrote, "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not" this "more"
honor
$500 [5]
She mostly played wholesome types but won only Oscar as prostitute in "From Here to Eternity"
Donna Reed
Bill
$500 [12]
"When I kissed the cop" on this corner, "he broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number 9"
34th & Vine
Molly Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALASKA LAW THE 1950's SPORTS TRIVIA PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES FAMOUS LASTS
$200 [2]
Close to half of Alaska's population lives in this one city
Anchorage
Molly
$200 [21]
On May 20 1899, a New York cab driver became the 1st person arrested for breaking this law
speeding
Stanton Bill
$200 [1]
This comedy duo's split-up was big news in 1956
Martin & Lewis
Molly
$200 [23]
Number of pins across the back row in 10 pin bowling
4
$200 [16]
Delano
Franklin Roosevelt
Stanton
$200 [5]
For American Catholics it was Friday, November 18, 1966
the last meatless Friday
Bill
$400 [3]
Though Vitus Bering was a Dane, he was working for this country when he discovered Alaska
Russia
Molly
$400 [22]
When accused of doing this, famed attorney Melvin Belli replied, "I get there before the ambulance"
ambulance chasing
Bill
$400 [12]
It's said the Beat Generation began in poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights" bookshop in this city
San Francisco
Molly
DD $300 [29]
3 of the 6 NFL teams that have won the Super Bowl more than once
(3 of) Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins, Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders
Bill
$400 [17]
Earl
Jimmy Carter
Stanton
$400 [6]
Elizabeth Taylor's last husband
Senator John Warner
Stanton
$600 [4]
From 1879-1884 this branch of the military ruled Alaska
the Navy
Bill
$600 [24]
3-word Latin term for a law that's passed & then enforced retroactively
ex post facto
$600 [13]
It wasn't until 1959 that full text of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was published in U.S.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Bill
$400 [27]
Game a kid would be playing if he hits a "spauldeen" 2 sewers
stickball
Bill
DD $400 [20]
Of our 1st 8 presidents, the only 1 to have a middle name
John Quincy Adams
Stanton
$600 [7]
To date, Britain's last king
George VI
Molly
$800 [8]
Over 90% of Alaska's oil is found in vicinity of this bay on the Arctic coast
Prudhoe Bay
Molly
$800 [25]
Only state whose civil laws are not based mainly on English common law but on the "code Napoleon"
Louisiana
Stanton
$800 [14]
In 1959, this int'l figure appeared on CBS' "Person to Person" in pajamas rather than fatigues
(Fidel) Castro
Molly Bill
$600 [28]
He outran a racehorse in a hundred-yard dash in 1936
Jesse Owens
Bill
$600 [18]
Calvin
John Calvin Coolidge
$800 [10]
It was the last completed film for both Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
The Misfits
Molly
$1,000 [9]
The Indians called the Inuit people "Eskimos" meaning eaters of this
raw meat (or raw flesh)
Bill
$1,000 [26]
Anti-segregation lawyer in 1954 landmark case, in 1967, he became 1st black Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall
Stanton
$1,000 [15]
Ezra Taft Benson, now prophet & pres. of the Mormon church, held this cabinet post in the '50s
Secretary of Agriculture
$800 [19]
Alan
Chester Alan Arthur
$1,000 [11]
Martha, who died of old age in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914, was the last of these birds
passenger pigeons
Stanton Bill

Final Jeopardy!

THE OLD WEST

He made the longest single ride--322 miles--in the brief history of the Pony Express

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody

Bill "Who was Wild Bill Hickok?" — wagered $1,599
Stanton "Who is Kit Carson?" — wagered $1,900
Molly "Who was Wild Bill Hickock?" — wagered $3,598

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