Show #491 1986-10-27 (taped 1986-08-27) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Karen Muranaka — an administration assistant from Los Angeles, California

Michael Hesse — a computer consultant originally from Chicago, Illinois

Lucy Sweeney — an apprentice baker from San Bruno, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Lucy $-100 $700 $1,700 $2,900
3rd place
$1,700
7 R, 3 W
Michael $600 $3,000 $5,100 $6,800
2nd place
$5,500
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Karen $1,100 $1,700 $4,300 $8,600
New champion: $8,600
$4,300
19 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICANA LANGUAGES WILD ABOUT HARRY RELIGION CELEBRITIES IN FASHION HANDS
$100 [11]
Expression "hatchet job" is said to come from this lady who was famous for carrying a hatchet
Carrie Nation
Lucy Karen
$100 [1]
Official language of the country in which Anthony Quinn was born
Spanish
Karen
$100 [5]
During 1948 campaign, he was often greeted with the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
Harry Truman
Michael
$100 [15]
In January of 1962, the Roman Catholic Church did this to Fidel Castro
excommunicated him
Karen
$100 [2]
This popular beauty accessory from Eva Gabor can really go to your head
a wig
Karen
$100 [19]
On 5/25/86, it stretched, at least in theory, from the Statue of Liberty to Long Beach, California
"Hands Across America"
Karen
$200 [12]
While 4 states are also commonwealths, this is the only U.S. commonwealth that isn't a state
Puerto Rico
Lucy
$200 [8]
According to the World Almanac, of meo, miao & file gumbo, the one not an actual world language
file gumbo
Karen
$200 [6]
He left CBS for ABC, but it's widely reported couldn't get along with co-anchor Barbara Walters
Harry Reasoner
Michael
$200 [21]
Literally "son of the commandment", a Jewish boy actually becomes rather than has one at the age of 13
bar mitzvah
Michael
$200 [3]
Attention Kmart shoppers, we are currently featuring fashions for the lady by this TV angel
Jaclyn Smith
Karen
$200 [20]
Of the 35 that move the hand, 20 are in the hand itself, while 15 are located in the forearm
muscles
Michael
$300 [14]
By federal law, a new star can only be added to Old Glory on this single day of the year
the 4th of July
Michael
$300 [25]
Proper Yiddish is written in characters of this language
Hebrew
Karen
$300 [7]
In early 1986, New York state Democratic leaders asked this singer to run for the U.S. Senate
Harry Belafonte
Lucy
$300 [22]
H.L. Mencken coined this term for the part of our country said to take its religion most seriously
the Bible Belt
Michael
$300 [4]
A line of Western boots is an appropriate endorsement for Larry Mahan, who rides high in this sport
rodeo
Michael
DD $400 [28]
What Willie is doing in thefollowing:"I know a cat named Way-Out Willie"
the hand jive
Michael
$400 [17]
In 1973, Yvonne Braithwaite Burke became the first member of Congress to get time off for this
having a baby (maternity leave)
Lucy
$400 [26]
Its official language is, of course, Bengali
Bangladesh
Karen
$400 [13]
Burns and Allen's announcer, he often appeared on their TV show
Harry von Zell
Lucy
$400 [23]
Though this church has over 4 million members, it has only 39 temples worldwide
the Mormon church
$400 [9]
At Sears, you can buy a ladies' cover-up endorsed by this cover girl
Cheryl Tiegs
Karen
$500 [18]
State that's the mushroom capital of America
Pennsylvania
$500 [27]
George Bernard Shaw called them "2 nations separated by a common language"
the United States & England
Michael
$500 [16]
Probably the only famous Harry ever to have worked as a Playboy Club bunny
Debbie Harry
Karen
$500 [24]
Name of this religion literally means "submission to God"
Islam
Michael
$500 [10]
She has taken a royal plunge into designing swimsuits under the label Pool Position
Princess Stephanie (of Monaco)
Lucy

Double Jeopardy! Round

GERMANY PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES RHYME TIME NATURE FAMOUS PAIRS FEET
$200 [10]
East Germany's currency is the Ostmark, as opposed to this, West Germany's
the Deutsche Mark
Michael
$200 [2]
David, though at birth it was Dwight
Dwight Eisenhower
Karen
$200 [14]
A minor automobile accident, often a rear-ender
a fender-bender
Michael
$200 [22]
Distinguishing eye color of a true biological albino
pink
Karen
$200 [7]
Parallel streets at Walt Disney Studios are named for these romantic rodents
Mickey & Minnie Mouse
Lucy
$200 [1]
Condition caused when the long plantar arch running from the heel to the ball of the foot falls
fallen arches (flat feet)
Karen
$400 [11]
At the age of 17 in 1985, this West German became the youngest man ever to win Wimbledon
Boris Becker
Karen
$400 [3]
Grover
Grover Cleveland
Karen
$400 [18]
Ancient bullion, or the brand of cigarettes which danced on '50s television
Old Gold
Karen
$400 [23]
Vertebrate class which breathes water when immature, then behaving like adults, breathes air
an amphibian
Michael
$400 [8]
Appropriately, Chang & Eng were born here
Siam
Karen
$400 [25]
From Latin for "sandal", it's the thick skin covering the bottom of the foot
the sole
$600 [15]
In addition to its ham, this area is also famous for originating pumpernickel bread to serve it on
Westphalia
Michael
$600 [4]
Rudolph, once his name was changed
Gerald Ford
Karen
DD $500 [20]
Denizen of a rural municipality, or in CB slang, a police officer thereof
a local yokel
Michael
$600 [24]
The process by which a lobster grows a new claw is called this
regeneration
Lucy Michael
$600 [9]
According to Dryden, they gave their all for love; you bet your asp they did
Cleopatra & Marc Antony
Michael
$600 [26]
Often causing gangrene, this practice begun in the Tang Dynasty didn't end until the 20th century
binding the feet (of young girls)
Lucy Michael
$800 [16]
City where the imperial diet turned on Martin Luther
Worms
$800 [5]
Clark
Herbert Hoover
$600 [19]
Most superlatively attired
best dressed
Michael
$800 [12]
probably the most famous cockroach & cat team in literary history
archy and mehitabel
Karen
$800 [27]
Disease characterized by ulcer-like lesions on the gums, tongues, & feet of cloven-hoofed mammals
hoof-and-mouth disease (foot-and-mouth disease)
Lucy
$1,000 [17]
Festival celebrating the 1810 wedding of Prince Ludwig to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen
Oktoberfest
$1,000 [6]
1st 20th century president to have a middle name
Taft
Karen
$1,000 [21]
What the Sioux would claim if the Apaches defamed them
tribal libel
$1,000 [13]
The names of this inseparable pair, spared by Dionysius, are synonymous with friendship
Damon and Pythias

Final Jeopardy!

THE OSCARS

Only family in which 3 generations have won Oscars

the Hustons

Lucy "Who are the Hustons?" — wagered $1,200
Karen "Who are the Hustons?" — wagered $4,300
Michael "Who are the Hustons?" — wagered $1,700

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