Show #492 1986-10-28 (taped 1986-08-27) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Bob Von Bargen — a law student from Torrance, California

Gail Scheer — a restaurateur and housewife originally from New York City

Karen Muranaka — an administration assistant from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Karen $400 $2,900 $8,900 $1,600
2nd place
$6,700
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Gail $600 $300 $500 $500
3rd place
$1,000
6 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Bob $200 $1,500 $8,100 $4,100
New champion: $4,100
$6,700
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

STATUE OF LIBERTY FOOTBALL AMERICAN FAMILIES 1965 FOREIGN PHRASES ODD COUPLES
$100 [24]
1968 film whose final pull-out reveals a ruined Statue of Liberty awash on the beach
The Planet of the Apes
Bob
$100 [15]
The fans saw the first one on Dec. 7, 1963; this year, the officials used them
a replay
Karen
$100 [11]
Family of Presidents, they spell their name with one D, unlike Gomez, Morticia & Pugsley
the Adams
Karen
$100 [3]
By clamping her phrenic nerve, doctors relieved a 2-year case of these spasms for an Atlanta waitress
hiccups
Karen
$100 [1]
In German, "Mann uber Bord"
man overboard
Karen
$100 [21]
Chet Huntley's former partner & Billy Joel's present one
David Brinkley & Christie Brinkley
Gail
$200 [25]
Since he designed the interior structure, the statue could be called one of this famed Frenchman's towers
(Gustave) Eiffel
Karen
$200 [16]
Of 1, 3, or 5 seconds, the best hang time for a punt
5 seconds
Karen
$200 [12]
Family whose name is associated with all things rich, including an oyster dish
the Rockefellers
Karen
$200 [4]
According to an AP poll, the escalation of this was the biggest news story of the year
the Vietnam War
Karen
$200 [2]
A "mshugene velt" is this kind of world
a crazy world
Gail
$200 [22]
She often hits #1 on the charts; he was the #1 President of Texas
Whitney Houston & Sam Houston
Karen
$300 [26]
Of full face, rear, or profile, the view of the statue from Manhattan
profile
Karen Gail
$300 [17]
Developed in the '50s by Paul Brown, it's a 5-yd. penalty for grabbing one, 15 yds. if it's pulled
face mask
Karen
$300 [13]
What Kurt Vonnegut was to Geraldo Rivera, Henry Fonda to Tom Hayden, & Ryan O'Neill is to John McEMcEMcEMcEMcEMcEMcEMcEnroe
father-in-law
Gail
$300 [5]
Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg succeeded the late Adlai Stevenson in this diplomatic position
United States representative to the United Nations
Bob
$300 [6]
What the "Prohibido Estacionar" sign prohibits in Portugal
parking
Bob
$300 [23]
He overturns verdicts on the Supreme Court; she turns over letters on "Wheel of Fortune"
Byron White & Vanna White
Bob
$400 [18]
Winners of the most NFL titles, this team was first franchised to J.E. Claire of the Acme Packing Company
the Green Bay Packers
Karen Gail
$400 [14]
The father's Peace Corps sent Americans abroad, his daughter brought Conan to Hyannisport
the Shrivers
Bob
$400 [9]
Time reported that this young Black comic refuses to make racial jokes "because they demean the race"
Bill Cosby
Karen Gail Bob
$400 [7]
"Pater Patriae", George Washington was one
the father of his country
Karen
$500 [19]
Named NFL Comm. in '60, he raised eyebrows ordering games played 2 days after JFK was shot
Pete Rozelle
Bob
$500 [20]
This biographer of Malcolm X may have the best-known genealogy in America
Alex Haley
Karen
DD $500 [10]
2 of 3 U.S. national monuments targeted by saboteurs in a monumental plot cracked in February
(2 of) the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument
Gail
$500 [8]
A Dutch inspector saying "maak je die koffer ins open" is telling you to do this
please open your luggage (or your suitcase)
Gail

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS BODIES OF WATER POLITICAL HISTORY SELF-DIRECTED HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
$200 [7]
Surname shared by the authors of "Rich Man, Poor Man," & "Man & Superman"
Shaw
Karen Bob
$200 [14]
Sound barrier between Suffolk County, New York, & New Haven County, Connecticut
Long Island Sound
Bob
$200 [2]
TR's was square, FDR's was new, & Truman's was fair
a deal
Karen
$200 [1]
Woody Allen directed himself in this black-and-white 1979 comedy with music by George Gershwin
Manhattan
Bob
$200 [17]
A penny mailed in
a sent cent
Karen
$400 [8]
His Robinson Crusoe might have had more fun had he been cast away with his Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Bob
$400 [15]
Though some call it the Antarctic Ocean, most say these 3 oceans converge around Antarctica
the Atlantic, Pacific & Indian Ocean
Karen
$400 [6]
Party whose 1852 slogan was, "We Polk you in '44, we shall Pierce you in '52."
the Democrats
Karen Gail Bob
$400 [3]
He had small parts as a governor & an Indian chief in "Blazing Saddles"
Mel Brooks
Karen
$400 [18]
What King Kong would have been had he joined the Viet Cong
a guerilla gorilla
Karen
$600 [9]
Though he wrote "The Europeans" & in 1915 became one, both he & brother William were born Americans
Henry James
Bob
$800 [21]
Largest lake in Central America, it's where you might see a Sandinista sunning on the sand
Lake Nicaragua
$600 [12]
15 of the 39 men who became President were born in these two states
Virginia & Ohio
Bob
$600 [4]
Charlie Chaplin directed his silent Tramp for the last time in this spoof of automation
Modern Times
Gail
$600 [19]
An intricate network of passages in a cornfield
a maize maze
Bob
$800 [10]
He wrote both "Ivanhoe" & "Woodstock," though he lived after knights & before hippies
Sir Walter Scott
Bob
$1,000 [22]
Joseph Walker's 1974 Tony-winning play bore the name of this West African river
the River Niger
Karen
$800 [13]
Northern Democrats who had Confederate sympathies or the viper Agkistrodon contortrix
Copperheads
$800 [5]
Just the facts: he produced & directed "The D.I." & played Sergeant Jim Moore
Jack Webb
Bob
$1,000 [24]
Another way of saying"before there was an atmosphere"
ere air
Karen
$1,000 [11]
Philosopher who wrote "The Critique of Pure Reason"' his final words were, "It is enough"
Immanuel Kant
Karen Bob
DD $2,000 [20]
Body of water next to the place in the title of thefollowing:"Last night I took a walk in the dark / A swingin' place called Palisades Park / To have some fun and see what I could see / That's where the girls are"
Hudson River
Bob
$1,000 [16]
After roles in "High Sierra" & "The Hard Way", she went on to direct herself in "The Bigamist"
Ida Lupino
Karen
DD $3,000 [23]
A man who has cornered the lodestone business
a magnet magnate
Karen

Final Jeopardy!

NEWSPAPERS

With the weekday circulation close to that of "The N.Y. Times" & the "L.A. Times" combined, this is the largest-selling U.S. daily

The Wall Street Journal

Gail "What is the New York Daily News?" — wagered $0
Bob "What is the New York Daily News?" — wagered $4,000
Karen "What is USA Today?" — wagered $7,300

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