Show #493 1986-10-29 (taped 1986-08-27) Regular

Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Sarah Frommer — an attorney from Santa Monica, California

Robert Rolle — a radio producer originally from Terre Haute, Indiana

Bob Von Bargen — a law student from Torrance, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Bob $1,300 $2,000 $4,600 $2,900
2nd place
$4,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Robert $300 $1,600 $1,200 $2,350
3rd place
$2,200
14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Sarah $1,200 $1,500 $3,100 $6,199
New champion: $6,199
$3,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

TECHNOLOGY MYSTERIOUS EAST EVIL TWINS "BUMP"s BREAD TV THEMES
$100 [1]
It's what you do on a Selectric
typewriting
Bob
$100 [2]
Major ones in Singapore include New World & Gay World, but not Disney World
theme parks (amusement parks)
Robert
$100 [7]
In this TV show, not only did Michael Knight have an evil twin, so did the car
Knight Rider
Sarah
$100 [5]
Condition of LA traffic at 5 o'clock on the 405 freeway
bumper-to-bumper
Sarah
$100 [16]
A papyrus from 1200 B.C. lists 30 kinds of bread in this country
Egypt
Bob Sarah
$100 [17]
[Instrumental music plays]
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Robert
$200 [3]
The LP was designed to replace the record which rotated at this speed
a 78
Robert
$200 [14]
When the Japanese emperor moved here in 1868, the city name was changed from Edo to this
Tokyo
Sarah
$200 [8]
According to legend, he killed his twin brother Remus for leaping over the wall he built around Rome
Romulus
Sarah
$200 [6]
Since they're upwardly mobile professionals too, this term is used to describe Black yuppies
bumpies
Sarah
$200 [22]
From the French diminutive for crust, they help make Caesar salad a square meal
croutons
Robert
$200 [18]
[Instrumental music plays]
The Rifleman
Robert
$300 [4]
Scientist who in 1967 was responsible for getting that annoying hiss out of audio tapes
(Ray) Dolby
Sarah
DD $500 [25]
The 3 nations which comprised French Indochina
Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam
Bob
$300 [9]
Strontium is an evil alter ego of this bone-building nutrient
calcium
Sarah
$300 [11]
What a rival mob did to Dutch Schultz in New Jersey in 1935
bumping off
Bob
$300 [23]
The only acceptable type of bread Hebrews could use as an offering to God
matzos (unleavened bread)
Bob
$300 [19]
[Instrumental music plays]
Get Smart
Robert
$400 [10]
This comedian claims to have an evil twin named Ray Pino
Jay Leno
$400 [12]
Famed pair of moves executed by an ecdysiast
bumps & grinds
Bob
$400 [24]
Normally equal to about 2% of flour weight, this compound is basically used to improve the flavor of bread
salt
Bob
$400 [20]
[Instrumental music plays]
the Our Gang comedies ( The Little Rascals )
Bob
$500 [15]
Margot Kidder played both Danielle & her evil Siamese twin in this 1973 De Palma film
Sisters
$500 [13]
Famous frontiersman created by James Fenimore Cooper
Natty Bumppo
Bob
$500 [21]
[Instrumental music plays]
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Robert

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIOLOGY SPORTS TRIVIA EARLY AMERICA MAGAZINES NEW TESTAMENT HOLLYWOOD FRUITS
$200 [12]
While a cobra kills with venom, a boa kills by doing this to its victim
squeezing (constricting)
Sarah
$200 [1]
Aquatic subject of the classic 1966 film "Endless Summer"
surfing
Bob
$200 [16]
In 1790, Congress asked him to choose a location for our nation's capital
George Washington
Robert Sarah
$200 [7]
From Latin "digerere", to divide, it's used to complete "Soap Opera", "Golf" & "Readers" titles
Digest
Sarah
$200 [22]
False prophets who come to you in this garbare inwardly ravening wolves
sheep's clothing
Sarah
$200 [3]
Jimmy Cagney was going to shove an omelet in May Clark's face, but this fruit was less of a mess
a grapefruit
Robert
$400 [13]
Of "small bug", "poison", or "infection", the meaning of the Latin word "virus"
poison
Robert Sarah
$400 [2]
In 1976 Olympics, these 2 brothers both won gold medals in boxing events
the Spinks brothers (Michael & Leon)
Robert
$400 [19]
Replacing this man as minister to France, Jefferson said, "I succeed him, no one can replace him"
Benjamin Franklin
Bob
$400 [9]
Of "Harper's", "Harper's Bazaar", & "Bazaar", one with the highest circulation
Harper's Bazaar
Bob
$400 [23]
Brother of Mary & Martha, he died, but not for long
Lazarus
Sarah
$400 [4]
Humphrey Bogart went bananas when these disappeared in "The Caine Mutiny"
strawberries
Robert
$600 [18]
In time, it's the approximate length of the circadian rhythm cycle in organisms
1 day (24 hours)
Bob Robert
$600 [8]
At 8,325 yards, one in Bolton, Massachusetts, is the world's longest
a golf course
Robert
$600 [20]
This body first met in Philadelphia's Carpenters' Hall, not Independence Hall, in 1774
the Continental Congress
Robert
$600 [10]
In July '86, Playboy announced plans to do a pictorial on women of this convenience store chain
the 7-Eleven chain
Robert
$600 [24]
From its first word in the original Greek version, the book of Revelation is often known by this name
the Apocalypse
$600 [5]
He became Joe E. Brown's fiance in "Some Like It Hot"
Jack Lemmon
Robert
DD $800 [14]
The 3 states in which the Triple Crown takes place
Kentucky, New York & Maryland
Sarah
DD $1,000 [21]
After lying for 100 years in an unmarked Paris grave, remains of this hero were moved to Annapolis in 1905
John Paul Jones
Robert
$800 [11]
The reason "Elle" gets a discount on its ads in "New York" is they're both owned by this publisher
Rupert Murdoch
Robert Sarah
$800 [25]
At over 25,000 words, he is the longest-winded of the gospel writers
Luke
$800 [6]
Sidney Poitier film whose fruity title came from Langston Hughes' montage of "A Dream Deferred"
A Raisin in the Sun
Robert
$1,000 [15]
From 1973-79, she won 125 straight matches on clay courts
Chris Evert Lloyd
Bob
$1,000 [17]
1 of 2 U.S. magazines with circulation over 400,000 whose names end in a period
Ms. & Inc.

Final Jeopardy!

ELECTIONS

Third-party candidate who got nearly 7% of the popular vote in the 1980 presidential election

John Anderson

Robert "Who is John Anderson?" — wagered $1,150
Sarah "Who was John Anderson?" — wagered $3,099
Bob "Who was ?" — wagered $1,700

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