Show #520 1986-12-05 (taped 1986-09-16) Regular

Contestants

John Pine — a journalist originally from New York City

Lee Pritchard — a writer originally from East Lansing, Michigan

Rick Vernier — a graduate student from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rick $600 $700 $4,700 $6,500
2nd place: Admiral refrigerator + Radio Flyer Town & Country & Original Red wagons
$4,700
17 R, 6 W
Lee $-700 $-500 $3,500 $7,000
New champion: $7,000
$3,500
11 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
John $100 $200 $1,200 $0
3rd place: Kosta Boda crystal stemware
$2,000
9 R, 7 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTS REINCARNATION PETS THE OSCARS ST. LOUIS 1-WORD SONGS
$100 [3]
He was actually paraphrasing Harding when he said, "Ask not what your country can do for you"
JFK
Rick Lee
$100 [13]
Flamboyant WWII general who believed he'd had several previous lives, all as soldiers
Patton
Lee
$100 [1]
Saying goldfish are not tropical, World Book considers these the most common & best known tropical fish
guppies
Rick
$100 [17]
Youngest person to win a regular Oscar was this 10-year-old for Best Supporting Actress in "Paper Moon"
Tatum O'Neal
John
$100 [8]
The statue in Forest Park is of the IX, not the XIV, XV, or XVI
King Louis
Lee John
$200 [9]
Trio that fills the category with not just "One", but also "Celebrate", "Liar", & "Shambala"
Three Dog Night
Rick
$200 [4]
Said to be 1st president to use a telephone, James Garfield was last to be born in one of these
a log cabin
John
$200 [18]
Plato felt that memories from time spent between incarnations inspired this romantic emotion
love
Lee
$200 [2]
The talking variety of this bird can imitate human speech better than a parrot can
a myna
John
$200 [11]
In 1929 only, a separate award was also given for Best Director of this type of film
a comedy
Rick Lee John
$200 [25]
East St. Louis is located in this state
Illinois
Lee John
$300 [15]
1967 hit for both The Rascals & Booker T., though the latter didn't sing it
"Groovin'"
$300 [5]
Following the "Checkers" speech, he told his vice-presidential running mate, "you're my boy"
Eisenhower
Rick Lee
$300 [19]
Name of the Hindu belief that good or evil deeds determine the next incarnation
karma
Rick
$300 [10]
The chow chow dog is unique in having this color tongue
black (blue-black)
Rick Lee
$300 [12]
While angered at receiving Oscar for "Pygmalion", he reportedly displayed it on his mantel
George Bernard Shaw
Rick Lee
$300 [26]
Founder of St. Louis Post-Dispatch who created awards for American journalism & arts
Joseph Pulitzer
Rick John
$400 [16]
In her music video, she's a cheerleader rooting for "Mickey"
Toni Basil
Rick Lee
$400 [6]
Without bloodshed or reprisals, George Washington squelched this "potent potable" uprising in 1794
the Whiskey Rebellion
Rick
$400 [20]
Founding Father who wrote that he would "appear once more in a new & more elegant edition"
Benjamin Franklin
Rick
$400 [22]
Most popular breed of long-haired cats, it's become a generic term for all long-hairs
Persian
Lee
$400 [14]
Tho Scarlett's father in 1939's best picture, "GWTW", he won best supporting actor that year for "Stagecoach"
Thomas Mitchell
$500 [7]
James Monroe's Secretary of State & successor, he actually proposed the Monroe doctrine
John Quincy Adams
Lee
$500 [21]
In "Dancing in the Light", this star says her mother was once a man who kidnapped her in a past life
Shirley MacLaine
John
$500 [23]
All pet golden hamsters descend from a single litter captured in 1930 in this Mideast country
Syria
$500 [24]
1964's best song, from "Mary Poppins"
"Chim Chim Cher-ee"

Double Jeopardy! Round

WARS FOREIGN PHRASES TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE ART TAKE A GUESS
$200 [2]
In 1979, this country conquered Cambodia
Vietnam
Rick
$200 [11]
"Volkswagen" literally means this
(the) people('s) car
John
$200 [16]
At start of each week's show, clients arrived via this to "Fantasy Island"
an airplane
Rick
$200 [1]
At age 90, he said, "Retire? I'm going to stay in show business till I'm the only one left"
George Burns
Rick
$800 [21]
In 1937, Andrew Mellon gave $5 million & 111 "old masters" to establish this in Washington
the National Gallery of Art
Lee John
$1,000 [23]
Ir, this densest of all elements, resists corrosion better than any other known metal
iridium
Rick
$400 [3]
War that's the subject of Hemingway's play, "The Fifth Column"
the Spanish Civil War
Rick
$600 [13]
"Hara kiri" is Japanese for cutting this
stomach (or intestines)
John
$400 [17]
Mode of transportation celebrated in Boone, Iowa during annual Pufferbilly Days
steam locomotives
Rick
$400 [7]
While "St. Elsewhere" was "killing him off" with AIDS, People magazine called him "the Sexiest Man Alive"
Mark Harmon
John
$1,000 [22]
Famous French tapestry made to celebrate the Norman conquest of England
the Bayeux Tapestry
Rick
$600 [4]
This battle of the War of 1812 was fought 2 weeks after the war had ended
the Battle of New Orleans
Rick
DD $800 [12]
Meaning of the phrase that forms this song's title:[Instrumental music plays]
"kiss me much"
John
$600 [18]
In addition to the helicopter, this is also nicknamed a "chopper"
a motorcycle
John
$600 [8]
As of March 17, 1986, House speaker Tip O'Neill is also a citizen of this country
Ireland
Lee
$800 [5]
More people died in a flu epidemic shortly after this war than in the war itself
World War I
Rick
$800 [14]
Title of 1960 Fellini film, "La Dolce Vita", means this
the sweet life
Rick Lee
$800 [19]
With Orville's help, he moved the Wright home & bike shop to his Michigan museum
Henry Ford
Rick
DD $800 [9]
In 1986, "A Taste of Honey" was one of their 1st 2 sanctioned albums to be released back in the U.S.S.R.
the Beatles
Lee
$1,000 [6]
He was Prime Minister when Great Britain declared war on Germany, Sept. 3, 1939
Chamberlain
Lee
$1,000 [15]
Translated, it's who the Pope is addressing when he gives his "urbi et orbi" message
the city and the world
John
$1,000 [20]
Pulled by mules, it's how Dickens traveled through Pennsylvania in march 1842
the canal boats
$1,000 [10]
So far, the U.S., Britain, Nepal, India, Greece & Spain have sent him & his followers packing
(Bhagwan) Rajneesh
John

Final Jeopardy!

WOOD

Percussion instrument whose name combines Greek words for "wood" & "sound"

xylophone

John "What is tympani" — wagered $1,200
Lee "What is a xylophone?" — wagered $3,500
Rick "What is a xylophone?" — wagered $1,800

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