Show #536 1986-12-29 (taped 1986-10-07) Regular

Contestants

David Shear — a copy editor from Los Angeles, California

Bonnie Schiffer — a writer and actress from New York City, New York

Barbara Smith — an elementary educator from Yuba City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Barbara $-500 $200 $200 $399
3rd place: Gusdorf home entertainment furniture ensemble
$200
5 R, 2 W
Bonnie $1,700 $2,200 $4,900 $9,800
2nd place: Dresher Brass bed + The Company Store gift certificate
$5,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
David $600 $800 $7,100 $9,801
New champion: $9,801
$8,000
24 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STORYTELLERS GAMBLING 4-LETTER WORDS #1 HITS WINDOWS
$100 [18]
He related stories of his childhood on the record "to Russell, my brother, whom I slept with"
Bill Cosby
Barbara
$100 [2]
The minimum number of cards a player must be dealt in blackjack
2
David
$100 [13]
A haircut, a rug, or to catch pop flies
shag
David
$100 [4]
Sandwiched between Bee Gee's #1 hits "Stayin' Alive" & "Night Fever" was a #1 hit for 2 wks. by this brother
Andy Gibb
David
$100 [1]
Clear pieces of ice or seal intestine are used for windows on this type of "house"
an igloo
David
$200 [19]
Rimsky-Korsakoff wrote a symphonic suite named for this Arabian storyteller
Scheherazade
David
$200 [3]
Color of the 0 and 00 spaces on an American roulette wheel
green
Bonnie
$200 [14]
A man's mate
a wife
Barbara
$200 [5]
"Dig if you will the picture" of Prince singing the above lyrics to this #1 song from "Purple Rain"
"When Doves Cry"
Bonnie David
$200 [9]
It was Jimmy Stewart's viewpoint to a murder in 1954
Rear Window
David
$300 [20]
One of the 3 current ABC daytime soaps created or co-created by Agnes Nixon
(1 of) All My Children , One Life to Live , or Loving
Bonnie
$300 [23]
In craps, this number is statistically the most likely total on dice
7
David
$300 [15]
A boat's body
a hull
Bonnie
$300 [6]
When asked in '85 if she loved winning a Grammy, this could have been Tina Turner's response
"What's Love Got To Do With It?"
David
$300 [10]
NBC sitcom where we usually find Pearl in her window talking to Mary & Rose on the stoop
227
Bonnie
DD $400 [21]
A 1952 film about this storyteller featured thefollowing:"Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen / Friendly old girl of a town"
Hans Christian Andersen
Bonnie
$400 [24]
1-word term for betting an original wager & its winnings on a subsequent event
parlay
$400 [16]
Forsooth, 'tis archaic 3rd person singular form of "do"
doth
Barbara David
$400 [7]
The Edgar Winter Group's "monstrous" instrumental hit
"Frankenstein"
$400 [11]
A small gabled window projecting from a sloping roof
a dormer
$500 [22]
Vet who told the tales of "All Creatures Great & Small"
Herriot
David
$500 [25]
The object in baccarat is to get closest to this number without going over, while using fewest cards
9
$500 [17]
Hey, this book is next to last in the New Testament
Jude
Bonnie David
$500 [8]
Covering both sides of a single, this tribute to Buddy Holly was released as Parts I & II
"American Pie"
Bonnie
$500 [12]
Reagan has used this term for weak spots in our national defense
window of vulnerability
Barbara Bonnie

Double Jeopardy! Round

ECONOMICS MOVIES 20THCENTURY PERSONALITIES NEWSPAPERS BODIES OF WATER "FISH"Y EXPRESSIONS
$200 [22]
GNP stands for this
gross national product
David
$200 [7]
After playing Dorothy, she called her mother "the real-life Wicked Witch of the West"
Judy Garland
Bonnie
$200 [12]
His "raiders" are fierce consumer advocates, not fierce pro football players
Ralph Nader
David
$200 [2]
Names of France's "Le Monde" & West Germany's "Die Welt" both mean this
the world
David
$200 [1]
It contains more than half of all the world's seawater
the Pacific
David
$200 [17]
In a game of "Fish", your response to a player who asks for all your aces when you have none
"go fish"
Bonnie
$400 [23]
It's the conversion of assets into cash, not water
liquidation
Barbara
$400 [8]
George Raft refused leads in "Dead End" "High Sierra" & "Maltese Falcon", in each case to be replaced by him
Humphrey Bogart
David
$400 [13]
This former first lady interviewed Khrushchev in '57 at Yalta, site of her husband's famous conference
Eleanor Roosevelt
David
$400 [3]
It's said when Nixon picked Agnew, this D.C. paper likened it to Caligula naming his horse proconsul
The Washington Post
David
$600 [24]
While most geographers say it isn't really one, others consider this "southern ocean" the world's 5th
the Antarctic Ocean
Bonnie David
$400 [18]
Taken literally, it could be sashimi & Pringles
fish and chips
Barbara
$600 [27]
Only 31 shares were traded on March 16, 1830, the slowest day in its history
the New York Stock Exchange
David
$600 [9]
Working for an "insulting" $8000 in "From Here to Eternity", he won Best Supporting Actor Oscar
Frank Sinatra
David
$600 [14]
In 1978, this once & future Indian prime minister was imprisoned for criminal misconduct
Indira Gandhi
David
$600 [4]
Per its name, the Soviets assume their newspaper "Pravda" provides this
truth
David
DD $700 [26]
The Chicago river is said to be the 1st in the world to have had this done to it permanently
having its course reversed
Bonnie
$600 [19]
What you'd call "I caught a shark with my bare hands during a 200 mph hurricane..." etc,
a fish story
David
$800 [28]
This famous book published in 1776 made author Adam Smith synonymous with laissez-faire economics
Wealth of Nations
Bonnie
DD $900 [10]
1 of 2 performers nominated for an Oscar for a role in "Rebel Without a Cause"
Sal Mineo or Natalie Wood
David
$800 [15]
As Minister of Aviation, this German WWI ace developed the Luftwaffe
Hermann Goering
David
$800 [5]
Though they twice announced they would be folding, the Globe-Democrat is alive & well in this city
St. Louis
Barbara
$800 [25]
In a '68 hit, The Cowsills described it as "a place you should take your little one"
"Indian Lake"
Bonnie
$800 [20]
An aloof tuna or a barely defrosted "Mrs. Paul's"
a cold fish
$1,000 [11]
"The cynical tough guy the '70s seemed to want", this character returned in a 4th film in 1983
Dirty Harry (Callahan)
Bonnie
$1,000 [16]
In 1980, Robert Mugabe became 1st prime minister of this new country
Zimbabwe
David
$1,000 [6]
Editor J. Reston said its main responsibility isn't to current readers but to historians 50 years from now
The New York Times
David
$1,000 [21]
After being dumped by your sweetheart, how you might compare him to prospects of a future catch
there's a lot of other fish in the sea
Bonnie

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

This city has the oldest zoo, hospital, art museum & circulating library in the U.S.

Philadelphia

Barbara "What is Philadelphia?" — wagered $199
Bonnie "What is Philadelphia?" — wagered $4,900
David "What is Philadelphia" — wagered $2,701

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