Show #40 1984-11-02 Regular

Contestants

Jim Conway — a speech communications teacher from Cayucos, California

Dianne Burke — a maintenance clerk originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Kirk Dottl — a bartender from West Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kirk $1,100 $3,000 $7,800 $9,300
2-day champion: $15,600
$9,800
26 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Dianne $0 $1,200 $400 $800
3rd place: Oneida Silversmiths gift certificate
$2,200
8 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jim $-700 $-800 $800 $1,000
2nd place: Sunray range + Bernardaud dinnerware set
$1,100
5 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS BABY CARE UNREAL ESTATE CELEBRITY TRIVIA "MY, MY" GERMANY
$100 [1]
President who won a Pulitzer for "Profiles in Courage"
JFK
Kirk
$100 [22]
It's not unusual for infants to do it 20 hours a day
sleep
Kirk
$100 [10]
"2nd to the right & then straight on til morning" it's Peter Pan's pad
never-never land
Jim
$100 [6]
While he was top in his class & later pres., his brother, Billy, was a high school drop-out
Jimmy Carter
Kirk
$100 [18]
1960's TV show, what Tim O'Hara called his uncle Martin
My Favorite Martian
Kirk
$200 [9]
It's what a woman does with her dirndl
put on (she wears it)
Dianne
$200 [2]
"Gone with the Wind" was the only book she ever wrote
Margaret Mitchell
$200 [16]
Paradise where High Lama lived in James Hilton's "Lost Horizon"
Shangri-La
Kirk
$200 [7]
ABC interviewer, in '71 article she described Richard Nixon as "rather sexy"
Barbara Walters
Kirk
$200 [13]
What Mae West was to W.C. Fields
My Little Chickadee
Kirk
$300 [12]
He appointed Hitler Chancellor & had a Zeppelin named after him
Hindenburg
Kirk
$300 [3]
13 books of the New Testament are attributed to him
St. Paul
Kirk
$300 [17]
'50s "Naughty Lady" cruised this street
Shady Lane
Jim
$300 [8]
Actor originally turned down by American-Negro Theater because of thick West Indian accent
Sidney Poitier
Dianne Jim
DD $300 [11]
Frankie Valli's look but don't touch hit:"Carried your books from school / Playin' make believe you're married to me..."
"My Eyes Adored You"
Jim
$400 [19]
Neither E. nor W. Germany joined this international organization until 1973
the United Nations
Jim
$400 [4]
Gave up NY dental practice to write 54 novels, mostly about the West
Zane Grey
Kirk
$400 [24]
Played the aging movie queen who lived at 10086 Sunset Boulevard
Gloria Swanson
Dianne
$400 [21]
Welsh poet who sold 1st poem at age 12 which he had plagiarized from a newspaper
Dylan Thomas
Dianne
$400 [14]
Gale Storm
My Little Margie
Dianne
$500 [20]
German philosopher who created concept of "Superman" & said "God is dead"
Nietzsche
Kirk
$500 [5]
A founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, better known for "The Jungle"
Upton Sinclair
Dianne Jim
$500 [23]
A Univ. of Calif. engineering degree prepared this cartoonist for his way-out inventions
Rube Goldberg
Jim
$500 [15]
In Ireland, "the sweetest flow'r that grows"
"My Wild Irish Rose"
Kirk

Double Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORERS BIOLOGY ROCK OF THE 80'S "I" LANDS PARTNERS WORD ORIGINS
$200 [18]
Marco Polo's transportation from Palestine, to Kublai Khan's palace
a camel
$200 [6]
Greek philosopher Anaximander believed humans evolved from these aquatic creatures
fish
$200 [1]
4 years after his death, this ex-Beatle had a hit with "I'm Stepping Out"
John Lennon
Kirk
$200 [12]
Land of the Ganges & Gandhis
India
Kirk
$200 [8]
Oscar-winning comics known abroad as "Flip & Flop" or "Fat & Skinny"
Laurel & Hardy
Kirk
$400 [24]
From "G.P." for general purpose army vehicle
a Jeep
Dianne
$400 [7]
19th century French scientist who proved bacteria caused disease
Pasteur
Kirk
$400 [2]
Though now he's "Dancing in the Dark", in the '70s he was "Born to Run"
Bruce Springsteen
Kirk
$400 [13]
In its official language, French, its name is "Republique de la Cote d'Ivoire"
the Ivory Coast
Dianne
$400 [9]
Washington Post pair who spilled Watergate scandal
Woodward & Bernstein
Kirk
$600 [25]
In 1940, H.L. Mencken invented word "ecdysiast" meaning this
a stripper
$600 [19]
Biggest difference between a plant & a rock
a plant is alive
Kirk
$600 [3]
According to Huey Lewis, it's still beating
"The Heart Of Rock & Roll"
Kirk
$600 [14]
Despite its name, glaciers cover only 1/8 of its area
Iceland
Kirk
$600 [10]
'61 Yankees' Slugging "M & M" duo
Mantle & Maris
Kirk
$1,000 [23]
Adjective for independent contractor, originally a mercenary soldier with his own spear
freelance
$800 [20]
Study of relationships of living things to each other & their environment
ecology
Kirk
$800 [4]
They "blinded him with science"
Thomas Dolby
Kirk
$800 [15]
Its capital is Baghdad
Iraq
Jim
$800 [11]
Superhero stars of own individual comics who are currently in "World's Finest Comics"
Batman & Superman
Dianne Jim
DD $1,800 [22]
Teddy Roosevelt term for someone charging others with corruption
muckraker
Dianne
$1,000 [21]
Building blocks of proteins
amino acids
Kirk Dianne
$1,000 [5]
These superstars are together in a "State of Shock"
Michael Jackson & Mick Jagger
Kirk
$1,000 [16]
In 1947, its independence was settled over 5000 miles from its shores
Israel
Kirk
DD $2,000 [17]
The '64 Republican presidential ticket
Goldwater & Miller
Kirk

Final Jeopardy!

NUMBER, PLEASE

Number of most recent year that reads the same when turned up-side down

1961

Dianne "What is 1961?" — wagered $400
Jim "What is 1961?" — wagered $200
Kirk "What is 1961?" — wagered $1,500

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