Show #539 - Thursday, January 1, 1987

Clip of this game shown in the 2009 documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty.

Contestants

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Marjorie Kelly, a student from Santa Monica, California

Randy Jackson, a branch sales manager originally from Memphis, Tennessee

J.C. Turner, a pharmacy student from Amelia, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS
NUTS
RIVER SONGS
WOMEN IN SPORTS
MARCH
IN OTHER WORDS...
(Alex: A few words of explanation, if I may, about this last category. IN OTHER WORDS... came as a result of a big foo-foo that occurred at the Disney Studios last year, when the employees staged a minor revolt when they changed the title of Basil of Baker Street to The Great Mouse Detective and they sent out a memo, tongue-in-cheek, very much so, about what would happen if they changed the titles of all the other great Disney films. So, IN OTHER WORDS, we'll give you an answer and you have to come up with the title of the Disney film as we know it.)
    $100 3
Though he's no Benjamin Spock, this is Jean-Claude Duvalier's nickname
    $100 13
It's okay to eat this nut green - the proof is in the pudding or the ice cream
    $100 1
1st woman to play in a men's pro league, Nancy Lieberman is with the Springfield Fame in this sport
    $100 16
On the ides of March in 1919. this veterans' group was founded in Paris, not the U.S.
    $100 9
"Seven Little Men Help a Girl"
    $200 4
Close, but no cigar: this Communist leader did a promo for CNN, but it was canned
    $200 21
The more familiar name for a filbert or cobnut
    $200 2
Of 80, 90, or 190, age at which Lucille Thompson, oldest ever to do so, earned tae kwon do black belt
    $200 17
The 1st U.S. patent for this household appliance came through the wringer on March 28, 1797
    $200 10
"The Wooden Boy Who Became Real"
    $300 5
Alleged war criminal who condemned anti-Semitism at inauguration as Austria's president in 1986
    $300 23
The nutty frosting on German chocolate cake traditionally uses coconut & this real nut
    $300 26
"Sweet" stream to which Robert Burns said, "flow gently"
    $300 6
Sport in which Judy Wills bounced to the international championship 1st 5 years of competition
    $300 19
On March 4, 1861, the Confederacy adopted its flag, exactly 72 years after this document had gone into effect
    $300 11
"The Girl with the See-Through Shoes"
    $400 12
The Reagans told Barbara Walters they do this "once or twice a week...on Friday or Saturday nights"
    $400 24
The expression "tough nut to crack" holds fast, because a "true" nut's shell won't do this by itself
    $400 7
In 1986, she won her 7th French open, breaking the record for wins in women's singles
    $400 20
Almost 2 years older than Girl Scouts, this youth group was started in South Casco, Maine on March 17,1910
    $400 14
"Puppies Taken Away"
    $500 18
Once his aide-de-camp in exile, Rosario Murillo is now this Nicaraguan president's 1st lady
    $500 25
Squeeze a nut & you'll remove the flavor that's contained in this
    $500 8
At 1980 Olympics for disabled in Holland, Trisha Zorn set world swimming records with this disability
    $500 22
On St. Patrick's Day in 1940, the Brooklyn kill-for-hire gang later nicknamed this was exposed
    $500 15
"The Amazing Flying Children"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):

J.C. Randy Marjorie
$1,400 $0 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

J.C. Randy Marjorie
$3,200 -$500 -$200

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS
GEOGRAPHY
ACTORS & ROLES
AUTOMOBILES
MYTHS & LEGENDS
PAYCHECKS
(Alex: And finally, something all of you are hoping to collect at the end of your sojourn on Jeopardy, a paycheck or two.)
    $200 12
In 1957, then-senator John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize for this book
    $200 7
This Scandinavian country is made up of 482 islands & the peninsula of Jutland
    $200 2
Accepting her Oscar for "Tootsie", Jessica Lange called this star "my leading lady"
    $200 25
It's no bull; in May 1986 Ford introduced a car named for this zodiac sign
    $200 1
Because Lord Carnarvon financed the dig, some say this boy king's "curse" killed him
    $200 21
At $18.7 million for some 15 minutes on screen, this "Superman" star got over $20,000 a second
    $400 13
In Lewis Grizzard's book title, this singer "is dead, & I don't feel so good myself"
    $400 8
Before 1949, Jordan was known by this name, meaning "the land across the Jordan River"
    $400 3
This 1985 Best Actress nominee once played comedienne Moms Mabley in an acclaimed 1-woman show
    $400 28
Back in the mid-'30s, the Cord featured headlights able to do this
    $400 17
As the name implies, Argos built this famous ship
    $400 22
Of $847, $1085, or $1436, the monthly salary of a first-year sergeant in the U.S. Army
    $600 14
"Gigi" author whose husband encouraged her to write, then published her books under his own name
    DD: $1,000 9
2 of the 4 countries of South America that lie completely north of the Equator
    $600 4
"Gandhi" star whose real name is Krishna Bhanji
    $600 18
In some legends, this relative of King Arthur died on the same day Arthur was born
    $600 23
According to title 3, section 102 of the U.S. code, he gets paid $16,666.67 every month
    $800 15
His pen name is Russian for "bitter"; his depressing plays include "The Lower Depths"
    $800 10
The area called "the roof of the world" is where Afghanistan, Pakistan & Russia all meet this country
    $800 5
He said he fell in love with Rita Hayworth, "so what we did in 'Gilda'" was play truth"
    $800 19
Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, lost this garment to Hercules, who probably looked silly in it
    $800 24
In 1979, this chairman of the board agreed to work for $1 a year until his company was making money again
    $1000 16
Peter Shaffer called this long time best seller "a tribal record... full of rape, incest & murder"
    $1000 11
Asia Minor, the westernmost Asian peninsula, is almost wholly occupied by this country
    $1000 6
She played Garbo in "Garbo Talks" but is better-known for writing musicals with Adolph Green
    $1000 26
In 1939, the Lincoln Zephyr started a design trend by eliminating these from car bodies
    $1000 20
In medieval romances, Charlemagne's was called "Joyeuse"
    $1000 27
This piano virtuoso married to Toscanini's daughter earns a concert paycheck of 80% of the gross

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

J.C. Randy Marjorie
$8,400 -$100 $2,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN INDIANS
America's largest reservation houses mainly members of this tribe

Final scores:

J.C. Randy Marjorie
$8,800 -$100 $4,200
2-day champion: $15,800 3rd place: a Smith-Corona typewriter 2nd place: a trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

J.C. Randy Marjorie
$8,400 -$100 $3,200
22 R,
2 W		 8 R,
8 W		 10 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $11,500

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Game tape date: 1986-10-07
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