Show #185 - Friday, May 24, 1985

Nathan Walpow game 1.

Contestants

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Rick Pisarra, an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Nathan Walpow, a data processor originally from Queens, New York

Bill Fox, a restaurant manager originally from Lake Bluff, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE '70s
KIDDIE LIT
ROBERT REDFORD
THE ALPHABET
SWEET SONGS
"DO"s & "DON'T"s
    $100 4
This Broadway rock opera chronicled the Savior's last seven days
    $100 10
Tom Sawyer's sweetheart
    $100 7
He & Streisand went their own ways at the end of this '73 film
    $100 15
Printers were the 1st told to "mind" these letters, because reversed, they look like each other
    $100 17
Sammy Davis sang this hit song about Willie Wonka
    $100 1
What a bride & groom usually say to one another at the altar
    $200 5
1 of 2 significant things Spiro Agnew did on Oct. 10, 1973
    $200 11
This, the oldest still-published children's magazine, was begun by the Boy Scouts in 1911
    $200 8
His ski resort in Utah is named for this '69 movie role, perhaps his most famous
    $200 16
2 consonants that are sometimes vowels
    $200 18
Also called "Day-O", this calypso song was most ap"peel"ing in 1957
    $200 2
Karl Malden's warning about your American Express card
    $300 13
On Sept. 1, 1971, Bobby Fischer took the world chess championship title from him
    $300 20
Kind of creature who was sidekick to Ben Franklin in "Ben and Me"
    $300 9
One of two movies in which his leading ladies were named Daisy
    DD: $800 24
2 ways of writing "9" in Roman numerals
    $300 19
According to McGuire sisters' '58 hit, this time can be in the morning, in the evening & at suppertime, too
    $300 3
Title of '67 Bob Dylan documentary & '81 movie biography of baseball's "Satchel" Paige
    $400 14
This perfect "cover girl" 1st appeared on swimsuit cover of "Sports Illustrated" in 1971
    $400 21
Hans Christian Andersen created this comely counterpart to Tom Thumb
    $400 23
In '77, he received honorary degree from Williams College for work in this field
    $400 25
In Elizabethan script, a lower-case "S" resembled this letter
    $400 6
Famous line from JFK's inaugural speech
    $500 22
19th century minister who authored rags-to-riches stories like "Ragged Rick" & "Luck & Pluck"
    $500 26
More common name for "uncials" or "majuscules"
    $500 12
Annie Oakley & Buffalo Bill's dueling duet from "Annie Get Your Gun"

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):

Bill Nathan Rick
$800 $300 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bill Nathan Rick
$1,600 $2,800 -$400

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY
ANIMALS
U.S. MAYORS
SOVIET UNION
WEAPONS
FLOWERS
    $200 21
When the Greeks destroyed this city in Asia Minor around 1200 B.C., they weren't horsing around
    $200 6
While cows & goats keep theirs for life, deer shed them each year
    $200 5
Mayor considered possible Democratic V.P. candidate during convention in her city
    $200 16
This Soviet foreign minister has at least 2 copies of every Dolly Parton record
    $200 1
Weapon wielded by the farmer's wife on 3 blind mice
    $200 2
Both a type of bird & a flower share this "heavenly" name
    $400 22
Greek & Roman name for a stone coffin
    $400 9
The horned toad is really one of these
    $400 8
Before becoming California's Rep. senator, he was mayor of San Diego
    $400 17
2 years before Lincoln freed slaves, Czar Alexander II freed these victims of feudal system
    $400 7
Weapon featured each week in the opening of "Mission Impossible"
    $400 3
In Jolson song, "it isn't raining rain, you know, it's raining" these
    $600 23
Under the Ptolemies, this city had the greatest library in ancient world, over 700,000 scrolls
    $600 13
The largest member of the camel family in South America
    $600 18
She dressed like a Blues Brother when Aykroyd & Belushi made their movie in Chicago
    DD: $1,000 26
This song, a major hit in the late '60s, derives from an old Russian folk song:

"Once upon a time there was a tavern / Where we used to raise a glass or two"
    $600 10
It might not have a money-back guarantee, but it can always return itself
    $600 4
Though this flower is associated with weakness, its name comes from the French for "thought"
    $800 24
Zoroastrianism was the religion of this ancient empire
    $800 14
Kinds include the dik-dik & the bongo of the Congo
    $800 19
Philadelphia's "law & order" mayor until '80, he's now with the city's gasworks
    $800 27
After spending 17 years in the West, she recently returned to Russia
    $800 11
Gaucho's weapon of long pieces of rope with up to three stones or balls attached
    $800 28
Anna Jarvis, considered founder of Mother's Day, wore this flower on that day
    $1000 25
Romans called them "Punic Wars" because Carthage had been founded by these people
    $1000 15
Killer whales are the largest of these
    $1000 20
One of the first Blacks to become a big city mayor, he's serving his 5th term as mayor of Gary, Indiana
    DD: $1,600 12
The successful & unsuccessful weapons in Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder"
    $1000 29
Though Gilbert & Sullivan made her "sweet", cattle won't eat this flower because it's bitter

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bill Nathan Rick
$2,000 $7,200 $200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS
Two of three islands on which Napoleon was born exiled, and died

Final scores:

Bill Nathan Rick
$3,998 $10,200 $100
2nd place: Speed Queen washer & dryer + LouverDrape vertical blinds New champion: $10,200 3rd place: Vitamaster his & hers exercise bikes

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Bill Nathan Rick
$1,600 $6,700 $1,800
15 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 14 R,
9 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $10,100

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Game tape date: 1985-01-23
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