Show #420 - Friday, April 18, 1986

Guy Tonti game 5.

Contestants

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Kurt Weldon, a comedian and a writer from Beverly Hills, California

Shoshana Rona, a librarian from Los Angeles, California

Guy Tonti, a telecommunications manager from San Francisco, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $28,800)

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Jeopardy! Round

U.S.A.
CARTOONS
5-LETTER WORDS
POP MUSIC
ZOOLOGY
THE BEST
    $100 14
In 1985, scientists spent $60,000 & 25 days chasing Humphrey the Humpback Whale out of a river in this state
    $100 1
Pursuer of the Road Runner & #1 customer of the Acme Corporation
    $100 13
You do it to ground to begin a building or bread to begin a meal
    $100 8
Music known by the abbreviation "MOR"
    $100 26
Volcano rabbits trot instead of doing this
    $100 2
Roll out the barrel, this category has been added to the Grammy Awards
    $200 15
Of TV's "Miami Vice's" budget per episode & the real Miami vice squad's budget per year, the larger
    $200 4
Star of 1950's Oscar-winning cartoon, he didn't speak words but made noises instead
    $200 16
Follows "blood", "grey", & "Huckleberry"
    $200 9
Singer who lived "The Lush Life" with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra
    $200 27
Since it's related to the mongoose, this mammal may just "laugh" if you say it resembles a dog
    $200 3
Mayonnaise whose blue, white & yellow label reads "Best Foods" in the West is this in the East
    $300 17
Arizona has made this paper size "illegal" to use in state, local & school offices
    $300 5
Clips from Chuck Jones classic "Duck Dodgers in the 24-½th Century" are seen in this S. Spielberg film
    $300 20
Precedes "ticket", "infinitive", & "level house"
    $300 10
11 years after their sibling squabbles, they recorded the album "EB 84"
    $300 28
Support provided by buoyancy allows these mammals to grow larger than any land animal
    $300 23
This 1946 drama about returning WWII veterans got the Oscar as "The Best" Picture
    $400 18
Entertainment in this city includes 1,272 bowling lanes, the Sabres & the Bills
    $400 6
Disney's second full-length animated feature
    $400 21
To deserve something, like a Boy Scout badge
    $400 11
"Heartbreaker" who broke his hand out of frustration while recording "Southern Accents"
    $400 29
Drunk by Laplanders, it has 4 to 5 times the fat of cow's milk
    $400 24
Once "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", it's moved to Nevada
    $500 19
Longest north-south Interstate highway, it runs through 15 states from Maine to Florida
    $500 7
Fleischer's Koko the Clown figuratively & literally climbed out of one of these
    $500 22
You had to make one before you could solve the rebus on "Concentration"
    DD: $200 12
To record the following, she had to remove her jewelry because it made too much noise:

"Well, well, well, let's realize that a change can only come"
    $500 30
18th c. zoologists believed 1st stuffed specimens of this oviparous mammal were frauds
    $500 25
Type of wood generally considered the best for pipe bowls

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

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$800 $400 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$1,900 $2,200 $2,300

Double Jeopardy! Round

HALLEY'S COMET
CLOTHING
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
1890's
(Alex: And since we had THE BEST in the Jeopardy! Round, in Double Jeopardy! we have...)
THE WORST
    $200 1
The solar wind makes the tail of Halley's Comet always point in this direction
    $200 20
A blouse that ties around a woman's neck or a strap that ties around a horse's
    $200 7
The longest river & largest desert are on this continent
    $200 14
On radio & TV he played Jack Benny's valet Rochester
    $200 19
1st ever was built by G.W. Gale Ferris for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893
    $200 6
It's fashion designer Mr. Blackwell's major claim to fame
    $400 2
The story that the Pope did this to the comet in 1456 is nothing but a "comet tale"
    $400 23
Article of clothing mentioned most frequently in Major League Baseball team names
    $400 10
Birdwatchers must travel to this continent to see kookaburras in their native habitat
    $400 15
Richard Crenna as Walter Denton was the student who usually drove her to school
    $400 24
He survived Little Bighorn & a Wild West Show, but was gunned down by troops in 1890
    $400 8
Guinness lists "the sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" as the worst of these
    $600 3
The first name of the astronomer for whom the comet is named
    $600 11
Gulf separating the Mexican mainland from Baja California
    $600 16
Sitcom on which Johnny Brown, playing janitor Mr. Bookman, was called "Buffalo Butt"
    DD: $900 25
3 of original 5 prize categories established by Alfred Nobel's will after he died in 1896
    $600 9
At Death Valley for 43 consecutive days in 1917
    $800 4
Not smog & city lights, but this is the main reason sightings will be less spectacular than the last time
    $800 12
The only Canadian province to border both Alaska & the U.S.'s Lower 48
    $800 17
This actor was fittingly chosen to portray Abraham Lincoln briefly in "How the West Was Won"
    $800 26
In 1891, this petite painter produced his first music hall posters
    DD: $800 21
1 of 2 presidents whose corrupt administrations rate in Schlesinger surveys as the worst ever
    $1000 5
Halley's comet computations were based on this English genius' discovery of orbital parabola
    $1000 13
2nd-largest island in Europe, this North Atlantic country has no navigable rivers
    $1000 18
Herb Woodley is their neighbor
    $1000 27
After 1892, this New York City harbor site was called in several languages "the Isle of Tears"
    $1000 22
Roman tragedy with beheadings, cannibalism, & rape, thought by many to be Shakespeare's worst

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$5,300 $5,000 $4,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORERS
President who sent Lewis & Clark to explore the way to the Pacific Ocean

Final scores:

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$600 $6,000 $8,200
3rd place: Jules Jurgensen his & hers watches 2nd place: trip to San Francisco New champion: $8,200

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Guy Shoshana Kurt
$5,300 $5,800 $5,400
14 R,
2 W		 14 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $16,500

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Game tape date: 1985-11-19
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