Show #72 - Tuesday, December 18, 1984

Larry Floyd game 2.
Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.

Contestants

Pat Sutch, an English professor from Long Beach, California

Mike Linquist, a waiter from Tampa, Florida

Larry Floyd, an accounting clerk originally from Bridgton, Maine (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. STATES
ANIMALS
FOOTBALL
SITCOMS
1984
DEAR JOHNS
    $100 4
"The Show Me State"
    $100 15
Holstein, Guernsey & Jersey
    $100 1
Former Jet who's a real Brut
    $100 22
Shirley Jones' fine feathered flock
    $100 7
"Sexual Healing" singer slain by his father in April
    $100 9
Gangster betrayed by "The Lady in Red"
    $200 23
The only East Coast state ever to have been a Spanish colony
    $200 16
Specifically, the only cat with a mane
    $200 2
Their 1946 move from Cleveland to L.A. took the NFL coast-to-coast
    $200 24
Series in which Abe Vigoda landed his Fish role
    $200 8
Reagan stopped in Hawaii & Guam on his way to this country in May
    $200 10
This John is tied up with a beautiful Bo
    $300 14
Adding a C to the front of this animal turns it into a melon
    $300 3
Illegal blocking, or taking a little off around the ears
    $300 12
Because of the close election, this country will have two alternating Prime Ministers
    $300 11
Martha's husband, only Attorney General ever convicted of a felony
    $400 17
3-letter wildebeest of which only 2 are pronounced
    $400 5
Birdcage invented in the '50s by coach Paul Brown
    $400 13
After Andropov dropped off in February, he took over, but by August, he was in hiding
    $400 20
Born Karol Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland
    $500 25
State with the largest Black population
    $500 19
What most distinguishes a basenji from other dogs
    $500 6
Moonshine, or when quarterback hides the ball & rolls out
    $500 18
Only known to us as David, he spent the 12 years of his life in this environment
    $500 21
Wrote "A Spaniard in the Works" & "In His Own Write"

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

Larry Mike Pat
$600 $300 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Larry Mike Pat
$3,400 -$500 -$300

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD POLITICS
OPERA
BESTSELLERS
COLLEGES
PROVERBS
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    $200 7
Joan's sister who knows all about "Hollywood Wives"
    $200 2
In 1893, the University of Oregon first opened this type of dormitory
    $200 1
Crimson-coated riders who "always get their man"
    $400 22
Opera based on Dostoevsky's story or movie based on Kenny Rogers' song
    $400 8
More than a few readers spent a few minutes reading this TV commentator's book
    $400 3
Smith College didn't appoint one as President until 1975
    $400 13
What too many cooks can do
    $600 21
Extinguishing the torch in her doorway was her signal for Tristan to come
    $600 14
Any of the medically-related bestsellers by Dr. Robin Cook
    $600 4
In the U.S., 58% of this ethnic group graduates from college
    $600 17
Smart farmers make hay then
    $600 12
Nickname of Gen. Francis Marion, who harassed British forces in the southern marshes
    $800 20
She came aboard the Pinafore with "snuff and tobaccy, & excellent jacky"
    $800 15
He told "The Other Side of the Story" as Carter's press secretary
    $800 5
This Ivy League school has the largest library with over 9 million volumes
    $800 18
Ben Franklin wrote that "3 can keep a secret if 2 are" this
    $800 11
Colonial Virginia parliament in which Patrick Henry gave his famous speeches
    $1000 9
Its name means "strolling clowns"
    $1000 16
Nora Ephron included recipes in this painful first novel about love & food
    DD: $1,000 6
N.Y. State's Madison University changed its name in 1890 to honor this famous soapmaking family
    $1000 19
What little strokes fell
    $1000 10
German military expert who trained Americans at Valley Forge

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Larry Mike Pat
$6,600 $100 -$100
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

THE CALENDAR
Total days in a year which fall in months with 31 days

Final scores:

Larry Mike Pat
$13,000 $0 -$100
2-day champion: $23,000 2nd place 3rd place

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Larry Mike Pat
$6,600 $100 $900
20 R,
4 W		 9 R,
10 W		 10 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $7,600

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Game tape date: 1984-10-02
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