Show #500 - Friday, November 7, 1986

Contestants

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Michael Todaro, a real estate broker originally from Los Angeles, California

Todd Russell, a buyer from Santa Ana, California

Linda Williams, an engineering reports clerk from Pasadena, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,100)

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Jeopardy! Round

ZOOLOGY
RITUALS
MUSIC ON THE MAP
THE ONLY WOMAN
(Alex: All of the clues will be the names of women and you have to respond with, "Who is the only woman who is this or does this?")
GAME SHOWS
"ECK" CETERA
(Alex: "E-C-K" in quotation marks, and that means that those three letters, in that order, will figure in all the correct responses.)
    $100 11
The mosquitos that "bite" are of this sex
    $100 17
For luck, many new store owners do it with the 1st dollar they take in
    $100 2
"Oh, you'll take the high road & I'll take the low road, & I'll be" there "before you"
    $100 14
Margaret Thatcher
    $100 1
Oversized ones were thrown on "The Big Showdown" & "High Rollers"
    $100 26
To knock someone down, or, counting the jokers, 54
    $200 12
Creature that has 3 hearts & 8 tentacles
    $200 18
Every May, Romanians mark their return to pasture with a celebration
    $200 3
"Nothing could be finer than to be" there "in the morning"
    $200 19
Diane Sawyer
    $200 5
Host of '60s "Snap Judgment", '70s "Whodunnit?", & '80s "Star Search"
    $200 27
Four in a bushel, or one on a cheek
    $300 13
Spider, howler & marmoset
    $300 23
The application of water to a person as a sacrament
    $300 4
City in which sweet Molly Malone sold "cockles & mussels alive, alive-oh"
    $300 20
Deborah Harry
    $300 6
Merv Griffin originally wanted to call this show "Shopper's Bazaar"
    $300 28
Bottles & guitars have them; Long Island has a "Great" one
    $400 15
While "equine" is horselike & "vulpine" is foxlike, "porcine" refers to this animal
    DD: $700 24
A new ritual in Japan is the singing of this song in German to ring out the old year:

"Freude, schöner Götterfunken, / Tochter aus Elysium..."
    $400 9
Though it's not their home, in 1967, the Bee Gees sang about this New England state
    $400 21
Elizabeth Dole
    $400 7
Johnny Gilbert's "Music" version came way B4 Anita Hamilton's "Jackpot" version of this game
    $400 29
Goes with in, off, or out
    $500 16
Reader's Digest pointed out resemblance of this water creature, aka the sea cow, to G. Cleveland
    $500 25
Anyone doing this during a nightlong Hopi crop ceremony is smacked with yucca leaves
    $500 10
"Santa Lucia" takes place in this city's harbor
    $500 22
Lynette Woodard
    $500 8
He often signs off with "Help control the pet population; have your pet spayed or neutered"
    $500 30
Baseball team owner who sent 3'7" Eddie Gaedel to bat in 1951

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 12):

Linda Todd Michael
$1,200 $1,200 $900

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Linda Todd Michael
$4,100 $2,100 $3,100

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY
CITIZEN KANE
SHAKESPEAREAN PROVERBS
PRESIDENTS
TECHNOLOGY
CELEBRITY JEOPARDY!
(Alex: All of the correct responses are well-known people and all of the clues are quotes from these individuals.)
    $200 11
This term for Ancient Egyptian script means "sacred writing", not "picture writing"
    $200 1
Kane's dying word, it was the first word heard in the film
    $200 16
Julius Caesar said cowards do this "many times before their deaths"
    $200 17
1st president ever to appear on color TV
    $200 25
Common household appliance that lost its wringer & gained an agitator
    $200 2
"Hell Town" hero, I sold the lottery ticket to Humphrey Bogart in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
    $400 12
The World Almanac says Judaism was founded "about 1300 B.C., reportedly at" this mountain
    $400 10
Name of the estate Kane built on a Florida mountain, which he also built
    $400 19
Inflation fell from 11% to 5% during 2 1/2 year term of this pres. known for "Whip Inflation Now" buttons
    $400 27
For computer experts, this language stands for Common Business Oriented Language
    DD: $1,000 3
In my 4 series, I was a lawyer, rode horses, ran 60 mph, & fell off tall buildings
    $600 13
In "The Republic", he wrote "Necessity... is the mother of invention"
    $600 7
Of acting, directing, or writing, what Welles won his "Kane" Oscar for
    $600 29
King Lear cursed, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless" one
    $600 20
20th century president whose actual 1st name was Thomas
    $600 26
Its speeds are set by the American Standards Assoc., 400 being fast, 25 slow
    $600 4
"Dynasty" star who asked in health club commercials, "Are you ready for summer?"
    $800 14
People of this Greek city left sickly babies to die in the Talyetos Mts.
    $800 9
Later famous as Endora on "Bewitched", she played Kane's mother
    $800 28
In Henry IV, Pt. I Shakespeare described it as "the better part of valour"
    $800 18
He said, "I don't think any family has ever enjoyed the White House as much as we have"
    $800 24
Visa added one to their card to stop forgery; Nat. Geographic put one on their Nov. '85 cover
    $800 5
As Simon Peter in "Jesus of Nazareth", I had scenes with both Marys; in '86 I was "Mary's" boss on TV
    $1000 15
This war-like people of the Tigris Valley was among 1st in history to have a standing army
    $1000 8
Composer who later did music for "Psycho", "Vertigo" & "Taxi Driver", "Kane" was his 1st feature, too
    $1000 22
In "12th Night" it's said, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness & some have greatness..." this way
    DD: $500 21
1st U.S. president who did not sign the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution
    $1000 23
The combine combines a grain harvester with this machine
    $1000 6
I beat out Spencer Tracy to win the 1955 Academy Award

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Linda Todd Michael
$8,900 $3,400 $6,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ASIA
Only SE Asian nation never a colony of the West, its name aptly means "land of the free"

Final scores:

Linda Todd Michael
$8,000 $0 $2
2-day champion: $14,100 3rd place: Technics portable compact disc player 2nd place: Maytag washer & dryer + Radio Flyer wagons

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Linda Todd Michael
$8,000 $3,900 $6,700
18 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 14 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 22 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $18,600

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Game tape date: 1986-09-09
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