Show #1 - Monday, September 10, 1984

Question 1

$100, Lakes and Rivers: River mentioned most often in the Bible?

Answer 1

the Jordan

Question 2

$200, Lakes and Rivers: Scottish word for Lake?

Answer 2

loch

Question 3

$400, Lakes and Rivers: American river only 33 miles shorter than the Mississippi

Answer 3

the Missouri

Question 4

$500, Lakes and Rivers: World’s largest lake, nearly 5 times as big as Superior

Answer 4

the Caspian Sea

Question 5

$100, Inventions: Marconi’s wonderful wireless

Answer 5

a radio

Guglielmo Marconi

Question 6

$200, Inventions: In 1869 an American minister created this “oriental” transportation

Answer 6

a rickshaw

Question 7

$300, Inventions: A 1920’s hunting trip to Canada inspired Birdseye’s food preserving method

Answer 7

freezing

Question 8

$400, Inventions: This fastener gets its name from a brand of galoshes it was used on

Answer 8

a zipper

Question 9

$100, Animals: These rodents first got to America by stowing away on ships

Answer 9

rats

Question 10

$200, Animals: There are about 40,000 muscles & tendons in this part of an elephant’s body

Answer 10

the trunk

Question 11

$300, Animals: When husbands “pop” for an ermine coat, they’re actually buying this fur

Answer 11

a weasel

Question 12

$400, Close relative of the pig, though its name means “river horse”

Answer 12

a hippopotamus

Question 13

$500, Animals: If this species of hybrid’s parents were reversed, you’d get a hinny

Answer 13

a mule

Question 14

$100, Foreign Cuisine: The “coq” in coq au vin

Answer 14

chicken

Question 15

$200, Foreign Cuisine: A British variety is called “bangers”, a Mexican variety, “chorizo”

Answer 15

sausages

Question 16

$300, Foreign Cuisine: Jewish crepe filled with cheese

Answer 16

a blintz

Question 17

$400, Foreign Cuisine: French for a toothsome cut of beef served to a twosome

Answer 17

Châteaubriand

Question 18

$100, Actor and Roles: Video in which Michael Jackson plays a werewolf & a zombie

Answer 18

“Thriller”

Question 19

$200, Actors and Roles: 2 “Saturday Night” alumni who tried “Trading Places”

Answer 19

Dan Aykroyd & Eddie Murphy

Question 20

$300, Actors and Roles: He may “Never Say Never Again” when asked to be Bond

Answer 20

Sean Connery

Question 21

$400, Actors and Roles: The blonde preferred in the film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”

Answer 21

Marilyn Monroe

Question 22

$500, Actors and Roles: Sam Shepard played this barrier breaker in “The Right Stuff”

Answer 22

Colonel Chuck Yeager

Question 23

$200, The Bible: When “Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho”, these took a tumble

Answer 23

the walls

Question 24

$400, The Bible: His price was 30 pieces of silver

Answer 24

Judas

Question 25

$600, The Bible: According to the Bible, it wasn’t necessarily an apple

Answer 25

the forbidden fruit (or fruit of the Tree of Knowledge)

Question 26

$800, The Bible: Though its name means “city of peace”, it’s seen over 30 wars, the last in 1967

Answer 26

Jerusalem

Question 27

$1000, The Bible:

According to 1st Timothy, it is the “root of all evil”

Answer 27

the love of money

Question 28

$200, ‘50’s TV: Occupation of Richard Diamond, Peter Gunn & Mike Hammer

Answer 28

private eyes (or private detectives

Question 29

$400, ‘50’s TV: She was “Our Miss Brooks”

Answer 29

Eve Arden

Question 30

$600, ‘50’s TV: Amount Michael Anthony gave out each week on behalf of John Beresford Tipton

Answer 30

$1 million

Question 31

$800, ‘50’s TV: His card read “Have gun, will travel”

Answer 31

the Paladin (Richard Boone)

Question 32

$1000, ‘50’s TV: Name under which experimenter Don Herbert taught viewers all about science

Answer 32

Mr. Wizard

Question 33

$200, National Landmarks: She came from France to harbor America’s freedom

Answer 33

the Statue of Liberty

Question 34

$400, National Landmarks: When he was home, George Washington slept here

Answer 34

Mount Vernon

Question 35

$800, National Landmarks: Site where John Hancock signed his “John Hancock”

Answer 35

Independence Hall

Question 36

$1000, National Landmarks: D.C. building shaken by November ‘83 bomb blast

Answer 36

the Capitol

Question 37

$600, National Landmarks: The cornerstone of Massachusetts, it bears the date 1620

Answer 37

Plymouth Rock

Question 38

$200, Notorious: It was probably a lyre, not a fiddle, if he played it while Rome burned

Answer 38

Nero

Question 39

$400, Notorious: His book, translated as “My Struggle”, outlined plans to conquer Europe

Answer 39

Adolf Hitler

Question 40

$600, Notorious: Lenin called him ruthless, and his purges proved he was