Jeopardy First Edition (MS-DOS) -- Game #1

Hi friends!

As part of the MS-DOS Jeopardy! series, I hope to write a post-game review of the clues. The goal is to highlight any clues that may be out-of-date and to provide some additional trivia about some of the more interesting clues.

Notes are in the order they appear in the original video, which you can find here.

Wikipedia is my primary source for much of this material (so take that with a grain of salt).

Jeopardy! Round

Categories: Geography, Take a Gamble, Animal, Pattern, Abbreviations, and Say Cheese

• Take a Gamble ($300) Spit in the Ocean is not an official variation in the World Series of Poker, but it is a real variation of poker. Four cards are dealt to each player, and a fifth card is dealt face up as both a community card and as a wild card. Players can change their cards, like in draw poker.
• Take a Gamble ($400): Chemin de fer is a variation of baccarat.
• Take a Gamble ($500): As I guessed in the video, Macao was transferred to China, along with several other Portuguese colonies, in 1999. It remains a major gambling center in eastern Asia.
• Geography ($200): The top 5 states in land area? Alaska, Texas, California, Montana, and New Mexico.
• Say Cheese ($500): Looking at the Wikipedia page for brie, it looks like brie is VERY similar to camembert, and probably should have gotten credit. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
• Animal ($100): Perhaps the most interesting clue of the game. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo are specifically two lions that attacked builders of the Kenya-Uganda Railway at the turn of the 20th century. The lions were killed, but are now a part of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
• Abbreviations ($200): ROTC stands for "Reserve Officers' Training Corps".
• Abbreviations ($300): That requiescat in pace bit is in Latin.
• Geography ($400): The Congo is the second longest river in Africa. The Niger is the third longest, and of course, the Nile is the longest.
• Geography ($500): Calcutta's name was changed to Kolkata in 2001. I won't link to a picture of Kali, but she's...very intense.
• Pattern ($100): Parkay (the margarine) is still being made today, under the ConAgra Foods brand. Wikipedia refreshes my memory about the Parkay ad campaign from my childhood. Commercials featured "a mechanically animated 'talking tub'" of Parkay, with the tub "repeatedly saying 'Butter'" instead of Parkay.

Double Jeopardy!

Categories: The Fifties, Words, Newsmen, Anatomy, Shoe Business, and Long Lovely Ladies

• Anatomy ($800): A papilla, specifically a lingual papilla, is a raised protrusion on the tongue. There are three kinds of lingual papillae that have taste buds: fungiform papillae, foliate papillae, and circumvallate papillae. It's pronounced "pah-pi-la".
• Newsmen ($400): It's true. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward wrote Wired in 1984 about John Belushi. Copies can be checked out from the Internet Archive.
• The Fifties ($200): The armistice was signed in the zone between North and South Korea.
• Shoe Business ($800): A shoe horn is the little plastic thing that is used to get feet into shoes.
• Shoe Business ($400): Why did people put pennies in their penny loafers? No one quite knows, but it is likely a trend that started in the 1950s.
• Long Lovely Ladies ($200): L'il Abner's run ended in 1977 (10 years before this game was created), though some newspapers continued with re-runs. Natcherly.
• Long Lovely Ladies ($800): I'm not sure about the Rocky reference in the clue (any ideas from the community?), but "Moore" refers to Dudley Moore, who Anton dated in the 1980s.
• Newsmen ($800): "Chet" refers to Chet Huntley. Huntley and Brinkley were the anchors of The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC-TV from 1956-1970.

Are there any interesting facts about the game's clues that I missed? Let me know in the comments, and stay tuned for the next episode!