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Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #4

 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 The goal is to highlight any clues that may be out-of-date and to provide some additional trivia about some of the more interesting clues.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: Explorers, Sports, Tools, Foreign Phrases, Wet or Dry, Triple Threat Tools ($200):  The monkey  in monkey wrench  comes from a nautical word meaning "a small light ...piece of equipment contrived to suit an immediate purpose". Foreign Phrases ($300):  Cinzano is a brand of vermouth. Triple Threat ($100):   Three's a Crowd  didn't last long at all, just a single season during ABC's 1984-1985 series. John Ritter was the only full-time cast member of Three's Company  to be a full-time cast member on Three'...