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 The goal is to highlight any clues that may be out-of-date and to provide some additional trivia about some of the more interesting clues.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's a Crowd.
• Wet or Dry ($100): I always liked Winston Churchill's definition of a dry martini (I'm paraphrasing here): Pour gin in a glass and look at a bottle of vermouth from across the room.
• Sports ($100): America's Cup has an interesting history. It's named that because the first yacht to win it was called America. The New York Yacht Club had won the cup in every competition from 1851-1983, a 132-year run. (Of course, the America's Cup was always held during that stretch in waters off the coast of New York--quite the home, er, water advantage.)
• Explorers ($500): Sir Walter Raleigh had a colorful life, to say the least. Though he had been imprisoned before, the final straw was when his men attacked a Spanish outpost in the New World and violated a Spanish-English peace treaty. Though Raleigh didn't order the attack, he took responsibility.
• Explorers ($300): The Hudson Motor Car Company lasted from 1909-1954 before merging with Nash-Kelvinator to form the American Motors Corporation (or AMC). Wikipedia claims that the car company was not named after Henry Hudson, but Joseph L. Hudson, a founder of department stores. If you've heard of the AMC Hornet, well, it was the Hudson Hornet prior to the merger.
• Explorers ($400): Yep, it was Captain James Cook.
• Sports ($300): Roller derby is older than you think. Wikipedia claims 1935 as the founding year.
• Sports ($500): According to horseracingsense.com, the correct answer should be January 1, not January 12 (perhaps a typo on the part of the programmer?) It seems this answer is correct only for horses in the northern hemisphere; in the southern hemisphere, the date is always August 1.

Double Jeopardy!

Categories: College, Toys & Games, England, Doctors, Colors, It's About Time

• Doctors ($400): Dr. Kildare first appeared in a short story in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1936. The character would appear in a film in 1937 (that's where Joel McCrea comes into play). Lew Ayres played him in a series of films for MGM in the 1930s and 1940s, plus a radio series in the 1950s. The NBC television series Dr. Kildare starred Chamberlain and ran from 1961-1966. All before my time...
• It's About Time ($1000): If you want to read the full text of The Owl and the Pussycat, you can find it at Wikisource.
• Toys & Games ($400): According to Wikipedia, Pedro Flores, a Filipino immigrant, opened a yo-yo factory in 1928 in Santa Barbara, California. In 1929, the company was bought by Donald Duncan, and a fad was born.
• College ($400): Brooke Shields did graduate from Princeton, with a Bachelor's degree in French Literature, in 1987. 
• College ($600): Alphabetically, the Ivy League schools are Brown, Columbia, Cornell (it's pronounced "colonel"), Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale.
• England ($200): The song in the question is A Foggy Day. Astaire recorded it first, then Sinatra, then a lot of others.
• England ($800): I think it's a bit cruel that they put "actress" in quotation marks, but Koo Stark had only appeared in about 10 movies or television shows before this game was published.
• Doctors ($1000): Again from Wikipedia: "Noguchi determined the cause of death in many high-profile cases in Hollywood during the 1960s and 1970s. He performed autopsies on Marilyn Monroe, Albert Dekker, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Inger Stevens, Janis Joplin, Gia Scala, David Janssen, Divine, William Holden, and John Belushi."

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 game!