Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #9

 Hi friends!

Let's take a look at Jeopardy! First Edition Game #9. As before, my goal is to share what I've learned about the clues in this game.

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: Around the World, Zoology, Midnight Madness, John Wayne, H2O, Choose Your Weapon

• H2O ($300): The full names in the clue: James W. McCord, Jr., E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez, Frank Sturgis, and Virgilio Gonzalez. Barker, Gonzalez, Martinez, McCord, and Sturgis were the burglars. Hunt and Liddy were part of the Nixon White House staff.
• Choose Weapon ($200): Well, a magnum is not that big of a bottle of champagne. It's 1.5 liters--still a lot--but not as big as a Melchizedek or Midas, which is 40 liters.
• Choose Weapon ($500): The Bowie knife is named after Jim Bowie.
• Midnight Madness ($500): Not the Dumont network. Captain Midnight was a CBS television show from September 1954 to January 1956. I was mixing Captain Midnight up with Captain Video, which was a Dumont show from 1949 to 1955.

Double Jeopardy! Round

Categories: World Wars, Trees, Women In Sports, Writers, Starts with "C", You've Been Warned

• Women in Sports ($800): Robyn Smith's article on Wikipedia is very interesting. She claimed a number of facts about her youth in a 1972 cover story for Sports Illustrated, but the claims could not be verified. She was a jockey from 1969 to 1980. She married Fred Astaire in 1980; he was 81 years old, she was 35. After Astaire's 1987 death, Smith became an airplane and helicopter pilot. Wikipedia says that she is still alive today, aged 78.
• Starts with "C" ($200): As a transgender man, he now goes by Chaz Bono.
• You've Been Warned ($600): Congreve is William Congreve, an English playwright. The quotation is a paraphrase of a line in The Mourning Bride (1697). Scorned means "to feel or express contempt or derision for".
• Women in Sports ($200): Kathryn Crosby hosted the Crosby National Golf Tournament in Bermuda Run, North Carolina from 1985-2001. Bing Crosby famously hosted the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for many years.
• Women in Sports ($400): This is a bit of a strange clue. It's hard to find any reference to the Dallas Cowboys have cheerleaders named "Cowgirls"; everything points to "Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders". The "Anaheim Embraceable Ewes" is even stranger at first glance, but there is logic there. Apparently, the Ewes were founded in 1978 for the Los Angeles Rams football team. Fair enough, but why Anaheim? I always assumed that the old L.A. Rams played at L.A. Memorial Coliseum, but that's only true from 1946-1979. From 1980-1994, the Rams played at Anaheim Stadium--now Angels Stadium in Anaheim. Very interesting.
• Women in Sports ($600): Why is the theme to The Young and the Restless called Nadia's Theme? According to Wikipedia: in the summer of 1976, ABC's Wide World of Sports "produced a montage of Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's routines during the 1976 Summer Olympics", using the theme to The Young and the Restless as the background music.(The soap opera had been using the theme for their show since 1973.) A 1976 version of the theme hit number 8 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending December 11. The song was originally called "Cotton's Dream".
• Women in Sports ($1000): Shirley Muldowney won the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and 1982. She won 18 NHRA national events. Muldowney is in both the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America and the International Motor Sports Hall of Fame. She's currently 83 years old and runs the charitable organization Shirley's Kids.

What other facts and trivia did I miss? Let me know in the comments, and stay tuned for the next game!