Shocked is hardly the word for it. I've never read Dracula, but, as you say, where else is the word Transylvania ever mentioned? This wouldn't have been a final Jeopardy question today. Jeepers!

@@MrJoeybabe25 Apparently it was a good stumper back then. Obviously there's been a ton more exposure to Dracula, Vampires and Transylvania since 1964, but at least it's a literary question. A FJ question today might be more like "This is the color of Lizzo's toenails" /smh

"Transylvania Station, track 29" is dialogue directly from 'Young Frankenstein' so the reference does come up in a non-Dracula context every now and then.

@@johnh5259 Obviously, Young Frankenstein was long after this 1964 taping. That Brooks decided to set Young Frankenstein in Transylvania is a cultural modernization, since most people nowadays picture all the scary gothic stuff happening there. But that's purely because of Dracula's popularity - Stoker's original 1897 story was set in Transylvania. The original 1918 Frankenstein book took place mainly in Geneva, Switzerland, and the 1931 movie took place in Bavaria, Germany. But Dracula has always been in Transylvania. Interestingly, Bela Lugosi, was Romanian.

Transylvania University is located in Lexington, Kentucky

Me too. When it did not, that was one of my greatest disappointments in the current show. I suspect that the reason that it was not is that it was not as well-known as Think (the Final Jeopardy! theme), which in turn was a function of the fact that the original Jeopardy! often did not have time to run the credits in full and play the full run of Take Ten. I remember being happy every time I watched and the full credits were run with Take Ten playing in full.

And seeing the full credits run. I don't think any of the other Fleming-era episodes contain credits runs (when, of course, the full Take Ten was played). And it was gratifying to see I remembered correctly that, until the last couple of years of the show, on credits runs, the opening script of the word Jeopardy! was in the same font as the credits.

Something clicked for me as I watched this. For years, I would hum "Take Ten" because I so enjoy the melody. Inevitably, when I would hum it, I would hum the opening bar twice. But, you only hear it here once. So why was I so convinced, having watched Art Fleming's Jeopardy! for many years, that Take Ten repeats the opening bar? After watching the credits run here, I think I have the answer. Notice that the main Take Ten melody starts only after the credits have run quite a bit. It does not start until 3:47, but the credits start to roll at 3:39 (note that Jeopardy! is in the same font as the credits; it was only in later years that it was displayed in logo form at the start of credits runs). The first bar takes approximately eight seconds. My memory (hard to verify because the only surviving episodes lack full credit runs) is that Take Ten would start as soon as the credits began to roll. Assuming the rest of the credits run 27 seconds on most episodes as they do here (perhaps there were additional credits as the show went live, and there was time to display the Merv Griffin logo at the end), the rest of the Take Ten them would run as it does here - and the typical credits run would have two full opening bars. Perhaps I have solved the mystery.

The original Count Dracula was Jimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy Wimmy, and he always disobeyed the dictators at Bob Evans, who always told the nasty, rotten crud NOT to flush his food down the toilet, but did so anyway, causing the toilet to severely stop up, and as a result, Bob Evans was under 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 feet of nasty, rotten, disgusting, dirty water for 23 years!! It never opened up again!!!

My thoughts exactly 😂‼️ Duh ❓😀

Definitely! Dr. Dracula?? Really! Count Dracula!!😊😊

I think I read that they were told to write down different responses to show the possibilities as to how that part of the game would go. I personally think they all knew.

Being the pilot, with no real prize money, I’m almost sure that the contestants were coached on what to write. However, I think that ONE correct response would’ve made better theater.

They sat awefully close together by today's standards 😭😀😂😘👍

comon,:now.... for real ❓Art effn Fleming ‼️❗❓🙂

@@traceyarnsperger4120 Nope...🤷🏾‍♀never knew 🙆🏾‍♀

Yes. Seems that the scoreboard’s final digit could only be a 5 or a zero. In the 1974-75 nighttime version (here on KZfaq), special bonuses were awarded to the winner based in final scores. I saw an amount like something “to $995”.

Yes but this was a pilot so it doesn’t count.

No. This was the pilot (test) show.

At the start of the episode the host says Grace is the returning champion but I think it wasn’t recorded?

Yeah this is a very confusing event. Also how could they all be that ignorant. I mean there was nothing challenging about this question at all.

This was the test pilot for the show. If you watch the other parts to this episode on this channel, they seem to struggle with how to answer some and the host is kind of lenient, as this was a new thing at the time. As for Dracula, idk. He was surely known but maybe not to the extent we expect

Technically this is more grammatically correct to have a question that would actually “fit” the response like this. I think the Polish version went with that on air. But it really drags the show as you can see, so that didn’t stick. They’re given answers and ask questions, that was good enough.

@@ymmij388 Then Art Fleming called him DOCTOR Dracula!!!! Hahahaha!!!! I guess at that time Dracula was not as well known I guess????

@@yabbaguy Yeah. Glad they worked out the kinks

The category was fiction, so maybe not. If they didn't know Dracula, they probably wouldn't know either Vlad.

Anything made up; not real.