Leslie Frates game 2.
Scott Holliday — a legal word processor from Hoboken, New Jersey
Jim McLeod — a regional sales manager from San Antonio, Texas
Leslie Frates — a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,198)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie | $1,000 | $2,700 | $8,000 |
$7,000
2-day champion: $13,198 |
$10,300
27 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jim | $0 | $0 | $800 |
$0
3rd place: Magnavox 20" stereo color TV with universal remote + a Nintendo Entertainment System with Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy! , & Fisher-Price preschool games + Wheel of Fortune for the Nintendo Game Boy |
$1,800
8 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scott | $1,200 | $3,000 | $3,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: Whirlpool microwave/range with self-cleaning oven + 7-piece set of Bra Oro-Inox stainless steel cookware with brass handles & diffuser bottoms |
$2,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| FILE UNDER "A" | NONFICTION | DIRECTIONS | THE OSCARS | TRAINS | POTPOURRI |
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$100
[1]
Target & field as well as flight shooting are popular versions of this sport
archery
Leslie
Jim
Scott
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$100
[6]
Dee Brown's "Indian History of the American West" is called "Bury My Heart at" this place
Wounded Knee
Scott
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$100
[11]
It's the opposite of larboard
starboard
Jim
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$100
[16]
When he won for the first time in 1970, he said he should have put on that eye patch 35 years earlier
John Wayne
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$100
[19]
You can be sure it was this manufacturer & inventor who 1st patented the railroad air brake
Westinghouse
Leslie
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$100
[26]
The Key Reporter is a newsletter published by this college & university honor society
Phi Beta Kappa
Leslie
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$200
[2]
A "heavenly" herb, or a dessert wine said to have originated near Los Angeles, for which it's named
Angelica
Leslie
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$200
[7]
In 1941 a collection of his speeches was published under the title "Blood, Sweat, and Tears"
Winston Churchill
Scott
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$200
[12]
Besides a young man, Horace Greeley also told the unemployed in New York City to head this way
West
Leslie
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$300
[18]
The only Oscar-winning song sung by a cricket
"When You Wish Upon A Star"
Jim
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$200
[20]
The track consists of 2 rails held by these supports "that bind" them
the ties
Leslie
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$200
[27]
Shorthand teacher Emma Dearborn originated this "fast" form of shorthand around 1924
speedwriting
Scott
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$300
[3]
It's a violent dance performed by Parisian couples, not by American Indians as its name implies
an Apache dance
Scott
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$300
[8]
"Hit Men" is F. Dannen's 1990 book about "Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside" this "Business"
the music business
Leslie
Scott
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$300
[13]
According to the kids' joke you don't get it from an elephant, you get it from a duck
down
Jim
Scott
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$400
[24]
These 2 actors have won Oscars only as directors--in 1980 & 1981
Robert Redford & Warren Beatty
Leslie
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$300
[21]
Term for the uniform distance between the rails; each country has a standard one
the gauge
Leslie
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$400
[4]
The name of this island precedes "and Barbuda" in the name of a Caribbean country
Antigua
Leslie
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$400
[9]
In "History of My Calamities" he wrote about his tragic romance with Heloise
Abelard
Leslie
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$400
[14]
If you own a watch, you might know this direction is also known as with ershins
counterclockwise
Scott
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$500
[25]
She broke an Academy ban when she walked up to receive her "Darling" Oscar in 1966 in a mini-dress
Julie Christie
Leslie
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$400
[22]
Running from Paris to Constantinople, it was called the "king of trains and the train of kings"
the Orient Express
Leslie
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— |
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$500
[5]
This Egyptian god of the dead is often depicted with the head of a jackal
Anubis
Scott
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$500
[10]
This author of "Our Man in Havana" published a volume of his letters to the editor in 1990
Graham Greene
Scott
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$500
[15]
In general the Nile flows in this direction
north
Scott
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
These 2 "Becket" stars have each been nominated 7 times without winning
Peter O'Toole & Richard Burton
Scott
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$500
[23]
The world's longest railroad line connects Vladivostok to this city 5600 miles away
Moscow
Leslie
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| 1958 | SCIENCE | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | WORLD CAPITALS | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | FAMOUS QUOTES |
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$200
[1]
The IRS approved this form for use by all persons whose income was $10,000 or less
the short form
Leslie
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$200
[9]
On June 1, 1831 James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down
the magnetic north pole
Leslie
Jim
Scott
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$200
[7]
The saxophone belongs to this family, not the brass
woodwinds
Leslie
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$200
[2]
The University of San Marcos, Peru's oldest school of higher learning, was founded here in 1551
Lima
Leslie
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$200
[26]
Not surprisingly, in 1892 this state became the 1st to make Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday
Illinois
Jim
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$200
[16]
In "The Compleat Angler", Izaak Walton wrote, "I have laid aside business and gone" to do this
fishing
Leslie
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$400
[13]
In December, he became head of state of France for the second time
de Gaulle
Jim
Scott
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$400
[11]
Newton figured the Earth should be an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge because it does this
spin (on its axis)
Jim
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$400
[8]
If someone showed you his Fender Stratocaster, you'd be looking at one of these
a guitar
Jim
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$400
[3]
From 1936 to 1961, this capital of the Dominican Republic was called Ciudad Trujillo
Santo Domingo
Leslie
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$400
[27]
In Canada the Monday before May 25th is a holiday named for this queen
Victoria
Leslie
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$400
[19]
When crowned in 1804, he told the Pope, "I am the successor, not of Louis XIV, but of Charlemagne"
Napoleon
Scott
|
|
$600
[23]
The World's Fair, symbolized by a 334'-high "Atomium", was opened April 17 by King Baudouin in this capital
Brussels
Leslie
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$600
[12]
From the Greek for "number", it's the science of numbers
arithmetic
Leslie
Scott
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$600
[10]
Term for the various strands of gut, nylon or wire stretched over the head of a side drum
a snare (snares)
Jim
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$600
[4]
This city was founded in 1434 to succeed Angkor Thom as capital of the Khmer Empire
Phnom Penh
Leslie
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$600
[28]
In 1889 the 2nd Socialist International designated this day to honor the world's workers
May 1st
Leslie
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$600
[20]
In March 1964 he said, "For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty"
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Scott
|
|
$800
[24]
Jordan's King Hussein's cousin was overthrown & killed in this neighboring country
Iraq
Jim
Scott
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$800
[14]
A lean, small-boned person is an ectomorph; an endomorph is round & this type is muscular
a mesomorph
Leslie
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$1,000
[18]
The pitch of 1 of the 2 standard orchestra clarinets
B-flat (or A)
Leslie
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$800
[5]
Windhoek is the capital & largest city of this newly independent former mandate of South Africa
Namibia
Leslie
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— |
$800
[21]
American wit who said Puritanism was "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"
H.L. Mencken
Jim
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|
DD
$1,000
[25]
This Russian made news on October 29 when he turned down a cash prize worth $41,420
Boris Pasternak
Jim
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$1,000
[15]
In this pre-birth procedure, a small amount of fluid is withdrawn from the sac in the uterus & tested
amniocentesis
Scott
|
DD
$2,300
[17]
In a famous opera, the Queen of the Night gives Tamino this instrument
the Magic Flute
Leslie
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$1,000
[6]
When in this European capital, don't forget to see the Antonin Dvorak Museum & the tomb of St. Wenceslas
Prague (Czechoslovakia)
Leslie
|
— |
$1,000
[22]
Failing to corner the silver market in 1980, he said, "A billion dollars is not what it used to be"
(Bunker) Hunt
Leslie
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Striking "soft chords on the piano", he says, "Like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart"
Dorian Gray ( The Picture of Dorian Gray )