Rich Lerner game 3.
Lynn Parana — a sales representative from Los Angeles, California
Tom Baldridge — a graduate student originally from Indianapolis, Indiana
Rich Lerner — a lawyer from Silver Spring, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $21,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rich | $1,600 | $3,400 | $10,400 |
$13,000
3-day champion: $34,400 |
$10,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Tom | $800 | $1,900 | $-1,100 |
$-1,100
3rd place: Kosta Boda crystal stemware from Sweden |
$3,300
14 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Lynn | $0 | $800 | $3,400 |
$6,800
2nd place: a trip to St. Martin on Eastern Airlines with hotel at Mullet Bay Resort |
$3,400
8 R, 2 W |
| STARTS WITH "V" | BALLET | 1981 | HOLLYWOOD QUOTES | ELECTRICITY | MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB |
|
$100
[1]
Though its name means "sour wine", it can be made from berries, melons & cereal, not just grapes
vinegar
Tom
|
$100
[26]
A "pas de chat" is a leap that resembles the movement of this animal
a cat
Tom
|
$100
[2]
The U.S. Auto Club reversed an earlier decision & declared Bobby Unser the winner of this race
the Indianapolis 500
Rich
|
$100
[4]
Vivien Leigh said of this role, "I knew it was a marvelous part, but I never cared for her"
Scarlett O'Hara
Tom
|
$100
[5]
His experiments in electricity led him to invent the lightning rod
Benjamin Franklin
Rich
|
$100
[14]
According to the poem, it was against the rules
the lamb following her to school (bringing the lamb to school accepted)
Rich
|
|
$200
[3]
In this 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film, James Stewart played a former police detective afraid of heights
Vertigo
Tom
|
$200
[28]
Geo. Balanchine choreographed this ballet based on the biblical story of a child who returned home
The Prodigal Son
Tom
|
$200
[10]
The Vatican reduced from 37 to 6 the number of offenses that cause this to happen automatically
excommunication
Rich
|
$200
[15]
"I stare at life through fields of mayonnaise," which may have been how he came up with "Blazing Saddles"
Mel Brooks
Rich
|
$200
[9]
World Book defines it as "electrons or ions that are not moving"
static electricity
Rich
|
$200
[20]
In the 1830s Lowell Mason did this with the poem
set it to music
Rich
|
|
$300
[6]
Either of two lower chambers of the heart that pump blood into the arteries
the ventricles
Rich
|
$300
[30]
Russian dancer who was the choreographer & star of the 1912 production of "The Afternoon of a Faun"
Nijinsky
Lynn
|
$300
[11]
With Reagan as a character witness, this entertainer was given a license by the Nev. Gaming Commission
Frank Sinatra
Rich
|
$300
[16]
Movie mogul famed for statements like "He has warmth & charmth" & "It rolls off my back like a duck"
Sam Goldwyn
Lynn
|
$300
[19]
Wrap a wire around an iron bar, send a current through the wire & you've made one of these
an electromagnet
Lynn
|
$300
[21]
His recitation of the poem in 1877 didn't amaze people until he played it back
Thomas Edison
Rich
|
|
$400
[7]
Hindus believe this god descended from heaven in several forms, including Krishna
Vishnu
Tom
|
$400
[29]
The group of dancers in a ballet troupe who perform as an ensemble
the corps de ballet
Lynn
|
DD
$400
[12]
Movie remake that gave us the followingsong, a Top 10 hit in 1981:"On the boats and on the planes /They're coming to America..."
The Jazz Singer
Rich
|
$400
[17]
This mustachioed comic quipped, "I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin"
Groucho Marx
Lynn
|
$400
[23]
George Westinghouse promoted this type of current that we use today
alternating current (AC)
Tom
|
$400
[22]
"Mary" is said to be Mary Sawyer from either Sterling or Sudbury in this state
Massachusetts
Tom
|
|
$500
[8]
Expressed as a number, it's the capacity of an atom to combine with other atoms
the valence
|
$500
[27]
Tchaikovsky wrote the music to 3 ballets: "The Sleeping Beauty", "The Nutcracker" & this
Swan Lake
Rich
|
$500
[13]
Later made into a movie, this off-Broadway play by Beth Henley won a Pulitzer Prize
Crimes of the Heart
|
$500
[18]
Frank Capra dubbed this director of "The Birth of a Nation" "The Poor Man's Shakespeare"
D.W. Griffith
Rich
|
$500
[24]
Galvani thought this dead animal released electricity when touched to metal & its legs kicked
the frog
Lynn
|
$500
[25]
She wrote the poem, or at least its last 3 verses
Sarah Josepha Hale
|
| ART | BY THE NUMBERS | DRAMA | THE OLD WEST | THE MYSTERIOUS EAST | POTPOURRI |
|
$200
[3]
Michelangelo spent 3 years, 1501-4, sculpting this Goliath-size statue
David
Rich
|
$200
[8]
This expensive bionic superhuman was played by Lee Majors
the Six Million Dollar Man
Rich
|
$200
[22]
The last line of this Shaw play is "Hail, Caesar!"
Caesar and Cleopatra
|
$200
[1]
His Indian name was Tashunka-Uito, which can be translated as "his mount is insane"
Crazy Horse
Rich
|
$200
[2]
Until he said he wasn't, Japanese emperors were considered divine
Hirohito
Tom
|
$200
[17]
Queen Anne's lace is the ancestor of this orange vegetable & has roots resembling it
the carrot
Rich
|
|
DD
$3,400
[24]
The style of this Baroque Flemish artist is so distinct, his name became an adjective to describe it
Peter Paul Rubens
Tom
|
$400
[9]
Kurt Vonnegut fictionalizes some of his own experiences in the firebombing of Dresden in this book
Slaughterhouse-Five
Tom
|
$400
[23]
This Arthur Miller play, set in the 17th c., was originally titled "Those Familiar Spirits"
The Crucible
Tom
|
$400
[13]
This outlaw's sister said he left South America & returned to the U.S., dying in Washington State in 1937
Butch Cassidy
Lynn
|
$400
[4]
Being a free port makes Kowloon, in this Crown Colony, a busy place
Hong Kong
Lynn
|
$400
[18]
The primary source of this food is the Apis mellifera
honey
|
| — |
$600
[10]
Term for someone who's unfit for service in the U.S. military
4F
Rich
|
$600
[25]
This Southerner wrote a play about Zelda Fitzgerald called "Clothes for a Summer Hotel"
Tennessee Williams
Tom
|
$600
[14]
Some say this Kentucky-born judge's original family name was Boone & that he & Daniel Boone were relatives
Judge Roy Bean
Rich
|
$600
[5]
In Asia, the sherpas are best known as mountain guides & the gurkhas as these
warriors (or soldiers)
Rich
|
$600
[19]
"Jennifer" derives from the Celtic form of this legendary Queen's name
Guinevere
Rich
|
| — |
$800
[11]
A catnap
forty winks
Tom
|
$800
[26]
Actor-playwright whose unhappy marriage to an actress may have led him to write "The Misanthrope"
Molière
Tom
|
$800
[15]
To help others reach the promised land, this church set up the Perpetual Emigration Fund in 1849
the Church of the Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)
Rich
|
$800
[6]
These people refer to themselves as the Han
the Chinese
Lynn
|
$800
[20]
This publication says it's "no more a magazine about NYC than Time is a magazine about wristwatches"
The New Yorker
Tom
|
| — |
$1,000
[12]
According to the Ray Bradbury novel filmed by Francois Truffaut, paper burns at this temperature
451 degrees (Fahrenheit)
Rich
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
Sidney Poitier co-starred in this 1959 drama, the 1st play by a black woman produced on Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun
Tom
|
$1,000
[16]
Legend says this "Bandit Queen" married 1 of her outlaw husbands on horseback
Belle Starr
Lynn
|
$1,000
[7]
While America is called the "Land of the Free", this nation's name means just that
Thailand
Rich
Tom
|
$1,000
[21]
Luxurious legwear, or a 1957 movie musical starring Fred Astaire, who didn't wear them
silk stockings
Rich
|
It was the 1st country to use paper money
China