Susan Sanchez — a schoolteacher originally from Newton Center, Massachusetts
Randy Amasia — an editorial analyst from Los Angeles, California
Kurt Weldon — a comedian and a writer from Beverly Hills, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $14,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt | $300 | $200 | $3,400 |
$3,300
3rd place: a Frigidaire 18 cubic-foot refrigerator |
$4,400
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Randy | $3,000 | $4,900 | $4,700 |
$6,900
New champion: $6,900 |
$4,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Susan | $-200 | $-400 | $2,600 |
$5,100
2nd place: a trip to Jamaica on Eastern Airlines with a week's accomodations at Sandals Resort |
$2,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| PSYCHOLOGY | MINERALS | "MOON"S | BICYCLES | GREECE | STUPID ANSWERS |
|
$100
[9]
In the psychology of learning, it’s “the retention of association”; in “Cats”, it’s a showstopping song
memory
Randy
Susan
|
$100
[21]
You’ll discover not gold, but a black mark, after rubbing this “gold” on porcelain
fool’s gold
Randy
|
$100
[6]
It brings out the worst in werewolves
a full moon
Kurt
|
$100
[15]
The woman’s bicycle without the bar was created so women could ride while wearing these
a skirt
Susan
|
$100
[7]
Goddess of wisdom for whom Athens was named
Athena
Kurt
|
$100
[1]
It was invented in 1911 by Hans Geiger
the Geiger counter
Kurt
|
|
$200
[10]
According to psychoanalytic theory, it’s part of the personality which balances the id & superego
the ego
Randy
|
$200
[22]
A scratch test won’t reveal a mineral’s allergies, but this property
hardness
|
$200
[11]
Michael Jackson and Neil Armstrong are both experts at this
the moonwalk
Randy
|
$200
[17]
A German circus performer has made the Guinness record book for riding a bicycle with this distinction
the smallest
Randy
|
$200
[8]
The popular dish moussaka is layers of ground meat & this vegetable
eggplant
Susan
|
$200
[2]
Number of different basic shapes in a box of Post Alpha-Bits
26
Randy
|
|
$300
[16]
Standard test of responding to a key word with the 1st words which come to your mind
word association
Randy
|
— |
$300
[12]
Every week Cybill Shepherd & Bruce Willis have been doing this on ABC
Moonlighting
Randy
|
$300
[18]
This French company is known for making fine bicycles as well as cars
Peugeot
Randy
Susan
|
$300
[23]
The mainland of Greece forms the southern part of this peninsula
the Balkan Peninsula
|
$300
[3]
In 1842, Richard Owen coined this word for “dinosaur”
dinosaur
Randy
|
|
$400
[25]
Character from group therapy on old Bob Newhart show who checked into St. Elsewhere this season
Mr. Carlin
Kurt
|
— |
$500
[14]
“Moon shots” referred to home runs hit by this Dodger over short left field screen in L.A. Coliseum
Wally Moon
Susan
|
$400
[19]
In the 1984 Olympics, Alexi Grewal won a gold medal in cycling for this country
the United States
Randy
|
$400
[24]
By tradition, the sons in a Greek family don’t marry until this happens first
the daughters marry
|
$400
[4]
Whole number equidistant from 5 & 7
6
Randy
|
|
$500
[26]
Founder of “individual psychology”, he broke with Freud in 1911
Alfred Adler
Kurt
|
— |
DD
$1,000
[13]
Title of the following, it can be performed by a big bandleader or a nighttime Romeo
"Moonlight Serenade"
Randy
|
$500
[20]
1985 film that was a story of a “rebel & his bike”
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Randy
|
$500
[27]
The prosperous 5th century B.C. in Greece is better known as this
the Golden Age (or the Age of Pericles)
Randy
|
$500
[5]
While Bugs was “introduced” in “Porky’s Hare Hunt”, Daffy was introduced in this cartoon
"Porky’s Duck Hunt"
Randy
|
| THE 1960s | COMPOSERS | GOVERNMENT | WORD ORIGINS | THE FUNNIES | INSECTS |
|
$200
[2]
It’s what chewable “chocks” were
vitamins
Randy
|
$200
[1]
Composers known as “the 3 B’s”
Bach, Beethoven & Brahms
Kurt
|
$200
[17]
Until 1896, majority in this branch of Congress were 1st termers, now less than 10% are
the House of Representatives
|
$200
[12]
From Dutch “kaban huis”, meaning ship’s galley, in U.S. it came to mean last car on a train
the caboose
Randy
|
$200
[7]
Profession of Rex Morgan
M.D.
Randy
|
$600
[27]
Migration of insects thru the air is classed as active or passive, depending on use of this
wind
|
|
$400
[3]
Vanishing in the ‘60s, it’s what YUkon, KLondike & VAlencia were examples of
telephone prefixes
Kurt
|
$400
[5]
In 1810, the same year as Schumann, this Polish pianist & composer was born
Chopin
Susan
|
$400
[22]
This council’s members are the president, vice president, sec’y of state & sec’y of defense
the National Security Council
Kurt
|
$400
[13]
Laboratory culture dish named for the German bacteriologist who invented it
a Petri dish
Kurt
|
$400
[8]
“Marmaduke” is this breed of dog
a Great Dane
Kurt
|
$1,000
[26]
Largest North American wasp, it hunts tarantulas like a bird of prey
the tarantula hawk
|
|
$600
[4]
Turning down ABA offer of 3,500 head of cattle & 40,000 acre ranch in 1969, he signed with NBA Bucks
Lew Alcindor (or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
Susan
|
$600
[6]
Mendelssohn wrote a series of 49 piano pieces which were appropriately titled “Songs Without” these
words
Kurt
|
$600
[23]
He, not the Attorney General, represents the government in cases before the Supreme Court
the Solicitor General of the U.S.
Randy
|
$600
[14]
Chinese for “work together”, it was motto of U.S. marine raiders in WWII
gung ho
|
$600
[9]
Dolly, Jeffrey, Billy & P.J.
the kids in the Family Circus
Randy
|
— |
|
$800
[20]
The last #1 song of the ‘60s, it was Diana Ross’ last song with the Supremes
"Someday We’ll Be Together"
Randy
Susan
|
$800
[18]
Vivaldi was known as “the red priest” due to his clerical rank & this
the color of his hair
|
$800
[24]
FDR appointed Frances Perkins, 1st woman cabinet member, to head this department
the Department of Labor
Susan
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
Originally a brand applied to slaves & criminals, it has come to mean a mark of disgrace
a stigma
Kurt
|
$800
[10]
The title of this Jim Unger comic refers to everyone in it, not just a single character
Herman
Kurt
|
— |
|
$1,000
[21]
In “Understanding Media”, he explained the Dodgers move to L.A. & fishnet stockings
Marshall McLuhan
Kurt
|
$1,000
[19]
There’s nothing fishy about his “Trout” quintet
Schubert
Susan
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
In 1966, Supreme Court ruled the 24th amendment outlawed this tax on both federal & state levels
the poll tax
Susan
|
$1,000
[16]
Run-down part of town, from the rough forest paths along which newly-cut logs were dragged
skid row
Kurt
|
$1,000
[11]
Creator of “Beetle Bailey”, whose name was defined in “B.C.” as “a dead nightcrawler”
Mort Walker
Kurt
|
— |
Next to slots, Nevada casinos make more money from this game than any other, nearly $3/4 billion in 1985
blackjack