Dan Melia game 5.
Hap Erstein — a theater critic from West Palm Beach, Florida
Barbara Findley — a math teacher from Hurley, New York
Dan Melia — a professor from San Francisco, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $51,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $2,400 | $5,600 | $20,600 |
$24,000
5-day champion: $75,600 |
$16,800
34 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Barbara | $100 | $300 | $1,300 |
$100
3rd place: Aroma Spa |
$1,300
7 R, 1 W |
| Hap | $1,000 | $2,400 | $4,000 |
$2,700
2nd place: Trip to Amsterdam |
$3,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTIES | TELEVISION | FRUITS & VEGETABLES | BEFORE & AFTER | RUBBER | SHOPPING U.S.A. |
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$100
[1]
According to Leviticus 20:10, it's death to both parties involved who committeth this
Adultery
Dan
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$100
[10]
The owner of the stud farm where this "talking" horse was bred is seeking landmark status for the site
Mr. Ed
Hap
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$100
[9]
The usual color of the flesh of a honeydew melon
Green
Barbara
Hap
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$100
[21]
"Superstition" singer that builds strong bodies 12 ways
Stevie Wonder Bread
Barbara
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$100
[6]
During World War II, the Russian species of this yellow lawn weed was used as a source of rubber
Dandelion
Hap
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$200
[29]
Elvis Presley Enterprises owns several gift shops in this city; they're all close to Graceland
Memphis
Hap
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$200
[2]
Blasphemeth his name & it's bye-bye you
The Lord
Dan
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$200
[13]
"Men Are Pigs", Tim Allen's Showtime special about men's love for hardware, inspired this series
Home Improvement
Hap
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$200
[12]
The scallion is also known as this "onion"
Green Onion
Hap
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$200
[22]
Outdoor magazine that says "You like me....you really like me"
"Sally Field And Stream"
Barbara
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$200
[15]
This U.S. city has been called "The Rubber Capital of the World"
Akron, Ohio
Hap
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$300
[20]
This Las Vegas hotel-casino is known for its Appian Way plaza shops as well as its Forum shops
Caesars Palace
Barbara
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$300
[3]
Exodus 21:12 says if you smiteth a man so much that he does this, so do you
Die
Dan
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$400
[8]
"Laverne & Shirley" was the top show of 1977-78; this series from which it was spun off was No. 2
Happy Days
Dan
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$300
[17]
It's also called a snap bean from the sound it makes when broken in half
Green Bean
Dan
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$300
[14]
Walt Whitman poem about Mr. Green Jeans' buddy
"O Captain! My Captain Kangaroo"
Dan
Hap
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$300
[28]
In the 1830s this inventor bought the rights to a process for treating rubber with sulfur
Charles Goodyear
Hap
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$400
[24]
Now a trendy shopping area, this marketplace near Boston's Faneuil Hall dates from 1826
Quincy Market
Dan
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$400
[4]
St. Stephen became the first Christian martyr after being killed by this method
Stoning
Dan
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DD
$500
[7]
(Hi, I'm Chris Hardwick.) In 1985 MTV launched this sister channel to play adult contemporary & soft-rock videos for an older generation
VH1
Hap
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$400
[18]
Term for the edible leaves of the turnip, beet & collard
Greens
Dan
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$400
[16]
Daily newspaper of the group founded by Mary Baker Eddy's Komodo dragon
The Christian Science Monitor Lizard
Dan
Barbara
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$400
[26]
In 1823 he cemented 2 pieces of wool with a rubber compound to create the garment now named for him
Mackintosh
Dan
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$500
[25]
This L.A. street noted for its Mexican handicrafts is named for Los Angeles' first county judge
Olvera Street
Dan
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$500
[5]
According to Exodus, "Thou shalt not suffer" one of these "to live"
witch
Dan
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$500
[11]
In "Newhart"'s final episode, Bob Newhart woke up with this former TV wife by his side
Suzanne Pleshette
Dan
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$500
[19]
A mature Rome beauty apple has skin of this color
Red
Hap
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$500
[23]
"Atlas Shrugged" atlas maker
Ayn Rand McNally
Hap
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$500
[27]
In 1770 this oxygen discoverer found that rubber could be used to erase pencil marks
Joseph Priestley
Dan
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| TINSELTOWN TERMS | BIG DATES | HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING? | NAME THAT NOVEL | 19th CENTURY SPORTS | "ITZ" AT THE END |
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$200
[15]
The camera might travel on this wheeled platform to track a character down Madison Ave.
a dolly
Dan
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$200
[12]
On August 2, 1964 a U.S. destroyer was attacked by the North Vietnamese in this gulf
the Gulf of Tonkin
Hap
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$200
[19]
Wind 12-18" of it around your index fingers, slip it between 2 teeth to the gum & scrape both sides
dental floss
Hap
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$200
[1]
"Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there un-dead."
Dracula
Hap
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$200
[11]
Big ones first held in the 1860s include Canada's Queen's Plate & the Belmont Stakes
horse races
Barbara
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$200
[7]
In this football play, linebackers rush a quarterback to sack him
a blitz
Dan
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$400
[21]
The best man attends the groom & this person assists the head electrician
best boy
Dan
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$400
[27]
On Oct. 30, 1995 voters in this Canadian province narrowly rejected a proposal for independence
Quebec
Dan
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$400
[23]
Put the point at the center of the desired circle & swing the pencil around it
a compass
Barbara
Hap
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$400
[3]
"Four legs good, two legs bad!"
Animal Farm
Dan
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$400
[14]
1890s outfielder Louis Sockalexis of the Penobscot tribe inspired this name of Cleveland's baseball team
the Indians
Barbara
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$600
[2]
Skiers who fall on their derrieres leave this German "mark" in the snow
a sitz mark
Dan
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$600
[13]
This term for a handler of animals on the set can also mean a cowboy
wrangler
Dan
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$600
[28]
On April 6, 1909 he & his assistant Matthew Henson reached 90 degrees N. latitude
Robert Peary
Hap
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$600
[24]
To add 14 to another number, shift 4 beads on the 1s wire & 1 bead on the 10s wire
an abacus
Dan
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$600
[4]
"I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now"
Jane Eyre
Dan
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$600
[16]
In 1875 the All England Croquet Club added this other lawn sport to its activities
tennis
Dan
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$800
[9]
John F. Kennedy's maternal grandfather sported this "sweet" nickname
"Honey Fitz"
Dan
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$800
[20]
Medical term for one who revises a script without credit; writer Robert Towne is a "specialist"
a script doctor
Dan
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$800
[25]
Hammer it into a crack in the rock & clip a carabiner to its eye through which to run rope
a piton
Dan
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$800
[5]
"Lennie said, 'I might jus' as well go away. George ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits now.'"
Of Mice and Men
Hap
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$1,000
[18]
Jackson Haines, previously a teacher of this art, introduced its moves to figure skating
ballet
Dan
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$1,000
[10]
Synonymous with "meddle" or "snoop", this Yiddish word means to offer unsolicited advice
kibitz
Dan
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$1,000
[22]
A jump one is an abrupt transition; a rough one is a stage in editing
cut
Dan
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$1,000
[26]
Place the electric pads to the chest, press down, yell "Clear!" & hit the button
defibrillator
Dan
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$1,000
[6]
"'What a pretty little Nell!' cried Quilp."
The Old Curiosity Shop
Dan
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DD
$3,000
[17]
They were successively stuffed with feathers, molded of gutta-percha & wound with rubber
golf balls
Dan
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DD
$2,000
[8]
Song title that follows the line heard here:"If you're blue and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits..."
"Puttin' On The Ritz"
Dan
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He died in Topeka October 12, 1987, a month after his 100th birthday
Alf Landon