Bob Verini game 5.
Fran Strykowski — a teacher originally from Albany, New York
Larry Brown — a product manager from Newport Beach, California
Bob Verini — a playwright and actor from New York City, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $36,202)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $1,900 | $4,800 | $12,600 |
$10,600
5-day champion: $46,802 |
$12,600
33 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Larry | $200 | $500 | $4,700 |
$9,400
2nd place: trip to Las Vegas |
$4,100
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Fran | $600 | $300 | $2,300 |
$2,400
3rd place: Kraco phone and answering machine |
$2,700
8 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| EUROPE | LITERARY GEMS | "M"ENAGERIE | CRITICALLY SPEAKING | '60s SONGS | POTPOURRI |
|
$100
[9]
Neighbor of Greece whose national anthem is "Hej Sloveni" meaning "Hey Slavs"
Yugoslavia
Bob
|
$100
[1]
The Bible asks, "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above" these red gems
rubies
Larry
|
$100
[2]
As adults, these lepidoptera are harmless, but the caterpillars love to feast on your clothes
moths
Bob
Fran
|
$100
[7]
"A new low for Hollywood's highest-paid illiterate" hissed 1 reviewer about this '86 Stallone film
Cobra
Bob
|
$100
[14]
In a 1962 hit, Neil Sedaka said this "is hard to do"
breaking up
Fran
|
$100
[20]
C.O.D. stamped on a package stands for this
cash (or collect) on delivery
Bob
|
|
$200
[13]
Denmark's was inspired by a king's vision of a white cross in a red sky during battle
its flag
Bob
|
$200
[3]
In Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", knights fight for diamonds at this king's diamond jousts
King Arthur
Bob
|
$200
[25]
Though its voice is shrill, this small monkey's name is derived from Old French "marmouser", to murmur
a marmoset
Fran
|
$200
[8]
When he quit the Royal Marines in January 1987, 1 headline called him "Prince of Wails"
Prince Edward
Bob
Larry
Fran
|
$200
[16]
In 1967, the Fifth Dimension asked, "Would you like to ride in" this
my beautiful balloon
Bob
|
$200
[21]
Keeping the "bells" comes from early practice of a sailor having to turn this over every 30 minutes
an hourglass
Bob
|
|
$300
[15]
This London museum's famed Chamber of Horrors gives you the creeps--by showing you the creeps
Madame Tussauds
Bob
|
$300
[4]
The "ice, mast-high, came floating by, as green as emerald" in this Coleridge "Rime"
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Larry
|
$300
[27]
It's said ancient Romans not only ate these eels but fed their disobedient slaves to them
a moray eel
Larry
|
$300
[10]
The Hollywood Reporter said this TV alien "resembles a transvestite Miss Piggy"
ALF
Bob
|
$300
[17]
Sinatra's only #1 solo hit of the decade was about these solitary souls
"Strangers In The Night"
Bob
|
DD
$300
[22]
Number of months that do not have 31 days
5
Bob
|
|
$400
[24]
To the ancient Greeks, this "solid" landmark on the Spanish coast was 1 of the Pillars of Hercules
the Rock of Gibraltar
Bob
|
$400
[5]
Shakespearean teenager who "hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear"
Juliet
Bob
|
$400
[28]
Of the musk ox, musk deer or musk turtle, the 1 that secretes the musk used in purfume
the musk deer
Larry
|
$400
[11]
Charles Laughton compared this part of his body to "an elephants behind"
his face
Bob
|
$400
[18]
Saying "I fix broken hearts", Jimmy Jones offered his service as 1 of these
a handy man
|
$400
[23]
This expression comes from medieval custom of placing lips on signature after signing a document
sealed with a kiss
Larry
Fran
|
|
$500
[26]
Captial city where you'll find the Luxembourg Palace next to the Luxembourg Gardens
Paris
Bob
Fran
|
$500
[6]
The title gem brings tragedy to a Mexican fisherman in this Steinbeck novelette
The Pearl
Bob
|
$500
[29]
These sled dogs were named for these eskimos who, it's said, first bred them
malamutes
Bob
Fran
|
$500
[12]
A critic said this Warren Beatty film "is to Communism...what 'Hamlet' is to Danish foreign policy"
Reds
Fran
|
$500
[19]
This song asks, "Each night before you go to bed, my baby, whisper a little prayer for me, my baby"
"This Is Dedicated To The One I Love"
Bob
|
$500
[30]
Though it's been around since the '20s, many ignore this device that protects sterility when opening a Band-aid
the little red tear string
|
| BALLET | FOREIGN WORDS | ARMED FORCES | HAIL TO THE CHIEF | SNAILS | SCARLET WOMEN |
|
$200
[25]
It's what the mysterious Drosselmeyer gives to Clara in the ballet of the same name
The Nutcracker
Bob
|
$200
[3]
Many Spanish-language newspapers are named "La Prensa", which means this
The Press
Bob
|
$200
[17]
Only country whose nationals the French will not allow to join the French Foreign Legion
France
Larry
|
$200
[11]
Election year in which the popular song "Hello Dolly" was paraphrased by his supporters to "Hello Lyndon"
1964
Larry
|
$200
[16]
In French restaurants the helix garden snail is better known as this
escargot
Bob
|
$200
[1]
Her 1st husband was Charles Hamilton, but she really wanted his brother-in-law Ashley
Scarlett O'Hara
Bob
|
|
$400
[26]
To give a happy ending to this Prokofiev ballet, the duck can be removed from the predator's stomach
Peter and the Wolf
Bob
|
DD
$400
[7]
Waist-length jacket that might aptly be worn to dance to the following:
bolero
Fran
|
$400
[18]
Independent peasant soldiers of the Ukraine who were known for their fierce loyalty to the Czars
the cossacks
Bob
|
$600
[13]
Moving there just 4 months before leaving office, he was 1st to live in the White House
John Adams
Bob
|
$400
[22]
Number of feet you have to have to be an official snail
1
Larry
|
$400
[2]
In the 1979 film originally titled "Guns, Sin & Bathtub Gin", Pamela Sue Martin played this Dillinger moll
the Lady in Red
Larry
|
|
$600
[27]
He was born Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze
George Balanchine
Bob
|
$600
[8]
In India, she was the wife of a Maharaja
a Maharani
Fran
|
$600
[19]
Longest active-duty U.S. naval officer in history was this "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
Hyman Rickover
Bob
|
$800
[14]
The French premier mocked this president's 14 points saying, "Why God Almighty has only 10"
Wilson
Fran
|
$600
[23]
California sea snail whose ear-shaped shell with a row of holes often ends up as an ashtray
abalone
|
$600
[4]
She introduced a song called "I'm The Last Of The Red-Hot Mamas", & folks took hear at her word
Sophie Tucker
Bob
|
|
$800
[28]
Creating the title role in "Le Spectre de la Rose", this Russian's great exit leap became legend
Nijinsky
Bob
|
$800
[9]
In English, it's only a hoax, while in French, it's also a duck
a canard
Bob
|
$800
[20]
In 1986, the Navy brought this battleship, on which Japan had surrendered 41 years before, back into service
the U.S.S. Missouri
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
1 of 4 men to lose presidential election 1st time out, only to win it on 2nd try
Richard Nixon (Jackson, [William Henry] Harrison, and Jefferson)
Larry
|
$800
[24]
Cameos are carved from the pink shells of this snail whose name is from Greek for "shell"
conch
|
$800
[5]
In the old British ballad, it's the 1st name of Miss Allen, the femme fatale of Scarlet Town
Barb'ry, Barbara Allen
Bob
|
|
$1,000
[29]
Ballet stars Mikhail Baryshnikov & Leslie Browne were both up for Oscars for this 1977 film
The Turning Point
Bob
|
$1,000
[10]
When someone in the Middle East asks for baksheesh, this is what they want
a tip or bribe (or handout)
Bob
|
$1,000
[21]
While the largest number of Americans served in WWII, 2nd-largest number served in this war
Vietnam
Larry
|
$1,000
[15]
Before becoming president he said "I am 1st Eagle Scout vice president of the U.S."
Gerald Ford
Larry
|
$1,000
[30]
Shakespeare compares a whining schoolboy to a snail in this play's "All the world's a stage" speech
As You Like It
Bob
|
$1,000
[6]
Kate Hepburn plays a thief's daughter who disguises herself as a boy in this 1936 Cary Grant film
Sylvia Scarlett
Fran
|
Dedicated in Concord, Mass. in 1875, it was Daniel Chester French's 1st commission
The Minuteman