Battle of the Decades: The 1980s game 2.
Andrew Westney — a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
Leszek Pawlowicz — a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
Leslie Frates — a retired Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie | $400 | $3,000 | $13,800 |
$3,999
3rd place: $5,000 |
$10,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Leszek | $4,600 | $6,400 | $25,600 |
$28,000
Quarterfinalist |
$17,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Andrew | $800 | $6,000 | $13,600 |
$27,200
2nd place: $5,000 |
$12,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| OTHER GREAT DECADES | BOOK COVERS | OF OREGON ORIGIN | JOHN HUGHES MOVIES | BUSINESS & THE MARKET | THIS IS THE END |
|
$200
[13]
The Suez Canal is opened & the Emancipation Proclamation is issued
the 1860s
Leslie
|
$200
[16]
Part 1 of a trilogy:A gold mockingjay pin
The Hunger Games
Leszek
|
$200
[8]
In 2012 this Portland native revealed that Springfield, home of "The Simpsons", is named after Springfield, Oregon
(Matt) Groening
Leszek
|
$200
[6]
"You're saying I could be stuck in Wichita?" asks Steve Martin in this film
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Leszek
|
$200
[7]
In 2008 Toyota ended this company's 77-year reign as the world's top automaker
General Motors
Leslie
|
$200
[1]
It precedes hurrah, -ditch & straw
last
Leslie
|
|
$400
[14]
The first successful human heart transplant & the invention of 8-track tapes
the 1960s
Leslie
|
$400
[19]
A sci-fi novel:A man in a newspaper suit is on fire
Fahrenheit 451
Andrew
|
$400
[21]
An annual 10k road race in Coos Bay honors this track star who died young
Steve Prefontaine
Leslie
|
$400
[23]
"Sixteen Candles" was written with a picture of this Hughes muse on John's bulletin board
Molly Ringwald
Andrew
|
$400
[9]
Since 1957 Standard & Poor's has had an index of this many stocks
500
Leszek
|
$400
[2]
5-letter word for the last newspaper edition published on a day
the final
Leslie
|
|
$600
[15]
Ray Kroc opens the first franchised McDonald's
the 1950s
Andrew
|
$600
[20]
A 1920s classic:A woman's eyes in which the irises are reclining nudes over a metropolitan skyline at night
The Great Gatsby
Leslie
|
$600
[22]
Her characters Beezus & Ramona Quimby live on Klickitat Street, a real street near her childhood home in Portland
(Beverly) Cleary
Andrew
|
$600
[24]
This film takes place entirely on a single Saturday in a high school
The Breakfast Club
Leslie
|
$600
[10]
In 1967 this company's holdings included 2 peewee Nebraska insurance companies; now it owns GEICO
Berkshire Hathaway
Leszek
|
$600
[3]
In logic it's a result inferred from the premises of an argument
a conclusion
Leszek
|
|
$800
[17]
Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes
the 1880s
Leszek
|
$1,000
[27]
An iconic cover for an iconic novel:The title in yellow & a line drawing of a carousel horse dominating a slice of New York City
The Catcher in the Rye
Andrew
|
$800
[25]
Presented by his foundation, "the Oscars of the food world" are named for this late chef & author
(James) Beard
Andrew
|
$800
[28]
Danny DeVito was considered for the title role of "Uncle Buck", but this man got the part
John Candy
Leszek
|
$800
[11]
In 2013 Facebook dangled $3 billion in cash in front of this photo-messaging company, which said no
Snapchat
Leszek
Andrew
|
$800
[4]
A certain cyborg, or the dividing line between the illuminated & unilluminated part of the Moon
the terminator
Leszek
|
|
$1,000
[18]
Leonardo da Vinci paints "The Last Supper"
the 1490s
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
From 1969:The puppeteer's hand holds the control piece, with the strings attached to the title
The Godfather
Andrew
|
$1,000
[30]
A Pasadena, California museum bears the name of this Oregon-born industrialist & art collector
Norton Simon
Leslie
|
$1,000
[29]
1988 film about a pair of newlyweds preparing for parenthood
She's Having a Baby
|
$1,000
[12]
This giant Peoria-based company purchased ERA Mining Machinery in 2012
Caterpillar
Leslie
Leszek
|
$1,000
[5]
It comes between "you" & "me" in a Tom Cruise movie line
complete
Andrew
|
| WHERE "U" GOIN'? | TV CHARACTERS | 8-LETTER WORDS | RUN EMC | SURREALISM | CLARINETS & SEAFOOD |
|
$400
[1]
To this state whose motto is "Industry"
Utah
Leszek
|
$400
[7]
Born in the year 2230, he was the son of an Earth mother & a Vulcan diplomat
Spock
Leszek
|
$400
[12]
This synonym for "insolvent" comes partly from a Latin word for "broken"
bankrupt
Leslie
|
$400
[26]
E=mc2was conceived by this man
Einstein
Leszek
|
$400
[21]
A surrealist word game produced the phrase "cadavre exquis", which lives on in the name of the journal "Exquisite" this
Corpse
Leszek
|
$400
[6]
If it's big, this yummy creature may be called a prawn
a shrimp
Andrew
|
|
$800
[2]
To the Black Sea port of Odessa in this country
the Ukraine
Leszek
|
$800
[8]
Of the 6 main characters on "Friends", these 2 were brother & sister
Monica & Ross
|
$1,200
[14]
In this type of composition, like Brahms' Opus 79, the "H" is silent
a rhapsody
Leslie
Leszek
|
$800
[30]
The "E" stands for energy, particularly this type, from the Greek for "moving"
kinetic
Leszek
|
$800
[22]
He painted a pipe with the baffling caption "This is not a pipe"
(René) Magritte
Leszek
|
$800
[17]
Clarinetist Dave Tarras was "the king of" this music style of Ashkenazi Jews
klezmer
Leslie
|
|
$1,200
[3]
To Lucknow, capital of this Indian province
Uttar Pradesh
Leslie
|
$1,200
[9]
TV viewers are keen on Megan Boone as FBI profiler Liz Keen & James Spader as Red Reddington on this drama
The Blacklist
Andrew
|
$1,600
[15]
Flecks of fat in a steak
marbling
Andrew
|
$1,200
[29]
E=mc2refuted the old laws of this "of mass" & "of energy"--m & E aren't fixed in total quantity but can be converted
conservation
Leszek
Andrew
|
$1,200
[23]
This French surrealist made the 1946 film "Beauty and the Beast"
(Jean) Cocteau
Andrew
|
$1,200
[18]
This title TV guy made the confession "Squidward, I used your clarinet to unclog my toilet!"
SpongeBob SquarePants
Leszek
|
|
$1,600
[4]
To this Texas city that Vice President John Nance Garner called home
Uvalde
|
$1,600
[10]
Before there was Castle, there was Jessica Fletcher, who penned mysteries & solved them on this series
Murder, She Wrote
Leslie
|
$2,000
[16]
A light-giving celestial body, or someone eminent in his or her field
a luminary
Leslie
Leszek
|
$2,000
[27]
The equation's insight into the behavior of light was an extension of the work of this 3-named Scot around 1870
James Clerk Maxwell
Leszek
|
$1,600
[24]
Surrealism popped up in '80s music as this band's song "Debaser" took off from Bunuel's film "Un chien andalou"
the Pixies
|
$1,600
[19]
Tilapia is known in Israel as this apostle's fish; tradition holds he caught one & found a coin in its mouth
St. Peter
|
|
$2,000
[5]
To this African river formed by the confluence of the Bomu & the Uele
the Ubangi
Leszek
|
$2,000
[11]
On BBC America, Idris Elba plays this brilliant but self-destructive detective
Luther
Andrew
|
DD
$4,000
[13]
If you grasp all the symbols seenhereat a glance, this field must be your hobby
heraldry
Leslie
|
DD
$10,000
[28]
The equation would never have made it big in its original version, which was conceived as the equivalent m = this
E over c squared
Leszek
|
$2,000
[25]
"Dog Barking at the Moon" is by this countryman of Picasso & Dali who ran with the Surrealists in the 1920s
(Joan) Miró
Leslie
|
$2,000
[20]
Thrilled by the recently invented instrument, he wrote the quintet heard here
Mozart
Leszek
|
Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch
Shirley Jackson