1987 Senior Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
Dan Zamos — a lawyer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ruth Henoch — a teacher from Potomac, Maryland
Frank Dillon — a part-time high school sports writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank | $1,700 | $3,200 | $5,400 |
$8,000
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ruth | $1,400 | $2,100 | $5,900 |
$10,800
Automatic semifinalist |
$5,900
16 R, 0 W |
| Dan | $-800 | $-300 | $300 |
$600
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$0
9 R (including 2 DDs), 10 W |
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY | INITIALS | POULTRY | ANATOMY | BIOGRAPHIES | "SOME" SONGS |
|
$100
[6]
All the countries whose names end in "guay" are on this continent
South America
Ruth
|
$100
[7]
This director's initials stood for David Wark
D.W. Griffith
Ruth
|
$100
[23]
Time it takes for 2,220,000 eggs to be laid at California's "Egg City", world's largest chicken ranch
one day
Dan
|
$100
[19]
This limb's abductors aren't kidnappers, but the muscles that move it toward the chest
arm
Dan
|
$100
[12]
"The Case of the Real Perry Mason"
Erle Stanley Gardner
Ruth
|
$100
[1]
Song from "Snow White" that Fergie might sing while waiting for Andy to return from sea duty
"Someday My Prince Will Come"
Frank
|
|
$200
[14]
One source says this city was founded in 200 A.D. by the Polish Duke of Krak
Krakow
Dan
|
$200
[8]
An order marked as "A.S.A.P." should, per instructions, be done this way
as soon as possible
Ruth
|
DD
$500
[24]
The 3 barnyard fowl mentioned in the following:"All the world'll fly in a flurry /When I take you out in the surrey /When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!"
chicks & ducks & geese
Dan
|
$200
[20]
A hollow core of dentin filled with pulp & capped with enamel
tooth
Ruth
|
$200
[13]
"Road to Tara"
Margaret Mitchell
Frank
|
$200
[2]
The song from "South Pacific" that fits this category
"Some Enchanted Evening"
Ruth
|
|
$300
[15]
4th largest European nation, it is divided into Gotaland, Sveland, & Norrland
Sweden
Frank
|
$300
[9]
Initials preceding "choice" or "prime" you might see on the cut of beef you just bought
U.S.D.A.
Ruth
Dan
|
— |
$300
[25]
Whether you're Buddy Rich or not, your tympanic membrane is commonly called this
eardrum
Frank
Dan
|
$300
[17]
"Mrs. Simpson"
Wallis Simpson or Duchess of Windsor
Frank
|
$300
[3]
Just ask Dr. Zhivago: He'll tell you it's the title of Lara's theme
"Somewhere My Love"
Frank
|
|
$400
[16]
Number of oceans crossed by the Tropic of Cancer
2
Ruth
Dan
|
$400
[10]
The 3rd "A" in AAA or the 1st "A" in the NAACP
Association
Frank
|
— | — |
$400
[21]
"The Importance of Being Oscar"
Oscar Wilde
Frank
|
$400
[4]
"When an irresistible force such as you meets an old immovable object like me..."
"Something's Gotta Give"
Frank
|
|
$500
[18]
River port of over 600,000 people in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rain forest
Manaus
Dan
|
$500
[11]
It's Walter Mondale's middle initial as well as Edward Hutton's
F.
Ruth
|
— | — |
$500
[22]
"The Unimportance of Being Oscar"
Oscar Levant
|
$500
[5]
"There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he turns out to be..."
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
Frank
Dan
|
| CLASSIC CINEMA | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES | HARD WOOD | FINANCIAL FIASCOS | AUTOMOBILES | THE OLD WEST |
|
$200
[2]
Versions of it have starred Neil Diamond, Danny Thomas & Al Jolson
The Jazz Singer
Frank
|
$200
[1]
"We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier"
John F. Kennedy
Frank
Dan
|
$200
[14]
Ted Turner said these have no future because there aren't enough trees left to keep making wood pulp
newspapers
Ruth
|
$400
[23]
Of $36,000, $875,000, or $2.28 million, value of sapphire a rockhound sold at '86 gem show for 10 bucks
$2.28 million
Dan
|
$400
[24]
Only currently marketed U.S. car named for a president
Lincoln
Ruth
|
$1,000
[21]
Colorado gold-mining district which got its name from stream which injured cattle crossing it
Cripple Creek
|
|
$400
[3]
1945's "The Bells of St. Mary's" was the sequel to this 1944 film
Going My Way
Frank
|
$400
[7]
"Some of my best friends are MX missiles"
Ronald Reagan
Ruth
|
$400
[15]
This eating utensil's name is from Old English for a "chip of wood"
spoon
Dan
|
$600
[22]
McGraw-Hill paid a $765,000 advance for his "autobiography" of Howard Hughes--but couldn't publish it
Irving
Dan
|
$600
[13]
Only 110,847 cars were ever made with this Ford nameplate, all during 1957-59
Edsel
Ruth
|
— |
|
$800
[5]
In "Kind Hearts & Coronets", he played 8 roles, including Lady Agatha
Alec Guinness
Ruth
|
$600
[8]
"It is time for the great silent majority of Americans to stand up & be counted"
Richard Nixon
Frank
Ruth
Dan
|
$600
[16]
Only National Hockey League with a type of tree mentioned in their name
(Toronto) Maple Leafs
Dan
|
$800
[20]
IOS was headed first by Bernie Cornfeld & later by this fugitive financier
Robert Vesco
|
$800
[11]
After buying Chrysler's European branches, this French company became Europe's biggest carmaker
Peugeot
Dan
|
— |
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
In "Night of the Hunter", Robert Mitchum has these 2 4-letter words tattooed on his fingers
love & hate
Frank
|
$800
[9]
"I shall go to Korea"
Dwight Eisenhower
Ruth
|
$800
[17]
The power ring of the 1940s version of this super hero was useless against wood
Green Lantern
|
$1,000
[19]
The scheme of paying old investors with new investor's money bears the name of this Italian con man
Charles Ponzi
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
The 2 men who founded the company that now makes Mercedes-Benz cars
Daimler & Benz
Dan
|
— |
|
$1,000
[6]
Among the films he's directed are 1948's "Oliver Twist" & "A Passage to India"
David Lean
Frank
|
$1,000
[10]
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man"
Thomas Jefferson
Dan
|
$1,000
[18]
If God had taken this day off in creating the world we wouldn't have wood today
3rd day
Dan
|
— | — | — |
In the '30s, these 2--a little girl & a big ape--were both called "The 8th Wonder of the World"
Shirley Temple & King Kong