Sandra Gore game 1.
Sandra Gore — a researcher originally from Boston, Massachusetts
Ron Cratty — a pastor from Claremont, California
Alice Cohen — a labratory technician from Port Washington, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $14,301)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alice | $200 | $-300 | $500 |
$0
3rd place: Silent Thunder lithograph + Jeopardy! box game or computer version |
$500
8 R, 3 W |
| Ron | $300 | $2,000 | $2,600 |
$4,100
2nd place: a trip for 2 to Nashville + Jeopardy! box game or computer version |
$3,100
11 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sandra | $2,400 | $4,500 | $17,000 |
$14,000
New champion: $14,000 |
$15,500
33 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| JAPAN | FACTS & FIGURES | FARMING | MUSICALS | NAME CHANGES | SAINTS |
|
$100
[25]
City where you can visit the Peace Memorial Museum, Hall & Park
Hiroshima
Sandra
|
$100
[10]
Europeans ranked Italian men as the best seducers & this neighboring country's women as the most seductive
France
Ron
Sandra
|
$100
[13]
According to the book "Harvesters", in ancient Rome pigeon droppings were highly prized as this
fertilizer
Sandra
|
$100
[1]
The music for "Once Upon a Mattress" was composed by Mary Rodgers, this man's daughter
Richard Rodgers
Ron
|
$100
[2]
Rumor had it this movie gangster, born George Ranft, was once a real gangster
George Raft
Sandra
|
$100
[9]
Though you may "doubt" it, this apostle was reportedly killed in India
Thomas
Alice
|
|
$200
[26]
Written with a capital letter, it's Japan's parliament, not its usual cuisine
the Diet
Sandra
|
$200
[19]
Almost 80 million people in this country are named Li, making it their most common surname
China
Sandra
|
$200
[14]
The natural color of butter depends on the breed of cow & this other variable
the kind of food the cow eats
Sandra
|
$200
[3]
"Say Darling" was a musical based on the making of this musical about a sleepwear factory
The Pajama Game
Sandra
|
$200
[5]
Born Asa Yoelson in Russia in 1886, his "mammy" could tell you he changed his name to this
Al Jolson
Alice
|
$200
[16]
Legend says 1 of these mythical beasts swallowed St. Margaret
a dragon
Ron
|
|
$300
[27]
Though ruling in the name of the emperor, for some 700 years they held the real power in Japan
the Shogun
Sandra
|
$300
[30]
Ending a 4-year journey in 1987, Steve Newman became the 1st person to go around the world this way
walking
Ron
Sandra
|
$300
[15]
From the Latin for "grain", this feudal term for farm is used in the name of a U.S. farmer's org.
grange
Ron
|
$300
[4]
As far as we know, it's the only musical set in a dungeon in Seville
Man of La Mancha
Ron
|
$300
[6]
Born in Dublin as W. Jos. Shields, he used his brogue as the old priest in "Going My Way"
Barry Fitzgerald
Sandra
|
$400
[18]
The Latin word for this baby animal is "agnus", & St. Agnes is often pictured holding one
a lamb
Sandra
|
|
$400
[28]
The crest of the Imperial Family shows a 16-petal representation of this golden flower
the chrysanthemum
Sandra
|
$400
[24]
This didn't occur on the 1987 Oscar telecast until 35 minutes after the show began
the presentation of the first Oscar
Sandra
|
$400
[20]
Farmers in the 19th century would "bust" this substance & build their homes from it
sod
Sandra
|
$400
[7]
City "The Boys" were from in musical based on "A Comedy of Errors"
Syracuse
Sandra
|
$400
[11]
Ronald Moodnick, who played Fagin in "Oliver!"
Ron Moody
Alice
|
DD
$500
[17]
It's said this giant's name was Reprobus, but he changed it to this, which means "Christ-bearer"
St. Christopher
Ron
|
|
$500
[29]
Year in which, for the 1st time in history, Japan found itself under control of foreign conquerors
1945
Ron
|
$500
[23]
This European airline is the foreign airline which flies to the most U.S. cities, 14
British Airways (British Air accepted)
Alice
Ron
|
$500
[21]
Getting out of the farm machine business, this 50-year-old company changed its name to Navistar in 1986
International Harvester
Ron
|
$500
[8]
"Illya, Darling" wasn't based on "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", but on this Melina Mercouri film
Never on Sunday
Sandra
|
$500
[12]
Actress-director Lyova Rosenthal, who won an Oscar for "Shampoo"
Lee Grant
Alice
Sandra
|
$500
[22]
St. Catherine of Siena played a major role in moving the papacy from this French city back to Rome
Avignon
Ron
|
| THE 20th CENTURY | GIRAFFES | AMERICAN POETRY | PHYSICAL SCIENCE | SECONDS | SINNERS |
|
$200
[16]
From 1937 to 1949 this country referred to itself as "Eire"
Ireland
Alice
|
$200
[17]
To teenagers, necking means 1 thing; to giraffes, it's a way young bulls do this
fight
Alice
Ron
|
$200
[4]
Sylvia Plath described these fungi as saying "We are shelves, we are tables, we are meek, we are edible"
mushrooms
Alice
|
$200
[1]
After aluminum, it's the 2nd most abundant metal in the earth's crust
iron
Ron
|
$200
[24]
Amount of time, in seconds, it takes to cook a 3-minute egg
180
Ron
|
$200
[11]
Gangs called the Dead Rabbits, the Plug Uglies & the Bowery Boys once plagued this city
New York City
Sandra
|
|
$400
[20]
Formerly chancellor of this, Neville Chamberlain became British P.M. in 1937
the Exchequer
Sandra
|
$400
[18]
On giraffes, as on horses, this grows along the back of the neck to the shoulders
a mane
Alice
|
$400
[7]
In "Mending Wall", Frost can't understand the guy-next-door's attitude that "Good fences make" these
good neighbors
Sandra
|
$400
[2]
Current can be said to enter a vacuum tube through the anode & leave through this electrode
the cathode
Alice
|
$1,000
[25]
In Christianity, it's also called "Parousia"
the Second Coming
Sandra
|
$400
[12]
"Dr. King", a real London criminal, was Sax Rohmer's model for this fictional evil genius
Fu Manchu
Sandra
|
|
$600
[21]
In the past 40 years, this country has been given more foreign aid than any other
Israel
Sandra
|
$600
[19]
Of 7, 17, or 27, the # of bones in a giraffe's neck, the same as in a human's
7
Alice
Ron
Sandra
|
$600
[8]
According to John G. Whittier, "For of all words of song or pen, the saddest are these"
it might have been (what might have been accepted)
Ron
|
$600
[3]
Number of decibels in a bel
ten
Sandra
|
DD
$1,600
[26]
Title of the following, it was The Miracles 2nd biggest hit in the '60s:"Maybe, you want to give me kisses sweet..."
"I Second That Emotion"
Sandra
|
$600
[13]
The man who shot Jesse James
Robert Ford
Sandra
|
|
$800
[22]
Allied invasion of this island in summer 1943 was the largest WWII amphibious operation until Normandy
Sicily
Sandra
|
— |
$800
[9]
Protesting its impending destruction, O.W. Holmes wrote "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!"
Old Ironsides (the U.S.S. Constitution )
Ron
|
$800
[5]
When a lot of monomers join up, you get a compound referred to as this
a polymer
Sandra
|
— |
$1,000
[15]
Leaders of this religion excommunicated the philosopher Spinoza for heresy in 1656
Judaism
Sandra
|
|
$1,000
[23]
In 1968, this former U.S. Treasurer became the 1st woman to nominate a major presidential candidate
Ivy Baker Priest Stevens
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
The line "If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning" is from this Longfellow poem
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Sandra
|
$1,000
[6]
In 1901 he won the 1st Nobel Prize in Physics for his work developing X-Rays
(Wilhelm) Röntgen
Sandra
|
— |
DD
$1,500
[14]
Every sinner should know that these are 3 of the 7 deadly sins
sloth, gluttony & avarice
Sandra
|
The names of these 2 adjacent states are Choctaw for "red people" & Spanish for "red"
Colorado & Oklahoma