Michael Rankins game 1.
Tom Hudak — a factory worker from Hudson Falls, New York
Michael Rankins — a customer service represenative from Rohnert Park, California
Jack Koenig — an actor and househusband from New York City, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $23,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack | $2,600 | $2,600 | $5,400 |
$10,800
2nd place: Scott 27" color monitor receiver & Ortho day bed |
$5,700
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $500 | $3,700 | $5,700 |
$11,399
New champion: $11,399 |
$6,300
20 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tom | $100 | $2,100 | $7,300 |
$3,199
3rd place: White-Westinghouse refrigerator-freezer |
$7,300
17 R, 2 W |
| 1958 | BIOLOGY | STARTS WITH "R" | FOOTBALL | PIES | SHANGHAI MOVIES |
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$100
[27]
He succeeded Bulganin as premier of the USSR on March 27
Nikita Khrushchev
Michael
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$100
[3]
It's generally the last vestige of the tadpole stage that a frog loses
tail
Jack
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$100
[12]
It's a past tense of rend, or what you pay your landlord
rent
Jack
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$100
[2]
Working as a mail clerk to attend Notre Dame, this legend later coached football there
Knute Rockne
Michael
Tom
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$100
[17]
Though a pie is served from its baking dish, this tiny cousin is removed from its dish
tart
Tom
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$100
[1]
Roland Winters played this detective in "The Shanghai Chest" ; Sidney Toler in "The Shanghai Cobra"
Charlie Chan
Michael
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$200
[30]
Of the people who joined the U.S. Army, March 24, 1958, the one we've all heard of
Elvis Presley
Michael
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$200
[8]
Fleischmann's says one ounce of this carbon dioxide-making substance contains about 280 billion cells
yeast
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$200
[13]
To remember, or to vote a politician out of office before the end of his term
recall
Jack
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$200
[6]
Color of the penalty marker, or "flag", used by pro referees
yellow
Michael
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$200
[20]
Shepherd's pie is actually an entree originally made with this meat
lamb
Michael
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$200
[4]
In "Footlight Parade", this dancer, Mrs. Al Jolson, used a Chinese accent to play Shanghai Lil
Ruby Keeler
Jack
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$300
[26]
Just the facts ma'am: he married Jackie Loughery on June 24
Jack Webb
Tom
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$300
[9]
Most animals other than birds or mammals are poikilothermic, commonly referred to as this
cold-blooded
Jack
|
$400
[15]
The part of the U.S. Capitol directly under the dome
rotunda
Michael
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$300
[7]
On the line, it's the position to either side of the center
guard
Tom
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$300
[21]
If you want your pie crust to be flaky, choose this ingredient carefully
shortening
Tom
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$300
[5]
1987 Steven Spielberg epic that opens in Shanghai on the eve of World War II
Empire of the Sun
Michael
Tom
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$400
[28]
On December 31, he was still the leader of Cuba--the next day he resigned & fled
Fulgencio Batista
Michael
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$400
[18]
As the middle Paleozoic era is called the age of fishes, the Mesozoic era is known as this
age of reptiles
Tom
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$500
[16]
The name of this plant with an edible root is from the Swedish for "baggy root"
rutabaga
Michael
|
$400
[23]
Term used when a player loses possession of the football other than by passing or kicking it
fumble
Tom
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$400
[22]
This type of pie, like chocolate, can simply be pudding in a pie shell
custard (cream pie)
Michael
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$400
[10]
After dumping Loretta Young in "Shanghai", he waylaid Hedy Lamarr in the casbah in "Algiers"
Charles Boyer
Jack
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|
$500
[29]
First published in Italian, this Russian novel came out in English & helped win its author a Nobel Prize
Doctor Zhivago
Michael
Tom
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$500
[19]
Term for the transference of microspores of seed plants from anther to stigma
pollination
Tom
|
DD
$800
[14]
Pronounced one way, it means to turn down, pronounced the other way, it means trash
refuse
Jack
|
$500
[24]
At 65, he was fired as Ohio State's football coach after hitting an opposing player
Woody Hayes
Tom
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$500
[25]
The earliest recipe for this pie filling of finely chopped apples, spices & suet dates from 1486
mincemeat
Michael
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$500
[11]
This 1948 Orson Welles film features a shattering climax in a hall of mirrors
The Lady from Shanghai
Jack
|
| U.S. CITIES | THE TONY AWARDS | WORD ORIGINS | STEPHEN FOSTER | NAME THE NOVEL | PASHAS |
|
$200
[22]
In North Carolina, it's the biggest port city; in Delaware, it's the biggest city of all
Wilmington
Jack
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$200
[6]
Oddly, his Tony for "The King & I" was for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Yul Brynner
Jack
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$200
[15]
Game whose name may be derived from the nickname of a 19th century gambler, "Johnny Crapaud"
craps
Tom
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$200
[8]
It was published under the title "Susanna, Don't You Cry"
"Oh! Susanna"
Michael
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$200
[1]
Mowgli, "the Frog", is raised by mother wolf
The Jungle Book
Michael
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$200
[26]
Of military, civil, or religious officials, group to which the title of pasha was never applied
religious officials
Michael
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|
$400
[21]
Cities in Nevada & New Mexico share this name, Spanish for "the meadows"
Las Vegas
|
$400
[7]
The 1st Arthur Miller drama to be voted "Best Play" in 1949
Death of a Salesman
Tom
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$400
[18]
Our word "pen" is from Latin "penna" meaning this old-fashioned writing instrument
a feather (a quill accepted)
Michael
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$400
[9]
Foster became a derelict & died in extreme poverty in this city's Bellevue Hospital when he was only 37
New York City
Michael
|
$400
[2]
Sam Spade stalks Miles' murderer
The Maltese Falcon
Tom
|
$400
[27]
In 1909, Kamil Pasha resigned & Hilmi Pasha was appointed the new grand one of these
vizier
Michael
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$600
[13]
It's the name of the 3rd largest city in both Missouri & Massachusetts & the 4th largest in Illinois
Springfield
Tom
|
$600
[11]
Surprisingly, only 1 of his plays, "The Rose Tattoo", won the "Best Play" award
Tennessee Williams
Michael
|
$600
[14]
Name of this structure is an 18th C. joke word combining the Latin ending meaning "I shall" with "gaze"
gazebo
Jack
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$600
[10]
He reportedly wrote this song while visiting a cousin's house in Bardstown, Kentucky
"My Old Kentucky Home"
Jack
|
$600
[3]
Ma & Pa Joad go west
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom
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$600
[28]
Midhat Pasha gave this empire a new constitution in 1876; in 1877 they dismissed & banished him
Ottoman Empire
Michael
|
|
$800
[19]
It's the 2nd largest city in Georgia & recently became the largest in Ohio
Columbus
|
DD
$600
[12]
The "Best Musical" of 1973, it was set in turn-of-the-century Sweden & featuredthe following:
A Little Night Music
Michael
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$800
[16]
This word for clergyman means "servant" since he's considered the servant of his congregation
minister
Michael
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DD
$800
[23]
The day & year when Foster was born, it was also the day Jefferson & Adams died
July 4, 1826
Jack
|
$800
[4]
Griffin becomes an unseen guest at the Coach & Horses Inn
The Invisible Man
|
$800
[29]
Son of a Greek, Ibrahim Pasha helped run the empire during the 1500s for this magnificent guy
Suleiman
|
|
$1,000
[20]
5th largest city in Minnesota, it's named for the 3rd largest in New York
Rochester
Tom
|
$1,000
[24]
Elizabeth Taylor was nominated for her very 1st Broadway play, the 1981 revival of this
The Little Foxes
Jack
|
$1,000
[17]
From Old Norse "jalda", meaning mare, especially a tired one, comes this word for insensitive or worn out
jaded
Tom
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$1,000
[25]
Title lady whose "smiles have vanished & her sweet songs flown"
"Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair"
Tom
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$1,000
[5]
A governess fights the possession of young Miles & Flora by the spirits of Quint & Miss Jessel
Turn of the Screw
Jack
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$1,000
[30]
In October 1853, the Turks under Omar Pasha crossed the Danube & attacked this country's troops
Russia
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The State Dept. helps Americans abroad, while this department urges foreigners to visit the U.S.
the Department of Commerce