1987 Senior Tournament quarterfinal game 1.Inaugural Senior Tournament game.
Dorothy McClellan — an airline employee from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joe Dobkins — a manufacturer's representative from Oceanside, New York
Irene Grzywacz — a teacher originally from Connecticut
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irene | $500 | $2,000 | $8,600 |
$10,000
Automatic semifinalist |
$8,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Joe | $0 | $1,300 | $1,300 |
$2,600
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$1,300
7 R, 2 W |
| Dorothy | $200 | $1,500 | $5,700 |
$8,700
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$5,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| MAMMALS | ANCIENT ROME | FINE CHINA | LUNCH COUNTER LINGO | RELIGION | NOISEMAKERS |
|
$100
[9]
It's said these furry rodents were named for the Chincha Indians, who used to eat them
chinchillas
Dorothy
|
$100
[1]
He had affairs with Cassius' wife & Brutus' mother, giving the guys good reason to stab him
Julius Caesar
Irene
|
$100
[6]
First made in the 17th century, this country's Imari ware includes blue & white sake bottles
Japan
Irene
|
$100
[10]
You don't hit someone with this "lead pipe"; you eat it with meatballs
spaghetti
Irene
|
$100
[19]
The Digambara monks of India believe that salvation is not possible for this sex
women
Joe
|
$100
[4]
The hollow cone through which cheerleaders scream at you
megaphone
Joe
|
|
$200
[11]
Because of man, the zebra-like quagga & Steller's sea cow are both this
extinct
Irene
|
$200
[2]
What the Roman elite did with dormice, ostrich wings & flamingo tongues
ate them
Irene
|
$200
[22]
The controversial china Nancy Reagan ordered is bordered in this, her favorite color
red
Irene
|
$200
[15]
"Sneeze", shaken in soups & salads
pepper
Dorothy
|
$200
[20]
The Phoenicians used to sacrifice these to the god Moloch, definitely not according to Spock
children
Irene
|
$200
[5]
Dancers' rhythm instruments whose name derives from Spanish word for chestnut, "castana"
castanets
Dorothy
|
|
$300
[12]
Most mammals are homoiothermic, which means this is constant year-round
body temperature
Irene
|
$300
[3]
Roman historians usually wrote in this language until Cato the Elder wrote "Origines" in Latin
Greek
Joe
|
$300
[25]
"Queen's ware" was named for the wife of this last king of the American colonies
George III
Dorothy
|
$300
[16]
To order liver cooked with these, a waitress yells, "Put out the lights & cry!"
onions
Joe
|
$300
[21]
In 1934, at the age of 79, Evangeline Booth became the 1st woman general in this religious "corps"
Salvation Army
Dorothy
|
— |
|
$400
[13]
Monotremes are the only mammals which give birth this way
laying eggs
|
$400
[7]
Among these, a sector was a light-armored version of the heavily armored Samnite
gladiators
Irene
Joe
|
$400
[26]
Firm famed for its pale blue jasperware adorned with white classical figures
Wedgwood
Dorothy
|
$400
[17]
If you want this Irish immigrant entree, scream "red horse, put a wreath on it!"
corned beef & cabbage
|
$400
[23]
In a traditional Jewish wedding, the couple is married under 1 of these, symbolic of the bridal chamber
chuppah (canopy)
Joe
|
— |
|
$500
[14]
All mammals of the order pinnipedia have this kind of feet
flippers (webbed feet)
Joe
|
DD
$500
[8]
On the earliest known Roman calendar, these were the 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th months
September, October, November, & December
Irene
|
$500
[27]
The 1st European soft-paste porcelain was made by a member of this famous family of Florence
Medicis
Dorothy
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$500
[18]
If you "brand bossy", you're doing this
frying a hamburger
Dorothy
|
$500
[24]
Name of this religion founded in the 7th c. can be translated as "submission", "surrender" or "commitment"
Islam
Irene
|
— |
| NAUTICAL HISTORY | WASHINGTON D.C. | DOUBLE MEANINGS | LITERATURE | SINGING COWBOYS | GIRLS IN SONG |
|
$200
[1]
This country now has the largest submarine fleet in the world
USSR
Joe
Dorothy
|
$200
[6]
It was established from the fortune left our gov't in 1829 by British scientist James Smithson
Smithsonian Institute
Joe
|
$200
[7]
A strapless slipper, or the farm animal who's probably too stubborn to wear it
mule
Dorothy
|
$200
[16]
F. Tennyson & C. Tennyson Turner wrote "Poems by 2 Brothers" with this more famous brother
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dorothy
|
$200
[26]
Apple Valley's most famous citizen, he once sponsored a girls' bowling team called the "Triggerettes"
Roy Rogers
Irene
Dorothy
|
$200
[21]
On their knees, baritones sing to her, "You is my woman now"
Bess
Dorothy
|
|
$400
[2]
Elizabeth I knighted him upon his Golden Hind
Sir Francis Drake
Irene
Dorothy
|
$400
[9]
By a rules committee decision, this has been served in the Senate restaurant every day since 1907
navy bean soup
Irene
|
$400
[8]
Southern slang for a peanut, or southern name for a Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show"
goober
Irene
|
$400
[17]
Tho not usually regarded as black authors, this former French pere & fils were of black heritage
Dumas
Irene
|
$400
[27]
Abbreviate his native state & you'll find his 1st name; watch "Three's Company" & you'll find his son
Tex Ritter
Dorothy
|
$400
[22]
As George M. Cohan said "It's a grand old name"
Mary
Dorothy
|
|
DD
$600
[3]
Docked in New England it's called the oldest commissioned ship afloat in any of the world's navies
U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides)
Irene
|
$600
[10]
Tho much larger, this was built in the exact proportions of Ancient Egyptian obelisks
Washington Monument
Irene
|
$800
[14]
The Archbishop of Manila, or what you shouldn't commit in front of him
Cardinal Sin
Irene
|
$600
[18]
Tho his novel "The Rainbow" was banned as "obscene", he wrote a sequel, "Women in Love", anyway
D.H. Lawrence
|
— |
$600
[23]
If your name is this, & you're Irish, "I'll take you home again"
Kathleen
Irene
|
|
$800
[4]
Among former names of this service was "The Revenue Marines"
Coast Guard
Irene
|
$800
[11]
Washington is divided into 4 unequal quadrants with this building at its center
Capitol Building
Irene
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
A Northerner who goes South for the winter, orthis1970 hit:"When I was young my heart was young then too..."
snowbird
Dorothy
|
$800
[19]
He won Pulitzer Prizes for "Alice Adams" & "The Magnificent Ambersons"
Booth Tarkington
|
— |
$800
[24]
Of her, it's asked "When did your sparkle turn to fire & your warmth become desire?"
Gigi
Dorothy
|
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$1,000
[5]
In the 1770s, to help prevent scurvy, he served sauerkraut aboard his ship, the Endeavor
Captain Cook
|
$1,000
[12]
Tho work on it began in 1907, this famed Episcopal church has never been completed
Washington Cathedral (Church of St. Peter or National Cathedral)
Dorothy
|
$1,000
[15]
A proverbial saying, or the brand of coffee you drink while thinking of it
maxim
|
$1,000
[20]
Religious mania forced this Russian to burn his sequel to his great novel "Dead Souls"
Gogol
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
"At night, dear heart, for you I pine," usually in groups of 4
"Sweet Adeline"
Irene
|
It was Steve Allen who coined this show's question, "Is it bigger than a breadbox?"
What's My Line?