1987 Senior Tournament semifinal game 1.
Lee Saunders — a part-time textbook editor from Orlando, Florida
Joe McKenna — a retired professor of economics from St. Louis, Missouri
Ruth Henoch — a teacher from Potomac, Maryland
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth | $1,000 | $1,700 | $6,800 |
$3,199
2nd place: $5,000 |
$7,300
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joe | $1,200 | $3,000 | $5,200 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$5,800
16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lee | $1,400 | $2,400 | $3,400 |
$6,800
Finalist |
$3,600
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| TIME | RUSSIA | RADIO COMEDY | HERBS & SPICES | ANTONYMS | ODD JOBS |
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$100
[16]
Secretaries in NYC, Washington, D.C., & L.A. ritually toss these out of windows on December 31
calendars
Joe
|
$100
[20]
The 1st False Dmitri became this in 1605, but don't worry, he was killed the next year
Tsar
Joe
|
$100
[10]
In the show's opening, the reply to "Henry! Henry Aldrich!"
Com-ing, Mother!
Lee
|
$100
[15]
The oried covering of the nutmeg, it's not used in the mixture sprayed in an attacker's face
mace
Lee
|
$100
[1]
An antonym of humble, it's how the Marines describe themselves
proud
Lee
|
$100
[5]
While a trapper is a hunter, a Trappist is one of these
monk
Lee
|
|
$200
[17]
In Roget's thesaurus, "a jiffy" is considered synonymous with "2 shakes of a this animal's "tail"
lamb
Joe
|
$200
[21]
She didn't use nepotism to get the throne in 1762, she used force
Catherine the Great
Lee
|
$200
[11]
How Frank Nelson as a salesclerk would reply when Jack Benny opened with "Oh, sir?"
Yes?
Ruth
|
$200
[26]
It can describe a piece of garlic or be a spice by itself
cloves
Lee
|
$200
[2]
A phrase meaning intermittent, or the antonyms on a light switch
off & on
Ruth
|
$200
[6]
They come in air raid, game, or prison varieties
wardens
Ruth
|
|
$300
[19]
In the Northern Hemisphere, month in which the harvest moon appears
September
Ruth
Lee
|
DD
$200
[27]
1 of the 5 composers collectively known as the "Moguchaya Kuchka", or "Mighty Handful"
(1 of) Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
Lee
|
$300
[12]
After the resounding crashes, he would muse "Gotta clean out that closet someday"
Fibber McGee
Lee
|
$300
[28]
Plant of the mint family, or a member of the Rathbone family
basil
Lee
|
$300
[3]
It describes a sauce containing sugar & vinegar
sweet & sour
Ruth
|
$300
[7]
Before computer terminals, you called this person to carry your newspaper story to the editor
copy boy
Joe
|
|
$400
[22]
1982 film set in 1954 & starring Peter O'Toole
My Favorite Year
Lee
|
$300
[24]
Name by which the Communists went in 1917
Bolsheviks
Lee
|
$400
[13]
Quarrelsome couple played by Don Ameche & Frances Langford
(John & Blanche) The Bickersons
Lee
|
$400
[29]
In French, this herb is "estragon"
tarragon
Ruth
|
$400
[4]
Pair of action antonyms used for both dinner tables & typewriter tabs
set & clear
Joe
|
$400
[8]
The parliamentary officer appointed to keep order within an organization
sergeant at arms
Ruth
Lee
|
|
$500
[23]
Song which begins "Once upon a time there was a tavern..."
"Those Were the Days"
|
$400
[25]
In the 1200s, a conquered Russia became part of this Asian empire
Mongol
Joe
|
$500
[14]
They were the married couple that lived "in the small house halfway up the next block"
Vic & Sade
Ruth
|
$500
[30]
Jamaican pepper is also known by this totally encompassing name
allspice
Joe
|
$500
[9]
Meaning "flowing", in handwriting it's the opposite of manuscript
cursive
Joe
|
$500
[18]
Position in airport operations which relies on an echo location receiver
(air traffic) controller
Joe
|
| AUTHORS | SCIENTISTS | CASTLES & CHATEAUX | CARDS | STARTS WITH "M" | BIBLICAL RESULTS |
|
$200
[1]
In the '50s he published "Brave New World Revisited" a supplement to his 1932 work
Aldous Huxley
Joe
|
$200
[12]
Olaus Roemer announced to Paris scientists in 1676 that he had calculated the speed of this
light
Ruth
|
$200
[15]
This royal family's name came from one of their 1st castles, "Habichtsburg", Hawk's Castle
Hapsburgs
Ruth
|
$200
[2]
The high card in a royal flush poker hand
ace
Lee
|
$200
[7]
Meaning "belonging to the muses", it's a picture made of colored tiles set in mortar
mosaic
Joe
|
$200
[20]
The Pharaoh's reaction resulting from the 10th plague, death of the Egyptian 1st born
freeing of the Israelites (letting Jews leave the country)
Joe
|
|
$400
[3]
His brother Orion bought the Hannibal Journal in 1851
Mark Twain
Ruth
|
$400
[13]
Research chemist Chaim Weizmann was the 1st president of this country
Israel
Lee
|
$400
[16]
Bran Castle in Romania's Carpathian Mountains is touted to tourists as this man's home
(Count) Dracula (Vlad Tepes)
Ruth
|
$400
[25]
Other category on this board which is the title of a game that fits in this category
Authors
Joe
|
DD
$600
[8]
TV private detective whose theme wasthe following:
Mannix
Joe
|
$400
[21]
Though "many are called," this occurs
few are chosen
Joe
|
|
$600
[4]
This author's real 1st name was the one he gave to his detective Sam Spade
Dashiell Hammett
Ruth
|
DD
$500
[28]
Henrik Dam won '43 Nobel Prize for discovery of this vitamin he named from German spelling of "coagulation"
K
Ruth
|
$600
[17]
A castle on this site some 21 miles west of London goes back to the time of William the Conqueror
Windsor Castle
|
$600
[26]
Number of bicycles which appear on the back of any card in a standard Bicycle deck
2
|
$600
[9]
To assemble the troops, or a list of those assembled
muster
Ruth
|
$600
[22]
In Mark 14:43-46, it's what happened to Jesus after being kissed by Judas
seized (arrested) by the soldiers
Joe
Lee
|
|
$800
[5]
Author of "The Agony & the Ecstasy", he worked his way through college picking fruit & playing sax
Irving Stone
Ruth
|
$600
[14]
British chemist remembered not for his steel process but for his raincoat
(Charles) Macintosh
|
$800
[18]
Contrary to its romanticized history, this Death Valley landmark was built by Albert Johnson
Scotty's Castle
Ruth
|
$800
[27]
Among the different versions of this game for which Hoyle gives rules are cutthroat & honeymoon
bridge
Ruth
|
$800
[10]
The top of a spar on a ship, or the place to list a magazine's staff
masthead
Ruth
|
$800
[23]
His actions resulted in his being forced to go on his belly & eat dust
serpent
Joe
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Barnum & Bailey's Circus used to reenact the chariot race from this man's 1880 novel
General Lew Wallace
Lee
|
— |
$1,000
[19]
The opulent Chateau d'Artigny was built by this 20th century French perfume king
François Coty
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
The word "mutt", a mongrel, is a shortened form of this word for fool
muttonhead
|
$1,000
[24]
The result of this is "both shall fall into the ditch"
if the blind shall lead the blind
|
Title 4 of the U.S. Code states its length must be exactly 1.9 times its width
the flag