1988 Senior Tournament quarterfinal game 3.
Fran Kirchhof — a retired bookstore person from Denver, Colorado
Katie O'Callaghan — a teacher from Tucson, Arizona
Bob Winthrop — a technical writer originally from Hannibal, Missouri
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $2,600 | $3,000 | $9,800 |
$7,800
2nd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$8,200
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Katie | $0 | $600 | $1,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 if eliminated |
$1,200
7 R, 2 W |
| Fran | $1,500 | $4,400 | $10,800 |
$11,800
Automatic semifinalist |
$10,900
24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| PEOPLE & PLACES | ANIMALS | DANCE PARTNERS | SPORTING WORDS | POTPOURRI | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER |
|
$100
[29]
Varsovians are inhabitants of this city in Poland
Warsaw
Fran
|
$100
[28]
The order Struthioniformes contains only one living species, this really big bird
ostrich
Katie
|
$100
[7]
In movie musicals of the '50s, her name preceded "& Gower Champion"
Marge
Bob
|
$100
[2]
In golf, it denotes a tournament which can be entered by both amateur & professional players
open
Fran
|
$100
[20]
On their 99th birthday, Britons are eligible to receive a birthday telegram from her
her majesty (Queen Elizabeth)
Katie
|
$200
[17]
In every verse, "brave" is rhymed with this word
wave
Bob
|
|
$200
[10]
Someone originally from Naples, or a 3-flavored brick of ice cream originally from 19th c. America
Neapolitan
Fran
|
$200
[27]
These animals know "dam" well they live in a place called a lodge
beavers
Bob
|
$200
[6]
He was Cyd Charisse's dance partner in "On an Island with You" before he escaped to "Fantasy Island"
Ricardo Montalbán
Bob
|
$200
[3]
For a football team, it's being sent back 5 yards, for a hockey player, being put in a box
penalty
Bob
|
$200
[14]
One occasionally still sees signs with 3 triangles on them indicating a building once had this
fallout shelter
Bob
|
$300
[15]
This word means elevated fortifications, often including parapets
ramparts
Fran
|
|
$300
[8]
If you sang "Good Night, Cairene", you'd be addressing someone from this city
Cairo
Bob
|
$300
[24]
While a Kodak is a camera, a Kodiak is one of these
(big) bear
Fran
|
$300
[1]
In Lear's poem, "...hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon"
the Owl & the Pussycat
Fran
|
$300
[11]
A 40-40 tie in tennis
deuce
Bob
|
$300
[21]
Allegedly, it was how they used their knives so people of this state were once called "Toothpicks"
Arkansas
Fran
|
$400
[18]
Of a lawyer, doctor, or soldier, profession of Francis Scott Key when he wrote "The Banner"
lawyer
Fran
|
|
$400
[9]
Literally the fruit of a prickly pear, a Sabra also means a native of this Mediterranean country
Israel
Fran
|
DD
$500
[25]
Males & females of this kind of animal can be called harts & hinds
(red) deer
Fran
|
$400
[4]
Born Vernon Blythe & Irene Foote, they were famous for their fancy footwork
the Castles
Bob
|
$400
[13]
Unless he's up 1st in an inning a baseball player is usually here just before he's "at bat"
on deck
Bob
|
$400
[22]
Executives of the Haggar Company coined this word for "trousers"
slacks
Katie
|
$500
[19]
It happened on March 3, 1931, some 116 years after the poem was written
it became our national anthem
Fran
|
|
$500
[12]
Though the term may mean "white houses", Cariocas now live in houses of various colors in this city
Rio de Janeiro
Fran
|
$500
[26]
This animal's name came from the fact it frequents shrubbery & has a piglike nose
hedgehog
Bob
|
$500
[5]
In the 1947 film "Good News", Peter Lawford did "The Varsity Drag" with this tiny blonde
June Allyson
Bob
|
$500
[16]
Goalposts & bedposts are different nicknames for this in bowling
7-10 split
Bob
|
$500
[23]
In the late 19th c., engineer Sandford Fleming proposed that the world be divided into 24 of these
time zones
Fran
|
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| SENIORS IN HISTORY | THE UNITED NATIONS | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES | FERRIES | "HIGH" & "DRY" | TOUGH TV TRIVIA |
|
$200
[12]
The bearded figure in his Florentine pieta is a self-portrait at about age 80
MIchelangelo
Bob
|
$200
[28]
The biblical statue showing swords beaten into plowshares was a gift from this atheistic country
Russia
Bob
|
$200
[3]
Olvier Holmes' middle name
Wendell
Bob
|
$200
[17]
Since this has happened over 500 times, Wash. State ferry crews receive obstetrical training
babies born
Fran
|
$200
[1]
Grades 9-12, or a in some places, 10-12
high school
Katie
|
$600
[25]
This '60s police comedy, set in the Bronx was actually filmed in the Bronx
Car 54, Where Are You?
Katie
|
|
$400
[11]
At age 81, she went to Ireland to thank the Irish for providing soldiers for the Boer War
Queen Victoria
Katie
|
$400
[27]
U.N. forces maintain a precarious peace on this Eastern Mediterranean island
Cyprus
Bob
Fran
|
$400
[4]
Edna Millay's middle name
St. Vincent
Bob
|
$400
[13]
About 120 times a day Texas' Los Ebanos Ferry is pulled by hand across this river
Rio Grande
Katie
|
$400
[2]
In this process, synthetic solvents are substituted for water
dry cleaning
Katie
Fran
|
$800
[24]
For many years, Jack Lescoulie was a regular on this program
The Today Show
Bob
|
|
$600
[8]
In the 1932 German presidential election, this 84-year-old defeated 43-year-old Hitler
Hindenburg
Fran
|
$600
[23]
More U.N. agencies are headquartered in this non-member country than any other single country
Switzerland
Bob
|
$600
[5]
William Howells' middle name
Dean
Bob
|
$600
[14]
From 1898 to 1975, this was the fare on the Staten Island Ferry
nickel
Fran
|
$600
[18]
Traditionally, the ocean beyond the 3-mile limit
high seas
Bob
Katie
|
$1,000
[26]
This music maker's show originally debuted in 1955 as "The Dodge Dancing Party"
Lawrence Welk
Bob
|
|
$800
[9]
At ages 90 & 77 respectively, they published the last volume of their "Story of Civilization"
Will & Ariel Durant
Fran
|
$800
[22]
The 1st time the U.S. ever did this in the Security Council was in 1970
veto
Bob
|
$800
[6]
Gerard Hopkins' middle name
Manley
Fran
|
DD
$600
[15]
The oldest operating ferry boat run by this state is named the "Governor Muskie"
Maine
Fran
|
$800
[20]
This folk dance from the British Isles was originally, a male victory dance
Highland fling
Bob
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
His show featured "Crazy Shots", "The Question Man", &the followingtheme:
Steve Allen
Bob
|
|
$1,000
[10]
In 1966, this 67-year-old Supreme Court Justice married 23-year-old Cathleen Heffernan
William O. Douglas
Fran
|
$1,000
[21]
Of the 6 major U.N. organs, it's the 1 housed in the famous rectangular-shaped building
Secretariat
Bob
Fran
|
$1,000
[7]
Wilkie was this aurthor's middle name, not his first
(William Wilkie) Collins
Bob
|
$1,000
[16]
In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson noted the ferry ride in describing his arrival at this California city
San Francisco
Bob
Fran
|
$1,000
[19]
They were named by Ponce de Leon in 1513 because of the turtles he found in nearby waters
Dry Tortugas
Fran
|
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2 of the 5 states whose highest point of elevation is less than 1000 feet above sea level
(2 of) Florida, Delaware, Louisiana, Mississippi & Rhode Island