Marvin Shinkman game 2."Signature game" with all clues prepared byJeopardy!researcher Suzanne Stone.
Greg Asbagh — a student from San Jose, California
Jackie Finn — a medical technician and lab supervisor from Timonium, Maryland
Marvin Shinkman — a stamp dealer from Van Nuys, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marvin | $-300 | $1,400 | $7,400 |
$8,001
2-day champion: $17,802 |
$7,700
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jackie | $300 | $1,400 | $4,000 |
$8,000
2nd place: a trip on Delta to Miami with stay at Marco Polo Hotel |
$4,000
13 R, 1 W |
| Greg | $500 | $1,200 | $-400 |
$-400
3rd place: Frigidaire microwave oven |
$600
9 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| MOVIES | NEWSCASTERS | PEACE | KANSAS | NONPOTENT POTABLES | POTPOURRI |
|
$100
[1]
Girl singer who acted in "When the Boys Meet the Girls", "Follow the Boys" & "Where the Boys Are"
Connie Francis
Jackie
|
$100
[8]
Once ABC's youngest news anchor at age 26, he returned as sole anchor at age 45
Peter Jennings
Greg
|
$100
[5]
It was Senator Hubert Humphrey, not JFK, who proposed that Congress create this program
Peace Corps
Greg
|
$100
[16]
On the whole, Kansas leads the nation in this, the world's most important grain
wheat
Jackie
|
$100
[26]
Beverage you can buy in Queen Mary, Prince of Wales & Earl Grey blends
tea
Jackie
|
$100
[17]
Since 1910, the color that borders the covers of "National Geographic"
yellow
Marvin
|
|
$200
[2]
Beatles movie dedicated to Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine
Help!
Jackie
|
$200
[9]
Called "America's #1 Ex-Weathergirl", she is the 1 woman on the "60 Minutes" team
Diane Sawyer
Greg
|
$200
[6]
In Dec. 1985, 2 drs. helped save a reporter's life at an Oslo news briefing about their winning this award
Nobel Peace Prize
Marvin
|
$200
[18]
The chamber of commerce of Dodge City stands on this notorious landmark
Boot Hill
Greg
|
— |
$200
[20]
Appropriately, this evangelist's Oklahoma university has a dental school
Oral Roberts
Jackie
|
|
$300
[3]
Debra Winger contributed to the electronically created voice used by this alien hero
E.T.
|
$300
[10]
Anchor of NBC's "American Almanac" who is the daughter of a Nationalist Chinese diplomat
Connie Chung
Greg
|
$400
[13]
Long before the Vietnam era, Britain's Disraeli & Chamberlain each coupled "peace" with this noun
honor
Marvin
|
$300
[19]
Found on the state flag & the name of Kansas' highest peak, it's also the state flower
the sunflower
|
— |
$300
[22]
Reports say 8,000 Russian groups are studying why Soviets can't make these cotton pants right
jeans
Jackie
|
|
$400
[4]
They made the movie "Chastity" the year they produced their daughter Chastity
Sonny & Cher
Greg
|
$400
[11]
"The biggest team in broadcasting history since Amos 'n' Andy", they reported together for 14 years
Huntley & Brinkley
Jackie
|
DD
$500
[7]
Singer whose biggest 1971 hit wasthe following:"Now I've been crying lately / Thinkin' about the world as it is / Why must we go on hating / Why can't we live in bliss / 'Cause out on the edge of darkness / There rides..."
Cat Stevens
Marvin
|
$400
[21]
Kansans Walter Beecher & Clyde Cessna helped make Wichita #1 manufacturer of these in the world
small airplanes
Marvin
|
— |
$400
[23]
His favorite mode of transportation was his dinosaur named Dinny
Alley Oop
Marvin
|
|
$500
[12]
In his last film, he played himself, not Robin Hood, as an ally of Castro's rebels
Errol Flynn
Greg
|
$500
[14]
For TV movie, Daniel J. Travanti was cast as this legendary CBS newsman who also used a middle initial
Edward R. Murrow
Marvin
|
$500
[15]
Formed in the turbulent '60s, it nominated Eldridge Cleaver as its 1st presidential candidate
Peace and Freedom Party
Marvin
|
$500
[25]
Family name of bros. Wm. & Karl who founded a Topeka clinic pioneering in psychiatric treatment
Menninger
Marvin
|
— |
$500
[24]
It occurred September 27, 1927, in Yankee Stadium during the 8th inning
Babe Ruth's 60th home run
Marvin
|
| ART | U.S. HISTORY | EDUCATION | BOOKS & AUTHORS | DISCOVERIES | BEGINS & ENDS WITH "A" |
|
$200
[26]
23 years after Andy Warhol copied their cans, this co. paid him to paint the box for their new dry soup
the Campbell Soup Company
Jackie
|
$200
[2]
Photographer who was paid $25,000 by the U.S. government for documenting the Civil War
Mathew Brady
Marvin
|
$200
[11]
His creation of "Fat Albert" helped him earn a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts
Bill Cosby
Greg
|
$200
[14]
U.S. state that has provided the setting for most of Eudora Welty's & William Faulkner's stories
Mississippi
Jackie
|
$200
[21]
Over 400 years before surgeon general's report, Columbus discovered Indians enjoying this
tobacco
Marvin
|
$200
[1]
A type of rabbit, goat, cat or sweater
angora
Marvin
|
|
$800
[28]
In '85, value of the famous "Man with the Golden Helmet" plummeted when experts found it wasn't his
Rembrandt
Jackie
|
$400
[3]
It took 147 years & an executive order from FDR for this elected office to get its own flag
vice president
Greg
|
$400
[12]
Of 4, 14, or 24%, the percentage of U.S. population over 25 that had college degrees in 1910
4
Marvin
|
$400
[15]
A book containing his predictions for 1985 & beyond has been published, 419 years after his death
Nostradamus
Marvin
|
$400
[22]
It's said that at age 78 she discovered Tom Selleck for her comeback film "Myra Breckinridge"
Mae West
Marvin
|
$400
[7]
The only crop used for livestock feed that has been grown since prehistoric times
alfalfa
Marvin
|
|
$1,000
[27]
Known as "Jack the Dripper", he dribbled paint onto canvas spread on the floor
Jackson Pollock
Jackie
|
$800
[5]
In Dec. 1963, a Gallup poll found him to be the living man whom Americans most admired
Lyndon Johnson
Greg
|
$600
[13]
Students attending a "normal school" at the turn of the century were learning this profession
(school) teaching (elementary)
Jackie
|
$600
[16]
Former vocation of James Kavanaugh, author of "The Celibates"
a priest
Marvin
|
$600
[23]
Accidentally discovered in 1879, it made sweet history till the FDA called it a health hazard 99 years later
saccharin
Greg
|
$600
[8]
Choirs & Todd Rundgren's voice-only rock album share this name, from Italian for "as in a chapel"
a cappella
Marvin
|
| — |
DD
$1,000
[4]
Women were called "Lucy Stoners" in late 19th century if they kept this after marriage
their maiden name
Greg
|
$800
[19]
Italy's 1st woman M.D., she originated the teaching method that bears her name
(Maria) Montessori
Marvin
|
$800
[17]
French author of "Cherie" & "Gigi", she was known by one name, too
Colette
Jackie
|
$800
[24]
He discovered temp. at which ferromagnetic substances lose magnetism but found fame with wife Marie
(Pierre) Curie
Marvin
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Both London's & NYC's Cleopatra's Needles originally stood in this city
Alexandria
Marvin
|
| — |
$1,000
[6]
Prohibition was repealed when this state known for religious temperance ratified 21st Amendment in '33
Utah
|
$1,000
[20]
Historian Will Durant said education is "the progressive discovery of" this
our own ignorance
|
$1,000
[18]
Movies made from his books include "The Last Picture Show", "Hud" & "Terms of Endearment"
Larry McMurtry
|
$1,000
[25]
The 2 planets "discovered" 1st by mathematical computations, not telescopes
Pluto & Neptune
Marvin
Jackie
Greg
|
$1,000
[10]
Officially named Catalan, # of tourists each year outnumbers residents here 30 to 1
Andorra
Marvin
|
The only 2 presidents to die in September; both were assassinated
Garfield & McKinley