Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.
Angela Tangredi — a physician from New York City, New York
Fred Ketteman — a purser from San Francisco, California
Beth Elliott — a writer and computer specialist from Oakland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beth | $800 | $3,000 | $11,000 |
$17,000
2nd place |
$11,000
23 R, 0 W |
| Fred | $2,400 | $3,000 | $11,400 |
$22,500
New champion: $22,500 |
$8,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Angela | $1,300 | $3,000 | $4,800 |
$4,800
3rd place |
$4,500
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| BOOKS & AUTHORS | THE OSCARS | CITY QUOTES | WORLD HISTORY | ODDS & ENDS | SPELL THAT NAME |
|
$100
[1]
This noted astronomer's lists of works include "Comet", "Contact" & "Cosmos"
Carl Sagan
Fred
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$100
[3]
At 80, she won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy", making her the oldest Best Actress winner ever
Jessica Tandy
Angela
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$100
[22]
Washington Irving said it was the "renowned & ancient city of Gotham
New York
Beth
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$100
[9]
3 days after the Korean War began this capital fell to invaders
Seoul
Fred
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$100
[16]
You might have 32 of these in your mouth but a music box can have several hundred
teeth
Beth
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$100
[21]
If you can spell this "Road House" star's last name he might take you "Dirty Dancing"
S-W-A-Y-Z-E
Angela
|
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$200
[2]
This Mark Twain novel starts a few days before the death of Henry VIII
The Prince and the Pauper
Angela
|
$300
[5]
After winning for this film Sissy Spacek thanked Loretta Lynn
Coal Miner's Daughter
Beth
Fred
|
$200
[27]
William Cooper Brand wrote this city "runs to brains as well as to bread and baked beans"
Boston
Angela
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$200
[10]
He was born July 12, 100 B.C. but it wasn't called July yet
Julius Caesar
Beth
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$200
[17]
The cosmetic kind is made to be rinsed or peeled off, unlike the gas or Halloween kind
a mask
Angela
|
$200
[23]
Formerly Allie on "Kate & Allie", she is no plain Jane
(Jane) C-U-R-T-I-N
Beth
|
|
$300
[6]
H.H. Munro got his pen name, Sake, from this Persian collection of quatrains
the Rubáiyát (of Omar Khayyám )
Beth
|
$400
[14]
His role as a troubled ex-colonel in "Separate Tables" earned him the 1958 Best Actor Oscar
David Niven
Fred
|
$300
[28]
Carl Sandburg called it "Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders"
Chicago
Angela
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$300
[11]
In 1651, the Dutch East India Co. sent Jan van Riebeeck to establish a settlement on this cape
the Cape of Good Hope
Fred
|
$300
[18]
This university's alumni association offers a Visa card that sports a color photograph of Tommy Trojan
the University of Southern California
Fred
|
$300
[24]
The last name of the Congresswoman who was Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984
(Geraldine) F-E-R-R-A-R-O
Fred
|
|
$400
[7]
Nathan Zuckerman appears in the 6th of his novels starting with "My Life as a Man" through "The Counterlife"
Philip Roth
Fred
|
DD
$500
[4]
Heard here, he won a 1984 Oscar for writing the following song:"I just called to say I love you..."
Stevie Wonder
Angela
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$400
[29]
"They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one"
Kansas City
Angela
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$400
[12]
Louis-Philippe replaced this family's white flag with the tricolour as the emblem of France
the Bourbon
Fred
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$400
[19]
The National Honey Board honored David Letterman, Johnny Carson & Willard Scott with busts made out of this
beeswax
Beth
|
$400
[25]
"Golden Girl" Rue
(Rue) M-C-C-L-A-N-A-H-A-N
Beth
|
|
$500
[8]
This Belgian-born French novelist wrote over 200 novels, many about Inspector Maigret
George Simenon
Fred
|
$500
[15]
The son of a British Poet Laureate, he won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "My Left Foot"
Daniel Day-Lewis
Angela
|
$500
[30]
"North Beach to Tenderloin, over Russian Hill, The grades are something giddy, and the curves are fit to kill!"
San Francisco
Angela
|
$500
[13]
In 1780 Prussia was ruled by this "Great" man, Russia by this "Great" woman
Frederick & Catherine
Fred
|
$500
[20]
Umberto Nobile flew over the North Pole in a dirigible 3 days after he flew over it in a plane
Admiral Byrd
Beth
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$500
[26]
The surname of evangelists Jim & Tammy Faye
B-A-K-K-E-R
Beth
|
| 6-LETTER WORDS | CHEMISTRY | PRESIDENTS | AUSTRALIA | FOOD & DRINK | ORCHESTRAS |
|
$200
[18]
The title of a 1982 book said "Real Men Don't Eat" this pastry shell filled with custard
quiche
Fred
|
$200
[26]
The cyanide process is used to extract this precious metal from its ore
gold
Beth
|
$200
[12]
When Stephen Douglas called him two-faced he said, "If I had another do you think I would wear this one?"
Lincoln
Angela
|
$200
[7]
George Bass proved this was an island & the strait separating it from the mainland was named for him
Tasmania
Beth
|
$200
[3]
Lap cheong, chorizo & knackwurst are 3 types of these
sausages
Angela
|
$200
[1]
This country's philharmonic orchestra was formed in 1936 as the Palestine Symphony
Israel
Fred
|
|
$400
[20]
It can be a pointed post, a worker on strike or a sentinel
a picket
Angela
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$400
[27]
Chemistry books warn you not to add this common substance to sulfuric acid; it may cause it to blow up
water
Beth
|
$400
[14]
After Medicare was passed this retired Missourian was issue Medicare care No. 1
Harry Truman
Beth
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$400
[8]
In 1966 Australia went from the British system of pounds, shillings & pence to this
dollars & cents
Beth
|
$400
[4]
Porter is a dark, strongly-flavored type of this potent potable
ale (beer)
Fred
|
$400
[2]
Eugene Ormandy conducted this city's orchestra for a record 42 years
Philadelphia
Angela
|
|
$600
[21]
To consult with someone or to bestow an honor
confer
Beth
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$600
[28]
These 2 things are standard at STP conditions
temperature & pressure
Angela
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$600
[15]
As vice president he was spared April 14, 1865 when his would-be assassin had a change of heart
Andrew Johnson
Fred
|
$600
[9]
Construction of this city began in 1913 & 14 years later Parliament moved there
Canberra
Beth
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$600
[13]
The French call this hot cake, ice cream & meringue dessert "Omelette norvegienne"
baked Alaska
Beth
|
$800
[6]
In 1977 the "Star Wars Theme" as performed by John Williams & this British orchestra became a pop hit
the London Symphony Orchestra
Beth
|
|
$800
[22]
The East, or cause to face toward the east
the Orient
Fred
|
$800
[29]
The quick type of this substance is slaked by adding water to it
slaked lime
|
$800
[16]
His last words were "Edith, I'm a broken machine, but I'm ready"
Woodrow Wilson
Fred
|
$800
[10]
The country began a year-long celebration of this on Jan. 26, 1988
its bicentennial
Beth
|
$1,000
[25]
Pinar is an Italian aperitif flavored with this thistle-like vegetable
an artichoke
Beth
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$1,000
[19]
The Boston Symphony's Berkshire Music Center was established in 1940 on this Lenox, Massachusetts estate
Tanglewood
Angela
|
|
$1,000
[23]
Now a tyrant or dictator, it was once an honorary title applied to the Byzantine emperor
a despot
|
$1,000
[30]
Used for purification, this is the process of boiling a liquid & condensing the vapor
distillation
Beth
|
$1,000
[17]
Since he & his wife were mourning their son they cancelled the inaugural ball when he took office in 1853
Franklin Pierce
Beth
Angela
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1942 the Japanese bombed this capital of the Northern Territory named for a naturalist
Darwin
Fred
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Most crustaceans eaten in the U.S. are these
shrimp
Fred
|
DD
$2,400
[5]
Edvard Grieg co-founded this capital city's philharmonic orchestra in 1871
Oslo
Fred
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More than 100 years after his death, he was reburied with honors at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1913
John Paul Jones