Joel Sacks game 1.
Sheldon Leemon — a writer from Huntington Woods, Michigan
Joel Sacks — an administrator from Columbia, Maryland
Saranda Schlotter — a housewife and caterer from Thousand Oaks, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saranda | $3,500 | $7,100 | $10,300 |
$100
3rd place: Emerson 27" TV |
$9,500
28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Joel | $400 | $1,900 | $10,100 |
$10,050
New champion: $10,050 |
$7,700
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Sheldon | $-500 | $0 | $5,000 |
$8,000
2nd place: trip on Eastern to Nassau, Bahamas & stay at Pirate's Cove Holiday Inn Paradise Island |
$5,000
11 R, 2 W |
| CHICAGO | THE HUMAN BODY | WORLD OF BEERS | TV TRIVIA | IN THE DICTIONARY | BIRTHSTONES |
|
$100
[25]
The suburb of Oak Brook is home to this corporation's Hamburger University
McDonald's
Sheldon
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$100
[1]
On Washington's face on Mt. Rushmore, this organ of the respiratory system is visible
his nose
Saranda
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$100
[3]
Kulmbacher Reichelbräu & Maisel's Dampf Bier
German beers
Sheldon
|
$100
[9]
When we took him by surprise, Allen Funt told us he'd done 840 shows in this series
Candid Camera
Saranda
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$100
[17]
"Victress" is the feminine form of this word
victor
Saranda
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$100
[7]
Legend says a birthstone brings this to a person born in its month
good luck
Saranda
|
|
$200
[26]
One of this gangster's nicknames was "The Mayor of Crook County"
Al Capone
Joel
|
$200
[2]
Each day, throughout your body, billions of these are replaced
cells
Saranda
Joel
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$200
[19]
Dos Equis &Tres Equis
Mexico
Saranda
|
$300
[14]
The Beverly Hillbillies called it the cement pond
the swimming pool
Joel
|
$200
[18]
While a potter's wheel is used to make pots, a potter's field is used as this
cemetery
Joel
|
$200
[8]
Colombia is by far the most important source of these green gems, May's birthstone
emeralds
Joel
|
|
$300
[28]
World's tallest office building, it was put up for sale at about $10 million per story in November '88
the Sears Tower
Joel
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$300
[4]
It's no joke when this arm bone shifts out of the glenoid cavity socket
the humerus
Saranda
Sheldon
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$300
[23]
Atlas &Aegean Hellas
Greece
Saranda
|
$400
[15]
She was Gilda Radner's pawody of a top female news pewsonawity
Barbara Walters (Baba Wawa)
Saranda
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$300
[20]
Add a letter to the front of rumple & you've got this synonym
crumple
Saranda
|
$300
[10]
The opal, October's birthstone, can be immersed in water to prevent these
cracks
Saranda
Sheldon
|
|
$400
[29]
The 1st home to burn in the great fire of 1871 belonged to her next-door neighbor
Mrs. O'Leary
Saranda
|
$400
[5]
The thyroid gland needs this element to function properly
iodine
Saranda
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$400
[24]
Gold Star & Maccabee
Israel
Sheldon
|
$500
[16]
He called Mork "Mommy" & Mindy "Shoe" & his 1981 arrival was intended to boost the show's ratings
Jonathan Winters (Mearth)
Saranda
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$400
[21]
As ursine refers to bears, taurine refers to these animals
bulls
Saranda
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$400
[11]
One of March's birthstones, it's flecked with small, "sanguine" spots--hence, it's name
bloodstone
Saranda
|
|
$500
[30]
This museum is home to Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
the Chicago Art Institute
Saranda
|
$500
[6]
As arteries go, this one's the largest
the aorta
Saranda
|
$500
[27]
Watney's &John Courage
England
Saranda
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
Their variety show on CBS featured thefollowing:"They say our love won't pay the rent / Before it's earned..."
Sonny & Cher
Saranda
|
$500
[22]
1 of the 2 synonyms for "perhaps" that also starts with "per"
(1 of) perchance (or peradventure)
Joel
|
$500
[12]
This December birthstone is Arizona's state gemstone, often found in the state's silver jewelry
turquoise
Saranda
|
| ANCIENT TIMES | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA | RUSSIAN LITERATURE | RELIGION | MIDDLE NAMES | SEAS |
|
$200
[6]
To the Romans, she was goddess of the dawn, though her last name wasn't Borealis
Aurora
Saranda
|
$200
[8]
In 1957 this future president sang, "I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie" to Gisele MacKenzie on her TV show
(Ronald) Reagan
Saranda
|
$200
[13]
Boris Pasternak, who turned out this novel about a Russian physician, had to turn down a Nobel Prize
Doctor Zhivago
Sheldon
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$200
[18]
When J. Carter put portraits of notable Black Georgians in the state capitol, this minister was 1st
Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Saranda
|
$200
[1]
If those swans in "Swan Lake" could talk, they'd tell you this was Tchaikovsky's middle name
Ilyich
Saranda
|
$200
[22]
Begorra, it's the sea in which the Isle of Man sits
the Irish Sea
Saranda
|
|
$400
[7]
Macedonian-born Ptolemy I served as a general under this man before becoming king of Egypt
Alexander
Joel
|
$400
[11]
He said the Supreme Court was his idea of heaven, & ultimately he got to sit there
Taft
Joel
|
$400
[14]
While in medical school. he began writing short stories using the pseudonym Antosha Chekhonte
(Anton) Chekhov
Saranda
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$400
[19]
Buddhist concept in which a good act leads to a good result & a bad act creates a bad result
karma
Joel
|
$400
[2]
Actors Tommy Jones & Cathy Crosby both have this middle name
Lee
Sheldon
|
$400
[23]
Syria has about 100 miles of coastline, all of it on this sea
the Mediterranean
Joel
|
|
$600
[9]
Roman emperor Caracalla reportedly took "pride" in sharing his bed with one of these beasts
a lion
Sheldon
|
$600
[12]
In "Notes on the State of Virginia", he wrote, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just"
Thomas Jefferson
Sheldon
|
$600
[21]
This deported author's 1975 memoir "The Oak & the Calf" described his final years in the Soviet Union
(Aleksandr) Solzhenitsyn
Joel
|
$600
[20]
Pope John XXIII in '62 declared all cardinals must also be these, & those who weren't were given the title
a bishop
Joel
Sheldon
|
$600
[3]
It was Marilyn Monroe's original middle name
Jean
Sheldon
|
$800
[28]
It's believed biblical Sodom stood near this body of water the Arabs call the Sea of Lot
the Dead Sea
Joel
|
|
$800
[10]
Known in Latin as "Flagellum Dei", the "Scourge of God", he had the gall to invade Gaul in 451 A.D.
Attila (the Hun)
Joel
|
$1,000
[17]
This Republican married a lady named Lou on February 10, 1899
Herbert Hoover
|
$800
[26]
This Russian poet was killed in a duel, as was a poet named Lensky in his greatest novel, "Eugene Onegin"
Alexander Pushkin
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
In 1619 this church was established by law in Virginia
the Episcopal Church (Church of England)
Joel
|
$800
[4]
Confederate general who had 2 middle names, Ewell & Brown
(James Ewell Brown) Stuart
Saranda
|
$1,000
[29]
The river known as the Huang Ho dumps its uniquely colored sediment into this sea
the Yellow Sea
Sheldon
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Mesopotamia, which means "between the rivers", was located between these 2
the Tigris & Euphrates
Joel
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
On his 80th birthday, May 8, 1964, he became the 1st former president to address the Senate
Harry Truman
Joel
|
$1,000
[27]
This novelist's "The House of the Dead" was a fictional account of his 4 years in a Siberian prison
Fyodor Dostoevsky
|
$1,000
[25]
This huge statue was made from the metal of old Argentine cannons
Christ of the Andes
Sheldon
|
$1,000
[5]
The Princess of Wales & Bing Crosby's daughter Mary share this middle name
Frances
Saranda
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3 years after this William Kennedy novel won a Pulitzer Prize, it came out as a film starring Meryl Streep
Ironweed