Eric Terzuolo game 1.
Maureen Walker — a tax examiner from Erie, Pennsylvania
Eric Terzuolo — a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
Steve Janssen — a Presbyterian minister from Yardley, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve | $300 | $1,500 | $2,500 |
$5,000
2nd place: trip on Delta to Orlando & stay at Pickett Resort |
$2,500
12 R, 2 W |
| Eric | $1,400 | $2,600 | $11,600 |
$12,600
New champion: $12,600 |
$11,600
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Maureen | $500 | $300 | $3,900 |
$3,900
3rd place: Eastpak luggage & Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune |
$4,800
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| 1981 FILMS | RELIGION | FURNITURE | EARLY AMERICA | BASKETBALL | CRIME & PUNISHMENT |
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$100
[4]
Henry Miller, A.R. St. Johns, Will Durant & Rebecca West appeared in this Warren Beatty film
Reds
Maureen
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$100
[3]
Roman Catholics believe if you're too good for hell but not yet pure enough for heaven, you'll spend time here
purgatory
Maureen
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$100
[13]
Despite their names you don't have to be royal to sleep in beds of these 2 sizes
queen & king size beds
Eric
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$100
[5]
In 1793 Geo. Washington attended the 1st U.S. circus in this city, then the nation's capital
Philadelphia
Steve
Eric
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$100
[26]
"Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire who Lives Next Door" was his 1973 autobiography
Wilt Chamberlain
Eric
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$100
[1]
After students threw them, the U. of Michigan banned these soft, white snack items from its stadium
marshmallows
Eric
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$200
[9]
The comedy in which Dudley Moore dumped his fiancée, Jill Eikenberry, for Liza Minnelli
Arthur
Eric
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$200
[16]
The ner tamid is the "eternal light" that burns near the Ark of the Law in these houses of worship
synagogues
Eric
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$200
[14]
The name of this chest may be a corruption of the French "hautbois", meaning high wood
a highboy
Maureen
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$200
[6]
In 1624 the Dutch West India Company sent the first settlers to this island
Manhattan
Eric
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$200
[27]
A college player is disqualified from a game upon committing this many personal fouls
5
Steve
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$200
[2]
Tho there are none of these animals on the Isle of Man, hunting them is banned, so call off the hounds
foxes
Steve
Eric
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$300
[10]
Of all the films we know, this one is the most likely to make you throw away your wire hangers
Mommie Dearest
Eric
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$300
[17]
These tall structures, used to call worshippers to prayer, are a feature of all mosques
minarets
Eric
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$300
[15]
Used as an upholstery material, it usually comes from the mane or the tail
horsehair
Maureen
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$300
[7]
He sailed with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower & was their military leader in Plymouth
Myles Standish
Eric
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$300
[28]
This term refers to taking more than 1 step while holding the ball
traveling
Eric
Maureen
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$300
[23]
In 1989, 2 male college students in Boca Raton, Fla. got 18 months probation for stealing these from girls' dorms
panties
Steve
Eric
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$400
[11]
This star was rich & famous in "Rich & Famous" while her pal, Jacqueline Bisset, was just famous
Candice Bergen
Maureen
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$400
[18]
This belief sees God as creator who set the world in motion & refuses to intervene in its actions
deism
Maureen
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$400
[21]
The piece of furniture that's most likely to sport a "splat"
a chair
Steve
Maureen
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$400
[8]
Born E. Griscom, she worked with her husband in his upholstery shop after their marriage in 1773
Betsy Ross
Maureen
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— |
$400
[24]
Thieves recently took a valuable fresco from a church in Italy by taking this
the entire wall
Steve
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$500
[12]
He played the husband who got bumped off in "Body Heat"
Richard Crenna
Eric
Maureen
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$500
[19]
Figure often called the paraclete
the Holy Spirit
Maureen
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$500
[22]
The Royal Pavilion in this English resort city is famous for its chinoiserie
Brighton
Steve
|
DD
$900
[20]
Before there were post offices, colonists sent & received mail at this local place of business
the tavern (or the inn)
Maureen
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— |
$500
[25]
Last year 2 farmers in Pingwu Co. China were sentenced to death for selling these animal skins
panda bear skins
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| AUTHORS | CONSTELLATIONS | OPERA SINGERS | EDUCATION | WORLD GEOGRAPHY | LESS-FAMOUS NAMES |
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$200
[1]
William Styron was the only author at the funeral of this writer in Oxford, Miss.
William Faulkner
Steve
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$200
[26]
Hydrus is the water snake & this is the water bearer
Aquarius
Steve
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$200
[2]
She was a teenager in the 1930s when she left the U.S., her birthplace, for Greece
Maria Callas
Eric
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$200
[17]
In 1860 she established the world's first school of nursing
Florence Nightingale
Steve
Eric
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$200
[7]
The 125-mile-long Beardmore Glacier lies on the Ross Ice Shelf on this continent
Antarctica
Steve
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$200
[8]
In January 1968 Norman Shumway became the first surgeon in the U.S. to perform this procedure
a heart transplant
Steve
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$400
[12]
"Confessions of an S.O.B." is a biographical work by Al Neuharth, founder of this nat'l newspaper
USA Today
Eric
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$400
[27]
The line joining the Gamma & Alpha stars in this constellation points toward the South Pole
the Southern Cross
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$400
[3]
Of a contralto, a soprano or a baritone, what Sherrill Milnes is
a baritone
Eric
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$400
[21]
This large country had no universities until 1755 when Empress Elizabeth established one
the Soviet Union (Russia)
Steve
|
DD
$500
[10]
Meaning "at the foot of the mountain", it's the name of regions in the Eastern U.S. & NW Italy
the Piedmont
Eric
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$400
[9]
Ludwig Feuerbach came up with "der mensch ist was er isst"; a man is this
a man is what he eats
Steve
Eric
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DD
$500
[13]
In 1936 he became the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Eugene O'Neill
Eric
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$600
[28]
You don't have to have an IQ of 180 to know this constellation's name means "the table"
Mensa
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$600
[4]
Mario Lanza played this great opera star in a 1951 movie musical
Caruso
Eric
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$600
[22]
After a trip to Germany, Susan Blow established the 1st U.S. public school of this type in St. Louis
a kindergarten
Eric
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$600
[11]
This city on the Hooghly River is the capital of West Bengal & the largest city in India
Calcutta
Maureen
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$600
[18]
We're not sure but we think it's Werner Heisenberg who is famous for this principle in physics
the uncertainty principle
Maureen
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$800
[14]
He deserted ship at the Marquesas Islands & went to visit the valley of the cannibalistic Typee
Melville
Maureen
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$800
[29]
Hercules looks as if he could pluck this instrument from the sky
the lyre
Maureen
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$800
[5]
This Spanish-born singer's parents were professional zarzuela singers
Placido Domingo
Eric
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$800
[23]
The Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that this practice violated the 14th Amendment
school segregation
Eric
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$800
[16]
R.L. Stevenson's house is now the official office of the head of state of this country next to American Samoa
Western Samoa
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$800
[19]
Otus & Ephialtes tried to reach heaven by piling Pelion on Ossa, & Ossa on this mountain
Mount Olympus
Maureen
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$1,000
[15]
In "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood", she tells of being raised by relatives of all major faiths
Mary McCarthy
Eric
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— |
$1,000
[6]
Grace Moore of Slabtown, Tenn. made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1928 as Mimi in this opera
La bohème
Eric
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$1,000
[24]
In 1989-90 this Vermont college led the nation in the cost of tuition, room & board
Bennington
Eric
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$1,000
[25]
The Ionian Islands are Greek, but the island of Iona is part of this country
Scotland
Eric
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$1,000
[20]
In November 1969 Alan Bean & Charles Conrad made news by doing this in the Intrepid
landing on the Moon
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2 of World War I's "Big Four" leaders who met in Paris in 1919 to draft the Treaty of Versailles
(2 of) Wilson, Clemenceau, Orlando or David Lloyd George