Joel Sacks game 4.
Peggy Lynch — a homemaker from Tokyo, Japan
Maurice Berg — a teacher and department chairman from Warwick, Rhode Island (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,200)
Joel Sacks — an administrator from Columbia, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $39,251)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joel | $200 | $1,700 | $7,100 |
$11,401
4-day champion: $50,652 |
$5,700
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Maurice | $0 | $200 | $4,800 |
$2,499
2nd place: Casio music system & Jane Wooster Scott serigraph The Dow is Up courtesy of Scott Arts Graphics |
$5,400
12 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Peggy | $400 | $900 | $5,700 |
$100
3rd place: Oneida gift certificate |
$4,500
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| 1981 | LANGUAGES | GAMES | COUNTRY CROONERS | STARTS WITH "Z" |
|
$100
[14]
They were released just minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated
the Iranian hostages
Joel
|
$100
[5]
Guinness lists this language as spoken in Guadeloupe, Monaco & the USA (Louisiana)
French
Maurice
Peggy
|
$100
[1]
In chess, this word is a warning to the king
check
Joel
|
$100
[3]
Located on hills & dales about the U.S., his "Family Restaurants" are owned by the Marriott Corp.
Roy Rogers
Joel
|
$100
[21]
To an Englishman, it's the last letter of the alphabet
zed
Joel
|
|
$200
[15]
A union of these government employees began a never-ending strike on August 3, 1981
the air traffic controllers
Maurice
|
$200
[6]
Besides being a North Teutonic language, it's also a pastry
Danish
Maurice
|
$200
[2]
The 2 possible values assigned to an ace in blackjack
1 & 11
Maurice
Peggy
|
$200
[7]
The 7th son of a 7th son, he spent many "Southern Nights" in Delight, Ark. where he grew up
Glen Campbell
Peggy
|
$200
[22]
1 sperm+1 egg= 1 this
a zygote
Peggy
|
|
$300
[16]
Daniel Travanti & Barbara Babcock won Best Actor & Actress Emmys for this, the Best Dramatic Series of 1981
Hill Street Blues
Joel
|
$300
[8]
Language in which "Grimm's Fairy Tales" was 1st published
German
Maurice
|
$300
[4]
In bridge, the declarer's partner is called this--nothing personal
the dummy
Peggy
|
$300
[11]
His 1969 hit "I'll Share My World With You" only reached #2; #1 was held by his wife, Tammy Wynette
George Jones
Maurice
|
— |
|
$400
[17]
Maya Yang Lin, an architecture student at Yale, won a nationwide competition for her design of this memorial
the Vietnam War Memorial
Peggy
|
$400
[18]
While Zulu is from Africa, Zuni is from this continent
North America
Maurice
Peggy
|
$500
[10]
In Scrabble, the number of bonus points earned for using all 7 tiles in 1 turn
50
Maurice
|
$400
[12]
1 of 2 singers who, in 1962 & 1982 respectively, had hits with "Break It To Me Gently"
(1 of) Brenda Lee or Juice Newton
Maurice
|
— |
|
$500
[20]
After 11 years this twosome reunited at a Central Park concert in their "little town" of New York
Simon & Garfunkel
Joel
|
$500
[19]
This war-torn country has 2 official languages, Pushtu & Dari Persian
Afghanistan
Joel
Peggy
|
DD
$600
[9]
One of the most often played parlor games, according to Hoyle it's sometimes just called "the game"
charades
Maurice
|
$500
[13]
He avoided death when the Big Bopper took his seat on the plane with Buddy Holly & Ritchie Valens
Waylon Jennings
|
— |
| AMERICAN WRITERS | ROYALTY | TECHNOLOGY | THE UNITED NATIONS | ACTRESSES | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY |
|
$200
[14]
He and Geo. S. Kaufman won a Pulitzer Prize for "You Can't Take It with You"
Moss Hart
Peggy
|
$200
[13]
In 1988 this late emperor's 79-year-old daughter was released after 14 years in an Ethiopian jail
Haile Selassie
Joel
|
$200
[1]
Technical name for the "needle" on your turntable arm
stylus
Joel
|
$200
[7]
Term for a delegation sent to the U.N. as well as the building they occupy
a mission
Peggy
|
$200
[6]
When she guest starred on Mister Ed's show, Ed said, "Maybe she can come up and shoe me some time"
Mae West
Joel
|
$200
[16]
The Mississippi River generally flows in this direction
south
Peggy
|
|
$400
[23]
Someone once called her "a Sappho who could combine a heartbreak with a wisecrack"
Dorothy Parker
Peggy
|
$400
[15]
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands achieved this feat in 1954, 7 years after Chuck Yeager
flying faster than the speed of sound (breaking the sound barrier)
Joel
|
$400
[2]
A new "smart" parking meter keeps an electric eye on your car & does this after you drive away
resets it to zero
|
$400
[8]
In 1971 a country of 3.7 million sq. mi. replaced one of 14,000 sq. mi. under this name
China
Joel
|
$400
[12]
"Dynasty" producer Aaron Spelling was once married to this star of "The Addams Family"
Carolyn Jones
Peggy
|
$400
[17]
The western side of this state borders on the Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Joel
Maurice
Peggy
|
|
$600
[28]
The work of this Yiddish writer was often compared to that of Mark Twain
Sholem Aleichem
Maurice
|
$600
[24]
Princess Sirikit married the king of this country in 1950, a week before he was formally crowned
Thailand
Peggy
|
$600
[3]
Kids:When granddad wound his watch, he was tightening this
a mainspring
Joel
|
$800
[10]
The "T" in UNTSO indicates that the U.N. supervises these between warring nations in the Middle East
truces
|
$600
[20]
25 years after playing twins in "The Parent Trap", she did it again in "The Parent Trap II"
Hayley Mills
Maurice
|
$600
[18]
It's the southernmost of Canada's provinces
Ontario
Peggy
|
|
$800
[29]
The annual award for the Best American Short Story bears his name
O. Henry
|
$1,000
[26]
This princess has children named Andrea, Charlotte & Pierre Casiraghi
Princess Caroline (of Monaco)
Peggy
|
$800
[4]
An orrery is a mechanical model of this with various sized balls that revolve about
the solar system
Joel
|
$1,000
[11]
On United Nations Day in 1962 U Thant suggested ways to quell the trouble on this island
Cuba
Joel
|
$800
[21]
In 1983 she was nominated for an Oscar for playing Barbra Streisand's bride in "Yentl"
Amy Irving
|
$800
[19]
It's the northernmost Scandinavian country & the only one with an Arctic coast
Norway
Maurice
|
|
$1,000
[30]
This "Thanatopsis" poet was editor of the N.Y. Evening Post for 50 years
William Cullen Bryant
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine had 5 sons, but only these 2 became kings of England
Richard (the Lionheart) & (King) John
Peggy
|
$1,000
[5]
The image orthicon replaced Vladimir Zworykin's iconoscope in these
television cameras
Maurice
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
This country has used its veto in the Security Council over 100 times, far more than anyone else
the Soviet Union
Joel
|
$1,000
[22]
"Maltese Falcon" actress whose diary was so scandalous it was destroyed by court order
Mary Astor
Maurice
|
$1,000
[27]
The southernmost national capital in the world is this island country's
New Zealand
Maurice
|
2 states carried by Michael Dukakis besides Massachusetts, his home state
(2 of) Rhode Island, Minnesota, New York, Hawaii, Iowa, Oregon, Washington, West Virginia or Wisconsin