Bill Pitassy game 1.
Bill Pitassy — a labor attorney from Cranford, New Jersey
Ed Lerner — a technical manager from Fanwood, New Jersey
Tony Zepezauer — a computer science student from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony | $2,500 | $5,500 | $7,800 |
$11,001
2nd place: Thomas Pradzinski serigraph + Bush executive desk |
$9,100
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ed | $200 | $600 | $5,000 |
$500
3rd place: Panasonic VCR |
$5,000
11 R, 2 W |
| Bill | $200 | $3,300 | $11,000 |
$15,601
New champion: $15,601 |
$9,900
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| 1970 | THE MOVIES | FOOD FACTS | ENERGY SOURCES | MUSEUMS | IN THE DICTIONARY |
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$100
[3]
On April 26 a bomb ripped through the Louisiana state capitol in this city
Baton Rouge
Tony
|
$100
[1]
This 1968 Russian film based on a Tolstoy novel was originally released in 4 parts totalling 507 minutes
War and Peace
Tony
|
$100
[7]
It's a small thin round of ground beef or peppermint candy
a patty
Tony
|
$100
[12]
It's the brand of battery that keeps going & going & going...
Energizer
Bill
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$100
[14]
The Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Ky. displays over 500 of these ventriloquist sidekicks
dummies
Tony
|
$100
[16]
This kind of contest is also called a spelldown; we won't make you spell it
a spelling bee
Tony
|
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$200
[18]
Curt Flood filed a suit charging this sport with violation of antitrust laws
baseball
Ed
|
$200
[2]
He won "Best Director" Oscars in the 1980s for "Platoon" & "Born on the Fourth of July"
Oliver Stone
Ed
|
$200
[8]
What the British call "crisps" we call these
(potato) chips
Tony
|
$200
[13]
Today a barrel of crude oil yields about 19 gallons of it
gasoline
Tony
|
$200
[15]
The Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum is one of many museums in the area of this state capital
Indianapolis
Tony
|
$200
[17]
This word for a foreign person or a creature from outer space comes from the Latin word for "other"
alien
Ed
|
|
$300
[19]
This presidential adviser, now a N.Y. senator, proposed "benign neglect" of the race issue
Daniel Moynihan
Bill
|
$300
[4]
12 years before starring as "The Fly", this actor appeared in the 1974 film "Death Wish", playing a thug
Jeff Goldblum
Tony
|
$300
[9]
After pasteurization, milk is put through this process for uniformity
homogenization
Tony
|
$400
[29]
It's harvested in blocks, dried & used for fuel in Ireland
peat
Bill
|
$300
[24]
The Jackson, Tennessee home of this famed railroad engineer is maintained as a museum
Casey Jones
Bill
|
$300
[21]
A French word for "thicket" gave us this word for something a bride throws
a bouquet
Bill
|
|
$400
[20]
All U.S. ground forces were reported withdrawn to Vietnam from this neighboring country
Cambodia
Tony
|
$400
[5]
In this "Best Picture" of 1952, Betty Hutton is an aerialist in love with Charlton Heston
The Greatest Show on Earth
Bill
|
$400
[10]
In this method a warm water bath slowly cooks an egg
poaching (or coddling)
Tony
|
$500
[28]
Water power is hydropower; this is steam power produced from water heated naturally in the earth
geothermal power
Bill
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$400
[25]
The Keats-Shelley Memorial House at the Spanish Steps in this city is devoted to the English romantic poets
Rome
Bill
|
$400
[22]
An interjection that expresses childish delight, or an old form of address that's an alteration of "goodwife"
goody
Bill
|
|
$500
[30]
On May 17 this Norwegian embarked on his second attempt to cross the Atlantic in a papyrus boat
Thor Heyerdahl
Bill
|
$500
[6]
Composer Vangelis won a 1981 Oscar for his score to this film
Chariots of Fire
Tony
|
$500
[11]
Italian for "hunter", it's in the name of a hunter-style chicken dish
cacciatore
Bill
|
DD
$1,500
[27]
Used in reactors, this element's 239 isotope has a half-life of 24,360 years
plutonium
Tony
|
$500
[26]
The Shrine of the Book in this capital city houses the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jerusalem
Tony
|
$500
[23]
The Thomson's type of this antelope is named for Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson
a gazelle
Tony
|
| RUSSIAN HISTORY | FASHION | MILITARY MEN | LITERARY ALLUSIONS | NEWSPAPERS | J.S. BACH |
|
$200
[1]
Russia's first permanent settlement in this territory was founded in 1784 on Kodiak Island
Alaska
Tony
|
$200
[24]
The name of these sexy openwork stockings implies that you can catch tuna in them
fishnet
Bill
|
$200
[16]
This "Desert Fox" who once taught at the Dresden Infantry School published a textbook on tactics in 1937
Erwin Rommel
Bill
|
$200
[9]
In England a Cinderella dance is a dance party set to end at this time
midnight
Tony
|
$200
[14]
In the early 20th c., this inventor & businessman was owner of the Dearborn Independent
(Henry) Ford
Ed
|
$200
[2]
During his lifetime, he was more famous as a player of one of these instruments than as a composer
the organ
Bill
|
|
$400
[7]
In 1698, wishing to modernize Russia, this czar instituted a beard tax
Peter the Great
Bill
|
$400
[27]
The "Unisex" look introduced in this decade was popular with both men & women
the '60s
Ed
Bill
|
$400
[17]
As Menachem Begin's foreign minister, this eyepatched ex- general helped arrange the Camp David Accords
(Moshe) Dayan
Ed
|
$400
[10]
An eternal optimist is a Micawber, a reference to Mr. Wilkins Micawber in this Dickens novel
David Copperfield
Ed
|
$400
[22]
The Boston Gazette, founded in 1719, was printed by this statesman's brother James
Ben Franklin
Bill
|
$600
[4]
Historians note that Bach never met this famous contemporary who composed "Messiah"
Handel
Tony
|
|
$600
[8]
In 1954 this peninsula in the Black Sea was transferred from Russia to Ukraine
the Crimea
Tony
|
$600
[28]
A bloused effect at the waistline is called this, a diminutive of the French word "blouse"
blouson
Bill
|
$600
[18]
His tomb at Annapolis reads: "He gave our navy its earliest traditions of heroism and victory"
John Paul Jones
Ed
|
$600
[11]
The name of this merciless master in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" became a byword for a brutal boss
Simon Legree
Tony
|
$600
[23]
Reporter Carl Bernstein joined this paper in 1966 & remained on staff for 10 years
The Washington Post
Ed
|
$800
[5]
Bach's second surviving son, nearly as famous as his father, he wrote about 150 keyboard sonatas
C.P.E. Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach)
Tony
|
|
$800
[15]
Ivan the Terrible venerated this saint for whom a red square cathedral is named
Basil
Ed
|
$800
[29]
Wide at the hips, these riding breeches are named for a city in India
jodhpur
Ed
|
$800
[19]
He was only 28 when he victoriously "met the enemy" in the Battle of Lake Erie
Oliver Perry
Bill
|
$800
[12]
Dr. Pangloss in this Voltaire novel inspired the adj. Panglossian, which means extremely optimistic
Candide
Tony
|
$800
[25]
This Canadian province's first newspaper, the Victoria Gazette, was published in 1858
British Columbia
Ed
|
$1,000
[6]
1722 work of preludes & fugues in all keys for "musical young people eager to learn"
"The Well-Tempered Clavier"
Bill
|
|
$1,000
[21]
Fyodor II, czar April-June 1605, was the son of this man, hero of a Mussorgsky opera
Boris Godunov
Bill
|
$1,000
[30]
It's a decorative hairnet worn at the nape of the neck
a snood
Bill
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1945 this U.S. private became the 1st American executed for desertion since the Civil War
(Eddie) Slovik
Ed
|
DD
$2,500
[13]
The names of these 2 wicked daughters of King Lear became synonymous with ungrateful children
Regan & Goneril
Tony
|
$1,000
[26]
La Gaceta, El Heraldo & La Tribuna are dailies in this country's capital, Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Tony
|
DD
$1,500
[3]
Bach wrote a set of concertos for Christian Ludwig, the Margrave of this historic German region
Brandenburg
Bill
|
The names of these 2 space shuttles, the first & last built, are synonyms
Enterprise & Endeavour