Jeopardy!
Place the Name
School Daze
Domestic Travel
Before and After
Potpourri
200
In her first game, Cheryl’s anecdote featured this stage name used by her eldest son.
WHO IS DAPPER DAN?
200
Robbie Gallagher
WHAT IS 38 E. 85TH STREET?
200
You could walk up seven flights of stairs to Cheryl’s French classroom at New Lincoln, or catch a ride with this longtime elevator operator.
WHO IS GALEN?
200
Take this road just off the Montauk Highway, pass the Corey residence on your left, and you’ll find yourself standing in front of the Atlantic Ocean.
WHAT IS SANDPIPER LANE?
200
Role reversal? Former New Lincoln headmistress is cast as Dickens’s famous orphan.
WHO IS VERNE OLIVER TWIST?
200
Sorry, wrong number! These first three digits of the family’s land line at 2 East End Avenue are now perhaps better known as the way to reach the mental health hotline.
WHAT IS 988?
400
In her second episode, Cheryl’s prize for finishing second included a stay at a fine SF hotel and a year’s supply of this candy bar.
WHAT IS BAR NONE?
400
Nadav
WHAT IS RECHOV SHIMSHON?
400
As chair of the BWL language department, Cheryl introduced the innovative pedagogical method TPR storytelling, which stands for this.
WHAT IS TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE?
400
Hindsight is 20/20, but Cheryl had the foresight to know that her family would greatly enjoy a day at this spot, recommended by her optometrist.
WHAT IS MT. GRETNA LAKE & BEACH?
400
The proprietress of a New York City travel agency makes a cameo appearance on a 1980s TV police drama.
WHAT IS ELAINE GOLHILL STREET BLUES?
400
This dish served by Cheryl to Wolfgang Holdheim in 1969 helped secure Richard a job at the University of Chicago.
WHAT IS CHOCOLATE MOUSSE?
600
Just a few short years after dethroning Cheryl, this retail manager from Florida found himself in another kind of jeopardy—legal jeopardy—when he was arrested for vandalizing a board-game business he invested in with his winnings from the game.
WHO IS PETE BELLI?
600
Leon Letwin
WHAT IS 2226 MANNING AVENUE?
600
This Manhattan temple of high fashion – and a stop on a Cheryl-chaperoned school field trip – may have served as the inspiration for the fictional Dior flagship store in The Devil Wears Prada 2.
WHAT IS HERMÈS?
600
In the 1980s and '90s, the Weisbergs enjoyed getting to know this family of four, who provided the only common link between the Holy Land and Lala Land sabbaticals.
WHO ARE THE GREENBLATTS?
600
In a bizarre mashup of movies about CIA agents, a Tom Hanks historical drama featuring Cheryl as an extra is reinvented as a remake of a classic Dan Aykroyd / Chevy Chase comedy.
WHAT IS BRIDGE OF SPIES LIKE US?
600
Depicted here, the saddest place in the happiest place on earth.
WHAT IS THE DISNEYLAND INFIRMARY?
800
Among the contestants Cheryl vanquished was this Chinese linguist and member of the armed services, who shares a name with a former U.S. senator from North Dakota.
WHO IS KENT CONRAD?
800
Jack Solon
WHAT IS 2 EAST END AVENUE?
800
This New Lincoln librarian is perhaps best known for delivering a well-meaning, but semi-racist, anecdote at a schoolwide sendoff assembly for a beloved janitor.
WHO IS MARTHA?
800
While the destination for most Zackian summer holidays was Atlantic City, at age 9, Cheryl and her family vacationed instead at this Poconos resort that is definitely not named after a notorious Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
WHAT IS DAVIDUKE RESORT?
800
Cheryl’s screenwriting partner borrows the assumed identity of an undercover FBI officer played by Jonny Depp.
WHO IS GAIL HADANI BRASCO?
800
Klaus Trofob, Jo Takatac and Raf Letout are all Enigmako suspects, but only he sports chevelure noir.
WHO IS RAF LETOUT?
1000
On her second night, Cheryl correctly identified this Sondheim musical following a contestant’s wrong response.
WHAT IS A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC?
1000
Jill and David Grossvogel
WHAT IS 415 W. ALDINE STREET?
1000
Cheryl’s first full-time teaching job was at Columbia Grammar, where she was hired by this legendary French pedagogue.
WHO IS SYLVIA VAGIANOS?
1000
Thanks to Cheryl, the Weisbergs were able to take advantage of local cultural offerings during their semester in LA, including an a cappella concert by Bobby McFerrin, and a taping of this groundbreaking meta-sitcom.
WHAT IS IT'S GARRY SHANDLING’S SHOW?
1000
The game invented by Richard and Cheryl transforms into the title character in a famous silent German vampire movie.
WHAT IS NAMINOS-FERATU?
1000
When New York Magazine published a story featuring the saga of Cheryl and Richard’s hunt for a New York City co-op, this pseudonym was used to protect Cheryl’s identity.
WHO IS PAULETTE?