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.
DAPPER DAN
200
Robbie Gallagher
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.
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.
SANDPIPER LANE
200
Role reversal? Former New Lincoln headmistress is cast as Dickens’s famous orphan.
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.
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.
BAR NONE
400
Nadav
R'HOV SHIMSON
400
As chair of the BWL language department, Cheryl introduced the innovative pedagogical method TPR storytelling, which stands for this.
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.
MT. GRETNA LAKE & BEACH
400
The proprietress of a New York City travel agency makes a cameo appearance on a 1980s TV police drama.
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.
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 business he invested in with his winnings from the game.
PETE BELLI
600
Leon Letwin
2226 MANNING AVE.
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.
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 Weisberg’s Holy Land and Lala Land sabbaticals.
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.
BRIDGE OF SPIES LIKE US
600
Depicted here, the saddest place in the happiest place on earth.
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.
KENT CONRAD
800
Jack Solon
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.
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.
DAVIDUKE RESORT
800
Cheryl’s screenwriting partner borrows the assumed identity of an undercover FBI officer played by Jonny Depp.
GAIL HADANI BRASCO
800
Klaus Trofob, Jo Takatac and Raf Letout are all Enigmako suspects, but only he sports chevelure noir.
RAF LETOUT
1000
On her second night, Cheryl correctly identified this Sondheim musical following a contestant’s wrong response.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
1000
Jill and David Grossvogel
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.
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.
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.
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.
PAULETTE