Super Jeopardy!final game. The conclusion of The $250,000 Challenge.
Dave Traini — a high school administrator from Medford Lakes, New Jersey
Bruce Seymour — a writer from Piedmont, California
Bob Verini — a playwright, actor, and director from New York City, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $800 | $5,400 | $16,900 |
$0
1st runner-up: $50,000 |
$17,500
23 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bruce | $1,400 | $5,200 | $28,200 |
$33,801
Super champion: $250,000 |
$24,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Dave | $200 | $200 | $-2,800 |
$-2,800
2nd runner-up: $25,000 |
$-2,800
6 R, 5 W |
| WORLD LEADERS | COLORS | 6-LETTER WORDS | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS | ART WORLD BLOCKBUSTERS |
|
$200
[7]
Of Napoleon I, Napoleon II or Napoleon III, the one who never ruled France
Napoleon II
Bruce
|
$200
[12]
A person described as "hoary" has hair this color
white (or gray)
Dave
|
$200
[20]
The second book of the Old Testament & the event described there
Exodus
Bob
|
$200
[24]
Hungary is famous for this beef stew flavored with paprika
goulash
Bob
|
$200
[16]
Traditionally, inaugural parades follow this street between the Capitol & the White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Bruce
|
$200
[15]
Assessed at $100 million in 1962, this da Vinci painting is believed to be the world's most valuable
the Mona Lisa
Bruce
|
|
$400
[6]
This man who punished traitors in WWII was made Soviet Premier in 1958
Khrushchev
Bob
|
$400
[8]
This nickname of Kentucky can refer to its landscape or its music
bluegrass
Bob
|
$400
[21]
Marilyn Quayle's profession, although she hasn't practiced in years
lawyer
Bob
|
$400
[25]
It's how you'd order rice with chicken in Spanish-speaking countries
arroz con pollo
Bob
|
$400
[17]
The Overseas Highway starts at Key Largo & ends at this island
Key West
Bob
|
$400
[14]
In 1980 one of this glassworker's lamps fetched the highest price ever for Art Nouveau
Louis Tiffany
Bob
|
|
$600
[1]
Party to which French president Francois Mitterand belongs
the Socialist Party
Bruce
|
$600
[9]
Completes the lyric "For they're hangin' men & women there for the wearin' o'…"
green
Bruce
|
$600
[22]
To exhale, or to stop breathing entirely
expire
Bob
|
$600
[26]
The Italian dish Osso Buco is made with this type of meat
veal
Bruce
|
$600
[18]
It's the route followed by the Joad family in "The Grapes of Wrath"
Route 66
Bob
|
$600
[4]
Dutch-born U.S. abstract expressionist, his "Interchange" sold for $20.7 mil., a living artist's record
Willem de Kooning
Bob
|
|
$800
[2]
In 1983 Yitzhak Shamir replaced this man as prime minister of Israel
Menachem Begin
Dave
|
$800
[10]
It's a shade of brown, a type of nut or a nutty housekeeper
hazel
Dave
|
$800
[23]
In "Clementine", the 2 places where the miner, 49er, was excavating for a mine
in a canyon, in a cavern
Bob
|
$800
[29]
The French will tell you cuisses de grenouille, which are these, taste a lot like chicken
frogs' legs
Bruce
|
$800
[19]
This bridge links Michigan's Upper & Lower Peninsulas
Mackinac Bridge
Bob
|
DD
$600
[5]
A tiger, not a horse, fetched $35,200 in 1986, the highest price ever for a piece from 1 of these
a carousel (or a merry-go-round)
Bob
|
|
$1,000
[3]
On her death, James VI of Scotland moved to London & took over
Elizabeth I
Bob
|
$1,000
[11]
It's another name for the Jolly Roger
the black flag
Bob
|
$1,000
[28]
A bodice for women that ties behind the neck, or a device made of leather to restrain a horse
a halter
Bruce
|
$1,000
[30]
This popular Thai dish consists of sweet crispy noodles with chicken or shrimp
mee krob
|
$1,000
[27]
This city recently reconstructed its Dan Ryan Expressway at a cost of $250 million
Chicago
Bruce
|
$1,000
[13]
Impressionist whose painting "Reading Le Figaro" in 1983 sold for more than any other woman's work
Mary Cassatt
Bob
|
| EARLY AMERICA | BOOKS & AUTHORS | THEATER HISTORY | NEWSPAPERS | SPANISH CITIES | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE |
|
$500
[29]
On Nov. 11, 1620, 41 men aboard this ship signed a famous compact
the Mayflower
Dave
|
$500
[16]
John Bunyan's dreamlike allegory of Christian's journey to the celestial city
Pilgrim's Progress
Bob
|
$500
[27]
The village of Oberammergau in this country is the home of a passion play first performed in 1634
West Germany
Bruce
Dave
|
$500
[28]
Newspapers in Sacramento, Modesto & Fresno share the name of this insect
bee
Bob
|
$500
[26]
The zero km. mark from which all Spanish roads are measured is in the Puerta del Sol in this city
Madrid
Bob
|
$500
[30]
In 1611 Kepler published a paper on the 6-sided nature of these weather phenomena
snowflakes
Dave
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Jean Nicolet, who arrived at Green Bay in 1634, was the first European to visit what is now this state
Wisconsin
Bruce
|
$1,000
[18]
"The Cancer Ward", in his novel of the same name, is thought to be an allegory of the Soviet state
Solzhenitsyn
Bob
|
$1,000
[20]
In Ancient Greece plays about these goat-legged men were performed after a trilogy of tragedies
satyrs
Bob
|
$1,000
[24]
This Boston-based newspaper is circulated in more than 100 countries
The Christian Science Monitor
Bruce
|
$1,000
[23]
Catalan is the language of this second largest city in Spain
Barcelona
Dave
|
$1,000
[22]
About 1645 A. Kircher came up with this device that projects pictures on a wall
the magic lantern
|
|
$1,500
[11]
He was looking for China in 1609 when he sailed his ship, the Half Moon, into New York Harbor
Henry Hudson
Bruce
|
$2,000
[19]
Some think his works, including "The Social Contract", inspired the French Revolution
Rousseau
Bob
|
$1,500
[14]
Maude Adams was known for starring in this author's plays, including "The Little Minister" & "Peter Pan"
(James) Barrie
Bruce
|
$1,500
[7]
This capital city's 2 daily newspapers are The Deseret News & The Tribune
Salt Lake City
Bruce
|
$1,500
[4]
A Roman aqueduct brings water to this city that shares its name with a guitarist
Segovia
Bruce
|
$1,500
[3]
After John Napier discovered these, William Oughtred invented a slide rule to utilize them
logarithms
Bruce
|
|
$2,000
[12]
In 1647, when it was still part of this colony, New Hampshire was required to develop a school system
Massachusetts
Bob
|
$2,500
[17]
If you've read his "A la recherche du temps perdu", then you know about the Madeleines
(Marcel) Proust
Bruce
|
$2,000
[13]
V. Nemirovich-Danchenko & K. Stanislavsky founded this theater company in 1898
The Moscow Art Theatre
Bob
|
$2,000
[8]
International editions of this Miami daily are airlifted to Latin America
The Miami Herald
Bob
|
$2,000
[5]
This capital of the Visigothic kingdom in Spain is on the cutting edge of swordmaking
Toledo
Bruce
|
$2,000
[2]
In a 1665 book Robert Hooke described the cells of this plant he saw through his microscope
cork
Dave
|
|
DD
$4,000
[15]
In 1790 John Carroll of this city became the 1st American appointed a Roman Catholic bishop
Baltimore
Bruce
|
DD
$4,000
[10]
Ambrose Bierce wrote "The Cynic's Word Book" which was later published under this title
The Devil's Dictionary
Bruce
|
$2,500
[9]
This Roman comic playwright made fun of the gods in "Amphitryon", one of his comedies of errors
Plautus
Bruce
|
$2,500
[21]
This Cleveland paper has the largest circulation in Ohio
The Plain Dealer
Dave
|
$2,500
[6]
This northern port in the Basque region is called the "Pittsburgh of Spain"
Bilbao
Dave
|
$2,500
[1]
In 1675 this astronomer found at least 2 rings separated by a gap encircling Saturn
Cassini
Dave
|
He was vice president of the U.S. for just 82 days before becoming president
Harry Truman