Michael Noonan — a finance manager from Washington, D.C.
Marilyn Cuca — a homemaker from Arlington Heights, Illinois
Ron Seide — a general manager from Aliso Viejo, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron | $600 | $1,700 | $8,100 |
$0
3rd place: Samsung 8mm Compact Hi-Fi Stereo Camcorder |
$5,300
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Marilyn | $200 | $1,500 | $6,900 |
$11,900
2nd place: 7-Night Caribbean Cruise on Costa Cruise Lines |
$6,900
18 R, 3 W |
| Michael | $2,000 | $4,800 | $13,000 |
$16,201
New champion: $16,201 |
$9,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY | CITY TV | DRIVING | ON THE GO | PARK IT HERE | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH |
|
$100
[1]
Marseille, this country's main seaport, is on its Mediterranean coast
France
Ron
|
$100
[14]
Hector Elizondo is chief of staff at this title hospital
Chicago Hope
Michael
|
$100
[30]
This type of transmission has been making stop-and-go driving easier since 1904
Automatic transmission
Marilyn
|
$100
[12]
In 1783 two Frenchmen became the first to get a rise out of this Montgolfier invention
Hot air balloon
Michael
|
$100
[3]
Year after year tourists faithfully turn out to see Old Faithful Geyser at this national park
Yellowstone
Ron
|
$100
[7]
In England, a "cuppa" is a cup of this
Tea
Ron
|
|
$200
[2]
The Casa Rosada, residence of this country's president, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires
Argentina
Michael
|
$200
[13]
Title of a '70s series, it's what Michael Douglas as inspector Steve Keller used to "hit"
The Streets of San Francisco
Marilyn
|
$200
[16]
If you can read this clue, you can name this station wagon part that means to follow too closely
Tailgate
Ron
|
$200
[22]
Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote its "wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown"
"The Surrey With the Fringe On Top"
Marilyn
|
$200
[26]
People were jazzed when a park named for Louis Armstrong was dedicated in this city of his birth
New Orleans
Marilyn
|
$200
[8]
The British call a tire a tire, but they spell it this way
T-Y-R-E
Michael
|
|
$300
[4]
Natives of this largest island call it Kalaallit Nunaat
Greenland
Ron
|
$300
[15]
Art Garfunkel sang the theme to this series that featured Marion Ross as a Jewish grandmother
Brooklyn Bridge
Marilyn
|
$300
[17]
Alliterative term for anticipating & avoiding dangers while on the road
Defensive driving
Marilyn
|
$300
[23]
The "RR" logo on this auto's radiator plate changed from red to black in 1933 after one of the founders died
Rolls-Royce
Marilyn
|
$300
[27]
You need a doctor's okay to enjoy some of the baths at this Arkansas national park
Hot Springs
Michael
|
$300
[9]
If you got a new brolly as a gift on Boxing Day, you received one of these
Umbrella
Marilyn
|
|
$400
[5]
The Kuril Islands separate the Sea of Okhotsk from this ocean
Pacific
|
$400
[20]
Howard Hesseman & Loni Anderson returned for cameos on the '90s revival of this 1978-1982 series
WKRP in Cincinnati
Marilyn
|
$400
[18]
Term for the type of skidding in which a car rides on a film of water, losing traction
Hydroplaning
Ron
|
$400
[24]
Models of this motorcycle have included the Hydra-Glide, Duo-Glide, Electra-Glide & Super Glide
Harley-Davidson
Marilyn
|
$500
[29]
This 48-acre tract in Massachusetts was set aside in 1634 as a "cow pasture & training field"
Boston Common
|
$400
[10]
On a road map the M in M1 or M2 stands for this
Motorway
Michael
|
|
$500
[6]
Uzbekistan shares the inland Aral Sea with this neighboring "Stan" to the north
Kazakhstan
Michael
|
$500
[21]
Hammer--Jan, not M.C.--hit No. 1 with the theme to this cop series
Miami Vice
Ron
|
$500
[19]
Modern convex side-view mirrors give wider angles of vision, but need this caution printed on them
Objects Are Closer Than They Appear
Michael
|
$500
[25]
As well as kayaks, Eskimos use these open vessels whose name means "woman's boat"
Umiaks
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
A line of cannon once used to defend Manhattan's shoreline gave this New York park its name
Battery Park
Michael
|
$500
[11]
It's a military officer's servant, not a caped crusader
Batman
Michael
|
| WOMEN IN HISTORY | ASTRONAUT LINGO | PHYSICS | SPORTS NICKNAMES | FOOLISH FASHION FADS | BIG "SHOT"s |
|
$200
[8]
"Burning Times" refers to the 15th-18th century persecution of women for this crime
Witchcraft
Michael
|
$200
[29]
It's the return of a spaceship into the Earth's atmosphere
Re-entry
Michael
|
$200
[30]
It's impossible to create a perfect one of these, a volume of space with no matter in it
Vacuum
Michael
|
$200
[1]
Muhammad Ali used this superlative as the title of his 1975 autobiography
"The Greatest"
Marilyn
|
$200
[10]
In the early 1800s these were so high & starched the points might cut a man's ears if he moved too quickly
Collars
Marilyn
|
$200
[27]
This container holds about 1 1/2 ounces of fluid
Shot glass
Marilyn
|
|
$400
[24]
Lise Meitner made atomic energy possible with her 1938 co-discovery of this nuclear process
Nuclear fission
Michael
|
$400
[25]
For a doctor it means to prepare for an operation; for an astronaut it means to cancel the operation
Scrub
Ron
|
$400
[22]
The uncertainty principle states that a particle's momentum & this cannot be known at the same time
Position
|
$400
[2]
Country boy Joe Jackson got this nickname by playing barefoot, not even wearing black sox
"Shoeless Joe"
Michael
|
$400
[11]
Worn in the 1500s, chopines, an exaggerated style of these, could make the wearer 18 inches taller
(Platform) shoes
Marilyn
|
$400
[9]
Common phrase for a ceremony implying that a soon-to-be grampa is packing heat at the altar
Shotgun wedding
Michael
|
|
$600
[18]
The wife of TV's Starsky, she devoted her last 6 years to fighting pediatric AIDS
Elizabeth Glaser
Ron
|
$600
[6]
It's the chamber between the outer hull & an inner door; it can be pressurized & depressurized
Airlock
Ron
Marilyn
|
$600
[23]
In 1864 James Clerk Maxwell showed light travels in these waves that combine 2 types of fields
electromagnetic waves
|
$800
[4]
ESPN broadcaster known for giving out impromptu nicknames like Bert "Be Home" Blyleven
Chris Berman
Michael
|
$600
[12]
These 18th century dandies "noodled" around in extremely high wigs topped with tiny little hats
Macaronis
|
$600
[15]
In a very real sense it's a "put-down", but it's also an Olympic event
Shot put
Marilyn
|
|
$800
[21]
Beatrice Webb was a leader of this Socialist society to which G.B. Shaw also belonged
The Fabian Society
Michael
|
$800
[7]
An instrument-filled, unmanned spacecraft; its name means to search into
Probe
Marilyn
|
$800
[26]
It can mean to transmit heat, electricity or an orchestra's directions
Conduct
Michael
|
$1,000
[5]
Fair-haired 235-pound linebacker Karl Mecklenburg was rhymingly dubbed "The Albino" this
Rhino
Ron
|
$800
[13]
The bustle noted for this "Jersey Lily" collapsed when a lady sat down & sprang back when she stood up
Lillie Langtry
Marilyn
|
$800
[16]
It's the only one of Peter Sellers' 5 "Pink Panther" films without "Pink Panther" in the title
A Shot in the Dark
Marilyn
|
|
DD
$3,800
[19]
In a 1973 landmark Supreme Court case, 25-year-old Norma McCorvey was known by this name
"Roe" (from Roe v. Wade in 1973)
Ron
|
$1,000
[20]
It "panes" us to tell you it's the limited period during which a craft can take off to accomplish its mission
Window
Michael
|
$1,000
[28]
A recent theory says fundamental particles aren't points but these extended objects you might want to save
Strings
|
DD
$3,000
[3]
Best-known nickname of the player seen here:[Karl Malone]
"The Mailman"
Michael
|
$1,000
[14]
Talk about fashion risks: she wore a scarf so long it actually strangled her in 1927
Isadora Duncan
Marilyn
|
$1,000
[17]
Emerson's line following "Here once the embattled farmers stood"
"Shot heard 'round the world"
Marilyn
|
Name shared by characters that Derek Jacobi played in a PBS miniseries & in Kenneth Branagh's film of "Hamlet"
Claudius