Last game of Season 15.
Peter Senkbeil — a college theater professor from Irvine, California
Geoff Morley — an attorney originally from Jefferson City, Missouri
Jackie Wollner — an actress and comedienne from Van Nuys, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackie | $2,100 | $4,800 | $7,400 |
$6,300
2-day champion: $13,100 |
$11,500
26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Geoff | $1,200 | $1,300 | $1,900 |
$0
3rd place: a Bushnell/Bausch & Lomb Professional Series astronomical reflector telescope |
$1,900
9 R, 0 W |
| Peter | $100 | $700 | $2,900 |
$1,999
2nd place: a trip to Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Crustacean Restaurant, Beverly Hills, California |
$2,900
11 R, 3 W |
| NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY | MISCELLANY | THE FARMER IN THE DELL | MINIMUM AGES | RIVER CITIES | FILE UNDER "Q" |
|
$100
[26]
Was Pope Catholic? No, he led a 1690 revolt against colonizers from this European country
Spain
Peter
|
$100
[16]
It's the largest denomination of paper currency currently issued in the U.S.
$100 bill
Geoff
|
$100
[21]
This bovine that's mentioned could star in "Farmer in the Dell: The Moovie"
Cow
Jackie
|
$100
[6]
To legally buy alcohol across the U.S.
21
Geoff
|
$100
[1]
The sacred Hindu city of Benares is located on the left bank of this river
Ganges
Jackie
|
$100
[11]
Ship seen here, it was launched in 1967, the successor to one launched in 1938
QE2
Peter
|
|
$200
[27]
Once defined as most of the U.S. west of the Mississippi, it shrank to most of present-day Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Peter
|
$200
[17]
In the King James Version of the New Testament, it's the last word
Amen
Peter
|
$200
[22]
At the end of the song, it "stands alone"
The cheese
Jackie
|
$200
[7]
To see an R-rated movie unaccompanied by an adult
17
Geoff
|
$200
[2]
This large & commercially important U.S. river begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ohio
Jackie
|
$200
[12]
Homophone illustrated here:
Quayle/quail
Geoff
|
|
$300
[28]
In 1791 Little Turtle won a great victory over white forces on the banks of this Indiana river
Wabash
|
$300
[18]
Eva's sister, she won the 1936 Miss Hungary contest as a teenager
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Jackie
|
$300
[23]
The smallest creature in the rhyme; I'm beginning to smell one...
Rat
Jackie
|
$300
[8]
To vote in Canadian national elections
18
|
$300
[3]
This international river flows past Alamosa, Colorado & Brownsville, Texas on its way to the Gulf of Mexico
Rio Grande
Jackie
|
$300
[13]
The Society of Friends tried to stop a breakfast food firm from using this name as a trademark
Quaker Oats
Geoff
|
|
$400
[29]
What may be the USA's oldest continuously inhabited town, Old Oraibi, was settled c. 1150 by these Arizona Indians
the Hopi
Jackie
Peter
|
$400
[19]
After throwing a gutterball on your first throw, the number of pins in the back row in tenpin bowling
4
Jackie
|
$400
[24]
Hi-ho the derry-o, it takes the cat
the dog
|
$400
[9]
To play on the Senior PGA Tour
50
Jackie
|
$400
[4]
Baghdad, Iraq lies on this Fertile Crescent river
the Tigris
Geoff
Peter
|
$400
[14]
(Hi, I'm Ilia Kulik) In 1998 I became the first man to win the skating gold at the Olympics with one of these in my routine
Quadruple jump
Peter
|
|
$500
[30]
In 1649 the Iroquois, armed with Dutch guns, decimated this tribe that shares its name with a Great Lake
Huron
Peter
|
$500
[20]
In Roman numerals, it's an M with a bar over it
One million
Jackie
|
$500
[25]
Of a flat plain, a small valley or the morning, what "the dell" is
A small valley
Jackie
|
DD
$600
[10]
To serve as a Congressman
25
Jackie
|
$500
[5]
1 of the 2 rivers at whose confluence the city of Montreal lies
Ottawa or St. Lawrence
Jackie
|
$500
[15]
This band known as the "Pre-Fab Five" has re-formed, though without John, Paul or George
The Quarrymen
|
| THE WRITTEN WORD | WHERE IN THE WORLD? | OCCUPATIONS | ELEMENT SYMBOL SPELLING | THE GRAND OLE OPRY | BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$200
[1]
He wrote, "When what to my wondering eyes should appear but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer"
Clement Clarke Moore
Peter
|
$200
[4]
Washington, D.C. museum complex where you'll find Judy Garland's magic slippers from "The Wizard of Oz"
Smithsonian
Geoff
|
$200
[9]
These restaurant workers share their name with an appliance that does the same job
Dishwashers
Peter
|
$200
[15]
Nobelium, selenium
Nose (No Se)
Jackie
|
$200
[25]
In 1985 the "Grand Ole Opry" began broadcasting live on this cable network
TNN (The Nashville Network)
Geoff
|
$200
[20]
Well-traveled airline passenger rewards that go to a legendary jazz trumpeter
frequent flyer Miles Davis
Geoff
|
|
$400
[2]
It's been said that Thoreau was the "American Scholar" that this transcendentalist called for in "The American Scholar"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peter
|
$400
[5]
Don't be starstruck, it's the city of 3.5 million where you'll find this sign:
Los Angeles
Jackie
Peter
|
$400
[10]
If you're a paparazzo, you have this "p"rofession
Photographer
Jackie
|
$400
[16]
Radium, iodine, nitrogen
Rain (Ra I N)
|
— |
$400
[21]
Historic Virginia college that "Can turn the world on with her smile"
William and Mary Tyler Moore
Jackie
|
|
$600
[3]
Neil Klugman & Radcliffe girl Brenda Patimkin have a summer love affair in this Philip Roth novella
Goodbye, Columbus
Jackie
|
$600
[6]
You'll find Boardwalk, Park Place & other Monopoly streets in this coastal New Jersey city
Atlantic City
Jackie
|
$600
[11]
Rene Lalique gained fame as a glassmaker as well as one of these people who are never out of the "loupe"
jewelers (they check out the quality of the stone)
Jackie
|
$600
[17]
Scandium, Americium
Scam (Sc Am)
Jackie
|
— |
$600
[22]
PBS talk show master who becomes an annual Pasadena football classic
Charlie Rose Bowl
Jackie
|
|
$800
[14]
"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" Keats wrote in the "Ode to" this feathered friend
Nightingale
Jackie
|
$1,000
[8]
The region ruled by the Queen of Sheba is in this small nation on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula
Yemen
|
$800
[12]
"Fractional" term for an officer charged with providing shelter, clothing, etc. for troops
Quartermaster
Peter
|
$1,000
[19]
Sodium, sulfur, aluminum
Nasal (Na S Al)
Jackie
|
— |
$800
[23]
Key to Egyptian hieroglyphics translated by NBC's "Dateline" co-host
Rosetta Stone Phillips
Jackie
|
|
$1,000
[26]
"Omoo" was Herman Melville's sequel to this 1846 narrative about captive life with a tribe of cannibals
Typee
Jackie
|
DD
$3,000
[7]
It's the "shire" where you'll find the storied Sherwood Forest
Nottinghamshire
Jackie
|
$1,000
[13]
Manipulative healers include chiropractors & these physicians whose name is from Latin for "bone"
Osteopaths
Peter
|
DD
$1,200
[18]
Nickel, carbon, potassium
Nick (Ni C K)
Jackie
|
— |
$1,000
[24]
A result of pregnancy on the tummy that can be covered by clothing from a British department store
Stretch Marks and Spencer
|
Henry Nichols' "Four Seasons" engraving has appeared on the cover of this publication each year since 1851
Farmers' Almanac