Victor Fanucci — a filmmaker from Venice, California
Cheri Campbell — a writer from Studio City, California
Bill Jacobs — a doctor from Wellington, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,195)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill | $2,500 | $2,700 | $10,900 |
$11,000
3-day champion: $28,195 |
$10,500
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Cheri | $300 | $-400 | $3,600 |
$600
3rd place: Olympus Centurion S Zoom Lens Camera |
$4,700
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Victor | $900 | $1,900 | $4,700 |
$7,201
2nd place: Trip to Garden Resort, Ocho Rios, Jamaica |
$4,700
15 R, 1 W |
| THE BAD OLD DAYS | NATIONAL AIRLINES | THE SONGS OF BACHARACH & DAVID | NOVEL VOCABULARY | MIDDLE NAME LEE | THE "IN" SOUND |
|
$100
[6]
It wasn't a college football game, it was the Great Plains area racked by drought in the 1930s
the Dust Bowl
Bill
|
$100
[11]
Qantas Airways
Australia
Victor
|
$100
[14]
Burt & Hal won an Oscar for this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
Victor
|
$100
[19]
In "Ivanhoe", Sir Walter Scott uses the verb jeopard, a back-formation of this word we love
jeopardy
Cheri
|
$100
[22]
In 1998 this actress returned to the screen as Laurie Strode in "Halloween H2O"
Jamie Lee Curtis
Bill
|
$100
[1]
The South American empire of these people included parts of present-day Ecuador, Peru, Chile & Argentina
Incas
Bill
|
|
$200
[7]
1950s college basketball was hit by scandal when players were "razor"-sharp at this activity
shaving points
Bill
Cheri
|
$200
[12]
Olympic Airways
Greece
Victor
|
$200
[15]
The sentiment of this 1965 Jackie DeShannon hit is schmaltzy, but true, "No, not just for some, but for everyone"
"What the World Needs Now Is Love"
Cheri
|
$200
[27]
Flaysome, a synonym for frightful, appears in this Emily Bronte novel
"Wuthering Heights"
Cheri
Victor
|
$200
[23]
This morning show co-host was once the featured singer on "Name That Tune"
Kathie Lee Gifford
Bill
|
$200
[2]
From the Latin for "to set on fire", it's an aromatic substance burned to produce a pleasant odor
incense
Victor
|
|
$300
[8]
The scandals of his 1920s presidency included skimming by Veterans Bureau head Charles Forbes
Warren G. Harding
Victor
|
$300
[13]
El Al
Israel
Cheri
|
$300
[16]
This singer has sold more than 12.5 million copies of Bacharach-David songs; she must "Say a Little Prayer" for them
Dionne Warwick
Victor
|
$300
[28]
He may have coined the term daggeroso, meaning "inclined to use a dagger"; it's in his novel "Sons and Lovers"
D.H. Lawrence
Victor
|
$300
[24]
Since leaving Van Halen, he's released such solo albums as "Eat 'Em & Smile" & "Skyscraper"
David Lee Roth
Victor
|
$300
[3]
The main islands of this country include Borneo, Sulawesi, Java & Sumatra
Indonesia
Bill
|
|
$400
[9]
The founding of this organization in 1909 was spurred by a Springfield, Ill. race riot the previous year
NAACP
Bill
|
$400
[17]
Luxair Airlines
Luxembourg
Victor
|
DD
$500
[20]
Burt & Hal were inspired by this 1962 movie starring John Wayne & Jimmy Stewart to write a song of the same name
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Cheri
|
$400
[29]
In "Animal Farm" Major is a prize boar whose "tushes had never been cut" (tushes being these)
tusks
Bill
|
$400
[25]
His high-profile clients have included Sam Sheppard, Patty Hearst & O.J. Simpson
F. Lee Bailey
Cheri
|
$400
[4]
Usually the largest branch of an army, it's another name for foot soldiers
infantry
Bill
|
|
$500
[10]
This Japanese term refers to second-generation Japanese-Americans, many of whom were interned during WWII
Nisei
Bill
|
$500
[18]
KLM
the Netherlands (Holland)
Bill
Victor
|
$500
[21]
How could you forget that Naked Eyes remade this Burt & Hal hit in 1983
"Always Something There to Remind Me"
|
— |
$500
[26]
He's the legendary singer & guitarist nicknamed "The King of the Boogie"
John Lee Hooker
Cheri
|
$500
[5]
A furnace-like device for reducing waste products to ash
incinerator
Bill
|
| NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT | THE BELA LUGOSI FILE | U.S. U.N. REPS | OXYMORONS | THE RAIN | IN SPAIN |
|
$200
[1]
"Brighton Beach Memoirs"
Neil Simon
Bill
|
$200
[20]
Lugosi was chosen for the big screen role of Dracula after the death of this great horror actor
Lon Chaney
Cheri
|
$200
[24]
5 years after Eisenhower defeated him a second time, he packed his bags & headed to the U.N.
Adlai Stevenson
Cheri
|
$200
[6]
Name of a motorcycle gang founded in California in 1948; what do their wings look like?
Hell's Angels
Victor
|
$200
[11]
Technically, this subject of a classic Judy Garland song is a 42-degree arc of refracted & reflected light
rainbow
Victor
|
$200
[16]
In this city, the Queen Sofia Museum covers modern art as the Prado does the classics
Madrid
Bill
|
|
$400
[2]
"Death of a Salesman"
Arthur Miller
Bill
|
$400
[21]
Bela was born Oct. 20, 1882 as Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko in the town of Lugos in this country
Hungary
Bill
Cheri
|
$400
[25]
He went from the U.N. in 1976 to the U.S. Senate representing New York in 1977
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Bill
|
$400
[7]
Psychologists put it before "aggressive" to describe behavior like sulking & procrastination
passive
Cheri
|
$400
[12]
These winds that blow through India from June to September bring the country most of its rain
monsoon
Bill
|
$400
[17]
A 500-year-old hospice built for these travelers to Santiago de Compostela is said to be Europe's oldest hotel
pilgrims
Bill
|
|
$600
[3]
"Picnic"
William Inge
Bill
|
$600
[22]
During the Roaring '20s, Bela was rumored to have dated this star of "Mantrap"; I guess he had "It"
Clara Bow
Victor
|
DD
$400
[30]
In 1960 he was a U.N. ambassador & Nixon's running mate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Cheri
|
$600
[8]
"Same" this is a slangy response on being given irrelevant information
difference
Bill
|
$800
[14]
This term for a heavy downpour also refers specifically to the Biblical flood
deluge
Bill
|
$600
[18]
Zaragoza is the capital of this region best known for King Ferdinand & his daughter Catherine of it
Aragon
Cheri
|
|
$800
[4]
"Torch Song Trilogy"
Harvey Fierstein
Cheri
|
$800
[23]
As a boy, Lugosi lived not far from these mountains, home to the legendary Count Dracula
the Carpathians
Bill
|
$600
[26]
In 1965 Arthur Goldberg left this body to become the U.S. ambassador to the U, N.
the Supreme Court
|
$800
[9]
French king Henry IV called English king James I "The wisest" one of these "in Christendom"
fool
Bill
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
(Al Roker presents the clue.) When I predict this, from Middle English for "to fall", expect slow-falling raindrops less than .02" across
drizzle
Bill
|
$800
[19]
"Sunny shore" is a translation of this Spanish term for the area that includes Malaga
Costa del Sol
|
|
$1,000
[5]
"Rent"
Jonathan Larson
Bill
|
$1,000
[29]
This man directed Bela in 3 films, "Glen or Glenda?", "Bride of the Monster" & "Plan 9 from Outer Space"
Ed Wood
Cheri
|
$800
[27]
In 1981 she became the first woman the U.S. put into the post
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Victor
|
$1,000
[10]
Shh! A 1994 short story collection by Alice Munro is titled "Open" these
Secrets
Victor
|
$1,000
[15]
This term, also used in cooking ham, refers to the coating left by freezing rain
glaze
Bill
|
$1,000
[28]
One of the world's first colonies was the Phoenician one at Gadir, now this similar-sounding Spanish city
Cadiz
|
In 1998 she became the only woman to win an Oscar & an Emmy for Lead Actress in the same year
Helen Hunt