Kathy White — a teacher from Greensboro, North Carolina
Tom Grant — a direct marketing executive from New York City, New York
David Nagy — a rock singer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $700 | $3,400 | $6,400 |
$12,800
2-day champion: $31,200 + the Jeopardy! home game (boxed or computerized) |
$6,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Tom | $600 | $1,100 | $2,900 |
$0
3rd place: Gruen 1930s-recreation watch + the Jeopardy! home game (boxed or computerized) |
$2,300
9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Kathy | $400 | $1,700 | $5,600 |
$11,100
2nd place: La-Z-Boy Signature II sofa + Scott 100 W remote control audio system + the Jeopardy! home game (boxed or computerized) |
$4,500
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| U.S. GEOGRAPHY | SPIDERS | OPPOSITES IN SONG | MUSEUMS | BEAUTY QUEENS | SPORT OF KINGS |
|
$100
[1]
In 1980, this Cascade mountain peak was reduced from 9677' to about 8300'
Mt. St. Helens
Kathy
|
$100
[8]
Of 30,000 known species, only Argyroneta aquatica truly lives in this type of environment
water
Kathy
|
$100
[9]
Jim Stafford had a novelty song about "My Girl Bill" while Johnny Cash's biggest hit was about him
"A Boy Named Sue"
David
|
$100
[4]
To find a tape of his 1st Tonight Show, a Museum of Broadcasting ad asked "Whhheeere's" this man
Johnny Carson
Tom
|
$100
[11]
Ex-Miss New Orleans who went down the "Road" with Bing & Bob
Dorothy Lamour
Kathy
|
$100
[26]
Only Johnny Longden has ridden, then trained a winner of this legendary May race
the Kentucky Derby
David
|
|
$200
[2]
Complete with big toe projection into the Gulf of Mexico, this state resembles a boot
Louisiana
David
Tom
|
$200
[10]
1 of the world's most dangerous spiders is this country's Sydney funnel web
Australia
Kathy
|
$200
[15]
While The Silhouettes were urged to "Get A Job", Johnny Paycheck told his employer this
"Take This Job And Shove It"
Kathy
|
$200
[5]
A popular attraction in this city is the Fort Pitt Museum
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
David
|
$200
[12]
He was involved with 1972's Miss Tennessee, Linda Thompson, while he & Priscilla were divorcing
Elvis Presley
Kathy
|
— |
|
$300
[3]
Of about 8, 11, or 16%, the % of U.S. land area that Alaska represents
16%
David
Tom
|
$300
[18]
2 of the 3 colors found in names of the "widow" spiders found in the U.S.
(2 of) black, brown & red(-legged)
David
|
$300
[17]
Tho The Platters preferred "Twilight Time", The 4 Seasons sang of a girl named for this time
"Dawn"
David
|
$300
[21]
Type of instrument Niccolo Paganini left to the city of Genoa, where it's kept in a museum
a violin
David
|
$300
[13]
A scandal involving her lover lost this ex-Miss America her job with Mayor Koch's office
Bess Myerson
Kathy
|
— |
|
$400
[6]
This island is the only U.S. commonwealth outside the continental U.S.
Puerto Rico
David
|
$400
[22]
Spiders are among the earliest island colonists after these create a new environment, as at Krakatoa
volcanoes
David
|
$400
[19]
While Starbuck said, "Moonlight Feels Right", John Denver preferred this
"Sunshine On My Shoulder"
Kathy
|
$400
[24]
Jack Larson, Jimmy Olson on TV's "Superman", donated this part of Jimmy's outfit to the Smithsonian
his bow tie
David
Kathy
|
$400
[14]
She won Miss World-USA in '73--but the headband, bracelets & red, white & blue costume came later
Lynda Carter
David
|
— |
|
DD
$500
[7]
Though most of Yellowstone National Park lies in Wyoming, it spreads out into these other 2 states
Montana & Idaho
David
|
$500
[23]
Scientists separate these hairy cousins from the "true spiders"
tarantulas
Tom
|
$500
[20]
While The Fleetwoods pleaded, "Come Softly To Me", in his biggest hit, S. Lawrence made this plea
"Go Away Little Girl"
Kathy
|
$500
[25]
This Midwest city's Museum of Science & Industry has a coal mine & a submarine
Chicago
|
$500
[16]
This Miss Sweden of 1951 was Fellini's femme fatale in 1959's "La dolce vita"
Anita Ekberg
David
|
— |
| SHAKESPEAREAN 1st LINES | MEDICINE | PENNSYLVANIA PEOPLE | CLASSIC CINEMA | CASTLES & CHATEAUX | RULING WORDS |
|
$200
[1]
The first thing he says is his wife's name, "Calpurnia!"
Julius Caesar
Kathy
|
$200
[18]
Some 20 million Americans are sufferers of this, called the most common allergy in the U.S.
hayfever
Kathy
|
$200
[5]
In 1956, this Pennsylvanian became a princess
Grace Kelly
Tom
|
$200
[7]
Though it takes place at Christmastime, this 1947 Edmund Gwenn film was released in June
Miracle on 34th Street
|
$200
[2]
Of Coca, Cola or Pepsi, the 1 that's a castle in Spain
Coca
Tom
Kathy
|
$200
[13]
A heptarchy is a government ruled by this many people
7
Tom
|
| — |
$600
[20]
Used by primitives for blood letting, surgeons now use this worm to reattach severed body parts
a leech
Kathy
|
$600
[9]
His biographer Carl Van Doren said, "After a century and a half he remains Philadelphia's 1st citizen"
Benjamin Franklin
David
|
$400
[8]
In 1915 film, "Birth of a Nation", Joseph Henabery played this president
Abraham Lincoln
David
Kathy
|
$400
[3]
With 74 stairways, Chambord is the largest Chateau in this river valley famed for chateaux
the Loire
Kathy
|
$400
[14]
A gerontocracy is a government by these
old people
David
|
| — |
$800
[21]
A DPT shot protects against diptheria, tetanus & pertussis, which is better known as this
whooping cough
David
|
$800
[22]
Philadelphia's planetarium is named for benefactor Joseph Fels who really cleaned up making this
soap
Tom
|
$600
[10]
In '40s films, the "Portrait of Jennie" was of Jennifer Jones & "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was of him
Hurd Hatfield
David
Tom
|
$600
[4]
In 1847, schoolboys fought American troops defending this capital city's Chapultepec Castle
Mexico City
David
|
$600
[15]
In the U.S. in the 1890s, a popocracy might have been possible, since this party was at its height
the Populist Party
Kathy
|
| — |
DD
$1,500
[19]
Neither of these 2 developers of polio vaccines ever won the Nobel Prize
Salk & Sabin
Kathy
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
Philadelphian who had his last Top 10 hit with the following:"Every limbo boy and girl /All around the limbo world /Gonna do the limbo rock /All around the limbo block /Jack be nimble, Jack be quick..."
Chubby Checker
Tom
|
$800
[11]
Willie Nelson's "Honeysuckle Rose" was based in part on this 1939 film, Ingrid Bergman's 1st Amer. vehicle
Intermezzo
|
— |
$800
[16]
While a dulocracy is government run by slaves, a slavocracy is a government ruled by these
masters (or slaveowners)
David
Tom
|
| — | — |
$1,000
[23]
Her book "The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry" was followed up by "Tish" & then "More Tish"
Mary Roberts Rinehart
|
$1,000
[12]
Object in title of a late 1940's DeSica film, it's stolen from a poor Italian
a bicycle
David
|
— |
$1,000
[17]
A gynocracy is government by women; this, from Greek for "man", is government by men
an androcracy
David
Kathy
|
On Jan. 1, 1977, in Indianapolis, Mrs. J. Means became 1st woman legally ordained a priest by this church
the Episcopal Church