Peter O'Malley — a writer and teacher from Boston, Massachusetts
Bruce Adair — a restaurant manager from Denver, Colorado
Carmen Ostrander — a banker from Ord, Nebraska
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen | $0 | $2,000 | $2,800 |
$5,300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,800
14 R, 6 W |
| Bruce | $3,400 | $5,000 | $9,800 |
$5,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
15 R, 4 W |
| Peter | $-400 | $3,200 | $13,800 |
$7,600
New champion: $7,600 |
$15,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 2 DDs) |
| BIOGRAPHY | MOVIE MUSICALS | BIBLICAL QUOTES | FOOD & DRINK | NATIONAL PARKS | AN "IF"FY CATEGORY |
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$200
[8]
She's the political wife profiled here
Ethel Kennedy
Carmen
|
$200
[1]
Ron Howard was a child when he sang about "The Wells Fargo Wagon" in this Robert Preston movie
The Music Man
Carmen
|
$200
[19]
"It is easier for" this animal "to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"
camel
Bruce
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$200
[3]
Hormel makes a microwavable version of this man's beef stew
Dinty Moore
Carmen
Bruce
|
$200
[13]
The U.S. has 2 parks labeled "Grand", Wyoming's Grand Teton & this one in Arizona
Grand Canyon
Peter
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$200
[14]
A high, steep rock face
cliff
Bruce
|
|
$400
[9]
Born in 1958, she's the actress discussed in the following
Jamie Lee Curtis
Carmen
|
$400
[2]
She did her own singing in "Funny Face", but she was dubbed in "My Fair Lady"
Audrey Hepburn
Bruce
|
$400
[20]
This king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other"
Solomon
Peter
|
$400
[4]
Company that uses the sketch seen here by Dorothy Hope Smith
Gerber
Peter
|
$400
[24]
Saguaro, a park named for giant cacti, is in Arizona & this park named for giant trees is in central California
Sequoia
Bruce
Peter
|
$400
[15]
To take in an aroma
sniff
Peter
|
|
$600
[10]
Man of God seen in the following
Jimmy Swaggart
Bruce
|
$600
[28]
This 1955 film about gamblers is tops on my list of Marlon Brando musicals
Guys and Dolls
Carmen
|
$600
[21]
Jesus told the Pharisees to give to this emperor the things that were his, "and to God the things that are God's"
Caesar
Carmen
Bruce
Peter
|
$800
[6]
Evian water comes from a spring in this mountain range
Alps
Bruce
|
$600
[25]
This state's Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument was upgraded to park in 1980 & is the USA's largest park system
Alaska
|
$600
[16]
An operation to resupply by plane when surface routes are blocked, like Berlin in the late '40s
airlift
Bruce
|
|
$800
[11]
He was profiled on Real Goodfellas Week
Meyer Lansky
Bruce
|
$800
[29]
Jerry Orbach originated the role of Billy Flynn in "Chicago" on Broadway, but this man got the part in the film
Richard Gere
Carmen
|
$800
[22]
Paul wrote to Timothy, "Drink no longer water, but use a little" this "for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities"
wine
Bruce
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
In 1921 the Washburn Crosby Company created her to promote its flour & baking products
Betty Crocker
Peter
|
$800
[26]
Michigan's Isle Royale National Park is situated in this Great Lake
Lake Superior
Carmen
Bruce
|
$800
[17]
Not anchored & flowing freely
adrift
Peter
|
|
$1,000
[12]
The episode seen here covered this "Ernest" young man of Irish birth
Ernest Shackleton
Carmen
|
$1,000
[30]
Vincente Minnelli directed Judy Garland in this Missouri-set musical in 1944 & married her the following year
Meet Me in St. Louis
Carmen
|
$1,000
[23]
Genesis 37:31 says that siblings took his "coat and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood"
Joseph
Bruce
|
$1,000
[7]
Profession of the inventors of Pepsi & Coke
pharmacists
Bruce
|
$1,000
[27]
Other parks are "green" with envy over this Colorado park's prehistoric cliff dwellings
Mesa Verde
Carmen
Bruce
|
$1,000
[18]
From the Latin for "to open", it's an alcoholic drink taken before a meal
aperitif
Peter
|
| MATHEMATICS | WONDER YEARS ALUMNI | ONE WORD ONLY, PLEASE | SILVER | CHINA | IN THE CABINET |
|
$400
[6]
It's the sum of the coefficients in 2x plus 3y equals 18
5 (2 + 3)
Peter
|
$400
[26]
In "Austin Powers in Goldmember", he was Number 3 & I seem to remember he sported a mole
Fred Savage
Bruce
|
$400
[1]
It's the one-word answer to the classic joke "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
practice
Carmen
|
$400
[9]
He received 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus
Judas
Peter
|
$400
[14]
From 1949 to his death in 1976, he was chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Carmen
|
$400
[19]
As the first treasury secretary, he helped create the First Bank of the United States
Alexander Hamilton
Carmen
|
|
$1,200
[8]
It's the lowest denominator of a fraction expressing the probability of rolling a 2 with one die
6
Carmen
|
$800
[28]
Before "Friends" he was seen on "The Wonder Years" as Karen's boyfriend, then husband, Michael
David Schwimmer
|
$800
[2]
This 8-part marriage of music & animation was Walt Disney's second feature film with only a one-word title
Fantasia
Peter
|
$800
[10]
After this mother of discoveries in Nevada, the U.S. became for a time the world's leading silver producer
Comstock Lode
Carmen
|
$800
[15]
On June 3 & 4, 1989 the People's Liberation Army killed hundreds at a democracy rally at this Beijing site
Tiananmen Square
Peter
|
$800
[20]
Before succeeding Madison as president, he was Madison's secretary of state
James Monroe
Peter
|
|
$1,600
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew) In set theory, it's the 5-letter word that this symbol stands for (U)
union
|
$2,000
[27]
The daughter of Manfred Mann's Mike d'Abo is this TV star of "The Wonder Years" & Disney's "Tarzan"
Olivia d'Abo
Carmen
Peter
|
$1,200
[3]
In the Harry Potter books, it's the one-word term for a human being without magical powers
muggle
Bruce
|
$1,200
[11]
From its Latin name, argentum, this is the chemical symbol for silver
Ag
Peter
|
$1,200
[16]
A 1931 flood of this river in the north completely covered an area about the size of Indiana & left 80 million homeless
Yellow River
Bruce
|
$1,200
[21]
Robert Todd Lincoln held this post under presidents Garfield & Arthur, as Edwin Stanton had under his father
Secretary of War
Peter
|
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
Like 4, this number is also the square root of 16
-4
Peter
|
— |
$1,600
[4]
On Jan. 9, 1959 Eisenhower told Congress, "America is best described by one word", this "ring"ing one
Freedom
|
$1,600
[12]
Between 1761 & 1797, he fashioned over 5,000 silver pieces, including the one seen here
Paul Revere
Carmen
|
$1,600
[17]
Today, all schools teach this dialect which the Chinese call Putonghua, or "common language"
Mandarin
Carmen
|
$2,000
[23]
President Reagan's education secretary, he went on to edit the bestselling "Book of Virtues"
William Bennett
Peter
|
|
$2,000
[25]
It's been thought but not proved that there's an infinite supply of twin these, parts of them that differ by 2
prime numbers
|
— |
$2,000
[5]
This was the single word the Hairy Old Man used to say at or near the beginning of every "Monty Python" episode
"It's"
Bruce
|
$2,000
[13]
Popular with coin collectors is this silver dollar minted originally from 1878 to 1921 & named for its designer
Morgan silver dollar
|
$2,000
[18]
In 1899 this secret society began a campaign of terror against Christian missionaries in the northeast
Boxers
Carmen
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
Charles Nagel was the last person to serve in the combined post of secretary of commerce & this
Labor
Peter
|
Filling out her application to run in 1986, this widowed mother of 5 listed her occupation as housewife
Corazon Aquino (of the Philippines)