Tom Morrison — an accountant originally from Memphis, Tennessee
Marcia Hochberg — a psychologist from Downingtown, Pennsylvania
David Blakeley — a telecommunications manager from Edison, New Jersey
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $600 | $1,600 | $3,800 |
$100
3rd place: a Ross-Simons gold/diamond bracelet + Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary home game or computer game |
$4,800
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Marcia | $0 | $1,700 | $3,400 |
$1,400
2nd place: a trip to Hotel Montetaxco, Mexico aboard Delta Airlines + Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary home game or computer game |
$3,500
13 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Tom | $2,400 | $3,700 | $11,300 |
$10,000
New champion: $10,000 + Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary home game or computer game |
$11,800
27 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| 1974 | POTTERY | MIDDLE NAMES | WORD ORIGINS | BROADWAY LYRICS | GETTING MARRIED |
|
$100
[1]
On Sept. 8, 1974 he was pardoned for any crimes he may have committed while president
Richard Nixon
Tom
|
$100
[26]
These ovens used to fire pots operate at temperatures up to 2200°F.
a kiln
Marcia
|
$100
[11]
At his royal wedding, his bride mixed up his 1st & middle names & called him “Philip Charles Arthur George”
Prince Charles
Tom
|
$100
[16]
Mark Twain should have known the name of this fruit may be an alternation of “hurtleberry”
huckleberry
Marcia
|
$100
[6]
This “stays mainly in the plain!”
the rain in Spain
Tom
|
$100
[21]
The extended cathedral length of one of these is over 9 feet long & doesn’t include a dining car
a train
Marcia
|
|
$200
[2]
He said of his 715th homer, hit April 8, “All I could think about was that I wanted to touch all the bases”
Hank Aaron
Tom
|
$200
[27]
To a potter, throw means to form, say, a vase on one of these
a wheel
Marcia
|
$200
[12]
Poet James Riley’s middle name
Whitcomb
Tom
|
$200
[17]
The name of this “tuxedoed” bird may come from the Welsh for “white head”
a penguin
Tom
|
$200
[7]
“Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry when I take you out in” this
the surrey with the fringe on top
Tom
|
$200
[22]
In a double ring ceremony, she gives the ring to the bride to place on the groom’s finger
the maid of honor
David
|
|
$300
[3]
Malcolm Bricklin began producing these in Canada but his company folded a year later
the Bricklin automobile
David
|
$300
[28]
The word ceramics comes from “keramos”, the Greek word for this substance
clay
Tom
|
$300
[13]
The middle name of John North, who kept a famous circus going after his uncle died in 1936
Ringling
Tom
|
$300
[18]
Evangelical Protestant sect named for its founder, Menno Simons
the Mennonites
Marcia
|
$300
[8]
This song from “The Music Man” says, “There were bells on the hill, but I never heard them ringing”
"'Til There Was You"
David
|
$300
[23]
When writing, offer the bride “best wishes” & the groom this
congratulations
David
|
|
$400
[4]
In August a 40-year-old ban on private ownership of this in the U.S. was lifted
gold
Tom
|
$400
[29]
In 1710 the first European hard-paste porcelain factory was set up in this city near Dresden
Meissen
Tom
|
$400
[14]
Middle name of Franklin Adams, the witty columnist known as F.P.A.
Pierce
Tom
|
$400
[19]
Almond paste confection whose name comes from a Medieval Italian coin
marzipan
Marcia
|
$400
[9]
They say this lady will “coax the blues right out of the horn” & “charm the husk right off of the corn”
Mame
Tom
|
$400
[24]
Exactly 9 sips of this are the essence of a Shinto wedding ceremony in Japan
sake
Tom
|
|
DD
$500
[5]
He told the UN General Assembly, “I have come bearing an olive branch & a freedom fighter’s gun”
Yassar Arafat
Tom
|
$500
[30]
The company he founded in Lambeth in 1815 was appointed a supplier to the British court in 1901
John Doulton
Tom
|
$500
[15]
H.L. Hunt’s middle initial stood for this name which may remind you of a military Marquis
Lafayette
Tom
|
$500
[20]
Sorority is derived from the Latin “soror”, which means this
sister
David
|
$500
[10]
It begins, “Isn’t it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, you in mid-air”
"Send In The Clowns"
Tom
|
$500
[25]
According to tradition, the man who catches the bride’s garter gets to place it on this person’s leg
the woman who catches the bouquet
Marcia
|
| MEDIEVAL TIMES | TECHNOLOGY | WORLD TRAVEL | SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE | HORSES | AUTHORS' DEDICATIONS |
|
$200
[6]
Frederick Barbarossa decided to crown his career by leading one of these & died en route
a crusade
Marcia
|
$200
[1]
As its name implies, a hydrophone is used to detect sound here
in the water
Marcia
|
$200
[7]
This 180-foot structure 175 miles NW of Rome is tilting an average of .047 inches each year
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Marcia
|
$200
[15]
Nicknamed “Cap the Knife”, he was Reagan’s first Secretary of Defense
Caspar Weinberger
David
|
$200
[26]
The name of this spotted horse comes from the Spanish word for “painted”
a pinto
Tom
|
$200
[20]
Joseph Wambaugh said that this book was “for Dee and of course for all the centurions”
The New Centurions
Marcia
|
|
$400
[12]
The Frankish kings divided their lands into these units, each headed by a count
counties
|
DD
$300
[2]
Displayed on many products, the symbol seenheremeans this:
recyclable
Marcia
|
$400
[8]
The 200-year-old Brandenburg Gate colonnade has been called this city’s arch of triumph
Berlin
Tom
|
$400
[16]
This current Sec’y & his wife wrote a book about 8 Speakers of the House & their impact on U.S. history
Cheney
David
|
$400
[27]
Some breeders use this term to describe any white horse, whether lacking pigment or not
an albino
David
|
$400
[21]
His novel “Burr” is dedicated to his nephews Ivan, Hugh and Burr
Gore Vidal
Tom
|
|
$600
[13]
9th century Viking invaders set up the Danelaw, an area in this country in which Danish law was supreme
England
David
|
$600
[3]
The fluid flywheel is a torque converting device in this part of a truck
transmission
David
|
$600
[9]
A monument was erected at the Lenin Shipyards in this Polish city honoring workers who died during a 1970 uprising
Gdansk
Tom
|
$600
[17]
As Secretary of Defense, he made visits to South Vietnam in 1962, 1964 & 1966
McNamara
Tom
|
$600
[29]
Based on the width of a man’s palm, this unit is used to measure a horse’s height
the hand
Marcia
|
$600
[22]
“The Exorcist” is dedicated to his brothers and sister “and in loving memory of” his parents
(William Peter) Blatty
Tom
|
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
Al-Khwarizmi, a Muslim of Baghdad, named this branch of math that combined Greek & Indian ideas
algebra
David
|
$800
[4]
The collector on a solar furnace is a parabolic one of these
a reflector (or mirror)
David
|
$800
[10]
The name of this Hawaiian palace means “heavenly bird”
Iolani Palace
David
|
$800
[18]
This President’s Secretaries of Defense were James Schlesinger followed by Donald Rumsfeld
Gerald Ford
|
$1,000
[28]
The smallest breed of horse, the Falabella, was developed by ranchers in this S. American country
Argentina
Tom
|
$800
[23]
He dedicated “The Betsy” “To my wife, Grace for whom the name – and the word – were created”
Robbins
Tom
|
|
$1,000
[25]
As she produced no sons & fooled around, Louis VII dissolved the marriage; she then wed Henry of Anjou
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Tom
|
$1,000
[5]
In the 1850s he came up with the first cheap, large-scale way of making steel from pig iron
(Henry) Bessemer
Tom
|
$1,000
[11]
This Chicago museum of natural history was an outgrowth of the 1893 Columbian Exposition
the Field Museum
|
$1,000
[19]
This general was Secretary of State from 1947-49 & Secretary of Defense from 1950-51
(George C.) Marshall
David
|
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$1,000
[24]
He dedicated “Across the River and into the Trees” “To Mary with love”
Hemingway
Tom
|
The USA’s oldest nationwide voluntary health agency, it was founded in 1904 to combat tuberculosis
the American Lung Association