Roger Storm game 5.
Marc Wade — a systems analyst originally from Sacramento, California
Karin Hofland — a novelist from Santa Monica, California
Roger Storm — a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio (whose 4-day cash winnings total $31,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roger | $600 | $700 | $2,800 |
$1,700
3rd place: a Brother AX12 electronic typewriter |
$1,700
11 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| Karin | $600 | $1,700 | $5,900 |
$4,700
2nd place: a trip to Fort Walton Beach, Florida aboard Eastern Airlines with stay at The Breakers |
$5,700
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Marc | $900 | $2,500 | $3,500 |
$6,500
New champion: $6,500 |
$4,000
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| BEST SELLERS | ARMED FORCES | WORDS OF THE '60s | THE DESERT | TV TRIVIA | GREAT DAMES |
|
$100
[3]
Edna Ferber's giant best seller of 1952
Giant
Marc
|
$100
[26]
Besides the Air Force, the other U.S. military branch whose jets attacked Libya on April 15, 1986
the Navy
Karin
|
$100
[13]
State of having laid back vibes, colored "yellow" by Donovan
mellow
Marc
|
$100
[10]
Those of the mesquite plant have been measured to reach over 100' below the surface
roots
Karin
|
$100
[1]
Name shared by Donald Keeler's character on "Lassie" & a plump animated pig from Warner Bros.
Porky
Marc
|
$100
[21]
The French call this play "La Dame Aux Camelias"; The English call it this
The Lady of the Camellias
Marc
|
|
$200
[7]
In 1976, Publishers Weekly initiated a best seller list for these
paperbacks
Marc
|
$200
[27]
Nike-Hercules, Hawk & Chaparral are air defense guided missiles of this service branch
the Army
Roger
|
$200
[14]
To talk freely & frankly, or H. Brown's "middle name"
rap
Roger
|
$200
[11]
South African desert natives use the large shells of this bird's eggs to carry & store water
ostrich
Marc
|
$200
[2]
Of "Mr. Smith", "Lancelot Link" & "The Monkees", the one with only humans in the lead roles
The Monkees
Roger
|
$300
[23]
In this nursery rhyme, 1 bag of wool is "for my dame"
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Marc
|
|
$300
[8]
First the Bible, then this John Bunyan book, became earliest best sellers in America
Pilgrim's Progress
|
— |
$300
[18]
Doing it to your mind could do it to your cool
blow
Karin
|
$300
[15]
Of the equator, Tropics of Cancer or of Capricorn, the 2 lines near which most of the world's deserts lie
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
Roger
Karin
Marc
|
$300
[4]
With the divorce & the son's "coming out", you couldn't call this PBS "American Family" quiet
the Loud family
Marc
|
$400
[24]
Boisterous lament of Rodgers & Hammerstein's lovesick sailors
"There is Nothing Like a Dame"
Roger
Marc
|
|
$400
[9]
In Jack Higgins' 1975 "The Eagle Has Landed", German troops attempt to kidnap this man
(Winston) Churchill
Roger
Marc
|
— |
$400
[19]
An emotional problem or inhibition, or what you do if a phone call bums you out
hangup
Roger
|
$400
[16]
Desert with the greatest temperature swing, 113° to -40°F, is this one in Mongolia
the Gobi
Karin
|
$400
[5]
Actor who was Tucker Kerwin on "The Associates", then became Ed Grimley, a cult hero, I must say
Martin Short
Marc
|
DD
$500
[22]
You'd be in "Seine" if you fell in the river next to this:
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Marc
|
|
$500
[12]
From 1901-1913 this Englishman had 5 #1 U.S. best sellers of the yr. including "The Crisis" & "The Crossing"
Winston Churchill
|
— |
$500
[20]
Precedes "wasted", "down" & "your act together"
get
Marc
|
$500
[17]
Whether called arroyos or wadis, they're these, which act as desert drainage systems
gulch (or gulley or streambeds)
Marc
|
$500
[6]
1 of 2 series in which Bill Bixby played a newspaper or TV reporter
My Favorite Martian or Goodnight, Beantown
Karin
|
$500
[25]
Ruby Keeler was among the "dames" this choreographer set tapping in the 1934 musical of the same name
Busby Berkeley
Marc
|
| KNIGHTS | MINI-COUNTRIES | SCIENTISTS | TWINKIES | CRAZY TALK |
|
$200
[21]
This flexible armor made of metal rings sounds like it came parcel post
mail
Karin
|
$200
[11]
Capital city of Singapore
Singapore
Roger
Karin
|
$200
[1]
Joseph Swan had this bright idea in England at the same time Edison did in the U.S.
an electric light bulb
Roger
|
$200
[4]
"The Twinkie defense" proved surprisingly successful at the trial of this San Francisco assassin
Dan White
Karin
|
$200
[13]
Pecan, pine, or pistachio
"nuts"
Karin
|
|
$400
[22]
The French word for "knight", it was a courtly "Gigi" star's last name
Chevalier
Karin
|
$400
[12]
Of Bahrain, Tuvalu, or Nauru, the island country in the Persian Gulf
Bahrain
Marc
|
$400
[2]
Guillaume Amontons' 17th century thermometer was 1st filled with this & corrected for air pressure
mercury
Roger
|
$400
[5]
Movie where Harold Ramis compares normal amount of psychokinetic energy in NYC to a Twinkie
Ghostbusters
Marc
|
$400
[14]
Bid adieu to one's feelings of touch, taste, sight, sound & smell
"to take leave of one's senses"
Roger
Marc
|
|
$600
[23]
The Knights of Malta paid Holy Roman Emperor Charles V an annual rent of 1 of these birds
a falcon
Roger
|
$600
[18]
"Monte Carlo of the Orient", this Portuguese dependency draws thousands of gamblers from nearby Hong Kong
Macau
Roger
|
$600
[3]
John Dalton did the 1st paper on this condition, some say after being told his brown coat was bright scarlet
color blindness
Karin
|
$600
[6]
This animated character, like Ann Blyth before him, is TV's Twinkie spokesman
Twinkie the Kid
Marc
|
DD
$800
[15]
1 of 2 phrases from which 2 of Carroll's crazy tea party participants were named
"mad as a hatter" (or "mad as a March hare")
Karin
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Sir Gawain beheads him in an epic poem, but still lets this knight share the title
the Green Knight
Roger
Marc
|
$800
[19]
World's shortest railroad line runs 300 yards in this, the world's smallest independent state
Vatican City
Roger
|
$800
[9]
In 1943, the year of his death, the plantation on which he was born was made a national monument
George Washington Carver
|
$800
[7]
A Minneapolis city council member was accused of this for giving senior citizens Twinkies
bribery
Karin
|
$800
[16]
Past a road's curve
"around the bend"
Karin
|
|
DD
$1,900
[24]
Aptly enough, Prince Philip meets with the other Knights of the Thistle in this city
Edinburgh
Roger
|
$1,000
[20]
Independent since 301 A.D., this "most serene republic" in Europe is the oldest republic in the world
San Marino
Roger
|
$1,000
[10]
Cornelius Vanderbilt thought this engineer's idea of braking a train with air was sheer nonsense
(George) Westinghouse
Roger
|
$1,000
[8]
She has termed as "Twinkies" newscasters who "seem as if they've blow-dreid their brains, too"
Linda Ellerbee
Marc
|
$1,000
[17]
Where you get the main ingredient of your pumpkin pie
"out of your gourd"
|
The number of U.S. presidents in the 20th century to serve out at least 2 full terms
3