Ben Camack — a film distribution consultant originally from Dallas, Texas
Deborah Kelly — a college professor from Chevy Chase, Maryland
Ed Osawa — a student from Torrance, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed | $800 | $2,900 | $8,900 |
$17,800
2-day champion: $36,800 |
$7,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Deborah | $0 | $1,100 | $2,500 |
$2,480
3rd place: menswear |
$2,300
8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Ben | $1,000 | $1,500 | $10,500 |
$3,000
2nd place: a washer/dryer and luggage |
$9,100
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| ISLANDS | SILLY SONGS | MONEY | 1968 | TRIVIA |
|
$100
[8]
Owned by tiny Denmark, it's the world's largest island
Greenland
Ed
|
$100
[12]
To treat it "you're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion"
poison ivy
Ben
|
$100
[17]
Currency where you'll find Lincoln's name on front & back
the five-dollar bill
Ben
|
$100
[3]
South-of-the-border setting of the '68 Olympics
Mexico City
Ben
|
$100
[1]
Rubber is an ingredient in this type of chewing gum
bubble gum
|
|
$200
[9]
New York's largest, it has more people than 41 of our 50 states
Long Island
Ed
Deborah
|
$200
[13]
"She was afraid to come out of the water" because she wore this scanty outfit
an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
Deborah
|
$200
[18]
4 little words carried on all U.S. currency
In God We Trust
Ben
|
$200
[4]
First visual effects Oscar went to Kubrick's look 33 years into the future
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ed
|
$200
[2]
Easter creature created by Gene Autry in '55 hit record
Peter Cottontail
Ben
|
|
$300
[10]
Until 1949 a Dutch colony, now the world's most populous island nation
Indonesia
Ed
|
$400
[15]
Herman's Hermits' song about widow whose 8 husbands all had the same name
"Henry the Eighth"
Deborah
|
$300
[19]
Replaced Adams in the presidency & the Indian on the nickel
Thomas Jefferson
Deborah
|
$300
[5]
Camelot "ended" when Jackie married him
Aristotle Onassis
Ben
|
$300
[20]
Though a northern state, N.J. didn't abolish it until 1860
slavery
Ed
|
|
$400
[11]
Made up of over 7,000 islands, only Far East country with a Roman Catholic majority
the Philippines
Deborah
|
DD
$500
[14]
He offered this prescription:"Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang /Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bang bang /Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang /Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bang bang..."
the Witch Doctor
Deborah
|
$400
[23]
The only U.S. coin with the Presidential Seal
the fifty-cent piece (the Kennedy half-dollar)
Ed
Ben
|
$400
[6]
He broke S. Africa's race barrier by transplanting black man's heart into white body
Christiaan Barnard
Ben
|
$400
[21]
U.S. coin 97.6% zinc
the penny
Ed
|
| — |
$500
[16]
According to Ray Stevens, "He swings through the trees without a trapeze in his B.V.D.'s"
Gitarzan
Ben
|
— |
$500
[7]
After 11 months in captivity, crew of this ship was released by N. Koreans
the Pueblo
Ed
|
$500
[22]
Ohio city named for an ancestor of the 24th president
Cleveland
Ed
Deborah
|
| BRITISH HISTORY | INVENTIONS | WOMEN AUTHORS | BASEBALL | SCULPTURE | "NICK" NAMES |
|
$200
[26]
Though historians debate it, she's called "The Virgin Queen"
Elizabeth I
Ed
|
$200
[12]
"The mother of invention"
necessity
Ben
|
$200
[1]
Judith Krantz "princess" who reigned in novel & mini-series
Princess Daisy
Deborah
Ben
|
$200
[7]
A 1939 college baseball game was the first sports event shown on this medium
television
Ed
|
$200
[21]
His only signed work is the "Pieta" in the Vatican
Michelangelo
Deborah
|
$200
[6]
You can call me "merry" or you can call me "hairy" but you doesn't have to call me "Santa"
Saint Nicholas (or Saint Nick)
Ed
|
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
Of Henry VIII's six wives, the number that lost their heads over him
2
Ed
|
$400
[13]
Country credited with invention of pasta, porcelain, & paper
China
Ed
|
$400
[2]
Playwright Edward Albee asked "Who's afraid of" this respected British novelist
Virginia Woolf
Ben
|
$400
[8]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has 200,000 of them
baseball trading cards
Ben
|
$400
[22]
A gold statue of Prometheus towers over the ice rink of this N.Y.C. landmark
Rockefeller Center
Ben
|
$400
[16]
When John Wayne always arrived with the cavalry
in the nick of time
Ben
|
| — |
$600
[14]
Tissue originally used as a WWI gas filter, but now literally something to sneeze at
Kleenex
Ed
|
$600
[3]
Colleen McCullough's Australian saga
The Thorn Birds
Ben
|
$800
[10]
Ironically, ex-con Ron LeFlore led the N.L. in these in 1980
stolen bases
Ed
|
$600
[23]
"Disarming" statue unearthed by peasant of Greek island of Melos in 1820
the Venus de Milo
Deborah
|
$600
[17]
Things are never "hoop" less for this Manhattan team
the New York Knicks
Ed
|
| — |
$800
[15]
1st developed for the blind, they've become the most widely used business machine
the typewriter
Deborah
|
$800
[4]
Author, columnist, & TV wit who said, "Housework, if you do it right, can kill you"
Erma Bombeck
Ben
|
$1,000
[11]
To help their owner pay off gambling debts, the 1920 Red Sox sold him to the Yankees
Babe Ruth
Ed
|
$800
[24]
The Berlin museum is home to the famous bust of this Egyptian queen
Nefertiti
Ben
|
$800
[18]
He was Eddie Murphy's partner for 48 hours
Nick Nolte
Ben
|
| — |
$1,000
[20]
Printing press inventor associated with the world's most valuable book
Gutenberg
Ben
|
$1,000
[5]
Long-time companion of Dashiell Hammett, she was played in "Julia" by Jane Fonda
Lillian Hellman
Ben
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
1 of 3 Major League Baseball teams with state rather than city names
(1 of) California Angels, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins
Ben
|
$1,000
[25]
Though it represents a woman, his 5-story Chicago structure has been called a baboon
(Pablo) Picasso
Ben
|
$1,000
[19]
Gambler who paid the "Brice" for marrying a famous Fanny
Nick Arnstein
Ben
|
Only 1 of 9 planets not named for a Greek or Roman mythological figure
the Earth