Jim Riffle — a waiter from Las Vegas, Nevada
Eileen Quinlan — a graduate student and member of the Order of the Sisters of Notre Dame from Chicago, Illinois
Louis Cohen — a language teacher from Waterford, Connecticut (whose 3-day cash winnings total $48,203)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louis | $2,100 | $3,200 | $4,600 |
$799
3rd place: Meade 395 model telescope |
$5,100
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eileen | $600 | $600 | $4,200 |
$8,400
2nd place: Hawaii trip at Hyatt Regency Waikiki on Hawaiian Airlines |
$4,200
9 R, 1 W |
| Jim | $1,100 | $2,200 | $5,000 |
$9,300
New champion: $9,300 |
$7,200
21 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| HAIL TO THE CHIEF | MEAT & POTATOES | LITERARY EPICS | SPENCERS FOR HIRE | WIRED FOR CABLE | APOSTROPHE EQUALS...? |
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$100
[1]
In 1974, as governor of Georgia, he appeared on "What's My Line?" and stumped the panel
Jimmy Carter
Eileen
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$100
[12]
The original version of this toy included facial pieces to attach to a real spud
Mr. Potato Head
Jim
|
$100
[2]
This poet cast himself as the protagonist of the "Divine Comedy"
Dante
Louis
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$100
[11]
Spencer was the middle name of this "Little Tramp"
Charlie Chaplin
Louis
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$100
[25]
It's what HBO stands for
Home Box Office
Louis
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$100
[13]
Wouldn't
O
Jim
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$200
[3]
Issued in 1862, a 10-dollar note depicting him was the first U.S. currency to feature a living president
Lincoln
Louis
|
$200
[18]
The fungus phytophthora infestans caused this historic Irish tragedy
Irish potato famine
Louis
|
$200
[7]
This Tennyson work based on legends of King Arthur fills 12 books
The Idylls of the King
Louis
|
$200
[14]
As sec'y of this D.C. institution, Spencer Baird began the collection housed in its museums
Smithsonian
Jim
|
$200
[26]
On August 1, 1981 this channel aired its first video, titled "Video Killed the Radio Star"
MTV
Louis
|
$200
[16]
Dancin'
G
Jim
|
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$300
[4]
Although he served longer than any other U.S. President, he only managed 82 days of his last term
FDR
Louis
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$300
[19]
In 1853 chef George Crum invented this snack as a joke when a customer said his fries were too thick
potato chips
Jim
|
$300
[8]
Part of the action of this Old English poem takes place in Hrothgar's great hall Heorot
Beowulf
Jim
|
$300
[15]
This actor who played a famous priest at one time aspired to the priesthood
Spencer Tracy
Louis
|
$400
[28]
It's this actor's resonant voice that announces, "This is CNN"
James Earl Jones
Louis
|
$300
[22]
You've
HA
Louis
|
|
$400
[5]
In 1961 he & his first lady retired to their first permanent home, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Eisenhower
Louis
|
$400
[20]
In Genesis, God told this man "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you"
Noah
Eileen
Jim
|
$400
[9]
The "Argonautica" by Apollo of Rhodes tells the story of the quest for this object
golden fleece
Jim
|
$400
[17]
This group's Stevie Winwood sangthe following:"...so glad you made it. You gotta..."
The Spencer Davis Group
Eileen
|
DD
$500
[27]
(Hi, I'm Bill Maher.) When my show "Politically Incorrect" premiered in 1993, it was on this cable channel
Comedy Central
Louis
|
$400
[23]
O'er
V
Louis
|
|
$500
[6]
He once was deputy sheriff of Billings county in the Dakotas; tourists still visit him there on Mt. Rushmore
Theodore Roosevelt
Louis
|
$500
[21]
This premium cut of steak includes a t-bone & part of the tenderloin
porterhouse
Louis
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$500
[10]
This ancient Mesopotamian king is the hero of the earliest known epic poem
Gilgamesh
Eileen
|
$500
[30]
Born in Lansing, Spencer Abraham represents this state in the U.S. Senate
Michigan
Jim
|
$500
[29]
Often compared to PBS, this cable network's original movies include "Jane Eyre" & "Emma"
Arts & Entertainment
Jim
|
$500
[24]
'twixt
BE
Louis
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| THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE | BIBLICAL HOTTIES | THE FUNNIES | THE NAME'S THE SAME | ON THE ROAD | HEARD IN THE '80s |
|
$200
[1]
A governor general represents this ruler's interests in Belize
Queen Elizabeth II
Louis
Jim
|
$200
[3]
During God's first conversation with Moses, it was on fire but "was not consumed"
burning bush
Louis
|
$200
[11]
This squinting old seadog made his debut January 17, 1929 in the "Thimble Theatre"
Popeye (the Sailor Man)
Jim
|
$200
[22]
The musician who wrote "Mrs. Robinson", or the politician who wrote "The Once and Future Democrats"
Paul Simon
Jim
|
$200
[12]
The National Archives Exhibition Hall is on this avenue, also the name of a document housed there
Constitution Avenue
Louis
|
$200
[17]
In "Sudden Impact", Clint Eastwood told a bad guy, "Go ahead", do this
make my day
Jim
|
|
$400
[2]
Central American country that was central in the Iran-Contra Affair
Nicaragua
Jim
|
$400
[7]
Angels had to drag Lot & his family out of this city before things got too hot
Sodom
Jim
|
$400
[27]
On January 1, 1995 "The Far Side" ended; on December 31, 1995 this Bill Watterson strip did, too
Calvin & Hobbes
Eileen
|
$400
[23]
A name on many motel registers, it's also a Jamestown founder & a recent U.K. labour party head
John Smith
Louis
|
$400
[13]
It's the historic highway sung about in the following song:
Route 66
Eileen
|
$400
[18]
Rock group heard here:
The Cars
Jim
|
|
$600
[4]
Country hi-lited on the map seen here:
Panama
Louis
|
$600
[8]
It was heated 7 times hotter than normal for Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego
fiery furnace
Eileen
Jim
|
$600
[28]
Brenda Starr's longtime job
newspaper reporter
Eileen
Jim
|
$600
[24]
He obviously isn't "shoeless", as he sang the following:
Joe Jackson
Eileen
|
$600
[14]
Sights on this Nevada Blvd called "the strip" include a lava-spewing volcano & a Siegfried & Roy statue
Las Vegas Boulevard
Jim
|
$600
[19]
Margaret Thatcher said of this Soviet leader, "We can do business together"
Gorbachev
Jim
|
|
$800
[5]
Logically, it's the biggest of the Cayman Islands
Grand Cayman Island
Jim
|
$800
[9]
Elijah ascended into heaven in this "hotrod"
fiery chariot
Jim
|
$800
[29]
In the strip "Crock", Quench is one of these animals
camel
Louis
|
$800
[25]
Appropriately, "The Wedding Group" is by the British novelist with the same name as this actress
Elizabeth Taylor
|
$1,000
[16]
This glamorous 1.18-mile long French street ending at the Obelisk of Luxor also boasts a McDonald's
Champs Elysees
Jim
|
$800
[20]
After being shot, Ronald Reagan quoted Jack Dempsey's "I forgot to" do this
duck
Jim
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Called the original banana republic, its capital is Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Louis
|
$1,000
[10]
On this holy day, tongues of fire appeared to the apostles, who then began to speak in tongues
Pentecost
Eileen
|
— |
$1,000
[26]
Though lovely, this actress who co-starred on "Melrose Place" is not the Miss America of the same name
Vanessa Williams
|
DD
$1,400
[15]
A street sign is featured in a scene in this movie seen here:
Splash
Jim
|
DD
$800
[21]
In 1986 he was assaulted by thugs demanding, "Kenneth, what's the frequency?"
Dan Rather
Jim
|
This druid priestess is the heroine of a Bellini opera about the Roman occupation of Gaul
Norma