Maggie Moe — a law clerk and student from Los Angeles, California
Charlie Orlowek — a marketing consultant from Chicago, Illinois
Joel Nathanson — a dentist from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joel | $1,200 | $500 | $4,300 |
$8,600
2-day co-champion: $16,001 |
$3,900
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Charlie | $100 | $1,100 | $4,100 |
$0
2nd place: Dresher brass bed and Dakotah bedroom ensemble |
$4,100
14 R, 3 W |
| Maggie | $-100 | $2,100 | $4,500 |
$8,600
New co-champion: $8,600 |
$4,300
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| U.S. LANDMARKS | "MORNING" SONGS | GAMES | ANIMAL NOISES | TECHNOLOGY | NUTS |
|
$100
[2]
A marble memorial now houses the log cabin that housed him at birth near Hodgenville, Ky.
Abraham Lincoln
Joel
|
$100
[1]
The curtain & the sun both rise on "Oklahoma!" with this song
"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"
Charlie
|
$100
[23]
Game in which players must ask this question before taking 3 itty bitty steps or 1 giant one
May I
Joel
|
$100
[18]
Mexican peninsula, or the sound of a sheep laughing
Baja
Joel
Charlie
|
$100
[7]
Though not always accurate, a polygraph machine is supposed to show if you are doing this
lying
Maggie
|
$100
[8]
Though nicknamed "The Peach State", it leads the U.S. in producing nuts
Georgia
Charlie
|
|
$200
[9]
Its mailing address is Keystone, South Dakota 57751
Mount Rushmore
Joel
Maggie
|
$200
[3]
On the charts for 16 weeks in '73, this was Diana Ross' 2nd longest-running top 40 hit
"Touch Me in the Morning"
Joel
|
$200
[24]
Spelling game where player who adds a letter that completes a word becomes a fraction of this
Ghost
Maggie
|
$200
[19]
To ingest your Thanksgiving turkey quickly
gobble it up
Charlie
|
$200
[10]
Calculating device developed in ancient times which the Chinese call a "reckoning board"
abacus
Charlie
|
$200
[14]
Popularly used in pralines, it's a type of hickory nut
pecan
Maggie
|
|
$300
[12]
Famed U.S. landmark overlooking the Patapsco River, which you can see "O'er the ramparts"
Fort McHenry
Charlie
|
$300
[4]
Oscar-winning song from "The Poseidon Adventure", though few survived to feel hung over
"The Morning After"
Joel
|
$400
[27]
This game became so popular that by 1882 the All-England Croquet Club dropped croquet
tennis
Maggie
|
$300
[20]
Audio components whose job sound like they could be done by dogs & birds
woofer and tweeters
Charlie
|
$300
[11]
Type of acid in your car battery
sulfuric
Charlie
|
$300
[15]
1st word of Mel Torme's "The Christmas Song"
chestnuts
Charlie
|
|
$400
[13]
100 yrs. after the historic battle, the Minuteman Statue by Daniel C. French was erected there
Concord
Joel
Maggie
|
$400
[5]
In Great Britain, this Sheena Easton hit was called "9 to 5"
"Morning Train"
Joel
|
DD
$500
[25]
Respective winners in each of the following matchups: scissors & stone, stone & paper, scissors & paper
stone, paper, scissors
Maggie
|
$400
[21]
The Pacific equivalent of Atlantis
Mu
|
— |
$400
[17]
The common name for the Persian walnut
English walnut
|
|
$500
[16]
Federal Hall, where Washington took 1st oath of office as President, is on this NYC street
Wall Street
Charlie
|
$500
[6]
For Tommy Edwards in '59, "she lived" here, while he "lived on the twilight side of the hill"
"The Morning Side of the Mountain"
|
— |
$500
[22]
In "A Day at the Races", Hugo Hackenbush is one
quack
Joel
Charlie
|
— |
$500
[26]
Botanically, true nuts are classed as one-seeded forms of these
fruits
Maggie
|
| PENNSYLVANIA | 1968 | NICKNAMES | FOREIGN WORDS | MACBETH | TV COWBOYS & INDIANS |
|
$200
[9]
Though born in Philly, she achieved fame "Coming of Age in Samoa"
Margaret Mead
Maggie
|
$200
[4]
Nat'l guardsmen fought demonstrators at Chicago convention which nominated this man for Pres.
Hubert Humphrey
Charlie
|
$200
[11]
The music world's "Chairman of the Board"
Frank Sinatra
Maggie
|
$200
[18]
Hybrid Yiddish word combining Hebrew for "luck", "mazal", & Germanic for "bad", "schlimm"
schlemazel
|
$200
[1]
Of Lady Macbeth's 165 words in her sleepwalking scene, all but 20 have this number of syllables
one
Joel
|
$200
[28]
Oxford-educated Cherokee Indian who was Daniel Boone's friend
Mingo
Charlie
|
|
$400
[10]
"Mad" Revolutionary War officer, DC Comics claims Batman's alter ego is his descendant
"Mad" Anthony Wayne
|
$400
[5]
Their assassinations occurred 63 days apart in 1968
Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King Jr.
Charlie
|
$400
[12]
"The Little Corporal"
Napoleon
Maggie
|
$400
[19]
In the original it's a Neopolitan savory bun; our use of the word is pretty "shakey"
pizza
|
$400
[2]
Peter O'Toole's Macbeth was called a cross between Vincent Price & this "Baby Jane" star
Bette Davis
Joel
|
$400
[23]
Tho the Cisco Kid was his "gift" to TV fans, he's better remembered for "The Gift of the Magi"
O. Henry
Joel
|
|
$600
[16]
Besides designing & building "The Clermont", he invented devices for rope spinning & marble cutting
Fulton
Joel
|
$600
[6]
This 1968 film became last musical to win the Best Picture Oscar
Oliver!
|
$600
[13]
"The Great Profile"
Barrymore
Maggie
|
$800
[26]
French for "untying of a knot", it's the outcome of a plot
denouement
Joel
|
$600
[3]
The Queen Mother grew up there, Princess Margaret was born in it, & Macbeth was Thane of it
Glamis
Joel
Charlie
|
$600
[24]
On air 8 years, this Clint Walker western at times alternated weekly w/Bronco, Sugarfoot, & Shirley Temple
Cheyenne
|
|
$800
[17]
Algonquin wit who co-wrote the verbal feasts "Dinner at 8" & "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
George S. Kaufman
|
$800
[7]
1968's "Prague Spring" didn't end in June but with this August event
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
Charlie
|
$800
[14]
Baseball's "The Lip"
Leo Durocher
Charlie
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
[Audio] Turkish for "fate" or "destiny", it's the name of B'way musical from which we get the following:
kismet
Joel
|
$800
[20]
"Macbeth"s 1st performance was in this palace, once home to Henry VIII , which caught fire in 1986
Hampton Court
|
— |
|
$1,000
[21]
Discoverer of oxygen, he breathed his last in Pennsylvania in 1804
Joseph Priestley
|
$1,000
[8]
Former ambassador to Russia & Gov. of N.Y., he represented the U.S. at Vietnam peace talks
Averell Harriman
Joel
|
$1,000
[15]
"Slim", "Baby", or "Betty"
Lauren Bacall
|
$1,000
[27]
German for armed uprising or riot; Hitler's failed in 1923
putsch
Maggie
|
$1,000
[22]
Because it's a bad luck play, actors often avoid saying "Macbeth", using instead this geographical euphemism
the Scottish play
|
— |
3 actors, including Kim Hunter & Karl Malden, won Oscars for this film but Brando didn't
A Streetcar Named Desire