Ed Bryant — a lawyer from Springfield, Massachusetts
Priscilla Byerly — a Spanish instructor originally from Eastchester, New York
Marsha Pomeroy-Huff — a secretary originally from Clovis, New Mexico (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,902)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsha | $1,000 | $1,800 | $5,600 |
$11,199
2nd place: Orefors stemware and Retroneu service for eight |
$6,400
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Priscilla | $500 | $1,900 | $5,700 |
$5,700
3rd place: Joyce Chen Chinese cooking outfit and Nintendo Entertainment System |
$5,700
15 R, 0 W |
| Ed | $800 | $1,000 | $9,800 |
$11,401
New champion: $11,401 |
$8,800
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| CLEVELAND | PLANTS & TREES | MOVIE QUOTES | U.S. HISTORY | PLAYING WITH FIRE | 9-LETTER WORDS |
|
$100
[17]
Cleveland is situated where the Cuyahoga River meets this Great Lake
Erie
Priscilla
|
$100
[12]
Indians made boats from the bark of the paper or canoe variety of this tree
birch
Priscilla
|
$100
[7]
In this film Paul Newman is told, "You're gonna get used to wearing them chains after a while, Luke"
Cool Hand Luke
Marsha
|
$100
[2]
President Ford appointed this future president director of the CIA in 1975
George Bush
Priscilla
|
$100
[1]
Slang for a hot dog barbecue
weenie roast
Ed
|
$100
[26]
From the Latin for "sword", this person was trained for combat in the ancient Roman arena
gladiator
Marsha
|
|
$200
[18]
Abbreviated WCTU, this group that promoted abstinence from alcohol was founded in Cleveland in 1874
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Ed
|
$200
[13]
Gum tree & stringybark tree are popular names for these Australian trees
eucalyptus
Marsha
|
$200
[8]
It was Rhett Butler's parting shot to Scarlet O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind"
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
Marsha
|
$200
[3]
In 1960 he quipped, "Mr. Nixon dismissed me as 'another Truman'...I consider him another Dewey"
John Kennedy
Marsha
|
$200
[22]
Prometheus stole fire from this heavenly body & gave it to mankind
sun
Marsha
|
$200
[27]
It's a young woman making her entrance into society
debutante
Ed
|
|
$300
[19]
The opening of this international waterway in 1959 allowed oceangoing ships to reach Cleveland
St. Lawrence Seaway
Ed
|
$300
[14]
Socrates died from drinking a poisonous brew made of this herb
hemlock
Priscilla
|
$300
[9]
Barbra Streisand's first line on film is "Hello, gorgeous" in this 1968 release
Funny Girl
Ed
|
$300
[4]
In 1799 this orator was elected to VA.'s legislature but died before he could take his seat
Patrick Henry
Marsha
|
$300
[23]
Site on the stove of low-priority items
back burner
Marsha
|
$300
[28]
To ornament with needlework
embroider
Marsha
|
|
$400
[20]
The world's largest collection of manuscripts of this celibate religious sect is in Cleveland
Shakers
Marsha
|
$400
[15]
An imperfect one of these lacks either stamens or a pistil
flower
Marsha
|
$400
[10]
"Of all" these establishments "in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine"
gin joints
Marsha
|
$400
[5]
When this general died in 1863, Robert E. Lee wrote, "I know not how to replace him"
(Stonewall) Jackson
Ed
|
$400
[24]
A WWI song by Lena Ford said to "Keep" these "burning, while your hearts are yearning"
home-fires
Priscilla
|
$400
[29]
To introduce the virus of a disease into the body in order to cure, immunize or experiment
inoculate (or vaccinate)
Priscilla
|
|
$500
[21]
In 1967 he became mayor, the first African American to hold that office in a major U.S. city
Carl Stokes
Ed
|
DD
$800
[16]
Much of the lumber that shows this tree's "bird's-eye" pattern comes from N. Michigan
maple
Marsha
|
$500
[11]
In "Suspicion" he greets Joan Fontaine by saying, "Hello, monkey face"
Cary Grant
Ed
|
$500
[6]
In 1742 James Oglethorpe won the Battle of Bloody Marsh & virtually ended this country's threat to Georgia
Spain
Ed
|
$500
[25]
The bon in bonfire is short for this, the substance originally burned in it
bones
|
$500
[30]
A French raspberry brandy
framboise
Marsha
Priscilla
|
| THE AGE OF CHIVALRY | SCIENCE | REPUBLICANS | WORLD GEOGRAPHY | MONEY MATTERS | "A"UTHORS |
|
$200
[11]
The Knights of St. John captured this island centuries after its colossal statue collapsed
Rhodes
Ed
|
$200
[2]
The main types of this fuel are peat, lignite, bituminous & anthracite
coal
Priscilla
|
$200
[1]
His political career began in 1949 when he was elected to the Phoenix city council
Goldwater
Marsha
|
$200
[3]
Tennessee's lowest point, 182 feet above sea level, is at this river in the southwest corner
Mississippi
Ed
|
$200
[8]
A short seller of a stock anticipates its price will do this
go down
Priscilla
|
$200
[15]
She wrote potboilers under the name A.N. Barnard before the success of "Little Women"
Louisa May Alcott
Priscilla
|
|
$400
[12]
A knight carried a light wooded one of these covered with hide & painted with his coat of arms
shield
Marsha
|
$400
[10]
One of the oldest marine biology laboratories is located at Woods Hole in this New England state
Massachusetts
Priscilla
|
$400
[23]
The first Whig governor of N.Y., he later turned Republican & purchased Alaska as Sec'y of State
Seward
Ed
|
$400
[4]
This Scottish city on the River Clyde is one of the world's greatest shipbuilding centers
Glasgow
Priscilla
|
$400
[9]
The time allowed for making payments on a loan after the due date is this "period"
grace period
Marsha
|
$400
[16]
He attended Harvard before writing the popular "Ragged Dick" rags-to-riches books
Horatio Alger
Ed
|
|
$600
[28]
King Philip IV of this country coveted the wealth of the Knights Templars, so he persecuted them
France
Marsha
Priscilla
|
$600
[13]
While most vitamins are fat-soluble, vitamin C & this complex are water-soluble
B complex
Marsha
|
$800
[25]
After losing the 1936 Presidential election, this Kansas governor retired from nat'l politics
Alf Landon
Ed
|
$600
[5]
This island tied politically to Trinidad is famed for its Buccoo Reef, a popular scuba diving spot
Tobago
Ed
|
$600
[20]
The only Asian country among the Group of Seven, the finance ministers of 7 leading industrial powers
Japan
Ed
|
$600
[17]
She is the author of such autobiographical works as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Maya Angelou
Ed
|
|
$800
[29]
Oliver was the sworn friend of this paladin who's celebrated in a famous "song"
Roland
Marsha
|
$800
[14]
The bacterium rhizobium, which lives in nodules on legume roots, "fixes" this element from air
nitrogen
Priscilla
|
$1,000
[26]
He became Interior Sec'y in 1989 after many years as the only Hispanic Republican in the House
Manuel Lujan
Marsha
|
$1,000
[7]
David Livingstone was the 1st European to explore this river on which Victoria Falls is located
Zambezi
Ed
|
$800
[21]
A VAT is a value-added type of this levy
tax
Ed
|
$800
[18]
Once a rabbi, this humorous writer created the character of Tevye the milkman
Sholem Aleichem
Ed
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Albert, the first bishop of this large Latvian city, founded the Knights of the Sword about 1200
Riga
Priscilla
|
$1,000
[27]
The lowest temperature yet reached was 2 billionths of a degree above zero on this scale
Kelvin scale
Marsha
|
DD
$1,200
[24]
In 1972 he became North Carolina's first Republican Senator in the 20th century
Jesse Helms
Ed
|
DD
$1,200
[6]
The name of this Romanian region means "beyond the forest"
Transylvania
Ed
|
$1,000
[22]
The opposite of caveat venditor, it means "let the buyer beware"
caveat emptor
Ed
|
$1,000
[19]
"Without Feathers", "Getting Even" & "Side Effects" are collections of his humorous pieces
Woody Allen
Ed
|
The Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal features an engraving of this 18th century American
Benjamin Franklin