Bill Pitassy game 4.
Mike Simon — a graduate student originally from Parma, Ohio
Laurel Stevens — a poet from La Habra, California
Bill Pitassy — a labor attorney from Cranford, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $41,402)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill | $600 | $2,900 | $12,500 |
$10,700
4-day champion: $52,102 |
$12,100
31 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laurel | $400 | $1,700 | $3,700 |
$400
2nd place: TWA trip to Honolulu, Hawaii at Outrigger Hotels Hawaii |
$3,700
12 R, 2 W |
| Mike | $400 | $1,000 | $7,100 |
$200
3rd place: JVC EZ1 camcorder |
$5,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| ANCIENT TIMES | TELEVISION | OCCUPATIONS | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | MONTHS | NUMBER, PLEASE |
|
$100
[1]
Known in ancient times as Berytus, this Middle Eastern seaport is now a world capital
Beirut
Laurel
|
$100
[15]
"It's Howdy Doody time, it's Howdy Doody time, Bob Smith and Howdy too say" this "to you"
howdy do
Bill
Mike
|
$100
[11]
It's the former term for a male flight attendant, or one who oversees the food & drink at a club or hotel
steward
Bill
|
$100
[6]
The city of Santa Ana is the seat of this southern California county
Orange County
Bill
|
$100
[21]
The first Monday of this month is Labor Day in the U.S.
September
Bill
|
$100
[26]
It's ten hundreds
1,000
Bill
|
|
$200
[2]
A great temple was built at Ur to honor Nannar, the Sumerian god of this heavenly body
moon
Bill
Laurel
|
$200
[16]
Nancy Marchand won a 1978 Emmy for playing publisher Margaret Pynchon on this Ed Asner series
Lou Grant
Bill
|
$200
[12]
It's someone who stuffs or mounts animals, usually for a museum
taxidermist
Bill
|
$200
[7]
No rivers flow into this sea between Africa & the Arabian Peninsula
Red Sea
Bill
|
$200
[22]
Since 1946 the Kentucky Derby has been run on the first Saturday of this month
May
Mike
|
$200
[27]
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of this number
13
Bill
|
|
$300
[3]
Euripides' satyr play "The Cyclops" satirizes an episode from book 9 of this Homeric work
The Odyssey
Laurel
|
$300
[17]
Owners of this animal included Jeff Miller, Timmy Martin & forest ranger Corey Stuart
Lassie
Mike
|
$400
[14]
This person, often a nurse, is trained to deliver babies in a hospital, clinic or home
midwife
Mike
|
$300
[8]
A 1951 agreement with Denmark gave the U.S. rights to military bases on this island
Greenland
Laurel
|
$300
[23]
St. John's Day & Midsummer Day fall on the 24th of this month
June
Laurel
Mike
|
$300
[28]
When you reverse direction, you're said to "do" this number
180
Bill
|
|
$400
[4]
A type of this potent potable made from barley was the favorite beverage of ancient Egypt
beer
Bill
|
$400
[19]
Rod Serling's "Requiem for a Heavyweight" aired live Oct. 11, 1956 on this 90-minute anthology
Playhouse 90
Bill
|
$500
[18]
One of the highest-paid insurance professionals is this person who calculates the premium rates
actuary
Bill
|
$400
[9]
At 5,729 feet, Mt. Rogers in this range is Virginia's highest point
Blue Ridge Mountains
Bill
|
$400
[24]
In English this month has a "p", in French it has a "v"
April (Avril)
|
$400
[29]
It's the number of items in a gross
144
Bill
|
|
$500
[5]
The Harappan civilization is another name for the ancient civilization of this Asian river valley
Indus River valley
|
$500
[20]
For this "Mary Tyler Moore" newsman "It all started in a 5,000 watt radio station in Fresno, California..."
Ted Baxter
Laurel
|
DD
$600
[13]
While this professional makes & fits eyeglasses, he can neither prescribe them nor give exams
optician
Bill
|
$500
[10]
This southern-most Texas city grew out of a fort whose establishment led to the Mexican War
Brownsville
Laurel
|
$500
[25]
Once called Quintilis, this month was renamed in 44 B.C. for someone born during it
July
Laurel
|
$500
[30]
It's the number of lines in a sonnet
14
Mike
|
| WORLD HISTORY | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | MUSIC APPRECIATION | LANGUAGES | WOMEN AUTHORS | ALL THE MARBLES |
|
$200
[2]
In 1988 this country's new parliament building was dedicated in Canberra
Australia
Mike
|
$200
[1]
This university in East Lansing was the first state school to offer agriculture courses for credit
Michigan State
Bill
|
$200
[8]
This term for a Christmas carol is also the French word for Christmas
noel
Bill
|
$200
[16]
A standard form of Portuguese is based on the dialect of this national capital
Lisbon
Mike
|
$200
[21]
She was 65 years old when she published her first "Little House" book in
Laura Ingalls (Wilder)
Bill
|
$200
[18]
It's the color of pure marble
white
Laurel
|
|
$400
[4]
In 1957 this country physician was elected president of Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Bill
|
$400
[3]
The university of this U.S. territory has campuses on St. Thomas & St. Croix
Virgin Islands
Bill
|
$400
[9]
It's a 16th century wind instrument with a snakelike shape as well as a synonym for snake
serpent
Bill
|
$400
[22]
Most of this island, the world's 2nd largest is occupied by speakers of the Papuan languages
New Guinea
Bill
|
$400
[26]
"Murder in the White House", her first mystery novel, concerned the death of a corrupt Sec'y of State
Margaret Truman
Laurel
|
$400
[30]
This 180-foot-tall marble landmark is now over 13 feet out of perpendicular
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Bill
|
|
$600
[5]
This region of France that juts into the Atlantic was conquered by Julius Caesar in 56 B.C.
Normandy (or Brittany)
Bill
Laurel
|
$600
[12]
Founded in 1769, it's New Hampshire's oldest college
Dartmouth
Laurel
|
$600
[10]
On scores "f" is an abbreviation for forte & "ff" is an abbreviation for this
fortissimo
|
$600
[23]
Languages spoken on this U.S. territory in the Pacific include Charmorro & English
Guam
Mike
|
$600
[27]
This woman who co-founded the Algonquin Round Table won an O. Henry Award for her story "Big Blonde"
Dorothy Parker
Laurel
|
$800
[19]
Though found on a Greek isle in 1820, this statue is usually called by the name of the Roman love goddess
Venus de Milo
Laurel
|
|
$800
[6]
This Scottish fur trader explored the river in Canada's Northwest Territories later named for him
(Sir Alexander) Mackenzie
Mike
|
$800
[13]
This Charleston school is known as the Military College of South Carolina
Citadel
Bill
|
$800
[11]
It's also called the violin clef
treble clef
Mike
|
$800
[24]
Ladin is a language spoken in the northern sections of Venetia in this country
Italy
Bill
|
$800
[28]
Her book "The Proud Tower" describes the world that led to "The Guns of August"
Barbara Tuchman
Bill
|
$1,000
[20]
Of the 7 Ancient Wonders, this one was a marble tomb
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Bill
|
|
$1,000
[7]
In 1669 the last meeting of the Diet of this confederation of German cities took place
Hanseatic League
Bill
|
$1,000
[14]
This Ivy League school was founded in Warren, R.I. in 1764, but moved to Providence in 1770
Brown
Bill
|
$1,000
[15]
Dutch for "concert building", it's the name of a famous concert hall in Amsterdam
Concertgebouw
Bill
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
There are still a few thousand speakers of Welsh in areas of Patagonia in this country
Argentina
Bill
|
$1,000
[29]
This author of "Ethan Frome" met Henry James in Europe & he became her friend & mentor
(Edith) Wharton
Mike
|
DD
$2,500
[17]
This marble statue was carved between 1501-1504 as a symbol of the independent Florentine Republic
David
Mike
|
In July 1994 these 2 foreign leaders became the first to address the same joint session of Congress
Rabin and King Hussein