Irwin Moskowitz — a marketing manager originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nancy Neff — a teacher from Chattanooga, Tennessee
Rex Schultz — a trial lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rex | $900 | $2,300 | $7,300 |
$300
2nd place: Emerson 25" stereo TV & Symphonic video cassette recorder |
$8,300
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Nancy | $500 | $1,600 | $7,000 |
$13,000
New champion: $13,000 |
$7,000
16 R, 0 W |
| Irwin | $100 | $300 | $-300 |
$-300
3rd place: Oneida gift certificate |
$-500
7 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| GOVERNMENT | BIRDS | THE "RIGHT" STUFF | SPORTS QUOTES | ISLANDS | FAMOUS ROBOTS |
|
$100
[11]
Short of city funds, the comm. of trust funds in Swampscott, Mass. wanted to spend $100 for these tickets
lottery
Irwin
|
$100
[17]
Bird noted for its high, raspy meow-call
catbird
Rex
|
$100
[3]
Cartoon mountie who could "do no wrong"
Dudley Do-Right
Rex
|
$100
[1]
Prior to a 1980 fight, he said "If Holmes don't C-sharp, he'll B-flat"
Muhammad Ali
Rex
|
$100
[24]
In a 1966 hit, they proclaimed, "I am a rock, I am an island"
Simon and Garfunkel
Nancy
|
$100
[12]
Pair of "Star Wars" droids who got their own animated cartoon series in 1985
R2-D2 and C-3PO
Nancy
|
|
$200
[13]
Reagan signed law limiting federal spending on new presidential libraries, with this 1 exception
Reagan Library
Rex
|
$200
[18]
The European cuckoo is considered a parasite because it lays its eggs there
in other birds' nests
Rex
|
$200
[7]
Opposing the "pro-choice" group, they're anti-abortion activists
right to lifers
Rex
|
$200
[2]
A fan said to this ex-coach "If you got that way drinking Miller Lite, I'd hate to see Miller heavy"
John Madden
Nancy
|
$200
[25]
Kitty Hawk site of the Wright Bros. 1st airplane flight, is on Bodie Island in this state
North Carolina
Rex
|
$200
[20]
For this show's robot, Bob May was inside & Dick Tufeld supplied voice crying "Danger Will Robinson"
Lost in Space
Irwin
|
|
$300
[14]
31 pages of report by this commission detailed chapter by chapter the book "Tying Up Rebecca"
The Commission on Pornography
Rex
|
$300
[19]
Called the "yellowhammer" because it sounds like one, the flicker is a variety of this
woodpecker
Irwin
|
$300
[8]
A 90° bend, or an appropriate sales technique
right angle
Nancy
|
$300
[4]
David Brenner said he doesn't like to watch this sport on TV because "I can't stand whispering"
golf
Rex
|
$300
[26]
Its 4 historic provinces are Connaught, Leinster, Munster & Ulster
Ireland
Rex
|
$400
[22]
Appropriate letter-number name of the computerized dog on "Doctor Who"
K9
Nancy
|
|
$400
[15]
European country that's #1 destination of congressional fact-finding trips
France
Irwin
|
$400
[23]
In the Bible, Noah sent one to look for land, & a group of them later fed Elijah
ravens
Rex
|
$400
[9]
It has only 10 amendments, since 2 on representatives' apportionment & compensation weren't ratified
Bill of Rights
Rex
|
$400
[5]
Hit by a ball in '34, this St. Louis pitching great said "The doctors x-rayed my head & found nothing"
Dizzy Dean
Rex
|
$400
[27]
West Indian island that's the home of the limbo dance & calypso music
Trinidad
Irwin
|
DD
$500
[21]
[Video] 1926 film which featured the robot pictured in the following:
Metropolis
Irwin
|
|
$500
[16]
It began June 2, 1986; everybody waited 2 minutes, then Dole dropped his mike
televising the Senate
Rex
|
— |
$500
[10]
Position shared by Jesse Helms in the political spectrum & Tim Kerr at the Philadelphia Spectrum
right wing
Irwin
|
$500
[6]
Yankee manager who told players to "Line up alphabetically by height"
Casey Stengel
Irwin
|
$500
[28]
Largest of the Mariana Islands, we acquired it in 1898
Guam
Nancy
|
— |
| AUTHORS | EXPLORERS | BUSINESS LINGO | CELEBRITY SECRETS | BEES | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST |
|
$200
[1]
West Virginian who taught psychology, divorced a missionary, & wrote novels about China
Pearl Buck
Nancy
|
$200
[12]
He served in both the Confederate & Union armies before going to look for Livingstone
Stanley
Irwin
|
$200
[26]
A banker's best rate, or a butcher's best rib
prime
Rex
|
$200
[7]
She's no dummy, but her "brother" was, & Charlie's room was bigger than hers
Candice Bergen
Nancy
|
$200
[21]
As early as 3500 B.C., bees were domesticated in this ancient African civilization
Egypt
Rex
|
$200
[6]
It isn't too taxing to determine that this is the 1st month, alphabetically
April
Nancy
|
|
$400
[2]
Frontier heroine Betty Zane's life was fictionalized by this namesake descendant
Zane Grey
Rex
|
$400
[14]
Cause of the 1809 gunshot death of this Louisiana Purchase explorer is still undetermined
Meriwether Lewis
Nancy
|
$400
[27]
A bond value of 100% or an expert golfer's average score
par
Rex
|
$400
[8]
Number of Dale Evans' husbands before she rode off into the sunset with Roy Rogers
2
|
$400
[22]
Among other colors, mining bees can be a shade of 1 of these 2 metals dug from mines
gold & copper
Nancy
|
$400
[13]
Alphabetically 1st among continents, though 2nd in size
Africa
Rex
|
|
$600
[3]
A single sentence in one of his daughter's school books inspired him to write "Shogun"
James Clavell
Nancy
|
$600
[15]
Gone broke, he had himself put in a cask addressed to Panama, which he later crossed
Balboa
Nancy
|
$600
[28]
Over-the-counter stocks are indexed on the automated quote system known by this acronym
NASDAQ
|
$600
[9]
"Sugar Babies" star who said Louis B. Mayer's suicide attempt was her fault
Ann Miller
Irwin
|
$600
[23]
Because a bumblebee has a long one of these, only it can pollinate the red clover
tongue
Irwin
|
$600
[18]
Alphabetically the 1st vice president, 3 letters & 180 years ahead of Agnew
John Adams
Rex
|
|
$800
[4]
Of this India-born writer, Mark Twain said, "He knows all that can be known, & I know the rest"
(Rudyard) Kipling
Rex
Irwin
|
$800
[16]
1st European to see bison, head & all, was this Spaniard whose name means "cow's head"
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
|
— |
$800
[10]
He knew the honeymoon was over when Vivien Leigh attacked him in his sleep
Laurence Olivier
Nancy
|
$800
[24]
Tho collectors of nectar & pollen, these nonsocial bees don't build hives but bore in wood to nest
carpenter bees
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
Alphabetically, the 1st U.S. state capital
Albany, New York
Rex
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Oddly paralleling his heroine Anna Karenina's death, he died at a train station
Tolstoy
Rex
|
$1,000
[17]
Columbus planned to sail westward to "Cipangu", which was the name Marco Polo used for this country
Japan
Rex
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
Afraid of being an out-caste" this "Dark Angel" star passed her Indian mother off as her maid
Merle Oberon
Nancy
|
$1,000
[25]
Bees need feeding about 1300 times a day during this state of development
a larva (larval)
Rex
|
$1,000
[20]
Alphabetically, the 1st card in a deck of 52
ace of clubs
Nancy
|
Number of states whose names end with the same vowel they begin with
4