Ron Trigueiro game 2.
Susan Steade — a newspaper copy editor from San Jose, California
Gary Amundson — a systems analyst originally from Clear Lake, South Dakota
Ron Trigueiro — a student from Caruthers, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron | $1,000 | $3,100 | $7,300 |
$14,600
2-day champion: $28,100 |
$7,300
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Gary | $800 | $3,400 | $6,400 |
$1
3rd place: 12-volume The Motion Picture Guide by CineBooks |
$6,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Susan | $400 | $1,300 | $8,300 |
$1,999
2nd place: a trip to Aspen & stay at the Crestwood Lodge |
$6,300
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| AUTHORS | HAIR CARE | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS | FOOD | THE OLD WEST | THE SOUTH ON FILM |
|
$100
[13]
This wild west author of "Riders of the Purple Sage" was a native of Zanesville, Ohio
Zane Grey
Gary
|
$100
[26]
Body on Tap shampoo is enriched with this brew
beer
Gary
|
$100
[7]
Salem officials might have asked a witness to point this out from a lineup of suspected sorceresses
which witch
Susan
|
$100
[9]
Shaped like tubes, tubettini is a type of this
pasta (macaroni)
Gary
|
$100
[2]
In the old west, a long holster for carrying this firearm was usually called a "scabbard"
rifle
Ron
|
$100
[1]
A 1975 Robert Altman film was set in this cultural capital of country music
Nashville
Gary
|
|
$200
[14]
Famous for Klondike stories, this early 20th c. writer didn't start high school until age 19
Jack London
Ron
|
$200
[27]
The 2 letters & a number you're likely to find on a label that reads "Alberto"
VO5
Susan
|
$200
[18]
While some large rocks might be brave, this one is even braver
bolder boulder
Ron
Susan
|
$200
[22]
What you'd be eating if you were eating a rasher
bacon
Gary
|
$200
[4]
Rumored to have once married Wild Bill Hickok, it's no rumor she dressed like a man
Calamity Jane
Ron
|
$200
[3]
"When Do We Eat?", "Topsy & Eva" & "Little Eva Ascends" were silent films based on or concerned with this book
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Gary
|
|
$300
[15]
Dostoyevsky suffered from this chronic brain disorder
epilepsy
Ron
|
$300
[29]
Australian hair salad contains extracts of corn, carrot, cucumber & this vampire repellent
garlic
Ron
|
$300
[19]
You could see these if your mother's sister showed you her tiny insect "farm" under glass
aunt's ants
Ron
|
$300
[23]
Of a cup of roasted peanuts, a 4" pastry, or an 8 oz. steak the 1 with the most calories
cup of peanuts
Ron
|
$300
[10]
At the Battle of San Jacinto, which lasted about 20 min., he defeated Santa Anna
Sam Houston
Ron
|
$300
[5]
She danced her way thru the old south in "The Littlest Rebel" & reconstruction south in "The Little Colonel"
Shirley Temple
Susan
|
|
$400
[16]
During WWII, poet & playwright Archibald MacLeish served as Asst. Sec'y of this diplomatic dept.
State
Gary
|
$400
[28]
For most people, hair does this when its melanocytes stop producing melanin granules
(turns) gray
Susan
|
$400
[20]
How a judge might politely ask the defendants to state if they're innocent or guilty
please pleas
Gary
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$400
[24]
Some Caribbean dishes feature plantains, an island variety of these
bananas
Gary
|
$400
[11]
Weighing over 4½ lbs., the "Walker" was the largest & heaviest handgun made by this company
Colt
Ron
|
$400
[6]
City in which Mickey Rourke found desire in "Angel Heart" & Vivien Leigh rode "Desire"--the streetcar
New Orleans
Gary
|
|
$500
[17]
A friend of poet John Donne, Izaak Walton is best known for this treatise on fishing & nature
The Compleat Angler
Ron
|
$500
[30]
From the Greek word for hair, it's the scientific study of the hair
trichology
Susan
|
$500
[21]
London wharves owned by a member of the upper house of Parliament
peer's piers
Gary
|
$500
[25]
This cut of meat from the breast of cow is often salted & pressed for corned beef
brisket
Gary
|
DD
$500
[12]
These 2 railroads with "Pacific" in their names completed the 1st rail line across the U.S.
Central Pacific & Union Pacific
Ron
|
$500
[8]
Louis Malle filmed "My Dinner with Andre" at the Hotel Jefferson in this state capital
Richmond
Ron
|
| ZOOLOGY | ARTILLERY | THE RUSSIAN BALLET | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | EASTERN RELIGIONS | "NORTH" ON THE MAP |
|
$200
[10]
Dromedaries have this many humps
1
Ron
|
$200
[22]
When on the ground, Snoopy would find this, an "AA gun" useful agienst attacks by the Red Baron
anti-aircraft
Ron
|
$200
[21]
Tchaikovsky wrote this, his 1st great ballet, 15 years before "The Nutcracker"
Swan Lake
Gary
|
$200
[11]
England has no provinces; "The Provinces" refers to the whole country outside of this city
London
Susan
|
$200
[2]
In 1978, the Chinese govt. dropped its opposition to the traditional study of this moralist
Confucius
Susan
|
$200
[5]
For 364 days a year, it's where the "you are here" arrow points on Santa Claus' map
North Pole
Gary
|
|
$400
[12]
Called "the poor man's cow", it often gives more milk than a cow for the amount of food it eats
goat
Ron
|
$400
[27]
In the world of artillery, a SAM doesn't mean a man's name but this type of weapon
surface-to-air missile
Gary
|
$400
[23]
Alexander Godunov was the 1st dancer from this ballet company to defect to the west
Bolshoi
Gary
Susan
|
$400
[1]
If you've "gotten your K" you haven't had cereal but have gotten this honor
knighthood
Ron
|
$400
[14]
Following the Japanese defeat in World War II, it ceased to be Japan's state religion
Shintoism
Gary
|
$400
[6]
State which contains the geographic center of our continent
North Dakota
Ron
|
|
$600
[18]
Reason it is illegal to import most products made of crocodile leather into the U.S.
crocodile is endangered species
Ron
|
$600
[28]
1st use of artillery with true efficiency was in the 17th century by this country's King Gustavus II
Sweden
Ron
|
$600
[24]
Based in Leningrad, this ballet co. was named for an assassinated hero of the 1917 revolution
Kirov
Susan
|
$600
[3]
To say Herbert "Hoovered" means Herbert did this
vacuumed
Susan
|
$600
[15]
Group which has erected Prabhupada's Palace of Gold in New Vrindaban, West Virginia
Hare Krishnas
Ron
|
$600
[7]
As far as we know, the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo is still there
North Korea
Gary
|
|
$800
[19]
1 of 3 independent countries over 1000 sq. mil. in size where snakes don't occur naturally
(1 of) Ireland, (New Zealand or Iceland)
Susan
|
— |
$800
[25]
Early 20th c. impresario who presented Russian art & opera before he stunned Europe with his ballets
Sergei Diaghilev
Susan
|
$800
[4]
If you're playing poker in England & have a pair of jacks, you would properly call them this
knaves
Gary
|
$800
[16]
Traditionally, each owned only a water strainer, a girdle, a razor, a needle, an alms bowl & 3 yellow robes
Buddhist monks
Ron
|
DD
$800
[8]
It has a mean depth of 90 meters & surrounds the Frisian Islands
North Sea
Gary
|
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
Seen here, this animal was unknown to science until about the year 1900:
okapi
Susan
|
— |
$1,000
[26]
This Russian ballerina won a 1983 Tony for playing a Russian ballerina in "On Your Toes"
Makarova
Susan
|
$1,000
[13]
A "service lift" isn't a freight elevator but this
dumbwaiter
|
$1,000
[17]
He has urged his followers to continue to oppose Chinese rule but to do so peacefully
Dalai Lama
Susan
|
$1,000
[9]
Its highest point is Mt. Sir James MacBrien, its lowest, sea level by the Arctic Ocean
Northwest Territories
|
Star of many Westerns, his name can be an anagram of "OLD WEST ACTION"
Clint Eastwood