Julie Rutherford — a travel analyst from Phoenix, Arizona
Ira Kirschner — a broker and CPA from Westlake Village, California
Michael Compton — a payroll supervisor from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $10,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $1,800 | $3,600 | $6,000 |
$12,000
2nd place: trip on Eastern to Florida and stay at Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness Center on Tampa Bay |
$6,000
19 R, 2 W |
| Ira | $1,000 | $3,500 | $11,600 |
$15,000
New champion: $15,000 |
$11,500
25 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Julie | $400 | $800 | $3,600 |
$2,200
3rd place: Whirlpool refrigerator |
$3,600
8 R, 0 W |
| WORLD WAR II | CAVES | CRIME & PUNISHMENT | ACTRESSES | ANTIQUES | "TIP" "TOP" |
|
$100
[19]
While V-E Day was celebrated May 8, 1945, this was celebrated September 2, 1945
V-J Day (victory in [over] Japan)
Michael
|
$100
[16]
Most caves are formed from this type of sedimentary rock
limestone
|
$100
[11]
Due to thefts of passenger's luggage, a British judge dubbed this airport "Thiefrow"
Heathrow
Ira
|
$100
[5]
It's said the "fuehrer" over Pola Negri's rumored affair with this man forced her to leave Germany
Adolf Hitler
Michael
|
$100
[24]
Before 1700, English spoons were made from this many pieces of silver, but later, from only 1
2
|
$100
[6]
In 1968, it's how Tiny Tim went "Thru the tulips"
tip-toeing
Ira
|
|
$200
[20]
The women appointed for voluntary emergency service in the navy were known by this acronym
WAVES
Michael
|
$200
[17]
The world's largest cave chamber open to tourists is the "Big Room" at these caverns in New Mexico
Carlsbad
Michael
|
$200
[12]
It's said a man in Boston was put in public stocks in 1656 for doing this to his wife in public on the Sabbath
kissing her
Julie
|
$200
[4]
Though she played "My Fat Friend" onstage, she now does commercials for Weight Watchers
Lynn Redgrave
Michael
|
$400
[28]
A popular song of 1875 popularized this name for tall case clocks
grandfather clocks
Ira
|
$200
[7]
Trademark for a deck shoe with a soft leather upper & a rubber sole
Top-Sider
Julie
|
|
$300
[21]
Due to claims he took part in WWII atrocities, this world leader has been barred from the U.S.
Kurt Waldheim
Ira
|
$300
[18]
From Greek for "cave", it's one who likes to study & explore caves
spelunker
Ira
|
$300
[13]
Out of the 13 charges he faced, this "Subway Vigilante" was only found guilty of 1 illegal weapon count
Bernhard Goetz
Michael
|
$300
[1]
TV "Golden Girl" who said, "I'm not tall, I'm not pretty, I'm not young--I never was!"
Estelle Getty
Michael
|
DD
$500
[27]
Because of 1891's McKinley Tariff Act, this was required to appear on the bottoms of plates coming into U.S.
country of origin
Ira
|
$300
[8]
This rock group is last entry alphabetically in "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits"
ZZ Top
Michael
|
|
$400
[22]
While the SS was a German organization, the OSS was created by this country
United States
Julie
|
$400
[25]
Due to thousands of these insects there, New Zealand's Waitomo Cave "glimmers, glimmers"
glowworms
Michael
|
$400
[14]
In August 1978, William & Emily Harris pleaded guilty to the "simple kidnapping" of this person
Patty Hearst
Michael
|
$400
[2]
Epitome of the exotic 20s vamp, she was really little Theodosia Goodman from Cincinnati
Theda Bara
Ira
|
— |
$400
[9]
From Middle English for "bartender", it's to drink, often to excess
tipple
Michael
Ira
|
|
$500
[23]
In its 1st air raid on Italy, June 11-12, 1940, the RAF bombing pinpointed this company's Turin plant
Fiat
Ira
|
$500
[26]
The longest measured cave system in the world, over 300 miles, is this aptly-named one in Kentucky
Mammoth
Ira
|
$500
[15]
Though Michael Fagan broke into this ruler's bedroom in July 1982, he wasn't prosecuted
Queen Elizabeth II
Michael
|
$500
[3]
This "Gone With the Wind" star, not Vivien Leigh, was Elia Kazan's 1st choice for "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Olivia de Havilland
Michael
|
— |
$500
[10]
Laurence Harvey fought his way up in society in this 1959 film, but Simone Signoret got the Oscar
Room at the Top
Michael
|
| ENGLISH LIT | CLASSICAL MUSIC | '50s TV | UTAHANS | MAN IN SPACE | IN OTHER WORDS... |
|
$200
[15]
Shaw said of this bard, "It would...be a relief to me to dig him up & throw stones at him"
Shakespeare
Michael
|
$200
[29]
In a Rimsky-Korsakov piece, a prince turns into this insect, which promptly takes flight
bumblebee
Julie
|
$200
[6]
They included Doreen, Darlene, Eileen, Bonnie, Lonnie, Ronnie, Karen, Cubby & Annette
Mouseketeer
Ira
|
$200
[14]
A statue of him represents Utah in the Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
Brigham Young
Julie
|
$200
[24]
The 1st reusable space vehicle, one was 1st launched into orbit in 1981
Space Shuttle
Michael
|
$200
[1]
Tear free with your teeth an amount in excess of your masticating ability
biting off more than you can chew
Ira
|
|
$400
[16]
Pseudonym under which David John Moore Cornwell wrote "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"
John le Carré
Ira
|
$400
[12]
In 1876, Wagner wrote the "Centennial Inaugural March" for this country's 100th anniversary
United States
Ira
|
$400
[7]
It's said 7 million people saw him fire Julius La Rosa
Arthur Godfrey
Michael
|
DD
$500
[20]
Heard here, they were discovered in Disneyland in '62 after Lawrence Welk wouldn't see them:"One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch, girl..."
The Osmonds
Ira
|
$400
[25]
Ency. Americana says that at a force of 5 Gs, blood has weight of this metal, Fe
Iron
Ira
|
$400
[2]
Canis lupis garbed with Ovis aries' attire
wolf in sheep's clothing
Michael
|
|
$600
[17]
Bunyan work in which you'd find the Slough of Despond
The Pilgrim's Progress
Ira
|
$600
[11]
Beethoven may have included one of these in his 3rd symphony, but we're not giving him Sousa's crown
March
Ira
|
$600
[8]
Characters on this show included Beulah Witch, Fletcher Rabbit & Oliver J. Dragon
Kukla, Fran & Ollie
Ira
|
$600
[21]
In 1922 at age 16, high schooler P.T. Farnsworth discovered the principles of this communications medium
television
|
$600
[26]
The primary function of retrorockets
to slow the rocket down
Ira
|
$600
[3]
Traverse Hades as well as a swollen river
cross Hell or high water
Julie
|
|
$800
[18]
In his long nonsense poem, Lewis Carroll also called this hunted title creature a "Boojum"
Snark
Ira
|
$800
[13]
Influenced by fellow Frenchmen like Monet, he was the 1st to apply Impressionism to music
Claude-Achille Debussy
Michael
|
DD
$800
[9]
He'd often lament to Peg, "What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester A. Riley
Ira
|
$800
[22]
Many Americans have seen the signature of Ivy Baker Priest, who held this office
Treasurer of the United States
Ira
|
$800
[27]
A space module's life support system must remove this gas, a primary product of respiration
carbon dioxide
Ira
|
$800
[4]
Yale device, Wall Street commodity, plus pickle container
lock, stock & barrel
Julie
|
|
$1,000
[19]
J.L. Lowes' 1927 study of this author was title "The Road to Xanadu"
(Samuel Taylor) Coleridge
Ira
|
$1,000
[30]
German for "leading motive", it's a short theme in an opera for an individual character
leitmotif
Michael
|
$1,000
[10]
Game show announcer who also brought in the questions & kept score on Groucho's "You Bet Your Life"
George Fenneman
Michael
|
$1,000
[23]
Agriculture Secretary under Eisenhower, he's now President of the Mormon Church
Ezra Taft Benson
Ira
|
$1,000
[28]
The greatest number of people NASA has put into space at one time
7
|
$1,000
[5]
Lave one's grasping organs in respect to an entire extramarital fling
wash one's hands of the affair
Julie
|
Only national capital of a foreign country named for a U.S. President
Monrovia, Liberia