Mario Mainero — a trial lawyer from Corona del Mar, California
Mike Harris — a physician from Mill Valley, California
Rob Pold — a graduate student from Downers Grove, IL (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,450)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rob | $2,000 | $2,850 | $5,250 |
$10,500
2nd place: a 3-night trip to San Francisco at the Miyako hotel aboard Delta Airlines + Jeopardy! box game |
$5,300
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mike | $1,000 | $1,300 | $5,900 |
$10,800
New champion: $10,800 |
$5,100
13 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Mario | $-400 | $900 | $3,500 |
$6,999
3rd place: a Litton microwave oven + Jeopardy! box game |
$3,500
10 R, 3 W |
| LANDMARKS | ZOOLOGY | MELS | SONGS | SOUTHERN COOKING | LEFTOVERS |
|
$100
[10]
Douglas Fairbanks & Norma Talmadge were among 1st to put their footprints here in 1927
Grauman's/Mann's Chinese Theatre
Rob
|
$100
[12]
It's the largest frog in the United States, not the largest bovine
bullfrog
Mike
|
$100
[5]
Stutterer who appears on stage with The Statesiders
Mel Tillis
Rob
|
DD
$50
[27]
2 of the 3 Top 10 Fats Domino songs with "Walk" in the title
"I'm Walkin'", "I Want to Walk You Home", and/or "Walking to New Orleans"
Rob
|
$100
[24]
"Cooter" is a Southern term for these edible reptiles
turtles
|
$100
[11]
Because he outran his pursuers, gangster Jack Diamond earned this nickname
"Legs"
Mario
|
|
$200
[8]
Russian name of this Moscow site, "Krasnaya Ploshchad", means it's both "beautiful" and "red"
Red Square
Mike
|
$200
[13]
The "frill" on a frilled lizard encircles this part of its body, making it look somewhat Elizabethan
neck
Mario
|
$200
[4]
He's the real voice of "Bugs Bunny"
Mel Blanc
Rob
|
$100
[17]
"Music to Watch Girls By" was a 1967 hit for the Bob Crewe Generation & for this soft drink
Pepsi
|
$200
[25]
We're sorry to tell you, but chitterlings (or chitlins) are the intestines of this animal
hogs/pigs
Rob
|
$200
[18]
The old word for twilight, "cockshut", meant the time these were shut up for the night
roosters
Rob
|
|
$300
[6]
In January 1987, a 141' necktie was hung off this Italian landmark, but it looked a little crooked
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Rob
|
$300
[14]
While many insects have 4 wings, a mosquito has this number
2
Mike
Mario
|
$300
[1]
This highly respected jazz singer's husky voice is due to tonsils that partially grew back
Mel Torme
Rob
|
$200
[22]
1st line of this Cole Porter refrain from "Anything Goes" goes "I get no kick from champagne"
"I Get a Kick Out of You"
|
— |
$300
[19]
Styles of men's underwear are named for these 2 sports professions
jockey & boxer
Mike
|
|
$400
[7]
A memorial was dedicated to this president on April 13, 1943, the 200th anniversary of his birth
Thomas Jefferson
Mike
Mario
|
$400
[15]
The embryos of the sand tiger variety of these fish eat their siblings before birth
sharks
Mario
|
$400
[2]
Though he's lived in Australia since the late '60s, he's still an American citizen & "proud of it"
Mel Gibson
|
$300
[23]
In spite of the title, teaming up for this 1967 song was a smart move for Frank & Nancy
"Something Stupid"
|
— |
$400
[20]
Though it's usually called "deadly", this solanum plant is eaten as a vegetable in the West Indies
nightshade
Mario
|
|
$500
[9]
This city's huge architectural complex, the Hofburg, was the winter home of the Hapsburgs
Vienna
Rob
|
$500
[16]
The unau species of this mammal has 2 toes on its front feet, while the slower ai has 3
sloth
Rob
|
$500
[3]
Played by R. (Richard) Deacon, he was Alan Brady's balding brother-in-law on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
Mel Cooley
Rob
|
$400
[26]
1st line of this song from "South Pacific" is "I'm as corny as Kansas in August"
"I'm in Love, I'm in Love, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy"
|
— |
$500
[21]
New Zealand tribe that dried heads in a way that preserved the elaborate facial tattoos
the Maoris
Mario
|
| ACTORS OF THE PAST | WORLD CAPITALS | NAMESAKES | AMERICAN LITERATURE | IT'S A "LOCK" | YOGA |
|
$200
[13]
Richard Burbage was the 1st actor to play Hamlet, Romeo, Lear, Richard III & this moor
Othello
Mike
|
$200
[1]
This city became capital of the German Empire in 1871
Berlin
Rob
|
$200
[7]
The instrument named for its inventor, Adolphe Sax
saxophone
Mike
|
$200
[16]
A grandnephew of Nathan Hale, Edward E. Hale wrote the story of Philip Nolan, the man without 1 of these
a country
Rob
|
$200
[6]
Tetanus' nickname
lockjaw
Mike
|
$400
[26]
Meaning "joining" or "union", the word yoga comes from this classical language of India
Sanskrit
Mike
|
|
$400
[22]
At age 14, Eleonora Duse played this Shakespearean ingenue at Verona
Juliet
Rob
|
$400
[2]
The Hungarian National Gallery is housed in this city's royal palace
Budapest
Rob
|
$400
[8]
The first one of these was designed by George Washington Gale Ferris
Ferris wheel
Rob
|
$400
[17]
This William Faulkner novel opens with a tale told by Benjy, an idiot
The Sound and the Fury
|
$400
[9]
You might hide a tuft of your sweetheart's hair in this small pendant
locket
Mario
|
$600
[25]
To achieve suppression of mental activity, a yogi must go thru this # of steps, 4 less than in AA
8
|
|
$600
[23]
Herbert Blythe & Georgiana Drew begat this preeminent family of the American theater
the Barrymores
Mike
|
$600
[3]
This city's Casbah, which had served as a prison, was razed after Tunisia became independent
Tunis
Mario
|
$800
[15]
Edible named for Australian chemist John Macadam
macadamia nuts
Rob
|
$600
[18]
It was Tom Sawyer's testimony that got Muff Potter acquitted of this charge
murder
|
$600
[10]
She replaced Cloris Leachman as the mother figure on "Lassie"
June Lockhart
Mario
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
In yoga, devotion to God is cultivated by repeating a syllable represented by this symbol:
om
Mike
|
|
$800
[24]
King Charles II's deathbed request, "Let not poor Nelly starve", referred to this actress
Nell Gwyn
|
$800
[4]
In 1971, this city became the capital of Bangladesh
Dacca
Mike
Mario
|
$1,000
[21]
Used in puddings, this mixture of fruits, nuts & cherries was named for a Russian count
(Karl von) Nesselrode
|
$800
[19]
James F. Cooper character also known as Leatherstocking, Hawkeye, Long Rifle & Deerslayer
Natty Bumppo
Rob
Mario
|
$800
[11]
One of his most famous works was "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
John Locke
Rob
|
— |
| — |
$1,000
[5]
In 1823, this country's capital was moved from Cartago to San Jose
Costa Rica
Mario
|
DD
$1,200
[14]
Quaker who founded the Baltimore hospital named for him with the millions he made as a grocer
Johns Hopkins
Mike
|
$1,000
[20]
In this Wm. Dean Howell's novel, the title character "rise"s morally while falling financially
The Rise of Silas Lapham
|
$1,000
[12]
"In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love" in this poetic "Hall"
(Alfred Lord Tennyson's) "Locksley Hall"
|
— |
When "Saturday Night Live" announced this man would host, the candidate & the singer both "showed up"
Paul Simon