Bruce Seymour game 5.
Janet Holzer — a foreign language teacher from Indianapolis, Indiana
Mike Ollins — a public relations consultant originally from Hicksville, New York
Bruce Seymour — a writer from Piedmont, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $54,989)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce | $1,300 | $2,100 | $10,700 |
$100
2nd place: a Broyhill 6-piece Americana oak bedroom set + Ambassador Industries Ambatrak headrail system vertical blinds |
$9,500
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Mike | $0 | $-200 | $-400 |
$-400
3rd place: an Oneida full-lead, mouth-blown, hand-cut crystal gift certificate (for stemware, barware & giftware) |
$100
1 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Janet | $2,200 | $3,400 | $10,800 |
$7,800
New champion: $7,800 |
$9,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| STARTS WITH "F" | FISH | TRANSPORTATION | LANDMARKS | TV TRIVIA | GAMBLING |
|
$100
[3]
The proverb says, "birds of a feather" do this "together"
flock
Janet
|
$100
[9]
The Southeast Asian archer fish shoots down its prey with a jet of this
water
Bruce
|
$100
[15]
The subway in Washington, DC shares its name with this one in Paris
the Metro
Bruce
|
$100
[14]
In this city's Plaza of the 3 Cultures, you can see modern apartments, a colonial church, & Aztec ruins
Mexico City
Janet
|
$100
[20]
After 9 seasons, in 1971, CBS did some rural housecleaning & put this family out to pasture
the Beverly Hillbillies
|
$100
[25]
Pieces of game equipment you shouldn't shoot if they're "loaded"
dice
Janet
|
|
$200
[4]
It's the basin that holds the water when you get baptized
the font
Janet
|
$200
[10]
A gulper fish can grow to a length of 6 feet, but most of its body is this huge opening
its mouth
Bruce
|
$200
[16]
This oldest U.S. railroad common carrier, founded in Md. in 1827, 1st used horses & sailcars for locomotion
the B&O Railroad (Baltimore & Ohio)
Bruce
|
$200
[1]
American landmark closed from June 24, 1985 to July 4, 1986
the Statue of Liberty
Bruce
|
$200
[21]
Sports profession of Jamie Sommers before she became the Bionic Woman
a tennis pro
|
$200
[26]
On the American double-zero roulette wheel, the odds of any # coming up, though the house pays less
37-to-1 against (1:38)
|
|
$300
[5]
A young deer, or a famous paper-shredding secretary
fawn
Janet
|
$300
[11]
Flatfish spend most of their lives lying buried in sand with only these organs protruding
the eyes
Janet
|
$300
[17]
Pan Am was begun to carry mail between Key West & this country with which our communications are now strained
Cuba
Bruce
|
$300
[2]
This city's Landmarks Preservation Foundation is using plaques designed by Tiffany & Co.
New York City
Janet
|
$300
[22]
City in which "My Sister Sam" is set
San Francisco
Mike
|
$300
[28]
It's what you have to pick to win a "quiniela"
first & second
Bruce
|
|
$400
[6]
Literally, the name of this biblical gift means "superior incense"
frankincense
Bruce
|
$400
[13]
This dreaded fish is known for its lumpy body, venomous spines & ability to hide among boulders
the stonefish
|
$400
[18]
If your pickup truck is a "brat", it's made by this company
Subaru
|
$400
[7]
Rio landmark whose name in Portuguese "Pao de Acucar"
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Bruce
|
DD
$500
[23]
3 of the 5 Huxtable kids
(3 of) Theo, Denise, Sondra, Vanessa, & Rudy
Mike
|
— |
|
$500
[12]
This 2-word French term for a siren literally means "disastrous woman"
femme fatale
Janet
|
$500
[27]
This "fishing" fish attracts food by dangling fleshy bait that grows from a fin on its head
the anglerfish
Bruce
|
$500
[19]
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler & this fellow German built the 1st gasoline-powered vehicles
(Karl) Benz
Janet
|
$500
[8]
It took over 50 years, but the mortgage on this Arizona/Nevada landmark was paid off in 1987
Hoover Dam
Janet
|
$500
[24]
From 1966-69, this "African" series was shot in Africa, USA, a wild animal park outside L.A.
Daktari
Janet
|
— |
| MATHEMATICS | COTTON | WOMEN IN LITERATURE | CHURCH ARCHITECTURE | "OF" | 19THC. AMERICA |
|
$200
[22]
Any straight line drawn through the center of a circle from one edge to the other
a diameter
Bruce
|
$200
[21]
A machine for gathering the ripe lint & seed from the standing stalk, or someone who does so
a cotton picker
Mike
Janet
|
$200
[1]
Connie is the 1st name of this D.H. Lawrence title character
Lady Chatterley
Bruce
|
$200
[14]
From Old French for "portable siege tower", some have bats in them
a belfry
Janet
|
$200
[6]
Time magazine said that for 1986 it was Corazon Aquino
the Woman of the Year
Janet
|
$400
[9]
Some Federalists felt acquisiton of this land in 1803 dissolved the original states' allegiance to the Union
the Louisiana Purchase
Bruce
|
|
$400
[23]
The Roman numeral 500
D
Bruce
|
$400
[20]
The World Book article on "Cotton" cross-references 24 articles on these, from batiste to voile
cotton fabrics (types of cotton accepted)
Janet
|
$400
[2]
Nicole is a patient of psychiatrist Dick Diver in this author's "Tender is the Night"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bruce
|
$400
[13]
If you don't know this other name of the Garden Grove (Calif.) Community Church, just ask Robert Schuller
the Crystal Cathedral
Janet
|
$400
[7]
Dweebs wreaked vengeance in this 1984 film, & in the 1987 sequel
Revenge of the Nerds
Janet
|
$600
[10]
Wealthy fur trader who opened a fashionable NYC hotel in 1836
John Jacob Astor
Bruce
|
|
$600
[24]
If you divide a negative number by another negative number, you get this type of number
a positive
Janet
|
— |
$600
[3]
In this E.M. Forster work, Adela Quested wrongly accuses Dr. Aziz of assaulting her
A Passage to India
Bruce
|
$600
[15]
Examples of this architectural style are the English cathedral in Salisbury & the French one in Reims
Gothic architecture
Bruce
|
$600
[8]
Common cliche that might be Betty Crocker's way of saying "easily done"
piece of cake
Bruce
|
$1,000
[12]
Henry Flagler extended his East Coast RR to this city in 1896, & the city was incorporated that same year
Miami
|
|
$1,000
[26]
Whenever the product of two fractions equals 1, we call them these
reciprocals (or inverses)
|
— |
$800
[4]
Phoebe Caulfield is a prominent character in this popular modern novel
The Catcher in the Rye
Bruce
|
$800
[16]
Usually, it's the combined tower & spire of a church
the steeple
Janet
|
$800
[18]
Fought in the Ardennes region, it was called the greatest pitched battle between Germany & the U.S. in WWII
the Battle of the Bulge
Bruce
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
1st heard in an 1823 play, this soon became America's most popular song as well as a popular 3-word sampler:
"Home, Sweet Home"
Bruce
|
|
DD
$2,600
[25]
The square root of 9 times the square root of 16 equals the square root of this number
144
Janet
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
In Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw", the heroine is hired to serve in this capacity
a governess
Janet
|
$1,000
[17]
From Latin for "holy", it's the holiest part of a church, where the high altar is placed
the sanctuary
Janet
|
$1,000
[19]
Part of this area was returned to Virginia in 1846
the District of Columbia
Bruce
|
— |
Appropriate mythological name given the asteroid in our solar system that passes closest to the Sun
Icarus