Wayne Perra — an advertising manager from Tenafly, New Jersey
Florence Livingston — a homemaker from Ellicott City, Maryland
Joe Haggerty — a distributor originally from Woonsocket, Rhode Island (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,301)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe | $2,100 | $3,600 | $6,200 |
$6,700
3-day champion: $33,001 |
$8,400
20 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Florence | $1,200 | $2,300 | $2,700 |
$0
2nd place: an entertainment center & TV |
$2,700
14 R, 2 W |
| Wayne | $-300 | $0 | $-1,400 |
$-1,400
3rd place: an Astral crystal service set |
$-900
8 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| FILE UNDER "E" | U.S. HISTORY | OPERA | TRAVEL & TOURISM | INVENTIONS | FAMOUS KANGAROOS |
|
$100
[2]
Gene Chandler is the Duke of Earl & Prince Philip is the duke of this city
Edinburgh
Joe
|
$100
[7]
Teddy Roosevelt's attorney general, Charles Bonaparte, was this man's grandnephew
Napoleon
Wayne
|
$100
[26]
He composed a 1-act jazz opera called "Blue Monday" 13 years before "Porgy & Bess"
George Gershwin
Joe
|
$100
[19]
When visiting this country, why not try the cloudberry soup, the reindeer tongue or the sauna sausage
Finland
Florence
|
$100
[3]
Edison's bulb gave off yellow light; Irving Langmuir invented 1 that produced light of this color
white
|
$100
[6]
He named his character Captain Kangaroo from the large pockets on his jacket
Bob Keeshan
Wayne
|
|
$200
[24]
According to Maurice Chevalier, they seem to "whisper Louise"
every little breeze
Florence
|
$200
[8]
Black Shawl was the wife of this Indian who helped lead the charge against Custer
Crazy Horse
Joe
|
$400
[28]
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera about Mozart's rivalry with this man, who allegedly poisoned him
Antonio Salieri
Joe
|
$200
[20]
The mode of transportation you'd be taking if you were "pushed" by some of Tokyo's "people pushers"
subway
Florence
|
$200
[15]
The World Almanac's list of inventions runs from Pascal's adding machine to this fastener by Judson
zipper
Florence
|
$200
[11]
The 1978 Elliott Gould film "Matilda" was about a kangaroo who participated in this sport
boxing
Florence
|
|
$300
[25]
Poet William Drennan claimed to have coined this colorful name for Ireland about 1795
"The Emerald Isle"
Florence
|
$300
[1]
Roger Williams founded R.I. after he was banished from this colony for his religious beliefs
Massachusetts
Florence
|
$500
[27]
He wrote his 1st opera, "The Death of Pierrot", at age 11; the one about Amahl came much later
Gian Carlo Menotti
Joe
|
$300
[21]
This "coast of the sun" is Spain's answer to the Riviera
Costa del Sol
Florence
|
$300
[16]
E.E. Cummings would not have liked the typewriter C.L. Sholes invented; it only did this
type in capitals
Wayne
|
$300
[12]
In 1963 Aussie Rolf Harris had his only U.S. top 40 hit with this song
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down"
Florence
|
|
$400
[9]
This conjunction is Latin for "therefore"
Ergo
Joe
|
$400
[4]
This state recently marked the 400th anniversary of the English settlement on Roanoke Island
North Carolina
Joe
|
— |
$400
[22]
St. Moritz, where the jet set "winters", is in this country, not far from the Italian border
Switzerland
Florence
|
DD
$500
[17]
Purpose of the device seenhereon the top of the billboard:
to keep off the pigeons
Wayne
|
$400
[13]
He created the characters of Kanga & Roo
A.A. Milne
Florence
|
|
$500
[10]
He's the only man nominated for V.P. by a natl. convention who resigned his candidacy under pressure
Sen. Thomas Eagleton
Joe
|
$500
[5]
The Cajuns migrated to Louisiana from there
Nova Scotia
Joe
Wayne
|
— |
$500
[23]
Their ads say they're "The World's Favourite Airline"
British Airways
Wayne
|
$500
[18]
Italian-born physicist whose control rods put a "damper" on the 1st controlled nuclear reaction
Enrico Fermi
Joe
|
$500
[14]
In 1969 this bush kangaroo got his own syndicated TV series
Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo
|
| POTENT POTABLES | WORLD LITERATURE | ASIAN CAPITALS | ACTORS & RUSSIAN ROLES | NUMBER, PLEASE |
|
$200
[21]
Today all brands of this whiskey except Bushmills are made in Midleton near Cork
Irish whiskey
Florence
|
$200
[13]
Trapped in the cave, Cassim yelled, "Open, wheat!" & "Open, barley!" when he forgot this phrase
Open, sesame!
Florence
|
$200
[10]
This Sri Lankan capital was named for the Kelani Ferry, not a detective in a rumpled raincoat
Colombo
Joe
|
$200
[1]
Alec Guinness played Yevgraf, the half brother of the title physician, in this romantic 1965 epic
Doctor Zhivago
Wayne
|
$200
[14]
Number of musketeers in the title of the 1975 movie sequel
4
Joe
|
|
$400
[22]
For 20 years this scotch's ads have featured "Achievers" who tell "Why I Do What I Do"
Dewar's
Wayne
|
$400
[12]
He used Marlow as a character or narrator in "Youth", "Lord Jim" & "Heart of Darkness"
Joseph Conrad
Florence
|
$400
[9]
When North & South Vietnam were reunited in 1976, this city was designated the capital
Hanoi
Joe
Wayne
|
$400
[2]
Christopher Lee, Edmund Purdom, Gert Frobe & Lionel Barrymore all monkeyed around as this "Mad Monk"
Rasputin
Wayne
|
$600
[18]
Though you'll probably retire later, you can join the American Assn. of Retired Persons on reaching this age
50
Joe
Florence
|
|
$600
[23]
Alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey, it's announcer Johnny Gilbert's favorite
mead
Joe
|
$800
[11]
It's who Eliza carried across the ice floes of the Ohio River in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
her baby (Little Harry)
Wayne
|
$600
[8]
From 1773-1912 this city, India's largest, served as the nation's capital
Calcutta
Joe
|
$600
[3]
Playing a Russian commissar, this Hungarian was seen in "Ninotchka" without fangs
Bela Lugosi
Joe
|
$800
[19]
Dalton Trumbo was 1 of this "Hollywood" group subpoenaed by the HUAC in 1947
the Hollywood 10
Joe
|
|
$800
[24]
Zubrowka is this type of potent potable flavored with buffalo grass
vodka
Wayne
|
$1,000
[7]
The 1st novel in the "Danzig Trilogy" by Gunter Grass
The Tin Drum
|
$800
[6]
This planned city named for Pakistan's main religion became the nation's capital in 1967
Islamabad
Joe
|
$800
[16]
In 1986 this Austrian Oscar-winner starred in an acclaimed miniseries as "Peter the Great"
Maximilian Schell
Joe
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
Number in the title of the following Neil Sedaka hit:"Tonight's the night I've waited for..."
16
Joe
|
|
$1,000
[25]
The label of this liqueur indicates it's "made with orange & fine old cognac brandy"
Grand Marnier
Wayne
|
DD
$1,200
[4]
The last names of these Steinbeck characters are Small & Milton
Lennie & George
Joe
|
$1,000
[5]
In the mid 1800s King Mongkut modernized this capital known as the "Venice of the Far East"
Bangkok
Joe
|
$1,000
[15]
She was married to Mel Ferrer in real life when she romanced him onscreen in "War & Peace" in 1956
Audrey Hepburn
Joe
|
$1,000
[20]
In the northern U.S. the number of years between appearances of the insects called periodic cicadas
17
Florence
Wayne
|
2 words having to do with parenthood that are anagrams of "parental"
paternal & prenatal