Kim Wells — a customer service representative from Aloha, Oregon
Jonathan Lowenberg — a certified public accountant from Baltimore, Maryland
Dan Bowman — a letter carrier from Dixon, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $2,000 | $2,100 | $7,000 |
$9,401
2-day champion: $23,802 + Jeopardy! box game from Pressman or Jeopardy! Challenger scorekeeper |
$8,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jonathan | $100 | $900 | $4,700 |
$100
3rd place: a Smith-Corona PWP 7000 laptop word processor + Jeopardy! box game from Pressman or Jeopardy! Challenger scorekeeper |
$3,500
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Kim | $1,000 | $2,300 | $4,700 |
$9,400
2nd place: a Bassett Old World bedroom set + CapriLighting track lighting + Jeopardy! box game from Pressman or Jeopardy! Challenger scorekeeper |
$4,700
14 R, 0 W |
| VOCABULARY | "BLACK" MOVIES | ROYALTY | MINNESOTA | THE NAVY | PUDDING |
|
$100
[13]
This flower's name didn't come from just any old garden, but from a botanist, Dr. Alexander Garden
the Gardenia
Jonathan
|
$100
[1]
Leonard Maltin described the 1971 British film version of this Anna Sewell tale as "average horse opera"
Black Beauty
Dan
|
$100
[3]
After Macbeth's death, his stepson, Lulach, became king of this country, but only for a few months
Scotland
Jonathan
|
$100
[8]
This city was named after Daniel Greysolon, who was also known as Sieur du Lhut
Duluth
Kim
|
$100
[18]
While they've served in the Navy since before WWI, they weren't admitted to the academy until 1976
Women
Jonathan
|
$100
[22]
The short-grain, medium-grain & long-grain varieites of this can all be used to make pudding
rice
Dan
|
|
$200
[14]
From the Greek, these 2nd year students are the "wise fools" of the academic world
sophomores
Kim
|
$200
[2]
In this film Theresa Russell played a young woman who seduced, married & then murdered wealthy men
Black Widow
Kim
|
$200
[4]
In 1931 Alfonso XIII was forced to leave this country, & he died in exile in Rome 10 years later
Spain
Dan
|
$200
[9]
About 10,000 years ago this dug out the 10,000 lakes
the glacier
Dan
|
$200
[19]
One-word term for an authorized leave from duty; to a sailor it means freedom for 48 hours or less
liberty
Jonathan
|
$200
[24]
This phrase refers to the ability to measure up to expectations & can precede "is in the eating"
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
Dan
|
|
$300
[15]
Something producing rainbowlike colors is said to be this, after Iris, goddess of the rainbow
iridescent
Jonathan
|
$300
[5]
This 1929 Hitchcock movie, his & England's 1st talkie, was shot originally as a silent
Blackmail
|
$300
[28]
Queen Victoria's uncle Leopold I was the 1st king of this country
Belgium
Dan
Jonathan
|
$300
[10]
Both the cities of Bemidji & Brainerd have statues honoring this ox
Babe the Blue Ox
Kim
|
$300
[20]
They are the 2 official colors of the U.S. Navy
blue & gold
Jonathan
|
$300
[25]
This pudding is a type of cornmeal mush, as Yankee Doodle could have told you
hasty pudding
Jonathan
Kim
|
|
$400
[16]
An ideal community, from the title of a Thomas More work
Utopia
Kim
|
DD
$500
[6]
George Segal played Sam Spade Jr. in this 1975 film satirizing "The Maltese Falcon"
The Black Bird
Dan
|
$400
[29]
This country has been ruled by Haakon the Good, Haakon the Old & Haakon the Broad-Shouldered
Norway
|
$400
[11]
With this as the state nickname, Fred Grandy should have been a representative from Minnesota
"The Gopher State"
Kim
|
$400
[21]
In 1985 the submarine Rhode Island was renamed for this late Washington State senator
(Henry) Jackson
Kim
|
$400
[26]
The 3 traditional methods used in cooking puddings are boiling, baking & this
steaming
|
|
$500
[17]
From the Urdu word for "dusty", cloth of this color was popularized during the Sepoy Mutiny in India
khaki
Jonathan
|
$500
[7]
This 1979 Disney sci-fi film starring Maximilian Schell was nominated for an Oscar for Visual Effects
The Black Hole
Dan
|
— |
$500
[12]
This St. Paul co. began by mining corundum, then making sandpaper & masking tape
3M
Dan
|
$500
[23]
Base that's headquarters to the U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Jonathan
|
$500
[27]
In a nursery rhyme, this boy's name is followed by "pudding and pie"
Georgie Porgie
Dan
|
| NOVEL PLOTS | TIMEPIECES | 1985 | LANGUAGES | SINGERS | THE LOUVRE |
|
$200
[1]
3 men are captured by a "sea monster" which turns out to be a strange underwater ship, the Nautilus
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jonathan
|
$200
[20]
A little birdie told us this timepiece was 1st made around 1750 in Germany's Black Forest
the cuckoo clock
Kim
|
$200
[6]
He had a "Big Adventure" that pulled in big bucks at the box office
Pee-Wee Herman
Kim
|
$200
[21]
Unlike their Spanish-speaking Central American neighbors, most residents of Belize speak this language
English
Dan
Jonathan
|
$200
[13]
This curvaceous country singer has written many of her own hits, including "Applejack" & "2 Doors Down"
Dolly Parton
Kim
|
$200
[9]
The Dept. of Egyptian Antiquities was formed in 1826 to study artifacts from his Egyptian campaign
Napoleon
Dan
|
|
$400
[2]
Martians conquer England with heat rays but then succumb to Earthly bacteria
The War of the Worlds
Dan
|
$400
[26]
1st called a longcase or coffin clock, it was renamed this after a popular turn-of-the-century song
a grandfather clock
Jonathan
|
$400
[7]
Ted Turner tried to buy CBS after this company bought ABC
Capital Cities
Jonathan
|
$400
[22]
The so-called click languages, such as Hottentot, are native to this continent
Africa
Dan
|
$400
[14]
He titled one of his albums "A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night"
Harry Nilsson
Kim
|
$400
[10]
His "Arrangement in Grey & Black No. 2" is in a Glasgow museum; No. 1 is in the Louvre
James McNeill Whistler
Dan
|
|
$600
[3]
W. Somerset Maugham's tale of a medical student obsessed with the vulgar waitress Mildred
Of Human Bondage
Dan
Jonathan
|
$600
[28]
The 1st mechanical clock had no dial or hands but did this to indicate the time
chimed (a bell rang)
Dan
|
$600
[8]
Robert McFarlane resigned as National Security Advisor & this man, his deputy, succeeded him
John Poindexter
|
$600
[23]
It was the basic literary language of Italy as late as the 15th century
Latin
Dan
|
$600
[15]
Canadian whose 1st No. 1 hit in the U.S. was "You Needed Me" in 1978
Anne Murray
Kim
|
$600
[11]
Visitors now enter the museum through a new structure shaped like one of these
a pyramid
Jonathan
|
|
$800
[4]
Emma takes poison after using up her husband's inheritance to finance her love affair
Madame Bovary
Dan
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
After WWII the United States Time Corporation changed its name to this
Timex
Jonathan
|
$800
[18]
A typo that reversed her explanation of rhythm method forced Warner Books to recall her book
Dr. Ruth (Westheimer)
|
$1,000
[25]
Seemingly unrelated to any other language, "Euskara" is spoken by these people of the Pyrenees
Basques
Dan
|
$800
[16]
"Seasonal" surname of siblings Jimmy & Edgar
Winter
Dan
|
$800
[12]
The French ambassador at Constantinople bought this statue, though incomplete, from Greek peasants
Venus de Milo
Kim
|
|
$1,000
[5]
The old priest Stephen Kumalo sadly tracks down his son in Johannesburg in this Alan Paton novel
Cry, the Beloved Country
Dan
|
— |
$1,000
[19]
The city of Times Beach, Mo. was permanently abandoned due to contamination by this chemical substance
dioxin
Dan
|
DD
$1,500
[24]
What the Dalmatian, Gothic & Babylonian languages have in common
dead languages
Dan
|
$1,000
[17]
He sang with Sarah Vaughan & Mel Torme on his "2:00 AM Paradise Cafe" album
Barry Manilow
|
$1,000
[27]
Among his other paintings in the Louvre are "St. John the Baptist" & the "Virgin of the Rocks"
Leonardo
Jonathan
|
He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859
John Brown