Carol Ruggiero — a teacher from Lynn Massachusetts
Ed Devin — a physician from Potomac, Maryland
Charley Horan — a photographic representative from Manhattan Beach, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charley | $1,400 | $2,700 | $9,700 |
$9,799
3-day champion: $25,400 |
$9,700
24 R, 2 W |
| Ed | $-400 | $700 | $4,800 |
$9,600
2nd place: Trip to San Francisco including Sonoma Safari wine country tour |
$3,100
13 R (including 2 DDs), 7 W |
| Carol | $900 | $700 | $3,100 |
$1,000
3rd place: Lloyd Flanders All-Weather wicker patio furniture + Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior Editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune |
$3,100
11 R, 3 W |
| 1989 | PEOPLE | COSMETICS | CRIME | GEOGRAPHY | IN OTHER WORDS... |
|
$100
[12]
The Vatican said some S. Africans wrongly interpret the Bible in an attempt to justify this policy
apartheid
Charley
|
$100
[1]
This Atlanta mogul said he owned MGM for such a short time he never got to use the casting couch
Ted Turner
Charley
|
$100
[26]
Clinique's skin supplies for men include a special "healer" to use on the face after this morning ritual
shaving
Charley
|
$100
[8]
Last name of gang members Blanche, Buck & Clyde
Barrow
Charley
Ed
|
$100
[3]
In both area & population it's the largest continent
Asia
Charley
|
$100
[14]
Loony like one milliner
mad as a hatter
Ed
Carol
|
|
$200
[18]
This Omaha village founded by Fr. Flanagan now has homes in Tallahassee & Orlando for boys...& girls
Boys Town
Charley
|
$200
[2]
Her 4th husband, Thierry Roussel, was the father of her only child, Athina
Christina Onassis
Ed
|
$200
[27]
This "Dynasty" star is the spokeswoman for Clairol Ultress gel colourant; she uses Ultress 75
Linda Evans
Ed
Carol
|
$200
[9]
Nickname of the 1932 federal kidnapping statute arising from a famous kidnapping of that same year
the "Lindbergh Law"
Carol
|
$200
[4]
The 3 main island groups that make up this are the Bahamas & the Greater Lesser Antilles
West Indies
Charley
|
$200
[22]
Having an intelligence quotient over that of an everyday ursine creature
smarter than the average bear
Ed
|
|
$300
[19]
Nathan's Famous, which began as a hot dog stand in this part of Brooklyn, is now selling franchisees
Coney Island
Charley
Ed
|
$300
[15]
This tennis great was named for the ski lodge in Czechoslovakia where she was conceived
Martina Navratilova
Charley
|
$300
[28]
Lancome's fortifying protein conditioner for these comes in a wand
eyelashes
Charley
Carol
|
$300
[10]
Scotland Yard viewed them as foolproof evidence as early as 1910
fingerprints
Carol
|
$300
[5]
Of all the countries on the west coast of South America, this one has the largest coastline
Chile
Charley
|
$300
[23]
Mr. Cagney breaks up maize, without my interest
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
|
|
$400
[20]
These solar phenomena that can disrupt communications will reach a peak in 1989-90
sunspots (or solar flares)
Ed
|
$400
[16]
This former Giants kicker knows the "true value" of his master's degree in Russian history
Pat Summerall
Charley
|
— |
$400
[11]
Crime for which mobster Al Capone was convicted in 1931
income tax evasion
Ed
|
$400
[6]
2 of the 3 Canadian provinces with 2-word names
British Columbia & Nova Scotia (& New Brunswick)
Ed
Carol
|
$400
[24]
Getting a look at a single example is the same as looking at the rest
when you've seen one you've seen them all
Charley
|
|
$500
[21]
Maverick former Moscow party boss who won 89% of the vote in March Soviet elections
Boris Yeltsin
Ed
|
$500
[17]
This dancer defected in Paris in 1961 & became director of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1983
Rudolf Nureyev
|
— |
$500
[13]
While in Switzerland, this Saudi financier was arrested for aiding the Marcoses
Adnan Khashoggi
Charley
|
$500
[7]
Alphabetically, countries in Africa run from this to Zimbabwe
Algeria
Ed
|
$500
[25]
Curl of hair, chicken broth, plus a cask
lock, stock and barrel
Charley
|
| THE ANIMAL KINGDOM | BOOKS & AUTHORS | FOOD FACTS | ART | AVIATION | COLORFUL TV SHOWS |
|
$200
[7]
This part of a bird's egg is formed & given color in the uterus
the shell
Carol
|
$200
[17]
It was Luther's translation of this book that spread the use of the new High German literary language
the Bible
Ed
|
$200
[6]
A recent poll said 97% of people who eat chocolate bunnies bite these off 1st
the ears
Ed
|
$200
[13]
A French controller-general gave his name to these cutout profile portraits
silhouettes
Carol
|
$200
[12]
This airline sold $12 N.Y. to Boston or Washington shuttle tickets in March 1989
Eastern Airlines
Carol
|
$200
[1]
Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan& Estelle Getty
The Golden Girls
Carol
|
|
$400
[18]
A tiny wingless fly is the largest land animal native to this continent
Antarctica
Charley
|
$1,000
[25]
Some think his translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is better than the original
Edward Fitzgerald
Ed
|
$400
[8]
1 of 2 types of seafood Spaniards sometimes cook "en su tinta", meaning in its ink
squid (or cuttlefish)
Charley
Carol
|
$400
[14]
At a 1988 auction, a poster of this French tire company character fetched 7,260 pounds
the Michelin Man
Charley
|
$400
[22]
Of $4, $10 or $15, the sum The New York Times says the average airline spends on food & drink per passenger
$4
Ed
|
$400
[2]
Joseph Wambaugh wrote the novel on which this series about policeman Bumper Morgan was based
The Blue Knight
Charley
|
|
$600
[19]
The part of a hummingbird's body that produces a humming sound
wings
Charley
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
"A Dangerous Place" is this senator's account of his 8 months as U.N. ambassador
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Ed
|
$600
[9]
Invented in Naples, perhaps by the royal baker, a 1980 poll called it U.S. teens' favorite food
pizza
Charley
|
$600
[15]
In terms of style, Monet is considered one of these, & Cezanne a "post" one
impressionist
Carol
|
$600
[28]
French for "departure", the flight of an airplane on a combat mission is called this
sortie
Charley
|
$600
[3]
It featured a caucasian basketball coach at L.A.'s racially-mixed Carver High School
The White Shadow
Carol
|
|
$800
[20]
One of these mammals can eat 5,000 pounds of krill, a shrimplike animal, per day
whale
Charley
|
— |
$800
[10]
1 version of this north African semolina dish includes 8 vegetables & meat
couscous
Carol
|
$800
[16]
The fusing of powdered glass to a metal base by the action of fire
enameling/cloisonne
|
$800
[27]
It's Boeing's highest numbered model passenger aircraft currently flying
767
Ed
|
$800
[4]
This Robert Conrad series was loosely based on a book by Marine Corps ace "Pappy" Boyington
The Black Sheep Squadron (or Baa Baa Black Sheep )
Charley
|
|
$1,000
[21]
The World Almanac lists this aptly named animal as moving just a bit faster than a garden snail
sloth
Ed
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
Many U.S. food companies have stopped using palm oil & this other tropical oil high in saturated fat
coconut oil
Charley
|
DD
$1,500
[24]
When he signed his paintings, like "The Syndics of the Cloth Guild", he didn't use his middle name, Harmenszoon
Rembrandt
Ed
|
$1,000
[23]
The west coast's only independent airline, it now earns only 30% of its revenue in the state where it started
Alaska Airlines
Ed
|
$1,000
[5]
Ben Vereen & Jeff Goldblum starred as detectives E.L. Turner & Lionel Whitney in this series
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Charley
|
Lying at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo range, it's the highest state capital
Santa Fe, New Mexico