Susan Davis — a teacher from Warrior Run, Pennsylvania
Dennis Shirilla — a shopping mall manager from San Antonio, Texas
Terry Swart — a medical research technician from Norwalk, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terry | $2,300 | $5,000 | $10,600 |
$10,200
2-day champion: $18,500 |
$9,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Dennis | $900 | $2,700 | $3,100 |
$6,100
2nd place: Trip to Nassau, Bahamas |
$4,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Susan | $300 | $300 | $2,100 |
$4,100
3rd place: His & Hers tailored clothing |
$2,100
8 R, 2 W |
| PRESIDENTS | SLANG | FOOD | SINGERS | COMMUNICATION | CUBA |
|
$100
[16]
U.S. district judge Sarah Hughes administered the oath of office to him aboard Air Force One
Lyndon B. Johnson
Terry
|
$100
[9]
Slang suffix used with shutter, jitter & litter
bug
Susan
|
$100
[4]
Often served over asparagus, this creamy sauce was 1st made in France, not in the Netherlands
Hollandaise sauce
Terry
|
$100
[1]
Under most No. 1 hits by a writer, Billboard lists this Beatle 1st with John Lennon 2nd
Paul McCartney
Susan
|
$100
[10]
When making a movie, it's a sound idea to have one of these dangling from the end of your boom
microphone
Terry
|
$100
[15]
If you have a sweet tooth, you'll probably know that this is Cuba's most important crop
sugarcane
Susan
|
|
$200
[26]
3 of his many nicknames were "Buffoon", "Tycoon" & "Illinois Baboon"
Abraham Lincoln
Dennis
|
$200
[11]
This doesn't mean you've been kidnapping babies but dating someone much younger than yourself
robbing the cradle
Dennis
|
$200
[5]
Use these when an Italian recipe calls for "pomodori"
tomatoes
Terry
|
$200
[2]
The only million-selling album by this Queen of Soul was 1985's "Who's Zoomin' Who"
Aretha Franklin
Dennis
|
$200
[17]
1-word term for the presiding officer in Britain's House of Commons & our House of Representatives
the speaker
Terry
|
$200
[22]
In the news in 1961, this bay in the Cuban province of Las Villas is also called Bahia de los Cochinos
Bay of Pigs
Terry
|
|
$300
[27]
Facts About the Presidents lists "corporate spokesman" as one of his former occupations
Ronald Reagan
Dennis
Susan
|
$300
[12]
Slang term for an outboard motor, probably derived from the sound it makes
putt-putt
|
$300
[6]
Most botanists believe the Irish potato originally came from this continent
South America
Terry
|
$300
[3]
He wrote the song that begins "Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let--fifty cents"
Roger Miller ("King of the Road")
Terry
|
$300
[20]
Funk & Wagnalls defines it as "to draw the eyelids of 1 eye together, as in conveying a hint"
wink
Terry
|
$300
[23]
This Pulitzer & Nobel prize-winning novelist's home in pre-Castro Cuba was called "Finca Vigia"
Ernest Hemingway
Susan
|
|
$400
[29]
He was climbing in the Adirondacks when he was notified that Pres. McKinley was dying
Theodore Roosevelt
Dennis
|
$400
[13]
The hinged section of an airplane wing or, in slang, a commotion
a flap
Terry
|
$400
[7]
This deli item is corned beef that's been rubbed with pepper & spices, smoked & then steamed
pastrami
Terry
|
$500
[19]
She wrote the music & sang the themes for 2 of Mike Nichols' films, "Heartburn" & "Working Girl"
Carly Simon
Terry
|
$400
[21]
It's the broadcasting service of the U.S. International Communication Agency
Voice of America
|
$400
[24]
The presidential palace last used by this dictator is now called The Museum of the Revolution
Fulgencio Batista
Dennis
|
|
$500
[28]
This president appointed Warren Burger chief justice
Richard Nixon
Dennis
|
$500
[14]
Slang term for the bar at a golf club, or the drink you'd have there after a round
the 19th hole
Terry
|
$500
[8]
In the 1989 Farmer's Almanac, Edmund Muskie tells how to hypnotize one of these before cooking it
a lobster
Dennis
|
DD
$1,400
[18]
On June 27, 1989 at Radio City Music Hall, they were heard singingthe following:"Did you ever see the faces of..."
The Who ("Christmas" from the rock opera Tommy )
Terry
|
$500
[25]
In the 17th century Aphra Behn wrote this "speaks sense in a language all nations understand"
money
|
— |
| STATE CAPITALS | ANIMALS | LITERATURE | GAMES | OPERA | SCIENTISTS |
|
$200
[15]
William Penn authorized the founding of this city named for a British city known for its white cliffs
Dover, Delaware
Susan
|
$200
[2]
Although these huge animals are generally docile, when the bulls go into musth they can turn violent
elephants
Terry
Susan
|
$200
[10]
In this novel, Bill Sikes kills Nancy
Oliver Twist
Dennis
|
$200
[1]
If you can't get enough of these Nabisco sandwich cookies, you can play the cookie factory game they inspired
Oreos
Dennis
|
$200
[8]
Spontini's opera about this adventurer's conquest of Mexico premiered in 1809
Hernando Cortez
Dennis
|
$200
[14]
German chemist who had a gas burner named for him & co-founded the sci. of chemical spectroscopy
Robert Bunsen
Dennis
|
|
$400
[16]
This capital was named for Germany's "Iron Chancellor"
Bismarck, North Dakota
Dennis
|
$400
[3]
The largest member of the cat family
tiger
Dennis
Susan
|
$400
[13]
His poems include "Highland Mary", "The Banks O' Down", & "A Man's A Man For A' That"
Robert Burns
Terry
|
$400
[4]
To win Battleship, you have to be the 1st player to do this to all of your opponent's ships
sink them
Dennis
|
$400
[27]
Operas based on this Norwegian's plays include "The Feast at Solhaug" & "Peer Gynt"
Henrik Ibsen
Dennis
|
$400
[20]
This Fr. undersea explorer has won Oscars for his films "The Silent World" & "World Without Sun"
Jacques Cousteau
Terry
|
|
$600
[17]
It was previously the capital of a monarchy & a republic
Honolulu, Hawaii
|
$600
[9]
Not everyone is excited when these birds come back to Capistrano: some residents think they're too messy
swallows
Terry
|
$600
[24]
"The Silmarillion", his prequel to "Lord of the Rings", was published after his death
J.R.R. Tolkien
Dennis
|
$600
[5]
The "giant" version of this game contains 2 plastic bugs which double as banks
Cootie
Dennis
|
$600
[28]
This composer of "The Mikado" wrote only 1 grand opera, "Ivanhoe"
Sir Arthur Sullivan
|
$600
[21]
With his cousin, this Italian physicist formed the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Co., Ltd. in 1897
Guglielmo Marconi
Terry
|
|
$800
[18]
This southern capital's seal contains a 6-pointed star & the words "Cradle Of The Confederacy"
Montgomery, Alabama
Dennis
|
$1,000
[12]
These mammals are classed as Sirenia since they reminded sailors of mermaids--sirens of the sea
manatees
Dennis
|
$800
[26]
The color mentioned in the title of Zane Grey's most popular novel
purple ( Riders of the Purple Sage )
Susan
|
$1,000
[7]
A chess piece, or the "ever popular bidding game" featuring a card with a black bird on it
Rook
Terry
|
— |
$800
[22]
In the 1860s this chemist saved France's wine industry by showing that microbes can be killed with heat
Louis Pasteur
Terry
|
|
$1,000
[19]
It's the only state capital with an oil well on the statehouse grounds
Oklahoma City
Terry
|
DD
$1,500
[11]
The geographic ranges of most predators are shrinking, but the range of this, Canis latrans, has increased
the coyote
Dennis
|
$1,000
[25]
Robert Browning wrote, do this "along with me! The best is yet to be!"
"Grow Old With Me"
Terry
|
DD
$1,300
[6]
Frankly, Miss Scarlet, these are 2 of the weapons in the original game of Clue
(2 of) candlestick, knife, pipe, revolver, rope, & wrench
Dennis
|
— |
$1,000
[23]
For developing a process of converting pig iron to steel, this British inventor was knighted in 1879
Sir Henry Bessemer
Susan
|
Crassus, Julius Caesar & this man formed the 1st Triumvirate
Pompey