J.P. Duffy — a stage director and writer from Los Angeles, California
Denise Rossi — a systems engineer from Santa Monica, California
Judith Seeger — an associate research engineer from Mountain View, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $32,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judith | $700 | $1,800 | $5,400 |
$6,601
4-day champion: $38,800 |
$5,100
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Denise | $100 | $100 | $1,400 |
$1
3rd place: Gibson Les Paul guitar + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version |
$2,100
6 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| J.P. | $800 | $1,300 | $3,300 |
$300
2nd place: trip to Florida on Eastern & stay at Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness center on Tampa Bay + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version |
$3,300
15 R, 6 W |
| PATRON SAINTS | 4-LETTER WORDS | U.S. HISTORY | CHILDREN'S GAMES | "LAST" MOVIES |
|
$100
[1]
St. Barbara watches over these souls at such places as San Quentin
prisons
Judith
|
$100
[3]
Meaning "fasten up", it's the skirt highlanders fasten around their waists
kilt
Denise
|
$100
[13]
Ben Franklin published it annually from 1733 through 1758
Poor Richard's Almanac
Judith
|
$100
[12]
In the game Chutes & Ladders, direction you travel on any chute
down
J.P.
|
$100
[9]
Controversial 1973 film in which Maria Schneider & Marlon Brando did more than dance
Last Tango in Paris
J.P.
|
|
$200
[2]
St. Jerome managed to become their patron saint, even without knowing the Dewey Decimal System
librarians
J.P.
|
$200
[4]
A lively manner of speaking, or a brand of home permanent
lilt
Judith
J.P.
|
$200
[20]
Masked bandits stole over $2 million from the Boston office of this company, January 17, 1950
Brinks
Judith
|
$200
[14]
In tetherball, the object of the game is to do this
get the ball, get the rope wrapped all the way around the pole
Judith
|
$200
[10]
1935 & 1960 films made possible only through the efforts of Mount Vesuvius
The Last Days of Pompeii
J.P.
|
|
$300
[5]
St. Nicholas is the patron saint of these cooks, who are usually rolling in dough
pastry cooks (bakers)
Judith
|
$400
[18]
Covered with a thin layer of gold, or just looking like gold, by association
gilt
Judith
|
$300
[21]
John Paul Jones reply to Capt. Richard Pearson's Sept. 23, 1779 question "Have you struck?"
I have not yet begun to fight!
J.P.
|
$300
[15]
In the card game Crazy Eights, eights can be used to do this
change the suit or the number
J.P.
|
$300
[11]
Set in a Texas town in 1951, it ends when one of the guys goes off to Korea & the rundown cinema is closed
The Last Picture Show
Judith
|
|
$400
[7]
He's patron against poisoning, & his twin sister Scholastica was 1st abbess of the Benedictine nuns
St. Benedict
|
$500
[19]
A sedimentary substance of fine mineral particles whose size falls between sand & clay
silt
J.P.
|
$400
[24]
The U.S. acquired property rights to build this in 1904, & T.R. was a man with a plan for it
Panama Canal
Judith
|
$400
[22]
At the end of the last verse in "Farmer in the Dell", run--or this edible will catch you
the cheese
J.P.
|
$400
[16]
Marty Feldman directed, starred in & co-wrote this parody of French Foreign Legion flicks
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
|
|
$500
[8]
Since his name derives from Latin for "wine", it's appropriate he's the patron of winemakers
St. Vincent
Judith
J.P.
|
DD
$600
[6]
Infraction sign that can stop this noise abruptly:
tilt
Judith
|
— |
$500
[23]
The "scotch" in hopscotch has nothing to do with Scotland, but refers to these
lines
Judith
J.P.
|
$500
[17]
Paul Muni played a concerned doctor in this "Last" movie--which was in fact his last
The Last Angry Man
|
| GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | AFRICAN ANIMALS | MARK TWAIN | LAKES & RIVERS | MILITARY QUOTES | NAMES IN SONG |
|
$200
[16]
Cleared by one "special prosecutor" before becoming Att'y General, he faced a 2nd in May 1987
Meese
J.P.
|
$200
[4]
Though the largest primates, they have a smaller relative brain size than chimpanzees
gorillas
Denise
|
$200
[12]
Century in which Mark Twain died
20th century
J.P.
|
$200
[7]
This is the river you're "sent up" if you're sent from Kansas City to Leavenworth
Missouri
Denise
J.P.
|
$200
[23]
Talleyrand is quote as saying it's "much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military"
war
Judith
|
$200
[1]
Since Marilyn McCoo had "The Wedding Bell Blues", she asked him "Please marry me"--& he did
Billy Davis, Jr.
Judith
|
|
$400
[17]
A 200-year-old law banning cohabitation in this state was repealed in May 1987 by Gov. Dukakis
Massachusetts
J.P.
|
$400
[10]
A hippopotamus does this as a gesture of attack not because he's sleepy
yawning
Denise
J.P.
|
$400
[13]
Color of the suit that, late in Mark Twain's life, became his trademark
white
Judith
|
$400
[8]
River forming most of the Thailand-Laos border, or how a movie ape might identify himself
Mekong
Denise
|
$400
[24]
Joseph Heller wrote of his hero in "Catch 22", "He decided to live forever" or do this "in the attempt"
die
J.P.
|
$400
[2]
Rick Nelson said "Goodbye Heart" when he said "Hello" to her
Mary Lou
Judith
|
|
$600
[18]
1986's costliest campaign pitted Ed Zschau, who spent some 12 mil., & this Cal. senator who spent $11 mil.
Alan Cranston
Denise
|
$600
[11]
The upper incisors of an elephant are commonly called these
tusks
Judith
|
$600
[14]
"Dan'l Webster" was the name of this "Celebrated" title figure
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
J.P.
|
$600
[9]
It's the only lake at which Harrah's has a hotel
Lake Tahoe
J.P.
|
— |
$600
[3]
"Help me, information, get in touch with" her, "The only one who'd phone me here from Memphis, Tenn."
Marie
J.P.
|
|
$800
[19]
Tenn. Gov. Ned McWherter ate pickles & ice cream after signing a law for businesses to provide this
maternity leave
|
$800
[22]
This genus, which includes drills & mandrills, includes the largest of all monkeys
baboons
Judith
|
$800
[15]
After being hit by a crowbar, a man from Hartford woke up near this castle site
King Arthur's Court
J.P.
|
DD
$700
[20]
Besides Delaware, 2 of the other 3 states on the Delaware River
(2 of) New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Denise
|
— |
$800
[5]
1 of the only 2 Oak Ridge Boys songs that made the pop top 40, they both fit this category
"Elvira" or "Bobbie Sue"
|
|
$1,000
[26]
In May 1987, a house sub-committee ok'd a bill to rename it New Columbia & make it the 51st state
District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)
Judith
|
$1,000
[25]
The largest wildebeest population, about 500,000, is found in this Tanzanian plain
serengeti
Denise
|
$1,000
[27]
In his comic criticism of this author's works, Twain calls "Chingachgook" "Chicago"
James Fenimore Cooper
|
$1,000
[21]
The temples of Abu Simbel were moved to escape the rising waters of this Aswan High Dam lake
Lake Nasser
|
— |
$1,000
[6]
Jim Croce's title warning about Big Mr. Walker
"You Don't Mess Around With Jim"
|
Though it touches no ocean, this state has 1 of the 10 longest shorelines in the U.S.
Michigan