Ruta Larson — a financial assistance worker from Racine, Wisconsin
Gordon Brown — a retail executive from Roselle, New Jersey
Bob Beers — an attorney from Fairfax, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $0 | $2,500 | $7,200 |
$10,200
2-day champion: $33,200 |
$5,500
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Gordon | $2,400 | $3,800 | $5,000 |
$1
3rd place: Casablanca ceiling fan & light fixture |
$4,900
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Ruta | $0 | $500 | $600 |
$1,200
2nd place: trip on United to Aspen, Colorado & stay at Chestwood Lodge |
$2,100
6 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| ASTRONOMY | FOOTBALL | FASHION HISTORY | TRANSPORTATION | COUNTRY SONGS | THE SCENE IS SET |
|
$100
[18]
This Italian astronomer died in 1642, the year of Newton's birth
Galileo
Bob
|
$100
[3]
No longer pigskin, the covering of a college football can be leather or this
rubber
Bob
|
$100
[21]
The wearing of felt slippers in China may have begun because of this insect's aversion to noise
silkworm
Bob
|
$100
[8]
Astern, abaft, & aft all refer to this part of a ship
back (rear)
Gordon
|
$100
[13]
In "Coward of the County", these boys, tho not necessarily Larry, Steve & Rudy, did Becky wrong
Gatlin brothers
Gordon
|
$100
[1]
T. Williams set his play "Vieux Carre" in a "cheap rooming house" where he'd once lived in this city
New Orleans
Bob
|
|
$200
[19]
Term for disturbances that were detected by the Apollo seismic network
moonquakes
Bob
|
$200
[4]
Of piling on, misdirection, or pass interference, the 1 that isn't a penalty
misdirection
Gordon
|
$200
[22]
When these were introduced in 1939, silky wool began to disappear from women's legs
nylon stockings
Gordon
|
$200
[9]
From Greek for "iron", siderodromomania is abnormal interest in traveling by this means
railroad
Gordon
|
$200
[14]
Piece of clothing Dolly Parton's mother made for her that inspired 1 of her early hit songs
coat of many colors
Bob
|
$200
[2]
There's no exit for the characters in "No Exit" because they're here
hell
Gordon
|
|
$300
[20]
This small outer planet may be a low-density ice ball
Pluto
Gordon
|
$300
[5]
Though its games date from 1900, this traditional eastern conference wasn't organized until 1956
Ivy League
|
$300
[23]
Of a firkin, gherkin, or jerkin, the 1 that was a fashionable men's jacket in the 1500s
jerkin
Gordon
|
$300
[10]
4 members of the Seattle police department's freewheeling Adam squad now patrol the city on these
bicycles
Gordon
|
$300
[15]
The 2 John Denver hits with the word "Country" in the title
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" & "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"
Bob
|
$300
[27]
His play "California Suite" takes place in rooms 203 & 204 of the Beverly Hills Hotel
Neil Simon
Bob
|
|
$400
[28]
Discovered in 1973, this comet was extensively investigated from Skylab
Kohoutek
Bob
|
$400
[6]
While a "battering ram", he was 1st NFL running back to gain over 1800 yards in 3 separate seasons
Eric Dickerson
Gordon
|
$400
[24]
Ironically, the button itself was invented some 2000 years before this
buttonhole
Bob
|
DD
$500
[11]
1 of 2 cars mentioned in the following1958 hit by The Playmates:"Beep beep, beep beep /His horn went beep beep beep..."
Little Nash Rambler (or Cadillac)
Gordon
|
$400
[16]
According to Hank Williams Jr., "If I get stoned & sing all night long, it's" this
a family tradition
|
$400
[26]
Chekhov play set on Madame Ranevsky's estate & named for its blossoming fruit trees
The Cherry Orchard
Bob
|
|
$500
[29]
Containing Vega, the 5th brightest star, it's the only constellation representing a string instrument
Lyre
Ruta
|
$500
[7]
The Canadian Football League "Stampeders" play in this city
Calgary
Gordon
|
— |
$500
[12]
1 of 2 airlines which fly the Moscow-Havana run among world's longest non-stop airline trips
Aeroflot (or Cubana)
Gordon
|
$500
[17]
U.S. state that's the actual title of the Tanya Tucker song often called "When I Die"
Texas
|
$500
[25]
The parts of this Terence Rattigan play are titled "Table Number 7" & "Table by the Window"
Separate Tables
Bob
|
| CIVIL WAR | FOOD & DRINK | PALINDROMES | CLASSICAL MUSIC | ACTRESSES | WALES |
|
$200
[14]
Troops from this "bleeding" state had highest desertion rate in the Union Army
Kansas
Bob
|
$200
[11]
According to the FDA, this dairy liquid must be a least 18% milkfat
cream
Bob
Gordon
|
$200
[1]
A Boy Scout's should be a good one
deed
Ruta
|
$200
[19]
At age 10, this Hungarian virtuoso went to study with Salieri in Vienna
Liszt
Bob
Ruta
|
$200
[6]
Tony Curtis has painted dozens of pictures of this "Some Like It Hot" co-star
Marilyn Monroe
Ruta
|
$200
[23]
Snowdon, which is approximately 3,560' above sea level
highest peak in Wales
Gordon
|
|
$400
[15]
A Confederate cavalry commander at 25, Joseph Wheeler later became a general in this war
Spanish-American War
Bob
|
$400
[12]
What you have eaten if you had "John Dory" for dinner
fish
|
$400
[2]
Term for court order forbidding participants in a trial from talking to the press
gag
Bob
|
$400
[20]
Rossini, Chopin, & Bizet were all buried in a cemetery in this European city
Paris
Bob
|
$400
[7]
David Niven Jr. surprised this star with t-shirts that read "You Can't Go Holm Again"
Joan Collins
Gordon
|
$600
[26]
It's the largest city in Wales, but scarcely a "giant"
Cardiff
Bob
|
|
$600
[16]
Fond of capes & plumed hats, this flamboyant cavalryman's real 1st names were James Ewell Brown
Jeb Stuart
Gordon
|
$600
[18]
A common food emulsifier, commercial lecithin comes primarily from this vegetable source
soybeans
Bob
|
$600
[3]
Alphabetically, this group is 1st in "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits"
ABBA
Bob
|
$600
[27]
This noted German orchestra is reportedly the highest paid in the world
Berlin Philharmonic
|
$600
[8]
'30s sex symbol whose last film role was as Baroness von Semering in "Just a Gigolo" with David Bowie
Marlene Dietrich
Gordon
Ruta
|
$800
[25]
Welsh poet who wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales"
Dylan Thomas
Bob
|
|
$800
[21]
Fought just 30 miles west of Washington, D.C., it was the war's 1st major battle
Manassas
Gordon
|
$800
[17]
Finland specializes in lamb cured in one of these rooms
sauna
Ruta
|
$1,000
[5]
The 2nd Saxon Holy Roman emperor, he was the 1st with a palindromic name
Otto
Ruta
|
$800
[28]
This popular form is actually a sonata for orchestra
symphony
|
$1,000
[10]
Ruta Lee played Tyrone Power's secret lover in this 1957 film based on a play by Agatha Christie
Witness for the Prosecution
|
$1,000
[24]
Body of water that borders Wales on the north
Irish Sea
Ruta
|
|
$1,000
[22]
This Col. fought at Antietam in 1862 along with Sgt. Wm. McKinley & became president 14 1/2 years later
Rutherford B. Hayes
Bob
|
$1,000
[13]
The enoki in enoki sushi are this vegetable
mushrooms
|
DD
$2,500
[4]
One apple variety can be shortened to this palindromic word
pip
Bob
|
— |
DD
$1,500
[9]
1 of 2 actresses who played F. Schreuder in the miniseries "Nutcracker" & "At Mother's Request"
Lee Remick or Stefanie Powers
Ruta
|
— |
In 1983, Derek Freeman refuted this late author's book about life in the South Pacific
Margaret Mead