Vicki Scher — a grants processing specialist from Flushing, New York
Steve Brown — a chief petty officer from Twentynine Palms, California
Alison Roberts — an attorney originally from Port Sulphur, Louisiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $27,099)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alison | $2,100 | $2,900 | $12,700 |
$12,700
2nd place: trip on Eastern to Tampa & stay at the Saddlebrook + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version |
$11,100
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Steve | $1,200 | $2,100 | $10,000 |
$20,000
New champion: $20,000 |
$6,500
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Vicki | $1,200 | $2,000 | $3,000 |
$4,000
3rd place: KitchenAid side-by-side refrigerator/freezer + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version |
$3,000
10 R, 2 W |
| PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA | SPORTS GREATS | FRANCE | ACTRESSES | HINTS FROM HELOISE | "HUM"DINGERS |
|
$100
[17]
As an Illinois Congressman, he attended the inaugural ball of Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
Vicki
|
$100
[16]
In 1973 Margaret Court lost a "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match to him
Bobby Riggs
Alison
|
$100
[6]
After the revolution, Viollet-le-Duc supervised the repair of this famed French cathedral
Notre Dame
Alison
|
$100
[11]
This star of "The Outlaw" said Howard Hughes got in bed with her once, but she threw him out
Jane Russell
Alison
|
$100
[26]
Used to trap odors in your refrigerator, it can be used as a deodorant
baking soda
Alison
|
$100
[1]
Completes the quote from Dickens, "Bah, said Scrooge..."
humbug
Steve
|
|
$200
[22]
The lyrics for it come from Sir Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"
"Hail to the Chief"
Alison
|
$200
[18]
On average he hit a home run every 12 times he went to the plate, a Major League record
Babe Ruth
Vicki
|
$200
[7]
At present, France's finance ministry is headquartered in this Paris museum
Louvre
Alison
|
$200
[12]
She called her autobiography "Life is a Banquet", which was one of her lines from "Auntie Mame"
Rosalind Russell
Vicki
|
$200
[27]
These desktop items are "ideal" for holding bra straps to slip straps
paper clips
Vicki
|
$200
[2]
boring
humdrum
Alison
|
|
$300
[23]
In 1809 he became the 1st president inaugurated wearing only American-made clothes
James Madison
Alison
|
$300
[19]
Having done it 5 times, this former Dallas QB holds the Super Bowl record for fumbles
Roger Staubach
Vicki
|
$300
[8]
You can travel about 270km per hour on the TGV which is this type of transportation
train
Steve
|
$300
[13]
She was "Mommie Dearest" to her daughter but wanted her daughter's friends to call her "Stinky"
Joan Crawford
Alison
|
$300
[28]
Device which can be used to punch holes in a belt, unclog a salt shaker or make a perfect circle for pastry
compass
Alison
|
$300
[3]
To degrade
humiliate (humble)
Alison
|
|
$500
[25]
More presidents have been affiliated with this high church denomination than any other
Episcopalian
Alison
|
$400
[20]
Jockey Eddie Arcaro has called this close friend & colleague "the cleanest rider I have ever seen"
Willie Shoemaker
Steve
|
$400
[9]
Becoming emperor in 1852, Louis Napoleon took this title
Napoleon III
Steve
|
$400
[14]
This "Psycho" star eloped at age 14, but the marriage was annulled & she never saw the groom again
Janet Leigh
Steve
|
$400
[29]
Product for pets than can be used to soak up lingering odors or mustiness
kitty litter (cat box filler)
|
$400
[4]
After he died January 13, 1978, his widow Muriel was appointed to fill out his Senate term
Hubert Humphrey
Alison
|
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
The 1st time a president left the U.S. while in office was when T. Roosevelt went to inspect this
Panama Canal
Alison
|
$500
[21]
In 1953 this Texas golfer became 1st to win the U.S. Open, British Open & The Masters in 1 year
Ben Hogan
Alison
Steve
|
$500
[10]
Between 1871-1945 ownership of this disputed region passed back & forth between Germany & France
Alsace-Lorraine
Vicki
|
$500
[15]
Gene Tierney said she stopped dating this future president when he said he could never marry her
John F. Kennedy
Vicki
|
— |
$500
[5]
Les Paul & Mary Ford and Seals & Croft both had hits called this
"Hummingbird"
Alison
|
| U.S. CITIES | SHIPS | ZOOLOGY | RECENT HISTORY | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN | HODGEPODGE |
|
$200
[11]
The garbage worker's strike that led M.L. King Jr. to this city was settled 2 weeks after his death
Memphis
Steve
|
$200
[21]
A poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes helped save this ship from the scrapyard
Old Ironsides (The Constitution)
Steve
|
$200
[24]
While adult frogs have lungs, tadpoles breathe by means of these
gills
Steve
|
$200
[6]
When 1st organized in Gdansk, it was the only legal ind. trade union in a Soviet bloc nation
Solidarity
Alison
|
$200
[1]
Not in "Romeo & Juliet" but in "Love's Labour's Lost" might a lord have sung "I've Just Met a Girl" named this
Maria
Alison
|
$200
[16]
The Mayo Clinic barred this microwave product because fasting patients complained of enticing aromas
popcorn
Alison
|
|
$400
[12]
Will Keith Kellogg was born in this city in 1860
Battle Creek, Michigan
Alison
|
$400
[22]
A boat on a "Nantucket sleigh ride" was pulled by one of these
whale
Steve
|
$400
[27]
The white bear to the Chinese, some say it's a bear while others say it's a cousin to the raccoon
panda
Steve
|
$400
[7]
After a military coup failed in 1981, he continued as Spain's head of state
King Juan Carlos
Alison
|
$400
[2]
Besides Lady Macbeth, the other titled lady in the cast list of "Macbeth"
Lady Macduff
|
$400
[17]
Department of Defense specs run 16 pages for making 3 types of these: chocolate, sugar & oatmeal
cookies
Alison
|
|
$600
[13]
Covington, Kentucky is included in this large Ohio city's metropolitan area
Cincinnati
Steve
|
$600
[23]
Trailers go directly off truck beds into the holds of these ships that have no interior cargo decks
container ships
Alison
|
$800
[29]
Only continent where poisonous snakes, like the Taipan, outnumber harmless ones
Australia
|
$600
[8]
In 1984, after 116 yrs. the U.S. & this smallest European state re-established diplomatic relations
Vatican City
Alison
Vicki
|
$600
[3]
Shades of Dick Tracy--a character named Doll Tearsheet appears in the 2nd part of this king's history
Henry IV
Alison
|
$600
[18]
Raised in L.A., 1988's Miss Universe Porntip Nakhirunkanok represented this country
Thailand
Alison
|
|
$800
[14]
Illinois city that's home to the Jack Benny Center for the Arts
Waukegan
Steve
|
$800
[25]
The Britannia, a ship in his line, began the 1st regular transatlantic steamship service in 1840
Cunard
Alison
|
$1,000
[30]
These hair-like projections move in waves & enable a one-celled paramecium to move forward
cilia
Alison
|
$800
[9]
On Nov. 25, 1984 Wm. Schroeder became the 2nd person in history to get one of these
artificial heart
Alison
|
$800
[4]
While there's a Katharine in 3 plays, this is the only play with a Katharina
The Taming of the Shrew
Vicki
|
$800
[19]
An ornament that hangs from a watch chain, or the vest pocket in which to put a watch
fob
Vicki
|
|
$1,000
[15]
The Oregon & Santa Fe Trails both began in this Missouri city
Independence
Vicki
|
$1,000
[26]
Mamie Eisenhower christened this 1st nuclear powered merchant ship July 21, 1959
Savannah
|
DD
$4,100
[28]
A boll weevil is this type of insect of which there are 300,000 species
beetle
Steve
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
The 3 top Soviet leaders who died during Reagan's presidency
Brezhnev, Andropov & Chernenko
Alison
|
$1,000
[5]
The only play in which a woman gets the last word is when Rosalind gives its epilogue
As You Like It
Alison
|
$1,000
[20]
In literature it's the American monetary equivalent to the British penny dreadful
dime novel
Steve
Vicki
|
While there were lots of animals on Noah's Ark, there were this many humans
8