Steven Popper game 5.
Mary Jane Eager — a domestic goddess from Eager, Arizona
Heather Wood — a student originally from Kansas City
Steven Popper — an economist originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 4-day cash winnings total $42,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven | $1,700 | $4,300 | $10,000 |
$13,000
5-day champion: $55,600 |
$9,900
31 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Heather | $-400 | $-600 | $200 |
$0
3rd place: designer stained glass |
$200
4 R, 6 W |
| Mary Jane | $-100 | $500 | $1,300 |
$401
2nd place: audio/video center with TV, VCR & stereo + blinds |
$1,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | EUROPE | ROCKS & MINERALS | NURSERY RHYMES | MACHO | STARTS WITH "W" |
|
$100
[19]
there's only 1 steel mill in this large city, though 20% of American steel is made in its vicinity
Pittsburgh
Steven
|
$100
[13]
The purpose of Spain's "Oficinas de informacion y turismo" is to help them
tourists
Steven
|
$100
[1]
This liquid mineral is measured by flasks weighing 76 pounds, not 98.6
mercury
Steven
|
$100
[3]
The 1st color mentioned in "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
white
Mary Jane
|
$100
[25]
It's said this "marvelous" man has "a head so fierce hair is afraid to grow there"
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Steven
Mary Jane
|
$100
[9]
In colonial days, criminals were tied to these stakes & flogged
whipping post
|
|
$200
[20]
Newsweek reports that of Chrysler, Ford & Toyota, this co. has the highest production cost per car
Toyota
Steven
Heather
Mary Jane
|
$200
[14]
Religious affiliation of the majority of people in Northern Ireland
Protestant
Steven
|
$200
[2]
Of packaging, transportation or building, it's the main use of aluminum in the U.S.
packaging
Steven
Heather
Mary Jane
|
$200
[4]
In "This Little Piggy Went to Market", it's what the little pig cried all the way home
"Wee wee wee"
Mary Jane
|
$200
[26]
Newsweek said of this Norman Mailer film, "Tough guys shouldn't direct"
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Steven
|
$200
[10]
Labor leader Lech
Lech Walesa
Steven
|
|
$300
[21]
The Concorde SST was built jointly by these 2 countries
France & Great Britain
Steven
|
$300
[15]
Forests cover more then 2/3 of this country that borders Sweden
Finland
Steven
|
$300
[6]
The plinth of his tomb in the Invalides in Paris is made of green porphyry
Napoleon Bonaparte
Steven
|
$300
[5]
Tasty treat given to the 3 little kittens after they found their mittens
pie
Steven
Heather
Mary Jane
|
— |
$300
[11]
The more common name for a grandfather chair
a wing chair
Heather
Mary Jane
|
|
$400
[22]
Company that's America's biggest maker of both pinball & slot machies
Bally
Mary Jane
|
$400
[16]
German for "leather trousers", these knee-length pants are a Bavarian specialty
lederhosen
Steven
|
$400
[7]
A mineral source of green zinc & a group of museums in Washington, D.C. are both named for him
(James) Smithson
Steven
|
DD
$500
[23]
The 2 animals mentioned in "Little Boy Blue"
sheep & cows
Mary Jane
|
— |
$400
[12]
Where the bunnies breed
a warren
Heather
|
| — |
$500
[17]
Alphabetically, it's the last country in Europe
Yugoslavia
Steven
|
$500
[8]
Limestone metamorphoses into this rock which is then often transformed into sculptures
marble
Steven
|
$500
[24]
"30 white horses on a white hill; now they tramp, now they champ, now they stand still" refers to these
teeth
Heather
|
— |
$500
[18]
Belgians of Celtic descent
Walloons
Steven
Heather
|
| MARYLAND | FINE ARTS | FOOD | EXPLORERS | WEATHER | ANIMAL GROUPS |
|
$200
[27]
The state's official bird or a player on the state's Major-League Baseball team
an oriole
Steven
|
$200
[24]
A friend of Byron, this famous romantic poet wrote an elegy for Byron's other friend John Keats
Shelley
Heather
|
$200
[9]
At Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, hotels offer not only cocktails, but crocktails made from meat of this animal
crocodiles
Steven
|
$200
[14]
Rod Serling was one of the narrators of this explorer's "Undersea World" TV specials
Jacques Cousteau
Mary Jane
|
$200
[6]
Its return stroke travels at over 100 million feet per second
lightning
Steven
Mary Jane
|
$200
[2]
A group of oysters is called this, when they're awake as well as when they're asleep
a bed
Steven
|
|
$400
[28]
There are famous ones at Laurel & Bowie as well as Pimlico
race tracks
Steven
|
$600
[21]
Adam's creation is in the Bible, but "The Creation of Adam" is here
the Sistine Chapel
Mary Jane
|
$400
[10]
In the Bahamas, you can listen to the "ocean" in its shell & munch a burger made from its meat
conch
Steven
|
$400
[15]
Between 1727 & 1729, he proved Asia & North America were separated by water
(Vitus) Bering
Steven
|
$400
[7]
"Fronts", "advances" ,& "retreats" were drafted into weather forecasts during this war
the first world war
Steven
|
$400
[3]
A group of elks, or a group formed by the Dalton brothers
a gang
Heather
Mary Jane
|
|
$600
[26]
Nat'l Institutes of Health & Naval Medical Ctr. reportedly give this D.C. suburb USA's highest % of resident M.D.s
Bethesda
Steven
|
$800
[23]
Profession of Sarah Siddons, subject of famed Reynolds & Gainsborough portraits
an actress
|
$600
[11]
Tubers develop underground, but from this part of the potato plant, not the root
the stem
Mary Jane
|
$600
[16]
In 1826, Alexander Gordon Laing became 1st European to see this "faraway" African city
timbuktu
Steven
|
$600
[8]
A wind blowing from SE or NE & air pressure of 30.00 & falling means this will continue 1 or more days
bad weather (rain)
Mary Jane
|
$600
[1]
In the Bible, they were the 8th plague of Egypt; any group of them today is still called a plague
locusts
Steven
|
|
$800
[25]
All lakes in Maryland came into existence this way
they were all made by man
Mary Jane
|
$1,000
[22]
Key signature of Bach's well-known mass & Schubert's "unfinished" symphony
B minor
Steven
|
$800
[12]
This pickled dish was named for the crimson color of a university's jerseys
Harvard beets
Steven
|
$1,000
[18]
Though he failed in his 3 tries to find a Northeast Passage, an Arctic Sea was named for him
Willem Barents
Steven
|
$800
[19]
Coastal parts of California, Chile & Australia enjoy a climate named after this sea
the Mediterranean
Steven
|
$800
[4]
A group of gnats that can sweep over your yard, or a group of Mongols who swept over 13th c. Europe
a horde
Steven
|
| — |
DD
$2,000
[29]
Richard Strauss tone poem which containsthe followingtheme popularized in a 1968 movie:
Also sprach Zarathustra
Steven
|
$1,000
[13]
This pungent U.S. cheese got its German name from a 19th century New York city choral society
Liederkranz
Steven
|
DD
$1,500
[17]
When this pair started down the Mississippi in 1673, they thought they might hit the Pacific
Jolliet & Marquette
Steven
|
$1,000
[20]
In October '87, this condition in the northwest forced the Dept. of wildlife to helicopter salmon to safety
drought
Heather
|
$1,000
[5]
Name for a group of hawks, even if they're not starring in Hitchcock's "The Birds"
a cast
Mary Jane
|
Elected in 1957 to fill Joe McCarthy's seat, he was still in the Senate in 1987
William Proxmire