Joel Silverman — a children's theater actor from Denver, Colorado
Kerry Noonan — an administrative assistant from Los Angeles, California
Ed Borasky — a supercomputer programmer from Aloha, Oregon (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,249)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed | $1,900 | $4,400 | $11,800 |
$10,776
3-day champion: $38,025 |
$11,800
31 R, 3 W |
| Kerry | $500 | $1,500 | $3,000 |
$500
2nd place: a trip to the Bahamas |
$4,900
13 R, 5 W (including 3 DDs) |
| Joel | $-100 | $200 | $200 |
$399
3rd place: Ricoh Mirai zoom camera |
$200
8 R, 4 W |
| FAMOUS NAMES | ADVERTISING SLOGANS | THE BIBLE | WEATHER | 4-LETTER WORDS | PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY |
|
$100
[19]
This star of "Kojak" admits he shaves his head every morning
Telly Savalas
Joel
|
$100
[3]
"When you care enough to send the very best", send one of these
Hallmark Card
Kerry
|
$100
[4]
Among these tales told by Jesus were those "of the net", "of the mustard seed" & "of the hidden treasures"
parables
Kerry
|
$100
[11]
Airplanes can trigger bolts of this when traveling through electrified clouds
lightning
Ed
|
$100
[16]
This word commonly follows cuff or missing
link
Joel
|
$100
[1]
Gerald Ford was the last president born under this "crab"by sign
Cancer
Ed
|
|
$200
[21]
Creator of "The Cisco Kid", William Sidney Porter was better known by this name
O. Henry
Ed
|
$200
[7]
"Wouldn't you really rather have" one of these cars
Buick
Kerry
|
$200
[5]
I Corinthians 7:9 states, "It is better to marry than to" do this
burn
Kerry
|
$200
[12]
Air is described as supersaturated when the relative humidity is higher than this percent
100%
Ed
|
$200
[22]
From the Greek word for "deep sleep", it's a deep, prolonged unconsciousness
coma
Joel
|
$200
[2]
It's Jimmy Carter's sign, so don't tip his scales
Libra
Joel
|
|
$300
[27]
"The First Time Ever" she had a No. 1 album was "First Take" in 1972
Roberta Flack
Ed
|
$300
[8]
"I like" this lemon-lime soda "in you"
Sprite
Ed
|
$300
[6]
It was like coriander seed, white; & the taste of it was like wafers made with honey
manna
Ed
|
$300
[13]
Tornadoes that develop over water are called these
waterspouts
Ed
|
$300
[23]
It can be part of your foot, your shoe, your stocking or your loaf of bread
heel
Ed
|
$300
[17]
Appropriately, we've had 2 presidents born under this sign, Bush & Kennedy
Gemini
Kerry
|
|
$400
[28]
George Bush pardoned this 91-year-old industrialist for his illegal contributions to Nixon's campaign
Armand Hammer
Ed
|
$400
[9]
"Tan, don't burn use" this
Coppertone
Kerry
|
DD
$400
[18]
Things saved from this city were the gold & silver, the iron & brass vessels & Rahab & her family
Jericho
Kerry
|
$400
[14]
Season of the year when Arizona has its "monsoons"
Summer
Ed
Kerry
Joel
|
$400
[24]
A roue, or his garden implement
rake
Ed
|
$400
[25]
Our last Sagittarian pres.; his last name sounds like something Sagittarius' arrows could do
(Franklin) Pierce
Ed
|
|
$500
[29]
Ines de la Fressange was a Chanel model when she was chosen to represent this French symbol
Marianne
|
$500
[10]
This maker of pre-school toys says, "Our work is child's play"
Fisher-Price
Ed
|
$500
[20]
While carting this, Uzza touched it to right it after the oxen stumbled, & the Lord smote him
the Ark of the Covenant
Kerry
|
$500
[15]
An increase in air temperature at higher altitudes is unusual & is called this
inversion
Ed
|
$500
[30]
A raisin can be called by this other fruit's name when it's added to a pudding or a cake
plum
Ed
|
$500
[26]
With the exception of R. Reagan, all the presidents born under this sign died in office
Aquarius (W.H. Harrison, Lincoln, McKinley & FDR were the presidents who died in office)
Kerry
|
| SCIENCE & NATURE | WORLD GEOGRAPHY | PIRATE MOVIES | AUTHORS | AMERICAN HISTORY | WINE |
|
$200
[2]
The iris is a flower & the ibis is one of these
bird
Ed
|
$200
[19]
This country is named after the town of Oporto
Portugal
Ed
|
$200
[1]
In this 1935 film that made him a star, Errol Flynn was Dr. Peter Blood, a physician who turns to piracy
Captain Blood
Ed
|
$200
[7]
He wrote a non-baby book called "Decent And Indecent: Our Personal And Political Behavior"
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Joel
|
$200
[15]
It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & a state 59 years later
Hawaii
Ed
Joel
|
$200
[10]
Malaga is a sweet dessert wine that originated in this country
Spain
Kerry
|
|
$400
[3]
In a healthy mouth, this line separates the crown from the root of a tooth
gum line
Ed
|
$400
[20]
The Sea of Galilee is just a broad basin of this river
the River Jordan
Joel
|
$400
[8]
Anthony Quinn was a pirate stuck with stowaway children in the film "A High Wind In" this place
Jamaica
Ed
|
$400
[9]
This author's home where he wrote "To Have And Have Not" is now a nat'l landmark in Key West, Fla.
Ernest Hemingway
Ed
|
$400
[16]
Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for doing this
Voting
Ed
Kerry
|
$400
[17]
On wine labels, this word which means "estate" precedes Lafite & Mouton-Rothschild
chateau
Joel
|
|
$600
[4]
Every summer thousands of these animals go to the Pribilof Islands in the north Pacific to breed
seals
Ed
|
$600
[21]
The surface of this lake in Siberia is about 1,490 ft. above sea level, the bottom over 5,300 ft. below
Lake Baikal
Ed
|
$600
[12]
Silent screen swashbuckler; his film "The Black Pirate" has been called "a definitive pirate movie"
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Kerry
|
DD
$700
[11]
Oscar Wilde's only novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kerry
|
$600
[18]
In 1949 Henry H. Arnold became the first general of this branch of the armed forces
Air Force
Ed
|
$600
[23]
"Anatomical" term for a wine's bouquet
nose
Ed
|
|
$800
[5]
Man-made metal 1st positively identified in 1958 & named for a Swedish inventor; it has no known use
Nobelium
Ed
|
$800
[22]
Papua New Guinea is just off this country's Cape York Peninsula
Australia
Ed
Joel
|
$800
[13]
Robert Newton played this pirate before Peter Ustinov played his ghost in a Disney film
Blackbeard
Ed
Kerry
|
$800
[24]
An eye ailment contracted at Eton School ended his plans to study biology, like his brother Julian
Aldous Huxley
Ed
|
$800
[25]
In April 1984 this U.S. government agency admitted its role in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors
CIA
Ed
|
$800
[26]
The term for pouring wine into another container before serving; it helps clear it of sediments
decanting
Kerry
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Take the fibrinogen out of blood plasma & you're left with a fluid called this
serum
Joel
|
DD
$800
[28]
1 of the 2 Central American countries with only 1 sea coast
Belize & El Salvador
Kerry
|
$1,000
[14]
Ingrid Bergman's husband in "Casablanca", he played a pirate captain in "Pirates Of Tripoli"
Paul Henreid
|
$1,000
[27]
A member of the Algonquin Round Table, this petite brunette wrote a story called "Big Blonde"
Dorothy Parker
Kerry
|
$1,000
[29]
John Hancock held this political position from 1780-85 & from 1787-93
Governor of Massachusetts
Joel
|
$1,000
[30]
The famous Moselle wines come from this country
Germany
Ed
|
The name of this channel can be traced back to a movie theater that opened in 1905 in McKeesport, Pa.
Nickelodeon