Jim George — a history teacher from Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Liz Barnea — a librarian from Billings, Montana
Steve Mueller — an agency manager from Milwaukee, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve | $800 | $1,400 | $5,900 |
$700
2nd place: Ashley bedroom group |
$5,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Liz | $500 | $1,300 | $5,500 |
$11,000
New champion: $11,000 |
$5,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Jim | $1,500 | $2,900 | $5,500 |
$0
3rd place: a Smith Corona PWP 7000 "Laptop" word processor |
$5,500
24 R, 6 W |
| "BLUE" MOVIES | MEDICINE | SUPERSTITIONS | PROVERBS | MEAT | POTATOES |
|
$100
[1]
1980 film in which 2 shipwrecked kids grow up to be Brooke Shields & Christopher Atkins
The Blue Lagoon
Jim
|
$100
[26]
This test for cervical cancer was devised by & named for Dr. George Papanicolaou
a pap smear
Jim
|
$100
[2]
According to one superstition, a gift of a purse or wallet should always contain some of this
money
Jim
|
$100
[20]
Completes the proverb "Living well is the best..."
revenge
Jim
|
$100
[21]
The front part of a hindquarter with the flank removed, it may be "tender"
loin
Jim
|
$100
[7]
In England french fries are called this
chips
Jim
|
|
$200
[12]
In this 1930 film Marlene Dietrich played Lola-Lola, a sultry cabaret singer
The Blue Angel
Jim
|
$200
[27]
Queen Victoria passed this hereditary blood disease to many of her royal descendants
hemophilia
Steve
|
$200
[3]
Wedding custom that is supposed to ensure the marriage will produce many children
throwing rice
Jim
|
$200
[16]
These "that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails."
bees
Jim
|
$200
[22]
It's the term for a young pig that's fattened for its meat
porker
Jim
|
$200
[8]
About 10 days before harvest farmers do this to the vines
cut them down
Steve
|
|
$300
[9]
George Gershwin's songs were featured in this 1945 biographical film
Rhapsody in Blue
Jim
|
$300
[28]
A disease that comes & goes quickly is "acute", while this describes a disease of long duration
chronic
Liz
|
$300
[4]
4 is an unlucky number in this country because "shi", the word for 4, sounds like the word for death
Japan
Jim
|
$300
[17]
"Better the foot slip than" this
the tongue
Steve
|
$300
[23]
This country is the world's largest exporter of mutton
Australia
Steve
Jim
|
$300
[13]
To distinguish a potato from the unrelated sweet potato, it's usually called "Irish" or this color
white
Jim
|
|
$400
[10]
1 of the 2 Elvis Presley films that fit the category
Blue Hawaii & G.I. Blues
Jim
|
DD
$500
[29]
Rickets is caused by inadequate exposure to sunlight or a lack of this vitamin in the diet
vitamin D
Liz
|
$400
[5]
Term for the symbols seen on barns in Pennsylvania Dutch country
hex signs
Jim
|
$400
[18]
"The mouse that has but one" of these "is quickly taken."
a hole
Jim
|
$400
[24]
This variety meat is the thymus gland, usually taken from a calf, but occasionally a lamb
sweetbreads
Steve
|
$400
[14]
This country leads the world in production of potatoes
the Soviet Union
Steve
Jim
|
|
$500
[11]
Isabella Rossellini sang the title song, an old Bobby Vinton hit, in this 1986 film
Blue Velvet
Steve
Jim
|
— |
$500
[6]
In the South it was thought a sin to do this, as in the title of a Harper Lee novel
to kill a mockingbird
Liz
|
$500
[19]
Line that pairs with "See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die."
"See a pin and pick it up, and all the day you shall have good luck."
Jim
|
$500
[25]
Spelling that completes the jingle "Oscar Mayer has a way with..."
B-O-L-O-G-N-A
Jim
|
$500
[15]
It's the primary variety of potato grown in the U.S.
Russet (or Burbank)
Steve
|
| THE 4 SEASONS | U.S. STATES | FICTIONAL SERVANTS | WORLD HISTORY | TRANSPORTATION | IRVING BERLIN |
|
$200
[18]
The 2 Olympics are distinguished by these seasonal names
Summer & Winter
Steve
|
$200
[1]
Mt. Waialeale, the wettest spot in the world, is located in this state
Hawaii
Liz
|
$200
[30]
She says to Juliet, "O Romeo, Romeo! Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!"
Juliet's nurse
Steve
|
$200
[13]
King Victor Emmanuel III appointed him prime minister of Italy in 1922
Benito Mussolini
Jim
|
$200
[25]
During WWI the British called them "limps", the most common being the "B" type
blimps
Jim
|
$200
[11]
"Come on and hear, come on and hear", this song, Berlin's first big hit, which he wrote in 1911
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
Steve
|
|
$400
[20]
If you're old you're not this type of chicken
a spring chicken
Steve
|
$400
[2]
The capital of this state was named for Pierre Chouteau, a French fur trader
South Dakota
Liz
Jim
|
$400
[10]
She was nanny to little Londoners Jane & Michael Banks
Mary Poppins
Steve
|
$400
[14]
This Parisian school was founded as a college of theology in 1253
the Sorbonne
Jim
|
DD
$300
[29]
The Goodspeed, Sarah Constant & Discovery brought the first people to this settlement
Jamestown
Steve
|
$400
[8]
This Irving Berlin song has been called "the nation's unofficial second national anthem"
"God Bless America"
Liz
|
|
$600
[22]
The 2 seasons that begin on an equinox
spring & fall
Liz
|
$600
[3]
The Hawkeyes of this "Hawkeye State" must read a lot--they have the highest literacy rate in the U.S.
Iowa
Steve
|
$600
[12]
What Mrs. Bridges did "downstairs" for the Bellamy famliy, who lived "upstairs"
cook
Jim
|
$600
[15]
This N. European country was a grand duchy ruled by Russia before gaining its independence in 1917
Finland
Liz
|
$400
[26]
It's said these are "manned" in an emergency, but they're usually womened & childrened first
lifeboats
Steve
|
$800
[5]
Berlin's 1946 Broadway hit, it featured the songs "The Girl That I Marry" & "I'm An Indian Too!"
Annie Get Your Gun
Liz
|
|
$800
[23]
In a sonnet Shakespeare asked, "Shall I compare thee" to a "day" in this season
summer
Steve
|
$800
[6]
Canyonlands National Park & Arches National Park are tourist attractions in this state
Utah
|
$800
[19]
P.G. Wodehouse first introduced this gentleman's gentleman in "Extricating Young Gussie"
Jeeves
Jim
|
$800
[16]
A reported attack on 2 U.S. destroyers in this gulf led to the passage of the 1964 resolution named for it
the Gulf of Tonkin
Jim
|
$600
[27]
A San Franciscan can tell you BART stands for this
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Steve
|
$1,000
[9]
Completes Jerome Kern's quote "Irving Berlin has no place in American music..."
"Irving Berlin is American music"
Steve
|
|
$1,000
[24]
The 2 seasons used to distinguish types of wheat
winter & spring
Steve
Liz
|
$1,000
[7]
This state ceded Tennessee to the U.S. in 1784, then reclaimed it & ceded it again in 1789
North Carolina
Liz
Jim
|
$1,000
[21]
Jean Genet play in which 2 sisters attempt to poison their mistress
The Maids
|
$1,000
[17]
A 1795 partition ended its existence as a separate state in E. Europe; in 1918 it was back as a republic
Poland
Jim
|
$800
[28]
It's what "powered" the first B&O passenger train back in 1830
horses
Steve
Liz
|
DD
$1,800
[4]
In 1927 A. Jolson sang this Berlin tune in "The Jazz Singer"; Willie Nelson had a hit with it 50 years later:
"Blue Skies"
Steve
|
The 2 major literary monthlies founded in the 1850s that survive today
The Atlantic Monthly & Harpers