Eric Miller — a bankruptcy attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
Ann Catlin — a computer programmer from Brick, New Jersey
Dan Avila — a photographer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $300 | $800 | $1,000 |
$0
3rd place: Sanyo remote control stereo music system & a Nintendo Entertainment System with Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune games |
$2,400
18 R, 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ann | $600 | $1,500 | $3,700 |
$1,599
2nd place: Trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico and the island of St. Kitts aboard Delta Airlines |
$3,700
15 R, 3 W |
| Eric | $500 | $2,300 | $2,900 |
$5,800
New champion: $5,800 |
$3,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| FIRST LADIES | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES | AWARDS | MATH | COOKING | CATCHING SOME "Z"s |
|
$100
[5]
This no-nonsense First Lady admitted that her trademark pearls are fake
Barbara Bush
Ann
|
$100
[1]
Numerical "Force" "from Navarone" that Harrison Ford was part of, or Bo Derek's No. in a 1979 film
10
Ann
|
$100
[10]
In 1990 Doug Drabek became the first Pittsburgh Pirate since Vern Law in 1960 to win this pitching award
the Cy Young Award
Dan
|
$100
[15]
Term for a type of triangle with three equal sides
equilateral
Dan
|
$100
[21]
You should whip this ingredient before you top your Chantilly potatoes with it
cream
Dan
|
$100
[26]
Both NYC & Philadelphia claim the oldest of these in the U.S.
zoo
Eric
|
|
$200
[6]
She had 4 sons but only the oldest, Robert, lived to adulthood
Mary Todd Lincoln
Ann
|
$200
[2]
This Nicholson was a Joker
Jack
Ann
|
$200
[11]
Cartoonist Bill Watterson won a Reuben Award for this comic strip about a boy & his tiger
Calvin & Hobbes
Dan
|
$200
[16]
For this operation, most people use the borrow method
subtraction
Dan
Ann
|
$200
[22]
A classic plum pudding contains this kind of fat
suet
Dan
|
$200
[27]
In the old standard song, "The strings of my heart" went this way
zing
Dan
|
|
$300
[7]
Zasu Pitts got this First Lady her first professional role in a play
Nancy Reagan
Ann
Eric
|
$300
[3]
If you want to see a butterfly that's prissy, check out this butterfly in "Gone with the Wind"
Butterfly McQueen
Ann
|
$300
[12]
In 1975 Sen. Proxmire originated this award to publicize wasteful gov't spending
the Golden Fleece Award
Eric
|
$300
[17]
After multiplying these you should reduce the product if possible
fractions
Ann
|
$300
[23]
A type of shell that holds creamed meat dishes, or a nickname for Patricia
patty
Dan
|
$300
[28]
Johnston McCulley's novel "The Curse of Capistrano" gave us this character a.k.a. Don Diego
Zorro
Dan
|
|
DD
$500
[8]
She didn't attend her husband's 1797 inauguration because her mother-in-law was ill
Abigail Adams
Eric
|
$400
[4]
As Cody Allen on TV, this Perry lived on the boat "Riptide"
Perry King
Eric
|
$400
[13]
Named for magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback, the Hugo Award honors this literary genre
science fiction
Ann
|
$400
[18]
The name "geometry" comes from two Greek words meaning this
Earth & measure
Eric
|
$400
[24]
If you want to be veddy British, sprinkle your fish & chips with the malt type of this
vinegar
Eric
|
$400
[29]
The Tom Wilson comic character who has his own line of greeting cards
Ziggy
Eric
|
|
$500
[9]
The only first lady whose given name was Claudia
Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird Johnson)
|
$500
[14]
On the PBS anthology series "Mystery!", Sam Neill played Reilly, who was this "of Spies"
Ace
Ann
|
$500
[20]
The Obie Awards for off-Broadway theater are sponsored by this weekly New York paper
the Village Voice
Dan
Eric
|
$500
[19]
It's a quarter of a circle or one of four divisions of a plane
a quadrant
Eric
|
$500
[25]
A genoise is a butter-rich one of these
a sponge cake
|
$500
[30]
Ahura Mazda is not a model of car, but the 1 true god of this religion
Zoroastrianism
Ann
Eric
|
| ANCIENT ROME | AUTHORS | BODIES OF WATER | SPACE EXPLORATION | NAME THE ARTIST | AGRICULTURE |
|
$200
[1]
The games featuring these fighters began in the 3rd Cent. B.C. as part of funeral ceremonies
the gladiators
Ann
|
$200
[6]
The short story writer Saki was killed in action in this war in 1916
World War I
Eric
|
$200
[11]
The name for this sea comes from the Latin for "in the middle of land"
Mediterranean
Dan
|
$200
[21]
This Russian word is from the Greek for "sailor of the universe"
cosmonaut
Dan
|
$200
[16]
"The Starry Night"
Van Gogh
Dan
|
$400
[24]
A combine is a combination harvester & this machine that separates seed from straw
thresher
Dan
|
|
$400
[2]
The 4th king of Rome, Ancus Marcus, is credited with building the 1st bridge across this river
the Tiber
Ann
|
$400
[7]
Scotsman who published "The Betrothed" & "The Talisman" together as "Tales of the Crusaders"
(Sir Walter) Scott
Ann
|
$400
[12]
The Tasman Sea separates Australia & this country
New Zealand
Dan
|
$400
[22]
On March 23, 1965 Gus Grissom & John Young became the 1st pair to orbit in this new space project
Gemini
Eric
|
$400
[17]
"2 Tahitian Women"
Gauguin
Ann
|
$600
[25]
The largest farms, some over 60,000 acres, are the state farms in this country
the Soviet Union
Dan
|
|
$600
[3]
He named himself princeps, or first citizen, but is known in history as the first emperor
Augustus
Dan
|
$600
[8]
Wilkie Collins wrote a novel about a mysterious "Woman in" this color who lived in an asylum
white
Dan
|
$600
[13]
It's New Mexico's largest & longest river
the Rio Grande
Dan
|
DD
$800
[23]
While Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin explored the moon, he orbited about 70 miles above
(Michael) Collins
Eric
|
$600
[18]
"Luncheon on the Grass"
Édouard Manet
Dan
|
$800
[28]
Of the top 3 grains grown in the world, the U.S. is first in the production of this one
corn
Dan
Eric
|
|
$800
[4]
The 2 men in this post were responsible for counting the Romans & controlling moral conduct
the censors
|
$800
[9]
Ole E. Rolvaag wrote "Giants in the Earth" in this language; it was then translated into English
Norwegian
Dan
|
$800
[14]
The name of this river which empties into the Bay of Bengal means "the son of Brahma"
the Brahmaputra
Ann
|
$800
[26]
It's the only planet not yet encountered by a space probe
Pluto
Ann
|
$800
[19]
"View of Toledo"
El Greco
Dan
Ann
|
— |
|
DD
$1,400
[5]
It's believed the Romans turned against the ruling Etruscans after Sextus Tarquinius raped her
Lucretia
Dan
|
$1,000
[10]
Completes the title of Olive Ann Burns' novel "Cold Sassy..."
Tree
|
$1,000
[15]
Connecticut is bordered on the south by this arm of the Atlantic
Long Island Sound
Dan
|
$1,000
[27]
The European Space Agency designed this 3-stage rocket to launch its payloads
the Ariane
|
$1,000
[20]
"The Dance Class"
Degas
Dan
|
— |
This country's national anthem is "William of Nassau"
the Netherlands