Renee Pennington — a word processing center supervisor from New York City, New York
Ray Allex — a ticket seller from Los Angeles, California
Myra Backner — an office worker from Stoughton, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myra | $900 | $200 | $1,500 |
$1,700
3rd place: an electronic piano |
$2,800
10 R, 6 W (including 3 DDs) |
| Ray | $800 | $2,500 | $5,900 |
$7,000
New champion: $7,000 |
$5,900
19 R, 4 W |
| Renee | $400 | $600 | $1,400 |
$2,700
2nd place: a trip for 2 to Jamaica |
$1,400
8 R, 3 W |
| FIRST LINES | WILD WEST | TV THEMES | CARS BY THE NUMBER | "F" WORDS | THOSE DARN OYSTERS |
|
$100
[1]
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..."
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Ray
|
$100
[16]
During the stagecoach era, these birds reportedly sprinted ahead of the coaches at 18 mph
roadrunners
Myra
Ray
|
$100
[11]
[Music plays]
The Odd Couple
Renee
|
$100
[21]
RX 7
Mazda
Ray
|
$100
[2]
In basketball, they lead to free throws
fouls
Ray
|
$300
[24]
What oysters love to do with dinoflagellates
eat them
|
|
$200
[7]
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream..."
The Old Man and the Sea
Ray
|
$200
[17]
Once bigger than Delaware, the King Ranch, largest in the U.S., is located in this state
Texas
Ray
|
$200
[12]
[Music plays]
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
|
$200
[22]
560 SEL
Mercedes
Renee
|
$200
[3]
You can do this to someone's shoes or the bill
fill
Renee
|
$400
[25]
It's said when the ratio of male & female oysters is uneven, some oysters actually do this
they change their sex
Myra
Ray
|
|
$300
[8]
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that."
A Christmas Carol
Myra
|
$300
[18]
"Faro" is one type of this
a card game
Ray
|
$300
[13]
[Music plays]
The Wild Wild West
Myra
|
$300
[23]
928 S4
Porsche
Ray
|
$300
[4]
Doing this makes a body builder's biceps bulge
to flex
Myra
|
— |
|
$400
[9]
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville 9 that day..."
"Casey at the Bat"
Myra
|
$400
[19]
Famous 1903 Western made just 4 yrs. after Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch 1st blew up an express car
The Great Train Robbery
Ray
|
$400
[14]
[Music plays]
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Myra
|
$400
[26]
325 e
BMW
Ray
|
$400
[5]
It can be a fault in fabric or someone's character
a flaw
Ray
|
— |
|
DD
$400
[10]
"The great fish moved silently through the night water..."
Jaws
Myra
|
$500
[20]
Discharged from the Army as a drunk, this dime novelist sobered up enough to nickname Buffalo Bill
Ned Buntline
Ray
|
$500
[15]
"As I walk along, I wonder /A what went wrong with our love /A love that was so strong..."
Crime Story
|
— |
$500
[6]
It struck out in a book by baseball player Jimmy Piersall
fear
Renee
|
— |
| SCIENCE | PEOPLE | WORLD CAPITALS | COOKING | SLAVERY | LAST LINES |
|
$200
[26]
Done to such things as garbage cans to reduce corrosion, it's the coating of iron or steel with zinc
galvanizing
|
$200
[9]
The Virgin Islands can now hear her syndicated radio show on sex therapy
Dr. Ruth
Ray
|
$200
[4]
The capital of this SE Asian country lies on the Rangoon River
Burma
Ray
|
$200
[1]
These put the amandine in noodles amandine
almonds
Renee
|
$200
[18]
This nation, formerly Abyssinia, didn't abolish slavery until 1942
Ethiopia
Renee
|
$200
[2]
"And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every one!"
A Christmas Carol
Myra
|
|
$400
[27]
1 of 2 reasons sharks must constantly keep in motion
(1 of) to avoid sinking or drowning
Ray
|
$400
[10]
According to a German magazine, under Hitler the state gave newlyweds one of these books
Mein Kampf
Myra
Renee
|
$400
[5]
It's "The Paris of the Balkans", which makes it, we guess, "The Paris of Romania", too
Bucharest
Ray
Renee
|
$400
[3]
"The Esquire Cookbook" says scrambled eggs this style were created by chef to King Farouk, not TV host Phil
Donahue
Ray
|
$400
[19]
Aztec slaves could not only own property, but ironically, even these
other slaves
Myra
|
$400
[11]
"I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here! Here! t is the beating of his hideous heart!"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Renee
|
|
$600
[28]
# of stars in the "belt" of the constellation Orion
3
|
DD
$500
[17]
In naming NY estate he bought n '34 to house curios, he used "BION", initials of his newspaper feature
Robert Ripley ("Believe It or Not!")
Myra
|
$600
[6]
This country is developing a new capital, Abuja, to replace Lagos
Nigeria
Ray
|
$600
[23]
Profession of the Italian cook who created "Tournedos Rossini"
a composer
Myra
Ray
|
DD
$400
[21]
The only slave state west of the Mississippi not to secede from the Union
Missouri
Myra
|
$600
[12]
"...most gratefully bless the day when Mr. Jones was married to his Sophia"
Tom Jones
Renee
|
| — |
$600
[15]
With ads shot in her Koala blue store, this singer is now promoting Australian tourism
Olivia Newton-John
Myra
|
$800
[7]
New Zealand's capital was named for Arthur Wellesley, the 1st man given this title
(Duke of) Wellington
Ray
|
$800
[24]
Only the ribs of this animal can be properly prepared as spareribs
a pig
Myra
|
$600
[20]
in 1488, the pope accepted 100 Moorish slaves from this Spanish king
Ferdinand
Renee
|
$800
[13]
"Hello everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."
A Star is Born
Ray
|
| — |
$800
[16]
Comedian who is spending 1987 traveling the U.S. to ask people why they like Pizza Hut
Rich Hall
|
$1,000
[8]
Willemstad, the capital of the Netherlands Antilles, is on this, the largest of its islands
Curaçao
|
$1,000
[25]
When a French chef makes "tomatoes farcies" , "farcies" indicates he has done this
stuff them
|
$1,000
[22]
chain of events leading to freedom for this island country began with a huge slave revolt in 1791
Haiti
Ray
|
$1,000
[14]
"'Some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake.'--Jonathan Harker"
Dracula
|
2 of the 4 original cabinet posts, which despite widespread belief, did not include Postmaster General
(2 of) Secretary of State, Treasury, War and Attorney General