Roberta Hyman — a manufacturer from Atlantic City, New Jersey
Addison Goodson — a jobs training coordinator from Venice, California
Gary Walters — an entertainment attorney originally from New York City, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,250)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary | $1,900 | $4,000 | $8,600 |
$100
2nd place: Gibson 3-piece kitchen & Regal Flavorite cooking system + Jeopardy! home game |
$9,600
28 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Addison | $500 | $1,200 | $800 |
$700
New champion: $700 |
$800
10 R, 5 W |
| Roberta | $900 | $2,200 | $8,500 |
$100
3rd place: Curtis Mathes laserdisc video player & Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune for SNES and Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! home game |
$7,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| HISTORIC NAMES | POP LYRICS | FAMOUS FIRSTS | COUNTIES | ACES | EIGHTS |
|
$100
[1]
People called Louis XIII's brother Gaston this, French for "mister"
Monsieur
Gary
|
$100
[6]
"Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows" here
downtown
Addison
|
$100
[5]
Jean Lussier was the 1st to over these falls in a rubber ball; Annie Taylor did it in a barrel
Niagara Falls
Addison
|
$100
[16]
Among the cities in this Illinois county are Skokie, Cicero & Evanston
Cook
Gary
|
$100
[21]
An ace is slang for this amount of U.S. money
one dollar
Gary
|
$100
[26]
August is the eighth month & this is the eighth letter of the alphabet
H
Gary
Addison
|
|
$200
[2]
His grandson Batu Khan founded the state of the Golden Horde around 1240
Genghis Khan
Gary
|
$200
[7]
Simon & Garfunkel told her, "God bless you, please...heaven holds a place for those who pray"
Mrs. Robinson
Gary
|
$200
[12]
Following in Sir Edmund Hillary's footsteps, Junko Tabei became the 1st woman to do this May 16, 1975
climb Mount Everest
Gary
|
$200
[17]
Almost 17 times the size of Rhode Island, San Bernardino County in this state is the USA's largest
California
Gary
|
$200
[22]
It's a hidden advantage, played when needed
ace up one's sleeve (ace in the hole)
Gary
|
$200
[27]
Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa St., Kansas, Kansas St., Missouri, Oklahoma St.
The Big 8
Gary
|
|
$300
[3]
This name adopted by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov refers to the Lena River in Siberia
Lenin
Gary
|
$300
[9]
This Bobbie Gentry song begins, "It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day"
"Ode to Billie Joe"
Addison
|
$300
[13]
The 1st 33 1/3 rpm long-playing record featured this composer's Fifth Symphony conducted by L. Stokowksi
Beethoven
Addison
|
$300
[18]
This state's most populous county is Laramie
Wyoming
Addison
|
$300
[23]
Spokeswomen for this chain have included Connie Stevens & Suzanne Somers
Ace Hardware
|
$300
[28]
It's an 8-side plane figure
octagon
Addison
|
|
$400
[4]
Sir Walter Raleigh fell out of favor with this woman when he married one of her maids of honor
Elizabeth I
Roberta
|
$400
[10]
In 1972 Elton John sang, "But the biggest, kick I ever got was doin' a thing called" this
"Crocodile Rock"
Gary
Addison
|
$400
[14]
"You ain't heard nothin' yet" until you've heard Al Jolson say the line in this 1st major talking film
The Jazz Singer
Addison
|
$400
[19]
This Pennsylvania city is the seat of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh
Roberta
|
$400
[24]
Becton Dickinson & Co. makes health care & safety products, including the Ace line of these
bandages
Gary
|
$400
[29]
The boat races between Oxford & Cambridge are called eights for the number of these
rowers
Roberta
|
|
$500
[8]
This pianist & composer who wrote the "Minuet in G" was also the Prime Minister of Poland
Paderewski
Gary
|
$500
[11]
It contains the line "bows and flows of angel hair, and ice cream castles in the air"
"Both Sides Now"
Addison
|
$500
[15]
In 1896 the Diamond Co. of Ohio became the first to put these in books
matches
Roberta
|
DD
$500
[20]
A county in New York is named for this Prussian who served in the American Revolution
(Friedrich) von Steuben
Roberta
|
$500
[25]
To win an Ace Award, your show must be shown on this medium
cable television
Gary
|
$500
[30]
The only Disney feature to have exactly 8 people mentioned in the title
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Gary
|
| THE BIBLE | POLITICIANS | SCIENCE | AWARDS | THE 20th CENTURY | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
|
$200
[17]
Genesis 6:14 says it was constructed of gopher wood
Noah's Ark
Gary
|
$200
[12]
This future President made his film debut in the 1937 Warner Bros. picture "Love is on the Air"
Reagan
Gary
|
$200
[3]
This type of soft speech is produced without using the vocal cords
whispering
Gary
|
$200
[9]
He established the Presidential Medal of Freedom but died before he could make the first presentations
Kennedy
Gary
|
$200
[26]
In 1934 Huey Long organized the "Share Our Wealth" plan & the Long March began in this country
China
Gary
|
$200
[1]
There are several ghosts in "Richard III" but "Hamlet" has only one ghost, this one
Hamlet's father
Gary
Addison
|
|
$400
[22]
He said, "O that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!"
Job
Roberta
|
$400
[13]
Of the 8 Massachusetts congressmen to serve as Speaker, he is the most recent
Tip O'Neill
Roberta
|
$400
[4]
This is the season between the vernal equinox & the summer solstice
spring
Roberta
|
$400
[10]
Liza Minnelli, Lili Fini Zanuck & 67 other women who've won this award posed for a historical photo in 1993
Academy Award
Addison
|
$400
[27]
A member of the junta that took over this country in 1979, Violeta Chamorro became its president in 1990
Nicaragua
Gary
|
$400
[2]
In this tragedy Donalbain flees to Ireland after his father, Duncan is murdered
Macbeth
Gary
|
|
$800
[24]
In 2 Corinthians Paul wrote, "And no marvel; for" he "is transformed into an angel of light"
Satan
|
$600
[14]
This Kansan has been the Majority Leader & Minority Leader in the U.S. Senate
(Bob) Dole
Gary
|
$600
[6]
Saltpeter is a compound of nitrogen, oxygen & this element, symbol K
potassium
Gary
|
$800
[19]
A Youth in Film Award is named for this late actor who was a kid when he played "The Kid" in 1921
(Jackie) Coogan
Gary
|
$600
[28]
This Tennessee Senator wrote the 1951 book "Crime in America" after heading a crime committee
Estes Kefauver
Gary
|
$600
[5]
Disguised as a male lawyer, she outwits Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice"
Portia
Gary
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Upon being stoned, this first Christian martyr said, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge"
St. Stephen
Roberta
|
$800
[15]
The only 2 Independent governors are Lowell Weicker of Connecticut & Walter Hickel of this state
Alaska
Roberta
|
$800
[7]
Seafood is a good source of this element necessary for the formation of thyroid hormones
iodine
Gary
Roberta
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
1 of the 2 medals for children's books awarded by the American Library Association
(1 of) Newbery or Caldecott
Gary
|
$800
[29]
This 1972-76 British-Icelandic "War" over fishing rights ended in a compromise
Cod War
|
$800
[11]
1 of the 2 plays that feature a character named Paris
(1 of) Troilus & Cressida (or Romeo and Juliet )
Roberta
|
|
DD
$1,300
[23]
This Israelite leader was buried in the land of Moab near the settlement of Beth-peor
Moses
Roberta
|
$1,000
[16]
In 1992 this New York Senator won reelection by only 108,000 votes of the more than 5.8 million cast
(Alfonse) D'Amato
Roberta
|
$1,000
[8]
A material with very high electrical resistivity is called this
insulator
Addison
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1959 Hermes Pan won an Emmy for choreographing "An Evening with" this dancer
Fred Astaire
Roberta
|
$1,000
[30]
In the 1970s this chemical from apricot pits was touted as a cancer cure
laetrile
Addison
|
$1,000
[21]
2 men named Cinna appear in this tragedy: one is a poet & one is a conspirator
Julius Caesar
Addison
|
This flower whose name is from the Greek for "wind" is also called a windflower
anemone