Sally Donovan — an insurance executive from Harleysville, Pennsylvania
Glenn Salzman — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
Gay Mollette — a procurement manager originally from Detroit, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gay | $600 | $2,600 | $6,000 |
$6,000
3-day champion: $24,001 |
$7,100
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Glenn | $1,300 | $2,300 | $8,700 |
$5,399
2nd place: Trip to Tortola, BVI |
$8,500
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sally | $500 | $1,200 | $2,000 |
$3,900
3rd place: Amana Top-Mount Refrigerator |
$2,000
8 R, 2 W |
| MODERN HISTORY | FURNITURE | COUNTRY MUSIC TOURISM | LITERARY HODGEPODGE | THE MARINE CORPS | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES |
|
$100
[6]
On Jan. 17, 1994 California was struck by one measuring 6.7; on Jan. 17, 1995 Kobe, Japan was hit by a 7.2
Earthquake
Gay
|
$100
[16]
Some French cabinetmakers called themselves ebenis for the ability to work in this difficult wood
Ebony
Gay
|
$100
[19]
She opened Dollywood Boulevard, an $8 million addition to her Dollywood theme park in 1996
Dolly Parton
Glenn
|
$100
[1]
This creator of "Lake Wobegon" grew up in Anoka, Minnesota
Garrison Keillor
Gay
|
$100
[26]
In 1978 Margaret A. Brewer became the first woman Marine to achieve this rank
General
Sally
|
$100
[7]
In the nursery rhyme, this line precedes "Bake me a cake as fast as you can"
"Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man"
Gay
|
|
$200
[12]
In 1988 radio-carbon testing dated this holy cloth only to the Middle Ages
Shroud of Turin
Glenn
|
$200
[17]
The rolltop type of this piece of furniture features a flexible hood that's drawn down as a lid
Desk
Gay
|
$200
[22]
This "Grand Ole" theme park is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1996
Opryland USA
Glenn
|
$200
[2]
Once a naval historian in the south Pacific, he won a Pulitzer Prize for "Tales of the South Pacific"
James Michener
Glenn
|
$200
[27]
This Latin motto of the corps means "Always Faithful"
"Semper Fidelis"
Sally
|
$200
[8]
It follows "That's one small step for a man,..."
"One Giant Leap for Mankind"
Gay
Glenn
|
|
$300
[13]
In 1969 after traveling about 2600 miles, he & his crew abandoned their Ra expedition
Thor Heyerdahl
Gay
|
$300
[18]
This modern table named for a beverage is lower & wider than the 18th century tea table
Coffee Table
Glenn
|
$300
[23]
You can tour a simulated coal mine at this coal miner's daughter's home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee
Loretta Lynn
Glenn
|
$300
[3]
Standard English is referred to as Oldspeak in this George Orwell novel
1984
Glenn
|
$300
[28]
This nickname for Marines refers to the type of collar they once wore
Leathernecks
Gay
|
$300
[9]
Term for an electorate's wishes that its representatives carry out a certain program
Mandate
Gay
|
|
$400
[14]
In 1967 a launch pad fire claimed the lives of Edward White, Roger Chaffee & this astronaut
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Glenn
|
$400
[20]
A vitrine is a cabinet with doors made of this material
Glass
Gay
|
$400
[24]
When visiting Disney World, line dancers head for the Neon Armadillo on this night club "island"
Pleasure Island
Sally
|
$400
[4]
A visitor interrupted him while he was writing down his poem "Kubla Khan" & he never finished it
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gay
|
DD
$500
[29]
Island on which the action depictedheretook place:
Iwo Jima
Gay
|
$400
[10]
Tube pasta filled with meat & cheese & served with tomato sauce
Manicotti
Glenn
|
|
$500
[15]
Suleyman Demirel was premier of this country on 5 separate occasions before becoming president in 1993
Turkey
Sally
|
$500
[21]
This furniture support may be Dutch, club or ball-and-claw
feet
Gay
Sally
|
$500
[25]
Alabama & the Gatlin Brothers are among the country stars who have theatres in this S.C. beach city
Myrtle Beach
Glenn
|
$500
[5]
"Hey-Rub-A-Dub-Dub" is a 1920 collection of philosophical essays by this "Sister Carrie" author
Theodore Dreiser
Sally
|
— |
$500
[11]
This dog named for its breeder originated in Apolda, Germany in the 1890s
Doberman Pinscher
Gay
|
| GYMNASTICS | U.S.A. | WORLD LEADERS | ANATOMY | THEATRE | POT LUCK |
|
$200
[8]
Ancient Cretan performers would run toward a charging one of these animals, grab its horns & flip over it
Bull
Glenn
|
$200
[11]
The World Eskimo Indian Olympics held in this state includes a rather competitive ear pull
Alaska
Sally
|
$200
[6]
In addition to serving as Iraq's president, he's chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council
Saddam Hussein
Glenn
|
$200
[18]
The optic nerve transmits impulses between the eyes & this organ
Brain
Gay
|
$200
[1]
His "Play It Again, Sam" tells the story of Allan Felix, a film journalist whose marriage has just broken up
Woody Allen
Gay
|
$200
[30]
Voice range of Chaliapin, a Russian singer who popularized the "Song of the Volga Boatmen"
Bass
Gay
|
|
$400
[9]
One part of this piece of women's event equipment is about 90" above the floor, the other about 60"
Uneven parallel bars
Glenn
|
$400
[12]
There's a grave in Boston that some people claim belongs to this story teller of nursery rhyme fame
Mother Goose
Gay
|
$400
[7]
Before his 1979 election to Great Britain's parliament, he worked in banking for almost 20 years
John Major
Glenn
|
$400
[19]
These smallest blood vessels are about one-eighth the thickness of a strand of hair
Capillaries
Glenn
|
$400
[2]
In this musical members of the Class of '59 recall their days at Rydell High School
"Grease"
Glenn
|
$400
[29]
Clink was the name of a 16th century one of these in Southwark, London
Prison/Jail
Sally
|
|
$600
[10]
In this event performed on a mat 40' square, men's routines must be 50-70 seconds long, women's 70-90
Floor exercise
Gay
|
$600
[15]
Evanston in this state was named for John Evans, a founder of Northwestern University
Illinois
Glenn
|
$600
[23]
In 1918 he was born the son of a Tembu chief in what's now Eastern Cape province
Nelson Mandela
Gay
|
$600
[20]
Nearly all of the body's endocrine glands are stimulated by hormones released by this gland
Pituitary Gland
Gay
|
$600
[3]
After Randle P. McMurphy attacks Nurse Ratched in this play, she has him lobotomized
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
Glenn
|
$600
[28]
The astronomical symbol for this planet is the same as the biological symbol for a female
Venus
Glenn
|
|
$800
[13]
This type of gymnastics became an Olympic event in 1984
rhythmic gymnastics
Gay
Glenn
Sally
|
$800
[16]
This Southwest reservoir is the largest artificial lake in the U.S.
Lake Mead
Glenn
|
$1,000
[25]
She took over Nicaragua's La Prensa newspaper after her husband's assassination
Violeta Chamorro
|
$800
[21]
Bow legs are often the result of this childhood disease caused by a lack of vitamin D
rickets
Gay
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
This play takes place at the summer home of Norman & Ethel Thayer
"On Golden Pond"
Glenn
|
$800
[26]
A chapter of this 1532 book discusses the Machiavellian career of Cesare Borgia
"The Prince"
Gay
|
|
$1,000
[14]
Name for the wooden handles on a side horse
Pommels
Glenn
|
$1,000
[17]
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in Alabama marks the site of this Indian war's last battle
the Creek Indian War
Glenn
|
DD
$1,200
[24]
In 1992 this former Soviet prime minister was named chairman of the State Council of Georgia
Eduard Shevardnadze
Gay
|
$1,000
[22]
It's the anatomical name for the stirrup, the smallest bone in the body
Stapes
|
$1,000
[5]
In his play "Lysistrata", the women of Athens refuse to sleep with their men until peace is declared
Aristophanes
Sally
|
$1,000
[27]
Tia Maria, a liqueur made from Blue Mountain coffee beans, comes from this country
Jamaica
Gay
|
In area, it's the largest country in South America entirely north of the Equator
Venezuela