Linda Christiano — a teacher from Alto Loma, California
Burton Boxerman — a retired teacher from St. Louis, Missouri
Chris Walkey — a jeweler originally from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $700 | $1,500 | $7,000 |
$8,801
2-day champion: $14,801 |
$7,900
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Burton | $100 | $800 | $4,400 |
$8,800
2nd place: Emerson compact disc audio rack system + Galaxy carpeting |
$4,400
10 R, 0 W |
| Linda | $1,100 | $800 | $3,800 |
$0
3rd place: Swintec electronic typewriter |
$4,600
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| MICE | SHIPS | ODD JOBS | FACTS & FIGURES | BASEBALL | SUMMER SONGS |
|
$100
[1]
Because this sense in mice is poor, they may enter a lighted room even if people are there
sight
Linda
|
$100
[11]
Of the Queen Elizabeth or QE2, the larger
Queen Elizabeth
Chris
Burton
|
$100
[17]
A glazier in Australia had a young employee break these around town so he could repair them
windows
Chris
|
$100
[4]
About 70% of cultured pearls on the market today come from this country
Japan
Linda
|
$100
[12]
In 1915, he became the 1st president to attend a World Series game
Wilson
Chris
|
$100
[2]
This tune by the Percy Faith Orchestra was the biggest instrumental single of the past 30 years
"Theme From a Summer Place"
Linda
|
|
$200
[6]
In Aesop's fable, a mouse's sharp little teeth help one of these
lion
Chris
|
$200
[13]
The 1st of these made in France was named the Nautilus
submarine
Linda
|
$200
[18]
In 2 popular kid's books, Willy Wonka's profession
candymaker
Chris
|
$200
[14]
Clairol says more than 1/2 of the 35 million U.S. women who color their hair color it this color
blonde
Linda
|
$300
[27]
After breaking Maury Wills' stolen base record, he titled autobiography "Stealing Is My Game"
Lou Brock
Chris
|
$200
[3]
The 3 rhyming adjectives that Nat King Cole used to describe "Those... Days of Summer"
lazy hazy crazy
Chris
|
|
$300
[7]
Young mice are weaned at 3 weeks, & most start doing this in their 6th week
procreating
Linda
|
$300
[23]
A Roman galley slave didn't work in the ship's kitchen but was used for this function
rowing the boat
Burton
|
$300
[19]
In October 1986, after holding down this post for 24 years, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani was fired
Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia
Chris
Linda
|
$300
[15]
At almost 76 million boxes, that was this was the top selling flavor of Jell-O in 1985
strawberry
|
$400
[24]
A 92-year-old fan of this team said in Oct. '86, "I've been 'waiting for next year' since 1918
Boston Red Sox
Chris
|
$300
[5]
Only animals mentioned in George Gershwin's "Summertime (An; the Livin' is Easy)"
fish
Chris
|
|
$400
[10]
Since house mice love to steal your food, it's appropriate that "mouse" comes from Sanskrit word for this
thief
|
$400
[25]
The 1st registered vessel powered by this was appropriately named the James Watt
steamship
Burton
|
$400
[20]
From Latin for "to write", it's a professional copyist of documents
scribe
Chris
|
$400
[16]
In the I.Q. Zoo at the L.A. County Fair, the chicken wins 8 out of 10 games of this
tic-tac-toe
|
$500
[26]
The 2 National League team names which are also "clerical titles"
Padres & Cardinals
|
$400
[8]
Bryan Hyland hit which began, "Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer"
"Sealed with a Kiss"
Linda
|
| — | — |
$500
[21]
A mahout keeps & drives one of these
elephant
Chris
|
DD
$400
[22]
Face value of the coins in 1986 U.S. proof set which the government sells for $11
91 cents
Chris
|
— |
$500
[9]
Title of the song in which The Happenings asked "or will I lose you to a summer love?"
"See You in September"
Linda
|
| CATS | NEW TESTAMENT | DAVES & DAVIDS | CITY NICKNAMES | LITERATURE | POTPOURRI |
|
$200
[19]
A female cat used for breeding can be given this royal name--& not just "for a day"
queen
Burton
|
$200
[22]
In order to have Timothy accepted in the Jewish community, Paul performed this surgery on him
circumcision
Burton
|
$200
[1]
This rock star was Joan Rivers' very 1st guest on her "Late Show" debut
David Lee Roth
Linda
|
$200
[7]
City with many nicknames that Carl Sandburg called "Hog Butcher for the World"
Chicago
Linda
|
$200
[9]
He published "The Jungle Book" in 1894, & its sequel, "The 2nd Jungle Book", in 1895
Rudyard Kipling
Burton
|
$200
[20]
The saluki is the oldest kind known to man
dog
Linda
|
|
$400
[23]
Killing of cats in the Middle Ages because they were believed evil supposedly led to this disease
Bubonic plague
Linda
|
$400
[24]
After dancing before Herod, Herodias' daughter said she wanted this brought to her on a dish
the head of John the Baptist
Chris
|
$600
[4]
This comedian's cracked psychiatrist character startled patients by blurting "Booga Booga!"
David Steinberg
Chris
|
$400
[6]
In "The Frisco Kid", Gene Wilder called it "The city where all the brothers love each other"
Philadelphia
Burton
Linda
|
$400
[13]
Though he had studied Greek, Latin & Hebrew, he wrote "Paradise Lost" in English
Milton
Chris
|
$400
[21]
Country which issued the first postage stamp
Great Britain
|
|
DD
$500
[27]
2 of the 9 long-haired cat breeds now commonly recognized in the U.S.
Persian, Himalayan, Birman, Balinese, Somali, Angora, Maine Coon, Cymric, Norwegian Forest
Chris
|
$600
[28]
In the Temptation, Satan suggested Jesus turn stones into this
bread
|
DD
$800
[2]
His quartet's 1960 album containing thefollowingbecame 1st jazz gold record: [instrumental music plays]
Dave Brubeck
Linda
|
$600
[10]
Its nicknames include "Cradle of Liberty" & "Hub of the Universe"
Boston
Chris
|
$600
[8]
Of being dead, Quaker, or unmarried, what all the characters in the Spoon River Anthology are
dead
Chris
|
$600
[16]
His license plates read "Kinte"
Alex Haley
Linda
|
|
$600
[25]
Though all Manx cats are often called "rumpies", the real rumpy is the only 1 with this trait
tailless (having no tail at all)
Burton
|
— |
$800
[3]
Producer who has given "Promises Promises" to B'way audiences as well as to 4 wives, 1 twice
David Merrick
Chris
|
$800
[11]
Oklahoma's "Oil Capital of the World"
Tulsa
Linda
|
$800
[14]
Title of Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel about Roy Hobbs, a baseball hero
The Natural
Chris
|
$800
[17]
Only President who was also student body president at Illinois' Eureka College
Ronald Reagan
Linda
|
|
$800
[26]
Known only since the early 1960s, the domestic Scottish fold is named for these folded features
ears
Chris
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
Movie producer who reportedly said no one else matched his success in adapting famous books
David Selznick
Chris
Burton
|
$1,000
[12]
In the 19th C., before "The West" had moved further west, this Ohio river city was "The Queen City of the West"
Cincinnati
Burton
|
$1,000
[15]
Chapter 36 of his "Vanity Fair" is titled "How to Live Well on Nothing a Year"
(William Makepeace) Thackeray
Linda
|
$1,000
[18]
This inventor's middle names were Finley & Breese
Samuel Morse
Chris
|
In 1977, James R. Schlesinger became the 1st person to hold this Cabinet position
Secretary of Energy