Jennifer Daniels — a graduate student from Rensselaer, New York
Phillip Anderson, Jr. — an audiovisual director from Norfolk, Virginia
Robert Horton — a computer salesman from Largo, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert | $100 | $2,200 | $4,000 |
$3,900
3rd place: Litton microwave oven + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version |
$4,000
12 R, 3 W |
| Phillip | $500 | $1,000 | $5,200 |
$5,000
2nd place: Broyhill roll top desk & oak chair & Smith Corona XD6700 typewriter + Jeopardy! box game or computerized version |
$4,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Jennifer | $1,600 | $2,200 | $11,400 |
$7,400
New champion: $7,400 |
$9,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| MOUNTAINS | SCREEN STARS | THE HUMAN BODY | STATISTICS | FOX HUNTING | "GOLD" |
|
$100
[3]
Japan's national symbol
Mount Fujiyama
Jennifer
|
$100
[4]
Actor who co-directed the film "The Green Berets"
John Wayne
Phillip
|
$100
[1]
Acid here sterilizes digested food & kills bacteria
stomach
Robert
|
$100
[15]
Almost 25% of all U.S. seminarians of this religion are of Irish descent
Catholicism
Robert
|
$100
[11]
Shout that signals the beginning of the hunt
tallyho!
Phillip
|
$100
[5]
A miner, or a Broadway baby who marries for money
gold digger
Jennifer
|
|
$200
[12]
Tho the mts. between Pakistan & Afghanistan are not well-known, this famous pass thru them is
Khyber Pass
Jennifer
|
$200
[7]
4-time Oscar nominee & star of TV's "Big Valley", said to have once been highest-paid woman in U.S.
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert
|
$200
[2]
The femur is the longest one in the body
bone
Phillip
|
$200
[16]
Of courtesy, food or on-time performance, the 1 air travelers in recent USA Today survey rated most important
courtesy
Robert
Phillip
|
$200
[21]
Traditionally, the master of the hunt wears a velvet cap of this color
black
Robert
Jennifer
|
$200
[6]
Normally, sheets of this are only 3 to 5 millionths of an inch thick
gold leaf
Phillip
Jennifer
|
|
$300
[13]
Those who have gone in search of Noah's Ark have centered on this mountain in Turkey
Mount Ararat
Jennifer
|
$300
[8]
She was named Queen of Hollywood in 1936, after playing Nora Charles
Myrna Loy
Jennifer
|
$300
[14]
About 45% of this is made of erythrocytes, leukocytes, & platelets
blood
Robert
|
$300
[18]
With over 1/4 mil. employees in 1985, this discount chain was #7 employer in U.S.
Kmart
Phillip
|
$300
[22]
In fox hunting, this is referred to as the fox's "brush"
tail
Phillip
|
$300
[17]
A kind of carp
goldfish
Robert
|
|
$400
[23]
It's said the Indian name for this mountain area near Seattle means "mountain that was God"
Mount Rainier
Jennifer
|
$500
[9]
He co-starred w/Jeanette MacDonald in "I Married an Angel" but married Ann Franklin
Nelson Eddy
Jennifer
|
$400
[25]
The 1st metacarpal is located in this digit of the hand
thumb
|
$400
[27]
Within a year of buying a house, 38% of home owners purchase one of these for the garage
door opener
Robert
Phillip
|
— |
$400
[19]
A worker who's a shirker
goldbricker
Robert
|
|
$500
[24]
Of all 7 continents' highest peaks, 7310' Mt. Kosciusko, on this continent, is the lowest
Australia
Robert
Phillip
Jennifer
|
DD
$800
[10]
He said, "I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years"
Mickey Rooney
Jennifer
|
$500
[26]
Roughly triangular, this muscle gives the rounded contour to the shoulder
deltoid
|
$500
[28]
With over 1000 people per square mile, this Mid-Atlantic state is most densely populated
New Jersey
Robert
|
— |
$500
[20]
In the famous short story, it's dropped through the eye of a skull to unearth a fortune
The Gold-Bug
Phillip
|
| AMERICAN HISTORY | BRITISH GHOSTS | OPERA TRIVIA | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | IACOCCA | "SILVER" |
|
$200
[1]
Not yet Secretary of State, he visited China on the sly in 1971 to make plans for Pres. Nixon's historic trip
Henry Kissinger
Phillip
|
$200
[9]
Earl Spencer, father of this princess, reportedly had a ghost exorcised from his estate
Princess Diana
Jennifer
|
$200
[4]
The 1st act finds this Rossini hero at his chalet on Lake Lucerne
William Tell
Phillip
|
$200
[13]
Jocasta's son, he's one of Sophocles' most "Complex" characters
Oedipus
Jennifer
|
$200
[11]
Of the "Big 3" U.S. automakers, it's the 1 he never worked for
General Motors
Phillip
|
$200
[2]
Even when made of stainless steel, knives & forks are usually called this
silverware
Robert
Phillip
|
|
$600
[22]
While John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State, this brother of his was CIA director
Alan Dulles
|
$400
[10]
A week after dying in it, George III was seen at this castle outside London
Windsor Castle
Phillip
|
$400
[25]
Though he felt it lacked depth, Nietzsche said he had learned this Bizet opera "practically by heart"
Carmen
Robert
|
$400
[14]
Jocasta's 2nd husband, he's one of Sophocles' most "Complex" characters
Oedipus
Jennifer
|
$400
[12]
He currently backs his cars with a powertrain warranty for this many years or this many miles
7 & 70,000
Robert
|
$400
[3]
If your wallpaper seems to be disappearing, it could be the work of this slippery pest
silverfish
Jennifer
|
|
DD
$800
[5]
Event depicted in this painting, which Newsweek captioned "Pay attention, this might come up on 'Jeopardy!'"
the framing of the Constitution (signing of the Constitution of the United States)
Phillip
|
$600
[15]
He was murdered before Macbeth's banquet but showed up anyway
Banquo
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[28]
In this Strauss work, the role of Prince Orlofsky is almost always sung by a woman
Die Fledermaus
|
$800
[19]
Tho her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, Don Quixote quixotically called her this
Dulcinea
Phillip
|
$600
[20]
Submitting a thesis on torque converters, he earned a master's degree in this field
mechanical engineering
|
$600
[6]
This 2-word phrase, no longer found on new bills, used to make dollars redeemable in metal
silver certificate
Jennifer
|
|
$800
[23]
Henry Clay & Daniel Webster were leaders of this political party
Whigs
Jennifer
|
$800
[16]
Film in which cowardly Chas. Laughton was considered to haunt a castle, awaiting a chance to be brave
The Canterville Ghost
|
— |
$1,000
[21]
In Hawthorne's classic, Arthur Dimmesdale died in the arms of this woman, his secret lover
Hester Prynne
Jennifer
|
$800
[26]
Iacocca was a protege of this auto executive who went on to become Defense Sec'y under JFK
Robert McNamara
Phillip
|
$800
[7]
AgNO3, without it photography couldn't have developed
silver nitrate
Robert
|
|
$1,000
[24]
When the 1786-87 rebellion led by & named for him broke out in Mass., Congress made no effort to put it down
Shays' Rebellion
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[17]
Boswell's subject, he helped expose the notorious "Cock Lane Ghost" as a fraud in 1762
Samuel Johnson
Jennifer
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[18]
Mark Twain based this title character on his pal Tom Blankenship, son of the town drunkard
Huckleberry Finn
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[27]
Of this man who fired him, Iacocca says, he "made my kids suffer, & for that I'll never forgive him"
Henry Ford II
Phillip
|
$1,000
[8]
Paul Newman might appreciate it if you didn't remember this was his 1st film
The Silver Chalice
Jennifer
|
Number of books in the Old Testament which precede the book of Numbers
3