Robin Ditzler — a homemaker from Poway, California
Dan Stewart — a college professor from Sligo, Pennsylvania
Meg Shreve — an attorney from Bolinas, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meg | $1,300 | $3,000 | $5,000 |
$9,999
3-day champion: $29,799 |
$5,800
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dan | $900 | $2,600 | $6,600 |
$1,600
2nd place: trip on Eastern to Caribbean & stay at Hedonism II Resort |
$7,600
21 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Robin | $900 | $1,400 | $5,800 |
$600
3rd place: Berkline Wallaway sofa |
$5,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| INSECTS | FOOD & DRINK | COMMON BONDS | METROPOLITAN OPERA | SPINOFFS | "OUT" WORDS |
|
$100
[11]
All insects hatch from these
eggs
Meg
|
$100
[10]
An old name for a strong ale, now it's usually preceded by "egg"
nog
Dan
|
$100
[15]
Busby, borsalino, boater
hats
Dan
|
$100
[1]
A 1965 Met performance of "Il Trovatore" had to be cancelled due to this famous power problem
the blackout in New York City
Dan
|
$100
[5]
Though inspired by 'The Six Million Dollar Man", it wasn't called "The Six Million Dollar Woman"
The Bionic Woman
Meg
|
$100
[2]
A type of boat motor
outboard motor
Meg
|
|
$200
[13]
Mayflies live for a very short time because adult mayflies can't do this
eat
Meg
|
$200
[12]
During WWII, some Dutch reportedly avoided starvation by eating the flowers & bulbs of this plant
the tulip
Dan
|
$200
[16]
Carter, Day George, Bird Johnson Robb
Lindas
Meg
|
$200
[14]
While on a 1906 West Coast tour, the company survived this legendary disaster
San Francisco earthquake (and fire)
Dan
|
$200
[6]
"Good Times" was a spinoff from "Maude", which was a spinoff from this show
All in the Family
Meg
Robin
|
$200
[3]
What you'd have to do to beat the fastest gun or best artist in the West
outdraw him or her
Dan
|
|
$300
[25]
When male moths lose these sensory appendages, they lose all interest in female moths
antennae
Dan
|
$300
[28]
From Italian for "salt", this type of sausage often uses meat that's seasoned with red wine
salami
|
$300
[22]
Bridget, Bonaventure, Boniface
saints
Dan
|
$300
[17]
In 1940, this "star-studded" oil co. began its Saturday sponsorship of Met radio broadcasts
Texaco
Meg
|
$300
[7]
Before they became sitcoms, Phyllis & Rhoda were characters on this series
Mary Tyler Moore
Robin
|
$300
[4]
You can plug your lava lite into it
an outlet
Robin
|
|
$400
[26]
These wasps are called the 1st papermakers because they build paper nests
hornets (yellowjackets)
Dan
|
$400
[29]
Most Parisians wouldn't have the "Gaul" to serve this bread dish for breakfast
French toast
Dan
|
$400
[23]
Essex, Franklin, Pierce-Arrow
old automobiles no longer in production
Dan
|
$400
[18]
Two great Italian tenors debuted at the Met on November 23, Pavarotti in 1968 & this singer in 1903
Caruso
Meg
|
$400
[8]
Before moving to their own show, "The Ropers" were the landlords on this sitcom
Three's Company
Meg
|
$400
[20]
A pariah
an outcast
Dan
|
|
$500
[27]
An immature insect, or a lesser forest goddess
nymph
Dan
|
$500
[30]
Flavor of cake used in making a sachertorte
chocolate
Robin
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
A ship, a violin, a nose
things that have a bridge
Dan
|
$500
[19]
Including "Lohengrin", all Met operas in the 1st season were sung in these 2 Romance languages
Italian & French
Meg
|
$500
[9]
With a twitch of her nose, she left "Bewitched" & got a show named after her
Tabitha
Robin
|
$500
[21]
Frank, as one who calls a pariah a "pariah"
outspoken
Meg
|
| U.S. HISTORY | LITERARY FLOWERS | JAZZ | PSEUDONYMS | TRAVEL & TOURISM | "IN" WORDS |
|
$200
[4]
In 1818, Congress ordered these cut back from 15 to 13, and they've stayed that way since
stripes on the flag
Meg
|
$200
[26]
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "Marriage...is a field of battle, not a bed of" these
roses
Meg
|
$200
[1]
Louis Armstrong was born in this city which was the 1st center for what would be called jazz
New Orleans
Robin
|
$200
[7]
First name in pseudonyms of 19th century female authors "Sand" & "Eliot"
George
Dan
|
$200
[21]
Whether buying a Singapore sling in Singapore, or a Manhattan in Manhattan, you'd use bills called this
dollars
Dan
|
$200
[12]
"You're ugly & your mother dresses you funny," for example
insult
Meg
|
|
$400
[5]
On Sept. 4, 1886, U.S. troops captured this Apache leader & deported him--to Florida
Geronimo
Robin
|
$400
[27]
The "live flowers" in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" have this amazing ability
ability to talk
|
$400
[2]
Nickname shared by jazz greats Webb & Corea
Chick
Robin
|
$400
[17]
40 inches tall, 19th c. entertainer Charles Sherwood Stratton was best known by this name
General Tom Thumb
Dan
|
$400
[22]
The "Indrailpass" lets you use all this country's trains, including the Rajdhani Express
India
Dan
|
$400
[13]
An egghead
intellectual
Dan
|
|
$600
[6]
On July 27, 1909, he set a world record by staying aloft for 1 hour, 1 minute & 40 seconds
Orville Wright
Meg
|
$600
[28]
In "Hamlet", shortly after saying, "There is pansies, that's for thoughts", she drowns herself
Ophelia
Robin
|
$600
[3]
He brought jazz into a new era with his song "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Duke Ellington
Dan
|
$600
[18]
His acting career ruined by a sex scandal, this rotund silent comic directed using name Will B. Goodrich
(Roscoe) "Fatty" Arbuckle
Robin
|
$600
[23]
Fodor's says this is Mexico's #1 resort for international visitors & numero uno for Mexicans too
Acapulco
Robin
|
$600
[14]
What you become when you drink far too much
intoxicated or inebriated
Robin
|
|
$800
[8]
In August 1958, the Nautilus made the 1st undersea crossing of this
North Pole
Dan
|
$800
[29]
In a 1974 film, Cyblll Shepherd played this florally-named Henry James heroine
Daisy Miller
Meg
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
It's whom you'd expect to see on TV if you heard thefollowing Vince Guaraldi jazz theme: [Instrumental "Linus and Lucy" plays]
Peanuts & Charlie Brown (characters from the television show, Peanuts )
Robin
|
$800
[19]
Born Helen Louise Leonard, she was famous for singing & her 40 yr. relationship with Diamond Jim Brady
Lillian Russell
|
$800
[24]
If you ask a waiter in Beijing "Qing gei wo yidiar cha" he'll bring you this
tea
|
$800
[15]
What you might get when you eat far too much
indigestion
Meg
|
|
$1,000
[9]
On May 15, 1972, he was shot in a Laurel, Maryland shopping center
George Wallace
Robin
|
DD
$800
[30]
Walt Whitman mourned Lincoln in his poem "When" these "Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Lilacs
Meg
|
$1,000
[11]
Playboy called this trumpeter's "Kind of Blue" the best jazz album of all time
Miles Davis
|
$1,000
[20]
Born Harry Gerguson in New York, this flamboyant L.A. restaurateur passed as a Russian prince
Mike Romanoff
|
$1,000
[25]
The National Museum of Science & Technology in Milan is named after this man
(Leonardo) Da Vinci
Dan
|
$1,000
[16]
Impalpable, it's that vague something you can't quite put your finger on
intangible
Robin
|
Besides Antarctica, the other 2 continents that have no communist countries
Australia & South America