John Patlan — a social worker from Austin, Texas
Joyce Patterson — a homemaker from Hackettstown, New Jersey
Jim McManus — a corporate trust administrator from Richmond, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim | $600 | $3,000 | $5,500 |
$10,500
2nd place: Jean d'Eve watch & Michael C. Fina tea & coffee service + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger |
$6,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Joyce | $900 | $1,600 | $2,000 |
$4,000
3rd place: RoyalSwiss garden furniture + Jeopardy! home game or Jeopardy! Challenger |
$2,000
7 R, 1 W |
| John | $600 | $2,500 | $7,700 |
$11,001
New champion: $11,001 |
$7,300
23 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| POT LUCK | FAMOUS QUOTES | THE GRAMMY AWARDS | HISTORY | ARKANSAS | GRAVE MATTERS |
|
$100
[11]
Kind of "room" that's lit by a "safelight"
darkroom
John
|
$100
[22]
Completes "Up and down the city road, in and out the eagle, that's the way the money goes--"
"Pop Goes the Weasel"
Jim
|
$100
[1]
In 1974 this N.C. Democrat's spoken word recording, "Senator Sam at Home", received a Grammy nom.
Sam Ervin
Jim
|
$100
[3]
Over 20 million people died in this country's T'ai-p'ing Rebellion from 1850-64
China
Jim
|
$100
[12]
Lakes & rivers attract tourist dollars to these mountains shared with Missouri, Illinois, Kansas & Okla.
Ozarks
John
|
$100
[17]
The lights of Broadway were dimmed the day this inventor was buried in 1931
Edison
John
|
|
$200
[27]
If you have only 2.1 children, you've done your bit to achieve this, demographically speaking
zero population growth
Jim
|
$300
[24]
He said, "Before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, Lord, I'd die with this hammer in my hand."
John Henry
Jim
|
$200
[2]
Of Inspirational, Country or Rock 'n" Roll, the type of music for which Elvis won his 3 Grammys
Inspiration
Jim
John
|
$200
[7]
Arthur Phillip established the first permanent European colony on this continent in 1788
Australia
Jim
|
$200
[13]
University of Arkansas athletic teams are named this, after a type of wild hog
Razorbacks
Joyce
|
$200
[18]
A eulogist said of him, "There was only one guy at midnight on New Year's Eve."
Guy Lombardo
John
|
|
$300
[28]
From the Greek for "leader of the people", it's someone who arouses people through emotion & prejudice
demagogue
|
$400
[25]
To test this, Charles Weller came up with "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party."
typing skill
Joyce
|
$300
[4]
His "Live on the Sunset Strip" album was 1982's "Best Comedy Recording"
Richard Pryor
John
|
$300
[8]
This conqueror's descendants, the Timurids, ruled part of his empire after his death in 1405
Tamerlane
Joyce
John
|
$300
[14]
One of America's richest men, Sam Walton of Bentonville heads this discount store chain
Walmart
John
|
$300
[19]
A band played "Old Folks at Home" at his burial on January 21, 1864
Stephen Foster
Joyce
|
|
$400
[29]
You can raise the pitch of your guitar by clamping one of these gizmos to the neck
capo
|
$500
[26]
In this play Samuel Beckett wrote, "We all are born mad. Some remain so."
Waiting for Godot
Jim
|
$400
[5]
Henry Mancini's music from this Craig Stevens TV series won "Album of the Year" in 1959
Peter Gunn
Jim
|
$400
[9]
He became Viceroy of Ireland 17 years after he surrendered at Yorktown
Cornwallis
Joyce
|
$400
[15]
Its state motto is Regnat Populus which means this
People Reign (Rule)
John
|
$400
[20]
No shroud for this "Beat" author; he was buried in a checkered sports jacket & red bow tie
Jack Kerouac
John
|
| — |
DD
$800
[23]
A little known last line for this bride's rhyme is "and a lucky sixpence in her shoe"
something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
Jim
|
$500
[6]
This guitarist has won 7 Grammy Awards for "Best Country Instrumental Performance"
Chet Atkins
John
|
$500
[10]
Theodora, the wife of emperor Justinian I, was probably the most powerful woman in this empire's history
Byzantine
John
|
$500
[16]
The most industrialized city in the state is not the capital but this "Fort" city
Fort Smith
John
|
$500
[21]
At her request, she was buried next to Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota
Calamity Jane
Jim
|
| AMERICAN LITERATURE | RULERS | ARCHITECTURE | BIBLICAL LAW | POTENT POTABLES | THE SUN & THE MOON |
|
$200
[8]
This author of the Perry Mason books was a lawyer himself
Erle Stanley Gardner
Jim
|
$200
[1]
In 1927 he had Trotsky expelled from the Russian Communist Party; in 1929 he had him expelled from Russia
Stalin
Joyce
John
|
$200
[6]
Chicago's Tribune Tower contains stones from the Taj Mahal, the Colosseum & this 1,500-mile Chinese landmark
Great Wall
John
|
$200
[22]
There had to be at least 2 witnesses for a death sentence, & they got to toss the first of these
stone
Joyce
|
$200
[15]
Ads for this urge consumers to "Live a Cutty above"
Cutty Sark
John
|
$200
[20]
It's an arc of the colors of the spectrum caused by water drops reflecting & refracting sunlight
rainbow
John
|
|
$400
[9]
"Flowering Judas" & "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" are collections of short stories by this author
Katherine Anne Porter
Joyce
|
$400
[2]
The Bayeux Tapestry was probably commissioned by this conqueror's half brother, Odo
William the Conqueror
John
|
$400
[7]
A large window or series of windows projecting from a wall & forming a recess within
bay window
Jim
|
$400
[23]
In Leviticus 11 the Israelites were told not to do this to camels, mice & lizards, among others
eat them
John
|
$400
[16]
To make a Jack Daniel's Tennessee mud, add Jack Daniel's & amaretto to a mug of this & top w/whipped cream
coffee
John
|
$400
[21]
John Heywood's 16th century proverb "The moon is made of" this was not to be believed
green cheese
Jim
|
|
$600
[10]
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for "The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days", JFK's story
(Arthur) Schlesinger
John
|
$600
[3]
This Eastern European country's first king, Carol I, was born a German prince
Romania
John
|
$800
[13]
Architect who designed the Climatron, an enclosed geodesic dome at the Missouri Botanical Garden
(Buckminster) Fuller
John
|
$600
[24]
Now a very high rate of interest, in the Bible it was just plain interest & could be charged to strangers
usury
Jim
|
$600
[17]
To "V.O." in this company's V.O. Whisky stands for "Very Own"
Seagram's
John
|
$600
[25]
The illumination in the atmosphere just after sunset, the Platters sang about it
twilight time
Jim
|
|
$800
[11]
He won the National Book Award in 1956 fro his novel "Ten North Frederick"
John O'Hara
|
$800
[4]
When he visited Neville Chamberlain, he became the 1st British ruler to visit a p.m. at No. 10 Downing St.
George VI
John
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
The fanciest of the borders of Greek columns, it's also the one with the fanciest name
Corinthian
John
|
— |
$800
[18]
1 of the simplest potent potables, it's occasionally used as a gin substitute in cocktails
vodka
Jim
|
DD
$1,500
[27]
This element was discovered on the Sun before it was found in 1895 on Earth
helium
Jim
|
|
$1,000
[26]
Her horror story "The Lottery", first published in The New Yorker, is now widely anthologized
Shirley Jackson
Jim
|
$1,000
[5]
The last time a king of this country was crowned was in 1906 in Troudheim
Norway
John
|
$1,000
[14]
Havard's Visual Arts Center is the only U.S. building completely designed by this French-Swiss architect
Le Corbusier
|
— |
$1,000
[19]
You don't have to wear black velvet to drink Black Velvet, a whisky imported from this country
Canada
John
|
— |
In 1906 she became the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne
Marie Curie