Walter Mayes — a publisher sales representative from San Francisco, California
Dom Muoio — an Italian teacher from New Providence, New Jersey
John Ferraro — a landscaper from Rotonda West, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $600 | $2,400 | $7,600 |
$100
2nd place: Berkline sofa + Capri track lighting |
$7,600
18 R, 1 W |
| Dom | $2,500 | $3,500 | $6,400 |
$100
3rd place: Joyce Chen cookware + Nintendo Entertainment System & games |
$5,700
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Walter | $900 | $2,300 | $8,300 |
$15,200
New champion: $15,200 |
$5,900
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| PLAYS OF THE '50s | PROVERBS | TV WESTERNS | DENMARK | THE NEWSPAPER | HILL OF BEANS |
|
$100
[2]
Andy Griffith & Don Knotts hit Broadway in "No Time for" these before they moved to Mayberry
No Time for Sergeants
Dom
|
$100
[9]
"When the cat's away" this happens
the mice will play
John
|
$100
[15]
Until 1954 this series starring Clayton Moore was the only ABC show to rank in the Nielsen top 20
The Lone Ranger
Walter
|
$100
[14]
About one-fourth of Denmark's population lives in this city & its suburbs
Copenhagen
Walter
|
$100
[22]
For the CIA it means secret, for a newspaper it means ads separated into categories
classified
Dom
|
$100
[1]
In a 1910 toast J.C. Bossidy called this city "The home of the bean and the cod"
Boston
Walter
|
|
$200
[3]
"I Am a Camera" takes place in Fraulein Schneider's flat in this city in 1930
Berlin
John
|
$200
[10]
It's "The better part of valor"
discretion
Dom
|
$200
[16]
This Dodge City saloon was owned & operated by Miss Kitty for 19 seasons on "Gunsmoke"
the Long Branch
John
|
$200
[23]
As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark lost this country to Sweden in 1814
Norway
John
|
$200
[27]
Most U.S. newspapers a broadsheet size or this smaller size
tabloid
Dom
|
$200
[4]
Using the old bean, Old Bean, mean you're using this, Old Chap
your brain (your head)
Walter
|
|
$300
[5]
One of the last lines in this William Inge play is "There'll be a bus to Kanz City in a few minutes"
Bus Stop
John
|
$400
[12]
It's derived from the Latin phrase "Manus manum lavat"
One hand washes the other
Dom
|
$300
[17]
In this series, Lucas McCain fought the desperadoes in North Fork with a modified .44 Winchester
The Rifleman
John
|
$300
[24]
Established in the early 1500s, it's Denmark's state church
the Lutheran church
Dom
|
$300
[28]
Term for a big-type headline that runs all the way across page 1
a banner
John
|
$300
[6]
Of navy, green or pinto, the bean not named for its looks
navy
Dom
|
|
$400
[7]
Act I of the play about this title court-martial is "The Prosecution"; Act II is "The Defense"
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Walter
|
DD
$500
[11]
Proverbial title of thefollowingold standard:
"The Best Things In Life Are Free"
Dom
|
$400
[18]
She won a 1966 Best Actress Emmy for her role as Victoria Barkley on "The Big Valley"
Barbara Stanwyck
John
|
$400
[25]
Denmark's longest river, the Gudena, runs 98 miles through this mainland peninsula
the Jutland Peninsula
Dom
|
$400
[29]
The New York Times page devoted to viewpoints on issues that differ from its own
the Op-Ed
John
|
$400
[20]
It's what Jack traded for those magic beans
a cow
Walter
|
|
$500
[8]
Shelley Winters & future husband Anthony Franciosa starred in the 1955 play "A Hatful of" this
A Hatful of Rain
Dom
|
$500
[13]
It's often said that "Faint heart never won" this
fair maiden (or fair lady)
Dom
|
$500
[19]
Wishbone was the crusty old cook on this Clint Eastwood series
Rawhide
Walter
|
$500
[26]
In Helsingor a memorial to this author can be found in Kronborg Castle
William Shakespeare
Walter
|
$500
[30]
In 1972 this Chicago columnist won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Mike Royko
Walter
|
$500
[21]
This word comes from Mandarin Chinese for bean & curdled
tofu
Walter
|
| THE EARTH | LITERATURE | ELIZABETH I | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | GREEK GODDESSES | "O" BOY |
|
$200
[11]
Volcanoes are classified as active, extinct or this, meaning "sleeping"
dormant
Walter
|
$200
[15]
E.M. Forster worked on the libretto of Benjamin Britten's opera of this author's "Billy Budd"
Herman Melville
Walter
|
$200
[1]
This "dreadful" czar wanted to marry Elizabeth, but she resisted him
Ivan the Terrible
John
|
$200
[26]
Alaska Airlines is headquartered in this Washington city, not in Alaska
Seattle
Walter
|
$200
[9]
It's the collective name for the three goddesses of destiny
the Fates
John
|
$200
[6]
This California city named for the trees on its hills has a large saltwater lake downtown
Oakland
John
Dom
|
|
$400
[22]
It's thought India drifted away from Gondwanaland & hit Asia, forming this mountain chain
the Himalayas
Dom
|
$400
[16]
Dante would have loved this heroine of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
Beatrice
Walter
|
$400
[2]
Elizabeth had this color hair, a Tudor family feature
red
Dom
|
$400
[27]
In the '80s this credit card company bought Shearson Loeb Rhoades, E.F. Hutton & Lehman Brothers
American Express
Walter
|
$400
[10]
Arachne was changed into a spider by this goddess of wisdom she'd challenged to a weaving contest
Athena
Dom
|
$400
[7]
A 4-sided stone pillar in which the sides slope; the Washington Monument is an example
an obelisk
John
|
|
$600
[23]
At this line of latitude the midnight sun occurs on one day only, June 21
the Arctic Circle
John
Walter
|
$800
[18]
He wrote "Claudius the God" as well as "I, Claudius"
(Robert) Graves
Walter
|
$600
[3]
A portrait of Elizabeth hangs in the Governor's conference room in this state named for her
Virginia
Walter
|
$600
[28]
Frank & Charles Seiberling named their tire company after this rubber pioneer who died poor
Goodyear
John
|
$600
[12]
As Queen of the Gods, she was second only to Zeus among the Olympians
Hera
John
|
$600
[8]
Insufficient intake of calcium can be a factor in this loss of bone tissue
osteoporosis
Walter
|
|
$800
[24]
It's a wide straight between an island & a continent
a channel
Dom
|
$1,000
[19]
Biblical king who "wrote" Joseph Heller's "God Knows"
David
Walter
|
$800
[4]
Elizabeth was just 2 years & 8 months old when this woman, her mother, was executed
Anne Boleyn
Dom
|
$800
[29]
Bass, a British brewing company, now owns this lodging chain named for an Astaire-Crosby film
Holiday Inn
Dom
|
$800
[13]
Soon after her own birth, she helped deliver her twin brother, Apollo
Artemis
Walter
|
$800
[20]
From the 800s until 1472 the Vikings ruled these islands 7 miles off Scotland's north coast
the Orkneys
John
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This type of mica got its name from the Russian capital where it was once used for windowpanes
muscovite
|
DD
$3,000
[17]
Hemingway tale in which Santiago says, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated"
The Old Man and the Sea
Walter
|
DD
$1,500
[5]
Elizabeth acknowledged this man as her successor even tho she had his mother beheaded
James VI of Scotland or James I of England
Dom
|
$1,000
[30]
The detergent L.O.C. was the first product offered by this direct-sale company
Amway
John
Dom
Walter
|
$1,000
[14]
The Eleusinian Mysteries were part of a secret cult honoring this goddess of agriculture
Demeter
Dom
Walter
|
$1,000
[21]
This sister of Augustus married Mark Antony in 40 B.C., which led to a truce between the 2 men
Octavia
John
|
In exile from the U.S., he lived in St. John, New Brunswick from 1787 to 1791
Benedict Arnold