Gail Waterman — a librarian originally from Newfield, New Jersey
Steve Burnside — a utility systems operator from Anaheim, California
Brenda Berstler — a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brenda | $800 | $500 | $2,800 |
$3,100
2-day champion: $13,600 |
$3,100
17 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Steve | $-100 | $-200 | $1,300 |
$0
2nd place: Allen Smith entertainment center & Magnavox 20" TV |
$1,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Gail | $-200 | $200 | $600 |
$0
3rd place: Bushnell telescope |
$1,100
11 R, 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| RELIGION | BEAUTY SECRETS | '60s BRITISH ROCK | COUNTRIES | SPORTS QUOTES | OOPS! |
|
$100
[9]
Before turning Protestant, Martin Luther was a monk & the vocation of his future wife was this
a nun
Steve
|
$100
[16]
It's said 18th c. ladies wore special heavy nightcaps to keep these rodents from gnawing on their hairdos
rats (mice)
Brenda
|
$100
[14]
Now 44, Michael Philip Jagger sang lead for this band for 24 years
The Rolling Stones
Steve
|
$100
[20]
North American mainland country which straddles the Tropic of Cancer
Mexico
Brenda
|
$100
[6]
"I went to the fight the other night, & a hockey game broke out," said this "Lite" comedian
Rodney Dangerfield
Brenda
|
$100
[1]
On Good Friday 1986, the London Times published the right clues for this, but the wrong grid
a crossword puzzle
Brenda
|
|
$200
[10]
With over 52 million members, it's the largest single religious body in the U.S.
Roman Catholic
Steve
Gail
|
$200
[25]
Pillows worn under gowns were all the rage when Marie Antoinette was in this condition
pregnant
Gail
|
$200
[15]
In 1969, this group released their revolutionary rock opera "Tommy" as a 2-record set
The Who
Gail
|
$200
[21]
This nation's "Shrine of the Book" houses the Dead Sea Scrolls
Israel
Steve
|
$200
[7]
Green Bay Packer coach who said, "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm"
Vince Lombardi
Brenda
|
$200
[2]
On March 2, 1987, the National Weather Service mistakenly said Rockford, Ill. was demolished by one of these
a tornado
Brenda
|
|
$300
[11]
When banks in Pakistan began operating by Islamic principles, they could no longer do this
charge interest
Gail
|
— |
$300
[19]
Group whose song titles included "Do The Freddie" & album titles, "Frantic Freddie"
Freddie and the Dreamers
Steve
|
$300
[22]
Its chief port is Casablanca
Morocco
Steve
|
$300
[8]
UCLA basketball coach who said, "It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it"
John Wooden
Gail
|
$300
[3]
After a misprint, Continental gave free airfare to 1st 100 in Worcester, Mass. who could spell this right
Worcester, Mass.
Brenda
|
|
DD
$500
[12]
She turned down Louis Armstrong's offer to sing jazz: "God put me here to sing the gospels" [Piano openingplays]"Gonna lay down my sword and shield / Down by the riverside..."
Mahalia Jackson
Gail
|
— | — |
$400
[23]
In the famous play, "Charlie's Aunt" was from this country "where the nuts come from"
Brazil
Gail
|
$400
[17]
Sportswit quotes Reggie Jackson as saying "I'd rather hit than have" this
sex
Steve
Gail
|
$400
[4]
When "Jeopardy!" said this city's "Globe-Democrat" was folding, it thrived; when we said it was okay, it folded
St. Louis
Brenda
|
|
$500
[13]
South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu is an archbishop in this church
Anglican
Steve
|
— | — |
$500
[24]
This food crop, Burma's most important, is pictured on its flag
rice
Gail
|
$500
[18]
Of this, Erma Bombeck said she avoids "any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill"
skiing
Brenda
Steve
Gail
|
$500
[5]
Phil Collins was scheduled to sing this song on the '85 Oscar telecast but was never asked to appear
"Against All Odds (Look At Me Now)"
Brenda
Gail
|
| EARLY AMERICA | TV HISTORY | FREUD | SMOKING | "LING"O | BOTANY |
|
$200
[18]
Jefferson was known for extending the U.S. national domain west to this natural boundary
the Rocky Mountains
Brenda
Gail
|
$200
[7]
The first telecast from this building was made in 1947 when Truman spoke to U.S. about food conservation
the White House
Steve
|
$200
[4]
In real life, Freud studied this drug; in fiction, he cured Sherlock Holmes' addiction to it
cocaine
Gail
|
$200
[13]
When French troops came across these in Spain, they called them this, French for "little cigars"
cigarettes
Brenda
Gail
|
$200
[5]
It's said this word for a standard of purity comes from German coiners called Easterlings
sterling
Brenda
|
$800
[27]
Japanese experts have successfully grown these blossoms from 1000 year old seeds
lotus blossoms
Steve
|
|
DD
$300
[21]
The XYZ Affair strained relations between the U.S. & this country
France
Brenda
|
$400
[8]
In 1949, this gov't agency tried to ban TV quiz show giveaways as violation of lottery laws
the FCC
Brenda
Steve
|
$400
[9]
Freud said people kept painful memories out of conscious awareness by this type of "mechanism"
repression (defense)
Steve
|
$400
[14]
In the '60s, this cigarette's reminded us, "It's what's up front that counts"
Winstons
|
$400
[6]
The mountain cranberry
a lingonberry
Brenda
|
$1,000
[24]
Carotenoids produce the yellow in daffodils, the red in tomatoes, & this vitamin in animals
Vitamin A
Brenda
|
|
$400
[19]
Lord who, in 1632, became proprietor of the English colony of Maryland
Lord Calvert (Baltimore)
Brenda
|
$600
[10]
The use of this to record programs began in 1956
videotape
Gail
|
DD
$700
[1]
Freud's theories divided the human mind into these 3 parts
the ego, the id & the superego
Steve
|
$600
[15]
Famed 20th cent. statesman who called smoking cigars a "sacred rite"
Winston Churchill
Brenda
|
$600
[23]
All inhabitants of our planet, even you
Earthlings
Gail
|
— |
|
$600
[20]
The Compromise of 1820 said Maine would be admitted as a free state & this as a slave state
Missouri
Brenda
|
$800
[11]
In 1949, Louis McManus won a special award for his original design of this award
the Emmy
Brenda
|
$800
[2]
Freud developed this analytic technique that allowed patients to say whatever came to mind
free association
Brenda
Gail
|
$800
[16]
America's biggest cigarette manufacturer, they now also give us Oreos
R.J. Reynolds
Brenda
Steve
Gail
|
$800
[25]
A specialist in Quechua, Urdu, Kurdish & Uzbek, for example
a linguist
Steve
|
— |
|
$1,000
[22]
Chartered in 1629, legislature of this state is still called by the colonial name, the General Court
Massachusetts
|
$1,000
[12]
In 1963, this replaced CONELRAD
the Emergency Broadcasting System
Steve
|
$1,000
[3]
While undergoing self-analysis, he wrote this, the best known of his works
The Interpretation of Dreams
|
$1,000
[17]
Name of this type of cigar, from Latin for "bread", means a "long thin biscuit"
a panatella
Brenda
|
$1,000
[26]
Commoners who sat in the cheap section of an Elizabethan theater
groundlings
Gail
|
— |
1 of only 2 landlocked countries behind the Iron Curtain
Hungary or Czechoslovakia