Returning champions were placed at the far right lectern.
Richard Chamberlain — a traffic accident investigator from Shelby, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,200)
Teresa O'Neill — a contract administrator from Santa Clara, California
Charlotte Starbird — a teacher from Los Angeles, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | $400 | $1,800 | $4,800 |
$100
3rd place: Hardwick deluxe Century Series gas range with continuous-cleaning oven |
$4,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Teresa | $1,400 | $6,200 | $12,600 |
$16,199
New champion: $16,199 |
$10,900
30 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Richard | $900 | $1,300 | $300 |
$600
2nd place: Maytag full-size stacked washer & dryer + Chinon 35FA Super auto-everything 35 mm compact camera |
$2,300
7 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| ARMED FORCES | "DANCE" SONGS | "K.K." | TIES & SCARVES | BEST SELLERS | MULES |
|
$100
[22]
East Indian word for "dust-colored", it's a U.S. Army & Air Force uniform material
khaki
Teresa
|
$100
[2]
Tina Turner turned her career around with this '84 album
Private Dancer
Teresa
|
$100
[6]
In the film "Miracle on 34th Street", Santa Claus used this alias
Kris Kringle
Teresa
|
$100
[13]
While fiddling with his tie, he complains of getting no respect
Rodney Dangerfield
Teresa
|
$100
[8]
Best-selling book of both '72 & '73 was this Richard Bach bird
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Teresa
|
$100
[1]
A mule's father but, we hope, not yours
an ass (or a jackass or a male donkey)
Charlotte
|
|
$200
[23]
In the Roman army it was the rank of a man who commanded about 100 soldiers
a centurion
Charlotte
|
$200
[3]
Anna & the King of Siam's mutual musical question
Shall we dance?
Teresa
|
$200
[17]
Founder of the Mongol dynasty who ruled from the Black Sea to the Yellow Sea
Kublai Khan
Teresa
|
$200
[14]
Neckwear favored by Archibald Cox & Archie Andrews
a bow tie
Teresa
|
$200
[9]
J. Onassis was supervising editor for his autobiography, which should prove a "Thriller"
Michael Jackson
Teresa
|
$200
[27]
Song which warns, "If you hate to go to school, you could grow up to be a mule"
"Swinging On A Star"
Teresa
|
|
$300
[24]
The Enterprise, Kitty Hawk, Nimitz, Midway, & Forrestal are the 5 classes of these
aircraft carriers
Teresa
|
$300
[4]
Loggins & Messina's 1973 "maternal" hit
"Your Mama Don't Dance"
Teresa
|
$300
[18]
They kept law & disorder in Mack Sennett comedies
the Keystone Kops
Teresa
|
$300
[15]
Worn in Old West to keep dust out of your mouth or your face off the wanted posters
a kerchief (or a bandana)
Charlotte
|
$300
[10]
"Dr. Love", he must have loved having 3 best-selling books at the same time
Leo Buscaglia
Charlotte
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Singer for whom this was an early hit:"Mule train! Hyah! Get on! /Mule train! /Clippety cloppin' over hill and plain /Seems as how they never stop, clippety clop, clippety clop /Clippety, clippety..."
Frankie Laine
Teresa
|
|
$400
[25]
In 1941, they enlisted in film as "Buck Privates" & "Came Home" in the 1947 sequel
Abbott & Costello
Charlotte
|
$400
[5]
"Swayin' To The Music" is real name of the '77 Johnny Rivers hit better known as this
"Slow Dancing"
Richard
|
$400
[19]
Critics said he never got any close-ups as Barbra Streisand's co-star in "A Star Is Born"
Kris Kristofferson
Teresa
|
$400
[16]
British TV's TARDIS-traveling Time Lord who, when played by Tom Baker, wore a long scarf
Doctor Who
Richard
|
$400
[11]
With "Parachutes & Kisses" she's overcoming her "Fear of Flying"
Erica Jong
Teresa
|
— |
|
$500
[26]
U. S. military pilots who fly higher than 50 miles up earn this pilot ranking
pilot astronaut
|
$500
[7]
"Men Without Hats" should have worn hard hats to sing this '84 hit
"The Safety Dance"
Richard
|
$500
[20]
'40s bandleader who led the "Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
Kay Kyser
Teresa
|
$500
[21]
Barefoot pioneer of modern dance, strangled by own scarf in a bizarre motor accident
Isadora Duncan
Teresa
|
$500
[12]
Master of the page-turner who wrote "Master of the Game"
Sidney Sheldon
Charlotte
|
— |
| OLD TESTAMENT | MEDICINE | MOVIE TRIVIA | U.S. HISTORY | SAY CHEESE | PLANTS |
|
$200
[1]
As a baby he went sailing down the Nile in a basket boat
Moses
Teresa
|
$200
[16]
Walter Reed proved that yellow fever is transmitted by these
mosquitoes
Teresa
|
$200
[11]
The climax of this 1964 James Bond film appropriately took place in Fort Knox
Goldfinger
Teresa
|
$200
[4]
Pres. Washington sent Banneker & Ellicott to survey the site of this capital city
Washington, D.C.
Charlotte
|
$200
[21]
Curdled "diet" cheese eaten on a large scale in the U.S., England, & Israel
cottage cheese
Teresa
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
This plant family ranges from 1-celled varieties to 200 ft. long giant kelp
brown algae
Richard
|
|
$400
[2]
Milton described him as "eyeless in Gaza"
Samson
Richard
|
$400
[17]
Louis Pasteur developed an immunization for this fatal disease carried by animals
rabies (or hydrophobia)
Charlotte
|
$400
[12]
It was his job to destroy Earth by making sure "The Horn Blows at Midnight"
Jack Benny
|
$400
[5]
Adept at getting women the vote, she couldn't keep her dollar afloat
Susan B. Anthony
Teresa
|
$400
[22]
Gouda & Edam cheese originated in this country
Holland
Richard
|
— |
|
$600
[3]
In order to stop a storm at sea, he told the sailors to throw him overboard
Jonah
Charlotte
Teresa
Richard
|
$600
[18]
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is better known as disease which killed this ballplayer
Lou Gehrig
Teresa
|
$600
[13]
In "The Poseidon Adventure", capsizing the ship disrupted this celebration
New Year's Eve
Teresa
|
$600
[8]
In Oct. '76. the public thought gov't. was giving them a pig in a poke with these inoculations
swine flu
Charlotte
|
$800
[24]
Term for holes formed by gas trapped in cheese while it's ripening
eyes
|
— |
|
$800
[6]
Because he asked God for wisdom & not wealth, he got both
Solomon
Teresa
|
$800
[19]
Though ether was discovered long before, it wasn't until 19th c. that it was used for this
anesthesia
Richard
|
$800
[14]
The football team Warren Beatty played for in "Heaven Can Wait"
the Rams
Teresa
|
$1,000
[10]
What Gertrude Stein termed the rootless young Americans who flocked to Eur. after WWI
the Lost Generation
Teresa
|
$1,000
[23]
Made from stomach linings of calves, kids, or lambs, it coagulates milk
rennin
Richard
|
— |
|
$1,000
[7]
Hannah so fervently prayed for this that Eli the priest thought she was drunk
birth of a son
Teresa
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1895, Iowa merchant Daniel Palmer founded form of this phys. therapy which means "hand effective"
chiropractics
Teresa
Richard
|
$1,000
[15]
Name spelled out repeatedly by W.C. Fields & caller in "It's a Gift"
Carl LaFong
|
DD
$1,200
[9]
Series of papers written by Jay, Madison, & Hamilton during 1787-1788
the Federalist Papers
Charlotte
|
— | — |
He replaced Bert Parks as host of Miss America pageant for 1980
Ron Ely