Don Branten — a computer programmer from Escondido, California
Cathy Pentecost — a music teacher originally from Phoenix, Arizona
Michael Backes — a puzzle designer originally from Tucson, Arizona (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | $400 | $1,800 | $7,800 |
$7,000
3-day champion: $31,300 |
$10,100
29 R (including 1 DD), 9 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Cathy | $600 | $1,000 | $1,600 |
$100
2nd place: Merillat oak modular shelving system |
$1,600
8 R, 2 W |
| Don | $900 | $200 | $-1,000 |
$-1,000
3rd place: Char-Broil grill & Vintner Cork Master |
$-1,000
9 R, 8 W |
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | FOOD | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | TV TRIVIA | ROAD WORK |
|
$100
[1]
It's Erin or Eire in Gaelic
Ireland
Don
|
$100
[13]
"Treasure Island's" peg-legged pirate
Long John Silver
Don
|
$100
[4]
Massachusetts town for which fig-filled cookies are named
Newton
Mike
|
$100
[14]
Nation's largest single user of almonds is this chocolate maker
Hershey
Mike
|
$100
[8]
Played Rev. Fordwick on "The Waltons" but is best known as Jack Tripper
John Ritter
Mike
Don
|
$100
[20]
What Ray Charles told "Jack" to do
hit the road
Don
|
|
$200
[2]
Where Persian rugs are made
Iran
Don
|
$200
[24]
After winning by a "hare", he said, "Slow but sure wins the race"
the tortoise
Mike
|
$200
[5]
America's largest crop, more accurately called maize
corn
Mike
|
$200
[15]
Only company that sells rotary engine cars in U.S.
Mazda
Mike
|
$200
[9]
Her character "Mama" died in a TV special, but was resurrected for "Mama's Family"
Vicki Lawrence
Cathy
Don
|
$200
[21]
The beat of Karl Malden's Detective Stone
the streets of San Francisco
Mike
|
|
$300
[3]
It's the largest island in Europe & 7th largest in the world
Great Britain
Mike
|
— |
$300
[6]
Kellogg's reduced amount of this mineral in Frosted Rice after the flakes were attracted to magnets
iron
Mike
|
$300
[16]
Babies are no longer this food maker's "only business"; it's also in insurance
Gerber
Mike
|
$300
[10]
Crime "The Fugitive" was accused of
murder (murdering his wife)
Don
|
DD
$400
[22]
Where Eddie Grant "rocked down to" in this hit:"Now in the street there is violence / And, and a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And, and I can't blame all on the sun..."
"Electric Avenue"
Mike
|
| — | — |
$400
[7]
Widely considered a vegetable tho botanists call it a fruit, it was once thought to be poisonous
a tomato
Don
|
$400
[17]
Company that distributes Stolichnaya vodka from Russia & makes soft drinks there
Pepsi-Cola
Mike
Don
|
$400
[11]
The two occupations of TV's "Odd Couple"
sportswriter & photographer
Mike
Cathy
|
$400
[23]
In the '20s, area around Times Square where music composers worked
Tin Pan Alley
Mike
Cathy
|
| — | — |
$500
[19]
After defeats by Texans & Americans, this Mexican introduced chewing gum to U.S.
General Antonio López de Santa Anna
Mike
Cathy
|
$500
[18]
Owned by IT&T it's America's largest seed company
Burpee
Mike
|
$500
[12]
1950s comedy that was first to be filmed with 3 cameras before a live audience
I Love Lucy
Cathy
Don
|
— |
| ANATOMY | THE '50s | FAMILIAR PHRASES | SPORTS | GOVERNMENT | MOVIES |
|
$200
[2]
Of smiling & frowning the one it takes more muscles to do
frowning
Mike
Cathy
|
$200
[19]
In August 1956, Ringling Brothers Circus performed its last show in one
a big top (tent)
Mike
|
$200
[13]
What you are if you've "bought the farm" or "cashed in your chips"
dead
Mike
Cathy
|
$200
[1]
In 1880 baseball it took 9 balls to do what today only takes 4
walk
Mike
|
$200
[10]
Choosing someone for office by voting
an election
Mike
Cathy
|
$200
[3]
She actually said "I want to be let alone"
Greta Garbo
Mike
Don
|
|
$400
[4]
The taste sensation that goes with sweet, sour, & salty
bitter
Mike
Don
|
$400
[20]
From 7/4/59 to 7/3/60 the U.S. flag had this many stars
49
Mike
|
$400
[15]
From the inquisitive male goose, it means "to glance at"
to take a gander
Don
|
$400
[9]
Derived from "l'oeuf", French for egg, it means 0 in tennis
love
Mike
|
$400
[12]
From Latin "clothed in white", a person running for office
a candidate
Mike
Don
|
$400
[7]
"Any Which Way You Can"was its sequel
Every Which Way But Loose
Mike
|
|
$600
[5]
The liquid part of the blood
plasma
Mike
|
$600
[21]
Due to illness, John Foster Dulles resigned from this office in '59
Secretary of State
Mike
|
$600
[23]
It can also be said "Emerge odorous as an American beauty"
Come out smelling like a rose
Mike
|
$600
[16]
Sport played by the L.A. Thunderbirds and the N.Y. Bombers
roller derby
Mike
|
DD
$800
[18]
Organizations or issues not based on political affiliations
non-partisan
Mike
|
$600
[11]
Original wording of the Hollywood Sign
Hollywoodland
Mike
|
|
$800
[6]
Common eye color that's most sensitive to light
blue
Cathy
Don
|
$800
[22]
Controversial topic of best-seller "The Search for Bridey Murphy"
reincarnation
Mike
Cathy
|
DD
$1,600
[24]
1st done to accept a pugilist's challenge, in politics, it means "to enter the competition"
throw one's hat into the ring
Mike
|
— |
$800
[25]
Someone who doesn't believe in this category
an anarchist
Mike
Don
|
$800
[14]
Coppola released this film's 70 mm print with a different ending than the 35mm
Apocalypse Now
Mike
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Vitamin the skin produces when exposed to the sun
vitamin D
Don
|
— | — | — | — |
$1,000
[17]
Actor who rode bomb to oblivion at the end of Dr. Strangelove
Slim Pickens
Mike
|
First person in the Bible to be imprisoned
Joseph