Marcia Friedman — a graphic artist from Rolling Hills Estates, California
John Pendleton — a substitute teacher from Ventura, California
Matthew Hubbard — a computer game designer from Palo Alto, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $1,700 | $1,400 | $9,000 |
$7,600
2-day champion: $19,700 |
$9,300
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| John | $-800 | $-300 | $3,500 |
$3,500
2nd place: Benchmark carpeting & La-Z-Boy sleep sofa |
$3,500
15 R, 7 W |
| Marcia | $500 | $700 | $-3,300 |
$-3,300
3rd place: Hardwick grill |
$-3,300
8 R, 9 W |
| ANATOMY | TOYS & GAMES | COLORS | TRIVIA | U.S. STATES | WINTER SPORTS |
|
$100
[15]
Common name of the patella, often knocked against the coffee table
the kneecap
John
|
$100
[10]
In a standard deck, the number of red face cards
6
Matt
John
|
$100
[18]
A well-intentioned untruth
a white lie
John
|
$100
[1]
Nickname sea Capt. William Driver gave to the U.S. flag
Old Glory
John
|
$100
[2]
For over 150 years, this state ranked 1st in population
New York
Matt
|
$100
[4]
Motorized sledding
snowmobiling
Marcia
|
|
$200
[16]
A man walking places pressure of up to 2000 lbs. per sq. inch on the bones in this
feet
John
|
$200
[11]
According to The Who, that deaf, dumb & blind kid, Tommy, plays a mean game of this
pinball
Matt
|
$200
[19]
Streetwalkers' turf named for the lanterns that once beckoned from their windows
the red light district
Marcia
|
$200
[3]
Until 1600s, diners brought these weapons to the table to use as utensils
knives
Marcia
|
$200
[22]
Greatest single source of water power in U.S., the Grand Coulee Dam, is in this state
Washington
John
Marcia
|
$200
[5]
To do this, you put 2 "baskets" on your feet & take three giant steps
snowshoe
John
Marcia
|
|
$300
[17]
Covered with mucous membrane, this muscle lies on the floor of the mouth
the tongue
John
|
$400
[13]
Stunts in this game include downs & ups, eggs in a basket, sweeps, scatters & over & back
jacks
Matt
|
$300
[20]
French for "Turkish stone", this gem came to name the color it represents
turquoise
John
Marcia
|
$300
[7]
Due to falling cosmic dust, this "mother" gains up to 30,000 metric tons a day
Mother Earth
Matt
John
|
$400
[25]
This number of nations have flown "flags over Texas"
6
John
|
$300
[6]
The diagonal stride is the basic move in this popular form of Nordic skiing
cross country
Matt
John
|
| — |
$500
[14]
Number of dice thrown in a 1st roll of Yahtzee
5
Matt
|
$400
[21]
Metaphoric tongue color of an eloquent orator
silver
John
|
$400
[8]
As a cartoonist he created the clown Weary Willie, then went on to play him in the circus
Emmett Kelly
Matt
|
$500
[24]
2 of 4 states named after kings
(2 of) Georgia, Louisiana, North & South Carolina
John
Marcia
|
— |
| — |
DD
$1,900
[12]
Toy title of thefollowing:"I should have known /You'd bid me farewell / There's a lesson to be learned from this / And I learned it very well /Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea /If I never hear your name again..."
a "Red Rubber Ball"
Matt
|
$500
[23]
Name for cowboys on their 1st cattle drive, it's come to mean any inexperienced person
a greenhorn
Matt
|
$500
[9]
It falls on the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after March 21
Easter
Matt
|
— | — |
| MYTHS & LEGENDS | A.K.A. | EUROPE | PROVERBS | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 14-LETTER WORDS |
|
$200
[11]
Controversy has raged since 6th century over this unknown creature in a Scottish "lake"
the Loch Ness Monster
Matt
|
$200
[1]
The naked truth about this calendar girl is that her given name was Norma Jean Baker
Marilyn Monroe
Matt
|
$200
[10]
It's the largest Russian city in Europe
Moscow
Marcia
|
$200
[13]
An idle mind is said to be his workshop
the devil
John
|
$200
[6]
In 1984, he filed a $225 million lawsuit against MGM/UA for breaking their "Bond" with him
Sean Connery
Matt
|
$200
[3]
Getting stuck in an elevator might trigger this fear of closed places
claustrophobia
John
|
|
$400
[12]
Day of the week named for the chief Teutonic god, called Odin or Woden
Wednesday
John
Marcia
|
$400
[2]
I just called to say his real name is Stevland Morris
Stevie Wonder
John
Marcia
|
$400
[19]
The smaller half of Berlin in both population and area
East Berlin
Matt
|
$400
[14]
What "He that troubles his own house will inherit"
the wind
Matt
|
$400
[22]
Coleco infuriated parents all over the country by sending out late birthday cards for these
Cabbage Patch Kids
Matt
|
$400
[4]
Rich Little's specialties
impersonations
John
Marcia
|
|
$600
[18]
Legendary cowboy who used a rattlesnake as a whip & taught broncos how to buck
Pecos Bill
John
Marcia
|
$600
[7]
Born Anna Maria Italiano, she's now sometimes known as Mrs. Mel Brooks
Anne Bancroft
Matt
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
This pair of daily astronomical events never occurs in Hammerfest, Norway between May 14th & July 28th
sunrise & sunset
Matt
|
$600
[16]
According to many, "The only place where success comes before work" is in this book
the dictionary
Matt
|
— |
$600
[5]
These kinds of differences can be grounds for divorce
irreconcilable
John
|
|
$800
[25]
According to Hebrew legend, dark & mysterious Lilith was his 1st wife
Adam
Marcia
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
For Ethel Zimmerman & Ermes Effron Borgnino, their marriage was a very brief encounter
Ethel Merman & Ernest Borgnine
Matt
|
— |
$800
[17]
Columnist Walter Morrow's "Economics in Eight Words" says, "There's no such thing as" this
a free lunch
Matt
Marcia
|
— |
$800
[15]
Duddy Kravitz went through his in 1974
the apprenticeship
Matt
Marcia
|
|
$1,000
[24]
At Venus's order, Cupid made this hard-to-please queen of Carthage fall in love with Aeneas
Dido
Matt
|
$1,000
[9]
Once Arnold Dorsey, he took the name of an opera composer
Engelbert Humperdinck
Matt
|
— |
$1,000
[21]
It's "how the tree inclines"
the twig is bent
John
Marcia
|
— |
$1,000
[23]
Representing the purest essence, or most typical example of something
quintessential
Marcia
|
CBS soap opera which is the only soap left on the air which began on radio
The Guiding Light