Demeter Manning — a computer systems programmer from Woodland Hills, California
Jerry Van Riper — an actuary from Richmond, Virginia
Jack Lowe — a pediatrician from Rockville, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,805)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack | $200 | $2,100 | $9,300 |
$13,605
2-day champion: $31,410 |
$9,300
17 R, 0 W |
| Jerry | $2,000 | $4,500 | $6,800 |
$13,600
2nd place: Tappan electric range w/microwave oven + [missing from recording] |
$6,500
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Demeter | $1,300 | $1,800 | $5,700 |
$11,400
3rd place: [missing from recording] |
$5,900
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| THE CIVIL WAR | WORLD LITERATURE | DEFINITIONS | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES | CARTOONS |
|
$100
[5]
Assassin-to-be who served in a militia unit which helped capture John Brown at Harpers Ferry
John Wilkes Booth
Jerry
|
$100
[13]
Under the title "First Impressions", the 1st version of this J. Austen novel was rejected by a publisher in 1797
Pride and Prejudice
Jack
|
$100
[9]
A vintner makes this, sometimes by vinification
wine
Demeter
|
$100
[1]
According to USA Today, it's the holiday on which the most hot dogs are eaten
July 4th
Jack
|
$100
[21]
She won a place on People's 1987 best-dressed list, though she lost Sylvester Stallone
Brigitte Nielsen
Jerry
|
$100
[19]
On "Beany & Cecil", Beany's beanie had this on it
a propeller
Jerry
|
|
$200
[6]
Cmdr. Matthew Fontaine Maury tried to set up a Confederate colony here with Emperor Maximilian's help
Mexico
Jerry
|
$200
[14]
Type of literature associated with Vachel Lindsay & Christina Rossetti
poetry
Jerry
|
$200
[10]
This word means to speak pompously or to officiate as a pontiff
pontificate
Jerry
|
$200
[2]
Afier spending $50,000 on 20 flagpoles for Flag Day 1987 Hamtramck, Mi. couldn't afford these
the flags
Demeter
|
$200
[22]
2 years after running off to see the Wizard, she ran off with her 1st husband, bandleader David Rose
Judy Garland
Jerry
|
$200
[20]
This orange-billed cartoon character has a brand of orange juice named for him
Donald Duck
Demeter
|
|
$300
[7]
Paul Revere's grandson, Col. Paul Joseph Revere, was mortally wounded in this Penn. battle
the Battle of Gettysburg
Demeter
|
$300
[15]
Steinbeck's "East of Eden" is based on the biblical story of these 2 brothers
Cain & Abel
Demeter
|
$300
[16]
A "misogynist" hates & distrusts these
women
Jerry
|
$300
[3]
In 1986, this Jewish holiday began in December & didn't end until 3 days into January 1987
Hanukkah (the Festival of Lights)
Demeter
|
$300
[23]
She not only won an Oscar for playing "Mrs. Miniver", she married the actor who played her son
Greer Garson
Jack
|
$300
[24]
In his 1st cartoon, "A Tale of 2 Kitties", this yellow bird was chased by Babbit & Catstello
Tweety Bird (or Tweety Pie)
Jack
|
|
$400
[11]
Cherokee chief Stand Watie was the last Rebel general to do this, in 1865
surrender
Jerry
|
$400
[28]
Dante's "Inferno" is the 1st section of this "trilogy"
the Divine Comedy
Jerry
|
$400
[17]
Of a little lamb, a fugitive from the law, or a lady hamster, what a "lamster" is
a fugitive from the law
Jack
|
$400
[4]
The only 2 months in which Easter can fall
March & April
Jerry
|
$400
[27]
She swung with Tarzan, but married John Farrow
Maureen O'Sullivan
Jack
|
$400
[25]
Almost all of Wile E. Coyote's contraptions to catch the Road Runner come from this corporation
Acme
Jerry
|
|
$500
[12]
When war broke out, this future president was selling leather in his father's Illinois store
President Grant
Jerry
|
$500
[30]
In "Les Miserables", this character is sentenced to 5 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread
Jean Valjean
Jerry
|
$500
[18]
A "philhellenist" admires this
Greek civilization
Jack
|
DD
$400
[8]
2 of the 4 holidays the government moved in 1971 to give federal employees 3-day weekends
(2 of) Memorial Day, Washington's Birthday, Columbus Day & Veterans Day
Demeter
|
$500
[29]
She won't tell who her 1st husband was, but her 2nd & 3rd were Vittorio Gassman & Tony Franciosa
Shelley Winters
|
$500
[26]
Bugs Bunny did not star in this 1978 full-length animated fantasy about rabbits fleeing from man
Watership Down
Jerry
|
| 1955 | TEXANS | ROSES | HISTORICAL OPERAS | SOUTH AMERICA | "T" TIME |
|
$200
[8]
Organization which held its 8th World Jamboree Aug. 18-28, 1955 at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
the Boy Scouts
Jack
|
$200
[14]
This network anchor went to Sam Houston college & was a reporter for the Houston Chronicle
Dan Rather
Jerry
|
$200
[13]
Color of the iceberg & Mt. Shasta varieties
white
Jerry
|
$200
[24]
In Donizetti's opera, Lucrezia Borgia kills several men, her son & herself with this
poison
Demeter
|
$200
[4]
It was not the only, just the most famous of the penal colonies in French Guiana
Devil's Island
Jerry
|
$200
[1]
A "tercentenary" celebrates this anniversary
the 300th (year)
Jerry
|
|
$400
[12]
They held a 10th anniversary session in the S.F. opera house where they had drawn up their charter
the United Nations
Demeter
|
$600
[16]
As Treasury Sec'y. this former Texas gov. signed all U.S. money; now bankrupt, he says he has none
John Connally
Demeter
|
$400
[17]
Infantile word that precedes "darling", "masquerade", & "Betsy McCall" in names of miniature roses
baby
|
$400
[25]
Boito died before finishing "Nerone", his opera about this emperor, so Toscanini finished it
Nero
Jerry
Demeter
|
$400
[6]
The longest of these on record, 400 years, ended in Chile's Desierto de Atacama in 1971
a drought
Jerry
Demeter
|
$400
[2]
Nickname of a North Carolinian
a tarheel
Demeter
|
|
$600
[9]
After his death April 18, his brain was removed for scientific study, as he had wished
Albert Einstein
Jack
|
DD
$700
[15]
This Texan was so popular in Britain that when he toured w/the Beatles, they gave him equal billing:"Pretty woman, walkin' down the street /Pretty woman, the kind I'd like to meet /Pretty woman /I don't believe you..."
Roy Orbison
Jerry
|
DD
$500
[18]
1 of 2 20th century presidents who have roses named for them
(John Fitzgerald) Kennedy (or Herbert Hoover)
Demeter
|
$600
[26]
She's the leading character in Musgrave's opera "Harriet, the Woman Called Moses"
Harriet Tubman
Jack
|
$600
[20]
Montevideo is the capital of this country that Fodor's calls "the Switzerland of South America"
Uruguay
Jerry
|
$600
[3]
We use it to mean "face-to-face", but the literal French translation is "head-to-head"
tête-à-tête
Jack
|
|
$800
[11]
On March 2, King Sihanouk of this country abdicated the throne not to his son, but to his father
Cambodia (now Kampuchea)
Jack
|
$800
[21]
He popularized the slogan "Remember the Alamo" before inventing condensed milk
Gail Borden
|
$800
[19]
This oil from roses is used in making perfume
attar
Jack
|
$800
[29]
"Gloriana", an opera about Elizabeth I, premiered in June, 1953 in honor of her coronation
Elizabeth II
Demeter
|
$800
[28]
Westernmost point in South America, Punta Parinas, Peru, lies due south of this nearest U.S. state
Florida
Jack
Jerry
|
$800
[5]
The title of Vivien Leigh's only Broadway musical, it's also the Russian word for "comrade"
Tovarich
Jack
|
|
$1,000
[10]
On November 3, 1955, he was confirmed as premier by the Israeli Knesset
David Ben-Gurion
|
$1,000
[22]
Miriam Ferguson, who became governor 7 yrs. after her husband had been impeached, had this nickname
"Ma"
|
$1,000
[23]
A rose is the state flower for these 2 states, the Empire State, & the Empire State of the South
New York & Georgia
Jerry
|
$1,000
[30]
"La Loca" dramatized the life of an insane queen, daughter of this 15th century Spanish pair
Ferdinand & Isabel
Jack
|
$1,000
[27]
General Jose de San Martin is considered the liberator of this southern South American country
Argentina
Jack
|
$1,000
[7]
From the Latin for "squire" or "young soldier", it's a neophyte
a tyro
Demeter
|
Appropriately, there's a small town by this name midway between Napoleon, Mo. & Wellington, Mo.
Waterloo