Rudi Logan — a loan processor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Tom Waters — a sporting goods salesman from Savannah, Georgia
Rick Thierbach — a deputy district attorney originally from Broadview, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick | $700 | $1,400 | $1,200 |
$200
2nd place: recliner + Yamaha portable keyboard |
$1,200
8 R, 2 W |
| Tom | $400 | $600 | $3,200 |
$1,400
New champion: $1,400 |
$5,100
17 R, 10 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Rudi | $200 | $300 | $2,500 |
$1
3rd place: Botany 500 suit & sport coat |
$2,500
17 R, 7 W |
| "C" CITIES | WATER | COUNTRY MUSIC | 1955 | CATS & DOGS | SEVENS |
|
$100
[4]
"That toddlin' town"
Chicago
Rudi
|
$100
[8]
Water's solid form
ice
Rudi
|
$100
[21]
Their 1st album was called "My Home's in Alabama"
Alabama
Rick
|
$100
[1]
Film & TV cameras were allowed for the first time in this president's news conference
Eisenhower
Rick
|
$100
[22]
He "speaks" for 9 Lives
Morris
Tom
|
$100
[16]
The "Un-cola"
7-Up
Rudi
|
|
$200
[5]
The destination of Chaucer's travelers in his "tales"
Canterbury
Rudi
|
$200
[14]
Where 97% of all Earth's water is located
the oceans
Tom
Rudi
|
— |
$200
[2]
This character's merchandising included soap & bikes as well as coonskin caps
Davy Crockett
Rick
|
$200
[23]
Dog who went from "Petticoat Junction" to international stardom
Benji
Tom
|
$200
[17]
Baseball's "coffee break"
the seventh-inning stretch
Rick
|
|
$300
[6]
Almost all of Ohio lies within 150 miles of this, its capital
Columbus
Rudi
|
$300
[12]
Named for a region of France, any deep water well
Artesian
Tom
Rudi
|
— |
$300
[3]
Words that came to prominence in 1955 describing ads sent to "occupant"
junk mail
Rudi
|
— |
$300
[18]
The 7th commandment, frequently ignored in soap operas
thou shalt not commit adultery
Tom
|
|
$400
[7]
Its heart is Tivoli, an amusement park & garden
Copenhagen
Tom
Rudi
|
DD
$500
[13]
Theysang "Cool Water":"All day I face the barren waste / Without a taste of water / Cool water / Old Dan and I / Our throats slate dry"
the Sons of the Pioneers
Tom
|
— |
$400
[9]
On Feb. 24, 1955, he was inaugurated president of Cuba
(Fulgencio) Batista
Rick
Rudi
|
— |
$400
[19]
Observing the Sabbath on Saturday, these Christians believe Christ will return in person
Seventh-Day Adventists
Rick
|
|
$500
[11]
Ancient city known for its elegant & ornate crafts, like Montalban's leather
Corinth
Tom
Rudi
|
$500
[15]
Freezing, distillation & electrodialysis are 3 types of this process
desalination
|
— |
$500
[10]
In September, America lost this fourth television network
the DuMont network
Tom
Rudi
|
— |
$500
[20]
Actor who was behind the "7 faces of Dr. Lao"
Tony Randall
Rudi
|
| AMERICAN REVOLUTION | POETRY | BODIES OF WATER | WORD PLAY | RELIGION | TURKEY |
|
$200
[7]
Yorktown surrender took place in this state
Virginia
Rick
Tom
|
$200
[15]
Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" were about this legendary ruler
King Arthur
Rudi
|
$200
[5]
Country which contains the Hudson Bay
Canada
Tom
|
$200
[16]
Both "left" & "wrong" are correct opposites of this
right
Rick
Tom
|
$200
[1]
After serious auto accident, this Black singer-actor became a Jew
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Rudi
|
$200
[17]
When getting one, you go from hot, dry room to steam room to cold shower
a Turkish bath
Rick
Rudi
|
|
$400
[8]
He said, "If this be treason, make the most of it"
Patrick Henry
Tom
|
$400
[21]
In the spring "it" lightly turns to thoughts of love
a young man's fancy
Tom
Rudi
|
$400
[6]
Swiss city at the S.W. tip of Lake Geneva
Geneva
Rick
Tom
Rudi
|
$400
[20]
Switching only two letters in "conservation" produces this word
conversation
Rudi
|
$400
[2]
His epitaph includes fact that he wrote Virginia statute for religious freedom
Thomas Jefferson
Rudi
|
$400
[19]
A backless sofa named for the Turkish empire
an Ottoman
Tom
|
|
$600
[12]
Franklin's son was among these Americans who favored the British side
the Tories (Loyalists)
Tom
|
$600
[23]
2-letter title of a Kipling poem, it begins 11 lines of it
"If"
Tom
|
$600
[9]
Home of poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey
England's Lake District
Tom
|
$600
[22]
"Line" can turn into this river
the Nile
Tom
|
$600
[3]
Statesman who said "I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist & Confucian"
Mahatma Gandhi
Rudi
|
$600
[25]
Turkish confection of crushed sesame seeds & honey
halva
Rudi
|
|
$1,000
[14]
Peace treaty with England was signed in this city
Paris
Tom
|
$800
[24]
Robert Frost wrote "When you have to go there, they have to take you in"
home
Rudi
|
$800
[10]
Only continent touched by the Pacific, Atlantic & Indian oceans
Antarctica
Tom
Rudi
|
— |
$800
[4]
The Rajneesh sect has taken over a town in this state
Oregon
Tom
|
$800
[26]
6th century Christian church, later a mosque, now an Istanbul museum
Sancta Sophia
Tom
|
|
DD
$1,400
[13]
It was the 2nd of these that declared independence
the Continental Congresses
Tom
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
This 1813 battle gave us the quote "We have met the enemy & they are ours"
the Battle of Lake Erie
Tom
|
— |
$1,000
[18]
First U.S. citizen canonized by the Catholic church
Mother Cabrini (St. Frances Cabrini)
Tom
|
— |
Domestically oriented co. which in '68 discovered largest N. American oil field, in Alaska
Arco (Atlantic Richfield)