Pat Sory — a computer analyst from Gambrills, Maryland
Ron Smith — a teacher from Riverside Illinois
Dave Prechtl — a warehouse manager from Rosemead, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $29,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave | $1,400 | $900 | $4,900 |
$1
3rd place: Magnavox 20" TV |
$4,900
13 R, 1 W |
| Ron | $2,800 | $5,500 | $8,900 |
$12,450
New champion: $12,450 |
$8,300
21 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Pat | $400 | $900 | $6,200 |
$12,389
2nd place: trip on Delta to San Francisco & stay at the Miyako Hotel |
$5,100
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| GEOGRAPHY | RELIGIOUS LEADERS | FOLK SONGS | ANIMALS OF THE WORLD | TV TRIVIA | REAL ESTATE |
|
$100
[1]
Mollweide, Goode & Mercator put pen to paper to produce these
maps
Ron
|
$100
[11]
In the 14th century B.C., Akhenaton, this country's ruler, introduced belief in one god
Egypt
Ron
|
$100
[20]
A feminine version of this song is "For She's A Jolly Good Person"
"For He's A Jolly Good Fellow"
Pat
|
$100
[16]
World Wildlife Fund is helping create a sanctuary for dragonflies near Nakamura, in this country
Japan
Pat
|
$100
[4]
In the opening credits of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", Mary throws this into the air
her hat
Pat
|
$100
[26]
The Federal National Mortgage Association is nicknamed this
Fannie Mae
Ron
|
|
$200
[2]
Continent most associated with the weather patterns called monsoons
Asia
Dave
|
$200
[12]
A Dutch Anabaptist preacher, Menno Simons, gave his name to this Protestant group
the Mennonites
Dave
|
$200
[21]
"Oh, ye'll tak' the high road an' I'll tak' the low road, an' I'll be" there "before ye"
Scotland
Ron
|
$200
[17]
Perhaps their intelligence was a "factor" in choosing one of these monkeys for a 1948 rocket launch
a rhesus monkey
Ron
|
$200
[5]
In real life, Dixie Carter & Hal Holbrook are married; on this show, they're just lovers
Designing Women
Dave
|
— |
|
$300
[3]
It has oil fields in the east, holy cities in the west & the Rub al Khali Desert in the south
Saudi Arabia
Pat
|
$300
[13]
In 1532 he formed a new church which annulled his marriage to Catherine of Aragon the following yr.
Henry VIII
Ron
|
$300
[23]
This popular folk group was named for the pre-Civil War group led by Edwin "Pops" Christy
The New Christy Minstrels
Ron
|
$300
[18]
Watching these finned creatures fight is a popular pastime in Thailand
Thai (Siamese) fighting fish
Pat
|
$300
[8]
"Dallas" devotees know that the "J.R." in J.R. Ewing stands for this
John Ross
Dave
|
— |
|
$400
[6]
An association of 48 countries once bound as an empire, its membership runs from A (Antigua) to Z (Zimbabwe)
the British Commonwealth
Ron
|
$500
[15]
This Basque nobleman founded the Jesuit order in the 16th century
Ignatius Loyola
Ron
|
$400
[24]
A 19th century Irish ballad advised, "Put your trust in God, my boys, & keep" this "dry"
powder
Ron
|
$400
[19]
Merino sheep, known for their fine wool, were originally bred centuries ago in this European country
Spain
|
$400
[9]
On "Family", Letitia Lawrence was usually known by this nickname
Buddy
Ron
|
— |
|
$500
[7]
Yes, dear, the longest river on this continent is the Darling
Australia
Dave
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
"There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven," said this founder of a famous choir
Brigham Young
Ron
|
$500
[25]
In "Over The River & Thru The Woods", it's what the horse knows
the way to Grandmother's house
Dave
Ron
|
$500
[22]
The largest, most powerful wild cat in Latin America; the Mayan Indians considered them gods
a jaguar
Ron
|
$500
[10]
1949's Emmy for "Best Film Made for & Viewed on TV" went to this sitcom starring Jackie Gleason
The Life of Riley
Ron
|
— |
| STARTS WITH "S" | WORLD LITERATURE | BALLERINAS | CHEMISTRY | AMERICAN HISTORY | UNREAL ESTATE |
|
$200
[6]
One of the very 1st telegrams of this kind was sent to Rudy Vallee
singing
Dave
|
$200
[21]
In 1929 Russia banned this Conan Doyle collection because of its references to spiritualism
the Sherlock Holmes stories ( The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes )
Dave
|
$200
[1]
S. Farrell made a triumphant 1988 return to this Manhattan ballet company after having a hip replaced
the New York City Ballet
Dave
|
$200
[19]
The elements labeled transuranic have atomic no.s higher than this element's. No. 92
uranium
Ron
|
$200
[8]
The Louisiana Purchase stemmed from U.S. efforts to buy this port city
New Orleans
Pat
|
$200
[26]
Where 3 Darling children & Peter Pan "always always" fly
Never Never Land
Pat
|
|
$400
[7]
It's a tropical or subtropical grassland, & it doesn't have to be in Georgia
a savannah
Ron
|
$400
[9]
A nightmare gave Mary Shelley the idea for this novel
Frankenstein
Pat
|
$400
[2]
Highest-ranked Soviet ballerina is Maya Plisetskaya, the prima ballerina of this company
the Bolshoi
Pat
|
— |
$400
[12]
Elected governor of N.Y. at only 37, he later became the Secretary of State who bought Alaska
(William) Seward
Ron
|
$600
[17]
1 of the 3 world powers in George Orwell's "1984"
(1 of) Oceania (Eurasia or Eastasia)
Ron
|
|
$600
[14]
From the French for "to watch over", it's the close observation of a person under suspicion
surveillance
Dave
Pat
|
$600
[10]
After the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale died, she & Pearl went abroad, but the story doesn't say where
Hester Prynne
Dave
|
$600
[3]
She was already in her 40s when she became Rudolf Nureyev's most famous partner
Margot Fonteyn
Dave
|
— |
$600
[13]
In 1858, at Mozart Hall in New York City, she presided over the National Women's Rights Convention
Susan B. Anthony
Pat
|
$800
[24]
Tho filmed on & around Martha's Vineyard, "Jaws" took place on & near this fictional N.Y. island
Amity
Pat
|
|
$800
[15]
Found on beaches, the skeletons of these disc-like cousins of sea urchins look like money
sand dollars
Dave
|
$800
[11]
The pen name of Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith, creator of Horatio Hornblower
C.S. Forester
Ron
|
$800
[4]
Herbert Ross directed his goddaughter, Leslie Browne, to an Oscar nomination in this 1977 ballet film
The Turning Point
Dave
|
— |
$800
[18]
This Pennsylvania city was the center of U.S. steel making at the time of its famous 1889 flood
Johnstown
Pat
|
$1,000
[25]
Small European country north of Sylvania featured in "Duck Soup"
Freedonia
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Type of coffin often decorated with sculpture whose name comes from the Greek for "flesh-eating"
a sarcophagus
Pat
|
$1,000
[22]
Though some credit him as author, Turoldus was probably just the scribe who copied this French epic poem
The Song of Roland ( La Chanson de Roland )
Pat
|
$1,000
[5]
In her native Leningrad she was nicknamed "The Giraffe"; maybe that's why she defected
Natalia Makarova
|
— |
$1,000
[20]
Shouting. "Remember the Alamo." Sam Houston's men defeated Santa Anna at this battle
(the Battle of) San Jacinto
Ron
Pat
|
DD
$1,500
[23]
While thefollowing1968 hit was based on a true story, it had this fictional setting:"Well, there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there / And seven times he's asked me for a date / And Mrs. Taylor..."
Harper Valley
Pat
|
(2 of 4) U.S presidents who married divorced women
(2 of) (Ronald) Reagan (Andrew) Jackson, (Gerald) Ford or (Warren) Harding