Missing introductions.
Philip Ellison — a political consultant from Pasadena, California
Brian Finander — a businessman and attorney from Long Beach, California
Bruce Harris — from San Rafael, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $10,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce | $-100 | $2,700 | $10,100 |
$15,200
3-day champion: $25,600 |
$9,900
26 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Brian | $600 | $1,100 | $5,800 |
$11,590
2nd place: trip to Palm Springs & stay at the Oasis Water Resort Villa Hotel + Ricardo Beverly Hills luggage |
$4,100
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Philip | $1,400 | $2,100 | $5,700 |
$11,400
3rd place: Colortyme TV + Nintendo Entertainment System with Family & Junior editions of Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune |
$5,700
16 R, 3 W |
| GREETINGS | AMERICAN MOUNTAINS | ANIMAL TRIVIA | "A" IN LITERATURE | THE EMMYS | CAMPING |
|
$100
[1]
American colloquial greeting that may be a short form of "how do ye"
howdy
Bruce
Philip
|
$100
[13]
The Cumberland & Shenandoah Valleys are part of the Great Valley of this mountain range
the Appalachians
Bruce
|
$100
[11]
These beasts of burden compete with one another in annual wrestling matches in Selcuk, Turkey
camels
Bruce
|
$100
[14]
He got to marry a sultan's daughter with the help of his wonderful lamp
Aladdin
Bruce
|
$100
[6]
This CBS news anchorman won an Emmy for his report "Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo XI"
Walter Cronkite
Brian
|
$100
[26]
Type of camping equipment that comes in 3 shapes: mummy, tapered & rectangular
sleeping bags
Bruce
Philip
|
|
$200
[2]
Word of greeting that can precede mat or wagon
welcome
Bruce
|
$200
[22]
Mountain range that contains Mt. Whitney, the highest mountain in the 48 states
the Sierra Nevada
Bruce
Philip
|
$200
[12]
The only U.S. zoo with a permanent exhibit of giant pandas is in this city
Washington, D.C.
Brian
|
$200
[15]
"I shot" one of these "into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where"
an arrow
Bruce
|
$200
[7]
In 1978 the first annual Governors Award of the Television Academy went to this CBS executive
Bill Paley
Philip
|
$200
[27]
A 2-letter abbreviation for a trailer or motor home you can camp in
an RV
Brian
|
|
$300
[3]
Milton Berle greeted his TV audience with the words "Good evening ladies and" these
germs
|
$300
[23]
2 of the 3 states that share the Ozark Plateau
(2 of) Missouri & Arkansas (or Oklahoma)
Brian
|
$300
[19]
Little foxes are known both as pups & as these
cubs or kits
|
$300
[16]
This son of Aphrodite is the hero of Virgil's masterpiece
Aeneas
Bruce
|
$300
[8]
Husband & wife Wm. Daniels & Bonnie Bartlett won Emmys in 1986 for playing a husband & wife in this series
St. Elsewhere
Brian
|
$300
[28]
Trademarked solidified alcohol that isn't for drinking but for fueling your camp stove
Sterno
Philip
|
|
$400
[4]
It's how the Doors greeted a girl in the title of their second & last No. 1 hit
"Hello, I Love You"
Philip
|
$400
[24]
The chief iron mining centers in the Mesabi Range in this state are Hibbing & Virginia
Minnesota
Bruce
Philip
|
$400
[20]
Tamarins are among the smallest of these animals, & their golden hair resembles a lion's' mane
monkeys
Bruce
|
$500
[18]
The forest in "As You Like It", or Enoch's last name
Arden
Bruce
|
$400
[9]
She won her only Emmy for playing "Sybil", a woman with multiple personalities, in a 1976 TV movie
Sally Field
Philip
|
— |
|
$500
[5]
Francoise Sagan's first novel, its title translates to "Hello Sadness"
Bonjour Tristesse
Philip
|
$500
[25]
At 13,161 feet, Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains is the highest in this state
New Mexico
Philip
|
$500
[21]
Hordes of these multi-armed sea animals are ravaging the Great Barrier Reef by eating the coral
starfish
Bruce
|
DD
$600
[17]
Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown in New York State
An American Tragedy
Bruce
|
$500
[10]
"Patterns", a 1955 episode of the "Kraft Television Theatre", won this writer his 1st of 6 Emmys
Rod Serling
Bruce
|
— |
| HISTORY | NOVA SCOTIA | PLAY SETTINGS | GOVERNMENT | ARCHITECTURE | BARONS & BARONESSES |
|
$200
[2]
In 1977 this prime minister of India resigned
Indira Gandhi
Bruce
Brian
|
$200
[1]
Every July the town of Pictou holds a carnival to honor this crustacean
a lobster
Bruce
|
$200
[24]
William Gillette's 1895 spy drama "Secret Service" is set in Richmond at the end of this war
the Civil War
Philip
|
$200
[7]
The highest classification the State Dept. would tell us about, it's more secret than "secret"
top secret
Brian
|
$200
[13]
From the 1850s to the 1920s, many Americans studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts in this city
Paris
Philip
|
$200
[15]
Baroness von Suttner, a pacifist, encouraged the creation of this prize & won it herself in 1905
a Nobel Peace Prize
Philip
|
|
$400
[3]
The Manchu Dynasty in China made it a requirement that Chinese men wear this
queues
Bruce
|
$400
[12]
During WWI & WWII this capital city was Canada's most important naval base
Halifax
Philip
|
$400
[25]
MacConnachy Square is the heart of this enchanted Scottish village
Brigadoon
Bruce
|
$400
[8]
This branch of the armed forces falls under the Transportation Dept. in peacetime & the Navy in time of war
the Coast Guard
Philip
|
$400
[14]
His Imperial Palace Hotel was one of the few buildings in Tokyo left undamaged after the 1923 quake
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bruce
|
$400
[16]
Derisive epithet used to describe some powerful American capitalists of the late 1800s
robber barons
Bruce
|
|
$600
[4]
Thutmosis was the first Egyptian ruler buried in this spot in Western Thebes
the Valley of the Kings
Bruce
|
$600
[21]
You can take a ferry ride from Nova Scotia to this U.S. state
Maine
Brian
|
$600
[26]
This John Webster play, first produced around 1613, takes place in Rome, Milan & Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi
Bruce
Philip
|
$600
[9]
Term for a diplomatic official assigned to an embassy in a technical capacity
an attaché
Bruce
|
$600
[20]
The Palace of Governors in this state capital was built of adobe in 1610
Santa Fe
Bruce
Brian
|
$600
[17]
5 sons of the founder of this banking dynasty became barons of the Austrian Empire
the Rothschilds
Bruce
|
|
$800
[5]
Devil's Island was the best known of many penal colonies in this territory
French Guiana
Bruce
|
$1,000
[23]
Before it was called Nova Scotia, early French settlers called it this
Acadia
Bruce
|
$800
[27]
This city is the setting for Harold Pinter's plays "The Caretaker" & "The Homecoming"
London
Bruce
|
$800
[10]
The Forest Service is an agency of this department, not the Department of the Interior
the Department of Agriculture
|
DD
$800
[29]
The 36 columns of the Lincoln Memorial stand for these
the 36 states in 1865
Bruce
|
$800
[18]
After serving with the Russians against the Turks, this German retired & became famous for his tall tales
Baron Munchausen
Philip
|
|
$1,000
[6]
He bankrupted his country & fell from power in 1955; in 1973 he was made president again
(Juan) Perón
Philip
|
DD
$2,500
[22]
Dikes make it possible to farm the marshland created by the world's highest tides in this bay
the (Bay of) Fundy
Brian
|
$1,000
[28]
The town in "Our Town" is in this New England state
New Hampshire
|
$1,000
[11]
Unemployment insurance was one of the provisions of this 1935 act
the Social Security Act
Brian
|
$1,000
[30]
James Renwick built NYC's St. Patrick's Cathedral in this architectural style
Gothic
Philip
|
$1,000
[19]
This poet who wrote "Idylls of the King" wasn't a king, but he was a baron
(Alfred, Lord) Tennyson
Bruce
|
In this country domestic mail is free & int'l mail can be sent from French or Spanish post offices
Andorra