Benita Boxerman — a stockbroker from St. Louis, Missouri
Steve Cowie — an actor from New York City, New York
Bob Menaker — a journalist from Alexandria, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $2,100 | $2,500 | $7,400 |
$14,797
2nd place: trip on Eastern to the Caribbean & Windjammer Barefoot Cruises Bahamas cruise |
$6,900
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Steve | $2,400 | $4,100 | $13,300 |
$14,801
New champion: $14,801 |
$13,600
29 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Benita | $0 | $200 | $700 |
$1,400
3rd place: Speed Queen washer & dryer |
$1,000
3 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| BODIES OF WATER | SPORTS | WEAPONS | PRESIDENTS' MOMMIES | TV THEMES | WORD PLAY |
|
$100
[17]
While Christmas Island is in the Indian Ocean, Easter Island is in this body of water
the Pacific Ocean
Bob
|
$100
[1]
British university teams have competed for a trophy in this game of flipping disks into a cup
tiddlywinks
Steve
|
$100
[2]
Weapon paired with "cloak" in phrase that today refers to espionage
dagger
Steve
|
$100
[11]
Hannah Milhous
Nixon's mother
Bob
|
$100
[16]
[Theme plays]
the theme from Bonanza
Bob
|
DD
$?
[28]
Word formed by combining the symbols for barium, sulphur, iodine, & nitrogen
basin
Steve
|
|
$200
[18]
Now at a record level, this Utah body of water is larger than Delaware
the Great Salt Lake
Benita
|
$200
[4]
Of the 22 players on a soccer field, total number who can touch the ball with their hands in bounds
2
Bob
|
$200
[3]
'86 film about a high school student in New York who makes his own atomic bomb for a science fair
The Manhattan Project
Bob
|
$200
[12]
Rose Fitzgerald
John Kennedy's mother
Steve
|
$200
[20]
[Theme plays]
(the theme from) Leave It to Beaver
Steve
|
$100
[19]
In the word "milk", letter which is not also a Roman numeral
K
Steve
|
|
$300
[22]
If you bought the Brooklyn Bridge & took it home, people would have to find another way to cross this
the East River
Steve
|
$300
[5]
Only athlete to win 7 gold medals in single Olympics, all his time records have been broken
Mark Spitz
Bob
|
$300
[8]
It was the weapon of Zeus; how shocking!
the thunderbolt
Steve
|
$300
[13]
Rebekah Baines
Lyndon Johnson's mother
Steve
|
$300
[21]
[Theme plays]
the theme from Captain Kangaroo
|
$200
[26]
1 of 2 body parts found in "fish and chips"
(1 of) hips (or hand)
Bob
Steve
|
|
$400
[23]
Known in Mexico as Rio Bravo del Norte, it's called this in the U.S.
the Rio Grande
Steve
|
$400
[6]
After all others had failed, George Clark did this in 1951 with the 21' long, 230 lb. Braemar caber
toss it
Bob
|
$400
[9]
Slang for a small gun, or a tube through which dried Pisum sativum seeds are blown
a pea shooter
Steve
|
$400
[14]
Sara Delano
Franklin Roosevelt's mother
Bob
|
$400
[25]
[Theme plays]
the theme from My Three Sons
Bob
|
— |
|
$500
[24]
In 1980, Bob Seger had a hot hit about this body of water
Fire Lake
|
$500
[7]
Korean for "foot hand training", it's the art of kicking & punching
taekwondo
Steve
|
$500
[10]
Old style pistol where a piece of fine-grained quartz in the hammer was struck to spark the charge
a flintlock
Bob
|
$500
[15]
Sophia Birchard
Rutherford Birchard Hayes's mother
Steve
|
$500
[27]
[Theme plays]
The Avengers
Steve
|
— |
| ROCKS & MINERALS | AVIATION | PEOPLE | POE | POTPOURRI | BRITISH FASHION |
|
$200
[1]
Fulgurite is the glass rock formed after sand has been struck by this
lightning
Steve
|
$200
[6]
It's said this "NASA" plane was developed for the CIA; Francis Gary Powers was its best-known pilot
the U2
Benita
|
$200
[14]
Guy Doud was presented a crystal apple by Pres. Reagan for being '86 Person of the Year in this job
Teacher of the Year
Bob
|
$200
[22]
City in which Poe set "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Paris
Bob
|
$200
[20]
To save time in speedwriting, you don't do this to the "I"
dot it
Bob
|
DD
$300
[7]
What we call a "vest", they call a "waistcoat", while what they call a "vest", we call this
an undershirt
Benita
|
|
$400
[2]
In ID tests, borax tastes sweet & halite has this tastes
salty
Bob
Steve
|
$400
[9]
The aircraft Leonardo da Vinci designed all relied on this power source
human power
Steve
|
$400
[15]
10 years after Howard Hughes' death, he still insists the will dropped off at his gas station was real
Melvin Dummar
Bob
|
$400
[24]
Poe's tale of terror where a murderer still hears "this" beating
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Steve
|
$400
[21]
There were 1,771,561 of these creatures, according to Spock, eating grain stored in Station K-7
Tribbles
Steve
|
$600
[8]
Name of the fashionably famous Lane between Soho & Regent Streets in London's West End
Carnaby Street
Bob
|
|
$600
[3]
Also called "white mica", this mineral could be a resident of the Soviet Union's capital
muscovite
Steve
|
$600
[10]
After 11 years as CEO of Eastern, he has become a vice chairman of Texas Air
Frank Borman
Steve
|
$600
[16]
A Texan offered this producer of the Liberty Gala $1 million to produce a wedding
David Wolper
Steve
|
$600
[25]
In 1842 tale, title tortures faced by a victim of the Spanish Inquisition
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
Benita
|
$600
[27]
The 50th anniversary edition of this 1936 novel made a 1986 New York Times best seller list
Gone with the Wind
Bob
|
$800
[12]
In 1963, this then unknown British hairdresser cut a futuristic style for a "Dr. Who" character
Vidal Sassoon
Bob
|
|
$800
[4]
The mineral hematite is the chief source for this metallic element
iron
Steve
|
$800
[11]
Done by the book, while reducing power, you go from a shallow dive to a steep glide, then flare out
how do you land a plane
|
$800
[17]
Tennis star fined by the FAA in April '86 for trying to carry a .38 & ammo onto a plane
Martina Navratilova
Bob
|
— |
$800
[26]
London's Worshipful Co. of Bakers apologized in 1986 for baker who started this in 1666
the Great Fire of London
Steve
|
$1,000
[19]
In 1963 her Ginger Group was making miniskirts; 10 years later, in 1973, she was designing maxis
Mary Quant
Steve
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Sandstone was used for the facades of these "colorful" mid-19th century homes in New York
brownstones
Steve
|
DD
$1,500
[13]
The Hindenburg, launched in March, had this special insignia, honoring a 1936 event, on its side
the Olympic rings
Bob
|
$1,000
[18]
In April '86, 33-year-old mother of 2 Kathy Shower was selected this out of a field of 12
Playmate of the Year
Steve
|
— |
$1,000
[23]
On June 30, 1986, a guy named Lando replaced a guy named Nunzio as head of this reactor licensing agency
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Steve
|
— |
Often quoted, it's the weekly publication of the Massachusetts Medical Society
The New England Journal of Medicine