Jim Rondoni — a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
Jeff Carnes — a classics professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Lynn Stark — a lawyer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn | $100 | $0 | $2,800 |
$0
3rd place: his & hers Jules Jurgensen Classic Series diamond dial watches |
$2,800
9 R, 1 W |
| Jeff | $1,800 | $3,500 | $11,800 |
$5,195
2nd place: Buck Stove "whole-house heating system" + Knight of New Zealand rug of 4 joined matched lambskins |
$11,300
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Jim | $700 | $1,400 | $9,200 |
$5,700
New champion: $5,700 |
$5,700
16 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| THE ’60S | ODD JOBS | ANIMAL GROUPS | GEOGRAPHY | FOOD & DRINK | PHAMOUS PHOEBES |
|
$100
[7]
On Jan. 7, 1963, its rate was raised from 4¢ to 5¢
(first-class mail domestic) postage
Lynn
|
$100
[25]
From Greek for “life writer”, it’s an author of a book on someone else’s life
a biographer
Lynn
Jim
|
$100
[20]
Beer, cards, & wolves come in them
packs
Jeff
|
$100
[2]
His appearance on covers & title pages of books of maps got them named for him
Atlas
Jeff
|
$100
[10]
After months of Bill Cosby’s telling us it’s less sweet, they reformulated it to make it sweeter
Coca-Cola
Jeff
|
$100
[1]
Stage name of Phoebe Butler, professional markswoman of the Wild West
Annie Oakley
Jeff
Jim
|
|
$200
[8]
He established the Pres. Medial of Freedom, picked the 1st recipients, but never got to give them
JFK
Jim
|
$200
[28]
Strong harem guards who were the human equivalent of oxen
eunuchs
Jeff
|
$200
[21]
If “12-day” Christmas song contained more than 1 of these, they would have formed a covey
partridges
Jeff
Jim
|
$200
[3]
During the winter this continent is said to double in area
Antarctica
Jeff
|
$200
[16]
The word “salary” comes from early Roman soldiers being paid with this prized seasoning
salt
Jeff
|
$200
[13]
She had her 1st his in 1975 with “Poetry Man”
Phoebe Snow
Jeff
|
|
$300
[9]
Author of 2 books on guerrilla warfare, he was killed in 1967 by the Bolivian Army
Che Guevara
Jim
|
$400
[26]
Odd job in bowling alleys phased out in 1952 by introduction of an automated machine
a pinboy (or pinsetter)
Jeff
|
$300
[22]
At an NBC convention you might see a muster of these
peacocks
Jeff
|
$300
[4]
1 of 2 provinces Labrador is part of
Newfoundland (or Quebec)
Jim
|
$300
[17]
1st created in Budapest, not France, Burger King serves breakfast on them
croissants
Jim
|
$300
[14]
Even the fast times she spend at Ridgemont High pale to her life as Lili in “Lace”
Phoebe Cates
Lynn
|
|
$400
[11]
Along with its erection in 1961 came a shoot-on-sight order
the Berlin Wall
Jeff
|
$500
[27]
“Illuminating” profession Edison eliminated
lamplighter
Jeff
|
$400
[23]
A group of swine or a 1972 Cicely Tyson film
sounder
Jim
|
$400
[5]
Mt. Sinai is on this peninsula
the Sinai Peninsula
Jeff
|
DD
$500
[18]
Satisfied w/single serving of over 9 tons, Guinness won’t accept new records for this food:
the mashed potato
Jim
|
$400
[15]
Co-founder of Nat. Congress of Mothers, early kindergarten supporter, & mommy to Wm. Randolph
Phoebe Hearst
Jim
|
|
$500
[12]
In 1967, China & France refused to sign a treaty on peaceful use of this area
space
Lynn
Jim
|
— |
$500
[24]
You're in big trouble if you fall into this group of vipers
a nest
|
$500
[6]
Mountain range you’d be in if you were sanctioned to climb the Eiger
the (Swiss) Alps
Jeff
|
$500
[19]
From Latin meaning “to fry”, it’s any object dipped in batter & fried in hot oil
a fritter
Jim
|
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| ENGLISH LITERATURE | SPACE & AVIATION | SPORTS TRIVIA | ART | DEPARTMENT STORES | HOMOPHONES |
|
$200
[1]
To supplement his income, this M.D. wrote “A Study in Scarlet”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jeff
|
$200
[23]
In 1979, Pioneer II revealed its rings to be composed of ice-covered rocks
Saturn
Jim
|
$200
[11]
At age 21, Dwight Filley Davis donated this sport’s famous cup
tennis
Lynn
|
$200
[2]
The “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” was this Dutch master’s 1st large-scale portrait
Rembrandt
Lynn
|
$400
[25]
Department store featured in the films “Splash” & “Moscow on the Hudson”
Bloomingdale's
Jim
|
$400
[18]
It can come in apple, coconut cream, or 3.14
pie/pi
Lynn
|
|
$400
[12]
Pseudonym of poet George William Russell, or 1st initials of poet Housman
A.E.
Jeff
|
$400
[24]
The magazine “Gleanings in Bee Culture” published the 1st complete account of their early flights
the Wright Brothers
Jeff
|
$400
[7]
It’s front line could be abbreviated LE, LT, LG, C, RG, RT, RE
a football team
Jeff
|
$400
[3]
Marcel Duchamp is famous for jokes like exhibiting a urinal & putting this on the Mona Lisa
a mustache
Lynn
|
$800
[14]
At the turn of the century, this Chicago merchant was the world’s largest dry goods retailer
Marshall Field
Jim
|
$600
[20]
A habit-forming drug, or the brave female lead in a movie
heroin/heroine
Jeff
|
|
$600
[16]
Her father assumed the name Barrett when he inherited slave plantations in the West Indies
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lynn
|
$800
[27]
Hughes pres. Steven Dorfman told NASA they’d be reimbursed for trying to save one with a “fly swatter”
a satellite
Jim
|
$600
[8]
On Mar. 11, 1986, this paper will celebrate its 100th anniversary
The Sporting News
Jeff
|
$600
[4]
King Tut’s tomb door, an oriental ballet, & Cubism led to this art style of the ’20s
Art Deco
Jim
|
$1,000
[15]
While many chains started in New York or Chicago, his began in Kemmerer, Wyo.
J.C. Penney
Lynn
|
$800
[21]
An herb, Morris Day’s group, or a quarter to three
thyme/time
Jeff
|
|
$800
[17]
Angered by American piracies of his novels, he put down the U.S. in his “Martin Chuzzlewit”
Charles Dickens
Jeff
|
DD
$4,000
[26]
90,002 Americans currently hold Pan Am reservations to this destination, & they’re not taking any more
the Moon
Jim
|
$800
[9]
Shoichi Nakajima did it from Korea to Japan & plans to try it from Hawaii to San Francisco
windsurf
Jim
|
$800
[5]
Somber Spanish artist famous for his “The 2nd of May” & its sequel, “The 3rd of May”
Goya
Jim
|
DD
$1,100
[13]
Loaning money to a young auto maker got this Detroit store owner a car named for him
J.L. Hudson
Jeff
|
$1,000
[22]
Masticates, or select
chews/choose
Jim
|
|
$1,000
[19]
His “Modest Proposal” of 1729 was to cure Ireland’s overpopulation by using babies as food
Jonathan Swift
Jeff
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
With a win in this April tourney, Bernhard Langer became most famous German golfer since Hermann Tissies
the Masters
Jeff
|
$1,000
[6]
To distinguish himself from his father, Bernardo, Giovanni Canal signed his work this way
Canaletto
Jeff
|
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For 2 years, NBC didn’t call it “Saturday Night Live” because of 18 wk. ABC “SNL” series starring him
Howard Cosell