Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.
Jim Flynn — a stockbroker from Farmington, Connecticut
Karen Foster — a school administrator from Washington, D.C.
Marc Goldberg — an anesthesiologist from Cinnaminson, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marc | $2,200 | $3,400 | $9,300 |
$300
2-day champion: $1,899 |
$8,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Karen | $100 | $2,100 | $8,900 |
$0
2nd place |
$8,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Jim | $1,300 | $1,800 | $5,200 |
$0
3rd place |
$5,200
15 R, 0 W |
| FLOWERS & TREES | NAME'S THE SAME | THE COMICS | WORLD HISTORY | BOWLING | THOMAS EDISON |
|
$100
[24]
The jonquil is often mistaken for this yellow narcissus to which it is related
the daffodil
Karen
|
$100
[16]
An order to a private, or a month of the year
march
Marc
|
$100
[6]
Called the first beagle on the Moon in comics, his picture was beamed back from space by Apollo 10
Snoopy
Marc
|
$100
[1]
The 2 largest battleships ever built, Japan's Yamato & Musashi, were sunk during this war
World War II
Jim
|
$100
[21]
Number of strikes needed for a perfect 300 game
12
Marc
Jim
|
$100
[11]
Edison's first one recorded the sound on a cylinder covered with a sheet of tin foil
phonograph
Karen
|
|
$300
[26]
Of annual, biennial, or perennial, the one that describes the growing life of trees
perennial
Karen
|
$200
[17]
An allergic reaction to shellfish, or homes for honeymakers
hives
Karen
|
$200
[7]
Harold Gray never explained why he gave her blank eyes
Little Orphan Annie
Jim
|
$200
[2]
In 1621 the Dutch formed this companion to their other company to trade in the Atlantic region
Dutch West India Company (Dutch West Indies Company accepted)
Jim
|
$200
[22]
Bowling balls used in leagues can't exceed 27 inches in circumference nor weigh more than this
16 pounds
|
$200
[12]
As a tribute to the late Edison, Hoover ordered all Americans to do this the night of October 21, 1931
turn out their lights
Marc
|
|
$400
[27]
Found on the California & Oregon coast, this huge tree rarely occurs more than 50 miles inland
the redwood
Marc
Karen
|
$300
[18]
Nickname shared by Jay Dean & John Gillespie
Dizzy
Marc
|
$300
[8]
Tess Trueheart is true to him
Dick Tracy
Marc
|
$300
[3]
He was speaker of Iran's parliament when he became the country's president in August 1989
Rafsanjani
Marc
|
$300
[23]
The introduction of this machine in 1952 put a lot of young boys out of work
the automatic pinsetter
Karen
|
$300
[13]
As a boy he was called Al, which was short for this, his middle name
Alva
Marc
|
|
$500
[28]
Term for an herbicide that causes the leaves to fall off of trees & bushes
defoliant
Marc
|
$400
[19]
Oscar-winning 1963 film, or singer of the Oscar-nominated 1965 song "What's New, Pussycat?"
Tom Jones
Jim
|
$400
[9]
This comic strip character with the goo-goo-googly eyes inspired a 1920s song
Barney Google
Jim
|
$400
[4]
When the Treaty of Ghent was signed ending this war, Ghent belonged to the Netherlands
the War of 1812
Marc
Jim
|
$400
[29]
The Firestone Tournament of Champions, one of bowling's premier events, is held in this city
Akron, Ohio
|
$400
[14]
Edison invented a simpler mouthpiece for this, eliminating the need to shout into it
the telephone
Marc
|
|
DD
$700
[25]
Second to the rose in commercial value, it's called the clove pink because of its spicy fragrance
the carnation
Karen
|
$500
[20]
The man who gave us the terms "mesozoic" & "cenozoic", or a Papa in The Mamas & The Papas
John Phillips
|
$500
[10]
Andy Capp's "pet" is named this
Flo
|
$500
[5]
The English Civil Wars of 1642-51 led to the defeat & execution of this King
Charles I
Marc
|
$500
[30]
This bowler & his son Pete are only father & son to have led the PBA in yearly earnings
Dick Weber
|
$500
[15]
Henry Ford moved the Invention Factory Edison set up in Menlo Park, N.J. to this city
Dearborn
Marc
|
| THE 1930s | MUSICIANS | BOOKS & AUTHORS | IRELAND | SHIPS | WORDS ABOUT BIRDS |
|
$200
[15]
In 1937 the Lincoln Tunnel was opened under the Hudson & this was opened over San Francisco Bay
the Golden Gate Bridge
Jim
|
$200
[22]
John Blow, Orlando Gibbons & Henry Purcell are buried in this London building where they were organists
Westminster Abbey
Jim
|
$200
[3]
Jeanne Larson's historical novel "Silk Road" is set in this Asian country in the 8th century
China
Marc
|
$200
[1]
MacGillycuddy's Reeks are famous for being the highest of these in Ireland
a mountain
Jim
|
$200
[10]
As a result of this ship's sinking, the 1st International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea was convened in 1913
the Titanic
Jim
|
$200
[9]
The answer to this nursery rhyme query is "the sparrow"
Who killed Cock Robin?
Jim
|
|
$400
[16]
In his 1st inaugural address, FDR said this was the only thing the country had to fear
fear itself
Karen
|
$400
[23]
"Siegfrieds Tod", "Siegfried's Death", was his original title for "Gotterdammerung"
Wagner
Karen
|
$400
[5]
In 1989 at age 70, this famous Iris published her 24th novel, "The Message to the Planet"
Iris Murdoch
Karen
|
$400
[2]
There once was a city in Ireland, & still is, that gave its name to funny 5-line poems
Limerick
Karen
|
$400
[11]
Named for the dog star, it became the 1st to cross the Atlantic totally under steam power in 1838
the Sirius
Marc
|
$400
[27]
Poe describes one whose "eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming"
"The Raven"
Karen
|
|
$600
[19]
Louisiana senator who proposed a "Share the Wealth" program
Huey Long
Karen
|
DD
$500
[26]
With Brecht & Hindemith, this composer wrote a radio cantata commemorating Lindbergh's flight
Kurt Weill
Marc
|
$600
[6]
"Falconer" author whose last published novel was "Oh What a Paradise It Seems" in 1982
(John) Cheever
Marc
|
$600
[4]
Prior to this 1845-47 tragedy, Ireland's population was 8 million, far more than it is today
the potato famine
Karen
|
$600
[12]
The nuts, bolts & bell used in the Constitution, Old Ironsides, were made by this Boston craftsman
Paul Revere
Marc
|
$600
[28]
Dixon Merritt was amazed that this bird can take in his beak "food enough for a week"
a pelican
Jim
|
|
$800
[20]
In 1932 the U.S. Army booted this expeditionary force out of Washington, D.C.
the Bonus Army
Marc
|
$600
[24]
This American composer & conductor wrote the 1-act opera "Trouble in Tahiti"
Leonard Bernstein
|
$800
[17]
John Updike's 3rd Rabbit novel, which won him a Pulitzer Prize, is titled "Rabbit is" this
Rabbit is Rich
Karen
|
$1,000
[8]
Ireland has only 1 native species of this class of animals
reptiles
|
$800
[13]
In 1968 Cunard launched this ship, the last trans-Atlantic superliner to be built
the QE2
Jim
|
$800
[30]
It completes the lines "Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold, she's a..."
a bird in a gilded cage
Karen
|
|
$1,000
[21]
Detroit priest who took to the airwaves with tirades against the government
Father (Charles) Coughlin
Karen
|
$800
[25]
John Cage has written pieces for prepared & toy versions of this instrument
the piano
Marc
|
$1,000
[18]
In 1981 she made the cover of "Newsweek" with "Tar Baby", her 4th novel
Toni Morrison
Karen
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
The Irish airline, its name is Gaelic for "air fleet"
Aer Lingus
Marc
|
$1,000
[14]
Though warned of attacks, few of the 1,258 passengers on this ship's May 1, 1915 trip cancelled
the Lusitania
Jim
|
$1,000
[29]
In a Tennyson poem, he "clasped the crag with crooked hands"
the eagle
Marc
|
A Democratic slogan in the 1800s went "We Polked 'em in '44, we'll" do this to "'em in '52"
Pierce