Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.
Susan Sheridan — a teacher from Ironton, Ohio
Jim Kingsley — an early childhood educator from Portland, Maine
Jerry Standlee — an air traffic controller from Fort Worth, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerry | $2,200 | $4,100 | $9,000 |
$15,000
2-day champion: $16,000 |
$9,100
26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Jim | $900 | $2,300 | $6,700 |
$13,400
2nd place |
$6,700
19 R, 3 W |
| Susan | $0 | $1,200 | $-1,000 |
$-1,000
3rd place |
$1,000
6 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| LITERARY LINGO | TRAINS | MARRIAGE | TELEVISION | AUSTRALIA | LIONS |
|
$100
[16]
Noah Webster fought for this law, which now protects a writer's work for life plus 50 years
a copyright law
Jerry
|
$100
[26]
Usually the last car on a train, it serves as an office for the conductor
the caboose
Jerry
|
$100
[18]
Traditionally, he signs the marriage certificate as the groom's witness
the best man
Jim
|
$100
[1]
Of public, cable or network TV, the one people watch the least
Public
Jim
|
$100
[2]
Germans are first per capita, but Aussies aren't far behind in consumption of this potent potable
beer
Jerry
|
$100
[11]
Male lions are the only cats that wear this fur collar
a mane
Jerry
|
|
$200
[17]
The opposite of euphony, this harsh combination of sounds also ends with "phony"
cacophony
Jim
|
$200
[27]
Name of the train in Arlo Guthrie's 1972 hit
"The City of New Orleans"
Jerry
|
$200
[19]
Tradition says the first one was held to provide gifts to a Dutch girl denied her dowry
a wedding shower
Jerry
|
$200
[3]
He was suspended from "60 Minutes" in February 1990, but was back on the air in March
Andy Rooney
Jerry
Jim
|
$200
[7]
The 100,000 square mile Nullarbor Plain gets its name from its lack of these
trees
Jerry
|
$200
[12]
Along with some antelope, this equine animal is the lion's favorite dish
a zebra
Jerry
|
|
$300
[20]
A long, heroic narrative poem; "The Aeneid" is one
an epic
Jim
|
$300
[28]
Its official name is the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
Amtrak
Jim
|
$300
[21]
Catholics have these wedding announcements posted for three Sundays before they marry
banns
Susan
|
$400
[5]
Jane Pauley's primetime show that made its debut in July 1990
Real Life With Jane Pauley
|
$300
[8]
Finding Botany Bay unsuitable, Captain Arthur Phillip founded the first colony where this city is now
Sydney
Jim
|
$300
[13]
Shaw wrote a play about this Roman slave who removed a thorn from a lion's paw
Androcles
Jim
|
|
$400
[24]
Latin for "a leaf", it's the type of book in which Shakespeare's works appeared in 1623
a folio
Susan
|
$400
[29]
Europe's transcontinental Orient Express ran between Paris & this Turkish city
Istanbul
Jerry
|
$400
[22]
From the French for "bundle", it's the bundle of possessions the bride carried to her new home
a trousseau
Jerry
|
DD
$500
[4]
For 21 years now, this show's "Sunny days have been sweeping the clouds away" per its theme
Sesame Street
Jerry
|
$400
[9]
In 1984 "Advance Australia Fair" replaced this as the national anthem
"God Save The Queen"
Jim
|
$400
[14]
When members of one of these lion groups meet, they greet by rubbing the face & forehead
a pride
Jerry
|
|
$500
[25]
French for "untying", it's the unwinding of a plot after the climax
denouement
Jerry
|
$500
[30]
It's the fastest train you can take from New York City to Washington, D.C.
a Metroliner
Jim
|
$500
[23]
Legal term for the person who substitutes for the bride or groom if they can't attend
proxy
Susan
|
$500
[6]
One of the two women who refused to perform when Andrew Dice Clay hosted "Saturday Night Live"
Nora Dunn (or Sinead O'Connor)
Jim
|
$500
[10]
Known to the aboriginals as Uluru, this sandstone monolith is 1½ miles long & about 1,100' high
Ayers Rock
Jerry
|
$500
[15]
Only about 200 lions still live in the wild in Asia, in the Gir Forest of this country
India
Jim
|
| ISLANDS | PHYSICAL SCIENCE | NUMBER, PLEASE | THE 1950s | FASHION HISTORY | ARTISTS' SUBJECTS |
|
$200
[2]
There are fewer people living in this New York City borough than any other
Staten Island
Jim
|
$200
[20]
These moving masses of ice can be classified as valley, piedmont & continental types
glaciers
Jerry
|
$200
[8]
This many shots are fired in a salute to a president or other head of state
a 21-gun salute
Susan
|
$200
[13]
In June 1953 they became the first Americans executed for espionage during peacetime
the Rosenbergs
Jerry
|
$200
[12]
The earliest known example of a sandal was made of papyrus & worn in this country
Egypt
Jerry
|
$200
[1]
Duchamp painted a notorious one descending a staircase
a nude
Jim
|
|
$400
[3]
Mount Erebus is an active volcano on Ross Island just off this continent's coast
Antarctica
Jerry
|
$400
[23]
Spanish for cauldron, one is created by the collapse of a volcanic cone
a caldera
Jim
|
$400
[15]
In "A Visit from St. Nicholas", Clement Moore mentions this many reindeer, but doesn't mention Rudolph
8
Jerry
|
$400
[14]
A TV tower was added to this building in 1950, raising its height to 1,454'
the Empire State Building
Jim
|
$400
[27]
British designer known as "The Mother of the Miniskirt"
Mary Quant
|
$400
[5]
Da Vinci left "The Adoration of" these men unfinished in Florence to work as a military engineer
the Magi
Jerry
|
|
$600
[4]
Spain's Balearic Islands are located in this body of water
the Mediterranean Sea
Susan
|
$600
[24]
A coronagraph is a telescope that simulates this natural occurrence to allow study of the sun's corona
an eclipse
Jim
|
$600
[17]
In Aeschylus' play, the number "Against Thebes"
7
Jerry
|
$600
[16]
Though not a candidate, this Texan received 80 votes at the 1956 Democratic Convention
Lyndon Johnson
Jim
|
DD
$500
[29]
Noted for his extravagant taste in fashion, herequired Dukes of the Realm to help him dress:
Louis XIV
Jerry
|
$800
[10]
His dramatic sculpture of Balzac was rejected by the committee that commissioned it
Rodin
Susan
|
|
$800
[6]
As a result of 1980's Hurricane Allen, this state's Mustang & Padre Islands are now one island
Texas
Jerry
|
$800
[25]
In some respects, light be have s like waves, & in others, like these particles
photons
|
$800
[21]
In the title of the traditional English song, number of "Jolly, Jolly" pence "I've got"
sixpence
Jim
|
$800
[18]
This country exploded an A-bomb on October 3, 1952, becoming the third member of the nuclear club
Great Britain
Jerry
Jim
Susan
|
$600
[28]
A hooded cloak worn by monks, it is usually the same color as the habit of the order
the cowl
|
$1,000
[11]
This title place that Picasso's "Les Demoiselles" hailed from was not the town, but a street of ill-repute
Avignon
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Though founded by men who mutinied against Britain, it's now the only British colony in the Pacific
Pitcairn Island
Jim
|
$1,000
[26]
Three of the six noble gases
(3 of) neon, radon, argon, xenon, helium & krypton
Jerry
|
$1,000
[22]
Journalists are considered members of this imaginary estate
the fourth estate
Jerry
|
$1,000
[19]
In 1955, he completed his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jim
|
$1,000
[30]
French designer known for his youth-oriented 1960s styles, including short skirts & white boots
Courrèges
Susan
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
Rembrandt painted "The Blinding of" this Biblical character
Samson
Susan
|
The 2 Presidents whose assassins were sentenced to death & executed
James Garfield & William McKinley