Lois Kurowski game 5.Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.
Bill Dukes — a personnel manager from Claremont, California
Susan Cobb — a Spanish teacher originally from Lubbock, Texas
Lois Kurowski — a doctoral student from Elkhart, Indiana (whose 4-day cash winnings total $57,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lois | $1,200 | $2,000 | $4,500 |
$10
3rd place |
$4,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Susan | $1,000 | $-500 | $500 |
$500
2nd place |
$1,300
12 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bill | $500 | $2,100 | $11,100 |
$13,100
New champion: $13,100 |
$10,900
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | TOM CRUISE | MAGAZINES | SYMBOLIC ANIMALS | BARRELS |
|
$100
[16]
His "to be or not to be" speech might have gone on forever if he hadn't noticed Ophelia
Hamlet
Bill
|
$100
[17]
The Office of Registrar of Copyrights is a division of this library
the Library of Congress
Susan
|
$100
[22]
Tom had a tough time in school as he suffers from this reading disability
dyslexia
Bill
|
$100
[6]
ABC not only offers a 900 phone number to inform you about these, it has a magazine, "Episodes"
soap operas
Bill
|
$100
[11]
Livestock that describes the stock market when prices are up
the bulls
Susan
|
$100
[1]
In 1939, Lew Brown, Wladimir Timm & Jaromir Vejvoda wrote a polka about this type of barrel
a beer barrel
Susan
|
|
$200
[27]
Characters in this play include nymphs, reapers & a boatswain
The Tempest
Susan
|
$200
[18]
In the Senate, a cloture vote is usually suggested to end this type of activity
a filibuster
Lois
|
$200
[23]
In January 1990, a few days after "Us" reported his marriage was healthy, Tom & she filed for divorce
Mimi Rogers
Lois
|
$200
[7]
Not printed in red ink, a new English language magazine for this city has an "Around the Square" section
Moscow
Susan
|
$200
[12]
The mule is the symbol of the Army, but this is the symbol of the Navy
the goat
Bill
|
$200
[2]
If you're watching women compete in barrel racing, you're at one of these events
a rodeo
Susan
|
|
$400
[29]
This friend of Romeo's cries "A plague on both your houses!" several times before he dies
Mercutio
Lois
|
$300
[19]
Though the first Attorney General was appointed in 1789, this department wasn't established until 1870
the Department of Justice
Bill
|
$300
[24]
Sales surges of this company's Wayfarers & Aviator glasses are attributed to Tom's wearing them in films
Ray-Bans
Bill
|
$300
[8]
The stars tell us the new magazine "Jupiter" covers this field
astrology
Lois
Susan
|
$300
[13]
This bird is often pictured with an olive branch in its mouth
a dove
Susan
|
$300
[3]
This adjective describes conversations like the type that took place in old general stores
a cracker barrel
Bill
|
|
$500
[30]
In "Henry VIII", Henry VIII says of her, "When I am in heaven, I shall desire to see what this child does"
Elizabeth (I)
Susan
Bill
|
$400
[20]
He was a pediatrician strongly opposed to abortion when Reagan named him Surgeon General in 1981
(Everett) Koop
Bill
|
$400
[25]
Getting into his role for this 1983 Coppola film, Cruise avoided showering for most of the nine weeks of filming
The Outsiders
Bill
|
$400
[9]
Actor Tim Matheson, who bought into this humor magazine in 1989, sold out in 1990
National Lampoon
Lois
|
$400
[14]
Moses pulverized this idol, mixed the powder with water & made the Israelites drink it
the golden calf
Susan
|
$400
[4]
Combined with "off", it means to hold back or keep away; as a noun, it's part of a barrel
stave
Bill
|
|
DD
$800
[28]
Octavia Caesar appears as a character in these 2 plays
Julius Caesar & Antony and Cleopatra
Susan
|
$500
[21]
At an impeachment trial of a president, this person presides
the chief justice of the United States
Lois
Susan
Bill
|
$500
[26]
Tom is a driver on this actor's stock car racing team
Paul Newman
Lois
|
$500
[10]
Subscription agency that has Ed "I'll award you $10 million" McMahon as their spokesman
American Family Publishers
Susan
Bill
|
$500
[15]
The Chinese believe this creature can prevent evil spirits from spoiling the new year
the dragon
Susan
|
$500
[5]
The world record for this is 18 set by Yvon Jolin at Terrebonne, Quebec in 1981
barrel jumping
Lois
|
| NOVELS | BOTANY | IRELAND | CLASSICAL MUSIC | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS | GLASS |
|
$200
[2]
Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall wrote "Men Against the Sea" & "Pitcairn's Island" as sequels to this
Mutiny on the Bounty
Bill
|
$200
[17]
Pine nuts come from these parts of certain pine trees
pine cones
Lois
Susan
|
$200
[26]
Said to represent the trinity, this three-leafed plant is Ireland's national symbol
the shamrock
Lois
|
$200
[12]
NYC school of music named for a cotton merchant who left $20 million to support a music foundation
Juilliard
Bill
|
$200
[7]
After his 1843 death, this lexicographer's heirs sold his dictionary rights to the GNC Merriam Company
Webster
Bill
|
$200
[1]
A fulgurite is the glass rock formed after sand has been struck by this
lightning
Bill
|
|
$400
[3]
Term for idealistic from a character in a Cervantes novel
quixotic
Bill
|
$400
[18]
The acorn is a true one of these, but a goober is not
a nut
Bill
|
$400
[27]
This stout beer, Ireland's most popular brand, is an important export
Guinness
Lois
|
$400
[13]
His brother, Johann Christoph, was the organist at the Michaeliskirche in Ohrdruf until 1721
Johann Sebastian Bach
Lois
|
$400
[8]
On April 3, 1882, Robert Ford shot & killed this outlaw in his St. Joseph, Missouri home
Jesse James
Lois
|
$400
[22]
The first glass factory in North America was established in 1608 in this settlement
Jamestown
Bill
|
|
$600
[4]
The inhabitants of these two planets fought in H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds"
Earth & Mars
Lois
|
$600
[19]
An organic material, such as peat, spread around plants to suppress weeds
mulch
Bill
|
$600
[28]
William Butler Yeats & Lady Augusta Gregory helped found this Irish national theatre in 1904
the Abbey
|
DD
$500
[14]
Though he never married, he loved children & wrotethe following:
(Johannes) Brahms
Lois
|
$600
[9]
This U.S. Navy officer negotiated the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened trade with Japan
Commodore Perry
Bill
|
$600
[23]
Safety glass, such as that used in auto windshields, is a sandwich of glass sheets & this material
plastic (polyvinyl butyral)
|
|
$800
[5]
Though this Theodore Dreiser title character sounds like a nun or a nurse, she's really an actress
Sister Carrie
Lois
|
$800
[20]
Bees make honey from this sugary solution secreted by some plants
nectar
Lois
|
$800
[29]
Only three of the nine counties of this province belong to the Republic of Ireland
Ulster
Lois
|
$800
[15]
He claimed, "Never was I so pious as when composing 'The Creation'"
Haydn
Susan
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
In 1876-77, he founded the American Library Association & became editor of the "Library Journal"
Dewey
Bill
|
$800
[24]
In 1271, the glass workers in this Italian city formed a guild
Venice
Bill
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Chapter 2 of his novel "Myron" begins with "Myra Breckinridge lives"
Gore Vidal
Bill
|
$1,000
[21]
Found in the cell walls of some plants, this carbohydrate helps jelly gel
pectin
Bill
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1905, editor A. Griffith formed this political organization, whose name means "We Ourselves"
Sinn Fein
Bill
|
$1,000
[16]
Barcarole is a French word for the type of song sung by these boatmen
the gondoliers
Susan
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1880, this industrialist patented a method for making dry photographic plates
(George) Eastman
Bill
|
$1,000
[25]
Most glass is composed of silica, soda & this caustic ingredient, also known as calcium oxide
lime
Lois
Susan
|
2 of the 1st 3 men depicted on U.S. stamps
(2 of) George Washington, Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Jefferson