Game entered from audiorecording. Missing prizes.
Linda Glenn — a data entry operator from Davis, California
Martin Dolamore — a dispatcher from San Diego, California
Adelaide Jaffe — a computer operator from Bay Village, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide | $800 | $2,300 | $8,700 |
$6,700
2-day champion: $15,000 |
$7,300
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Martin | $-200 | $1,500 | $1,100 |
$2,100
3rd place |
$1,100
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Linda | $2,700 | $3,300 | $10,100 |
$2,700
2nd place |
$9,900
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| 1776 | TRANSPORTATION | VEGETABLES | FLAGS | WORD ORIGINS | TV ACT IT OUT |
|
$100
[2]
The first public reading of this document was given by John Nixon on July 8, 1776
the Declaration of Independence
Linda
|
$100
[22]
According to Guinness, the largest man-made harbor is the Rotterdam Europort in this country
the Netherlands
Adelaide
|
$100
[11]
Fixed with a sweet-sour sauce, these vegetables go to Harvard
a beet
Martin
|
$100
[12]
This Rocky Mountain state's flag has a big C on it
Colorado
Linda
|
$100
[1]
The Arabic word for a buffoon, maskharah, gave us this word for a costume party
masquerade
Martin
|
$100
[17]
Arsenio Hall's audience whipper upper, & they do it back
"Woof! Woof!"
Linda
|
|
$200
[7]
Adam Smith published "The Wealth of Nations", establishing this as a separate science
economics
Linda
|
$200
[23]
According to "Business Week" magazine, this Italian company is Europe's 2nd largest automaker
Fiat
Adelaide
|
$200
[13]
The colonists sowed it Indian style, putting the kernels in a hole with a couple of fish
corn
Linda
|
$200
[18]
It's a flag triangular in shape that tapers toward the fly
a pennant
Linda
|
$200
[3]
Word for a butterfly larva that came from Old French for "hairy cat"
caterpillar
Linda
|
$200
[27]
In the show's opening, Fred Flintstone's response to the 5:00 bird whistle
"Yabba-Dabba-Doo!"
|
|
$300
[8]
In that year of America's rise, Edward Gibbon began to write of "The Decline and Fall of" this
the Roman Empire
Linda
|
$300
[24]
The plane that he flew to break the sound barrier was named Glamorous Glennis after his wife
Chuck Yeager
Martin
|
$300
[14]
Surprisingly, potatoes are rich in this vitamin, more associated with citrus fruits
(Vitamin) C
Linda
|
$300
[19]
The orange, white & blue colors in this African country's flag were those of the House of Orange
South Africa
Adelaide
|
$300
[4]
These medieval musicians were originally servants or ministers to the royal court
minstrels
Adelaide
|
$300
[28]
Johnny Carson going into the first commercial break
a golf swing
Linda
|
|
$400
[9]
German anthropologist Johann Blumenbach divided humanity into five different ones of these
races
Linda
|
$400
[25]
While a hovercraft rides above the water, this vehicle skims it on wing-like devices
the hydrofoil
|
$400
[15]
Like the horse, this bean is also named for its mottled color
the pinto bean
Adelaide
|
$400
[20]
The flag of this British cruise ship line features a yellow lion holding a globe
Cunard
Martin
|
$400
[5]
This word for high-spirited or exuberant is from the Latin "bullire", "to boil"
ebullient
Martin
Linda
|
$400
[29]
When Zelda Gilroy did this to Dobie Gillis, Dobie reflexively did it back
wrinkling her nose at him
|
|
$500
[10]
Grigory Potemkin ceased being this empress's official lover
Catherine the Great
Adelaide
|
$500
[26]
In 1936, this New York City bridge opened, linking Manhattan, Queens & the Bronx
the Triborough Bridge
Martin
|
$500
[16]
Not really an Israeli thistle, it's the tuber of a sunflower that can be sliced for salads
Jerusalem artichoke
Adelaide
|
DD
$500
[21]
2 of the 4 stars on this city's flag stand for the 1893 Columbian Exposition & the 1933 World's Fair
Chicago
Martin
|
$500
[6]
This fired ear then ware, usually unglazed, gets its name from the Italian for "baked earth"
terra cotta
Linda
|
— |
| SHAKESPEARE | MEASURE UP | AFRICAN HISTORY | BIOLOGY | BOOKS & AUTHORS | NOT IN THE U.N. |
|
$200
[6]
Written c. 1611, John Fletcher's "The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed" was a sequel to this play
The Taming of the Shrew
Linda
|
$200
[16]
It's really gross, man, when you have a gross which is this many dozen
12
Linda
|
$200
[21]
He became the first European to cross Africa, I presume
(David) Livingstone
Adelaide
Martin
|
$200
[11]
The 2 coronary arteries supply oxygenated blood to this organ
the heart
Linda
|
$200
[1]
His "The Birds of America" has been called the most expensive book in print
(John) Audubon
Linda
|
$200
[26]
Check the roster & you won't see this Holy See
the Vatican
Linda
|
|
$400
[7]
Her last words were, "O happy dagger, this is thy sheath, there rest and let me die"
Juliet
Adelaide
|
$400
[17]
The number of square inches in a square foot
144
Adelaide
|
$400
[22]
Opened in 1869, it shortened the route between England & India by 5,000 miles
the Suez Canal
Martin
|
$400
[12]
An aerobe can live only in an environment where this element is present in free form
oxygen
Adelaide
|
$400
[2]
Those referred to in Blanche Knott's series of books are "Truly Tasteless"
jokes
Adelaide
|
$400
[27]
You won't find it between Algeria & Angola in the UN, only between France & Spain on a map
Andorra
Adelaide
|
|
$600
[8]
In "As You Like It", this line precedes, "And all the men and women merely players"
"all the world's a stage"
Adelaide
|
$800
[19]
Not a meditator's mantra, but a unit of electrical resistance
an ohm
Linda
|
$600
[23]
He gave Ethiopia its first constitution in 1931 & made slavery illegal there
Haile Selassie
Adelaide
|
$600
[13]
To neutralize antigens, the body forms these proteins that also begin with "anti"
antibodies
Linda
|
$600
[3]
"Zen and the Art of" this by Robert Pirsig was rejected by 121 publishers before becoming a bestseller
Motorcycle Maintenance
Linda
|
$600
[28]
The UN oversees the armistice between these two non-member countries
North & South Korea
Adelaide
|
|
$800
[9]
Of gold, silver, or lead, the type of casket that contained Portia's portrait in "The Merchant of Venice"
lead
Linda
|
$1,000
[20]
A computer's speed is measured in these time units equal to 1 billionth of a second
a nanosecond
Linda
|
$800
[24]
Formerly Rhodesia, this country was renamed for ancient walled enclosures built for kings
Zimbabwe
Martin
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
The middle ear contains the hammer, anvil & this, the smallest bone in the human body
the stirrup (or stapes)
Linda
|
$800
[4]
John Hersey's 1946 account of atomic bomb survivors that took up an entire issue of "The New Yorker"
Hiroshima
Adelaide
Martin
|
$800
[29]
Italy pays this non-UN member for the right to be its sole supplier of salt & tobacco
San Marino
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Hero was actually a heroine in this comedy
Much Ado About Nothing
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
It was supposed to equal the distance from Henry VIII's nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb
a yard
Adelaide
|
$1,000
[25]
Like Liberia, this country, whose capital is Freetown, was founded as a haven for freed slaves
Sierra Leone
Martin
|
$1,000
[15]
The 24-hour cycle of metabolic activities in plants & animals is this type of rhythm
diurnal (or circadian)
Adelaide
|
$1,000
[5]
Hitchcock's film "The Birds" was based on a story by this author of "Frenchman's Creek"
(Daphne) du Maurier
Linda
|
$1,000
[30]
This island country was expelled October 25, 1971
Taiwan
Adelaide
|
In the 1880s, this company's advertising slogan was, "You press the button, we do the rest"
Kodak