Garrett Garland — a real estate developer originally from Cleveland, Ohio
Dan Staub — a retail manager originally from Highland Park, Illinois
Colleen Fitzpatrick — an engineer and physicist originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colleen | $600 | $700 | $3,800 |
$0
2nd place: La-Z-Boy sofa + Frigidaire compact washer & dryer |
$2,900
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Dan | $600 | $2,000 | $8,800 |
$7,800
New champion: $7,800 |
$8,800
22 R, 3 W |
| Garrett | $1,200 | $100 | $-700 |
$-700
3rd place: Smith Corona electronic typewriter |
$-700
13 R, 11 W |
| 1983 | SPORTS NICKNAMES | PETS | HOLIDAYS | EUROPE | GREAT LOVERS |
|
$100
[18]
Of Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher & Pope John Paul II, one who didn't visit U.S. in '83
Pope John Paul II
Colleen
Dan
Garrett
|
$100
[2]
Nickname Earvin Johnson uses when performing "hoop tricks"
Magic
Colleen
Garrett
|
$100
[21]
L.A. student John Parker holds record for having swallowed 300 of these
goldfish
Garrett
|
$100
[13]
On the 9th day of the 9th month, the Chinese spend the day flying these toys
kites
Colleen
Garrett
|
$100
[1]
City which contains the 25th of April bridge &1/5of Portugal's people
Lisbon
Garrett
|
$100
[8]
Ironically, this '20s movie idol said fidelity was the trait he most valued in women
Rudolph Valentino
Garrett
|
|
$200
[19]
Event of May '83 which almost put the California town of Coalinga off the map
an earthquake
Dan
|
$200
[3]
Halfback Elroy Hirsch's goofy gams
"Crazy Legs"
Garrett
|
$200
[22]
These inanimate pets were a fad in the '70s
pet rocks
Dan
|
$200
[14]
The 4 possible days in a 3-day weekend
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
Colleen
Garrett
|
$200
[7]
World famous Austrian choir which sings every Sunday in the Hofburgkapelle
the Vienna Boys Choir
Garrett
|
$200
[9]
So far, Judy Carne has been the only one to "sock it to him" at the altar
Burt Reynolds
Colleen
Garrett
|
|
$300
[20]
In its 1st week it took in $41,131,399, surpassing by $16 million the record set by "E.T."
The Return of the Jedi ( Star Wars accepted)
Garrett
|
$300
[4]
Reptilian nickname of drag racing's Don Prudhomme
the Snake
Garrett
|
— |
$300
[15]
In 1882, the Knights of Labor decided their Labor Day would always fall on this
the first Monday in September
Colleen
Garrett
|
$300
[10]
Country associated with lace, waffles & Hercule Poirot
Belgium
Dan
|
$300
[11]
His obsessive lifelong search was for "Venus", though he's famous for his book about men from Mars
H.G. Wells
Dan
|
|
$400
[23]
Terrorist bomb attacks on U.S. installations in this city occurred in April & October
Beirut
Colleen
Dan
Garrett
|
$400
[5]
Diminutive by which '50s tennis sensation Maureen Connolly was known
"Little Mo"
Garrett
|
— |
$400
[16]
The only place in the continental U.S. for which Congress is actually allowed to create a holiday
Washington, D.C.
Dan
|
— |
$400
[12]
In 1926 movie starring John Barrymore as this lover, he bestowed 191 kisses, one every 53 seconds
Don Juan
Dan
Garrett
|
| — |
$500
[6]
Legendary thoroughbred also known as "Big Red"
Man O' War
Colleen
|
— |
$500
[17]
A legal holiday in Britain is called this, because of the institutions that close on it
bank holiday (bank day accepted)
Dan
|
— | — |
| CLASSICAL MUSIC | SCIENCE | MAGIC | FRENCH LITERATURE | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | X, Y, & Z |
|
$200
[2]
A conductor's is at least 15" long & beats musical time
a baton
Colleen
|
$200
[1]
Pneumatic devices use this compressed substance for power
air
Colleen
|
$200
[10]
Disney film in which "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" turned a pumpkin into a coach
Cinderella
Garrett
|
$200
[5]
This cathedral's bells made Quasimodo a little "dingy"
Notre Dame
Garrett
|
$200
[6]
The largest U.S. franchise chain has over 1500 restaurants abroad, 450 of them in Japan
McDonald's
Garrett
|
$200
[19]
To the Air Force, it's wild & blue
the yonder
Dan
|
|
$400
[3]
Leroy Anderson wrote the only orchestral piece featuring this office machine
a typewriter
Dan
|
$400
[12]
Number of atoms in a molecule of water
3
Colleen
Garrett
|
$400
[11]
Magicians do it with trickery, but Jesus did it for real at the wedding feast at Cana
changing water into wine
Colleen
|
$400
[8]
Space-traveling royal youngster whom Antoine de Saint-Exupery met in the desert
The Little Prince
Dan
Garrett
|
$400
[7]
These disposable diapers are Procter & Gamble's biggest single moneymaker
Pampers
Dan
|
$400
[20]
Where the Village People told young men to go in '79
the YMCA
Dan
Garrett
|
|
$600
[4]
A veteran soldier, his steed, or a hackneyed piece of an orchestra's repertoire
a war horse
Dan
|
$800
[14]
Night-sight gun scopes measure heat radiation in this range
infrared
Colleen
Dan
|
$600
[24]
Stick used by water witchers to find water underground
a divining rod
Dan
|
$600
[9]
"The Song of Roland", most famous French epic, centers around this medieval ruler
Charlemagne
Dan
|
$1,000
[26]
Biggest U.S. maker of laundry appliances, half their output is sold by Sears as Kenmore
Whirlpool
Dan
Garrett
|
$600
[21]
The Jews who died at Masada, or any fanatic believers in a cause
a zealot
Colleen
Dan
|
|
$800
[16]
How the orchestra plays "piano" without one
softly
Colleen
Dan
|
$1,000
[15]
The main part of natural gas, it's sometimes called marsh gas or firedamp
methane
Colleen
|
$800
[25]
Meaning "ready finger" in Latin, it's a term for sleight of hand
prestidigitation
Garrett
|
$800
[17]
Dealing with adultery in a Normandy village, this Flaubert work is considered the perfect Fr. novel
Madame Bovary
Dan
|
— |
$800
[22]
1972 love triangle starring Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine & Susannah York
XYZ
Dan
|
| — |
DD
$1,500
[13]
One of two points where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the surface
the North Pole (or the South Pole)
Colleen
|
— |
$1,000
[18]
Jean-Paul Sartre made a grand "entrance" into the world of drama with this 1945 play
No Exit
Dan
|
— |
$1,000
[23]
The case of Baby Fae brought this new English word for a cross-species transplant into the news
a xenograft
Dan
|
It's the oldest independent country in the Western Hemisphere
the United States of America