Elaine O'Gara — a travel writer from Austin, Texas
Jean Sirius — an artist from Oakland, California
Sandy Falck — a physical therapist from South Euclid, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $28,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy | $300 | $800 | $5,200 |
$999
3rd place: limousine ride from Carey Limousine |
$5,200
15 R, 2 W |
| Jean | $1,400 | $3,100 | $4,700 |
$9,400
2nd place: trip to Mesquite, Nevada |
$6,700
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Elaine | $200 | $2,200 | $9,400 |
$10,401
New champion: $10,401 |
$9,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| NEW TESTAMENT NAMES | MONTHS | THE MOVIES | CITY QUOTES | AMERICAN HISTORY | BY HALVES |
|
$100
[21]
It was Paul's original name
Saul (of Tarsus)
Jean
|
$100
[13]
For awhile it was 29 days long but one of its days was transferred to August
February
Elaine
|
$100
[11]
Darryl F. Zanuck paid John Steinbeck $100,000 for the rights to film this 1939 Pulitzer-winning novel
The Grapes of Wrath
Jean
|
$100
[1]
Walter Winchell called it "a city where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors"
Hollywood
Jean
|
$100
[6]
In 1861 this Texas governor refused to support the Confederacy & was forced from office
Sam Houston
Jean
Elaine
|
$100
[26]
It's a popular way to serve an oyster
on the half shell
Sandy
|
|
$200
[22]
Tradition says this man who presided over Jesus' trial eventually became a Christian
Pilate
Jean
|
$200
[14]
The day after Halloween falls in this month
November
Sandy
|
$200
[12]
This author appeared in both "Creepshow" & "Creepshow 2"
Stephen King
Sandy
|
$200
[2]
To S.J. Perelman, this City of Brotherly Love was "the city of bleak November afternoons"
Philadelphia
Elaine
|
$200
[7]
On July 11, 1955 this military academy opened with temporary headquarters in Denver
the Air Force Academy
Jean
|
$200
[27]
Split the world in half & you have 2 of these
hemispheres
Jean
|
|
$300
[23]
According to John 20:15, upon seeing Jesus after the resurrection, she thought he was the gardener
Mary Magdalene
Elaine
|
$300
[15]
An undefined period of time is known as a month of these days
Sundays
Jean
|
$300
[18]
This Russian immigrant mouse was the lead character of "An American Tail"
Fievel
Jean
|
$300
[3]
William G. Shepherd nicknamed it "The Winded City"
Chicago
Jean
|
$300
[8]
Under the Compromise of 1850, this Western territory was admitted as a free state
California
Sandy
|
$300
[28]
Each half in a professional football game is this many minutes long
30
Elaine
|
|
$400
[24]
In Revelation 12 this archangel leads his band of angels in battle against the dragon
Michael
Sandy
Jean
|
$400
[16]
The French revolutionary calendar months of vintage, fog & frost came in this season
autumn
Sandy
|
$400
[19]
In this 1964 film, Ann-Margret joined Elvis in the duet "The Lady Loves Me"
Viva Las Vegas
Sandy
|
$400
[4]
Around 1900 Edgar Saltus called this Northeast metropolis "a nightmare in stone"
New York
Sandy
Elaine
|
$400
[9]
On June 15, 1836 this "Land of Opportunity" joined the Union as a slave state
Arkansas
Elaine
|
$400
[29]
On a half-slip it's elasticized
the waist
Elaine
|
|
$500
[25]
Of the 4 gospels, his is the shortest
Mark
|
$500
[17]
On a morn in this month, Neil Diamond "danced until the night became a brand new day"
September
Jean
|
$500
[20]
He directed both the 1957 & 1988 versions of "And God Created Woman"
Roger Vadim
Elaine
|
$500
[5]
Emerson said this city is "where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time"
Washington, D.C.
Jean
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
The Keokuk Dam, then the world's largest, opened in 1913 across this river
the Mississippi
Elaine
|
$500
[30]
Increments by which the Light Brigade charged into the Valley of Death
half a league (onward)
Elaine
|
| FAMOUS GERMANS | WORLD CAPITALS | BIOGRAPHIES | EXPLORERS | ART & ARTISTS | HOMOPHONES |
|
$200
[6]
Though completely deaf, he insisted on helping conduct the 1824 premiere of his ninth symphony
Beethoven
Sandy
|
$200
[1]
During the Middle Ages, this city was capital of The Pale, an area ruled by England on Ireland's E. coast
Dublin
Sandy
|
$200
[21]
A book called "Mother India" covers the life & political career of this late leader
Indira Gandhi
Elaine
|
$200
[15]
For about 10 years the English kept secret the full accounts of his 1577-1580 voyage around the world
Sir Francis Drake
Jean
Elaine
|
$200
[12]
One of Augustus John's portraits of T.E. Lawrence is in the collection of this city's Tate Gallery
London
Jean
|
$200
[7]
Forward in time, place or order, or coming after third
forth / fourth
Sandy
|
|
$400
[16]
After fleeing Germany to avoid the draft, he built a brewery in Golden, Colorado
Adolph Coors
Jean
|
$400
[2]
This Peruvian capital may go years without any rain
Lima
Sandy
|
$400
[22]
A 1942 biography of this man was subtitled "Dynamite King, Architect of Peace"
(Alfred) Nobel
Elaine
|
$400
[20]
Bartolomeu Dias died here 12 years after he discovered it & named it the Cape of Storms
the Cape of Good Hope
Elaine
|
$400
[13]
H. Frankenthaler was the 1st woman associate fellow of Calhoun College at this New Haven university
Yale
Jean
|
$400
[8]
A bunk on a ship, or the beginning of life
berth / birth
Sandy
|
|
$600
[17]
In 1862 he remarked that "The great questions of the time are... decided... by iron and blood"
Bismarck
Jean
|
$600
[3]
South Harbor is the oldest of this Finnish capital's 5 harbors
Helsinki
Sandy
|
$600
[23]
"A Prophet with Honor" is a profile of this evangelist & preacher to the presidents
Billy Graham
Jean
|
$600
[26]
Accounts of William Dampier's voyages influenced tales by these Robinson Crusoe & Gulliver authors
Swift & Defoe
Jean
|
$600
[14]
In 1930 Jean Arp invented a new type of this, using torn rather than cut paper, randomly arranged
a collage
Sandy
|
$600
[9]
Entirely, or sacred
wholly / holy
Elaine
|
|
$800
[18]
In 1601 this astronomer was appointed Imperial Mathematician by Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II
(Johannes) Kepler
Elaine
|
$800
[4]
Kebangsaan University & the University of Malaya are located in this capital city
Kuala Lumpur
Elaine
|
$1,000
[25]
Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln consists of "The War Years" & this earlier period
the Prairie Years
|
$800
[29]
In 1769 he set out on the Endeavour to find out if the Great South Land existed
James Cook
|
$800
[27]
Frederick Edwin Church, who studied with Thomas Cole in Catskill, N.Y., belonged to this landscape school
the Hudson River School
Elaine
|
$800
[10]
A small insect of the order Siphonaptera, or to run away from one
flea / flee
Sandy
|
|
$1,000
[19]
This philosopher argued that "God is dead" in his famous treatise "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
Nietzsche
Sandy
|
$1,000
[5]
In 1816 it became capital of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata
Buenos Aires
Elaine
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
It was the title of Bob Woodward's bestselling biography of John Belushi
Wired
Jean
|
$1,000
[30]
After a failed expedition to South America, this son of an Italian explorer was banished from Spain
Sebastian Cabot
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Before returning to France in 1923, he designed sets for the Kamerny State Jewish Theater
Marc Chagall
Elaine
|
$1,000
[11]
A bowl used in ancient Greece for mixing wine, or a bowl-shaped depression on the moon
krater / crater
Jean
|
In 1856 he addressed a British scientific association on "the manufacture of iron without fuel"
Henry Bessemer