Barry White — a househusband from Portland, Oregon
June Ailin — an attorney originally from Washington, D.C.
Cliff Harris — a branch director of the YMCA from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cliff | $100 | $100 | $3,500 |
$0
3rd place: Emerson stereo system + home game |
$3,500
7 R, 0 W |
| June | $1,100 | $2,800 | $7,200 |
$0
2nd place: trip to Tampa, Florida + home game |
$7,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Barry | $2,000 | $3,400 | $9,200 |
$14,500
New champion: $14,500 |
$8,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WILD WEST | SUBURBS | GAMES | SCIENCE | COUNTRY MUSIC | '87 CINEMA |
|
$100
[1]
Judge Roy Bean claimed to administer the only law west of this Texas river
the Pecos River
Barry
|
$100
[2]
Kansas City, Kansas is a suburb of this city
Kansas City, Missouri
Barry
|
$100
[11]
In the middle ages this game's board was often on the back of a chessboard, so it was called the "back game"
backgammon
Cliff
|
$100
[15]
One of the simplest machines, it's a rigid beam pivoted at a fulcrum
a lever
June
|
$100
[12]
According to Crystal Gayle, "You've been" doing this "in your sleep with loving on your mind"
talking
June
|
$100
[22]
In an '87 film, Elisabeth Shue turned this normal job odd by taking 3 kids on "Adventures"
Adventures in Babysitting
Barry
|
|
$200
[7]
Though he warred against U.S. Cavalry, this Apache dedicated his 1905 autobiography to T. Roosevelt
Geronimo
Barry
|
$200
[3]
L.A. suburb named for a dentist which shares its name with a Chicago suburb named for a famed botanist
Burbank
Barry
|
$200
[13]
A 1592 Scottish law forbade this game on the Sabbath; later it was banned only "in tyme of sermons"
golf
Barry
|
$200
[16]
On a primary rainbow, this is the color on the outside
red
June
Barry
|
$200
[27]
"Trigger"-happy star who sang "Hoppy, Gene & Me, we taught you how to shoot straight"
Roy Rogers
June
|
$200
[23]
Pizza-the-Hut & the evil Dark Helmet were among the characters in this "Star Wars" parody
Spaceballs
|
|
$300
[8]
The handle of Gen. Custer's gun was made of this substance from the sea
mother of pearl
Barry
|
$300
[4]
You have to cross several bridges to get from Washington, DC to its suburbs in this state
Virginia
June
|
$300
[14]
To have pinball machines considered games of skill, not chance, makers began adding these in 1947
flippers
June
|
$300
[17]
The 1st successful human heart transplant was performed during this decade
the '60s
Barry
|
DD
$600
[28]
Composer of thefollowing, which was featured in the movie about her life:"You've come to tell me something you say I ought to know / That he don't love me anymore and I'll have to let him go / You say you're gonna take him, oh, but I don't..."
Loretta Lynn
June
|
$300
[24]
The only 1 of the 3 credited with the story for "Superman IV" who also had a major speaking role in it
Christopher Reeve
June
|
|
$400
[9]
New Mexico Terr. governor Lew Wallace offered to pardon this outlaw if he would turn himself in
Billy the Kid
Barry
|
$400
[5]
If driving down I-80 you see Sparks, you've reached a suburb of this Nevada city
Reno
June
|
$400
[20]
Odds against getting this poker hand on any deal are about 649,740 to 1
a royal flush
Barry
|
$400
[18]
The name of this element is from the French for "water generating"
hydrogen
Barry
|
— |
$400
[25]
He plays the man whose "Innerspace" in invaded by Dennis Quaid
Martin Short
June
|
|
$500
[10]
Last name of 1 of the 2 pairs of brothers the Earps & Doc Holliday faced at the O K Corral
the Clantons (or the McLauries)
Barry
|
$500
[6]
Your Social Security file is maintained at agency HQ in Woodlawn, a suburb of this Mid-Atlantic port
Baltimore
|
$500
[21]
29-year-old engineer Nolan Bushnell invented this 1st video game & went on to found Atari
Pong
June
|
$500
[19]
Containing mucus & the enzyme ptyalin, this liquid helps in food digestion
saliva
June
|
— |
$500
[26]
Affliction suffered by "The Lost Boys"
they're vampires
June
|
| WEST VIRGINIA | WORLD HISTORY | "QUAD"s | POETRY | PHOBIAS | POLITICIANS |
|
$200
[24]
It wasn't until 1939 that West Virginia made the final payment on its $12 million debt to this state
Virginia
Barry
|
$200
[7]
Ivan IV of Russia took the title of Czar, the Russian form of this name
Caesar
Cliff
|
$200
[21]
Examples include dogs, cats, rats, crocodiles, horses, & salamanders
quadrupeds
June
|
$200
[16]
He wrote poems about sharks & seaweed, but they aren't as famous as his book about a big whale
Herman Melville
June
|
$200
[8]
Not a fear of big dinosaurs, tyrannophobia is a peasant's fear of them
tyrants
June
|
$200
[1]
Lester Maddox was governor of Georgia, then became Lt. governor under this future president
Jimmy Carter
Cliff
|
|
$400
[25]
"Mountaineers are always free"
the state motto
Barry
|
$400
[4]
Century during which Simon Bolivar did his liberating
the 19th Century
Barry
|
$400
[22]
You'll find these muscles in the front of your thighs
quadriceps
Barry
|
$400
[17]
Nonsense poet who wrote about the Jumblies "who went to sea in a sieve"
Edward Lear
Barry
|
$400
[9]
This common fear can be called hypsophobia, altophobia, or acrophobia
fear of heights
June
|
$400
[2]
This president from California was denied an appointment as an FBI agent due to budget limitations
Nixon
Barry
|
|
$600
[26]
Moundsville, West Virginia boasts the largest conical versions of these Indian relics in U.S.
(Indian) burial mounds
June
Barry
|
$600
[3]
1 of the 2 nicknames given to Ottoman ruler Suleiman I
(1 of) Suleiman the Magnificent or Lawgiver
Barry
|
$600
[23]
Adjective for something that occurs every four years
quadrennial
Barry
|
$600
[18]
"Do I dare to eat a peach?" asked T.S. Eliot in this "Love Song"
"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"
June
|
$600
[10]
If you suffer from ouranophobia & hadephobia, you won't be happy at either of these places when dead
heaven or hell
Cliff
|
$600
[13]
He decided against an opera career & later opposed Truman in 1948
Thomas Dewey
Cliff
|
|
$800
[29]
In 1888, due to the Hatfield-McCoy feud, W. Va. was actually invaded by authorities from this state
Kentucky
Barry
|
$800
[5]
From 1871-1918, this was the largest constituent kingdom of the German Empire
Prussia
Barry
|
$800
[27]
¼ of a circle
a quadrant
Cliff
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
Emily Dickinson wrote, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er" do this
succeed
June
|
$800
[11]
Reason a man suffering from "belonophobia" avoids new shirt packages & political conventions
fear of pins
June
|
$800
[14]
Eisenhower's Sec'y of State, his grandfather was Benjamin Harrison's Sec'y of State
John Foster Dulles
Barry
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Due to W. Va's natural character, this feature is considered the most irregular of the lower 48
the state boundary (line)
|
DD
$1,400
[6]
With his 1569 projection map, this Flemish cartographer redrew the world for explorers
(Gerardus) Mercator
Barry
|
$1,000
[28]
The name for this 19th c. dance originally meant a group of horsemen performing riding maneuvers
a quadrille
June
|
$1,000
[20]
"Invictus" ends with "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of" this
my soul
June
|
$1,000
[12]
It's why a pogonophobic would have been afraid of Abe Lincoln after 1860 but not before
afraid of beards
|
$1,000
[15]
His strong showing in the 1968 N.H. primary helped discourage LBJ from running that year
Eugene McCarthy
Cliff
|
This word is from the Greek for "sailor of the universe"
cosmonaut