George Chesney — a small business owner from Tempe, Arizona
Norm Horner — an elementary school teacher from Pointe-Claire, Canada
Debbie Peryea — a waitress from Keeseville, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie | $1,100 | $2,400 | $6,800 |
$12,800
2nd place: trip to Maui, Hawaii |
$4,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Norm | $1,900 | $1,800 | $5,200 |
$100
3rd place: Wallace Silversmiths silver serving dish |
$5,200
18 R, 6 W |
| George | $800 | $2,900 | $9,600 |
$13,601
New champion: $13,601 |
$9,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| BIOLOGY | TV NURSES | FOOD & DRINK | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | RELATIVES | WORDS OFF THE MAP |
|
$100
[14]
DDT has endangered many carnivorous birds because it causes the shells of these to become paper thin
their eggs
Debbie
|
$100
[1]
As Nurse Christine Chapel, Majel Barrett assisted "Bones" on this science fiction series
Star Trek
Debbie
|
$100
[15]
This salad contains romaine, anchovies & garlic croutons, but no emperors
a Caesar salad
Norm
|
$100
[4]
The sheng, a wind instrument from this country, consists of 17 bamboo tubes
China
Norm
|
$100
[19]
Different branches of your family appear on this kind of chart with an "arboreal" name
a family tree
Debbie
George
|
$100
[8]
This word for perfumed toilet water refers to the city on the Rhine where it was first made
Cologne
Norm
|
|
$200
[27]
A deciduous tree drops these in the autumn & produces new ones in the spring
leaves
Norm
|
$200
[2]
The real first name of this "M*A*S*H" head nurse was Margaret
Hot Lips Houlihan
Debbie
|
$200
[17]
Manzanilla is a dry, delicate type of sherry that originated in this country
Spain
George
|
$200
[5]
This carpentry tool is played as a folk instrument by bowing or by striking with a mallet
a saw
Debbie
|
$200
[20]
Genealogists call the child of your first cousin a "first cousin once" this
removed
George
|
$200
[9]
A term for a horse's gait is from the pace set by Pilgrims headed to this English city
Canterbury
Debbie
|
|
$300
[28]
Dentin is the calcified tissue surrounding the pulp of one of these
a tooth
George
|
$300
[3]
Jane Dulo played Nurse Murphy on "Medical Center" & nurse Molly Turner on this Ernest Borgnine sitcom
McHale's Navy
Norm
|
$300
[18]
English breakfast tea is classified as this "color" tea
black
Norm
George
|
$300
[7]
The Gamelan Orchestras of this nation's Bali & Java Islands include bonangs, sulings & rebabs
Indonesia
George
|
$300
[24]
Nepote is a Scottish word for this relative whom a nepotist might hire
a nephew
Norm
|
$300
[10]
The cravat, a type of necktie, derives its name from this newly independent republic
Croatia
Debbie
|
|
$400
[29]
The coelacanth, a primitive type of this animal, has lobed as well as ray types of fins
a fish
Debbie
Norm
|
$400
[6]
Nurse Daniels shot rapist Dr. Peter White on this series set in a Boston hospital
St. Elsewhere
Norm
|
$400
[21]
Blancmange is a dessert originally made with this nut milk; what a "joy"
almond
Debbie
|
$400
[12]
Wynton Marsalis is well known as a virtuoso on this instrument
the trumpet
Norm
|
$400
[25]
The Spanish term for this relative is Tia
an aunt
George
|
$400
[16]
This lustrous linen or silk fabric derives its name from Syria's capital
damask
Debbie
Norm
|
|
$500
[30]
This type of "heap" is a pile of vegetable material allowed to break down & used to improve soil
a compost heap
George
|
$500
[11]
She played widowed nurse Julia Baker on "Julia"
Diahann Carroll
Norm
|
$500
[22]
Found in health food stores, this chocolate substitute is also known as locust bean
carob
George
|
$500
[13]
The earliest surviving harpsichord was built in this country, where it was called a cembalo
Italy
George
|
DD
$800
[26]
It's the term for your mother's mother's mother's mother
great-great-grandmother
George
|
$500
[23]
Rugs, shawls & even a hound are named this, after a Middle Eastern country
Afghans
Norm
|
| HISTORY | LANGUAGES | COMPOSERS | INVENTORS | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | BOOKS & AUTHORS |
|
$200
[4]
In April 1859 ground was broken for the building of this Middle East waterway
the Suez Canal
Debbie
|
$200
[12]
The name of this international language is actually the pen name under which Dr. Zamenhof wrote about it
Esperanto
Debbie
George
|
$200
[1]
The 1945 film "Rhapsody in Blue" is a biography of this composer
(George) Gershwin
Debbie
|
$200
[6]
In 1929 Hans Berger developed this device that measures & records brain wave patterns
electroencephalograph
George
|
$200
[18]
The Ames Research Center & the Jet Propulsion Lab. are under the jurisdiction of this space agency
NASA
George
|
$200
[3]
She subtitled "Aunt Erma's Cope Book" "How to get from Monday to Friday...in twelve days"
Erma Bombeck
George
|
|
$400
[8]
Marie Antoinette was among those executed during this "reign" of the French Revolution
the Reign of Terror
George
|
$400
[13]
The language of this North Atlantic island nation is similar to Old Norse, the Viking language
Iceland
George
|
$400
[2]
Call him Sir when addressing this "Cats" composer; he was knighted in 1992
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Debbie
|
$400
[7]
Dorothy Rodgers, wife of composer Richard Rodgers, invented the Jonny-Mop, a cleaner for this device
the toilet
George
|
$400
[19]
The Bureau of Mines is an agency of this cabinet department
the Department of the Interior
George
|
$400
[5]
He appeared in the film of his book "Paper Lion", but not as himself—Alan Alda got the role
George Plimpton
Norm
|
|
$600
[9]
The Haganah, a volunteer militia formed after WWI, became this country's Nat'l Army in 1948
Israel
George
|
$600
[14]
Frisian, considered English's nearest neighbor, is spoken in the northern part of this Low Country
Holland (the Netherlands)
George
|
$600
[16]
Giacomo Puccini decided to write operas after hearing a performance of this composer's "Aida"
Verdi
Norm
|
$600
[17]
This inventor of dynamite studied in the U.S. for 4 years
Nobel
George
|
$600
[20]
Democrat Sam Nunn has represented this state in the U.S. Senate since 1972
Georgia
George
|
$600
[22]
"Beds I Have Known" is Martha Smith's book about this outdoor hobby
gardening
Norm
|
|
$800
[10]
After killing his son in a fit of rage, this czar tried to abdicate but was refused
Ivan the Terrible
Norm
George
|
$800
[15]
Speakers of this language of the United Kingdom call it Cymraeg
Welsh
Norm
|
$800
[27]
A trip to this country inspired Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture"
Scotland
Debbie
Norm
|
$800
[23]
In 1947 this company got the rights to the photocopying process invented by Chester Carlson
Xerox
Norm
|
$800
[21]
This Colorado city is headquarters to the Consumer Information Catalog of Fed. Publications
Pueblo
Debbie
Norm
George
|
$800
[28]
"Queen of Romance" who wrote "The Penniless Peer", "The Cruel Count" & "The Ruthless Rake"
Barbara Cartland
Debbie
|
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1980 this country granted limited self-rule to Flanders & Wallonia
Belgium
Norm
|
$1,000
[26]
After the Muslim conquest of this country, Coptic was gradually replaced by Arabic
Egypt
Norm
|
$1,000
[30]
This Austrian composer wrote over 140 songs in 1815, including 8 lieder in a single day
Franz Schubert
Norm
|
$1,000
[24]
French inventor Charles Brun used compressed air to expel water from the ballast tanks of one of these ships
a submarine
George
|
DD
$1,300
[25]
The father-in-law of Senator Howard Baker, he served as Senate minority leader from 1959 to his death in 1969
Everett Dirksen
George
|
DD
$3,000
[29]
"From the South Seas" is a 1939 collection of her anthropological writings
Margaret Mead
Debbie
|
This woman who began selling her products in the 1930s is estimated to be America's richest self-made woman
Estée Lauder