Charles Goldstein — a medical student from Guadalajara, Mexico
Vicki Linnane — a secretary from Chicago, Illinois
Warren Harshbarger — an actor and a movie reviewer from Portland, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,195)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren | $300 | $300 | $4,300 |
$0
3rd place: WhiteWestinghouse refrigerator/freezer |
$4,300
11 R, 2 W |
| Vicki | $1,900 | $4,000 | $5,600 |
$5,600
2nd place: trip to The Breakers of Fort Walton Beach, Florida |
$5,600
16 R, 0 W |
| Charles | $-100 | $3,000 | $4,800 |
$9,250
New champion: $9,250 |
$2,900
14 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W |
| THE 1870s | TV ADS | FISH | WORLD LEADERS | "CON"s | CHRISTMAS SONGS |
|
$100
[20]
On May 1, 1873, the post office began issuing post cards at this price
one penny
Charles
|
$100
[1]
Area code of number to call to order Ginsu knives, Slim Whitman albums, or Time magazine
800
Warren
|
$100
[22]
The well-developed exoskeleton on most fish or what blind justice holds
scales
Vicki
|
$100
[15]
At a White House dinner Nov. 9, 1985, president Reagan called this person Princess "David"
Princess Diana
Vicki
|
$100
[10]
A house that is 2nd to nuns
a convent
Vicki
|
$100
[5]
From "choraules", the flute player who accompanied choral dances, comes this word for a hymn of joy
a carol
Warren
Charles
|
|
$200
[27]
Between 1872 & 1874, it's said almost 12 million of these animals were systematically killed in the U.S.
buffalo (bisons)
Vicki
|
$200
[2]
What auto salesman Cal Worthington calls all his animal co-stars, be they bear, chimp, or hippo
"my dog Spot"
|
$200
[23]
Of a grunt, a sucker, or a Fanta, the 1 that isn't a fish
a Fanta
Charles
|
$200
[16]
Soviet who said in November 1963, "start throwing hedgehogs under me, I'll throw 2 porcupines under you"
Khrushchev
Charles
|
$200
[11]
When Uncle Sam wants you, whether you want him or not
conscription
|
$200
[6]
"Adeste Fideles"
"O Come, All Ye Faithful"
Vicki
|
|
$300
[28]
As chief of the Dept. of Public Works for NYC, this "Boss" defrauded the city of $200,000,000
Boss Tweed
Charles
|
$300
[3]
He gets "rid of dirt & grime & grease in just a minute" & was subject of nationwide look-a-like search
Mr. Clean
Warren
|
$300
[24]
Living in poorly oxygenated water, the mudfishes' swim bladder has adapted to do this
breathe in air
Charles
|
$400
[18]
In a 1983 TV movie, Louis Gossett, Jr. portrayed this slain world leader
Anwar Sadat
Charles
|
$300
[12]
A gadget
a contraption
Vicki
|
$300
[7]
"All I want for Christmas" is this so I can say, "Sister Susie sitting on a thistle"
"My Two Front Teeth"
Vicki
|
| — |
$400
[4]
For a special Jumbo Jack promotion in July 1985, Jack-in-the-Box brought back this spokesman
Rodney Allen Rippy
Vicki
|
$400
[25]
While the smallest fish are the gobies, the largest are of this type
sharks
|
$500
[19]
His daughter was kidnapped Sept. 10, 1985 by the Pedro Pablo Castillo Front
(José Napoleón) Duarte
Vicki
|
$400
[13]
A hot dog stand at Yankee Stadium
a concession
Vicki
|
$400
[8]
Completes the title of the #1 selling song of Christmas 1984, "Grandma Got Run Over By A..."
"Reindeer"
Vicki
|
| — |
$500
[21]
Since people found it difficult, they bet you couldn't "eat just one"
Lay's potato chips
Charles
|
$500
[26]
In 1971, they sang, "joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea"
Three Dog Night
Vicki
|
DD
$600
[17]
Currently the only Muslim spiritual leader to head a country
the Ayatollah Khomeini
Charles
|
$500
[14]
1 of 2 words meaning a fit, either temperamental or physical
a conniption (or convulsion)
Charles
|
$500
[9]
Christmas standard introduced at midnight mass in 1847 when "the stars were brightly shining"
"O Holy Night"
Vicki
|
| ENGLISH LITERATURE | COMEDIANS | WEAPONS | NEW YORK STATE | BREAD |
|
$200
[6]
Dickens told a tale of these 2 capitals
Paris & London
Warren
|
$200
[1]
Purportedly, he took his name from ability to "flip" out Air Force buddies with his comic routines
Flip Wilson
Warren
|
$200
[11]
Chief weapon carried by a PT boat, it's the "T" in PT
a torpedo
Charles
|
$200
[16]
New York has more members of these 2 major religious groups than any other state
Catholics & Jews
Vicki
|
$200
[19]
On his second voyage, he introduced wheat to the New World
Christopher Columbus
Charles
|
|
$400
[7]
In 1155, a Norman poet 1st mentioned this monarch & his valiant warriors
King Arthur
|
$400
[2]
In film, he played the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein & the younger brother of Sherlock Holmes
Gene Wilder
Warren
|
$400
[12]
In movie titles, it's happened in Abilene, Dodge City, & at the O.K. Corral
a gunfight
Vicki
|
$400
[17]
The highest price paid for a seat here in 1985 was $475,000; highest ever was $515,000 in 1969
the New York Stock Exchange
Warren
|
$800
[22]
Title of respect derived from Anglo-Saxon "hlaford", meaning "loaf ward", or bread giver
lord
Warren
Charles
|
|
$600
[8]
1949 novel about Winston Smith, a Newspeak writer at the Ministry of Truth
1984
Warren
|
$600
[3]
Will Rogers gave impetus to this type of satire
political satire
Warren
|
$600
[13]
Italian for "little dagger", it can be used for piercing holes for embroidery
a stiletto
Charles
|
$600
[18]
New York state created this new word for its cross-state toll highway
a Thruway
Warren
Charles
|
$1,000
[23]
A 1928 merger of 26 millers made this company then the world's single largest miller
General Mills
|
|
$800
[9]
7 stanzas about Daniel Boone are included in his epic poem "Don Juan"
Lord Byron
|
$800
[4]
On Broadway, she's conducting a 1-woman "search for signs of intelligent life in the universe"
Lily Tomlin
Warren
|
$1,000
[15]
The 2 symbols of the Shriners are a fez & this type of sword
scimitar
|
$1,000
[21]
Kings Point, N.Y. academy that's military in character but run by the Dept. of Commerce
the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Charles
|
— |
|
$1,000
[10]
Under this masculine pen name Mary Ann Evans wrote "Adam Bede"
George Eliot
Vicki
|
$1,000
[5]
His juggling act was so good, he was 1st American to be billed above other attractions at Folies-Bergere
W.C. Fields
Warren
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
Weapon mentioned in the following Tom Lehrersong:"How then Indonesia claimed that they / Were gonna get one any day / South Africa wants two, that's right / One for the Black and one for the White / Who's next?"
the bomb (A-bomb, H-bomb)
Charles
|
DD
$1,200
[20]
2 of 4 New York governors who went on to become president
(2 of) FDR, Martin Van Buren, Teddy Roosevelt, or Grover Cleveland
Charles
|
— |
With the new Vandenberg spaceport, total number of manned-flight launch sites in the world
3