Howard Wilson — a resident marketing representative from Fullerton, California
Linda Lewis — a college math instructor from Washington, D.C.
Marty Montgomery — an IRS agent originally from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marty | $400 | $1,900 | $3,300 |
$0
3rd place: Smith Corona XD6700 typewriter |
$3,300
10 R, 2 W |
| Linda | $100 | $700 | $6,100 |
$7,100
New champion: $7,100 |
$6,100
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Howard | $900 | $2,600 | $4,200 |
$0
2nd place: La-Z-Boy Signature II sleep sofa + Scott audio system |
$4,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| BIOLOGY | BEST SELLERS | PEOPLE | ORNAMENTS | "SUMMER" | AIRLINE SLOGANS |
|
$100
[11]
Exobiology is the scientific search for life here
outer space
Linda
|
$100
[7]
While none of the 10 fiction best sellers of 1945 dealt with this subject, 4 nonfiction books did
World War II
Linda
|
$100
[19]
After winning the '86 mayoral election he said, "This is where it stops. I'm staying right here in Carmel."
Clint Eastwood
Linda
|
$100
[15]
Yankee Doodle stuck one of these in his hat, which probably tickled his fancy
a feather
Linda
|
$100
[9]
In the nursery rhyme, it's when the Queen of Hearts produced her pastries
on a summer's day
Linda
|
$100
[8]
They urge you to "Fly the friendly skies"
United Airlines
Howard
|
|
$200
[12]
The center of one of these bivalve gems might not be sand but an encysted parasitic worm
a pearl
Marty
Linda
|
$200
[6]
1987 best seller whose subtitle is "The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987"
Veil
|
$200
[20]
Currently White House Chief of Staff, he was vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee
Howard Baker
Marty
|
$200
[16]
Also called a spangle, it's a small shiny disc often sewn onto clothing
a sequin
Linda
|
DD
$200
[10]
In the fall of 1958, this songrose to No. 8:[Instrumental opening plays.]
"Summertime Blues"
Linda
|
$300
[2]
"Something special in the air"
American Airlines
Howard
|
|
$300
[13]
These male bees have no useful function around the hive except for mating with the queen
a drone
Marty
|
$300
[4]
With her only novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird", she was only woman author on best seller list for 1961
Harper Lee
Linda
|
$300
[23]
He says he keeps the cruise control in his car set at 55 mph, 695 mph less than the speed of sound
Chuck Yeager
Marty
|
$300
[17]
An ornamental looped braid with button, it shares its name with a small green amphibian
a frog
Linda
|
— |
$400
[1]
"Expect more from" this airline that was the 1st to fly around the world
Pan Am
Marty
|
|
$400
[14]
Human skin has 5 types of stimuli receptors--touch, pressure, pain, & this pair
heat & cold
Howard
|
$400
[3]
John Jakes' trilogy that began with "North & South" was completed in 1987 with this best seller
Heaven and Hell
|
$400
[22]
Believing the era deprived women of present legal benefits, she founded "Stop ERA" in 1972
Phyllis Schafly
Howard
|
$400
[18]
Oscar Levant said, "Strip the phoney tinsel off" this town "& you'll find the real tinsel underneath"
Hollywood
Howard
|
— |
$500
[26]
Based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, it's "the up & coming airline"
Piedmont Airline
Marty
|
|
$500
[25]
Working in Northern California, he developed the Shasta daisy
Luther Burbank
Marty
|
$500
[5]
The 2 1935 best sellers by James Hilton which made him 1st author to have 2 books on an annual list
a Lost Horizon & Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Howard
|
$500
[21]
This 95-year-old artist has a new line of jewelry based on his anthropomorphic alphabet
Erté
Marty
|
$500
[24]
Ornamentation in the 1st line of the song whose 2nd verse begins "See the blazing yule before us"
boughs of holly
Howard
|
— | — |
| PHYSICAL SCIENCE | REFERENCE BOOKS | GEOGRAPHY | HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | MUSICALS | PALINDROMES |
|
$200
[1]
From Old French "to raise", examples of this include a crowbar, tongs & a seesaw
a lever
Howard
|
$200
[10]
Government agency which compiles the Statistical Abstract of the United States
the Census Bureau
Linda
|
$200
[12]
The Bay of Bengal & the Arabian Sea are parts of this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Linda
|
$200
[15]
"Rocky"; not the fighter, but the vice president
Nelson Rockefeller
Howard
|
$200
[21]
Based on "The Matchmaker", this 1964 hit was conceived with Ethel Merman in mind
Hello, Dolly!
Howard
|
$200
[28]
It can follow Blue, Singing or Flying
nun
Howard
|
|
$400
[5]
An increase in this causes the "box" of an aneroid barometer to bend inwards
air pressure (atmospheric pressure)
Marty
Howard
|
$400
[11]
Ben Franklin was one source for the 1st article in Encyclopaedia Britannica on this subject
electricity
Linda
|
$400
[13]
Offa's Dyke, built in the 8th century, marked the boundary between England & this land
Wales
Howard
|
$400
[16]
"The Proud Plumber" was an appropriate nickname for this former head of the AFL-CIO
George Meany
|
$400
[22]
It's said this circus musical produced by Billy Rose had opening night tickets 9 times the usual size
Jumbo
|
$800
[27]
To get by with effort, it's how some people manage to make a living
eke
Linda
|
|
$600
[8]
Gravitational pull decreases as this increases
distance from the Earth
Linda
|
$600
[2]
Their first names are Isaac & Adam; you can "look it up" in their reference book
Funk & Wagnalls
Howard
|
$600
[14]
Lord Byron dubbed this highest peak in the Alps the "monarch of mountains"
Mont Blanc
Linda
|
$600
[7]
"Father of the Atomic Submarine", this admiral supervised the building of the "Nautilus"
(Hyman G.) Rickover
Linda
|
$600
[23]
Featuring "Begin The Beguine", "Jubilee" was written on a world cruise by Moss Hart & this composer
Cole Porter
Howard
|
DD
$1,000
[26]
With its pointed bow, stern & hole in the center, it even looks like a palindrome
a kayak
Howard
|
|
$800
[9]
A state of balance between opposing forces or effects, it's either static or dynamic
equilibrium
Marty
|
$1,000
[4]
The 1st edition of this book was published in 1868 by a newspaper, the New York World
The World Almanac
Linda
|
$800
[19]
Central America's "Mosquito Coast" got its name not from insects but from these
tribes of Indians, the Mosquito Indians
Marty
|
$800
[17]
Texas train robber called "The Robin Hood of Texas" & "The Good Badman"
Sam Bass
Howard
|
$800
[24]
In 1970, Groucho Marx was production consultant for this biographical musical
Minnie's Boys
|
— |
|
$1,000
[20]
What the E, m, & c stand for in Einstein's famous equation
energy, mass & the speed of light
Linda
|
DD
$1,400
[3]
The last names of the authors of "The People's Almanac", one is a form of the other
Wallace & Wallechinsky
Howard
|
$1,000
[18]
Now a republic of the USSR, its capital is Yerevan
Armenia
Marty
|
$1,000
[6]
Ironically, this prominent 16th c. Protestant reformer was referred to as "The Pope of Geneva"
John Calvin
Howard
|
$1,000
[25]
"Swamps of Home" is a number from this show based on "The Princess & the Pea"
Once Upon a Mattress
Howard
|
— |
Legend says one of these sacred animals chose the site near Rome of the Temple of Aesculapius, the god of medicine
a snake