Susan Brook — a subcontract administrator from Torrance, California
Madeleine Millar — a graduate student and beauty consultant originally from Orange, California
Steve Herron — a letter carrier from Shawnee, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve | $-300 | $1,800 | $3,100 |
$5,001
2-day champion: $15,001 |
$3,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| Madeleine | $200 | $2,300 | $2,500 |
$100
3rd place: Casio CW30 electronic typewriter |
$3,000
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Susan | $-100 | $300 | $100 |
$199
2nd place: Roper grill range + BRA cookware |
$1,100
7 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE CIVIL WAR | SHIPS | GAME COOKERY | CELEBRITY RELATIVES | CITY NICKNAMES | "WORLD"LY SONGS |
|
$100
[8]
Once the Union controlled this river, Lincoln said, "The father of waters again goes unvexed to the sea"
the Mississippi
Steve
|
$100
[21]
15th century admiral Cheng Ho commanded a fleet of 62 of these boats, all over 500 feet long
junks
Steve
|
$100
[25]
Remove this carefully from wild game & never use it to grease pans because it gets rancid quickly
the fat
Steve
Madeleine
|
$100
[7]
He's the nephew of playwright Archibald MacLeish & the grandson of FDR's 1st Sec'y of War. Geo. Dern
Bruce Dern
Steve
|
$100
[1]
Nickname popularized in the '70s to show the world that NYC has "a new & brightly polished image"
The Big Apple
Madeleine
|
$100
[2]
She "picks my ties out, eats my candy, drinks my brandy"
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"
Susan
|
|
$200
[9]
Upon the death of Lincoln, Secretary of War Stanton said, "Now he belongs to" these
the ages
Madeleine
Susan
|
$200
[22]
The U.S. entered WWI some 2 years after this British liner was sunk by a German U-boat
the Lusitania
Steve
|
$200
[26]
Bear meat should be well-cooked, because it, like pork, can carry the parasite that causes this disease
trichinosis
Steve
|
$200
[10]
Late bandleader whose father was the mayor of Santiago, Cuba
Desi Arnaz
Madeleine
|
$200
[17]
"Baghdad by the Bay", according to Herb Caen
San Francisco
Madeleine
|
$200
[3]
The Bee Gees' 1st charted hit of 1972, & welcome to it
"My World"
Madeleine
|
|
$300
[14]
In this northern battle, Union troops on Cemetery Ridge faced Confederates on Seminary Ridge
Gettysburg
Madeleine
|
$300
[23]
The Susan Constant, the Godspeed & the Discovery carried the 1st Englishmen to this settlement
Jamestown
Steve
|
$300
[28]
If you want to cook these arboreal rodents, the gray ones are preferred for eating
squirrels
Madeleine
|
$300
[11]
Her dad Billy was a clown with Barnum & Bailey Circus, but she was a witch in "The Wizard of Oz"
Billie Burke
Steve
Madeleine
|
$300
[18]
It's been called "America's most interesting city", as well as "Gumbo City"
New Orleans
Steve
|
$300
[4]
In song, Helen Reddy said sometimes life feels like this
"You And Me Against The World"
|
|
$400
[15]
Pre-Civil War president who in 1865, wrote the book "The Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion"
Buchanan
Steve
|
$400
[24]
In 1938, this famous passenger liner crossed the Atlantic in just 3 days, 20 hrs. & 42 mins.
Queen Mary
Madeleine
|
— |
$400
[12]
This "fair lady" is the daughter of a Dutch baroness & granddaughter of a governor of Dutch Guiana
Audrey Hepburn
Steve
Susan
|
$400
[19]
"The Cradle of the Confederacy"
Montgomery
Steve
|
DD
$500
[5]
Less than 2 months after "We Are The World" hit No. 1, this songtopped the charts:"Welcome to your life / There's no turning back / Even while we..."
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World"
Madeleine
|
|
$500
[16]
It's said Lincoln's firing Gen. G. McClellan in 1862 caused Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc Cle Mc CleMcClellanemocratdo
run for president
Madeleine
|
$500
[27]
Name of the U.S. Navy ship hit in an Iraqi missile attack May 17, 1987
the USS Stark
|
— |
$500
[13]
Jayne & Audrey Meadows were born in this country where their parents were missionaries
China
Steve
|
$500
[20]
"The Gateway to the West"
St. Louis
Steve
|
$500
[6]
Though one of the greatest of country artists, Eddy Arnold had only this song break into the Pop Top 10
"Make The World Go Away"
Steve
|
| 1962 | ANTIQUES | BODIES OF WATER | PHYSICS | POETRY | PARTS OF SPEECH |
|
$200
[1]
He re-signed with the Yankees for $72,500, almost twice what he got in 1961, when he hit 61 homers
Roger Maris
Steve
|
$200
[21]
Originally the word "antique", meaning old, referred to these 2 classical Mediterranean cultures
Greek & Roman
Susan
|
$200
[8]
Oregon's Willamette is one of the few U.S. rivers that flows in this compass direction
north
Steve
|
$200
[14]
If a substance experiences a change of state, it doesn't mean it moved to Texas, but did this
changes from liquid to solid (solid to liquid, solid to gas)
Susan
|
$200
[6]
In "Idylls of the King", Tennyson calls her "fairest of all flesh on earth"
Guinevere
Madeleine
|
DD
$100
[26]
This part of speech comes from the Latin "to add to", which is its function
an adjective (a conjunction)
Steve
|
|
$400
[2]
He published the memoir "Six Crises"; if he had waited, he could have added a few more
Richard Nixon
Steve
|
$400
[22]
It's said the early Chinese drank their tea lukewarm, so early teacups lack these
handles
Madeleine
|
$400
[9]
This Canadian province contains both Lake Winnipeg & Lake Winnipegosis
Manitoba
Steve
Madeleine
Susan
|
$400
[15]
In the 2nd cent. B.C., he found the weight of a floating body equals that of the water it displaces
Archimedes
Madeleine
|
$400
[7]
Since it was written in the 1st person, he's regarded as the leading character in "The Divine Comedy"
Dante
Steve
|
$200
[13]
Of cooks, cooking, or cooked, the form which cannot act as a noun
cooked
Steve
|
|
$600
[3]
The theme of the World's Fair was "Man in the Space Age" & its symbol was this
the Space Needle
Steve
Susan
|
$600
[23]
Called "long case" or "tall" clocks by antique dealers, they're popularly known as this
grandfather clocks
Madeleine
|
$600
[10]
Largest U.S. naval recruit training center is not on the ocean but on the shore of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
Susan
|
$600
[16]
The term for the tendency of a material to return to its original shape after being deformed
elasticity
Susan
|
$600
[18]
Byron based a poem on the true story of a man who spent years as the "Prisoner of" this castle
Chillon
Madeleine
|
$400
[17]
Type of punctuation generally following an interjection which expresses strong emotion
an exclamation
Madeleine
|
|
$800
[4]
A Senate subcommittee held hearings on the dealings of this Texas financier
Billy Sol Estes
Steve
Madeleine
|
$800
[24]
In 1968, the Corp. of London sold the McCulloch Oil Co. this, which Guinness calls the largest antique ever sold
the London Bridge
Susan
|
$800
[11]
Venezuela's oil production is centered on this lake
Lake Maracaibo
Susan
|
— |
$800
[19]
Wordsworth wrote, "My heart leaps up when I behold" 1 of these "in the sky"
a rainbow
|
— |
|
$1,000
[5]
Named premier by de Gaulle April 14, he resigned October 6, & was reappointed November 27
Georges Pompidou
|
$1,000
[25]
The highest price paid for one of these machines was $6,450 for an 1886 Daw & Tait model
a typewriter
Steve
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
The 2 countries, 1 coastal, 1 landlocked, that share Lake Titicaca, the world's highest large lake
Peru & Bolivia
Susan
|
— |
$1,000
[20]
Child bride who ended up in "her tomb by the sounding sea"
Annabel Lee
Steve
Susan
|
— |
The last film Cecil B. De Mille directed, it was a partial remake of a silent epic he'd directed 33 years before
The Ten Commandments