Richard Abram — a stockbroker from Tucson, Arizona
Shirley Findley — a homemaker from Cleveland, Mississippi
Alice Cohen — a labratory technician from Port Washington, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alice | $200 | $1,500 | $6,300 |
$5,500
2-day champion: $14,301 |
$7,300
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Shirley | $-100 | $2,200 | $2,600 |
$2
3rd place: O'Malley's flowers |
$2,900
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Richard | $300 | $1,200 | $2,200 |
$4,400
2nd place: La-Z-Boy recliner + Glassfyre fire screen & fire set |
$2,200
11 R, 1 W |
| BRITISH LITERATURE | "IF"FY SONGS | WHAT'S IN A NAME? | POTENT POTABLES | POTPOURRI |
|
$100
[16]
When Rebecca, a nice Jewish girl, was accused of witchcraft, this Sir Walter Scott hero championed her
Ivanhoe
Alice
|
$100
[2]
Called the most appealing of The Beatles early love songs, it asked, "Would you promise to be true?"
"If I Fell In Love With You"
Alice
|
$100
[11]
His name means "chief strong arm", but he made "1 giant leap for mankind"
(Neil) Armstrong
Richard
|
$100
[1]
Recipes for a Highland Fling designate this type of liquor
Scotch
Alice
Shirley
|
$100
[21]
Much like our "G.I. Joe", "Tommy Atkins" represents the typical soldier of this country
England
Richard
|
|
$200
[17]
James Hilton tale in which the high lama reveals himself to be 250-yr.-old founder of Shangri-La
Lost Horizon
Alice
|
$200
[7]
Song in which Eddie Cantor exclaimed, "Oh! Oh! Oh! What a girl"
"If You Knew Susie"
Shirley
|
$200
[12]
Tho this Russian's last name is derived from "hunchback", he doesn't have one, just a red spot on his head
(Mikhail) Gorbachev
Shirley
|
$200
[3]
Among this company's brands are Four Roses, 7 Crown, & V.O.
Seagrams
Alice
Shirley
|
$200
[22]
A. & S. Batt have set up a 24 hr. emergency hot line to save alligators living in this part of Manhattan
the sewers
Richard
|
|
$300
[18]
Daughter of dustman Alfred Doolittle
Eliza
Alice
|
DD
$300
[8]
Condition under which you could hear this tale:"In a castle dark or a fortress strong / With chains upon my feet / You know that ghost is me / And I will never be set free..."
"If You Could Read My Mind"
Shirley
|
$300
[13]
Norwegian for "bear from the castle", this Swede was a bar on the tennis courts
Björn Borg
Shirley
|
$300
[4]
Grabbing the bottle which holds 26.6 ounces, or protecting yourself from self-incrimination
taking the fifth
Richard
|
$300
[23]
Highest personal fine ever, $50 million was levied in 1986 against this Wall Street "insider"
(Ivan) Boesky
Alice
|
|
$400
[19]
Among his title characters was Kimball O'Hara, a 13-year-old orphan in Lahore, India
(Rudyard) Kipling
Alice
|
$400
[9]
Circumstances under which "ev'ry man would be as free as a bird, ev'ry voice would be a voice to be heard"
"If I Ruled The World"
Shirley
|
$400
[14]
As "God's gracious gift, this Dixon has the gift of prediction, or so says the "Enquirer"
Jeane Dixon
Shirley
|
$400
[5]
In separate TV ads, he tells kids to say no to alcohol & sings "Tonight" for Michelob
Phil Collins
|
$400
[24]
He was last seen July 30,1975, in a Detroit area restaurant
Jimmy Hoffa
Shirley
|
|
$500
[20]
Book in which Joe Gargery reflects, "On the rampage, Pip, & off the rampage, Pip; such is life!"
Great Expectations
Shirley
|
$500
[10]
Yvonne Elliman sang, "Am I strong enough to see it thru? Go crazy is what I'll do" if this happens
"If I Can't Have You"
|
$500
[15]
The name of this actress means "strong harp player", not "Mary's crazy neighbor"
Valerie Harper
Shirley
|
$500
[6]
To make a traditional daiquiri you need this kind of liquor
rum
Shirley
|
$500
[25]
Original painting of G. Washington doing this was destroyed in a WWII allied raid on Bremen, Germany
crossing the Delaware
Richard
|
| ANCIENT HISTORY | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY | WORD ORIGINS | SCIENCE | UNREAL ESTATE | HOME GAMES |
|
$200
[13]
Not surprisingly, this Roman named his first child Julia
Julius Caesar
Alice
|
$200
[11]
It's the southernmost country in Central America
Panama
Richard
|
$200
[18]
This ballpark feature may have gotten its name from its usual proximity to the Bull Durham tobacco sign
the bullpen
Richard
|
$200
[4]
While some predatory birds use these alone to kill prey, some use their beaks & these
their talons
Alice
|
$200
[9]
While the real Bali is in Indonesia, the fictional "Bali Ha'i" is in this musical
South Pacific
Shirley
|
$200
[1]
1 question in this home game reads, "Will your partner say whoopie does or doesn't make him sleepy?"
The Newlywed Game
Richard
|
|
$400
[14]
Manetho chronicled 30 dynasties of rulers of this ancient land
Egypt
Alice
|
$400
[12]
This Hawaiian island is not only farthest south & east, but closest to the U.S. mainland
Hawaii
Alice
|
$400
[19]
From Dutch for "little man", it's where clothes hang out in store windows
mannequin
Alice
|
$400
[5]
On a cross section of a tree trunk, it's what is furthest away from the heartwood
the bark
Richard
|
$400
[10]
Dilly Dally, Flub-a-Dub & Clarabell were all residents of this town
Doodyville
Richard
|
$400
[2]
While playing the board game of this ABC soap, you can be Erica Kane
All My Children
Alice
|
|
$600
[15]
At this ancient site in Iraq, the "handwriting on the walls" is now mostly graffiti
Babylon
Alice
|
DD
$500
[28]
2 of the 3 Communist countries which form most of Greece's northern border
(2 of) Bulgaria, Yugoslavia or Albania
Alice
|
$600
[20]
It's said this term for a tramp came from migrant workers who carried farm implements with them
hobo
Richard
|
DD
$500
[8]
1 of 3 things that occur when an object accelerates towards the speed of light
(1 of) time slows down & mass increases & it gets smaller
Alice
|
$600
[23]
According to Jan & Dean, the population of this "City" consisted of "2 girls for every boy"
Surf City
Alice
Shirley
|
$600
[3]
The L.A. Herald Examiner cried, "Heaven help our children, this "Best Picture" of '86 now has a home game
Platoon
Alice
|
|
$800
[16]
The Trojan War on which Homer based his epic took place in what is now this country
Turkey
Alice
|
— |
$800
[21]
In early days, factory workers were "given" back this bag in which they had brought their tools to work
given the sack
|
$600
[6]
This element comprises 40% of simple carbohydrates, like glucose
carbon
Alice
|
$800
[24]
Comic strip "location" where Skeezix was found on a door step, grew up & fathered children of his own
Gasoline Alley
|
$800
[26]
The object of the game based on this TV sitcom is to keep Skippy out of the Keaton family portrait
Family Ties
Shirley
|
|
$1,000
[17]
Many systems of "justice" are based on the codification of Roman laws by this Eastern emperor
Justinian
Richard
|
— |
$1,000
[22]
When Byzantine emperor Leo III destroyed church statues we got this word which means "image breaker" in Greek
iconoclast
Alice
|
$800
[7]
This plant is no longer widely grown to produce blue dye since the dye can be made synthetically
indigo
Alice
|
$1,000
[25]
Archie Bunker lived in the real Corona District of Queens, N.Y., on this unreal street
Hauser Street
|
$1,000
[27]
1st based on a board game, this TV game show now has a home game based on itself
Scrabble
Alice
|
This letter begins the last names of 3 20th century presidents, more than any other
R