Jack Turner — a college professor from Arcata, California
Paul Samuels — an attorney originally from Chicago, Illinois
Carol Davidson — a commercial insurance writer from Simi Valley, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carol | $1,500 | $2,400 | $5,800 |
$10,000
2-day champion: $10,300 |
$4,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Paul | $500 | $300 | $6,300 |
$999
2nd place: a Caribbean cruise from St. Martin to the Bahamas |
$8,100
21 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Jack | $1,400 | $1,400 | $4,600 |
$0
3rd place: Bob Mitchell Designs wall coverings |
$4,600
14 R, 2 W |
| PEOPLE | AMERICAN CITIES | ICE SKATING | ANAGRAMS | SHEEP | ADS & COMMERCIALS |
|
$100
[9]
A NYC trial, referred to in the press as the "Bess mess", ended in Dec. '88 with her acquittal
Bess Myerson
Jack
|
$100
[3]
Called the "winter baseball capital of the U.S.", this city lies across the bay from Tampa, Fla.
St. Petersburg
Jack
|
$100
[1]
Alicia Starbuck is better known by this nickname
Jojo Starbuck
Carol
|
$100
[13]
Melon is an anagram of this other fruit
lemon
Jack
|
$100
[17]
The East Frisian breed isn't raised for its wool but for this
its milk
Paul
|
$300
[23]
Ads for this credit card boast that it's "everywhere you want to be"
Visa
Carol
|
|
$200
[10]
Russians Musa Manarov & Vladimir Titov spent a record one year here
space
Carol
|
$200
[4]
More than 60% of the world's general aviation aircraft are built in this city, Kansas' largest
Wichita
Jack
|
$200
[2]
To keep ankles from wobbling, this part of the skate should be slightly off center, not in the exact middle
the blade
Carol
Paul
|
$200
[14]
Carole is one of these, but she doesn't work at Delphi
an oracle
Carol
|
$200
[18]
Wild sheep named after this Venetian explorer live at very high elevations in Central Asia
Marco Polo
Carol
|
— |
|
$300
[20]
In a 1988 speech for Dukakis at Rutgers U., this blond actor began "Hello everybody, I'm Dan Quayle"
Robert Redford
Paul
|
$300
[5]
From 1950-64 the population of this Alabama city "skyrocketed" from 16,000 to more than 123,000
Huntsville
Carol
|
$300
[6]
Tai's partner, he was forced to withdraw from the 1980 Winter Olympics because of a groin injury
Randy Gardner
Paul
|
$300
[15]
A knight should keep his clean
lance
|
$300
[21]
In this 1936 classic Chaplin film, a bunch of sheep seem to turn into a bunch of people heading to work
Modern Times
Paul
|
— |
|
$400
[24]
Mark Hebbard may make it into Guinness for hitting 90 decibels while doing this when asleep
snoring
Carol
|
$400
[7]
A statue of Samuel Clemens stands in Riverview Park in this city on the Mississippi River
Hannibal
Jack
|
$400
[11]
The Russian split isn't a dessert, it's one of the most dramatic of these
a jump
Carol
|
$400
[16]
I'd walk a mile for the juice of this of this when I feel like having a gimlet
a lime
Paul
|
$500
[26]
Take the wool off a sheep, or pull the wool over someone's eyes & steal him blind
fleece
Paul
Jack
|
— |
|
$500
[25]
On leaving Paris, Lech Walesa said he was sorry he didn't get to meet this former actress, "his 1st love"
Brigitte Bardot
Jack
|
$500
[8]
An Air Force base named for the Wright Bros. & test pilot Frank Patterson is in this Ohio city
Dayton
Jack
|
$500
[12]
It's the "academic" term for compulsory figures
school figures
Carol
|
$500
[19]
When we see a good production of one of his tragedies, "we all make his praise"
William Shakespeare
|
DD
$800
[22]
Name of the popular TV star seen here:
Lamb Chop
Paul
|
— |
| WOMEN IN HISTORY | ART | AMERICAN AUTHORS | RELIGION | THE MOVIES | GEORGE BUSH |
|
$200
[1]
For her service in this war, Pennsylvania awarded Molly Pitcher a $40-a-year pension
the Revolutionary War
Jack
|
$200
[4]
As reflected in her style, American artist Mary Cassatt studied with Impressionists in this city
Paris
Paul
|
$200
[13]
After he wrote "Omoo" & "The Whale", he published a book of Civil War poems called "Battle-Pieces"
Herman Melville
Jack
|
$200
[24]
Until 1949 Confucianism was this country's state religion
China
Carol
|
$200
[8]
Bette Midler made her film debut as a ship passenger in this 1965 Michener island saga
Hawaii
Paul
|
$200
[7]
As a Navy pilot during WWII, he named 4 of his planes this, in honor of his future wife
Barbara
Carol
|
|
$400
[2]
Legend says Xilingshi, the wife of the Chinese emperor Huang-Ti, discovered this fiber
silk
Paul
|
$400
[22]
Around 1535 Michelangelo began "The Last Judgment", a fresco on the wall of this room
the Sistine Chapel
Paul
|
$400
[14]
"Mitla Pass" by this author of "Exodus" is a story of the 1956 Sinai war
Leon Uris
Paul
|
$600
[26]
This religion had a marriage contract called a ketubah long before today's prenuptial pacts
Judaism
Paul
|
$400
[9]
This Oscar-winning 1959 film is partially set in the Valley of the Lepers
Ben-Hur
Carol
|
$400
[15]
In 1966 Bush was elected to this, his 1st elected office
Representative (Congressman)
Jack
|
|
$600
[3]
In 1972 she founded "Stop ERA"
Phyllis Schlafly
Jack
|
$600
[23]
American folk artist whose 1st paintings were copies of Currier & Ives prints
Grandma Moses
Carol
|
$600
[16]
He wrote 4 volumes of short stories including "Tales of the Jazz Age" & "All the Sad Young Men"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paul
|
$800
[29]
Arabic for "struggle", it's an Islamic "holy war" whose primary purpose is to spread the faith
jihad
Paul
|
$600
[10]
He played the seductive Vicomte de Valmont, whose life was full of "Dangerous Liaisons"
John Malkovich
Paul
|
$600
[17]
In 1975 President Ford asked him to head this U.S. agency
the CIA
Paul
|
|
$800
[5]
You've heard of a nine day wonder, well, she was nicknamed the "Nine Days' Queen"
Lady Jane Grey
Paul
|
$800
[27]
It's the art of carving whalebone
scrimshaw
Jack
|
$800
[20]
"The education of" this man is an autobiography of a grandson & greatgrandson of presidents
Henry Adams
Paul
|
$1,000
[30]
Founded 7 years after the Franciscans, the Catholic order of preachers is better known by this name
the Dominicans
Paul
|
$800
[11]
Elizabeth Taylor sang "Send In The Clowns" in this movie musical, & we're not clowning around
A Little Night Music
Paul
|
$800
[18]
It took him only 3 years to earn a B.A. degree in economics at this university
Yale
Paul
|
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
Visiting her birthplace at 10 E. Oglethorpe in Savannah, Ga. won't get you a merit badge
Juliette Gordon Low
Paul
|
$1,000
[28]
Noted surrealist Rene Magritte was from this Low Country
Belgium
Jack
|
$1,000
[21]
Author of "The Ambassadors", he's also known for his literary criticism such as "The Art of Fiction"
Henry James
Paul
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
He's pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist church in Lynchburg, Virginia
Jerry Falwell
Carol
|
$1,000
[12]
This German silent film about a vampire was remade with Klaus Kinski in 1979
Nosferatu
Jack
|
$1,000
[19]
In 1942 Mr. Bush graduated from Phillips Academy in this, his native state
Massachusetts
Paul
Jack
|
The name of this instrument played with the mouth goes back to a Greek word for "agreement"
harmonica