Diane Siegel game 3.
J.C. Carson — a retired government employee from Honolulu, Hawaii
Roberta Johnson — a library clerk from Chicago, Illinois
Diane Siegel — a homemaker from Northridge, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diane | $800 | $2,800 | $7,800 |
$15,579
3-day champion: $43,379 |
$6,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Roberta | $900 | $3,900 | $9,700 |
$3,799
3rd place: Marco Gianni French leather trench coat + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis |
$9,700
24 R, 2 W |
| JC | $900 | $1,800 | $4,000 |
$8,000
2nd place: trip to Killington, Vermont with TWA flight to Hartford, Connecticut |
$3,500
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| BOATS & SHIPS | WEATHER | BROADWAY LYRICS | COLORS | TREATIES | "UP"S & "DOWN"S |
|
$100
[26]
One of these boats designed to push & pull larger craft can move 10 to 20 barges at a single time
a tugboat
Diane
|
$100
[21]
"Rainbow at night, sailor's delight; rainbow in the morning, sailors" do this
take warning
Roberta
|
$100
[1]
"You're the cream in" this, "you're the salt in my stew"
"my coffee"
Roberta
JC
|
$100
[2]
At 7,242 feet, Harney Peak in these South Dakota hills is the highest U.S. mountain east of the Rockies
the Black Hills
Diane
|
$100
[11]
In the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, this country ceded eastern Florida to the U.S.
Spain
Roberta
|
$100
[16]
This continuing drama on "Masterpiece Theatre" told the story of the Bellamys & their servants
Upstairs, Downstairs
Roberta
|
|
$200
[27]
For fishing & transportation, Indonesians commonly use an outrigger, a type of this boat
a canoe
Roberta
|
$200
[22]
This is defined as the interface of 2 air masses of different temperatures or densities
a front
Diane
|
$200
[3]
"I won't" do this, "I don't want to go to school. Just to learn to be a parrot"
"grow up"
JC
|
$200
[4]
In years past, this color dye was added to laundry to neutralize the yellow in white fabrics
bluing
Diane
|
$200
[12]
The framework for the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt & Israel was worked out at this retreat
Camp David
JC
|
$200
[17]
He hosted the daytime version of the game show "Concentration" from 1958 to 1969
Hugh Downs
Diane
|
|
$300
[28]
In 1959 Mamie Eisenhower christened the N.S. Savannah, the first merchant vessel powered by this
nuclear power
Diane
|
$300
[23]
Triangular flags on a weather map show the direction of this
the wind
Roberta
|
$300
[5]
Alan Jay Lerner wrote, "I was born under" this type of "star"
"a wandering star"
Diane
|
$300
[8]
"Riders of the Purple Sage" was this prolific writer's most popular novel
Zane Grey
Diane
|
$300
[13]
Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with these 2 Axis nations in September 1940
Germany & Italy
JC
|
$300
[18]
Ogden Nash said, "Only the gamefish swims" here, "but the sensible fish swims down"
upstream
Diane
|
|
$400
[29]
According to Guinness, the most expensive one, the Abdul Aziz, belongs to the King of Saudi Arabia
a yacht
Roberta
|
$400
[24]
The name of this curly white cloud comes from a Latin prefix meaning "curl"
cirrus
Roberta
|
$400
[6]
"Take my hand, I'm" one of these, "all lost in a wonderland"
"a stranger in paradise"
Diane
|
$400
[9]
The Oscar-winning score of this 1984 film included the song "When Doves Cry"
Purple Rain
Roberta
JC
|
$500
[15]
On May 31, 1902 the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in Pretoria, ending this conflict
the Boer War
Roberta
|
$400
[19]
In the early 1950s, this author of "The Centaur" edited the Harvard Lampoon
John Updike
Diane
|
|
$500
[30]
Among the more famous of these swift sailing ships were the Flying Cloud & the Cutty Sark
a clipper ship
Diane
|
$500
[25]
This fishing ground off Newfoundland is the world's foggiest place
the Grand Banks
Roberta
|
$500
[7]
"We kiss in" one of these, "We hide from the moon, our meetings are few and over too soon"
"a shadow"
Diane
JC
|
$500
[10]
The Door Peninsula separates Lake Michigan from this Wisconsin inlet
Green Bay
Roberta
|
DD
$900
[14]
Great Britain & the U.S. agreed to stop the slave trade in the Treaty of Ghent, which ended this war
the War of 1812
JC
|
$500
[20]
It's the former name of Burkina Faso
Upper Volta
Roberta
|
| AMERICAN HISTORY | DINOSAURS | MUSEUMS | THE BIBLE | WORLD FACTS | SHAKESPEARE |
|
$200
[12]
The origin of Delaware's name goes back to this titled Englishman, a cousin of the Earl of Essex
de la Warr
JC
|
$200
[1]
Rex is the best-known species of this genus that includes the largest-ever land carnivore
Tyrannosaurus
Roberta
|
$200
[8]
This state's state museum is in the old Carson Mint building across the street from a casino
Nevada
JC
|
$200
[30]
At the beginning of the Gospel of John, John the Baptist twice calls him "The Lamb of God"
Jesus
Diane
|
$200
[6]
These long, narrow inlets make Norway's coast one of the most jagged in the world
fjords
Roberta
|
$200
[20]
As you might expect, it's the first city mentioned in "Romeo and Juliet"
Verona
Roberta
|
|
$400
[13]
Several of Chief Powhatan's daughters were known by this nickname which means "playful one"
Pocahontas
Diane
|
$400
[2]
Like all theropods, Allosaurus walked on this many legs, using its tail for balance
2
Roberta
|
$400
[14]
You can see gris-gris bags & other voodoo charms at the Voodoo Museum in this Louisiana city
New Orleans
JC
|
$400
[29]
Exodus 30:34 lists the ingredients of this compound burned for its fragrance
incense
Diane
JC
|
$400
[7]
Baghdad is the largest city on this river's banks
the Tigris
Diane
Roberta
JC
|
$400
[21]
Act IV of this play opens in Petruchio's country house
Taming of the Shrew
Roberta
|
|
$600
[15]
In 1977 he became the first former attorney general to serve time in prison
John Mitchell
JC
|
$600
[3]
This plated dinosaur was about 8 feet tall, 20 feet long & had a brain the size of a walnut
Stegosaurus
Roberta
|
$600
[17]
This world-famous museum named for a Frenchwoman is next door to London's Planetarium
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Roberta
|
$600
[28]
The Book of Acts begins at the same point that this third gospel ends
Luke
JC
|
$600
[9]
In German this country's name is Schweiz
Switzerland
Roberta
|
$600
[22]
Of Slowly, Quickly or Gently, the one who's Pistol's wife in "Henry V"
Mistress Quickly
Roberta
|
|
$800
[16]
General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded in 1755 during this war; his burial site is unknown
the French and Indian War
Diane
|
$800
[4]
This 3-horned, plant-eating dinosaur was one of the last to evolve & to become extinct
Triceratops
Roberta
|
$800
[18]
This city's American Museum of Natural History is attached to the Hayden Planetarium
New York City
Diane
|
$800
[27]
The King James Version uses this name for the word meaning "light bringer" or "morning star"
Lucifer
Roberta
|
$800
[10]
Nepal's ruling dynasty since 1769, its name also refers to a Nepalese soldier in the British Army
a Gurkha
Roberta
|
$800
[23]
Legend says "The Merry Wives of Windsor" was inspired by this queen's wish to see Falstaff in love
Queen Elizabeth I
Diane
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Sam Houston's first wife, Eliza Allen, left him while he was governor of this southeast central state
Tennessee
JC
|
$1,000
[5]
This dinosaur got its name from the resemblance of its teeth to an iguana's
Iguanodon
JC
|
$1,000
[19]
Petrus Cuypers designed the Gothic revival building that's housed this Dutch museum since 1885
the Rijksmuseum
|
DD
$4,000
[26]
He was married to sisters Leah & Rachel
Jacob
Diane
|
$1,000
[11]
Until recently this African country's constitution allowed only 1 legal political party, Kanu
Kenya
JC
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
This cardinal's farewell speech in "Henry VIII" may have been written by John Fletcher
Cardinal Wolsey
Diane
|
The name of this California college town is Spanish for "tall tree"
Palo Alto