Jack Mahoney game 4.
Theresa Wrobel — a housewife and student from Kansas City, Missouri
Fred Glasser — an attorney from Orange, California
Jack Mahoney — an actor originally from Newport, Rhode Island (whose 3-day cash winnings total $21,104)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack | $800 | $3,600 | $11,500 |
$11,300
4-day champion: $32,404 |
$9,800
31 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Fred | $-400 | $1,400 | $1,800 |
$101
2nd place: Broyhill 6-piece cherry bedroom + Waverly Home Fashions Nantucket Collection bedding ensemble + Jeopardy! home edition |
$1,800
12 R, 5 W |
| Theresa | $900 | $500 | $5,600 |
$100
3rd place: Samsung remote-control 4-head VCR with on-screen programming + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis system + Jeopardy! home edition |
$4,300
8 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| LONDON | SONG LYRICS | FOOD & DRINK | SICKNESS & HEALTH | GAMBLING | "HO"-POURRI |
|
$100
[6]
Royal Festival Hall is part of the South Bank Centre, an arts complex on the south bank of this river
the Thames
Jack
|
$100
[21]
"The corn is as high as" this "an' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky"
an elephant's eye
Jack
|
$100
[12]
If you order "pigs' trotters" in a restaurant, you'll get these
pigs' feet
Fred
|
$100
[8]
This stimulant occurs in kola nuts & cocoa beans as well as in coffee beans
caffeine
Jack
|
$100
[1]
In blackjack a hand begins with this many cards
2
Jack
|
$100
[14]
A square dance, or the kind of party where you dance it
a hoe-down
Jack
|
|
$200
[7]
The banners of the Knights of the Bath hang in the Henry VII chapel in this historic abbey
Westminster Abbey
Fred
|
$200
[22]
"Just kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me once again, it's been" this
a long, long time
Jack
Fred
|
$200
[23]
Even the French eat only these parts of a frog, les cuisses
frogs' legs
Jack
|
$200
[13]
In atrial fibrillation the upper chambers of this organ beat rapidly & irregularly
the heart
Jack
|
$200
[2]
It's the American equivalent of the British "fruit machine"
a slot machine
Jack
|
$200
[15]
All "Jeopardy!" contestants belong to this species, though we've never said it's a requirement
Homo sapiens
Jack
|
|
$300
[9]
This queen might have said of herself, "We were born in Kensington Palace on May 24, 1819"
Victoria
Jack
|
$300
[27]
"Why, O why, O why O, why did I ever leave" this state
Ohio
Fred
|
$300
[24]
To make a very dry martini, use plenty of gin but just a little of this potent potable
vermouth
Jack
|
$300
[17]
This condition where the ear becomes painful, swollen & distorted is most common in boxers
cauliflower ear
Fred
|
$300
[3]
Rank of the card in the middle of a Royal Flush
the queen
Fred
|
$300
[16]
This Hawaiian began his singing career more than 30 years ago at his parents' bar on Oahu
Don Ho
Fred
|
|
$400
[10]
The cross on the massive dome of this cathedral towers 365 feet above the ground
St. Paul's Cathedral
Jack
Fred
Theresa
|
$400
[29]
"Mamma may have, papa may have, but God bless" this person "that's got his own!"
the child
Jack
|
$400
[25]
Havarti is a type of this dairy product named for the Danish area where it was developed
cheese
Jack
|
$400
[18]
Jerry Lewis could tell you Duchenne is the most common form of this disorder
muscular dystrophy
Jack
Theresa
|
$400
[4]
Though an American roulette wheel has 38 spaces, this is the highest number
36
Jack
|
$400
[19]
Hokey-Pokey may be an alteration of this term a magician might pull out of his hat
hocus-Pocus
Jack
|
|
DD
$500
[11]
From 1698 to 1837 this "saintly" palace as the official royal residence
St. James
Theresa
|
$500
[30]
"Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh son of a gun, we'll have big fun on" this
the bayou
Fred
|
$500
[26]
The oldest brewery in Venezuela makes a beer named for these mountains
the Andes
|
$500
[28]
This pink substance of zinc & iron oxides is made into a lotion used for poison ivy
calamine
Fred
|
$500
[5]
In 1946 Benjamin "Don't Call Me Bugsy" Siegel opened this first of the luxury hotel-casinos in Vegas
the Flamingo
Fred
|
$500
[20]
These dairy cattle have black and white markings, but their milk is just plain white
Holsteins
Jack
|
| THE ANCIENT WORLD | LANGUAGES | FOUNDERS | STRINGED INSTRUMENTS | POETS & POETRY | HAIL TO THE CHIEF |
|
$200
[8]
Roman emperor Julian renounced this religion & tried to reinstate paganism
Christianity
Jack
|
$200
[18]
This language is officially called Nederlands
Dutch
Jack
|
$200
[19]
In the 1830s Henry Miller Shreve founded a port city in this state
Louisiana
Jack
|
$200
[11]
In the 1940s Les Paul pioneered the solid-body type of this electrical instrument
the guitar
Fred
|
$200
[1]
Some of his early poems like "The Brigs of Ayr" imitated those of another Scottish poet, Robert Fergusson
Robert Burns
Jack
|
$200
[2]
This president's name is believed to be a contraction of "Pollok", the ancestral name in Britain
(James) Polk
Jack
|
|
$400
[9]
By the 3rd dynasty Memphis had become the preeminent city of this country
Egypt
Jack
|
$400
[23]
The name jai alai comes from this language spoken in the mountain regions of Spain & France
Basque
Theresa
|
$400
[20]
This movie studio was founded in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin & D.W. Griffith
United Artists
Fred
|
$400
[12]
Stringed instrument associated with comedian Steve Martin
the banjo
Jack
|
$400
[6]
The white oak which is said to have inspired his "Trees" poem was located at Rutgers University
Joyce Kilmer
Jack
|
$400
[3]
At 6'3" this Texan was the second-tallest president
Lyndon Johnson
Jack
|
|
$600
[10]
Ancient writers called this militaristic Greek state Lacedaemon
Sparta
Fred
|
$600
[24]
It's the only country whose official language is Magyar
Hungary
Theresa
|
$600
[21]
He broke with Freud to found analytic psychology
(Carl) Jung
Jack
|
$600
[13]
He made his last violin in 1737 at the age of 93 in Cremona, Italy
Stradivarius
Jack
|
$600
[27]
In poem No. 712 she wrote, "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
Emily Dickinson
Jack
|
$600
[4]
In 1796 this future president helped draft Tennessee's first constitution
Andrew Jackson
Jack
|
|
$800
[14]
The wall in Britain named for this emperor ran from Solway Firth to Wallsend on the Tyne
Hadrian
Jack
|
$800
[25]
Most Indian Muslims speak this language
Urdu
Jack
Fred
Theresa
|
$800
[22]
In 1808 Louis Bonaparte founded what is now this Amsterdam museum
the Rijksmuseum
Theresa
|
$800
[16]
The name of this instrument popular in the Renaissance is from the Arabic ud, meaning "wood"
the lute
|
$800
[29]
Ethel Lynn Beers' famous poem about a Civil War soldier begins, "All quiet along" this river
the Potomac
|
$800
[5]
On July 4, 1826 these 2 presidents died within hours of each other
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams
Theresa
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Cyrus the Great founded this empire by conquering Lydia & Babylonia in the 6th century B.C.
the Persian Empire
Fred
|
DD
$2,300
[26]
It's the easternmost of all Slavic languages
Russian
Theresa
|
$1,000
[28]
A group led in NYC by John Lamb & Isaac Sears, founded in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act
the Sons of Liberty
Jack
|
$1,000
[17]
In 1950 Anton Karas had a hit with his recording of "The Third Man" theme on this instrument
the zither
Fred
|
$1,000
[30]
On the death of John Keats in 1821, this poet wrote "Adonais"
Shelley
Theresa
|
DD
$2,700
[7]
He was the last of 3 presidents to serve in 1881
Arthur
Jack
|
Volume 1 of the New Book of Knowledge Ency. has an article on this man written by Danny Kaye
Hans Christian Andersen