Debby Arnold game 5.An uncorrected scoring error introduced at clue 14 of the Jeopardy! Round leaves Debby with $100 more than she should have had before Final Jeopardy!
Mary Maher — a L.A. area housing authority manager originally from Houston, Texas
Ed Kavazanjian — a civil engineer originally from Long Beach, New York
Debby Arnold — a registered nurse from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 4-day cash winnings total $43,103)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debby | $1,400 | $2,900 | $6,300 |
$1
3rd place: set of reference books + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis |
$6,300
19 R, 2 W |
| Ed | $200 | $1,000 | $5,400 |
$400
2nd place: a trip on TWA to Las Vegas with stay at the Flamingo Hilton |
$6,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mary | $1,100 | $2,400 | $6,400 |
$12,601
New champion: $12,601 |
$6,400
15 R, 1 W |
| 1942 | SNOOPY | AIRPORTS | TENNESSEE | PARTY TIME! | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS |
|
$100
[25]
Just months before George M. Cohan's death, this film about his life premiered
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Mary
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$100
[15]
In the film "Snoopy, Come Home", Snoopy almost leaves this boy to live with Lila, his original owner
Charlie Brown
Debby
|
$100
[8]
This Chicago airport is named for a WWII ace who was listed as missing in 1943
O'Hare
Debby
|
$100
[16]
Mined in the Cumberland Plateau, the bituminous type of this is Tennessee's most valuable mineral
coal
Debby
|
$100
[3]
The god of this potent potable is celebrated with a bacchanalia
wine
Debby
Ed
|
$100
[1]
Nomads often head to one of these desert places to find a date
an oasis
Debby
|
|
$200
[26]
At an auction in New York, this sculptor's "The Thinker" sold for $9,500
Rodin
Debby
|
$200
[22]
Charles Schulz' son Monte's interest in WWI model airplanes inspired the strips about this Snoopy nemesis
the Red Baron
Mary
|
$200
[9]
Just prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics, this airport opened its Tom Bradley International Terminal
LAX
Ed
|
$200
[17]
In 1854 Tennessee's first railroad was completed between Nashville & this "choo-choo" city
Chattanooga
Mary
|
$200
[4]
The American Heritage Dictionary calls it an autumn festival emphasizing merrymaking & beer drinking
Oktoberfest
Mary
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$200
[2]
Counting from 1, it's the first number to fit the category
eight
|
|
$300
[27]
The Supreme Court ruled that divorces granted in this state were valid throughout the U.S.
Nevada
Mary
|
$300
[23]
You can meet Snoopy at Camp Snoopy, which opened at this California theme park on July 1, 1983
Knott's Berry Farm
Debby
|
$300
[10]
When it opened in 1939, this New York City airport was called North Beach Airport
La Guardia
Debby
Ed
|
$300
[18]
Since the 1930s flooding of the Tennessee River has been controlled by dams built by this agency
the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Ed
|
$300
[5]
It's a ceremonial dinner, or the type of hall in which it's held
a banquet
|
$300
[12]
It means to listen to a private conversation without the speakers' knowledge
eavesdrop
Debby
|
|
$400
[28]
On July 20 the first group of officers in this women's military unit began basic training in Iowa
the Women's Army Corps (the WACS)
Ed
|
$400
[24]
Once, after a heavy snowstorm, Snoopy found that this little bird had built an igloo in his nest
Woodstock
Debby
|
$400
[11]
An airport in Warm Springs, Georgia is named in memory of this president
Roosevelt (FDR)
Debby
|
$400
[20]
Sue K. Hicks, assistant prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial, later inspired this Johnny Cash hit
"A Boy Named Sue"
Ed
|
$400
[6]
On the Mexican kids' TV show "TVO", Gaby Ruffo sings about this, Spanish for the party or festival
fiesta
Mary
|
$400
[13]
In 1983 this group featuring Annie Lennox hit No. 1 with "Sweet Dreams"
the Eurythmics
Ed
|
|
DD
$800
[29]
To the dismay of many countrymen, he was named Minister- President of Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Ed
|
$500
[30]
Snoopy wears sunglasses & a turtleneck in his guise as this BBOC, or big beagle on campus
Joe Cool
Mary
|
$500
[19]
This first man to break the sound barrier has an airport named for him in Charleston, West Virginia
Charles Yeager
Ed
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$500
[21]
Famous for its handicrafts, the resort town of Gatlinburg is located near the entrance to this nat'l park
Great Smoky
Debby
|
$500
[7]
A noisy celebration for a collection of Boy Scouts
a jamboree
Mary
|
$600
[14]
In 1865 Wellington replaced this city as capital of New Zealand
Auckland
Debby
|
| BLACK AMERICA | OFFICE MACHINES | WORLD FACTS | GEOLOGY | WOMEN WRITERS | THE MAGNA CARTA |
|
$200
[9]
In 1775 Black patriots joined this rebel & his Green Mountain Boys in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Ethan Allen
Mary
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$200
[21]
The PC introduced by this giant in 1981 had parts from Intel & Microsoft
IBM
Mary
|
$200
[5]
In Venezuela aluminum ranks second only to this as the most valuable export
oil
Ed
|
$200
[1]
It's the large landscape feature formed by a meteorite
a crater
Ed
|
$200
[10]
In 1970 this Cosmopolitan editor offered her views on "Sex and the New Single Girl"
Helen Gurley Brown
Ed
|
$200
[26]
There are 4 copies of the 1215 charter: 1 each in Lincoln & Salisbury Cathedrals & 2 in this museum
the British Museum
Debby
|
|
$400
[13]
In the 1830s Black bandleader Frank Johnson played for this queen at Buckingham Palace
Victoria
Debby
|
$400
[22]
In June 1987 Fawn Hall testified she remembered putting some phone logs & memos in this machine
a shredder
Ed
|
$400
[7]
With temperatures as low as -90° F., this Russian region is the world's coldest inhabited place
Siberia
Ed
|
$400
[2]
This soft metal is rarely found alone; it's usually extracted from galena
lead
Ed
|
$400
[12]
This bestselling author of "Jewels" & "Fine Things" has also written several children's books
Danielle Steel
|
$400
[27]
The charter called for this with representation, something the American colonies later fought for
taxation
Ed
|
|
$600
[14]
For advancements in agricultural chemistry, he received the 1923 Spingarn Medal
George Washington Carver
Debby
|
$600
[23]
"Press for tacking" & "lift cap to load" are instructions on this desktop device
a stapler
Mary
|
$600
[8]
Madagascar leads the world in the production of this ice cream flavoring
vanilla
Debby
|
$600
[3]
Of the 3 main groups of rocks, this one is formed directly from magma
igneous
Ed
|
$600
[15]
She began her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", while working at a hospital during WWI
Agatha Christie
Ed
|
$600
[28]
The First Clause grants this body freedom from government intervention
the clergy
Mary
|
|
DD
$600
[16]
In 1989 Coleman Young was elected to an unprecedented fifth term as mayor of this city
Detroit
Ed
|
$800
[24]
He developed the first dictation machine, which he called the graphophone
Alexander Graham Bell
Mary
|
$800
[11]
Amsterdam derives its name from a dam once built on this river
the Amstel
Debby
|
$800
[4]
Scientists believe that from about the 1500s to the 1800s the Earth went through a little one of these ages
an ice age
Debby
|
$800
[19]
She dedicated the second edition of "Jane Eyre" to novelist William Makepeace Thackeray
Charlotte Bronte
Ed
Mary
|
DD
$1,200
[29]
It was written in this language
Latin
Ed
|
|
$1,000
[18]
In 1982 Leontyne Price opened the Congress of the DAR with a concert honoring this contralto
Marian Anderson
Debby
Mary
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$1,000
[25]
One of the first business "machines", it began as a flat stone with grooves in which pebbles were put to keep count
the abacus
Mary
|
$1,000
[17]
It's the southernmost of the Central American countries
Panama
Ed
|
$1,000
[6]
It's the term for submarine elevations over 3,300'; they're found singly or in chains
seamounts
Ed
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$1,000
[20]
On winning his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest Hemingway said it should have gone to this "Beautiful" Danish writer instead
Isak Dinesen
Debby
|
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In 1971 Michael Collins was named director of this museum
The (National) Air & Space Museum