Walt Senterfitt game 3.
Dale Phillips — a technical writer from Boston, Massachusetts
Deborah Rogers — a librarian and actress from New York City, New York
Walt Senterfitt — a registered nurse from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,501)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walt | $2,400 | $3,300 | $10,100 |
$15,001
3-day champion: $49,502 |
$7,900
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Deborah | $600 | $2,000 | $4,800 |
$9,600
2nd place: Bassett home office + Panasonic fax machine & personal stereo cassette player + Jeopardy! home game |
$4,800
12 R, 0 W |
| Dale | $100 | $1,900 | $7,500 |
$200
3rd place: Jason telescope & binoculars + Jeopardy! home game |
$7,500
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| THE OLD WEST | TRANSPORTATION | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | VOCABULARY | JEWELRY IN HISTORY | BABES |
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$100
[7]
These leather leggings that protected a cowboy's legs in the Old West are back in fashion today
chaps
Deborah
|
$100
[1]
In 1873 San Francisco became the first city in the world to have this means of transportation
cable cars
Walt
|
$100
[21]
In the first draft of "Peter Pan", this fairy's name was Tippy-Toe
Tinker Bell
Dale
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$100
[6]
From the Latin caput, for "head", it's literally the "head city"
the capital
Dale
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$100
[13]
Those darn Etruscans were noted for decorating pins with tiny grains of this metal
gold
Dale
|
$100
[26]
In his career, he walked a record 2,056 times
Babe Ruth
Walt
|
|
$200
[8]
With little wood, Texas didn't have many fences until this was invented; it started a range war
barbed wire
Walt
|
$200
[2]
In 1861 the first practical one of these, the velocipede, was produced in Paris
the bicycle
Walt
|
$200
[22]
George Selden wrote about one of these "in Times Square" while Dickens' was "on the Hearth"
a cricket
Deborah
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$200
[9]
6-letter word for a spider's snare which comes from the Old English for "spider"
cobweb
|
$200
[14]
He must have liked enamel bracelets because several were found in his tomb in the 1920s
Tutankhamun (King Tut)
Dale
|
$200
[27]
If Paul Bunyan sang "I Got You Babe", he'd be referring to one of these animals
an ox
Dale
|
|
$300
[15]
Cowboys in the Old West called them "wipes" & they were usually neutral colors or blue
bandanas
Dale
|
$300
[3]
WWII bombings destroyed the German factories that made these airships & building was never resumed
zeppelins
Walt
Dale
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$300
[23]
This title rag doll made her first appearance in 1918 in a collection of stories by Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann
Dale
|
$300
[10]
The Greek word for "new" gave us the name of this rare, inert gas
neon
Walt
|
$300
[18]
A diamond ring was one of the symbols of this wealthy & powerful Florentine family
the Medicis
Dale
|
$300
[28]
It's where Victor Herbert set his "Babes"
Toyland
Deborah
|
|
$400
[16]
He interviewed Wild Bill Hickok as well as Dr. Livingstone
Stanley
Walt
|
$400
[4]
This model of Ford is the top-selling American car in the U.S.
the Taurus
Walt
|
$400
[24]
Created by Astrid Lindgren, this Swedish girl believes her father is a cannibal king
Pippi Longstocking
Dale
|
$400
[11]
The Latin root galli, for "Gauls", gave us this name for waterproof overshoes
galoshes
Walt
|
$400
[19]
In the 16th century this English queen's portrait appeared on gem-studded "Armada Jewels"
Queen Elizabeth I
Walt
|
$400
[29]
She set records in the 1932 Olympics in the javelin throw & the 80-meter hurdles
Babe Didrikson
Deborah
|
|
$500
[17]
Emmett, the youngest brother in this family, was the only survivor of their Coffeyville, Kansas raid
the Daltons
Dale
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$500
[5]
Built in the 1860s, the Pioneer was the first of this man's railroad sleeping cars
George Pullman
Walt
|
DD
$500
[25]
Michael Bond named this fictional bear for a London railroad station
Paddington Bear
Dale
|
$500
[12]
This small, one-story cottage gets its name from "Bengal", where it probably originated
bungalow
Deborah
|
$500
[20]
In 1987 this late American-born Duchess' jewels were auctioned off for more than $50 million
Wallis Simpson (the Duchess of Windsor)
Deborah
|
$500
[30]
Nicknamed "Babe", this early film comedian played The Tin Woodsman in 1925's "The Wizard of Oz"
Oliver Hardy
|
| THE 20th CENTURY | MYTHOLOGICAL OPERAS | SCIENTISTS | THE MIDDLE EAST | FOOD & DRINK | THEATRE |
|
$200
[18]
A 1967 coup led by "Colonels" Patakos & Papadopoulos overthrew this country's government
Greece
Walt
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$200
[10]
Carl Orff's opera "Trionfo di Afrodite" is sung in Greek & this dead language
Latin
Dale
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$200
[2]
Jan Oort theorized that these tailed visitors come from a belt 1 light year from the Sun
comets
Walt
|
$200
[12]
Cotton, candy & sugar are words that came to us from this language
Arabic
Deborah
|
$200
[25]
Maurice Grey invented the secret formula for this Dijon mustard which debuted in 1777; pardon me
Grey Poupon
Deborah
|
$200
[1]
In 1905 young Charlie Chaplin played one of the Baker Street Irregulars in a play about this detective
Sherlock Holmes
Walt
|
|
$400
[19]
In 1945 war crimes trials began in this city that was a Nazi headquarters in the 1930s
Nuremberg
Walt
|
$400
[11]
Gluck's opera about Paris' passion for this woman premiered in Vienna in 1770
Helen of Troy
Deborah
|
$400
[3]
Physicist Frederic Joliot added this name to his when he married Pierre & Marie's daughter Irene
Curie
Walt
|
$400
[13]
The only Middle Easterners to win a Nobel Peace Prize were this pair for 1978
Sadat & Begin
Walt
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$400
[26]
Freakies, one of these breakfast foods, features "crunchy honey-tasting spaceships"
cereal
Dale
|
$400
[6]
This Barrymore's 1920 run as Richard III was cut short by a nervous breakdown
John Barrymore
Dale
|
|
$600
[20]
In June 1959 Queen Elizabeth II & Eisenhower presided over the opening of this waterway
the St. Lawrence Seaway
Walt
|
$600
[22]
This famous "heel" disguises himself as a girl in Handel's opera "Deidamia"
Achilles
Dale
|
$600
[4]
John Wheeler coined this term for a collapsed star so dense no light can escape from it
a black hole
Deborah
|
$600
[14]
In 1991 the Arab League consisted of 21 members, 20 countries & this political organization
the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
Walt
|
$600
[28]
This brand of English muffins displays a horse-drawn carriage on the box
Thomas
Dale
|
$600
[7]
In "The Threepenny Opera" this master criminal is nicknamed Mackie
Mack the Knife
Deborah
|
|
$800
[21]
When Dag Hammarskjold was killed in 1961, he became acting secretary-general of the U.N.
U Thant
Dale
|
$800
[23]
You need a mezzo- soprano to sing the role of Venus in his opera "Tannhauser"
Wagner
Walt
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$800
[5]
In the 1950s geophysicist Sydney Chapman helped inspire the IGY, which stood for this
the International Geophysical Year
Dale
|
$1,000
[16]
These descendants of the Medes live in the region where Iran, Iraq, Turkey & Syria meet
the Kurds
Walt
Dale
|
$800
[29]
The Vidalia onions grown in this Southern state may be the mildest in the world
Georgia
Deborah
|
$800
[8]
In 1898 this Russian theatre premiered its first production, "Czar Fyodor Ivanovich"
the Moscow Art Theatre
Dale
|
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Angola was a province of this European country from 1951 until independence in 1975
Portugal
Walt
|
$1,000
[27]
This Roman god of fire brightens up Gounod's opera "Philemon et Baucis"
Vulcan
Dale
|
$1,000
[17]
In 1781 William Herschel discovered this planet, the first discovered in recorded history
Uranus
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
Located in what's now Syria, this ancient city was famous for a rich, patterned fabric
Damascus
Walt
|
$1,000
[30]
It's the colorful name of Celestial Seasonings' ruby-colored drink made from hibiscus & herbs
Red Zinger
Walt
|
$1,000
[9]
Brendan Behan wrote "The Hostage" in this language & later translated it into English
Gaelic
Walt
Dale
|
A bell in its steeple is inscribed: "We are the first ring of bells cast for the British Empire in North America"
the Old North Church (Christ Church)