Walt Senterfitt game 4.
Rusty Sachs — a lawyer from Norwich, Vermont
Rowena Fenstermacher — a Latin and fencing teacher from Katonah, New York
Walt Senterfitt — a registered nurse from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $49,502)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walt | $2,000 | $4,600 | $11,800 |
$13,599
4-day champion: $63,101 |
$13,300
30 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rowena | $1,100 | $2,900 | $5,000 |
$100
3rd place: Gibson refrigerator + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis + Jeopardy! home game |
$7,100
18 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rusty | $800 | $1,300 | $3,300 |
$6,490
2nd place: trip on Delta to Honolulu & stay at the Sheraton Moana Surfrider + Jeopardy! home game |
$3,300
8 R, 0 W |
| "F" IN HISTORY | TELEVISION | HEALTH & MEDICINE | LEGENDARY CREATURES | LIBRARIES | WORD ORIGINS |
|
$100
[11]
This was a very popular name among kings of Castile, & that's no bull
Ferdinand
Rusty
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$100
[26]
On a 1992 visit to this late night show, Bill Clinton showed off his musical talents with a sax solo
The Arsenio Hall Show
Rusty
|
$100
[1]
To stop these, it's suggested that you hold your breath, or drink a glass of water without stopping
hiccups
Rowena
|
$100
[16]
The wyvern is a fabulous winged creature that resembles this fire breather
a dragon
Walt
|
$100
[13]
One of the world's largest genealogical libraries is maintained by this church in Salt Lake City
The Church of the Latter-day Saints
Walt
|
$100
[2]
An enlisted person in the U.S. Armed Forces, it's an abbreviation of "government issue"
G.I.
Walt
|
|
$200
[12]
In 1380 Charles the Mad succeeded his father, Charles the Wise, as king of this country
France
Rowena
|
$200
[27]
This reality show hosted by Robert Stack has reportedly solved about 1/4 of the cases it has presented
Unsolved Mysteries
Rowena
|
$200
[3]
Nearsighted people are more prone than others to having this part of the eye become detached
the retina
Walt
|
$200
[20]
The Gorgons had a bad hair day every day, they had these on their heads, which were hard to comb
snakes
Rowena
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$200
[14]
This state's first public library was established in Alexandria in 1794
Virginia
Walt
|
$200
[5]
This informal name for a violin may come from the goddess of victory, Vitula
a fiddle
Rowena
|
|
$300
[15]
Alexander Hamilton was a leader of this political party
the Federalist Party
Rowena
|
$300
[28]
Title team played by Joe Penny & William Conrad
Jake and the Fatman
Walt
Rowena
|
$300
[4]
Sufficient amounts of this mineral before age 35 are vital in preventing osteoporosis later in life
calcium
Rowena
|
$300
[21]
These half-human, half- equine creatures were expelled from their home after misbehaving at a wedding
centaurs
Rowena
|
$300
[19]
Opened in 1922, the 1st library for kids in the Brit. Commonwealth was Boys & Girls House in this Ontario capital
Toronto
Rowena
|
$300
[6]
A sheepskin prepared for writing, its name comes from the ancient city of Pergamum
parchment
Rusty
|
|
$400
[17]
1 of the 2 U.S. presidents whose last names fit the category
Millard Fillmore (or Gerald Ford)
Rusty
|
$400
[29]
On this show's 1991-'92 season finale, Whitley left Byron standing at the altar & married Dwayne
A Different World
|
$400
[8]
About 1 baby in 10 suffers from this condition of irritability & severe abdominal discomfort
colic
Rusty
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$400
[22]
Popular in Arabian folklore, this enormous bird appears in the story of Sinbad the sailor
the roc
Walt
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$400
[23]
After the 1871 fire, Queen Victoria donated books to help start this U.S. city's Public Library
Chicago
Walt
|
$400
[7]
Oddly, the name of this layered Italian pasta dish comes from Greek for "chamber pot"
lasagna
Walt
|
|
$500
[18]
In 1790 20,000 people attended his funeral in Philadelphia, & you can "print" that
Benjamin Franklin
Walt
|
$500
[30]
Sam Waterston plays a southern prosecuting attorney in the 1950s on this acclaimed drama
l'll Fly Away
Rowena
|
$500
[10]
In 1989 scientists identified the gene that causes this disease, abbreviated CF
cystic fibrosis
Walt
|
$500
[25]
These sea seductresses were so jealous of Orpheus' superior singing that they dove to their deaths
sirens
Walt
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
The world's largest library on the art & history of glass can be found in this town in Steuben County, N.Y.
Corning
Walt
|
$500
[9]
From lacrima, Latin for "tear", it means weeping or inclined to weep
lachrymose
Walt
|
| 1992 | COMPOSERS | ROCKS & MINERALS | NEWSPAPERS | RUSSIAN LITERATURE | LEFTOVERS |
|
$200
[1]
The young version of this singer won the stamp election by a landslide--851,200 to 277,723 votes
Elvis Presley
Walt
|
$200
[13]
After the death of Hammerstein, he wrote the musical "Do I Hear A Waltz?" with Stephen Sondheim
Richard Rodgers
Walt
|
$200
[26]
The most extensively occurring igneous rock, a lot of things are "taken for" it
granite
Walt
|
$200
[6]
In 1876 this state's Bismarck Tribune became the 1st paper to report the Battle of the Little Bighorn
North Dakota
Walt
|
$200
[21]
Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 is featured in this 1865-'69 Tolstoy novel
War and Peace
Rowena
|
$200
[11]
Now that there's a travel version of this detective game, you can take Miss Scarlet on vacation
Clue
Walt
|
|
$400
[2]
In July he announced that he would not seek the U.S. presidency after all; in October he changed his mind
Ross Perot
Walt
|
$400
[14]
Igor Stravinsky wrote "Circus Polka" for this "fraternal" U.S. circus
the Ringling Brothers
Walt
|
$400
[27]
Obsidian can only be found in areas where this activity has recently occurred
a volcano eruption
Rowena
|
$400
[7]
This state's first newspaper, the Du Buque Visitor, began publishing in 1836
Iowa
Walt
|
$400
[22]
Boris Pasternak was ejected from the union of Soviet writers because of the furor caused by this novel
Doctor Zhivago
Rusty
|
$400
[12]
Clark Gable sang this song on film in 1939, Taco sang it in 1983 & we're not "puttin'" you "on"
"Puttin' On The Ritz"
Walt
|
|
$600
[3]
The Bush administration refused to sign the biodiversity treaty at the environmental summit in this city
Rio de Janeiro
Walt
|
$600
[15]
"Neptune, The Mystic" is 1 of the 7 movements of this Gustav Holst work
The Planets
Rowena
|
$600
[28]
Cuprite is one of the right ores from which to get this metal
copper
Rusty
|
$600
[8]
This city's La Presse is one of Canada's largest French-language dailies
Montreal
Walt
|
$600
[23]
This dramatist's last play, "The Cherry Orchard", was 1st performed on Jan. 17, 1904, about 6 months before his death
Chekhov
Rowena
|
$600
[16]
Steve McQueen starred in this campy sci-fi flick about a giant ball of goop from outer space
The Blob
Rowena
|
|
$800
[4]
On Feb. 24 this auto company announced it had a record yearly loss for 1991—$4,450,000,000
General Motors
Walt
|
$1,000
[20]
He devised a method of composing with 12 notes related only to one another
Schoenberg
Walt
|
$800
[29]
To aid in recognizing iron minerals, you might take one of these common items with you
a magnet
Walt
|
$800
[9]
This Indianapolis newspaper is Indiana's largest
The Star
Walt
|
$1,000
[25]
He began writing his classic verse novel "Eugene Onegin" while stationed in Kishinev in 1823
Aleksandr Pushkin
|
$800
[17]
In names of perfumes, this bright color precedes "Roor" or stands alone
Red
Rowena
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This former defense secretary succeeded Corazon Aquino as Philippine President in June
Fidel Ramos
Walt
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
Heard in "Fantasia", this orchestra scherzo is Paul Dukas' most famous work
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Walt
|
$1,000
[30]
The presence of this element in halite makes it turn a flame yellow
sodium
Rusty
|
$1,000
[10]
This city's only daily newspaper is the Plain Dealer
Cleveland
Rowena
|
DD
$2,100
[24]
In 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was exiled due to the publication of this work
The Gulag Archipelago
Rowena
|
$1,000
[18]
This adjective that means cross-shaped often refers to church design
cruciform
Walt
|
The highest point in this South American country is Julianatop in the Wilhelmina Mountains
Suriname