Bill Gerardi — a physician and management consultant originally from Waterbury, Connecticut
John McGill — an electrical lineman from Wallingford, Pennsylvania
Greg Shepherd — a college music instructor from Honolulu, Hawaii (whose 3-day cash winnings total $25,802)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg | $1,900 | $300 | $800 |
$0
3rd place: Dahon Classic folding bike + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Nintendo Game Boy |
$3,300
18 R, 9 W (including 2 DDs) |
| John | $900 | $2,400 | $4,200 |
$2,200
New champion: $2,200 |
$4,200
11 R, 2 W |
| Bill | $-100 | $1,700 | $2,800 |
$0
2nd place: a trip on Delta Airlines to Tampa, Florida with stay at Safety Harbor Spa & Fitness Center |
$2,100
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| KENTUCKY | 4-LETTER WORDS | ACTORS & ACTRESSES | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | NONFICTION | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES |
|
$100
[26]
You can tour the Hillerich & Bradsby plant in Louisville where these baseball bats are made
Louisville Sluggers
Greg
|
$100
[21]
It precedes puss to indicate a sullen person
sour
Bill
|
$100
[14]
In 1937 this "Platinum Blonde" became the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine
Jean Harlow
Bill
|
$100
[1]
Give yourself a hand if you know this name for the tongue of a bell
a clapper
John
|
$100
[2]
Mark Lane's "Rush to Judgment" was a critique of this commission's inquiry into the death of JFK
the Warren Commission
Bill
|
$100
[9]
A period of penitence, or the past tense of lend
Lent
Bill
|
|
$200
[27]
A facility in Bowling Green is the only place where this Chevrolet sports car is manufactured
the Corvette
Bill
|
$200
[22]
Chess piece whose name is a synonym for hock
pawn
John
Bill
|
$200
[15]
Michael Caine took his stage name from the title of this 1954 Humphrey Bogart film
The Caine Mutiny
Bill
|
$200
[4]
Beethoven's title was "3 Equali for 4" of this instruments, not 76
trombones
Greg
|
$200
[3]
Author Suzy Becker believes "All I Need to Know I Learned from" this pet
my cat
Greg
Bill
|
$200
[10]
The 3-word phrase most associated with Halloween
trick or treat
Bill
|
|
$300
[28]
The courthouse in Washington County houses the marriage certificate of this president's parents
Lincoln
Greg
|
$300
[23]
The British spell this farm implement with 6 letters; we replaced the "ugh" with a "W"
plow
Bill
|
$300
[16]
This actor received Oscar nominations for playing Henry II in both "Becket" & "The Lion in Winter"
Peter O'Toole
Bill
|
$300
[5]
Musically, not the piper's son, but a double-headed barrel drum from Asia
a tom tom
John
|
$300
[6]
Though British-born, his "America", based on his 13-part miniseries, has become a U.S. history classic
Alistair Cooke
Greg
|
$300
[11]
In England it's an old custom not just to eat this animal's head at Christmas but to sing about it
the boar's head
Greg
|
|
$500
[30]
Governor from 1979 to 1983, this Democrat is married to former Miss America Phyllis George
(John Y.) Brown (Jr.)
Bill
|
$400
[24]
A scenery-shifting stagehand or a handhold on a hammer
a grip
John
|
$400
[17]
This "Bionic Woman" once was the babysitter for Glen Campbell's children
Lindsay Wagner
John
|
$400
[7]
Add an "A" to the end of a word for "overtone" & you get this instrument
a harmonica
|
$400
[19]
Her books "North to the Orient" & "Listen! The Wind" describe flights she took with Charles
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Bill
|
$400
[12]
On January 5, the day that honors him, you might try eating some of the peanut products he developed
George Washington Carver
Greg
Bill
|
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
In 1991 this national park marks its 50th anniversary
Mammoth Cave National Park
Greg
|
$500
[25]
A blue-green color or a small duck
teal
John
|
$500
[18]
Film comedian who used such pseudonyms as Mahatma Kane Jeeves & Otis Criblecoblis for his screenplays
W.C. Fields
Greg
|
$500
[8]
A marimba is a large, more mellow-sounding one of these instruments
a xylophone
Greg
|
$500
[20]
Perhaps she foresaw her book, subtitled "My Seven Years as White House Astrologer", selling well
Joan Quigley
Greg
|
$500
[13]
The date on which you're most likely to hear a Frenchman say, "A bas la Bastille!"
July 14
John
|
| SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | GRAB BAG | HISTORY | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | BOTANY |
|
$200
[9]
Marcus Andronicus is this title character's brother
Titus Andronicus
Greg
Bill
|
$200
[6]
A person unable to go to his polling place on Election Day can cast this type of ballot
absentee
Greg
John
|
$200
[21]
Pecorino romano cheese is made from this animal's milk, not cow's milk
sheep's milk
Greg
|
$200
[1]
The Soviet Venera 7 probe landed on this planet on Dec. 15, 1970
Venus
Greg
|
$200
[8]
This forest is actually a mountainous region of southwest Germany
the Black Forest
Greg
|
$800
[26]
The field of agriculture that deals with the growth of crops & the proper use of soil
agronomy
Greg
|
|
$400
[10]
At the beginning of "Richard III", Richard is the duke of this
Gloucester
Greg
|
$400
[7]
Title shared by the heads of the U.S. Army, Navy & Air Force Health Services & the head of the Public Health Service
the surgeon general
John
|
$400
[22]
Despite its name, this London weekly deals with general news, not just economics
The Economist
Bill
|
$400
[2]
This Chinese dynasty was in power when Europeans first arrived by ship
Ming
Greg
|
$400
[17]
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic is also known by this "colorful" name
White Russia
Greg
|
$1,000
[25]
This organism consists of an alga & a fungus living together as a single unit
a lichen
Greg
|
|
$600
[11]
This Amazon is the first woman to speak in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Hippolyta
Greg
|
$600
[16]
Election '88 candidate who is currently chairman of the Senate Finance Committee
Lloyd Bentsen
John
|
$600
[23]
Carl Jung, Harry Houdini & J.P. Morgan appear as characters in this author's "Ragtime"
Doctorow
Greg
|
$600
[3]
Henry VIII's fourth wife, Anne, was the daughter of the duke of this city
Cleves
Greg
Bill
|
$600
[18]
20 miles wide at the mouth & 120 miles in length, it's the largest arm of Lake Michigan
Green Bay
|
— |
|
$800
[12]
In "The Tempest" Prospero calls this grotesque character "Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself"
Caliban
|
$1,000
[14]
In 1991 Ron Brown had the flag at Democratic HQ flown at half-staff when this former GOP chairman died
Lee Atwater
Bill
|
$1,000
[24]
At the Lenai festival in Greece this playwright's "Wasps" won 2nd prize in 422 B.C.; his "Frogs" came in 1st in 405 B.C.
Aristophanes
Greg
|
$800
[4]
This Florentine navigator saw the Hudson River 85 years before Hudson
Giovanni da Verrazano
John
|
$800
[19]
Iron oxides give this Vietnamese river its color & its name
the Red River
Greg
John
|
— |
|
DD
$1,500
[13]
At the end of this comedy, Rosalind says, "When I make curtsy, bid me farewell"
As You Like It
Greg
|
DD
$1,500
[15]
2 of the 3 Supreme Court associate justices appointed by President Ronald Reagan
Sandra Day O'Connor & Antonin Scalia (& Anthony Kennedy)
Bill
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
Sedan in the Ardennes Dept. of France was the site of the decisive battle of this 1870-71 war
the Franco-Prussian War
John
|
$1,000
[20]
This capital of Canada's Northwest Territories was founded in 1935 after gold was discovered
Yellowknife
Bill
|
— |
This city was designed in 1912 by English architect Edwin Lutyens
New Delhi