Ruth Goldstein — a management and investment consultant from Atlanta, Georgia
Dan Deacon — a senior marketing and business analyst from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Steve Firkser — an attorney from Rahway, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve | $500 | $1,100 | $3,500 |
$6,900
2nd place: a trip on Delta Airlines to Boston, Massachusetts with 5 days & nights Smugglers' Notch ski village, Vermont |
$3,100
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Dan | $1,000 | $2,300 | $6,400 |
$8,001
New champion: $8,001 |
$6,900
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ruth | $1,800 | $2,600 | $4,000 |
$0
3rd place: Robert H. Peterson Co. real-fire gas logs & hallmark brass accessories + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune + InfoGenius for Nintendo Game Boy |
$4,000
14 R, 4 W |
| WORLD CAPITALS | BIBLICAL FILMS | VOCABULARY | FAMOUS PAIRS | LIFE SCIENCE | ANNUAL EVENTS |
|
$100
[16]
The Byward Market, a farmer's market, has thrived in this Canadian city for well over a century
Ottawa
Steve
|
$100
[8]
Stunt man Yakima Canutt taught Charlton Heston to drive a chariot for this 1959 film
Ben-Hur
Steve
|
$100
[13]
Someone who is old-fashioned or unprogressive is described as one of these "-in-the-mud"
a stick-in-the-mud
Dan
|
$100
[3]
"Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old" was their first comic opera
Gilbert & Sullivan
Steve
|
$100
[22]
The red type of this soft material within the bones produces red blood cells
(bone) marrow
Steve
Dan
|
$100
[1]
This state holds a "Spud Days" festival every September in Shelley
Idaho
Dan
|
|
$200
[17]
You'll find the National Art Gallery of New Zealand in this city
Wellington
Ruth
|
$200
[9]
"Alamo" star whose only line in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" was "Truly, this man was the son of God"
John Wayne
Dan
Ruth
|
$200
[14]
"Canine" term for a simple form of swimming used to stay afloat
doggie paddle (or dog paddle)
Dan
|
$200
[4]
It was at the 1956 Republican Convention that this TV news team paired up for the first time
Chet Huntley & David Brinkley
Dan
|
$200
[23]
This type of twins is born to about 3 or 4 mothers in 1000
identical
Steve
Ruth
|
$200
[2]
Each April a "Little 500" bicycle race is held in Bloomington in this state
Indiana
Ruth
|
|
$300
[18]
Of Morocco's 4 "imperial cities", the one that's the capital
Rabat
Dan
|
$300
[10]
This leader of the Tijuana Brass played a drummer in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments"
Herb Alpert
Dan
|
$300
[15]
Stingy, miserly people, or inexpensive footwear for Tai & Randy
cheapskates
Steve
|
$300
[5]
They created "Tom and Jerry" while working at MGM & in 1957 started their own TV cartoon company
Hanna & Barbera
Dan
|
$300
[28]
The corpus callosum connects the 2 hemispheres of this organ
the brain
Ruth
|
$300
[25]
There's an annual Helen Keller festival held each June in Tuscumbia in this state
Alabama
Dan
|
|
$500
[24]
The National Theatre in this capital of Costa Rica is known for its lavish decor
San Jose
|
$400
[11]
He not only directed "The Bible", he portrayed Noah as well
John Huston
Ruth
|
$400
[20]
As a verb, it means to chop into very small pieces; as a prefix, it often precedes "meat"
mince
Dan
|
$400
[6]
They wrote Oklahoma's state song
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Ruth
|
$400
[29]
It's defined as the study of relationships of living things to each other & the environment
ecology
Dan
|
$400
[26]
Every May, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana hosts a festival dedicated to this freshwater crustacean
the crayfish
Steve
|
|
DD
$600
[19]
This capital lies about 150 miles east of Port-au-Prince, on the same island
Santo Domingo
Dan
|
$500
[12]
Gregory Peck & Susan Hayward played these 2 biblical lovers in a 1951 film
David & Bathsheba
Ruth
|
$500
[21]
Diurnal is the antonym of this word
nocturnal
Dan
|
$500
[7]
Maintaining their innocence to the very end, these 2 Italian immigrants were executed in Mass. August 23, 1927
Sacco & Vanzetti
Ruth
|
$500
[30]
The basic unit of biological classification; members of one can breed with one another
species
Dan
|
$500
[27]
In July Sauk Centre, Minnesota has a 4-day festival honoring this novelist
Sinclair Lewis
Ruth
|
| ASTRONOMY | U.S.A. | THE PULITZER PRIZE | HISTORY | OPERA SINGERS | LINES FROM LONGFELLOW |
|
$200
[22]
In 1719 this planet was so bright that some people mistook it for a red comet
Mars
Ruth
|
$200
[13]
The first & last letters of the alphabet form its postal abbreviation
Arizona
Steve
|
$200
[1]
The N.Y. Times won in 1972 for publishing these purloined papers
the Pentagon Papers
Dan
|
$200
[2]
Ironically, Russia's Ivan the Great was succeeded by this Ivan
Ivan the Terrible
Ruth
|
$200
[3]
Caruso played Dick Johnson in the world premiere of this opera set in "the Golden West"
The Girl of the Golden West
Ruth
|
$200
[21]
In an 1842 poem he wrote, "Into each life some" of this "must fall"
rain
Steve
|
|
$400
[23]
Zubenelgenubi, a star in this constellation, tips the scales at an apparent magnitude of 2.9
Libra
|
$400
[14]
Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska is a display of half-buried cars that looks like this British landmark
Stonehenge
Dan
|
$400
[6]
Joe Rosenthal won for news photography in 1945 for his photo of this event
the Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima
Steve
Dan
|
$400
[5]
They wrote, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"
Marx & Engels
Steve
Dan
|
$400
[4]
Alice Josephine Pons took this "floral" stage name
Lily Pons
Dan
|
$400
[24]
Title event described in the poem with the line "One, if by land, and two, if by sea"
the midnight ride of Paul Revere
Steve
|
|
$600
[25]
The Leonids, which usually occur between Nov. 14 & 20, are these
meteor showers
|
$600
[15]
Thomas Penn, William's son, settled this Pennsylvania city later known for its rail line
Reading
Steve
Ruth
|
$600
[7]
Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, he won a 1975 Pulitzer for his film criticism
Roger Ebert
Steve
|
$600
[18]
The original Boers in South Africa were Dutchmen & some of this group that had fled from France
Huguenots
Dan
|
$600
[10]
On November 1, 1954 this Greek-American made her U.S. debut in the role of Norma
Maria Callas
Ruth
|
$600
[28]
Longfellow's song about this person is set "by the shining big-sea- water"
Hiawatha
Dan
|
|
$800
[26]
During a total solar eclipse this outer atmosphere of the Sun appears as a halo
the corona
|
$800
[16]
At a bachelor auction in L.A., a lady paid $22,500 to date this Broadway "Phantom"
Michael Crawford
Steve
Dan
|
$1,000
[9]
He won for "A Death in the Family", which was left unfinished when he died
James Agee
Ruth
|
DD
$900
[19]
At the start of the 7 Years' War in 1756, France & England were fighting each other on these 3 continents
Europe, North America & Asia
Dan
|
$800
[11]
Last name of the Danish-American tenor Lauritz, or one of the magi
Melchior
Ruth
|
— |
|
$1,000
[27]
This aptly named group of asteroids includes Hector, Priam & Aeneas
the Trojans
|
$1,000
[17]
In 1986 former Sec'y of State William P. Rogers headed the government investigation into this accident
the Challenger disaster
Dan
|
DD
$1,200
[8]
The only work for which Hemingway won a Pulitzer was this 1952 novella
The Old Man and the Sea
Steve
|
$1,000
[20]
Uruguay bought some of the oversupply of these garments & gave them to Garibaldi for his men
red shirts
Ruth
|
$1,000
[12]
This great Russian basso who died in 1938 was renowned for his interpretation of Boris Godunov
Feodor Chaliapin
|
— |
It grew out of vigilance committees set up by local advertising clubs to monitor false advertising
the Better Business Bureau