Lucia Flevares — a graduate student from Champaign, Illinois
Bruce Monroe — a medical researcher from Springfield, Illinois
Linda Bird — a law student from Ann Arbor, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linda | $2,600 | $2,900 | $9,300 |
$13,300
2-day champion: $25,200 |
$9,100
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Bruce | $1,200 | $2,200 | $6,600 |
$6,600
2nd place: Trip to Das Cervosa Resort, Austria |
$7,100
18 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lucia | $200 | $1,800 | $1,500 |
$1,500
3rd place: Daewoo TV, VCR & Speakers Package |
$2,400
7 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| CHINA TOWNS | TV THEME SONGS | DESTINATION: MOON | ONCE UPON A DECEMBER | THAT'S COLD! | ON ICE |
|
$100
[26]
Its status as a major port led to its English meaning, "to kidnap sailors"
Shanghai
Linda
Bruce
|
$100
[3]
It's the bar "where everybody knows your name"
Cheers
Bruce
|
$100
[21]
Names of these lunar plains include Imbrium, Crisium & Tranquillitatis
Seas
Bruce
|
$100
[1]
A 381-day-long bus boycott began in this city December 1, 1955
Montgomery, Alabama
Linda
|
$100
[7]
A popular dessert, it's a frozen mixture of milk products with at least 10% milk fat
Ice cream
Bruce
|
$100
[16]
Put this letter on "ice" & you get what Mickey & Minnie are
M (mice)
Linda
|
|
$200
[27]
The city of Dali is famous not for surrealist art, but for these Buddhist temple structures
Pagodas
Bruce
|
$200
[12]
Edith & Archie "could use a man like" this president "again"
Herbert Hoover
Linda
|
$200
[22]
Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt were the last to set foot on the Moon, on this mission
Apollo 17
|
$200
[2]
He expressed his doctrine December 2, 1823; the rest is history
James Monroe
Lucia
|
$200
[8]
Water freezes into ice at 32 degrees Fahrenheit & this many degrees Celsius
0
Linda
|
$200
[17]
Put this letter on "ice" & you get gaming material that may be loaded
D (dice)
Linda
|
|
$300
[28]
Kunming, the terminus of this WWII road, is still serviced by it
Burma Road
Bruce
|
$300
[13]
For the Professor, Mary Ann & the rest, the "tour" was only supposed to be this long
3 hours
Bruce
|
$300
[23]
The moon speed record, 11.2 MPH, was achieved by this vehicle during the Apollo 16 mission
Moon rover
Linda
Lucia
|
$300
[4]
A DAR chapter in Massachusetts has one of the chests from this December 16, 1773 event
Boston Tea Party
Bruce
|
$300
[9]
Though made from snow, these traditional Eskimo shelters are kept warm with heaters
Igloos
Linda
|
$300
[18]
Put this letter on "ice" & you get the kind of "guys" who "finish last"
N (nice)
Lucia
|
|
$400
[29]
Anshan, sort of the Chinese Pittsburgh, is best known for its production of this
Steel
Linda
|
$400
[14]
He "always wanted to have a neighbor just like you"
Mister Rogers
Linda
|
$400
[24]
Of 30, 60 or 90 pounds, it's the lunar weight of an astronaut who weighs 180 pounds on Earth
30
Bruce
|
$400
[5]
Point on the Earth reached for the first time by man December 14, 1911
South Pole
Bruce
|
$400
[10]
Temperatures can reach minus 90 degrees in this large eastern area of Russia that makes up 75% of the country
Siberia
Linda
|
$400
[19]
Put this letter on "ice" & you get the type of crime Crockett & Tubbs fought
V (vice)
Bruce
|
|
$500
[30]
The city of Tsingtao is best known for this product it bottles & exports
Beer
Lucia
|
$500
[15]
"When it looks like you will take a lickin'... just callllll for" him
Super Chicken
|
DD
$500
[25]
(Hi, I'm Janet Kavandi, on the Space Shuttle Discovery.) Of the 7 original Mercury astronauts, he's the only one to walk on the Moon
Alan Shepard
Bruce
|
$500
[6]
This "Vyrozumeni" playwright was elected interim president of his country in December 1989
Vaclav Havel (Czechoslovakia)
Linda
|
$500
[11]
Because of the cold, not much grows above this arbored "line" near the tops of mountains
Tree/timber line
Linda
|
$500
[20]
Put this letter on "ice" & you get a grain grown in paddies
R (rice)
Lucia
|
| FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK | THE AMBASSADORS | THE OSCARS | CHESTER A. ARTHUR | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY... |
|
$200
[6]
Agatha Christie's mysteries solved by this detective were often chronicled by his sidekick Arthur Hastings
Hercule Poirot
Linda
|
$200
[17]
This ubiquitous liquor often accompanies Russian meals; the limmonaya type is lemon-flavored
Vodka
Lucia
|
$200
[26]
This future president was the first U.S. ambassador to England in 1785
John Adams
Linda
|
$200
[1]
He's the first man since Walter Brennan to win 3 acting Oscars; yep, that's "As Good As It Gets"
Jack Nicholson
Linda
|
$200
[16]
In the summer of 1883 Chester vacationed out west, visiting this first national park, established in 1872
Yellowstone
Linda
|
$200
[11]
Don't lie! This "will out"
Truth
Linda
|
|
$400
[7]
At the end of "Crime And Punishment", he is serving an 8-year term for murdering an old woman
Raskolnikov
Lucia
|
$400
[18]
On Christmas Eve, some Italian families enjoy capitone, a dish of these snakelike fish, fried
Eels
Linda
|
$400
[27]
Once ambassador to India, he's now a U.S. Senator from New York
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Bruce
|
$400
[2]
Ben Affleck said winning was "Really, really scary" when he & Matt Damon won for writing this film
Good Will Hunting
Linda
|
$400
[21]
Old Chet got quite a lift after he had the first one of these installed in the White House
Elevator
Bruce
|
$400
[12]
If it looks out of place it "sticks out like a sore" one of these
Thumb
Bruce
|
|
$600
[8]
Producer Irving Thalberg was the model for Monroe Stahr, the title character of this Fitzgerald novel
The Last Tycoon
|
$600
[19]
Soup-time is the time for pho, practically the national dish of this southeast Asian country
Vietnam
|
$600
[28]
To a group of Western ambassadors in 1956, he said "History is on our side; we will bury you"
Nikita Khrushchev
Linda
|
$600
[3]
He won back-to-back Oscars as Best Actor of 1993 & 1994
Tom Hanks
Linda
|
$600
[22]
As a lawyer, Chester got better treatment for blacks in this city's streetcar system
New York City
Linda
|
$600
[13]
"A bad" one of these "always turns up", probably to be saved, or earned
Penny
Bruce
|
|
DD
$900
[9]
This title character is missing in the unintentionally last chapter of a Dickens mystery
Edwin Drood
Lucia
|
$800
[20]
Blimey! It's the fruit seen here
Breadfruit
Bruce
|
$800
[29]
Eisenhower appointed this editor to Italy as the first female ambassador to a major country
Clare Boothe Luce
Linda
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
This 1969 film was the first X-rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture
Midnight Cowboy
Linda
|
$800
[23]
Some claimed Chester was born here, & therefore ineligible to be president
Canada
|
$800
[14]
You might be just "banging your head against the wall" when you "flog a dead" one of these
Horse
Bruce
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Tom & Maggie Tulliver's epitaph, "In their death they were not divided", ends this George Eliot book
The Mill On The Floss
|
$1,000
[25]
This 3-letter aperitif made of white wine & creme de cassis is named for a mayor of Dijon
(Felix) Kir
Linda
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1997 Philip Lader replaced Admiral William Crowe as U.S. ambassador to this European country
Great Britain
|
$1,000
[5]
1935 cinematography winner Hal Mohr is still the only person to win by votes of this type
Write-in votes
|
$1,000
[24]
He was nicknamed "The Gentleman" this
Boss
|
$1,000
[15]
It's an old sailor's adage on taking whatever refuge you can find
"Any port in a storm"
Bruce
|
This author was a contributing editor of Asia magazine from 1941 to 1946
Pearl S. Buck