James Arey game 3.
Helen Harnett — a law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
Joe Weber — an aerospace engineer from Bonita, California
James Arey — a hotel concierge from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,302)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $1,300 | $3,500 | $11,500 |
$8,000
3-day champion: $23,302 |
$11,500
23 R, 0 W |
| Joe | $1,100 | $3,100 | $700 |
$700
2nd place: Monorail PC + O'Sullivan vertical office furniture |
$5,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Helen | $200 | $-100 | $700 |
$1
3rd place: DirecTV digital satellite television system/service with 18" satellite dish |
$1,700
10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| NYC IN THE '70s | GARDENING | HOW PROVINCIAL! | MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE | ANAGRAMMED ANIMAL SOUNDS | CANDLES |
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$100
[2]
Live from New York, it debuted October 11, 1975 at 11:30 P.M.
Saturday Night Live
James
|
$100
[4]
Plant vegetable seeds in a line called this, even if it's a tough one "to hoe"
a row
Joe
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$100
[6]
Hainan, Hunan, Yunnan
China
Helen
|
$100
[14]
The B-52's headed up the charts when they headed on down to this place
"Love Shack"
Helen
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$100
[22]
FAR
arf
James
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$100
[20]
Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was originally written as a tribute to this actress
Marilyn Monroe
Helen
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$200
[3]
Saying he wouldn't be active in the day-to-day running of the Yankees, in 1973 he led the group that bought them
George Steinbrenner
Joe
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$200
[5]
Privet, an evergreen shrub, is commonly grown as one of these to keep your garden privet
a hedge
Helen
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$200
[7]
Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal
South Africa
Joe
|
$200
[16]
The Dixie Cups sang, "Gee I really love you and we're gonna get married, goin' to" this place
"Chapel Of Love"
Joe
|
$200
[23]
A ROCK
croak
Joe
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$200
[21]
Blowing out his birthday candles, a boy wishes for 24 hours of truth from his dad in this 1997 Jim Carrey film
Liar Liar
James
|
|
$300
[10]
In 1978 & '79 over 1 million people saw his "Treasures" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
King Tut
Helen
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$300
[8]
Gardening books recommend dried blood (they don't say whose) as an organic type of this
fertilizer
Joe
|
$300
[11]
Limburg, Antwerp, West Flanders
Belgium
James
|
$300
[17]
Carole King co-wrote this song that was a No. 5 hit for The Drifters in 1962
"Up On The Roof"
|
$300
[24]
TABLE
bleat
Joe
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$300
[26]
Erle Stanley Gardner had this attorney take on "The Case Of The Crooked Candle"
Perry Mason
Joe
|
|
$400
[12]
On August 7, 1974 Philippe Petit traveled via this between the towers of the World Trade Center
a tightrope (or highwire)
Joe
|
$400
[9]
The peat type is used to pack young plants; other types can crop up unwelcome on your lawn
Moss
James
|
$400
[15]
Dong Nai, Dong Thap, Lam Dong
Vietnam
Joe
|
DD
$500
[18]
In "Royal Wedding", Fred Astaire gives a textbook demonstration of this, the title of a 1986 Lionel Richie hit
"Dancing On The Ceiling"
Joe
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$400
[25]
QUAKES
squeak
James
Helen
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$400
[27]
In the mid-19th century, candles were often made with this wax crystallized from petroleum
paraffin wax
|
|
$500
[30]
The city rolled out this famous ad campaign in 1977
"I Love New York" ("I ♥ NY")
James
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$500
[13]
The African variety of this annual, seen here, has an appropriate color in its name
marigold
Helen
|
$500
[19]
Almeria, Salamanca, Cordoba
Spain
Joe
|
$500
[1]
Melissa Etheridge's first Top 40 song, it says, "Crawl inside, wait by the light of the Moon"
"Come To My Window"
James
Joe
|
$500
[29]
HINGE
neigh
James
|
$500
[28]
This play contains the line "Out, out, brief candle!"
Macbeth
James
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| THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | BY GEORGE! | FORGOTTEN MUSICALS | READ THE BOOK, SAW THE FILM | TOUGH HODGEPODGE | "LET"s END THIS |
|
$200
[26]
On June 16, 1775 American forces didn't stop at this hill but went on to defend Breed's Hill
Bunker Hill
Helen
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$200
[2]
His best-known compositions include "Here Comes The Sun" & "Taxman"
George Harrison
Helen
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$200
[13]
You probably didn't see Robert Shaw in "Gantry", based on this novel; it closed the night it opened
Elmer Gantry
Helen
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$200
[1]
Chicken-sized dinosaurs called compys didn't make it from this 1990 Michael Crichton novel to the 1993 film
Jurassic Park
Joe
|
$200
[8]
Served in Bolivia, chicha is a fermented drink made from the mash of this grain
corn
Helen
|
$200
[21]
From the title of a medieval Latin work, it's the term for publications like Paine's "Crisis" series
a pamphlet
James
|
|
$400
[27]
During the war this silversmith had a booming business casting cannons for the Continental Army
Paul Revere
Joe
|
$400
[4]
This Kansas City Royal infielder led the American League in batting in '76, '80 & '90
George Brett
James
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$400
[14]
Shelley Winters played the mother of these madcap brothers in "Minnie's Boys", co-written by Groucho's son
the Marx Brothers
James
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$400
[3]
Talking gargoyles named Victor & Hugo were in a 1996 adaptation of this (they weren't in the book)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
James
|
$400
[9]
On Sept. 16, 1975 Viking Press announced it had hired this world-famous woman as a consulting editor
Jackie Onassis
Helen
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$400
[22]
To prepare a cheese one of these, you'll need butter, eggs & of course, cheese
an omelet
James
|
|
$800
[29]
This guerrilla known as "The Swamp Fox" led quick raids on the British & then fled back to the marshes
Francis Marion
|
$600
[5]
A Pulitzer Prize winner in '77, this conservative columnist was the sports editor of his college newspaper
George Will
Joe
|
$600
[15]
In 1976 he starred in "Home Sweet Homer", a musical based on "The Odyssey"; he should have stayed in Siam
Yul Brynner
James
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$600
[7]
Elia Kazan directed this author's script of "Viva Zapata!", but had someone else adapt his "East of Eden"
Steinbeck
James
|
$600
[18]
Until the 1720s, many diamonds, including the Great Mogul, were found in this Asian country
India
Joe
|
$600
[23]
A drinking glass with a stem & a base, its name is from the Old French for "cup"
goblet
James
|
|
$1,000
[30]
During the winter of 1778-79, this Prussian wrote the first American army manual of drill & regulations
von Steuben
|
$800
[6]
A "manly" 19th century realist, she penned works like "Adam Bede", "Felix Holt" & "Daniel Deronda"
George Eliot
James
|
$800
[16]
In 1985 he "skywalked" onto Broadway as half of the famous comedy team "Harrigan 'n Hart"
Mark Hamill
James
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
For Bogie's screen role, this book's Charlie Allnutt was changed from a Cockney to a Canadian
The African Queen
Helen
|
$800
[19]
This Hungarian became president of the new Hungarian Academy of Music in 1875
(Franz) Liszt
James
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$800
[24]
This charm to ward off evil & injury is often worn around the neck
an amulet
Joe
|
|
DD
$5,000
[28]
On September 11, 1777, the Americans retreated from Brandywine Creek allowing the British to occupy this city
Philadelphia
Joe
|
$1,000
[12]
Many musical masterpieces sprang from the head ofthis18th century George
Handel
James
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$1,000
[17]
"First Impressions", based on this "Austen"tatious novel, starred Farley Granger as Mr. Darcy
Pride and Prejudice
Helen
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$1,000
[11]
Jack Burden is this book's central character; the 1949 movie switched it to Willie Stark
All The King's Men
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1913 this Kiev-born aircraft designer built Le Grand, the world's first 4-engine plane
Sikorsky
|
$1,000
[25]
We can't see this type of light, but experiments indicate that bees & butterflies can
ultraviolet
James
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In 1991 he flew the Pacific in the "Virgin Otsuka Pacific Flyer", the world's largest hot-air balloon
Richard Branson