Laurie Vaughn — a writer from Brea, California
Larry Frantz — an attorney from Peoria, Illinois
Cheryl Van Middlesworth — a housewife from Cerritos, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $36,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheryl | $1,300 | $2,800 | $6,200 |
$4,599
2nd place: Alan Smith entertainment center + Magnavox VCR |
$6,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Larry | $1,300 | $1,100 | $2,800 |
$5,600
New champion: $5,600 |
$3,100
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laurie | $1,600 | $2,300 | $3,900 |
$1
3rd place: Wilson Sam Snead Blue Ridge golf clubs with bag & balls |
$3,900
11 R, 2 W |
| THE HUMAN BODY | TECHNOLOGY | TWO-FACED | THE THREE MUSKETEERS | ANTONYMS | SONGS IN COMMERCIALS |
|
$100
[4]
In the normal human hand, this digit has the fewest bones
the thumb
Larry
|
$100
[25]
Perhaps the 1st labor-saving device, this machine for "throwing" clay dates back to about 3000 B.C.
the potter's wheel
Larry
|
$100
[18]
Her last film was 1941's "Two-Faced Woman", then she wanted to be left alone
Greta Garbo
Cheryl
|
$100
[23]
The motto of the Musketeers
one for all and all for one
Larry
|
$100
[1]
Its antonyms include "find" & "win"
lose
Cheryl
|
$100
[6]
This company transformed "Mack The Knife" to "Mac Tonight"
McDonald's
Cheryl
|
|
$200
[5]
Part of the body whose name is from the Latin word for "dog"
canine teeth
Laurie
|
$200
[26]
Parts of this stereo component include the cone, magnet & voice coil
the speaker
Laurie
|
$200
[19]
As "Two-Face", Harvey Dent, Gotham City's former D.A., is one of this crimefighter's regular foes
Batman
Laurie
|
$200
[24]
The Musketeers were constantly fighting the guards of this cardinal
Richelieu
Cheryl
|
$200
[2]
Antonym of storm that comes "before the storm"
calm
Larry
|
$200
[12]
1 of 2 songs with "Little" in the title Kentucky Fried Chicken uses to promote their chicken Littles
(1 of) "Little Darlin’” (or "Little Bitty Pretty One")
Laurie
|
|
$300
[9]
It's the next stop for deoxygenated blood after it leaves the heart
the lungs
Cheryl
|
$300
[27]
It was during this war that canning became a popular way of preserving food in the U.S.
the Civil War
Cheryl
Larry
|
DD
$200
[22]
Title of thefollowing Lou Christie hit:"I pretend that I'm happy (sha-la-lee) / But I'm Mr. Blue (sha-la-loo) / I pretend that I'm happy (sha-la-lee) /Since I lost you-u (ya-ya, ya-ya) / I-I (ya-ya, ya-ya)"
"Two Faces Have I"
Larry
|
$300
[16]
The 1st story was mostly set in Paris, tho the stolen diamond studs subplot took it to this foreign city
London
|
$300
[3]
Antonyms "you have to take... along with..." each other; they combine to form a type of chocolate
bitter & sweet
|
$300
[13]
A Hires root beer ad opens with "Sittin' in the morning sun", taken from this song
("Sittin' On") "The Dock Of The Bay"
Laurie
|
|
$400
[10]
Tough, flexible, self-repairing & waterproof, it's the body's main protection against disease
the skin
Cheryl
|
$400
[28]
This type of 3-D photography was invented in 1948 by Hungarian-born physicist Dennis Gabor
holography
Cheryl
|
$300
[17]
When Sen. Douglas called him 2-faced, he said "If I had another face, do you think I'd wear this one?"
Abraham Lincoln
Larry
Laurie
|
$400
[21]
This noble-looking Musketeer was actually count de la Fere, husband of the Lady de Winter
Athos
|
$400
[7]
It's the only Great Lake whose name has an antonym in English
Superior
Cheryl
|
$400
[14]
A "Time" magazine commercial revolves around this 1965 hit by The Byrds
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
Laurie
|
|
$500
[11]
It's where words are when you can't quite remember them, or where your sweet taste buds are
the tip of your tongue
Laurie
|
$500
[29]
An oscilloscope, like a television set, produces an image on a CRT, this type of tube
a cathode ray tube
Cheryl
|
$400
[20]
He's the 2-faced Roman god of doors
Janus
Larry
|
— |
$500
[8]
Completes the quote by Tennyson, "He seems so near..."
yet so far
Larry
|
$500
[15]
"Our house is a very very very fine house" with this brand of meat products in the fridge
Eckrich
Larry
|
| POLITICIANS | WORD PLAY | WORLD HISTORY | KENTUCKY | IN THE NEWS | OLD RADIO |
|
$200
[20]
Like his Tennessee predecessor Davy Crockett, Estes Kefauver wore this on the campaign trail
a coonskin cap
Larry
|
$200
[5]
The term "o'clock" is a shortened form of this phrase
of the clock
Larry
|
$200
[1]
Of 1, 2 or 3, number of separate occasions on which Disraeli became P.M. of Britain
2
Larry
|
$200
[7]
Kentucky observes Stephen Foster Memorial Day each January 31, the date this song was copyrighted
"My Old Kentucky Home"
Cheryl
|
$200
[8]
At 31, Bill Gates was listed in late '87 as the youngest self-made one in the U.S.
billionaire
Laurie
|
$200
[14]
The 3 sound effects used in this show's opening were a bullet ricochet, a locomotive, & a burst of wind
Superman
Larry
|
| — |
$400
[16]
A Chinese dish, or a cow sound, a sticky substance, a regular fellow & a kitchen utensil
moo goo gai pan
Cheryl
|
$400
[2]
To report his discovery to Isabella, Columbus went by land, not sea, to this largest Spanish seaport
Barcelona
Larry
|
$400
[10]
Kentucky is famous for growing the burley variety of this
tobacco
Larry
|
$400
[9]
Late in summer of 1987, Steffi Graf bumped her to rank as the #1 female tennis player
Martina Navratilova
Larry
|
$400
[15]
"The War of the Worlds" came to us via the radio theater named for this planet, not Mars
Mercury
Cheryl
|
| — |
$600
[17]
The only 2 anagrams of "top" listed as words, not abbreviations, in Webster's Third
pot & opt
Cheryl
|
$600
[3]
In 1890, he forced Bismarck to resign as Chancellor of Germany
(Kaiser) Wilhelm II
Larry
Laurie
|
DD
$500
[11]
During World War II, this Kentucky facility was a major training center for tank warfare
Fort Knox
Larry
|
$600
[13]
A rug cleaner named Donald O. Cram was mistakenly notified by phone about winning this honor
the Nobel Prize (for Chemistry)
Larry
|
$600
[21]
He, not Larry Parks, played the lead in the Lux Radio Theatre version of his film biography
Al Jolson
Laurie
|
| — |
DD
$1,000
[18]
A transposition of sounds, like saying "a lack of pies" instead of "a pack of lies"
a spoonerism
Cheryl
|
$800
[4]
In 610 A.D., this 40-year-old had a vision that he was to be the messenger of God
Muhammad
Laurie
|
$800
[12]
In 1775, D. Boone blazed his famous "Wilderness Road" into Kentucky through this mountain pass
the Cumberland Gap
Cheryl
|
$800
[26]
In October 1987, her husband, a real estate broker, was acquitted of bribery charges in a N.Y. court
(Geraldine) Ferraro
Larry
|
$800
[22]
Cowboy who led the Ralston Straight Shooters
Tom Mix
|
| — |
$1,000
[19]
Only Olympic event whose name contains the letters "STST" consecutively is this aquatic one
the breaststroke
Cheryl
|
$1,000
[6]
Ending his diary, this South Pole explorer wrote "It seems a pity but I do not think I can write any more"
Captain Robert Scott
Cheryl
Larry
|
$1,000
[24]
Center of the Bluegrass Region, this city is known for "regal people & even more aristocratic horses"
Lexington
|
$1,000
[25]
Popular term for the August '87 astronomical phenomenon that USA Today called "the Woodstock of the '80s"
the Harmonic Conversion
Larry
Laurie
|
$1,000
[23]
Soap opera that was the story of Mary Noble & what it meant to be married to a famous Broadway star
Backstage Wife
|
U.S. corporation that has the largest number of stockholders of any company in the world
AT&T