Johnny Gilbert accidentally announces Alex as "Glenn Trebek".
Bill Wilcox — a project manager from San Diego, California
Cindy Olson — a dermatologist from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Glen Savory — an Air Force contracting officer originally from Georgetown, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glen | $2,400 | $3,600 | $10,600 |
$6,600
3-day champion: $33,600 |
$8,400
26 R (including 3 DDs), 2 W |
| Cindy | $1,100 | $3,400 | $11,000 |
$700
3rd place |
$11,000
22 R, 1 W |
| Bill | $400 | $100 | $1,500 |
$3,000
2nd place |
$1,500
7 R, 2 W |
| THE BIBLE | SPORTSTALK | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | ON THE "OUT"s | CHINA | RICE, RICE BABY |
|
$100
[16]
The 27th of these begins, "The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?"
Psalms
Cindy
|
$100
[1]
Submarine, steal, knuckleball
baseball
Cindy
|
$100
[6]
This term for the assistant to the majority or minority leader in the House will get you cracking
whip
Bill
|
$100
[10]
Lose consciousness or turn out all the lights as an air raid precaution
blackout
Glen
|
$100
[26]
The Huang He or Yellow River is called "China's Sorrow" because of its habit of doing this
flooding
Cindy
|
$100
[21]
In 1999 this "treat" sponsored the annual San Francisco cable car bell-ringing contest
Rice-A-Roni
Glen
|
|
$200
[17]
Jacob wrestled this new name out of an angel
Israel
|
$200
[2]
Between the pipes, icing, bodycheck
ice hockey
Glen
|
$200
[7]
After spending about $76 million this publisher canceled himself out of the 2000 presidential race
Steve Forbes
Glen
|
$200
[11]
The American Cancer Society organized the first "Great American" one of these in 1977
Smokeout
Cindy
|
$200
[27]
In the 16th century Chinese play "Journey to the West", the hero seeks scriptures of this religion
Buddhism
Glen
|
$200
[22]
Low walls of earth called bunds enclose the water-covered rice fields known as these
paddies
Glen
|
|
$300
[18]
In the King James Version, these large black birds fed Elijah in hiding by the brook Cherith
ravens
Glen
Bill
|
$300
[3]
Flip-flop, flea-flicker, flying wedge
football
Glen
|
$300
[8]
The site for the White House was chosen by James Hoban, Charles L' Enfant & this man
George Washington
Bill
|
$300
[12]
One of these occurs when prisoners illegally leave the prison or when some people eat strawberries
a breakout
Glen
|
$300
[28]
His second name is Zedong in the Pinyin Romanization System, Tse-tung according to the older Wade-Giles
Mao
Glen
|
$300
[23]
Eating unpolished rice may help prevent this disease disease caused by the lack of thiamine
beri-beri
Glen
Cindy
|
|
$400
[19]
This first Christian martyr saw "the heavens opened" right before he was stoned to death
Stephen
Cindy
|
$400
[4]
Creeper, nose hit, open frame
bowling
Cindy
|
$400
[9]
(Jimmy Carter reads the clue.) In 1999 the Carter Center monitored this process in the Cherokee nations, Nigeria, East Timor & some Chinese villages
elections
Cindy
|
$500
[15]
It carries the rainwater from the gutter on the roof to the ground
a downspout
Cindy
|
$400
[29]
Chengdu is the capital city of this province famous for its pig bristle production & spicy food
Szechuan
Glen
|
$400
[24]
Long grain rice is rich in amylose, a component of this carbohydrate, making it dry & fluffy when cooked
Starch
Cindy
|
|
$500
[20]
Both the gospel of Luke & this book are addressed to someone named Theophilus
Acts of the Apostles
|
$500
[5]
Corner, header, bicycle
soccer
Glen
|
$500
[13]
The next amendment to be tacked on to the Constitution will sport this number
the 28th Amendment
|
DD
$800
[14]
It may be emotional consequences or radioactive ash
fallout
Glen
|
$500
[30]
Like Vietnam's Haiphong, China's city of Beihai is a major port receiving shipping on this gulf
the Gulf of Tonkin
Bill
|
$500
[25]
As with wheat, a process known as this is done after harvesting to separate the grains from the plants
threshing (or winnowing)
Cindy
Bill
|
| LITERATURE | 20TH CENTURY AMERICA | TITLE FILM FOLK | WHERE IT HAPPENED | FRENCH WEIGHTS & MEASURES | ENDS IN "TT" |
|
$200
[1]
"Les chatiments" is a group of satirical poems attacking Napoleon III by this creator of Quasimodo
Victor Hugo
Glen
|
$200
[11]
In 1976 this former president was disbarred in New York State
Richard Nixon
Glen
|
$200
[6]
"Evita"(1996)
Madonna
Bill
|
$200
[16]
In 1858 John Hanning Speke discovered the largest lake on this continent
Africa (Lake Victoria)
Glen
|
$200
[26]
Pull up to le garage & you'll get your essence, "gas", in these units
litres
Bill
|
$200
[21]
On April 12, 1998 Mark O' Meara sank a 20-foot one & won the Masters golf tournament by 1 stroke
a putt
Bill
|
|
$400
[2]
The Jindyworobak Movement of the 1930s celebrated this country's Aboriginal culture
Australia
Glen
|
$400
[12]
In 1987 he claimed God would take him if he didn't raise $8 million
Oral Roberts
Glen
|
$400
[7]
"Erin Brockovich"(2000)
Julia Roberts
Cindy
|
$400
[17]
In Bennington, Vermont you can visit the site of the Catamount Tavern where this Ethan Allen gang met
the Green Mountain Boys
Glen
|
$400
[30]
It's trois heures moins le quart, this time, & there's no one in the place except you & me
quarter to three (2:45)
Cindy
|
$400
[22]
This unit of electrical power is abbreviated kW
kilowatt
Glen
|
|
DD
$800
[3]
The heroine of her 1849 novel "Shirley" was inspired by her late sister Emily
Charlotte Bronte
Glen
|
$600
[13]
In 1901 after 2 years in the pen, William Sydney Porter continued to write under this pen name
O. Henry
Cindy
|
$600
[8]
"Selena"(1997)
Jennifer Lopez
Glen
|
$600
[18]
Around 1271 the city of Herat, Afghanistan was visited by this famous Venetian
Marco Polo
Glen
|
$800
[28]
Heavier than a foil, but lighter than a sabre, this fencing weapon weighs 770 grams
an epée
Glen
|
$600
[23]
Last name shared by the current Secretary of the Interior & a Sinclair Lewis title character
Babbitt
Cindy
|
|
$800
[4]
The title of this poet-playwright's 1893 book "The Celtic Twilight" became a synonym for the Irish literary revival
William Butler Yeats
|
$800
[14]
In 1917 tons of fruit pits, especially peach pits, were collected to make filters for these
gas masks
Bill
|
$800
[9]
"Shaft"(1971)
Richard Roundtree
Glen
|
$800
[19]
In 1958 this nuclear-powered craft passed near Point Barrow on its way into the Arctic basin
Nautilus
Cindy
|
$1,000
[27]
An "effect" of water spiraling down a drain & a force acting on projectiles are named for this Frenchman
Gaspard Coriolis
Glen
Cindy
|
$800
[24]
Synonym for a Latvian
a Lett
Cindy
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This South African called her 1965 story collection "Not For Publication"
Nadine Gordimer
Cindy
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1943 Selman Waksman discovered streptomycin, a drug classified under this term he coined in 1941
antibiotics
Cindy
|
$1,000
[10]
"Pat and Mike"(1952)
Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn
Cindy
|
$1,000
[20]
Current foreign capital in which the Gadsden Purchase was negotiated
Mexico City
Cindy
|
DD
$2,200
[29]
The becquerel is a unit of radiation that has replaced this, the name of Henri Becquerel's co-Nobel Prize winners
the curie
Glen
|
$1,000
[25]
Arms of this Rhode Island bay include Greenwich Bay, Mount Hope Bay & the Providence River
Narragansett Bay
Cindy
|
The delivery system for Ban deodorant, introduced in 1955, was based on this invention, patented in 1938
Ball Point Pen