Last game of Season 16.
Mort Kamins — an investor and writer from Studio City, California
Kevin Smith — a television news reporter and producer from South Pasadena, California
Greg Fry — a computer programmer from Los Angeles, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg | $900 | $2,500 | $7,000 |
$0
3rd place: a flight over Southern California on the Goodyear airship Eagle |
$5,500
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Kevin | $800 | $800 | $2,400 |
$2,300
2nd place: an Egghead.com online gift certificate |
$2,400
7 R, 0 W |
| Mort | $2,800 | $3,800 | $7,700 |
$14,001
New champion: $14,001 |
$6,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| BEEN THERE | DONE THAT | JADED | OLD HAT | WHATEVER | "BOR"-ING |
|
$100
[9]
ZIP codes beginning 007 won't get mail to James Bond but to this Caribbean commonwealth
Puerto Rico
Mort
|
$100
[4]
This Model T maker bought out his stockholders, calling them parasites
Henry Ford
Kevin
|
$100
[1]
The sought-after imperial jade is usually this color
Green
Greg
|
$100
[30]
Martha Brenner wrote a kids' book on an incident involving this future president's tall black hat
Abraham Lincoln
Mort
|
$100
[21]
The teaspoon named for this fruit has a serrated tip
Grapefruit
Greg
|
$100
[16]
This masculine first name of Slavic origin means "fight" or "battle"
Boris
Greg
|
|
$200
[10]
This South Dakota city settled in 1876 got its name from the fast-running creek it's on
Rapid City
Mort
|
$200
[5]
In 2000 he was elected Russia's president, defeating his Communist rival 52 percent to 29 percent
Vladimir Putin
Kevin
|
$200
[2]
Prized Chinese artifacts include jade bottles for this tobacco product that induced sneezing
Snuff
Mort
|
$200
[29]
Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard in booth 54 of this old Hollywood landmark
The Brown Derby
Mort
|
$200
[22]
Name shared by famous cemeteries in Idaho City & Dodge City
Boot Hill
Greg
Mort
|
$200
[17]
If you're "living on" this, your lender is death
Borrowed time
Greg
|
|
$300
[11]
St. Louis, Missouri is on the Mississippi; Saint-Louis, Senegal is a port on this ocean
Atlantic
Greg
|
$300
[6]
Joshua Humphreys designed the U.S.S. Constellation as well as this famous ship now found in Massachusetts
The Constitution ("Old Ironsides")
Mort
|
$300
[3]
When a big shot in this Central American civilization died in Tikal, he was buried with a piece of jade
Mayan
Mort
|
$300
[28]
In the mid-'50s you were a cool kid if you had one of these hats like the "King of the Wild Frontier"
Coonskin cap
Greg
|
$300
[23]
Brewer's Dictionary says "An old woman is plucking her goose" means this is happening outdoors
Snowing
|
$300
[18]
Unlike most nonmetals, this element with the atomic number 5 is an electrical conductor
Boron
Greg
|
|
$400
[12]
You can survey Rio from Pao de Acucar, "Sugarloaf", & Quito from Panecillo, meaning this kind of roll
Bread roll
|
$500
[8]
He wrote the bestsellers "Diana, Her True Story" & "Monica's Story"
Andrew Morton
Kevin
|
$400
[14]
The gemstone jade comes from 2 minerals, jadeite & this one whose name is from the Greek for "kidney"
Nephrite
Mort
|
$400
[27]
Hat of choice for Groucho's Captain Spaulding
Pith helmet
|
$400
[24]
With a regular deck of cards, you can play 52 Pick-Up; with a pinochle deck, only this many pick-up
48
Greg
|
$400
[19]
Last name of the ruthless Italian seen here
Borgia (Cesare)
Greg
|
|
$500
[13]
In the 1700s Vientiane, now capital of this Asian country, was capital of its own kingdom
Laos
Mort
|
DD
$800
[7]
Under Gaiseric, this appropriately named group sacked Rome in 455 & stripped the city of its treasures
Vandals
Mort
|
$500
[15]
The formula Na Al Si2O6 tells you these 4 chemical elements make up jadeite
Sodium, aluminum, silicon & oxygen
Greg
|
$500
[26]
A cowboy hat & a sombrero are worn by this Hanna-Barbera pair who turned 40 in 1999
Quick Draw McGraw & Baba Looey
|
$500
[25]
Point one arm at the horizon & the other at the North Star & the angle between them will tell you this
(A rough idea of your) Latitude
|
$500
[20]
Last name of the ruthless German seen here
Bormann (Martin)
Mort
|
| LOTS OF CHARACTER | WACKY TV NEIGHBORS | HAIL TO THE CHIEF | SPELL MY FIRST NAME | A HORATIO ALGAE NOVEL | QUOTATIONS |
|
$200
[6]
In an 1839 tale, he's Kate Nickleby's brother
Nicholas Nickleby
Greg
|
$200
[16]
Rhoda Morgenstern
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Greg
|
$200
[1]
His presidential election opponents were Hoover, Landon, Wilkie & Dewey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kevin
|
$200
[26]
Alley of "Cheers"
K-I-R-S-T-I-E
Kevin
|
$200
[30]
In the novel's unexpurgated version, Mr. & Mrs. Brown Algae practice this type of reproduction together
Sexual reproduction
|
$200
[27]
In this Shaw play, Eliza Doolittle says of her aunt, "Gin was mother's milk to her"
Pygmalion
Greg
|
|
$400
[7]
In March 2000 the only way to get "Riding The Bullet", Stephen King's tale of Alan Parker, was by doing this
Logging onto the Internet
Mort
|
$400
[15]
Ned Flanders
The Simpsons
Mort
|
$400
[2]
He lost the popular vote to JFK in 1960 by .2%, but won the presidency 8 years later in another squeaker by .7%
Richard Nixon
Mort
|
$400
[25]
Dunst of "Interview With The Vampire"
K-I-R-S-T-E-N
Mort
|
$400
[29]
The story of a seaweed called Nori takes place in this country, where it's eaten in paperlike sheets
Japan
Kevin
|
$400
[21]
Revelation 1:8 says, "I am" this "And Omega, the beginning, and the ending, saith the Lord"
Alpha
Greg
|
|
$800
[9]
Another captain he created was Captain Guy of the Julia in "Omoo"
Herman Melville
Greg
|
$600
[14]
Steve & Marcy Rhoades
Married... with Children
Greg
|
$600
[3]
In 1974 he bought Rancho del Cielo, a 688-acre ranch east of Santa Barbara in the Santa Ynez Mountains
Ronald Reagan
Greg
|
$600
[24]
Original "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Swanson
K-R-I-S-T-Y
|
$600
[28]
Seafaring algae gave their name to this "sea" in the Atlantic that Columbus encountered
Sargasso
Greg
|
$800
[19]
This English scientist wrote, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Sir Isaac Newton
Mort
|
|
$1,000
[10]
He's the "Childe" Browning sent on a quest
Roland
Greg
|
$800
[12]
Harry Bentley & Helen & Tom Willis
The Jeffersons
|
$800
[4]
Yuki, a mongrel found at a Texas gas station by daughter Luci, was his favorite pooch
Lyndon Johnson
Kevin
|
$800
[23]
Johnston of "3rd Rock"
K-R-I-S-T-E-N
|
$800
[18]
These algae, which share their name with a type of eagle, are at the riches end of the rags to riches story
Golden algae
|
$1,000
[20]
This utilitarian philosopher called natural rights "Nonsense upon stilts"
Jeremy Bentham
Mort
|
|
DD
$1,500
[8]
Last name of the Angela of "Angela's Ashes"
McCourt
Mort
|
$1,000
[13]
Millie & Jerry Helper
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Greg
|
$1,000
[5]
This president was born at the home of his paternal grandfather, who also served as president
Benjamin Harrison
Mort
|
$1,000
[22]
Scott Thomas of "The English Patient"
K-R-I-S-T-I-N
Greg
|
$1,000
[17]
Some think a "Seinfeld" episode was based on Ulva lactuca, the sea type of this seen here in its salad days
Lettuce
Greg
|
DD
$2,100
[11]
John Adams said that a "Useless man is called a disgrace, that 2 are called a law firm, & 3 or more become" this body
Congress
Greg
|
It includes 3 present Atlantic provinces, & in the 18th C. 4,000 inhabitants of it took a long trip southwest
Acadia