Darren Davis — a web developer from Seattle, Washington
Laura Rhodes — a teacher from Chicago, Illinois
Jeremy King — a laundromat night manager from Columbia, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy | $0 | $1,100 | $4,600 |
$9,200
2nd place: Trip to Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C. |
$4,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laura | $400 | $2,400 | $8,000 |
$9,201
New champion: $9,201 |
$8,000
20 R, 2 W |
| Darren | $-100 | $2,000 | $3,800 |
$7,000
3rd place: Panasonic DVD Player |
$3,800
13 R, 2 W |
| NO. 1 HITS | WWII | THE 3 TENORS | THE 4 SEASONS | THE 5 BOOKS OF MOSES | THE "6"th SENSE |
|
$100
[2]
In 1986 she topped the charts with "How Will I Know" & "The Greatest Love of All"
Whitney Houston
Jeremy
|
$100
[15]
After the invasion of Poland, Great Britain & this nation declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939
France
Jeremy
|
$100
[29]
The boys first teamed up in 1990 for a concert at the Baths of Caracalla in this city
Rome
Jeremy
|
$100
[17]
Chamonix, France was the site of the first of these Olympics in 1924
Winter Olympics
Darren
|
$100
[24]
After losing his coat of many colors to his brothers, he lost another garment to Potiphar's eager wife
Joseph
Darren
|
$100
[11]
In the old saw, it precedes "Half a dozen of the other"
6 of 1
Laura
|
|
$200
[8]
1984s "The Reflex" was this band's first No. 1 song in the U.S.; "Hungry Like The Wolf" peaked at No. 3
Duran Duran
Jeremy
|
$200
[14]
Led by Anilewicz, the valiant fighters of this Polish city area held off Nazi attacks in 1943
The Warsaw Ghetto
Laura
|
$200
[6]
The 3 Tenors inspired Kathleen Cassello, Kallen Esperian & Cynthia Lawrence to tour as this group
The 3 Sopranos
Laura
|
$200
[16]
The first day of summer in Bolivia is in this month
December
Laura
Darren
|
$300
[3]
Name of the book whose second verse begins, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation"
Numbers
Jeremy
|
$200
[22]
Tod Stiles & Buzz Murdock cruised America in a 1960 Corvette in this TV series
Route 66
Laura
|
|
$300
[12]
This singer was habit-forming with his 1986 hit "Addicted To Love"
Robert Palmer
Laura
|
$300
[1]
Gen. McAuliffe's famous one-word reply to a German demand for surrender during the Battle of the Bulge
"Nuts!"
Laura
|
$300
[4]
Among the classic songs interpreted by Pavarotti is this one also called "Nel Blu, Dipinto Di Blu"
"Volare"
|
$300
[18]
In Italy, spring is known as this; pass the pasta!
Primavera
Darren
|
$400
[9]
This fifth book of the Pentateuch consists mostly of Moses laying down the law
Deuteronomy
Jeremy
Darren
|
$300
[10]
Ah, yes, I remember it well, this year of the original "Woodstock Music & Art Fair"
1969
Darren
|
|
$400
[13]
The movie "Buster" starred this singer & drummer, who hit No. 1 with "Two Hearts", the movie's theme
Phil Collins
Jeremy
|
DD
$500
[5]
Seen here, he commanded the British 8th Army from 1942 to 1944
Gen. Bernard Montgomery (of El-Alamein)
Jeremy
|
$400
[28]
On their 1994 & 1998 albums, Luciano performs "Nessun Dorma" from this composer's "Turandot"
Giacomo Puccini
Laura
|
$400
[19]
Thomas Paine scorned this seasonal warrior & the "Sunshine Patriot" in a 1776 pamphlet
Summer soldier
Laura
|
$500
[25]
Sarah's handmaid bore Abraham this son & was told, "His hand will be against every man"
Ishmael
Jeremy
|
$400
[23]
According to Tennyson, the number of men in the Light Brigade during its fateful charge
The 600
Darren
|
|
$500
[21]
No. 1 songs from her "Forever Your Girl" album include the title track & "Cold Hearted"
Paula Abdul
Laura
|
$500
[7]
This admiral directed Japan's naval operations in the year following Pearl Harbor
Isoroku Yamamoto
Jeremy
Laura
|
$500
[27]
From Greek for a certain musical instrument, it's the type of tenor Placido Domingo is
Lyric
Darren
|
$500
[20]
In the first line of "Richard III", this is "Made glorious summer by this sun of York"
"The winter of our discontent"
Laura
|
— |
$500
[26]
In both an Iron Maiden hit song & the apocalypse of St. John, it's the number of the beast
666
Darren
|
| METRO MIAMI | BLACK & WHITE CLASSICS | SPELL IT OUT | COMMUNICATION | RICH FELLAS | IT'S A MYSTERY |
|
$200
[3]
Warm, inviting Miami lies just 2 degrees north of this tropic line
Tropic of Cancer
Darren
|
$200
[6]
Stuck in the wilderness in "The Gold Rush", he boils his boot for dinner
Charlie Chaplin
Darren
|
$200
[27]
A sexy 60-year-old would know how to spell...
S-E-X-A-G-E-N-A-R-I-A-N
Laura
|
$200
[26]
In 1979 Saatchi & Saatchi, Britain's largest of these agencies, helped bring Margaret Thatcher to power
Advertising
|
$200
[12]
The villainous broadcast tycoon in "Tomorrow Never Dies" reminded some of this Australian-born mogul
Rupert Murdoch
Laura
|
$200
[4]
With his first Maigret novel in 1931, he's considered one of the inventors of the police procedural
Georges Simenon
|
|
$400
[10]
You may have to claw your way into Joe's popular spot for the "stone" type of these crustaceans
Crabs
Jeremy
|
$400
[7]
In a 1944 classic, it's the title type of insurance Barbara Stanwyck takes out on her husband
Double Indemnity
Laura
|
$600
[11]
Phone home & then spell...
E-X-T-R-A-T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-I-A-L
Laura
|
$400
[22]
One channel of communication, perhaps with the dead; its plural form means all press & broadcasters
a medium
Jeremy
|
$400
[2]
The 2 millionaires Jacqueline Bouvier married
John F. Kennedy & Aristotle Onassis
Laura
|
$400
[5]
Store det. Wolf J. Flywheel in the film "The Big Store", Ron Goulart made him a master detective in a 1998 book
Groucho Marx
|
|
$600
[25]
The University of Miami football team shares its name with these dreaded local events
hurricanes
Jeremy
|
$800
[8]
In 1953 Audrey Hepburn won hearts as the runaway princess in this film
Roman Holiday
Darren
|
— |
$600
[21]
Violin strings do it to produce sound; a pager does it to signal you silently
Vibrate
Laura
|
$600
[13]
Pulitzer winner James Merrill could focus on poetry--his dad founded a brokerage house with this man
Edmund Lynch
Darren
|
$600
[16]
His crime novel "Rum Punch" was filmed by Quentin Tarantino as "Jackie Brown"
Elmore Leonard
Laura
|
|
$800
[18]
It's one of Miami Beach's best-known hotels & perhaps the one with the most elegant name
The Fontainebleau
Laura
|
$1,000
[9]
This 1939 film includes the line "What do they know of heaven and hell, Cathy, who know nothing of life?"
Wuthering Heights
Laura
|
— |
$800
[20]
A classic model of communication refers to the person at the end stage as this, like part of a phone
Receiver
Laura
Darren
|
$800
[14]
This fast food co.'s stock took a quarter pounding when it didn't make the list of Warren Buffett's major holdings
McDonald's
Jeremy
Darren
|
$800
[17]
Mr. Contreras lives downstairs from this Paretsky P.I.
VI Warshawski
Jeremy
|
|
$1,000
[19]
Directional name for the area that's the home of Miami's Art Deco District
South Beach
Jeremy
|
DD
$1,100
[1]
(Hi, I'm Janet Leigh.) In "Psycho", it's the name of the establishment where I met my end
the Bates Motel
Jeremy
|
— |
$1,000
[23]
Add 3 letters to "oration" to get this word for the conclusion of a speech
Per (Peroration)
|
$1,000
[15]
Once chairman of the Chase Manahattan Bank, he's a founding board member of the Trilateral Commission
David Rockefeller
|
$1,000
[24]
This "L.A. Confidential" author's "My Dark Places" looks into the real investigation of his mom's murder
James Ellroy
|
In its history this government body has had a total of 108 members, 106 of them men
The Supreme Court