Stacy Lammers — a communications specialist from Lansing, Michigan
Pete Heinricher — an environmental compliance specialist from Urbana, Illinois
Laura Rhodes — a teacher from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura | $2,500 | $3,700 | $4,700 |
$6,200
3rd place: JBL Harmony Stereo System |
$4,700
17 R, 3 W |
| Pete | $200 | $2,300 | $4,800 |
$9,401
2nd place: Trip to Hotel Melia Victoria, Majorca, Spain |
$7,100
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Stacy | $900 | $1,500 | $6,400 |
$11,101
New champion: $11,101 |
$5,900
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| HISTORIC NEBRASKA | HATS ON! | YELLOW MUSIC | THEY'RE IN CHARGE | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS | ON THE ROCKS |
|
$100
[29]
Thousands receive care every year at this institution for homeless, neglected & abused children founded in 1917
Father Flanagan's Boys Town/Home
Pete
|
$100
[1]
Children's book title character who wears the hat seen here
the Cat in the Hat
Pete
Stacy
|
$100
[11]
This song begins, "In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed the sea"
"Yellow Submarine"
Stacy
|
$100
[12]
Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi
Japan
Pete
|
$100
[18]
Stay the course & don't change these "in midstream"
horses
Laura
|
$200
[13]
Though it sounds like a reference to oil, it's the branch of geology that studies rock composition
petrology
Laura
|
|
$200
[2]
With the purchase of this region in 1803, the area now known as Nebraska became part of the United States
the Louisiana Territory (the Louisiana Purchase accepted)
Stacy
|
$200
[3]
From the Spanish for "shade", it's the hat seen here, senor
a sombrero
Stacy
|
$200
[10]
That's Paul McCartney whispering in the background on this singer's "Mellow Yellow"
Donovan
Laura
|
$200
[14]
President Jacques Chirac
France
Stacy
|
$200
[19]
To do this is to keep your mouth tightly shut like a bivalve
to clam up
Stacy
|
$300
[24]
While limonite adds a yellowish tinge to marble, hematite adds this color
red
Laura
Pete
|
|
$300
[23]
In 1982 Nebraskans passed "Initiative 300", banning out-of-state corporations from buying these
farms (or ranches)
|
$300
[4]
As Tarzan could tell you, this hat's name refers to the plant fiber it's made from
a pith helmet
Laura
|
$300
[7]
This Tony Orlando & Dawn song asks, "It's been three long years, do you still want me?"
"Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree"
Stacy
|
$300
[15]
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
Germany
Pete
|
$300
[20]
Now meaning very relaxed, to be as "loose as" this animal originally meant you were promiscuous
a goose
Laura
|
$400
[25]
This variety of quartz is a beautiful birthstone
amethyst
Laura
|
|
$500
[28]
On May 6, 1877 this great Sioux Indian chief surrendered to the U.S. Army at Fort Robinson
Crazy Horse
Pete
|
$400
[5]
Thishat's name comes from a Rabbie Burns poem
a tam o' shanter
Laura
|
$400
[8]
From 1970's "Ladies of the Canyon" album, it's Joni Mitchell's song of ecological concerns
"Big Yellow Taxi"
Laura
|
$400
[16]
Prime Minister John Howard
Australia
Laura
Pete
|
$400
[21]
If someone is weeping these reptilian drops, he's pretending to grieve
crocodile tears
Stacy
|
$500
[26]
Some metamorphic rocks with light & dark-colored bands have this pleasant-sounding gname
gneiss
Pete
|
|
DD
$600
[27]
From 1855 to 1867, this city was the territorial capital
Omaha
Pete
|
$500
[6]
The name of this hat is elementary, my dear contestant
deerstalker
Laura
|
$500
[9]
The title of a 1960 No. 1 song, it's what "she wore for the first time today... so in a blanket she wanted to stay"
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"
Laura
|
$500
[17]
President Arpad Goncz
Hungary
|
$500
[22]
When I do something well, it leaves me feeling "as proud as" this fowl
a peacock
Laura
|
— |
| JOHNNY GILBERT DOES SHAKESPEARE! | FOOD FACTS | U.S. CITIES | 1997 | THE MOVIES | ODD WORDS |
|
$400
[15]
Johnny should be famous for his incomparable performance in this role heard here:"To be or not to be, that is the question..."
Hamlet
Stacy
|
$200
[11]
The English eat a mince pie named for this December holiday
Christmas
Pete
|
$200
[8]
This Michigan city's civic center has 6 complexes, including the Joe Louis Arena & the Ford Auditorium
Detroit
Laura
|
$200
[25]
In the largest meat recall in U.S. history, 25 million pounds of this were recalled in August
beef (hamburger meat)
Stacy
|
$200
[1]
"Key Largo" was the last film he made with his fourth wife, Lauren Bacall
Humphrey Bogart
Stacy
|
$200
[19]
Megrim is a similar alternate word for this pain
migraine
Laura
|
|
$600
[16]
No one slept through Johnny's performance in this role:"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand..."
Lady Macbeth
Pete
|
$400
[12]
These rock cornish animals are so small you'll probably need a whole one for each person
game hens
Stacy
|
$400
[4]
The name of this Minnesota city comes from an Indian word for "water" & the Greek word for "city"
Minneapolis
Stacy
|
$400
[26]
At least 62 wagons reenacted this religious group's 1847 trek from Illinois to Nebraska to Utah
Mormons
Pete
|
$400
[2]
Hans Conried provided the voices of Mr. Darling & Captain Hook for this 1953 film
Peter Pan
Stacy
|
$400
[20]
To decaudate is to do this, like an old farmer's wife did to a trio of blind mice
chop off their tails
Laura
|
|
$800
[17]
Johnny was mad about playing this title character:"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child..."
King Lear
Pete
|
$600
[13]
The blood of this animal is one of the main ingredients in blood pudding
a pig
Laura
Pete
|
$600
[5]
Areas of this Texas city include Hollywood Park, Castle Hills & Alamo Heights
San Antonio
Stacy
|
$800
[24]
Alexis Herman was sworn into this Clinton Cabinet post in May
Secretary of Labor
Stacy
|
$600
[3]
Doris Day's most "negative" film titles may be "Do Not Disturb" & "Please Don't Eat" these
the Daisies
Pete
|
$600
[21]
This term for a disturbance may be a combination of "ruction" & "rumpus"
ruckus
Laura
|
|
$1,000
[18]
Johnny was downright spritely in this role:"If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you have slumbered here while these visions did appear..."
Puck
Laura
|
— |
$800
[9]
It's home to the University of Kentucky & to horseracing's Toyota Blue Grass Stakes
Lexington
Laura
Pete
Stacy
|
— |
$800
[6]
Leonard Maltin called the title character of this German silent film the ugliest vampire in movie history
Nosferatu
Stacy
|
$800
[22]
Lentigines are these & they may be spotted on a youngster
freckles
|
|
DD
$2,500
[14]
Johnny's performance in this role featured the death scene heard here:"O happy dagger this is thy sheath; there rest and let me die..."
Juliet (in Romeo and Juliet )
Pete
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
The name of this city at the hub of California's San Joaquin Valley is Spanish for "Ash Tree"
Fresno
|
— |
DD
$1,500
[7]
This 1984 film, David Lean's last, depicts the culture clash between east & west on a subcontinent
A Passage to India
Stacy
|
$1,000
[23]
Decorticate a dogwood & you remove this from it
its bark
Pete
|
It's the body part where you'll find the Mount of Apollo, the Mount of the Moon & the Girdle of Venus
(the palm of) the hand