Jennifer Hawthorne — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Kip Thompson — a fourth-year medical student from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Kristine Bachand — a permit coordinator from Portland, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristine | $-200 | $-300 | $4,500 |
$1,199
3rd place: flight over Southern California on the Goodyear airship Eagle |
$3,100
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Kip | $300 | $700 | $4,300 |
$6,600
2nd place: Collette Tours trip to Hawaii |
$4,300
12 R, 2 W |
| Jennifer | $1,700 | $2,400 | $7,800 |
$9,001
New champion: $9,001 |
$7,100
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA | TV NOSTALGIA | IT'S JASON'S BAR MITZVAH | FIRST NAMES | WORDS WITHIN WORDS | PANDA-MONIUM |
|
$100
[2]
He graduated from West Point in 1915 as a second lieutenant; in 1945 he was chief of staff of the U.S. Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kip
|
$100
[1]
The Hugh O'Brian series about this legendary lawman climaxed with the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Wyatt Earp
Jennifer
|
$100
[17]
Like most of his peers, Jason has his bar mitzvah on this day of the week
Saturday
Kip
|
$100
[12]
This name means "a strong ruler", like the Lion-Hearted
Richard
Kip
|
$100
[7]
State of a rubber raft before it's inflated
flat (in in flat ed)
Kristine
|
$200
[27]
Because they can't digest cellulose, pandas may eat 90 pounds a day of the shoots of this plant
Bamboo
Kip
|
|
$200
[3]
He brought the Treaty of Versailles back to the U.S. where the Senate rejected it
Woodrow Wilson
Jennifer
|
$200
[22]
On this classic game show, a toy duck dropped down when a guest said the secret word
You Bet Your Life
Kristine
Jennifer
|
$200
[18]
Jason was jealous when twin sister Jennifer had this equivalent ceremony at age 12
Bat Mitzvah
Jennifer
|
$200
[13]
This Biblical name might mean "rest", perhaps after a flood
Noah
Kip
|
$200
[8]
Durer used his imagination to paint these 3 men
magi (in i magi nation)
Jennifer
|
$300
[24]
It's the usual color of a giant panda's ears
Black
Jennifer
|
|
$400
[5]
This "Big Bill" bellied up to the White House buffet 80 years before Clinton
William Howard Taft
Kip
|
$300
[23]
"The Lawyers" episodes of "The Bold Ones" starred this Big Daddy of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" fame
Burl Ives
Kip
|
$300
[19]
This synagogue employee, also called a hazan, taught Jason how to chant his Torah portion
Cantor
Kristine
|
$300
[14]
Beautiful, like Ronstadt's voice
Linda
Kristine
|
$300
[9]
The president has to know who's on his
side (in pre side nt)
Kristine
Jennifer
|
$400
[25]
It's the usual term for a panda's young, rarely seen in captivity
Cubs
Jennifer
|
|
DD
$500
[4]
(Hi, I'm Mitzi Kapture of Baywatch.) I grew up in Yorba Linda, California, like this president
Richard Nixon
Jennifer
|
— |
$400
[20]
Jason's guests may dance to this type of Jewish folk music, from Hebrew for "musical instruments"
Klezmer music
|
$400
[15]
Headgear for Herr Kohl
Helmut
Kip
|
$400
[10]
In Roget's, this 4-letter word is in the same category as designation
sign (in de sign ation)
Jennifer
|
$500
[26]
The red panda belongs to the family named for these animals for which it resembles
raccoons
Jennifer
|
|
$500
[6]
The last president who never flew in an airplane, he took office in 1923
Calvin Coolidge
Jennifer
|
— |
$500
[21]
Jason settled for his parents' temple but wanted to celebrate at this site on the Temple Mount
the Wailing Wall (or Western Wall)
Kristine
|
$500
[16]
It's Natalie in Russian
Natalia/Natasha
Jennifer
|
$500
[11]
In Roget's, this 4-letter insect isn't in the same category as designation
gnat (in desi gnat ion)
Kip
Jennifer
|
— |
| NATIONAL MONUMENTS | NAMES BY THE NUMBER | FROM BOOK TO SCREEN | THE "EX" FILES | SECTS | VIOLINS |
|
$200
[6]
California's Muir Woods National Monument is known for its stand of this tree, Sequoia sempervirens
Redwood
Jennifer
|
$200
[11]
Dopey, Sleepy, Doc, Bashful, Happy, Sneezy & Grumpy
The Seven Dwarfs
Kristine
|
$200
[17]
Based on a novel by Anna Quindlen, "One True Thing" stars this actress as a cancer-stricken mother
Meryl Streep
Kristine
|
$200
[1]
I've told you a billion times, it's overstatement for effect
Exaggeration
Kristine
|
$200
[16]
Members of this Christian sect founded by Charles Taze Russell often go door to door to preach the faith
Jehovah's Witnesses
Kristine
|
$200
[30]
From the name of the Roman goddess Vitula, it's what y'all might call a violin down in Nashville
a fiddle
Jennifer
|
|
$400
[7]
Ocmulgee National Monument at Macon in this state preserves some prehistoric & historic Indian villages
Georgia
Jennifer
|
$400
[12]
Moe Howard, Larry Fine & Curly Howard
The Three Stooges
Kip
|
$400
[18]
This 1998 Robin Williams tearjerker is based on a 1978 novel by Richard Matheson
What Dreams May Come
Kristine
|
$400
[2]
After Arthur's last battle, this weapon is returned to the Lady of the Lake
Excalibur
Kristine
|
$400
[21]
The musical "Hair" features a mantric chant of this Hindu sect founded in the U.S. in 1966
Hare Krishna
Jennifer
|
$400
[28]
The first of these highly prized violins was created in Italy in 1666
Stradivarius
Kristine
|
|
$600
[8]
During the Civil War, this Baltimore fort was used as a federal prison
Fort McHenry
Jennifer
|
$600
[13]
The Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Quirinal, Viminal & Palatine
Seven Hills of Rome
Jennifer
|
$800
[20]
In a 1998 adaptation of "Les Miserables", Geoffrey Rush's Javert pursues this man, played by Liam Neeson
Jean Valjean
Kip
|
$600
[3]
It's not physical activity for evil spirits, to do this is to ritually expel them
Exorcise
Kip
|
$600
[22]
From the Hebrew for "pious", this joyous Jewish mystical sect was founded in eastern Europe in the 18th century
Hasidic
Jennifer
|
$600
[25]
This style of violin playing refers to plucking the strings with your fingers
pizzicato
Jennifer
|
|
$800
[9]
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is the largest of the 13 national monuments in this SW state
Arizona
Kristine
|
$800
[14]
Wang Hong-Wen, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wen-Yuan & Jiang Qing
The Gang of Four
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[29]
1998's "Simon Birch" was a loose adaptation of this author's "A Prayer for Owen Meany"
John Irving
Kip
|
$800
[4]
Jean-Paul Sartre gave this term general usage by using it to describe his own philosophy
Existentialism
Kip
|
$1,000
[24]
The remains of a large community believed to be of this sect are at Qumran on the shore of the Dead Sea
Essenes
|
$800
[27]
This Paris-born violinist helped popularize the European style of "Le Jazz Hot"
Stéphane Grappelli
|
|
$1,000
[10]
The gypsum sand in this New Mexico national monument comes from the mountains flanking the valley
White Sands
|
$1,000
[15]
British TV comedians Corbett & Barker
The Two Ronnies
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
(Hi, I'm Jane Leeves.) I provided the voice of a ladybug in the movie "James and the Giant Peach", based on a book by this author
Roald Dahl
Kristine
|
$1,000
[5]
Crunch! It's the scientific term for the hard outer shell of an insect or crustacean
exoskeleton
Kristine
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
This sect takes its name from Haile Selassie's "prince"ly name
Rastafarians
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[26]
Born in Genoa in 1782, this virtuoso played so well listeners thought he was in league with the devil
Niccolo Paganini
Kristine
Jennifer
|
In 1909 he exhibited a group of his paintings entitled "Nympheas: Series de paysages d'eau"
Claude Monet