Mike Rohan — an attorney from Orland Park, Illinois
M J Selle — a freelance writer and editor from Katy, Texas
Bill O'Donnell — a national park ranger from Eminence, Missouri (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill | $3,800 | $6,200 | $17,400 |
$17,199
2nd place: a trip to Aruba Grand Resort |
$17,400
19 R, 0 W |
| M J | $3,800 | $6,000 | $8,800 |
$17,600
New champion: $17,600 |
$8,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Mike | $1,000 | $1,200 | $8,600 |
$16,700
3rd place: HSN.com Shopping Spree |
$9,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| BESTSELLERS | ANCIENT EGYPTIANS | GETTIN' FRIENDLY WITH MADONNA | MAGS FOR MEN | YOU GOT "GUM"? | WHAT'LL YA HAVE? |
|
$200
[2]
The 2001 World Almanac lists this "agricultural" rival at No. 3 among bestselling almanacs
The Old Farmer's Almanac
Bill
|
$200
[1]
In 47 B.C. she gave birth to Caesarion whom she claimed was the son of Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
M J
|
$200
[17]
Follow the bouncing ball: Madonna dated Rodman, who wed Electra, who once got cozy with this "purple" rocker
Prince
M J
|
$200
[12]
This mag that could be called "Hunt & Fish" has an essay contest on "How Hunting/Fishing has Influenced my Life"
Field & Stream
M J
|
$200
[7]
Pokey's buddy
Gumby
M J
|
$200
[26]
(Sofia plays bartender at the Plaza Hotel.) This cocktail popular with a certain fictional spy can be shaken or stirred
a martini
Bill
|
|
$400
[13]
David McCullough planned a joint bio of Thomas Jefferson & this man, but dropped Jefferson along the way
John Adams
Mike
|
$400
[3]
The name of this king, who reigned from age 9 to his death at 18, means "gracious of life is Amon"
Tutankhamun
M J
|
$400
[22]
Paparazzi learned to duck when trying to snap a picture of this actor/then-husband of Madonna's
Sean Penn
M J
|
$400
[18]
Yeah, I'll take a quart of milk, 2 packs of gum, a Lotto ticket &, uh, this magazine that has a "Pet of the Month"
Penthouse
M J
|
$400
[8]
Thickened stew of fish or poultry
gumbo
Mike
|
$400
[27]
(Sofia, still behind the bar, pours vodka into orange juice.) Don't try operating heavy machinery after having one of these tools
a screwdriver
M J
|
|
$600
[14]
John Gray's books include this planetary pair "Starting Over" & "in the Bedroom"
Mars & Venus
M J
|
$600
[4]
Little is known of his life because the Great Pyramid was looted in ancient times
Cheops/Khufu
M J
|
$600
[23]
Schwing! Mike Myers made out with Madonna when he played this master of air guitar
Wayne Campbell
Mike
|
$600
[19]
In 2001 you could take aim at the special 500th issue of "Guns &" this
Ammo
Bill
|
$600
[9]
Brother to Harpo & Chico
Gummo Marx
M J
|
$600
[28]
(Sofia, at the bar, shows a recently poured glass of beer with a frothy top.) A sign of good brewing, it's the body part seen here
the head
Bill
|
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
His "Report" to the House of Representatives was flying off the shelves in 1998
Kenneth Starr
M J
|
$800
[5]
In his work "Mathematike Syntaxis", this astronomer wrongly claimed that the Earth was stationary
Ptolemy
Bill
|
$800
[24]
Madonna sang "Sooner or later, I always get my man" in this film & she did: Warren Beatty
Dick Tracy
M J
|
$800
[20]
The devil is in this magazine where racy columnist Anka Radakovich gained fame
Details
|
$800
[10]
The courage to act
gumption
Bill
|
$800
[29]
(Sofia, behind the bar, garnishes a cocktail in a lowball glass with a green sprig.) The addition of the condiment seen here gives this bourbon drink its distinctive name
a mint julep
Mike
|
|
$1,000
[16]
It's the type of type referred to in Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo's "Eat Right 4 Your Type"
blood type
Mike
|
$1,000
[6]
This queen & wife of Akhenaton was the subject of numerous sculptures during her life, many of which survive
Nefertiti
Bill
|
$1,000
[25]
This Madonna pal came out with "I'm Your Woman" in '85 but she's better known for "Without You I'm Nothing"
Sandra Bernhard
Mike
|
$1,000
[21]
Launched in 1997, it calls itself "The Best Thing to Happen to Men Since Women"
Maxim
Mike
|
$1,000
[11]
A private detective, sweetheart
gumshoe
Bill
|
$1,000
[30]
(Sofia pours vodka into a zombie glass of tomato juice garnished with a celery stalk.) This "sanguine" cocktail shares its name with a 16th century English queen's nickname
a Bloody Mary
Bill
|
| SELLERS' BEST | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN | RELATIVE SUCCESS | U.S. BUILDINGS | ALLITERATURE | LANGUAGE BARRIERS |
|
$400
[17]
As this character, Peter Sellers gave unique inflections to words like "room", "phone" & "monkey"
Inspector Clouseau
Bill
|
$400
[2]
Tragically in 1999 this favorite son, his wife & her sister perished in a plane off Martha's Vineyard
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Bill
|
$400
[11]
Early TV star "Miltie"
Uncle
Bill
Mike
|
$400
[1]
This Arlington, Virginia building covers 29 acres, employs 23,000 workers & houses its own shopping center
The Pentagon
M J
|
$400
[24]
In "Gone with the Wind" she wrote of "the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain"
Margaret Mitchell
M J
|
$400
[7]
In Rome a castello might be encircled by a fosso, one of these
moat
Mike
|
|
$800
[18]
Perhaps not one of Sellers' best, "The Bobo" co-starred this Swedish-born actress to whom he was married
Britt Ekland
M J
|
$800
[13]
His daughter Anna accompanied him when he went to Yalta in 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mike
|
$800
[19]
Patrick Dennis' "Mame"
Auntie
Bill
|
$800
[3]
If Superman needs leaping practice, he could try this city's Wacker Drive, with several buildings 500 feet or higher
Chicago
Bill
|
$800
[27]
Drama whose original alternate title was "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"
Peter Pan
Mike
|
$800
[8]
At the Barcelona Olympics Mark McCoy won the 110-meter vallas, these
hurdles
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Besides blankly watching TV, it's the original occupation of Chance, Sellers' character in "Being There"
gardener
Mike
|
$1,200
[14]
These twins born November 25, 1981 were named for their grandmothers
Barbara & Jenna Bush
M J
|
$1,200
[20]
Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny
Sister
Bill
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
This NYC museum features a large glass skylight above a 6-floor spiral
the Guggenheim
Mike
|
$1,200
[28]
Right after "Oliver Twist", Dickens wrote a novel about this hero with a sense of "N"-titlement
Nicholas Nickleby
|
$1,200
[9]
It's also called Wanli Changcheng, meaning it's 10,000 li long
the Great Wall of China
Bill
|
|
$1,600
[25]
Woody Allen wrote this '60s film featuring Sellers as a lecherous psychoanalyst
What's New Pussycat?
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
Both of his sons graduated from Stanford University during the 1920s & both became engineers
Herbert Hoover
M J
|
$1,600
[21]
Labor leader Mary Jones
Mother
Mike
|
$1,200
[4]
Until 1976 the stairwell of this building housed the Liberty Bell
Independence Hall
Mike
|
— |
$1,600
[10]
Eiserner vorhang is German for this metaphorical barrier that used to divide Germany & Europe
the Iron Curtain
M J
|
|
$2,000
[26]
John Lennon was among the fans of this influential radio show starring Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan
The Goon Show
|
$2,000
[16]
The eldest son of a president, this Ohio senator of the 1940s was known as "Mr. Republican"
Robert Taft
Bill
M J
|
$2,000
[22]
American Revolutionary statesman Jonathan Trumbull
Brother
|
$2,000
[6]
Built in Boston in the 1740s by the merchant for whom it's named, it's still used as a market & meeting place
Faneuil Hall
Bill
|
— |
$2,000
[12]
In French un obstacle is this 10-letter word; the "speech" type is un defaut d'elocution
impediment
Bill
|
Interviewed on "60 Minutes" in 2001, he said, "It's been one of my lifelong jobs... to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler"
Mel Brooks