Ron Ostrow — an actor from Los Angeles, California
Daniel Mendelsohn — a lawyer from Santa Monica, California
Patrick Kerr — a freelance writer originally from Fort Scott, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $31,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick | $0 | $1,200 | $4,000 |
$7,700
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Daniel | $2,400 | $5,800 | $24,400 |
$24,400
New champion: $24,400 |
$25,000
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ron | $2,000 | $3,200 | $7,600 |
$8,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
14 R, 2 W |
| ASTRONOMERS | THE THREE STOOGES | OLD ROMAN TIMES | NEW CARS | PHOBIAS | IT COMES BEFORE... |
|
$200
[5]
In Polish this heliocentric astronomer's name is Mikolaj Kopernik
Copernicus
Ron
|
$200
[7]
In "I'll Never Heil Again", the Stooges made fun of the Nazis & this Stooge played Hailstone the Dictator
Moe
Ron
|
$200
[26]
Cicero was noted for his vitriolic attacks on this Julius Caesar supporter & triumvirate member
Mark Antony
Daniel
|
$200
[1]
One version of Chrysler's PT Cruiser has a paneled look like the hip station wagons known as these
Woodies
Ron
|
$200
[11]
A hemophobe might avoid a doctor's office because he's afraid of this
blood
Ron
|
$200
[17]
It comes before locker & note & follows tender
foot
Patrick
|
|
$400
[15]
Helen Hogg found over 200 of the variable type of these, whose light varies in helpfully regular intervals
stars
|
$400
[8]
Soitenly! This Stooge's real name was Jerome Horwitz
Curly
Patrick
Ron
|
$400
[27]
Apicius is the first known gastronome to force-feed geese figs to produce this, now used to make pate
foie gras (fat liver)
Ron
|
$400
[2]
Unlike characters in the Keanu Reeves movie, this new Toyota can't hang frozen in mid-air & dodge bullets
Matrix
Ron
|
$400
[13]
If you have this, a fear of spiders, steer clear of the movie of the same name
arachnophobia
Ron
|
$400
[18]
It comes before stem & teaser & follows lame
brain
Patrick
|
|
$600
[16]
There were only 7 known planets in our solar system when John Couch Adams predicted the existence of this one
Neptune
Daniel
|
$600
[9]
This Oscar-nominated Stooges short shares its name with a 1997 film starring Tommy Lee Jones & Will Smith
Men In Black
Daniel
|
$600
[28]
Claudius spent his youth in this territory, though we're not sure which of the 3 parts he was in
Gaul
Daniel
|
$600
[3]
Ford plans to produce only 25,000 a year of this reinterpreted classic model
Thunderbird
Patrick
|
$600
[14]
Another term for rabies, it's also the fear of water
hydrophobia
Patrick
|
$600
[19]
It comes before bag & counter & follows jelly
bean
Patrick
|
|
$800
[24]
Asteroid observations helped Harold Jones establish this at about 93 million miles
distance from the earth to the sun
|
$800
[10]
Joe de Rita was the third Stooge in their appearance in this "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad" movie from 1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Daniel
|
$800
[29]
The wealthy freedman Trimalchio is a character in this Petronius tale turned into a Fellini film
Satyricon
|
DD
$800
[4]
Called "the original SUV", this over 60-year-old brand has a new model, the Liberty
Jeep
Patrick
|
$800
[22]
Chorophobia is the fear of doing this; sometimes it can be overcome by taking certain lessons
dancing
|
$800
[20]
It comes before luck & roast & follows chamber
pot
Ron
|
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1959 Martin Ryle, whose work led to quasars' discovery, became professor of this type of astronomy at Cambridge
radio astronomer
|
$1,000
[12]
He was a member of the Stooges in their first film appearance in 1930, left, then rejoined the act in 1946
Shemp
Daniel
|
$1,000
[30]
A Roman coin from around 100 A.D. shows someone giving Trajan an orbis terrarum, one of these
globe
Daniel
|
$1,000
[6]
The H2 is GM's smaller version of this roadhog
Humvee (Hummer)
|
$1,000
[23]
A fear of these animals is called taurophobia
bulls
Ron
|
$1,000
[21]
It comes before dressing & house & follows dude
ranch
Daniel
Ron
|
| BODIES OF WATER | OLD SCHOOL RAP | CELEBRITY POLITICIANS | GRIMM FAIRY TALES | THE "RAT" PACK | FRANK, DEAN OR SAMMY |
|
$400
[1]
The name of this Great Lake doesn't refer to its size; it's from the French for "upper lake"
Superior
Daniel
|
$400
[2]
Hip-hop music grew up around 2 types of performers: the DJ & this one, as in Hammer
MC
Patrick
|
$400
[8]
Long before becoming a congressman in 1994, he recorded the hit "The Beat Goes On"
Sonny Bono
Daniel
|
$400
[20]
Rumpelstiltskin helped the miller's daughter by spinning this into gold
straw
Ron
|
$400
[13]
A venomous critter of the genus crotalis
rattlesnake
Patrick
|
$400
[15]
He set a Major League Baseball record in June of 1998 by slamming 20 home runs in one month
Sammy Sosa
Daniel
|
|
$800
[3]
This saltiest body of water is so full of minerals that it keeps everyone afloat
Dead Sea
Daniel
|
$800
[4]
"Techno Scratch" was a signature tune by Knights of this piece of platter-spinning equipment
Turntables
Daniel
|
$800
[9]
Elected to the House in 1994, Rep. Steve Largent was later voted into this pro sport's hall of fame
football
Daniel
|
$800
[21]
She "had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold"
Rapunzel
Patrick
|
$800
[14]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew by a bicycle) It's the mechanical device I'm using on my bike
ratchet
Daniel
|
$800
[16]
This Muppet master voiced the Jedi master Yoda in the film "The Empire Strikes Back"
Frank Oz
Daniel
|
|
DD
$800
[23]
To go bottom fishing in this Russian lake, bring a 5,315-foot line with you
Lake Baikal
Patrick
|
$1,200
[5]
This Grandmaster, partner of Grandmaster Mellie Mel, pioneered "quick mixing" of musical sound bites
Grandmaster Flash
Daniel
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
This U.S. governor is also the author of the book "I Ain't Got Time to Bleed"
Jesse Ventura
Daniel
|
$1,200
[30]
In one story, this title girl & her sister Rose-Red encounter a wicked dwarf who has bewitched the king's son
Snow White
Patrick
|
$1,200
[25]
A dish of stewed vegetables from southern France
ratatouille
Patrick
|
$1,200
[17]
This sentimental film director won 3 Oscars in the 1930s
Frank Capra
Daniel
|
|
$1,200
[22]
David Livingstone was the first European to explore this river on which Victoria Falls is located
Zambezi
|
$1,600
[6]
(Hi, I'm Scott Ian of Anthrax.) In 1991 on "Bring Tha Noize", we brought the metal & this this group, led by Chuck D, brought the rap
Public Enemy
Daniel
|
$1,200
[10]
Now a TV host, he was the mayor of Cincinnati in the 1970s
Jerry Springer
Daniel
|
$1,600
[29]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holding an animal.) In a Grimm tale, a rich man wanted a child, even if it was only one of these, similar to the American porcupine
hedgehog
Daniel
|
$1,600
[26]
The formal approval of an agreement
ratification
Ron
|
$1,600
[18]
In part about his years as Secretary of State, his memoir was entitled "As I Saw It"
Dean Rusk
Patrick
Daniel
Ron
|
|
$2,000
[24]
Add 2 letters to the name of a bay bordering France & Spain to get this bay in Florida
Biscayne
Patrick
Daniel
|
$2,000
[7]
Doug E. Davis became "The Original Human Beat Box" with this new last name
Fresh
Daniel
|
$2,000
[12]
Al Lewis, who ran for governor of New York in 1998, is best known for his role as Grandpa on this 1960s TV show
The Munsters
Daniel
|
$2,000
[28]
A donkey a cat, a dog & a rooster aspire to be the town musicians of this city
Bremen
Ron
|
$2,000
[27]
He's the British playwright who wrote "The Winslow Boy"
Terence Rattigan
Ron
|
$2,000
[19]
"High Hopes", "My Kind of Town" & "Three Coins in the Fountain" were all penned by this lyricist
Sammy Cahn
Daniel
|
Rising to over 14,000 feet, the highest paved road in North America is found in this U.S. state
Colorado