First game of Season 10.
Karen L. Jones — a freelance puzzle editor from New Rochelle, New York
Dan Cordas — a medical student from Long Beach, California
Robert Pantel — a civil engineer from Lyme, New Hampshire
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert | $1,800 | $4,700 | $7,500 |
$10,900
New champion: $10,900 |
$7,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dan | $100 | $1,100 | $600 |
$1,099
3rd place: Benrus ladies' gold quartz watch |
$4,100
17 R, 8 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Karen | $1,200 | $2,600 | $5,400 |
$10,799
2nd place: NEC Versa notebook computer, reference books |
$5,400
17 R, 0 W |
| MAMMALS | THE MOVIES | U.S.A. | THE 1990s | AROUND THE HOUSE | FRENCH |
|
$100
[1]
Some of the finest wool in the world comes from the rambouillet, a breed of this
sheep
Dan
|
$100
[12]
Its last line is "After all, tomorrow is another day"
Gone with the Wind
Karen
|
$100
[6]
The Vermeil room of this Washington, D.C. residence is noted for its golden plates & vases
the White House
Karen
|
$100
[17]
In 1991 this phenomenon of nature killed fans at the U.S. Open & PGA Championships
lightning
Robert
|
$100
[11]
Types of these are area, scatter & throw
rugs
Karen
|
$100
[25]
If you're jewelry shopping, you may want to know that this precious metal is platine
platinum
Dan
Karen
|
|
$200
[2]
Once widely used to pull funeral cars, Friesian horses are always this color
black
Dan
|
$200
[13]
This 1946 Jimmy Stewart-Donna Reed film was based on the short story "The Greatest Gift"
It's A Wonderful Life
Robert
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$200
[7]
Once a month bargain hunters head for the Rose Bowl Flea Market & Swap Meet in this Calif. city
Pasadena
Karen
|
$200
[18]
He won his first full term as mayor of Chicago April 2, 1991
(Richard) Daley
Dan
|
$200
[21]
It's what a bathroom usually has that a half bath doesn't
a bathtub
Karen
|
$200
[26]
The French call this country L'Afrique du Sud
South Africa
Robert
|
|
$300
[3]
This lab animal is a member of the cavy family; its scientific name is Cavia porcellus
a guinea pig
Karen
|
$300
[14]
In this 1963 P.O.W. film, Steve McQueen was the "Cooler King" & James Garner the "Scrounger"
The Great Escape
Robert
|
$300
[8]
The Cafe du Monde in this Louisiana city has been serving cafe au lait & beignets since 1862
New Orleans
Dan
|
$300
[19]
Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker won the 1992 "Profile in Courage" award named for this President
John F. Kennedy
Karen
|
$300
[22]
Square, flat & with legs that fold, it's brought out on poker nights & to handle holiday overflows
card table
Karen
|
$300
[27]
If you want to know this, say "Quelle heure est-il?"
What time is it?
Robert
|
|
$400
[4]
Some of these primates, such as macaques, can swim
monkeys
Robert
|
$400
[15]
Spencer Tracy died in 1967, a few weeks after completing this film, his 9th with Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
Karen
|
$400
[9]
Big Sky is a popular resort community in this state known as "Big Sky Country"
Montana
Robert
|
$400
[20]
On May 24, 1990 Emperor Akihito expressed regret over Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of this peninsular country
Korea
Robert
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$400
[23]
A candlestick fixture on a wall, ore a similar electric one
a sconce
Robert
|
$400
[28]
To find this on a train, ask, "Ou est le wagon-restaurant?"
the dining car
Dan
|
|
$500
[5]
Of the 4 members of the camel family found in South America, only these 2 are domesticated
a llama and the alpaca
Robert
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$500
[16]
Gary Cooper got an Oscar nomination for his role as Lou Gehrig in this 1942 film
Pride of the Yankees
Dan
|
$500
[10]
This state's Odessa College hosts an annual Shakespeare festival in a replica of the Globe Theatre
Texas
Dan
|
$500
[30]
In 1992 a Vatican court annulled her first marriage, to French playboy Philippe Junot
Caroline of Monaco
Karen
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
A tambour, made of rounded wood strips glued to canvas, is found on this type of desk
roll top desk
Robert
|
$500
[29]
"S'il vout plait, cesser de fumer" means would you please stop doing this
smoking
Robert
|
| WORLD CAPITALS | FISH DISHES | GEOLOGY | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | HAIL TO THE CHIEF | BOOKS & AUTHORS |
|
$200
[1]
This Finnish city is the most northerly capital in continental Europe
Helsinki
Karen
|
$200
[4]
This traditional dish of England is simply deep-fried fillets & fries
fish & chips
Dan
|
$200
[11]
It's the part of a river where you'd find the delta
the mouth
Robert
|
$200
[16]
Versions of this instrument have been made with valves instead of a slide
trombone
Robert
|
$200
[21]
In 1959 his New York City tomb became a National Memorial
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert
|
$200
[26]
Ford Madox Ford wrote 3 novels about Catherine Howard, this king's fifth wife
Henry VIII
Dan
|
|
$400
[2]
Its sheltered harbor lies less than 100 miles south of Key West, Florida
Havana
Dan
|
$400
[5]
The Japanese typically begin a meal with this dish of sliced raw fish served with ginger or horseradish
sashimi
Robert
Karen
|
$400
[12]
Glaciers don't have a cow, but they do have one of these when a chunk breaks off
a calf
Dan
|
$400
[17]
The contra type of this instrument is the lowest-pitched member of the woodwind family
bassoon
Robert
|
$400
[22]
Referring to his daughter, he once quipped that he could be President or control Alice, but not both
Theodore Roosevelt
Karen
|
$400
[27]
This author of "Space" once served on NASA's Advisory Council
Michener
Dan
|
|
$600
[3]
Once the capital of the British East Africa protectorate, it's been Kenya's capital since 1963
Nairobi
Robert
|
$600
[6]
In addition to anchovies, a salade nicoise contains this fish
tuna
Karen
|
$600
[13]
Mafic magma is thought to originate in this solid layer beneath the earth's crust
the mantle
Dan
|
$600
[18]
In a 1961 record Johnny Cash called this stringed instrument a "Tennessee flat-top box"
guitar
Dan
|
$600
[23]
Some blamed his death on a Shawnee curse that was put on him at the Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
Karen
|
$600
[28]
He described his sensational 1931 novel "Sanctuary" as "The most horrific tale I could imagine"
Faulkner
Karen
|
|
$800
[8]
Afghanistan's parliament is housed in the Dar Ol-Aman Palace in this city
Kabul
Dan
|
$800
[7]
Conger eel, whiting & red mullet are traditional ingredients in this French stew
bouillabaisse
Dan
|
$800
[14]
It's the term for the crater formed by a volcano that has exploded & collapsed
a caldera
Robert
|
$800
[19]
Powered by steam & used on riverboats, this keyboard instrument's sound can carry over 10 miles
calliope
Robert
Dan
|
$800
[24]
While playing football for West Point, he injured his knee tackling Jim Thorpe
Eisenhower
Dan
|
$800
[29]
This 1887 novel by onetime ostrich farmer Rider Haggard is known by a single pronoun
She
Dan
|
|
$1,000
[9]
This capital & largest city of Antigua & Barbuda shares its name with Newfoundland's capital
St. John's
Robert
Dan
|
$1,000
[10]
A Spanish appetizer, croquetitas de camarones are fried croquettes of this shellfish
shrimp
Dan
|
$1,000
[15]
This region of Northwest Italy has lent its name to any large expanse of land at the foot of a mountain
Piedmont
Robert
|
$1,000
[20]
Sebastien Erard perfected a pedal device in the 19th century to raise the pitch of its strings by 1 or 2 half-steps
the harp
Dan
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
Within a 3 1/2 year period, he became Mayor of Buffalo, Governor of N.Y. & President of the U.S.
Grover Cleveland
Dan
|
DD
$1,500
[30]
This James Joyce work was called "the first attempt to articulate the wordless world of sleep"
Finnegan's Wake
Dan
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In 1919 he became the first General of the Armies of the U.S.
John Pershing