Krista Cain — an optician from Carrollton, Georgia
Steve Mandella — an assistant security manager originally from North Huntington, Pennsylvania
Nanette Wargo — a graduate student from Sauk Village, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $53,030)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanette | $-1,600 | $2,800 | $13,000 |
$11,963
3rd place: trip to Waikik Beach & stay at Outrigger Hotel |
$13,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Steve | $2,600 | $3,400 | $8,600 |
$17,200
New champion: $17,200 |
$8,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Krista | $2,600 | $2,200 | $10,400 |
$13,000
2nd place: trip to Aspen, Colorado provided by ski.com |
$11,400
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS | THE ROLE PLAYED | THE 1880s | PEOPLE | IT'S PARTY TIME! | YIDDISH WORDS |
|
$200
[1]
Many say that Tufu was this country's greatest poet
China
Steve
|
$200
[19]
Theda Bara, Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor
Cleopatra
Steve
|
$200
[2]
In 1889, with Dumas & de Maupassant protesting loudly, this 984-foot structure opened near the Seine
Eiffel Tower
Krista
|
$200
[7]
This pair of illusionists has played to more people live in Las Vegas than any other performers
Siegfried & Roy
Nanette
|
$200
[10]
Emphasizing drinking & merrymaking, this German festival is an autumn tradition
Oktoberfest
Krista
|
$600
[26]
Traditionally, a Jew might daven, do this, 3 times a day; a Muslim does it 5 times a day
pray
Krista
|
|
$400
[8]
Steingrimur Thorsteinsson translated "The Arabian Nights" into this language spoken in Rekjavik
Icelandic
Krista
|
$400
[20]
Sandra Dee, Deborah Walley, Sally Field
Gidget
|
$400
[3]
Shortly after Garfield was shot, this notorious young outlaw was shot dead
**Billy the Kid (*Jesse James)
Steve
Krista
|
$400
[15]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Apollo.) Along with Diana Ross, Gladys Knight had a hand in discovering these singers after they appeared here in the late '60s
Jackson 5 (Jacksons)
Nanette
Steve
Krista
|
$400
[11]
Named for an auto part, this party is held in a sports stadium parking lot
tailgate party
Krista
|
$800
[27]
A Yiddish art critic might describe Rubens' women as this, meaning "plump"
zaftig
Nanette
|
|
$600
[9]
The blind 19th c. poet Antonio Feliciano de Castilho was a leading literary figure in this European country
Portugal
Nanette
|
$600
[21]
George Montgomery, Fess Parker, John Wayne
Davy Crockett
|
$600
[4]
Doctors in the news included "Dr. Jekyll" & this rabies curer
Pasteur
Steve
|
$600
[18]
The Wall Street Journal has called this "Nightline" host the "pre-eminent TV interviewer in America"
Ted Koppel
Steve
|
$600
[12]
New president Clinton attended 11 of these on January 20, 1993
inaugural balls
Krista
|
$1,000
[28]
To answer the question asked in song by Linda Ronstadt, it's Yiddish for "So?" or "Well?"
What's nu?
|
|
$800
[16]
One of Maeve Binchy's first plays, "End of Term", premiered in this world capital, her birthplace
Dublin
Nanette
|
DD
$1,000
[22]
Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, Dame Judi Dench
Queen Elizabeth (I)
Steve
|
$800
[5]
The 1885 Congress of Berlin passed out slices of this continent like cake
Africa
Nanette
|
$800
[24]
A sign on L.A.'s Sunset Blvd. marks the site where in 1975 he opened the first chocolate chip cookie store
Famous Amos
Nanette
|
$800
[13]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) Alice & the Mad Hatter had this kind of party in chapter 7 of "Alice in Wonderland"
a tea party
Steve
|
— |
|
$1,000
[17]
This man & his sister wrote the novel "A Year at Hartlebury" under pseudonyms in 1834, before he was Britain's P.M.
Disraeli
Nanette
|
$1,000
[23]
Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Arnold Vosloo
the Mummy
Steve
Krista
|
$1,000
[6]
On June 20, 1887 Queen Victoria got her shot at meeting this markswoman
Annie Oakley
Steve
|
$1,000
[25]
She's the financial adviser who's showed us "The Road to Wealth" & "The Courage to Be Rich"
(Suze) Orman
Nanette
|
$1,000
[14]
In a No. 6 Hit from 1972, Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band were headed to this title function
"Garden Party"
|
— |
| AFRICA | TIME FOR A BEVERAGE | TOUGH '70s TV | MYTHELLANY | I'D LIKE TO BUY AN OWL | "PAT" |
|
$400
[19]
This former child star served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976
Shirley Temple (Black)
Nanette
|
$400
[1]
For "corrupting the youth of Athens" Socrates was compelled to drink this in 399 B.C.
hemlock
Steve
|
$400
[2]
A 1977 Saturday morning cartoon called "I Am the Greatest" featured "The Adventures of" this champ
Muhammad Ali
Steve
|
$400
[11]
Celtic myth tells us the Tuatha De Danann often live underground in this country
Ireland
Krista
|
$400
[5]
The ancient Greeks believed that the owl was sacred to this goddess of wisdom
(Pallas) Athena
Nanette
Krista
|
$800
[28]
It's the murder of one's own father
patricide
Steve
|
|
$800
[20]
(Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Africa.) The Yatta Pateau in Tsavo National Park is the world's largest flow of this substance
lava
Krista
|
$800
[6]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a bar.) This drink could be called "fermented agave juice at dawn"
a Tequila Sunrise
Nanette
|
$800
[3]
NBC's "Four-in-One" included "Night Gallery", "The Psychiatrist" & this Dennis Weaver series
McCloud
|
$800
[12]
Mama Quilla, a moon goddess of these people, had a temple dedicated to her at Cuzco
Inca
Krista
|
$800
[7]
The elf owl, the world's smallest owl at 6", nests in holes in this "giant" cactus of the American Southwest
saguaro
Nanette
|
$1,200
[25]
The Bible's Isaac, for example
patriarch
Nanette
|
|
$1,600
[26]
(Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Africa.) It's one of Kenya's main crops; in 1914, Isak Dinesen grew it in the country
coffee
Nanette
|
$1,200
[14]
200,000 gallons of this liquor flowed into the Kentucky River in 2000 during a fire at a Wild Turkey warehouse
whiskey (bourbon)
Krista
|
$1,200
[4]
Series title characters included Lucas Tanner a teacher, & Lucan, a boy raised by these animals
wolves
Nanette
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
Partly from Latin meaning "to speak", it was a medium who spoke for a deity or the shrine whence she spoke
oracle
Krista
|
$1,200
[8]
This "Elder" Roman wrote that owls foretell evil & are to be dreaded above all other birds
Pliny
Nanette
|
$1,600
[24]
This 260,000-square-mile area is found between the Andes Mountains & the South Atlantic Ocean
Patagonia
Krista
|
|
$2,000
[27]
This third-longest African river flows past ancient Timbuktu on its 2,600-mile trip to the Gulf of Guinea
Niger
Krista
|
$1,600
[15]
One bushel of this plant known scientifically as Zea mays can sweeten 400 cans of soda pop
corn
Krista
|
$1,600
[17]
"Temperatures Rising" & "The New Temperatures Rising" featured this "Blazing Saddles" star
Cleavon Little
Steve
Krista
|
$1,600
[21]
Yikes! If you cut off one of the many heads of this Lake Lerna monster, 2 would grow in its place
Hydra
|
DD
$1,400
[9]
This species is named for its piercing call that sounds nothing like a hoot
screech owl
Nanette
|
$2,000
[23]
Latin for "our father", it's an alternate name for the Lord's Prayer
"Paternoster"
Nanette
|
| — |
$2,000
[16]
(Jimmy and Sarah of the Clue Crew report from New Orleans.) "Stormy" name of this legendary New Orleans mixed drink served in a lantern-shaped glass
a Hurricane
Steve
|
$2,000
[18]
The summer 1975 series "Joey and Dad" featured this singer-dancer & her dad, Ray
Joey Heatherton
|
$2,000
[22]
This sly trickster of Norse myth can change his shape at will--sometimes he's a fly, other times, a fish
Loki
|
$2,000
[10]
The adult male of this owl species is usually pure white, although it may have brown spots
snowy owl
Krista
|
— |
Completed by the British in 1906, its name means "fear nothing" & it made all others of its kind obsolete
HMS Dreadnought