J.J. Todor game 2.
Michelle Power — a homemaker from Oregon City, Oregon
Jesse Moises — a voice actor from Daly City, California
J.J. Todor — a law student from Pataskala, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,089)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.J. | $900 | $2,700 | $8,100 |
$5,999
2-day champion: $8,088 |
$7,900
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Jesse | $500 | $1,600 | $2,800 |
$5,600
2nd place: Sears gift certificates |
$2,800
13 R, 3 W |
| Michelle | $1,800 | $4,200 | $10,200 |
$4,100
3rd place: Sears gift certificates |
$7,500
25 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| MILITARY POWER | AROUND THE POKER TABLE WITH SLIM | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES | DREAMY MUSIC | BUGS | FEELING "ANCY" |
|
$100
[15]
Contour flying is when a pilot flies low, following the Earth's contours, to avoid this
radar
Jesse
|
$100
[1]
Slim & the others may feed this fund made up of a portion of each pot
the kitty
Jesse
Michelle
|
$100
[13]
An exclamation point was warranted for the "End Of" This! in 1918
World War I
J.J.
|
$100
[11]
On their 1997 Popmart tour this Irish band covered the Monkees' "Daydream Believer"
U2
Michelle
|
$100
[3]
These insects "chirp" by rubbing their 2 front wings together
crickets
J.J.
|
$100
[5]
This for life in the U.S. is currently about 76 years
life expectancy
Michelle
|
|
$200
[25]
No armed forces are allowed in this area between North & South Korea
the Demilitarized Zone
Michelle
|
$200
[2]
According to Hoyle, before Slim deals, the player to his right has to do this with 5 to 47 cards
cut the deck
J.J.
Michelle
|
$200
[19]
"Shot Dead By Federal Men In Front Of Movie Theatre" read his 1934 front-page obituary
John Dillinger
Michelle
|
$300
[16]
It's the Aerosmith tune that encourages you to "dream until your dream comes true"
"Dream On"
Jesse
|
$200
[4]
This bloodsucking insect, Cimex lectularius, is often found in mattresses; don't let 'em bite
bedbugs
Michelle
|
$200
[6]
The three members of our staff, seen here, are all in this condition
pregnancy
J.J.
|
|
$300
[30]
A period of guard duty; in the Navy one may be 4 or 8 hours long
watch
Michelle
|
$300
[7]
When Slim gets this hand it reminds him of Bob Saget, Lori Loughlin, & the Olsen Twins
a full house
Michelle
|
$300
[20]
"Thousands Trapped In The Subways; Looters And Vandals Hit" were banners when this hit NYC in July 1977
the blackout
Michelle
|
$400
[17]
"The only trouble" with this Everly Brothers hit is "Gee whiz, I'm dreaming my life away"
"All I Have To Do Is Dream"
Jesse
|
$300
[14]
This large hairy spider is named for a wolf spider found near the Italian town of Taranto
the tarantula
J.J.
|
$300
[8]
Loitering in a town & not having any visible means of support, you may get picked up for it
vagrancy
Jesse
|
|
$400
[29]
It's an order for aircraft to get off the ground ASAP or an egg order to the mess hall cook
scramble
Michelle
|
$400
[23]
Slim's numerical term for a bluffer who doesn't have the fifth card to fill out a hand of all the same suit
a four-flusher
J.J.
|
$400
[21]
Oct. 2, 1962: "3,000 Troops Put Down... Rioting And Seize 200 As Negro Attends" this school
the University of Mississippi
Jesse
|
DD
$500
[12]
He's the singer heard here:"In dreams, I walk..."
Roy Orbison
Michelle
|
$400
[26]
These small, stinging ants were introduced into the U.S. at Mobile, Alabama
fire ants
J.J.
|
$400
[9]
Derringer or Butler
Yancy
Michelle
|
|
$500
[27]
Whether general or ready, they're the troops held close by
reserves
J.J.
|
$500
[24]
To do this in stud poker, Slim turns all his cards face down
fold
J.J.
Jesse
|
$500
[22]
The Times made its own front page in 1971 when the Supreme Court upheld its publication of these documents
the Pentagon Papers
Jesse
|
$500
[18]
In 1975 this outlaw released "Dreaming My Dreams" & his wife Jessi Colter released "I'm Not Lisa"
Waylon Jennings
Michelle
|
$500
[28]
Also known as a devil's darning needle, it may have as many as 28,000 lenses in its compound eyes
a dragonfly
Michelle
|
$500
[10]
Janet Leigh was sorry she found one of these at the Bates Motel
a vacancy
Michelle
|
| THE 17TH CENTURY | COUNTIES BY STATE | MOVIE CO-STARS | MAY DAYS | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS.... | "EZ" DOES IT |
|
$200
[9]
In 1682 he founded the "City of Brotherly Love"
William Penn (Philadelphia)
J.J.
|
$200
[21]
McDuffie, Meriwether, Macon
Georgia
Michelle
|
$200
[1]
His wife Lauren Bacall was his leading lady in the 1946 film noir "The Big Sleep"
Humphrey Bogart
Jesse
|
$200
[3]
Henry VIII imported an executioner from France just to behead this second wife on May 19, 1536
Anne Boleyn
Michelle
|
$200
[26]
Of this deaf composer she wrote, "Sweet sounds, oh beautiful music, do not cease!"
L.V. Beethoven
Michelle
|
$200
[10]
In the classic sitcom he's the patriarch of "The Addams Family"
Gomez
Michelle
|
|
$400
[11]
Nearly 13,000 homes & 100 churches were destroyed in this city's Great Fire of 1666
London
Jesse
|
$400
[22]
McClain, McCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCurtainskogee
Oklahoma
Jesse
Michelle
|
$400
[2]
7 years after "The Wizard of Oz" Ray Bolger co-starred with her again, in "The Harvey Girls"
Judy Garland
Michelle
|
$400
[4]
On May 15, 1996 he announced he would soon become "a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man"
Senator Bob Dole
J.J.
|
$400
[27]
Later in life she wrote that, like the lonely tree, this season "sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more"
summer
|
$400
[8]
Port Said is this waterway's northern terminus
the Suez Canal
Michelle
|
|
$600
[18]
In his 1613 "Letters on Sunspots", he openly supported the Copernican theory
Galileo
J.J.
|
$600
[23]
Baca, Bent, Boulder
Colorado
Michelle
|
$600
[12]
Meryl Streep & this actress were acclaimed for playing sisters in the 1996 film "Marvin's Room"
Diane Keaton
|
$600
[15]
Oliver Lewis rode Aristides to victory in the inaugural running of this horse race on May 17, 1875
the Kentucky Derby
Jesse
|
$800
[29]
Edna wrote that this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night"
my candle
Michelle
|
$600
[5]
One of the large, flat triangular muscles of the shoulder & upper back region
the trapezius
J.J.
Michelle
|
|
$800
[19]
Cheers to this Benedictine monk who pioneered the making of champagne in 1698
Dom Perignon
J.J.
|
$800
[24]
Whitley, Wayne, Wabash
Indiana
J.J.
|
$800
[13]
"Ransom" reunited her with her "Lethal Weapon 3" co-star Mel Gibson
Rene Russo
Jesse
|
$800
[16]
On May 10, 1941 this deputy to Hitler parachuted from a plane over Scotland with a "peace plan"
Rudolf Hess
Jesse
|
$1,000
[30]
"We were very tired, we were very merry--we had gone back and forth all night on" this conveyance
the ferry
Michelle
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
This Frenchman painted the self-portrait seen here:
Paul Cezanne
J.J.
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1673 this pair explored the Mississippi River all the way to the mouth of the Arkansas
Marquette & Joliet
|
$1,000
[25]
Oswego, Onondaga, Oneida
New York
Michelle
|
$1,000
[14]
Montgomery Clift & Shelley Winters were nominated for Oscars for this 1951 film; Elizabeth Taylor was not
A Place in the Sun
Jesse
Michelle
|
$1,000
[17]
On May 6, 1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte won this country's presidential election with 54% of the vote
El Salvador
|
DD
$3,000
[28]
Cynically she wrote that this "Is not all; it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain"
love
Michelle
|
$1,000
[7]
Columbus' first landing on the mainland of the Americas was on the coast of what is now this country
Venezuela
J.J.
Jesse
|
He claimed that as a Pinkerton detective, he had worked the Fatty Arbuckle & Nicky Arnstein cases
Dashiell Hammett