Ron White — a network engineer from Cary, North Carolina
Marie Corfield — an art teacher from Flemington, New Jersey
Brooks Moore — an emergency medicine resident from Avondale Estates, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks | $2,200 | $4,000 | $5,200 |
$5
3rd place: trip to Florida and stay at The Don DeSar |
$5,200
13 R, 2 W |
| Marie | $1,400 | $0 | $6,000 |
$10,401
2nd place: trip to Madrid by Collette Vacations |
$8,000
11 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Ron | $4,800 | $5,800 | $13,000 |
$12,001
New champion: $12,001 |
$15,400
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| STATUES | HOW...? | VARIETY HEADLINES | SOUNDS GOOD TO ME | YOU'VE GOT GREAT "LEG"s | TANKS! |
|
$200
[26]
A marble hand holding an apple found on the Greek isle of Melos may have belonged to her
Venus de Milo
Brooks
Ron
|
$200
[21]
For the Pacific 36,201 feet
deep it is
Ron
|
$200
[16]
This computer-animated character stomped the competition as "Jolly Green B.O. Giant"
Shrek
|
$200
[11]
Hoo ha! It's the low visibility warning device heard here, son
foghorn
Ron
|
$200
[1]
A trademark for popular toy building blocks
Legos
Brooks
|
$200
[6]
Reportedly this British prime minister once termed the English Channel the world's best tank trap
Churchill
Brooks
|
|
$400
[27]
Alton, Illinois has an 8-foot, 11-inch life-size statue of Robert Pershing Wadlow, who once held this record
tallest man (in the world)
Marie
|
$400
[22]
Get at least 270 votes in the Electoral College
win the presidency
Ron
|
$400
[17]
After 3 big weeks we feasted on "Munch Ado..." this Anthony Hopkins film "...Devours for Third Course"
Hannibal
Ron
|
$400
[12]
Title of the national anthem heard here
"God Save the Queen"
Ron
|
$400
[2]
A family of pod-bearing plants
legumes
Brooks
|
$400
[7]
This large U.S. tank bearing the name of a Civil War general was the most widely produced tank of World War II
Sherman
Marie
|
|
DD
$1,200
[28]
A statue of these 2 fictional characters stands at the foot of Cardiff Hill in Hannibal, Missouri
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Marie
|
$600
[23]
For this problem, the title of a 1971 Bee Gees song, the band should have seen Dr. Christiaan Barnard
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
Marie
Ron
|
$600
[18]
It was "Sudden Death" when this football league started by the WWF & NBC fumbled to end its season
XFL
Brooks
|
$600
[13]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at SeaWorld.) A dolphin's clicks are used in echolocation; to identify itself to others it has a signature one of these sounds
whistle
|
$600
[3]
An elected body with the power to make, change & repeal laws
legislature
Ron
|
$600
[8]
In 1942 British forces were pushed from Libya into Egypt by this general's Afrika Korps tank units
Rommel
Brooks
|
| — |
$800
[24]
Mrs. Browning said to find this out she had to "count the ways"
How do I love thee
Marie
|
$800
[19]
Dreamworks' "Almost Famous" & this film were "Rock 'n" Romans" when they won Golden Globe Awards
Gladiator
Marie
Ron
|
$800
[14]
In the wild this African equine heardherecan live more than 20 years
zebra
Ron
|
$800
[4]
A bequest made in a will or something that remains from a previous generation
legacy
Brooks
|
$800
[9]
This country's T-34 tank played a large part in fighting off German invasion in 1941
Soviet Union
Ron
|
| — |
$1,000
[25]
Say "Shazam!" & let a bolt of lightning hit you
become Captain Marvel
Brooks
|
$1,000
[20]
This Mel Gibson comedy had a merry Christmas with "Mel's Belles Pinch 'Grinch'"
What Women Want
|
$1,000
[15]
The early 20th century Italian heard here, he was one of the first to make phonographic records
(Enrico) Caruso
Marie
|
$1,000
[5]
A direction telling a musician to play in a smooth, even manner
legato
Ron
|
$1,000
[10]
"War As I Knew It" was the memoir of this fierce tank commander who participated in the invasion of Sicily
Patton
Ron
|
| ON THE ROAD WITH JEOPARDY! | MUSICAL BOTANY | SPACE EXPLORATION | NOT THE BEATLES | KING LEAR | "B" BOP |
|
$400
[16]
Our Big Apple shows came from the theater at this "Garden"
Madison Square Garden
Marie
|
$400
[21]
Also the name of a plant, this golden oldie by The Coasters mentons "an ocean of calamine lotion"
poison ivy
Brooks
|
$400
[2]
In 1986 2 Japanese spacecraft, Suisei & Sakigake, encountered this comet
Halley's Comet
Brooks
|
$400
[9]
In 1968 he met his songwriting collaborator Bernie Taupin
Elton John
Marie
|
$400
[23]
Nahum Tate's happy rewrite in which this daughter finds love with Edgar was popular for about 150 years
Cordelia
|
$400
[1]
Pete Seeger, a master of this folk instrument, also wrote a book on how to play it
banjo
Ron
|
|
$800
[17]
2000 took us to Atlanta, where staffers quenched their thirst at the attraction called World of this
Coca-Cola
Marie
|
$800
[22]
Tony Orlando & Dawn topped the charts with this song that begins, "I'm comin' home, I've done my time"
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"
Ron
|
$800
[4]
Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit mission in May 1963 was the last in the U.S. program with the name of this planet
Mercury
Brooks
|
$800
[10]
This pioneering guitar player gave Colleen Summers the stage name Mary Ford
Les Paul
Marie
|
$800
[24]
Lear is king of Britain; the other king in the play rules this country
France
|
$800
[3]
It's the common termfor the type of sports coat Jimmy's wearing here
blazer
Ron
|
|
$1,200
[18]
The 1998 College Tournament came from this California city, home of People's Park
Berkeley
Brooks
Ron
|
$1,200
[25]
It's the alternate title of the love theme from "A Star is Born"
"Evergreen"
Marie
|
$1,200
[8]
(Hi, I'm Jim Reilly of the STS-104 crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.) The space station is going to eventually have an acre of these assembled to complete the supply of electrical power to its 6 orbiting laboratories
solar panels
Marie
|
$1,200
[11]
This outlaw who made her Oklahoma home a haven for crooks was imprisoned for horse theft in 1883
Belle Starr
|
DD
$800
[28]
Lear's line "Ha, ha, ha!" is in response to a line from this character
the Fool (the Jester)
Marie
|
$1,200
[5]
The Battle of Bunker Hill actually took place on this adjacent hill
Breed's Hill
Brooks
|
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1998 "Jeopardy!" shows 3261-3270 came from the capital of this New England commonwealth
Massachusetts
Ron
|
$1,600
[26]
In a 1982 hit Patrice Rushen was sending you these flowers "to help me to remember"
forget me nots
Brooks
|
$1,600
[14]
This Russian woman had no experiences as a pilot prior to being trained as a cosmonaut in 1961
Valentina Tereshkova
|
$1,600
[12]
Serving in the British parliament from 1890 to 1945, he was prime minister during WWI
David Lloyd George
Ron
|
— |
$1,600
[6]
On the road to sainthood, this is the process of declaring someone "blessed"
beatification
Ron
|
|
$2,000
[20]
The International Tournament of 1997 came from this city where Lake Malaren meets the Baltic Sea
Stockholm
Ron
|
$2,000
[27]
"Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow lies the seed that with the sun's love... becomes" this
"The Rose"
Marie
|
$2,000
[15]
Of NASA's first 5 space shuttles, it was the last to make its debut launch--in 1992
Endeavour
Brooks
Ron
|
$2,000
[13]
In the 1971 Peckinpah classic "Straw Dogs" she played Dustin Hoffman's wife
Susan George
|
— |
DD
$2,400
[7]
Diglot is a synonym for this adjective, which describes a certain ability
bilingual
Ron
|
In 1795 he received the first official permit from the King of Spain to produce tequila commercially
Jose Cuervo