Babu Srinivasan game 5.
Greg Powell — a Bible minister from Calhoun, Georgia
Lisa Andrus — a retail sales associate from Tyler, Texas
Babu Srinivasan — a graduate student and history teacher from Houston, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $61,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babu | $900 | $1,200 | $6,700 |
$13,300
5-day champion: $75,100 |
$8,700
23 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Lisa | $900 | $1,300 | $1,300 |
$2,600
2nd place: Trip to Paris, France from Priceline.com |
$1,300
10 R, 3 W |
| Greg | $1,100 | $1,900 | $5,700 |
$2
3rd place: IKEA Shopping Spree |
$5,700
13 R, 1 W |
| STARTING HERE | HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME | NUTS! | "TILE" IT | FRANCO, MY DEAR | I DON'T GIVE A DAM |
|
$100
[12]
For Cathy Guisewite to do her "Cathy" comic strip, every day it's "back to" this
the drawing board
Babu
|
$100
[4]
This star seen here broke the Las Vegas color line in 1954:
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Babu
|
$100
[11]
The shells of these nuts were dyed red to make them distinctive to consumers & to disguise blemishes
Pistachios
Babu
|
$100
[30]
A cold-blooded vertebrate
Reptile
Lisa
|
$100
[1]
Francisco Franco died Nov. 20, 1975 in this capital city
Madrid
Babu
Greg
|
$100
[16]
Located on the borders of Arizona & Nevada, this dam was finished in 1936 & got "presidential" in 1947
Hoover Dam
Lisa
|
|
$200
[13]
To come up with Lanacane, the chemists "started from" this
Scratch
Lisa
|
$200
[7]
"The Birdman of Alcatraz" is one of the classic roles of this star, seen here:
Burt Lancaster
Babu
|
$200
[15]
These kidney-shaped nuts grow from the bottom of a tropical "apple"
cashews
Babu
Lisa
|
$200
[29]
A device permitting passage of one paying customer at a time
Turnstile
Greg
|
$200
[2]
Sometime after Nov. 20, 1975 this "SNL" "Weekend Update" anchor reassured us that the Generalissimo "is still dead"
Chevy Chase
Babu
Lisa
|
$200
[17]
The Grand Coulee Dam's reservoir, Roosevelt Lake in this state stretches 150 mi. toward Canada's border
Washington
|
|
$300
[14]
To get a project in gear, or what you do after stepping up to the line in bowling
start the ball rolling
Babu
Greg
|
$300
[8]
The man seen here died in 1996, 7 weeks after celebrating this birthday:
100th (George Burns)
Babu
|
$300
[19]
The paste of these nuts is an ingredient in marzipan
Almonds
Lisa
|
$300
[28]
A non-Mormon or a non-Jew
Gentile
Greg
|
$300
[3]
In the spring of 1939 Franco won unconditional victory in this war begun in 1936
Spanish Civil War
Lisa
|
$300
[18]
Construction of the Aswan High Dam, which holds back Lake Nasser in this country, cost $1 billion
Egypt
Greg
|
|
$400
[22]
The way to start a play; it sounds like what the parents of "3rd Rock"'s Jane did during her formative years
Raise the curtain (Curtin)
Babu
|
$400
[9]
His smash songs include the 1948 million-seller "Nature Boy":
Nat King Cole
Greg
|
$500
[27]
The New England Journal of Medicine reports this nut, including the English or Persian type, can help your heart
Walnut
|
$400
[25]
It describes an unsuccessful endeavor
Futile
Babu
|
$400
[5]
Franco wanted a piece of the rock when he demanded the return of this U.K. territory to Spain in the '60s
Gibraltar
Lisa
|
$400
[20]
First proposed by Sun Yat-sen, the Three Gorges Dam in this nation will be the world's largest when finished
the People's Republic of China
Lisa
|
|
$500
[23]
In New York City on October 1, 1999 I rang the opening bell to start this
the New York Stock Exchange
Lisa
|
$500
[10]
On her long-running TV show, she was the matriarch of the Stone family of Hilldale:
Donna Reed
Greg
|
DD
$1,500
[26]
This nut contains more fat & calories than any other nut
macadamia
Babu
|
$500
[24]
Relating to trade or commerce
Mercantile
Babu
|
$500
[6]
Franco's regime was ostracized for its Fascist policies by this organization formed in October 1945
United Nations
Babu
|
$500
[21]
Norris Dam on the Clinch River was the first major dam built by this New Deal agency
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Babu
|
| THE "GOOD" BOOK | MUSICALS! | GETTING SCIENTIFIC | BIG APPLE SAUCE | THE ONE & ONLY | BACKWORDS |
|
$200
[4]
Pearl Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for this book
The Good Earth
Babu
|
$200
[13]
The young orphan boys of the workhouse sing "Food, Glorious Food" in Act 1 of this '60s musical
Oliver!
Lisa
|
$200
[1]
It's the more common name for frozen carbon dioxide
Dry ice
Babu
|
$200
[11]
To convince New Yorkers it was safe, this impresario led 21 elephants across the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883
P.T. Barnum
Babu
|
$200
[19]
He was the one & only U.S. president to take the oath of office aboard an airplane
Lyndon Johnson
Babu
|
$200
[26]
Some stories tug at my heartstrings, & I also feel them lower down, here
gut (tug)
Greg
|
|
$400
[7]
Clement Hurd illustrated this children's classic seen here:
Goodnight Moon
Greg
|
$400
[14]
In Act I of this musical, Curly asks Laurey to the Box Social
Oklahoma!
Babu
|
$400
[2]
From words meaning "against life", this class of drugs often derived from fungi is used against bacteria
Antibiotics
Babu
|
$400
[12]
This "diabolical" area of Manhattan stretches from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River
Hell's Kitchen
Greg
|
$400
[22]
It was the only prime-time TV series to be No. 1 in the ratings in the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s
60 Minutes
Babu
|
$400
[27]
I emit a snort when I peruse this publication
time (emit)
Greg
|
|
$600
[8]
It's James Hilton's sentimental 1934 novel about an English schoolmaster
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Babu
|
$600
[16]
This 1959 Broadway musical ends with the title character being elected mayor of NYC in 1933
Fiorello! (named for Fiorello LaGuardia)
|
$600
[3]
Panphobia is fear of this
Everything
Greg
|
$600
[15]
In 1997 an expressway between Queens & Brooklyn was renamed to honor this pioneering baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Lisa
|
$600
[23]
On October 8, 1956 this Yankee became the first & only player to pitch a perfect game in the World Series
Don Larsen
Babu
|
— |
|
$800
[9]
This Joseph Heller novel treats Jewish family life & the Washington political scene
Good As Gold
|
$800
[17]
The song heardhereis from the 30th anniversary production of this 1964 musical:"I have always been a woman who arranges things..."
Hello, Dolly!
Lisa
|
$1,000
[6]
Named for an Italian scientist, it's the scientific "number" of molecules in 1 gram mole of any substance
Avogadro's Number
Babu
|
$800
[20]
This island houses the inmates & staff of the New York City jail
Rikers Island
Babu
|
$800
[24]
This U.S. chemist is the only person to win 2 unshared Nobel Prizes (which he won in 2 different categories)
Linus Pauling
Greg
|
— |
|
$1,000
[10]
This Nietzsche work was published in 1886 as "Jenseits Von Gut Und Bose"
Beyond Good And Evil
|
$1,000
[18]
This 1968 musical was a biography of the composer of "Over There" & "Give My Regards To Broadway"
George M!
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
The name of this type of medical examination comes from the Greek for "seeing with one's own eyes"
an autopsy
Babu
|
DD
$2,500
[21]
A statue of this Italian national hero of the 19th century is in NYC's Washington Square Park
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Babu
|
$1,000
[25]
Subtitled "Conjugal Love", it was Beethoven's one & only opera
Fidelio
Greg
|
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Bluelight.com is the internet shopping site of this retail chain
Kmart