Jason McCune game 2.
Sam Mink — an engineer from Norwalk, Connecticut
Anne Scott — a community newspaper editor from Katy, Texas
Jason McCune — an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,241)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $0 | $1,600 | $14,000 |
$28,000
2-day champion: $40,241 |
$10,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Anne | $3,600 | $8,200 | $5,400 |
$10,699
2nd place: a trip to Mazatlan, Mexico |
$5,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Sam | $1,400 | $4,000 | $17,600 |
$7,100
3rd place: a trip to Florida |
$16,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | INTERNAL RHYMES | WOMEN WRITERS | TIME | FLIES | WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN |
|
$200
[9]
Slowly I turned towards this over 160-foot cataract found on the U.S.-Canadian border
Niagara Falls
Anne
|
$200
[21]
A flightless bird that's a national symbol
a kiwi
Jason
|
$200
[4]
Lydia & Kitty Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy are characters in a book by this woman
Jane Austen
Anne
|
$200
[14]
In the U.S., daylight saving time starts & ends in these 2 seasons
spring & fall
Jason
|
$200
[26]
The largest land animal native to this continent is a small wingless fly
Antarctica
Anne
|
$200
[1]
When you're having fun playing the strategy game "Richtofen's War", you'll be using planes from this war
World War I
Sam
|
|
$400
[10]
The Canadian postal abbreviation for this province is NB
New Brunswick
Sam
|
$400
[22]
The largest Bantu-speaking group of South Africa
the Zulu
Jason
Sam
|
$400
[5]
She intended her novel "Shirley" to be as "unromantic as Monday morning", as opposed to her previous novel "Jane Eyre"
Charlotte Bronte
Anne
|
$400
[15]
It's the second month of the year with exactly 30 days in it
June
Jason
Anne
|
$400
[27]
A pest of wheat, the Hessian fly is so named because it's believed Hessian soldiers brought it here during this war
the Revolutionary War
Sam
|
$400
[2]
When you're having fun playing this party game, you could call it "Attach the terminal vertebrae to the jackass"
"Pin the tail on the donkey"
Jason
|
|
$600
[11]
Polar bears often congregate in Manitoba on the snow-covered shores of this 316,000-square-mile bay
Hudson Bay
Anne
|
$600
[23]
A homeless traveler riding on freight trains
a hobo
Anne
|
$600
[6]
Offred tells "The Handmaid's Tale" in a novel by this woman
Margaret Atwood
|
$600
[18]
This type of year is also known as a bissextile year
a leap year
Anne
|
$600
[28]
Wake up & tell us the name of this deadly disease, aka trypanosomiasis, spread by the Tsetse fly
sleeping sickness
Anne
|
$600
[3]
When you're having fun playing this board game invented in 1948, you'll draw up to 7 letter tiles
Scrabble
Anne
|
|
$800
[12]
Canada's respected newspaper The Globe and Mail was established in this city in 1844
Toronto
Sam
|
$800
[24]
The type of basket Yogi Bear likes to heist
picnic
Jason
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993
Toni Morrison
Anne
|
$800
[19]
In military time, this time is rendered 1900 hours
7 P.M.
Anne
|
$800
[29]
It's the common name for the fly known scientifically as musca domestica
the housefly
Anne
|
$800
[16]
You might play 301, 501 or 1001 when you're playing when you're having fun playing this barroom favorite
darts
Sam
|
|
$1,000
[13]
A popular children's book bear derived its name from this Canadian city of 600,000
Winnipeg
Jason
|
$1,000
[25]
(Sarah and Jimmy are in the Sony Pictures Studios lobby, bowing down to a picture of Alex and the Jeopardy!logo.) It's the ancient Chinese custom we're exhibiting here
to kowtow
|
$1,000
[8]
This French author chose Audrey Hepburn to play Gigi onstage
Colette
Anne
|
$1,000
[20]
Sidereal time is time measured in relation to these heavenly bodies
the stars
Anne
|
$1,000
[30]
Examples of these flies popular with geneticists include the apple maggot & the cherry
fruit flies
Sam
|
$1,000
[17]
When you're having fun in Japan playing this sport, you'll learn it's known there as besuboru
baseball
Jason
|
| THE CIVIL WAR | LEO | RELIGIOUS PLACES | BEASTLY CINEMA | U.S. GOVERNMENT | "AZ" I WAS SAYING... |
|
$400
[2]
It was a pillar of the South's economy: in 1860 the U.S. produced 4 1/2 million bales of it
cotton
Sam
|
$400
[7]
This heartthrob was born on November 11, 1974
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jason
|
$400
[12]
The collegiate church of Saint Peter in Westminster is known by this term
Westminster Abbey
Jason
|
$400
[1]
1980:As John Merrick, John Hurt declares, "I am not an animal!"
"The Elephant Man"
Anne
|
$400
[18]
It's the F in the conservation-oriented agency known as the FWS
Fish
|
$400
[17]
It's been said that their capital Tenochtitlan was the largest city at the time of the Spanish conquest
the Aztecs
Anne
|
|
$800
[3]
Muzzle-loading rifles were partly replaced by weapons loaded at the rear of the barrel, called this
the breach
|
$800
[8]
This baseball manager was nicknamed "The Lip"
Leo Durocher
Sam
|
$800
[24]
The famous porcelain one of these Buddhist towers used to stand in Nanjing
a Pagoda
Sam
|
$800
[13]
1962:Gregory Peck pecks away at Southern injustice
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
Jason
|
$800
[19]
You'll find its home page at www.uscg.mil
United States Coast Guard
Jason
|
$800
[20]
Sky blue
azure
Jason
|
|
$1,200
[4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Gettysburg.) I'm on Cemetery Ridge, which this man tried to take in the ill-fated charge named for him on July 3, 1863
(George) Pickett
Jason
|
$1,600
[10]
In 1951 this American guitarmaker created the broadcaster (soon renamed the telecaster)
Leo Fender
|
$1,200
[25]
Sister Costello yells, "Hey, Abbess!" to call her boss in this place whose name is from the Latin for "assembly"
a convent
Sam
|
$1,200
[14]
1975:Al Pacino knocks over a bank to bankroll his lover's sex change
"Dog Day Afternoon"
Jason
|
$1,200
[28]
It's the N in the energetic agency abbreviated NRC
Nuclear
Sam
|
$1,600
[22]
This North Atlantic island group was uninhabited until the Portuguese settled there in the mid-1400s
the Azores
Jason
|
|
$1,600
[5]
(Jimmy is aboard a ship.) This admiral uttered the line, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
Admiral (David) Farragut
Sam
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
You can "count" on this classic author seen here
Leo Tolstoy
Sam
|
$1,600
[26]
From the Greek for "a hidden place", it may contain an altar for worship or tombs for the dead
a crypt
Anne
|
$1,600
[15]
1958:Pollitt family members claw & scratch each other for Big Daddy's money
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sam
|
$1,600
[29]
The book "Gimme Some Truth" contains John Lennon's FBI files obtained under this, the FOIA
the Freedom of Information Act
Sam
|
$2,000
[23]
In astronomy, it's the angular horizontal distance, clockwise, from due south
the Azimuth
Jason
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Joseph Johnston caught his death of cold at the 1891 funeral of this union general who had accepted his surrender
General (William T.) Sherman
Anne
|
$2,000
[11]
This late USC professor left us some lessons on "Living, Loving, and Learning"
Leo Buscaglia
Sam
|
$2,000
[27]
It's a building attached to a church, or a chamber within it, in which affusions are performed
the Baptistry
|
$2,000
[16]
1932:Groucho rides to the rescue as the new president of Huxley College
Horse Feathers
Jason
Anne
Sam
|
$2,000
[30]
Since 1973, the U.S. Army has been an AVF, an all-this force
volunteer
Anne
|
DD
$5,200
[21]
The name of this rhododendron is from the Greek for "dry" because it grows in dry soil
Azalea
Jason
|
The characters Adam, Eric & Joseph were much younger on the 2001 PAX prequel to this '60s series
Bonanza