Lan Djang game 4.
Kris Springer — a children's librarian from Brighton, Massachusetts
Gary Rewerts — a geological exploration technician from Houston, Texas
Lan Djang — a business analyst from Toronto, Ontario (whose 3-day cash winnings total $27,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lan | $700 | $3,300 | $7,000 |
$13,000
4-day champion: $40,300 |
$7,300
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Gary | $2,000 | $3,200 | $7,500 |
$999
2nd place: a trip to La Costa Resort & Spa, San Diego |
$6,500
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Kris | $800 | $1,300 | $3,900 |
$1
3rd place: a Fisher Sound Stage home theater system |
$3,900
12 R, 2 W |
| THE SOUTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY | NANCY | SIN-EMA | THEY SAID IT | NEW ENGLISH NOBILITY? | WHERE IS EVERY "BODY"? |
|
$100
[12]
London, Paris, Lisbon
Lisbon
Gary
|
$100
[22]
In books, she does her sleuthing with the help of pals Bess & George
Nancy Drew
Lan
|
$100
[1]
Alone it's a James Caan flick; it's also found before "of Hearts" & "of Baghdad"
Thief
Gary
Kris
|
$100
[5]
Oscar Wilde wrote in "Lady Windermere's Fan", "I can resist anything except" this
Temptation
|
$100
[18]
We were not amused by his role as Genghis Khan, but for Rooster Cogburn, we honor this "Duke"
John Wayne
Kris
|
$100
[7]
A person who meddles or pries into the affairs of others
Busybody
Kris
|
|
$200
[13]
Sydney, Wellington, Jakarta
Wellington
Lan
|
$200
[23]
This famous daughter & singer made her national TV debut with dad & Elvis in 1959
Nancy Sinatra
Lan
|
$200
[2]
Andrew Kevin Walker wrote & played a dead man in this movie about a killer using the deadly sins as his M.O.
Se7en
Lan
|
$200
[14]
In a 1789 letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, this American said, "But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"
Benjamin Franklin
Gary
|
$200
[19]
For exploits superior as a N.Y. Knicks guard, we ennoble this man, also known as "The Pearl"
Earl Monroe
Gary
|
$200
[8]
The process of developing human musculature especially for competitive exhibition
Bodybuilding
Kris
|
|
$300
[28]
Khartoum, Tripoli, Cairo
Khartoum
Lan
|
$300
[24]
Seen here, he's Nancy's sidekick
Sluggo
Gary
Kris
|
$300
[3]
Julie London copes with a jealous husband in 1959's "A Question of" this Biblical sin
Adultery
Lan
|
$300
[15]
Fred Allen quipped that this doctor "Is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself"
Psychiatrist
Lan
|
$300
[20]
For playing a Hawaiian cop for 12 years & keeping his hair in perfect form the entire time, we dub thee...
Jack Lord
Kris
|
$300
[9]
To ride the waves to shore without a board
Bodysurfing
Gary
|
|
$400
[29]
Taipei, Hanoi, Manila
Manila
Lan
|
$400
[25]
She played Tony's mom, Livia Soprano
Nancy Marchand
Lan
|
$400
[4]
The Bob Hope film "Nothing But the Truth" has the same premise as this Jim Carrey vehicle with a repetitive name
Liar Liar
Kris
|
$400
[16]
In "To A Louse" he wrote, "O wad some power the giftie gie us, to see our sels as ithers see us!"
Robert Burns
Kris
|
$400
[21]
We were moved by Diana Ross in Billie Holiday's film bio & reaffirm this nickname of Billie's
"Lady Day"
Lan
|
$400
[10]
One whose interests center on his dwelling place
Homebody
Gary
|
|
$500
[30]
Kingston, Havana, Nassau
Kingston
Gary
Kris
|
$500
[26]
Nancy Travis was the mom of the title tot in this 1987 film in which a trio of bachelors take on fatherhood
Three Men and a Baby
Lan
|
$500
[6]
1990's "Henry: Portrait of" one of these was loosely based on the notorious Henry Lee Lucas
A serial killer
Gary
|
$500
[17]
Longfellow line that precedes "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"
"One if by land, two if by sea"
|
$500
[27]
Governor of California from 1949 to 1953 & a Supreme Court Chief Justice, we confer on him the title of....
Earl Warren
Kris
|
DD
$800
[11]
A substance produced in the blood in response to a specific toxin
Antibody
Gary
|
| 19th CENTURY AMERICANS | TV NOSTALGIA | WRITERS' HUSBANDS | LOST VEGAS | WHAT KIND OF SHAPE ARE YOU IN? | BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$200
[1]
In 1850 this religious leader became the first governor of the Utah territory
Brigham Young
Lan
|
$200
[2]
In titles of TV series, it followed "Grandpa Goes to..." & "Mr. Smith Goes to..."
Washington
Gary
|
$200
[15]
In 1947 future feminist firebrand Betty Goldstein married a man named this
Carl Friedan
Gary
|
$200
[11]
I long for the days when this pyramid-shaped hotel featured a Nile River cruise through its lobby
Luxor
Lan
|
$200
[16]
Its area equals pi r (squared)
Circle
Lan
|
$200
[25]
Former Van Halen lead singer who became a comic strip Viking
Sammy Hagar the Horrible
Lan
|
|
$400
[7]
He began selling his first gum brands, Lotta & Vassar in 1892; Juicy Fruit came a year later
William Wrigley
Lan
|
$400
[3]
This movie cowboy's '50s TV series was so popular that his horse Champion got his own series, too
Gene Autry
Gary
Kris
|
DD
$300
[27]
This wealthy future Senate candidate wed Arianna Stassinopoulos in 1986
Michael Huffington
Lan
|
$400
[12]
Vegas said "Adios" to the Hacienda Casino in 1996, imploding it on this holiday eve
New Year's Eve
Kris
|
$400
[19]
Its area equals one of its sides times itself
Square
Lan
|
$400
[28]
Proverbial biblical skeptic who invented many things as "The Wizard of Menlo Park"
Doubting Thomas Edison
Lan
Gary
|
|
$600
[8]
At the 1851 World's Fair in London, he won a medal for his "American Daguerreotypes"
Mathew Brady
Lan
|
$600
[4]
"Sigmund and the Sea Monsters" starred Johnny Whitaker, who had played Jody on this sitcom
Family Affair
Gary
|
$800
[22]
In 1914 she married her cousin Bror
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
|
$600
[13]
This blonde actress' hotel-casino & movie museum were sold in 1998 to the World Wrestling Federation
Debbie Reynolds
|
$600
[17]
Its area equals half of the product of the base times the height
Triangle
Lan
|
$600
[26]
Cole Porter's "Shakespearean" musical starring the actress who played "Star Trek" captain Janeway
Kiss Me, Kate Mulgrew
Lan
|
|
$800
[9]
His ballad "Beautiful Dreamer" wasn't published until after his death
Stephen Foster
|
$1,000
[6]
Teresa Graves starred as a sexy black policewoman on the '70s series called "Get" her!
Christie Love
|
— |
$800
[14]
The El Rancho Hotel demolished in 2000 was originally known as this "bird", like a Ford model
Thunderbird
Kris
|
$800
[18]
Seen here, its area equals the product of the base times the height
a parallelogram
Lan
Gary
|
$800
[23]
Famous phrase attributed to Horace Greeley that's a musical about Don Quixote
Go West Young Man of La Mancha
Lan
|
|
$1,000
[10]
His 1830 poem "Old Ironsides" helped save the U.S.S. Constitution from destruction
Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
DD
$1,500
[5]
This author introduced the first episode of the epic 1978 miniseries "Centennial"
James Michener
Gary
|
— |
$1,000
[21]
The Club Bingo went bye-bye back in '52 when this desert-named hotel replaced it
Sahara
Lan
|
$1,000
[20]
Seen here, its area equals half the sum of the parallel sides multiplied by the height
a trapezoid
Gary
|
$1,000
[24]
First U.S. woman to win 3 golds in Olympic track who "had a very shiny nose"
Wilma Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Kris
|
These title characters of a classic operatic work are a bunch of mythical dwarves
The Nibelung