Matthew Laflin — a law student originally from Satellite Beach, Florida
Jane Barnes — a housewife from Parker, Texas
Sid Moore Jr. — a human rights investigator from Eugene, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sid | $900 | $1,000 | $3,600 |
$1,300
2-day champion: $2,600 |
$4,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jane | $600 | $500 | $3,900 |
$599
2nd place: Trip to Dublin, Ireland courtesy of Priceline.com |
$4,900
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matthew | $2,100 | $3,200 | $600 |
$0
3rd place: Novica.com Shopping Spree |
$600
15 R, 5 W |
| EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? | QUOTATIONS | THAT'LL HOLD WATER | BRANSON, HANSON OR MANSON | RHYME TIME |
|
$100
[17]
The Marne joins this river at Charenton-le-Pont, a suburb of Paris
the Seine
Matthew
|
$100
[1]
In the NFL, types of these officials include field, back & side, but no Judy
judges
Sid
|
$100
[12]
In his 1748 work "Advice to a Young Tradesman" he wrote, "Remember that time is money"
Benjamin Franklin
Sid
|
$100
[18]
Usually filled with air or helium, as pranksters' weapons they're filled with water
balloons
Matthew
|
$100
[6]
A city in the Ozarks
Branson, Missouri
Jane
|
$100
[7]
This cocoa brand will "warm the heart"
Swiss Miss
Matthew
|
|
$200
[27]
Lake Albano in the west-central part of this country is the site of Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer residence
Italy
Jane
Matthew
|
$200
[2]
(Hi, I'm Jerome Bettis, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers.) Long before I played at Notre Dame, this man taught chemistry there before he became head coach in 1918
Knute Rockne
Matthew
|
$200
[13]
"I'll resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in" this "county"
Calaveras County
Jane
|
$200
[19]
In the Bible Rebekah first appears at one of these outside the city of Nahor
a well
Sid
|
$200
[8]
Other songs on their first album include "Weird", "Lucy" & "Speechless"
Hanson
Matthew
|
$200
[23]
The pacifistic influence of the 1960s hippie movement
flower power
Matthew
|
|
$500
[29]
The castle of Chillon on this lake's eastern shore was made famous in a Lord Byron poem
Lake Geneva
|
$300
[3]
An item cut out of a magazine, or an infraction that sounds like a hairdresser's specialty
a clipping
Sid
|
$300
[14]
Speaking at a year 2000 ceremony, this 96-year-old senator said, "Honey, I was around for Y1K"
Strom Thurmond
Matthew
|
$300
[20]
"Noisy" name of the cumulonimbuses seen here
thunderclouds
Jane
|
$300
[9]
The Beach Boys song "Never Learn Not To Love" was co-written by this man
Charles Manson
Matthew
|
$300
[24]
In 1992 Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, et al.
the Dream Team
Sid
|
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
The Lorelei is a famous steep rock on the right bank of this river
the Rhine
Jane
|
$400
[4]
(Hi, I'm Robert Smith, running back for the Minnesota Vikings.) In 1997 I set a team record for number of these in a season: 1,266
rushing yards
Sid
|
$400
[15]
Patrick Henry told the House of Burgesses, "Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First" this person
Oliver Cromwell
Jane
|
$400
[21]
From the Latin cista, "box", it's a tank that holds water
a cistern
Matthew
|
$400
[10]
He started a record store chain in 1971 & an airline in 1984
Richard Branson
Jane
|
$400
[25]
A holiday song says, "Have" this type of "Christmas, it's the best time of the year"
holly jolly
Sid
Jane
|
| — |
$500
[5]
In 1995 J.J. Stokes became the first 49ers receiver selected in the NFL Draft's first round since this player in 1985
Jerry Rice
Matthew
|
$500
[16]
"All true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end" is a line from this 1726 work
Gulliver's Travels
|
$500
[22]
As its name indicates, this is the watery fluid filling a chamber behind the eye's cornea
aqueous humour
|
$500
[11]
As president under the Articles of Confederation, he's sometimes called "The First President of the United States"
John Hanson
Jane
Matthew
|
$500
[26]
Rae Dawn Chong starred in this 1984 film about urban kids who breakdance & rap
Beat Street
Matthew
|
| THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES | U.S. COINS | LITERATURE | WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? | A RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY | TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS |
|
$200
[8]
In April 1976 the Times said this billionaire died "as mysteriously as he had lived"
Howard Hughes
Jane
|
$200
[21]
A limited edition silver dollar featured this black baseball pioneer & the inscription "Rookie of the Year 1947"
Jackie Robinson
Matthew
|
$200
[1]
This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, "A Boy's Will", while living in England in 1913
Robert Frost
Matthew
|
$200
[16]
An abnormality of this master gland can cause overproduction of the hormone prolactin
Pituitary gland
Jane
|
$200
[6]
Homey type of "eyes" an amorous person has
Bedroom eyes
Jane
|
$600
[28]
1958:"The Music Man"
Meredith Willson
Jane
|
|
$400
[10]
This college coach's obit said his nickname came from a high school bear-wrestling incident
Paul "Bear" Bryant
Sid
|
$400
[22]
The mint produced silver coins for the U.S. & Iceland honoring the millennium of his discovery of the New World
Leif Ericson
Sid
|
$400
[2]
Set in part in Philadelphia, "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" is a novel about this war
The Revolutionary War
Jane
|
$400
[17]
A bone density scan diagnoses osteopenia (loss of bone density) & this disease (decreased bone mass)
Osteoporosis
Sid
|
$400
[7]
A woman who hangs out with her kids watching TV, or who supervises Cub Scouts
a den mother
Jane
Matthew
|
$800
[27]
1996:"Rent"
Jonathan Larson
|
|
$600
[11]
When he died at 88, the Times reported that Watergate made him "The Best-Known Judge in America"
John Sirica
Jane
|
$600
[23]
Randy'l He-Dow Teton was the model for this coin
the Sacajawea dollar
|
$600
[3]
Taji & Jarl are deserters from a whaling ship in his 1849 novel "Mardi"
Herman Melville
Matthew
|
DD
$700
[18]
The name of this condition comes from the Greek for "to breathe hard"
Asthma
Sid
|
$600
[9]
In show biz this word for a room containing your clothing refers to the costume department
Wardrobe
Sid
|
$1,000
[26]
1964:"Hello, Dolly!"
Jerry Herman
|
|
$800
[12]
The report of his death at Miami's Mount Sinai Hospital called him the "Financial Wizard of Organized Crime"
Meyer Lansky
Matthew
|
DD
$700
[24]
To honor the bicentennial of this, a silver dollar featured an open book & the Jefferson Building
the Library of Congress
Sid
|
$800
[4]
"The Pentameron" is a volume of imaginary conversations between Petrarch & this author of "The Decameron"
Giovanni Boccaccio
|
$800
[19]
Underactivity of this butterfly-shaped gland slows the metabolism
Thyroid gland
Sid
|
$800
[14]
Shortened name for a "room" to play in; it's a homophone for what rough play may do to it
Rec room
Jane
|
— |
|
$1,000
[13]
This Prague Spring leader who died in 1992 "had been mentioned" as a possible president of Slovakia
Alexander Dubcek
Matthew
|
$1,000
[25]
This state's commemorative quarter features the natural rock formation "The Old Man of the Mountain"
New Hampshire
Matthew
|
$1,000
[5]
Great Chilean poet known for his "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"
Pablo Neruda
|
$1,000
[20]
It's the term for the curvature seen here
Scoliosis
Jane
|
$1,000
[15]
It can be a pantry, or someone adding fat to lean meat
Larder
Jane
|
— |
1 of 2 current national capitals that have hosted the Winter Olympics
Oslo, Norway or Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina