Stephen Mitchell — a marketing manager from Los Angeles, California
Sheri Young — an assistant functions coordinator from Boston, Massachusetts
Sid Moore Jr. — a human rights investigator from Eugene, Oregon (whose 4-day cash winnings total $16,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sid | $1,500 | $2,600 | $6,100 |
$6,200
3rd place: Ourhouse.com Gift Certificate |
$6,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Sheri | $1,000 | $2,000 | $6,200 |
$10,200
2nd place: Trip to Vienna, Austria courtesy of Priceline.com |
$5,900
12 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Stephen | $500 | $2,200 | $6,200 |
$12,400
New champion: $12,400 |
$6,200
19 R, 2 W |
| CIVIL WAR BUFFY | OUR AVIAN FRIENDS | ARETHA FRANKLIN | SEAMANSHIP | THE HOLE TRUTH | INTO THE "AB"YSS |
|
$100
[21]
On this spooky day in 1861, Buffy didn't fight demons but joined a skirmish at Morgantown, Kentucky
Halloween (October 31)
Sheri
|
$100
[16]
Only the extinct 10-foot-tall moas of New Zealand were taller than this 8-foot African bird
Ostrich
Stephen
|
$100
[4]
Aretha's spelled it out: "Find out what it means to me"
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T"
Stephen
|
$100
[30]
A knot used to secure a line to a spar, or a term of sevice in the Navy
Hitch
Sheri
|
$100
[1]
Legend says Capt. Hanson Gregory invented this hole when he had his mom remove the soggy center from her fried cake
Doughnut hole
Sid
|
$100
[11]
A shortened form of a word or phrase
Abbreviation
Sid
|
|
$200
[22]
At Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863, Buffy joined the soldiers in this type of manual "combat"
Hand-to-hand
Stephen
|
$200
[17]
The deepest diver among birds is the emperor species of this bird which may reach depths of 900 feet
Penguin
Sid
|
$200
[7]
Aretha played the owner of a soul food cafe in this 1980 movie that starred Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi
The Blues Brothers
Sid
|
$200
[29]
Of stem, bow, aft or prow, the one that's not in the front of the ship
Aft
Sid
Sheri
|
$200
[2]
Whales & dolphins have them, & so do harmonicas
Blowholes
Stephen
|
$200
[12]
The formal forgiveness of sins
Absolution
Stephen
|
|
$300
[23]
Like Buffy in Sunnydale, men in a Civil War poem fought "where the bullets fastest fell...at the very mouth of" here
Hell
Sid
|
$300
[18]
This tiny bird drinks nectar at the rate of about 13 licks per second
Hummingbird
Stephen
|
$300
[8]
The title track of a 1986 Whoopi Goldberg flick was Aretha's version of this Stones hit
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Sid
|
$300
[26]
2-word phrase for the entire ship's personnel; it's cried to get them "on deck"
"All Hands"
Sheri
Stephen
|
$300
[3]
The Aubrey Holes are a circle of 56 pits found at this monumental site on Salisbury Plain
Stonehenge
Sheri
|
$300
[13]
An often-banned liqueur derived from wormwood, aniseed & herbs
Absinthe
Sheri
|
|
$400
[24]
The only angel Civil War Buffy met was this "Angel of the Battlefield" with whom she tended the wounded
Clara Barton
Stephen
|
$400
[19]
The sapsucker, a group of birds in this family, drills holes in trees to stimulate the flow of sap
Woodpeckers
Sid
|
$400
[9]
In 1987 Aretha topped the charts duetting with this man heard here:
George Michael
Sid
|
$500
[28]
A convoy is a fleet of merchant ships & this is a fleet of warships; Spain had a famous one
Armada
Stephen
|
$400
[5]
In September 2000 it was disclosed that the hole in this had spread to about 11 million square miles
Ozone layer
Sid
|
$400
[14]
From the Latin for "to go astray", it's a departure from what is normal or desirable
Aberration
Sheri
|
|
$500
[25]
On May 12, 1864 Buffy saw vampires gather for a feast at the battle site known as this "angle"
Bloody Angle
|
$500
[20]
The name of this black bird of Asia, a superb mimic of human speech, is from the Sanskrit for "passion"
Mynah bird
Stephen
|
$500
[10]
Ironically, Aretha's 1967 hit that says, "You Made Me Feel Like" this was used in TV ads for Clairol hair color
"A Natural Woman"
Sid
|
DD
$700
[27]
An island in the Pacific, or the trail of water churned up behind a ship
Wake
Sheri
|
$500
[6]
Jackson Hole, a valley in this national park, was once a separate national monument
Grand Teton National Park
Sid
Stephen
|
$500
[15]
The official end of the practice of slavery
Abolition
Stephen
|
| SHAKESPEARE, THEIR CONTEMPORARY | HERBS & SPICES | THINKERS | BIG SCREEN ROYALTY | "Z"EOGRAPHY | PROPER ADJECTIVES |
|
$200
[26]
On April 23, 1616 Shakespeare died in England & this great writer died in Spain
Cervantes
Stephen
|
$200
[15]
This herb in the parsley family gives its name to a type of pickle
Dill
Sid
|
$200
[6]
The London grave of this Communist thinker is seen here
Karl Marx
Sid
|
$200
[1]
1939 & 1955:Bette Davis
Queen Elizabeth I
Stephen
|
$200
[11]
In the 1800s this island off the east coast of Africa was an Omani sultanate
Zanzibar
Stephen
|
$200
[18]
A word meaning "proper" or "kind", or when you knock on a bedroom door, "dressed"
Decent
|
|
$600
[27]
Henry Porter's "Two Angry Women of Abingdon" may have influenced this "merry" Shakespeare play
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Stephen
|
DD
$300
[24]
Liptauer cheese, which is named after a province in Hungary, gets its red color from this spice
Paprika
Sid
|
$400
[7]
Some call this Paris-born man one of the leading minds of the last century
Jean-Paul Sartre
Stephen
|
$400
[2]
1999:Chow Yun-Fat
King of Siam (in "Anna and the King")
Sid
|
$400
[12]
Its oldest state university was founded in 1955 as the University College of Rhodesia
Zimbabwe
Sid
Stephen
|
$400
[19]
Dressing room in a store where you tell yourself these jeans will be perfect after you diet
Fitting room
Sid
|
| — |
$400
[16]
The name of this pizza herb, also known as wild marjoram, is from the Greek for "joy of the mountain"
Oregano
Stephen
|
$600
[8]
1 of the 2 philosophers seen here in a painting by Raphael
Aristotle or Plato
Sid
|
$600
[3]
1968:Katharine Hepburn
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Sheri
|
$600
[13]
Points of interest in this city include the Reitburg Museum & the Grossmunster Church where Zwingli preached
Zurich
Stephen
|
$600
[20]
This synonym for "proper" comes from the Latin for "to take possession of"
Appropriate
|
| — |
$600
[23]
The bay leaf comes from this type of evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean
the laurel
|
$800
[9]
He's the transcendental meditator seen here
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
DD
$800
[4]
1975:Graham Chapman
King Arthur (in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail")
Sheri
|
$800
[14]
At Victoria Falls this river is a mile wide & then drops deeply into a narrow chasm
Zambezi River
Sheri
|
$800
[21]
It can mean "flattering", like a dress, or "any process of change"
Becoming
Sid
|
| — |
$1,000
[25]
This spice that is sold in stick & powder forms comes in 2 varieties: Ceylon & Cassia
Cinnamon
Sid
|
$1,000
[10]
This Italian is well-remembered for his political procedure manual
Niccolo Machiavelli
Stephen
|
$1,000
[5]
1994:Nigel Hawthorne
King George III (in "The Madness of King George")
Sheri
|
$1,000
[17]
This Ohio city was named for the ancestor of a famed western novelist born there in 1875
Zanesville (Zane Grey)
Sheri
|
$1,000
[22]
Adjective for a modest young lady; with the last E removed, it's what she'll do if immodesty is suggested
Demure (demur)
|
In June 2000 descendants of these 2 families met in Pikeville, KY & in Matewan, WV for their first-ever joint reunion
The Hatfields & the McCoys