Harold Brown — a medical clerk from Brooklyn, New York
Becky Bowles — a veterinary receptionist originally from Louisville, Kentucky
Paul McGonagle — a bartender from Schaumburg, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul | $400 | $600 | $2,600 |
$100
2nd place: Trip To Regal Hong Kong Hotel |
$3,900
17 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Becky | $2,400 | $3,500 | $10,200 |
$10,200
New champion: $10,200 |
$10,100
26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Harold | $600 | $1,100 | $-1,100 |
$-1,100
3rd place: Festina F-12 Watches |
$-1,100
4 R, 5 W |
| NICKNAMES | MOVIE REVIEWS | RELIGION | JIMMY | U.S. CURRENCY | "T" TIME |
|
$100
[1]
"The Father of the Telegraph"
Samuel Morse
Becky
|
$100
[6]
Time said tickets for the 1st critics' screening of this prequel were "more precious than a passport out of Kosovo"
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Paul
Becky
|
$100
[22]
On Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of the month of Av, Jews observe the destruction of the first & second of these
Temples
Becky
|
$100
[17]
The Kentucky Derby-winning jockey in 1878, or the president of the U.S. in 1978
Jimmy Carter
Becky
|
$100
[12]
An 1873 law states that this creature must appear on the reverse of all U.S. coins greater than 10 cents
Eagle
Paul
|
$100
[7]
A competition for fishermen, knights or "Jeopardy!" contestants
Tournament
Becky
|
|
$200
[2]
"America's Oldest Teenager"
Dick Clark
Becky
|
$200
[27]
Entertainment Weekly called this 1991 Billy Crystal film, "Dances With Cows"
City Slickers
Paul
|
$200
[23]
Legend says he spent 98 days beneath a large bo tree, 49 to solve the riddle of suffering & 49 more to meditate
Buddha
Paul
|
$200
[18]
He's won the U.S Open on 3 surfaces: grass (1974), clay (1976) & hard courts (1978, 1982, 1983)
JImmy Connors
Paul
|
$200
[13]
By federal law, all U.S. coins must bear this phrase which means "Out of many, one"
E Pluribus Unum
Becky
|
$200
[8]
Mexican flat bread, or Steinbeck "flat"
Tortilla
Paul
|
|
$300
[3]
Tuesday night's "Mr. Television"
Milton Berle
Paul
|
$300
[30]
The New Yorker felt it had "a democratic right to expect bandages" in this 1999 horror flick
The Mummy
Paul
|
$300
[24]
Among the 6 schools of philosophy of this religion are nyaya & yoga
Hinduism
|
$300
[19]
He helped bring down Jim & Tammy Bakker, then got knocked off his own pulpit
Jimmy Swaggart
Paul
|
$300
[14]
An "S" on a U.S. coin indicates that it was minted in this city
San Francisco
Paul
Becky
|
$300
[9]
It follows talk & precedes trot
turkey
Becky
Harold
|
|
$400
[4]
Would-be assassin "Squeaky"
Lynette Fromme
Becky
|
$500
[28]
USA Today said that Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks "Should win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry" for this 1998 film
You've Got Mail
Paul
|
$400
[25]
The Japanese once worshiped their emperor as a descendant of Amaterasu Omikami. the top goddess in this religion
Shinto
Becky
|
$400
[20]
Bobby Kennedy was chief council of the Senate committee investigating David Beck & this man
Jimmy Hoffa
Paul
|
$400
[15]
It's the only presidential home currently on a U.S. coin
Monticello (Thomas Jefferson's)
Harold
|
$400
[10]
Yugoslavia's Josip Broz, or Michael Jackson's brother Toriano
Tito
Becky
|
|
$500
[5]
Aviator "The Red Baron"
Manfred von Richthofen
Becky
|
DD
$1,300
[29]
(Hi, I'm Garry Marshall.) I directed this 1990 movie that The New York Times said "borrows a thing or two from Pygmalion... but has its own... wit"
Pretty Woman
Paul
|
$500
[26]
The sister of Moses & Aaron, she was the first woman given the title of prophetess
Miriam
Becky
|
$500
[21]
He was dyn-o-mite as mayor of New York from 1926 to 1932
Jimmy Walker
Harold
|
$500
[16]
It's the only U.S. money on which you'll find a depiction of the White House
$20 bill
Paul
Harold
|
$500
[11]
Cretaceous "king" of carnivores
Tyrannosaurus rex
Paul
|
| ON THE MAP | BEES | CELEBRITY SPOUSES | SUITE | MYSTERY | OF "LIFE" |
|
$200
[1]
Some of the highest peaks in these mountains are Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa & the Matterhorn
Alps
Becky
|
$200
[26]
A scout bee may use the "waggle" variety of this to inform others about the location of flowers
Dance
|
$200
[11]
Mrs. Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward
Paul
|
DD
$100
[25]
Bela Bartok wrote his 1923 "Dance Suite" for the 50th anniversary of this city's unification
Budapest
Becky
|
$200
[6]
Michael Connelly's "Angels Flight" is set in this city
Los Angeles
Becky
|
$200
[16]
The mother-daughter drama "Marriage Material" found a home in 1999 on this TV network
Lifetime
Harold
|
|
$400
[2]
This "colorful" branch of the Nile suppiles about two-thirds of the river's water
Blue Nile
Becky
Harold
|
$400
[27]
Of 1 MPH, 15 MPH or Mach 2, the flight speed of an average worker bee
15 MPH
Paul
|
$400
[12]
Mrs. Antonio Banderas
Melanie Griffith
Becky
|
$200
[21]
We could listen to the 1888 suite named for this tale-spinner for "1001 Nights"
Scheherazade
|
$400
[7]
In 1941 this mystery-solving character got his own "Mystery Magazine"
Ellery Queen
Becky
|
$400
[17]
It's the feature illustrated here
Lifeline
Becky
|
|
$600
[3]
Mainland Europe's only active volcano, it buried several Italian cities in 79 A.D.
Mount Vesuvius
Becky
|
$600
[28]
The queen bee's basic duty, it happens 2,000 times a day during summer
Laying eggs
Becky
Harold
|
$600
[13]
Mrs. David Duchovny
Tea Leoni
Paul
|
$400
[22]
Yes, my children, "Jeux D'Enfants" is a suite for piano by this composer of "Carmen"
Georges Bizet
Paul
|
$600
[8]
In a 1950 Patricia Highsmith novel, strangers meet on one of these & plot to exchange murders
Train ("Strangers on a Train")
Paul
|
$600
[18]
This type of "system" refers to space suits & scuba gear as well as medical devices like incubators
Life support
Becky
Harold
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
The Java or Sunda Trench contains this ocean's deepest point
Indian Ocean
Becky
|
$800
[29]
These people had domesticated the bee as early as 3000 B.C.
Egyptians
Becky
|
$800
[14]
Mrs. Ethan Hawke
Uma Thurman
Harold
|
$600
[23]
Ferde Grofe's "grandest" suite, it premiered in Chicago, not in Arizona
Grand Canyon Suite
Becky
|
$800
[9]
Here's this year's Sue Grafton clue: the 14th book in her series was "'N' is for...." this
Noose
Becky
|
$800
[19]
A character from this comic strip is seen here
"Life In Hell"
|
|
$1,000
[5]
The African country once called Portuguese Guinea is known today by this hyphenated name
Guinea-Bissau
|
$1,000
[30]
The cosmetics industry uses more of this product than any other industry, more than 1,000,000 pounds a year
Beeswax
Paul
Becky
|
$1,000
[15]
Mrs. Mel Brooks
Anne Bancroft
Paul
|
$800
[24]
This Norwegian's "Holberg Suite" isn't quite as famous as his "Peer Gynt" suite
Edvard Grieg
|
$1,000
[10]
In 1999's "Havana Bay" he brings back his "Gorky Park" investigator Arkady Renko
Martin Cruz Smith
|
$1,000
[20]
Book in which Twain wrote, "There was but one...ambition among my comrades...to be a steamboatman"
Life on the Mississippi
Paul
|
The painter who said, "Illness, madness and death were the dark angels who watched over my cradle"
Edvard Munch