(Kermit the Frog: Hi-ho,Kermit the Froghere. Hey, I got aJeopardy!clue. This game show features Miss Piggy. Give up? What isThe Weakest Pork Link? [...She's not here, is she?])
Steve Atkinson — a history teacher originally from Glasgow, Scotland
Jon Nuckles — an aspiring writer from Evanston, Illinois
Shelley Forbess — a 7th-grade science teacher from El Dorado, Arkansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelley | $1,600 | $4,000 | $17,600 |
$24,801
2-day champion: $44,801 |
$17,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jon | $2,200 | $3,600 | $12,400 |
$24,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Steve | $-1,000 | $200 | $-1,800 |
$-1,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-1,800
6 R, 5 W |
| SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO PROGRAM | CHEESY COUNTRIES | JOCK-ULARITY | CAR TROUBLE | ALONG I-80 | "OO", SORRY! |
|
$200
[1]
Orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8's crew read aloud from this book of the Old Testament
Genesis
Jon
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$200
[18]
Provolone
Italy
Shelley
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$200
[2]
About the book "Outrageous", Charles Barkley said, "I was misquoted"; oddly, it was this type of book
autobiography
Jon
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$200
[23]
A high-pitched noise could be the pad wear indicator, indicating problems with these pads
brake pads
Jon
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$200
[9]
An accident at the east end of I-80 will cause rubbernecking in Teaneck in this state
New Jersey
Jon
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$200
[11]
Mary Poppins told us that this amount "of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way"
spoonful
Shelley
Jon
|
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$400
[4]
Apollo 10's command service module was Charlie Brown; the l.m. had this less talkative co-star's name
Snoopy
Shelley
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$400
[19]
Tasmania highland chevre log
Australia
Jon
Steve
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$400
[3]
1-word answer given by Houston Rockets coach Tom Nissalke in 1966 when asked how to pronounce his name
Tom
Shelley
Jon
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$400
[24]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew working on a race car.) I'm checking for this dangerous & messy problem which ended Jeff Gordon's Daytona 500 bid in 2000
oil leak
|
$400
[10]
If Meredith Willson had taken the I-90 route, the song might have been "South Bend, Indiana" instead of this on I-80
"Gary, Indiana"
Shelley
|
$400
[12]
On TV George Lindsey played this cousin of Gomer Pyle
Goober
Shelley
|
|
$600
[5]
This last Apollo lunar mission has the same number as a movie "Stalag"
17
Jon
|
$600
[20]
Lincolnshire poacher
Great Britain
Steve
|
$600
[6]
Saying how well he & an L.A. Laker teammate worked together this "prestidigitator" said, "It's almost like we have ESPN"
Magic Johnson
Jon
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$600
[25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew in a race car.) At the 1998 Brickyard 400 this happened to Dale Jarrett's car, helping Jeff Gordon to win the race
running out of gas
Jon
Steve
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$600
[28]
This city on I-80 is home to the University of Osteopathic Medicine & more Iowans than anywhere else
Des Moines
Shelley
|
$600
[13]
A light, good-hearted satire, or a "National" magazine that does satire
lampoon
Shelley
|
|
$800
[16]
He circled the moon in Apollo 8 & later headed Eastern Airlines
Frank Borman
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$800
[21]
Oaxaca
Mexico
Steve
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$800
[7]
A coach for this Tallahassee-based college football team directed, "You guys line up alphabetically by height"
Florida St.
Shelley
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$800
[26]
A clunking sound may mean trouble with the u (for universal) or cv (for constant velocity) one of these
joints
Jon
|
$800
[29]
The Mandalay Resort Group has Circus Circus properties in Vegas & in this city on I-80
Reno
Jon
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$800
[14]
As a verb, it means to bend over & down from the waist; as a noun, it's a small porch
stoop
Shelley
|
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$1,000
[17]
This third man on the moon did an American Express ad in 1975
Pete Conrad
|
$1,000
[22]
Manchego
Spain
|
$1,000
[8]
Asked if he'd seen this temple on the Acropolis, Shaq said, "I can't...remember the names of the clubs we went to"
Parthenon
Jon
Steve
|
$1,000
[27]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew waving a flag.) It's a synonym for care or another name for the yellow flag in auto racing
caution
Jon
|
DD
$800
[30]
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair when you hit this city, the western end of I-80
San Francisco
Shelley
|
$1,000
[15]
In "Gulliver's Travels", they're the savage servants of a race of noble horses called Houyhnhnms
Yahoos
|
| ANCIENT TIMES | MOVIE MUSIC | 3-NAMED AUTHORS | WHAT A CARD! | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | THE HOMOPHONICS GAME |
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$400
[1]
The Ludus Magnus was a training school for these, who were to perform in the Colosseum
gladiators
Jon
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$400
[17]
"Hakuna Matata" was 1 of 3 tunes nominated for Best Song from this Disney film
The Lion King
Jon
|
$400
[2]
When this "Paul Revere's Ride" author was born in what's now Portland, Maine, the city was part of Massachusetts
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Shelley
|
$400
[7]
"The joker ain't the only fool who'll do anything for you" is a line from this Juice Newton hit
"Queen of Hearts"
|
$400
[24]
The university of this Canadian province has branches in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Chicoutimi & Trois-Rivieres
Quebec
Shelley
|
$400
[11]
An oxen harness made from the center of an egg
yolk yoke
Jon
|
|
$800
[9]
Aristotle guessed correctly that this river's annual floods were caused by rains in Ethiopia
Nile
Jon
|
$800
[19]
(Kermit the Frog sits at a desk.) In 1979 I had a Top 40 hit with this song from "The Muppet Movie"
"The Rainbow Connection"
Shelley
Jon
|
$800
[3]
His preface to the play "Saint Joan" says, "Not one of Joan's comrades...ever claimed that she was pretty"
George Bernard Shaw
Shelley
|
$800
[8]
In Carroll's Wonderland, he presided over the trial of a tart thief
King of Hearts
Steve
|
$800
[25]
Founded in 1579, the University of Vilnius is this country's oldest university
Lithuania
Jon
|
$800
[12]
Ironically amusing dark bread
wry rye
Steve
|
|
$1,200
[10]
Caligula & Hadrian were among the tourists who visited this Sicilian volcano
Etna
Shelley
Steve
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$1,200
[20]
(Harry Connick Jr. in front of a Jeopardy!background.) My first multiplatinum album was the soundtrack to this 1989 Billy Crystal film
When Harry Met Sally...
Jon
|
$1,200
[4]
(Jeff Probst in the Marquesas.) In 1888 this adventure author & his wife Fanny spent about three weeks on Nuku Hiva
Robert Louis Stevenson
Shelley
|
$1,200
[23]
Nickname of Cecil Rhodes or Harry Winston
King of Diamonds
|
$1,200
[28]
Adirondack Community College is a 2-year school in Queensbury in this U.S. state
New York
Shelley
|
$1,200
[14]
The least good type of sausage
worst wurst
Steve
|
|
$1,600
[13]
Titus Tatius was the king of these people who attacked Rome after the abduction of their women
Sabines
Shelley
Steve
|
$2,000
[22]
Berry Gordy directed this 1975 film whose theme song was Diana Ross' "Do You Know Where You're Going To?"
Mahogany
Shelley
|
$1,600
[5]
In 1917, after almost 30 years in love with Maud Gonne, this Irish poet proposed to her daughter
William Butler Yeats
Jon
|
$1,600
[26]
In a romantic dance hit of 1986, Stacey Q cut to this card in the deck
two of hearts
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1963 Oral Roberts founded a university in this city & named it for himself
Tulsa
Shelley
|
$1,600
[15]
An egotistical blood vessel
vain vein
Jon
|
|
DD
$5,000
[18]
In 31 B.C., Mark Antony's army camped on this cape before his battle with Octavian off its gulf
Actium
Jon
|
DD
$5,800
[21]
He had a 1994 hit with "Streets of Philadelphia", from a Tom Hanks film
Bruce Springsteen
Jon
|
$2,000
[6]
A rhyme says he, "by a mighty effort of will, overcame his...bonhomie & wrote 'Principles of Political Economy'"
John Stuart Mill
|
$2,000
[27]
Tchaikovsky's "Pique Dame" is this card
queen of spades
|
$2,000
[30]
They're the adjectives A&M originally stood for in the name of Texas A&M
Agricultural & Mechanical
Shelley
Steve
|
$2,000
[16]
A bench-mounted clamp to hold a bad habit
vice vise
Shelley
|
When Washington took office on April 30, 1789, it was the largest state in area, covering what is now 3 states
Virginia