Ben Sternberg sets a new single-day cash winnings record of $38,400.
Elizabeth Mouzon — an e-mail administrator from Washington, D.C.
Scott Hatton — a pastor from Mundelein, Illinois
Ben Sternberg — an investment banker from San Francisco, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $4,400 | $7,400 | $21,200 |
$38,400
3-day champion: $79,600 |
$19,800
26 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Scott | $200 | $2,800 | $8,000 |
$15,995
3rd place: trip to Orlando, Florida |
$8,000
12 R, 0 W |
| Elizabeth | $5,000 | $6,600 | $19,200 |
$38,399
2nd place: trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica |
$17,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| LET'S GO TO FLORENCE | TV HOSTS | HAIL TO THE CHIEF | HOME SWEET HOME | WHAT'S YOUR POINT? | "B.S." |
|
$200
[16]
A trip to Florence wouldn't be complete without seeing this 17-foot-tall Michelangelo creation
(statue of) David
Elizabeth
|
$200
[26]
On Feb. 12, 2001 Kelly Ripa became his permanent co-host
Regis Philbin
Ben
|
$200
[11]
He was informed April 14, 1789 that back on February 4, the Electoral College had elected him President
George Washington
Ben
|
$200
[6]
His home was a castle in San Simeon, Calif. complete with indoor & outdoor pools & a private airstrip
William Randolph Hearst
Ben
|
$200
[21]
The most common pointing device for computers; it first came to fame on the Apple Macintosh
mouse
Scott
|
$200
[1]
David Strickler of Latrobe, Pennsylvania is credited with inventing this fruit & ice cream treat in 1904
banana split
Scott
|
|
$400
[17]
During WWII the only one of these spared in Florence was the historic Ponte Vecchio
bridge
Scott
|
$400
[27]
This TV host took part of her catchphrase from an Irish aunt who dismissed visitors with "Thank you. Goodbye"
Anne Robinson
Ben
|
$400
[12]
He signed the Education Act of 1965 in his old elementary school near Stonewall, Texas
Lyndon Johnson
Ben
|
$400
[7]
This movie star couple's Pickfair estate included canoe ponds & a stable
Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks
Elizabeth
|
$400
[22]
He finished the 1986-87 NBA season with a whopping 3,041-point total
Michael Jordan
Scott
|
$400
[2]
"Don't have a cow, man" is one of his expressions
Bart Simpson
Ben
|
|
$600
[18]
This fashion giant has made a lot of "G's" since setting up shop in Florence in 1921
Gucci
Ben
|
$600
[28]
In June 2001 Matthew Broderick & this man hosted the Tony Awards
Nathan Lane
Scott
|
$600
[13]
After being sworn in April 12, 1945 he said he felt as if "The moon, the stars, and all the planets" had fallen on him
Truman
Elizabeth
|
$600
[8]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a living room with an antique TV in it.) When she was home here in Gettysburg, Mamie Eisenhower's day often revolved around watching this show, her favorite soap
As the World Turns
Ben
|
$600
[23]
Kendra gave this other slayer her lucky stake, "Mr. Pointy"
Buffy
Elizabeth
|
$600
[3]
This rock & roll hall of famer is the pride of Freehold, New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen
Elizabeth
|
|
$800
[19]
Tell, tell, tell us the name of this composer who died in 1868, & now rests in the Church of Santa Croce
Rossini
Ben
|
$800
[29]
He's the host of MTV's "Total Request Live"
Carson Daly
Ben
|
$800
[14]
After receiving his B.A. at the university in this New Jersey city in 1771, Madison stayed on to study Hebrew
Princeton
Elizabeth
|
$800
[9]
Her Silver Spring, Maryland home where she wrote "Silent Spring", is now a national landmark
Rachel Carson
Ben
|
$800
[24]
West Point is predominantly on the west bank of this New York river
Hudson
Elizabeth
|
$800
[4]
Used in the 1940s & '50s, this was slang for a teenage girl
bobby-sox
Ben
|
|
$1,000
[20]
Now an art museum, it was originally built as the government judiciary's offices, hence its name
Uffizi
|
$1,000
[30]
He hosts the PBS show "Reading Rainbow"
LeVar Burton
Ben
|
DD
$1,600
[15]
Before he was shot at the Temple of Music, McKinley spent the day touring this romantic landmark
Niagara Falls
Elizabeth
|
$1,000
[10]
Notables who have called this NYC apartment building home include Judy Garland, John Lennon & Lauren Bacall
The Dakota
Ben
|
$1,000
[25]
From the Girl Scouts, they're credits earned with your boss for favors done unasked
brownie points
Scott
|
$1,000
[5]
When combined with an acid ingredient, this compound, NaHCO3, produces gas bubbles, causing batter to rise
baking soda
Elizabeth
|
| LET'S GO TO FLORENCE | SCIENTIFIC MINDS | THE OLYMPICS | THE CRUSADES | EDIBLE SPELLING | CROSSWORD CLUES "F" |
|
$400
[21]
In "Growing Up Brady", Barry Williams admits he had "a case of the hots for" this actress, his TV mom
Florence Henderson
Scott
|
$400
[5]
The tank respirator Philip Drinker invented helped polio patients & was nicknamed this
iron lung
Scott
|
$400
[1]
It's the only Olympic track & field event with the word triple in its name
triple jump
Ben
|
$400
[10]
Saladin gave the Crusaders rights of pilgrimage to this city, but they still wanted to capture it
Jerusalem
Ben
|
$400
[26]
This Middle Eastern flat bread is also called pocket bread
P-I-T-A
Scott
|
$400
[16]
Malevolent Mr. Manchu (2)
Fu
Elizabeth
|
|
$800
[22]
In 1988 she was right on track as the Associated Press' Female Athlete of the Year
Florence Griffith Joyner
Ben
|
$800
[6]
Irish geologist Richard Oldham discovered these have primary & secondary waves
earthquakes
Elizabeth
|
$800
[2]
Later a pro heavyweight boxing champ, this man won a light heavyweight gold medal in 1960
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
Scott
|
$800
[11]
The Crusaders were sure they'd win at Antioch once they found this holy relic that pierced Christ's side
spear (lance)
Elizabeth
|
$800
[27]
Widely used to add flavor, this member of the mint family is grouped in song with parsley, sage & rosemary
T-H-Y-M-E
Ben
|
$800
[17]
It precedes glove & trot (3)
fox
Ben
|
|
$1,200
[23]
When this president died in 1923, rumors circulated that his wife Florence had killed him
Harding
Ben
|
$1,200
[7]
In 1974 Sherwood Rowland & Mario Molina showed that these man-made chemicals were destroying the ozone layer
CFCs
Ben
|
$1,200
[3]
The modern version of this Olympic event consists of fencing, riding, shooting, running & swimming
pentathlon
Elizabeth
|
$1,200
[12]
Completes the English translation of the crusader motto Deus vult, "God..."
God willing (God wills)
Scott
|
$1,200
[28]
Named after the capital city of Veracruz, these smooth, dark green peppers range from hot to very hot
J-A-L-A-P-E-N-O
Ben
|
$1,200
[18]
Significant Sigmund (5)
Freud
Ben
|
|
$1,600
[24]
After divorcing director King Vidor, silent film star Florence Vidor married this Lithuanian-born violinist
Jascha Heifetz
|
$1,600
[8]
Augustin Jean Fresnel used this treatment of light to make new lighthouse lenses; Edwin Land built a company on it
polarization
Ben
Elizabeth
|
$1,600
[4]
It's the host city where the Olympic torch relay came to an end in the year 2000
Sydney
Elizabeth
|
$1,600
[13]
All crusading Europeans were called these people, like the ancestors of present-day Frenchmen
Franks
Ben
Elizabeth
|
$1,600
[30]
Cheese & crackers are a simple example of this type of food served before a meal to stimulate the palate
A-P-P-E-T-I-Z-E-R
Elizabeth
|
$2,000
[20]
Enrico's element (7)
Fermium
Scott
|
|
$2,000
[25]
English novelist & poet Florence Margaret Smith used this more masculine-sounding first name
Stevie Smith
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
Police radar guns owe their existence to the "effect" this Austrian physicist discovered
(Christian) Doppler
Elizabeth
|
$2,000
[15]
There are 50- & 20-kilometer events of this grueling Olympic track & field specialty
walking
Ben
|
$2,000
[14]
The slaying of Conrad of Montferrat was pinned on these Hashish freaks whose name means "murderers"
assassins
Ben
|
$2,000
[29]
Italian for "little tongues", these narrow, flat noodles are also known as flat spaghetti
L-I-N-G-U-I-N-I
Ben
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
"Highland" dance, or brief romance (5)
fling
Ben
|
He said, "My own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about... I would never... exhaust it"
William Faulkner