Adam Michaels — a trial lawyer from Brookline, Massachusetts
Donna Oltman — a third grade teacher from Plano, Texas
Kirsten Edwards — a college student from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirsten | $900 | $1,600 | $4,000 |
$3,600
2-day champion: $7,500 |
$4,400
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Donna | $1,800 | $3,700 | $5,200 |
$3,200
2nd place: a trip on the Queen Mary |
$4,700
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Adam | $0 | $1,600 | $1,800 |
$1
3rd place: High Sierra A.T. Gear collection |
$2,800
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| WORLD HISTORY | WHAT I LEARNED FROM WOMEN'S MAGAZINES | CHARACTER STUDY | FLORA & FAUNA | ROLLING STONES SONGS | 4-LETTER WORD"SS" |
|
$100
[11]
He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch...
Alexander the Great
Adam
|
$100
[23]
Travel is murder on hair: local water & levels of this, not the heat, can destroy even a perfect hair-care regimen
humidity
Adam
|
$100
[15]
Freddy Eynsford Hill, Col. Pickering, Henry Higgins
Pygmalion (or My Fair Lady )
Adam
|
$100
[6]
Songbird seen here, or a girl's first name
Robin
Kirsten
|
$100
[16]
"'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try..."
"Satisfaction"
Kirsten
|
$100
[1]
On September 18, 1999 Heather French got to put this before "America" on her resume
Miss
Kirsten
Adam
|
|
$200
[12]
Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster
the Great Fire of London
Kirsten
|
$200
[24]
Mademoiselle says, before you wed, try dating a wealthy older man described by this candy phrase
sugar daddy
Kirsten
|
$200
[17]
Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezuhov, Napoleon
War and Peace
Adam
|
$200
[7]
Yes sir! This term for the seeds or grains of wheat sounds like a military rank
kernel
Donna
|
$200
[18]
"But if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need"
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Adam
|
$200
[2]
Brenner is a famous one of these in the Alps
Pass
Kirsten
|
|
$300
[13]
While trying to figure out why there were 2 of these, the 1409 Council of Pisa elected a third one
popes
Kirsten
|
$300
[25]
These are back, not just combed over the forehead, but swept to the side & layered
bangs
Adam
|
$300
[26]
Rusty Trawler, Sally Tomato, Holly Golightly
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Adam
|
$300
[8]
A variety of this endangered mammal is seen here
manatee
Kirsten
|
$300
[19]
"Now you always say that you want to be free but you'll come running back, you'll come running back..."
"Time Is On My Side"
|
$300
[3]
Word that completes the Wordsworth line "Behold her, single in the field, yon solitary highland..."
lass
Donna
|
|
DD
$400
[14]
In 1864 the first Red Cross conference was convened in this city
Geneva, Switzerland
Kirsten
|
$400
[29]
Whether in tones of aubergine or plum, this, the color of royalty, is chic again
purple
Adam
|
$400
[27]
Bertha Mason, Grace Poole, Mr. Rochester
Jane Eyre
Donna
|
$400
[9]
When destroying cotton seed pods, the snout beetle is more commonly known by this name
boll weevil
Donna
|
$400
[20]
"It's a gas, gas, gas"
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Kirsten
|
$400
[4]
As good old Ludwig Mies van der Rohe used to say, this "is more"
less
Donna
|
|
$500
[22]
In February 1961 violence erupted in this Portuguese possession in West Africa
Angola
Donna
|
$500
[30]
Turning on the waterworks to avoid a fight is a girlfriend gaffe, so don't play this, the title of a 1992 Stephen Rea film
The Crying Game
Donna
|
$500
[28]
Amelia Sedley, George Osborne, Becky Sharp
Vanity Fair
|
$500
[10]
One example of the six endangered varieties of this animal is seen here
aalamander
Donna
|
$500
[21]
"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste"
"Sympathy For The Devil"
Donna
|
$500
[5]
This synonym for kiss also ends in "ss"
buss
Kirsten
|
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY | EDIBLE-SOUNDING NAMES | FOREIGN FILM TITLES | "B.B."s | JUDAICA | GOYA |
|
$200
[1]
Corfu is the most northerly of this country's 7 main Ionian islands
Greece
Donna
|
$200
[14]
Pioneer heard here
Chuck Berry
Adam
|
$200
[3]
"Otto e Mezzo", starring Mastroianni & Cardinale
8 1/2
Adam
|
$200
[19]
A "vein" aristocrat may think of himself as one of these
a blue blood
Kirsten
|
$200
[2]
Go through the 4-year Semikhah program at Yeshiva University & you're ordained as one of these
a rabbi
Adam
|
$200
[26]
Goya, like his contemporary Beethoven, lost almost all of this at about age 47
his hearing
Adam
|
|
$400
[10]
Germany has Worms & this country that borders Germany has a district called Wormerveer
The Netherlands (Holland)
Adam
|
$400
[15]
This judge was "The Law West of the Pecos"
Judge Roy Bean
Kirsten
|
$400
[4]
1998's "Central do Brasil"
Central Station
Adam
|
$400
[20]
Cartman on "South Park" insists he isn't fat, he's this
big-boned
Kirsten
|
$400
[6]
U.S. president who recognized the new state of Israel; first president Chaim Weizmann gave him a Torah
Harry S. Truman
Adam
|
$400
[27]
Like his inspiration Velazquez did in "Las Meninas", Goya added this person to his painting of "Charles IV and his Family"
himself
Adam
|
|
$600
[11]
Easter Island lies about 2,300 miles from this country that governs it
Chile
Donna
|
$600
[16]
The 15th Chief Justice of the U.S., he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988
Warren Burger
Adam
|
$600
[5]
From Almodovar, "Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios"
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Donna
|
$600
[21]
"Infantile" African animal seen here
a bush baby
Kirsten
|
$600
[7]
On the Sabbath table, you may see 2 of these with 3 braids each
challah (loaves of bread)
Adam
|
$600
[28]
One of Goya's few foreign patrons was Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of this
Wellington
|
|
$800
[12]
The Irrawaddy River flows about 1,300 miles before emptying into this bay
the Bay of Bengal
|
$800
[17]
This recently retired "hot" Yankees DH was born in Kingston, Jamaica
Chili Davis
Adam
|
$800
[8]
The high-speed "Lola rennt"
Run Lola Run
Kirsten
|
$800
[22]
An expression meaning "Just like that!", or a bar where TV's "The Sopranos" conduct business
Bada Bing
Adam
|
$800
[24]
Of the 12 Tribes, the number that inhabited the Kingdom of Judah; they didn't get lost
2 (Judah & Benjamin)
Donna
|
$800
[29]
Goya was in this city May 2 & 3, 1808 when the populace rose against the French; later he did a painting about each day
Madrid
|
|
$1,000
[13]
The Israeli town of Eilat is located at the head of this gulf
the Gulf of Aqaba
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
Once a Secretary of the Treasury, he donated $15 million to the U.S. government to build the National Gallery of Art
Andrew Mellon
Adam
|
$1,000
[9]
Bergman's "Sommarnattens leende"
Smiles of a Summer Night
|
$1,000
[23]
This astronomer seenherehelped survey Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Banneker
Donna
|
DD
$1,500
[25]
This Nobel Prize-winning author adapted a version of his mother's name, Bathsheba, as part of his pen name
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Donna
|
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The world's first one of these opened in 1925; it was in San Luis Obispo, Ca. & had parking in front of each door
a motel