Michael Rooney game 1.
Michael Rooney — a college instructor from Pasadena, California
Christian De Jong — a customer service representative from Los Angeles, California
Lindsay Peet — a plumbing contractor from Studio City, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $22,428)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindsay | $500 | $1,800 | $3,389 |
$2,609
2nd place: a trip to Hawaii |
$6,200
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Christian | $500 | $-100 | $1,300 |
$2,542
3rd place: a VTech 900 MHz cordless telephone |
$1,300
8 R, 3 W |
| Michael | $900 | $4,800 | $7,800 |
$8,800
New champion: $8,800 |
$6,500
22 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| U.S. HISTORY | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS | PHYSICAL SCIENCE | KINGS & QUEENS | LEFTOVERS | "BAG" 'EM UP |
|
$100
[6]
Radical Republicans impeached & tried to remove this president in 1868
Andrew Johnson
Lindsay
|
$100
[11]
This PBS children's program has been sponsored by letters of the alphabet since 1969
Sesame Street
Christian
|
$100
[1]
Solid water is ice; solid carbon dioxide has this 2-word name
dry ice
Lindsay
|
$100
[13]
The Old Testament says she visited King Solomon in order to test him by asking him to solve several riddles
the Queen of Sheba
Michael
|
$100
[15]
At his home at Berggasse 19 in Vienna you can see where the ancestor of all psychiatrists' couches stood
Sigmund Freud
Christian
|
$100
[23]
It's where Tiger can keep his irons & drivers & tees, oh my!
a golf bag
Christian
|
|
$200
[7]
This avuncular nickname for the government was coined by those against the War of 1812
"Uncle Sam"
Lindsay
|
$200
[12]
Steven Hill's D.A. Adam Schiff was the only original still on this drama in 1999, in its ninth season
Law & Order
Lindsay
|
$200
[2]
Also called zymosis, this action involving enzymes produces beer & cheese
fermentation
Lindsay
|
$200
[14]
Of the 6 British kings who bore this name, the first 4 were of the German house of Hanover
George
Lindsay
|
$200
[16]
Saponification is the making of this, an anagram of "sapo"
soap
Michael
|
$200
[25]
Bellowing Highland instrument
a bagpipe
Michael
|
|
$300
[8]
When East & West were linked by this in October, 1861, the days of the Pony Express were numbered
the telegraph
Michael
|
$400
[21]
By the time this sitcom ended, Fred MacMurray's character had become a grandfather to triplet boys
My Three Sons
Michael
|
$300
[3]
A phonon is a tiny packet of sound; change 1 letter to get this unit of electromagnetic energy
a photon
Christian
|
$300
[17]
In 1953 he officially succeeded his father Talal as king of Jordan
Hussein (I)
Christian
|
$300
[24]
This Asian nation whose name ends in "rain" only gets 3 inches of rain a year
Bahrain
Michael
|
$300
[26]
It's a Middle East capital
Baghdad
Michael
|
|
$400
[9]
In 1851 Stonewall Jackson became an instructor at VMI, this school
Virginia Military Institute
Michael
|
$500
[22]
As a boy, this current host of "Meet the Press" watched the show with his father
Tim Russert
Christian
Michael
|
$400
[4]
This synonym for "burning" is the name of a "chamber" where rockets burn fuel
combustion
Michael
|
$400
[18]
This Hawaiian king whose name means "the very lonely one" conquered Maui in 1790
King Kamehameha
Lindsay
|
$400
[29]
An 1854 outbreak of cholera in London ended after Dr. John Snow had a handle on one of these removed
a water pump
Lindsay
|
$400
[27]
Derived from the Italian for "little stick", it's a long, narrow loaf of French bread
a baguette
Michael
|
|
$500
[10]
This Secretary of State retired in 1869, 2 years after his "folly"
William Seward
Michael
|
DD
$1,600
[20]
(Backstage at the Emmys:Hi, I'm Jay Leno, and the answer is:) My "Tonight Show" predecessor, Johnny Carson, became the full-time host after this man quit in March of 1962
Jack Paar
Michael
|
$500
[5]
A millimeter of this element is a common unit for measuring pressure, including blood pressure
mercury
Lindsay
|
$500
[19]
This king of Castile & Aragon was known as "The Catholic"
Ferdinand
Michael
|
$500
[30]
In December, 1981 he was elected to succeed Kurt Waldheim as U.N. Secretary-General
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Christian
Michael
|
$500
[28]
A trifle, or a short piece of music
a bagatelle
Lindsay
|
| TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES | MIDDLE INITIAL S. | THE NUDE IN ART | OVERLAPS | CITIES IN SONG | THEATRE |
|
$200
[5]
Martinique
France
Michael
|
$200
[1]
He used his middle name Ulysses as a first name; a mistake at West Point gave him the middle name Simpson
Ulysses S. Grant
Michael
|
$200
[11]
Like another famous painter, William-Adolphe Bouguereau shows her nude on a shell for her "birth"
Venus
Lindsay
Michael
|
$200
[17]
Golden ice cream topping that's sticky on one side
butterscotch tape
|
$400
[13]
It's "That Toddlin' Town"
Chicago
Lindsay
|
$600
[27]
Of Red, Green, or Puce, the one who's a servant to Shakespeare's King Richard II
Green
Lindsay
Christian
Michael
|
|
$400
[7]
Greenland
Denmark
Lindsay
|
$400
[2]
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons", this poet wrote in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
T.S. Eliot
Michael
|
$400
[12]
The seated nude in his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" shows the beginnings of his Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Christian
|
$400
[21]
Disney movie about a troublesome feline rock-throwing device
That Darn Catapult
Michael
|
$600
[18]
"They've got some crazy little women" here, & "I'm gonna' get me one"
Kansas City
Lindsay
|
$1,000
[26]
The 1-woman show, "Orgasmo Advito Escapes from the Zoo" starred this "Bonnie and Clyde" co-star, Roseanne's TV mom
Estelle Parsons
Michael
|
|
$600
[8]
Wake Island
United States
Michael
|
$600
[3]
His writings include the Narnia books & "The Screwtape Letters"
C.S. Lewis
Christian
|
$600
[14]
When Durer painted this pair in 1507, he had them hold tree branches whose leaves blocked out certain parts
Adam & Eve
Michael
|
$600
[22]
Product that will come back in its next life as a can of evaporated moo juice
reincarnation milk
|
$800
[19]
Bob Dylan sang "Stuck inside of" this Alabama city "with the Memphis blues again"
Mobile
Lindsay
|
DD
$2,811
[25]
"Fate", the title of a song in this classic musical, is also a synonym for the musical's title
Kismet
Lindsay
|
|
$800
[9]
Cayman Islands
United Kingdom
|
$800
[4]
Johnny Depp & Benicio Del Toro starred in the movie adaptation of his book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
Hunter S. Thompson
Lindsay
|
DD
$800
[15]
Shortly after his "Luncheon", this impressionist exhibited the nude seen here:
Edouard Manet
Michael
|
$800
[23]
Solzhenitsyn novel about a '60s disco entertainer in a cage
Gulag Archipelago-Go
|
$1,000
[20]
On the album "Court and Spark", Joni Mitchell lamented that she once felt better as "A free man" in this city
Paris
|
— |
|
$1,000
[10]
Svalbard
Norway
Michael
|
$1,000
[6]
He originally published his 1953 book "Junkie" under the pen name William Lee
William S. Burroughs
Michael
|
$1,000
[16]
People said his male nude "The Age of Bronze" was so lifelike, he must have made casts from live models
Auguste Rodin
Christian
|
$1,000
[24]
Young Citizen Kane loved sliding down hills in the snow with this Costello partner
Rosebud Abbott
Lindsay
|
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People magazine's 1989 & 1998 Sexiest Men Alive, they played father & son in a blockbuster 1989 film
Sean Connery & Harrison Ford