John Walsh — a writer from Santa Monica, California
Leigh Bachman — a brand strategist from Cincinnati, Ohio
Mike Donner — a construction worker from Norfolk, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $30,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | $200 | $1,000 | $8,400 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Leigh | $2,000 | $2,800 | $4,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,800
13 R, 4 W |
| John | $4,200 | $8,400 | $15,400 |
$13,900
New champion: $13,900 |
$14,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| DIRE STRAITS | I WANT MY "M" TV | MONEY FOR NOTHING | THE WOK OF LIFE | THE SULTANS | OF WING |
|
$200
[1]
The name of this famed rock & the strait beneath it come from the name of a Berber slave
Gibraltar
Leigh
|
$200
[2]
Before he was Rockford, James Garner was this wisecracking Western card shark
Maverick
John
|
$200
[7]
This compound noun can refer to a leaflet given at a lecture or to food given to a hobo
a handout
Leigh
|
$200
[12]
After it's shelled & deveined, it's popularly served in lobster sauce
shrimp
Leigh
|
$200
[16]
In the Dire Straits song, the sultan who "knows all the chords" on this instrument is a real musician, George Borowski
the guitar
|
$200
[22]
It can't breathe fire, but a dragonfly does have this many wings
4
Mike
|
|
$400
[27]
The Bab el Mandeb Strait connects the Gulf of Aden to this "colorful" sea
the Red Sea
Mike
|
$400
[3]
This widely popular variety show was hosted by a frog
The Muppets
Leigh
|
$400
[8]
It's an 8-letter synonym for "insolvent"
bankrupt
John
|
$400
[13]
The Szechuan version of this fowl, "ya" in Chinese, is served with rolls to offset the rich skin
duck
John
|
$400
[17]
In 1957 Sultan Muhammad V took the title "King" a year after France gave this north African country its independence
Morocco
Mike
John
|
$400
[23]
As big as the California variety of this type of vulture is, the Andean variety is even larger
a condor
Mike
|
|
$600
[28]
A busy shipping lane, the Strait of Malacca between Sumatra & the Malay Peninsula, links these 2 oceans
the Indian & the Pacific
Mike
|
$600
[4]
Ken Berry played a widower raising a young son on this "Andy Griffith Show" spinoff
Mayberry R.F.D.
John
|
$600
[9]
Unexpected cash from the bossman; NBA teams can go "into" it once their foe has committed too many fouls
bonus
Leigh
|
$600
[14]
Most Chinese shun the strong flavor of this meat; it's most popular in the North, where the local Muslims shun pork
lamb
Mike
Leigh
|
$800
[19]
Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam was founded in 1862 by the sultan of this island that's now part of Tanzania
Zanzibar
|
$600
[24]
The so-called wingspan of the manta variety of this creature can reach 20 feet
a ray
Mike
|
|
$800
[29]
Named after navigator John & not his son Sebastian, this strait joins the Atlantic to the St. Lawrence Gulf
Cabot
Leigh
|
$800
[5]
An alien was sent to Earth to study humans in Boulder, Colorado on this sitcom
Mork & Mindy
John
|
$800
[10]
Not someone who is enamored of U2's frontman, this Latin term is for something done for free for the public good
pro bono
Mike
|
$800
[15]
From the word for yellow cassia blossom, this pancaked dish symbolizes the blossoms by using scrambled egg
mu shu
John
|
$1,000
[20]
Hassanal Bolkiah is the wealthy sultan of this Asian sultanate
Brunei
John
|
$800
[25]
With a wingspan of up to 12 feet, this critter can wander quite a distance without landing
an albatross
John
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Byzantium levied a toll on ships using this strait that opens into the Black Sea
the Bosporus
Mike
|
$1,000
[6]
Rock Hudson was paired with Susan St. James on this San Francisco-set police series
McMillan & Wife
Leigh
|
$1,000
[11]
From the Latin for "support", they're government grants given to industry; billions have gone to U.S. farmers
a subsidy
John
|
$1,000
[21]
The name of this pork dish comes from its preparation: first the meat is simmered, then it's stir-fried
twice-cooked pork
John
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
Tourist sites in this Mideast capital include Ramses Square & the Mosque of Sultan Hassan
Cairo
John
|
$1,000
[26]
Bats are of the order Chiroptera, which translates from the Greek as these "wings"
hand wings
John
|
| MUSIC | BASEBALL: THE 1960s | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE | 20th CENTURY FASHION | AN ECUMENICAL CATEGORY | HIDDEN CITIES |
|
$400
[17]
You can get the Mahler "Symphony of a Thousand" with the London Philharmonic Orch. & London Philharmonic this
Choir
John
|
$400
[16]
Known as the "M & M Boys", these 2 Yankees slugged a total of 115 regular season home runs in 1961
Mantle & Maris
Mike
|
$400
[9]
At the end of "As You Like It", Rosalind says "when I make" this respectful movement, "bid me farewell"
curtsy
John
|
$400
[8]
Cocktail dresses were recommended for a woman's second or third one of these ceremonies
a wedding
John
|
$400
[6]
In this religion Brahmins are regarded as Dvija, or "twice born", the second "birth" being an initiation ceremony
Hinduism
Mike
|
$400
[1]
Nero met his match in this city
Rome (Ne ro me t)
Mike
|
|
$800
[23]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows us a treble clef.) The F Major key signature tells me to flatten this fourth note in the scale
B
Leigh
|
$800
[24]
Say hey! This Giants outfielder was named the National League's most valuable player in 1965
Willie Mays
Mike
|
$800
[10]
You don't need a university education to know that the Earl of this appears in "Henry V"
Cambridge
Leigh
|
$800
[12]
Lana Turner was nicknamed this kind of "girl" for a certain form-fitting garment she wore
a sweater girl
|
$800
[7]
It's divided into chapters called Surahs; the 23rd Surah is titled "The True Believers"
the Koran
Leigh
|
$800
[2]
Because of the traffic, I often feel mad riding in a taxi in this European capital
Madrid ( mad rid ing)
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[30]
This string instrument got its name from its old job of playing along with other instruments low notes
a double bass
Mike
|
$1,200
[25]
In 1967 Carl Yastrzemski led this team to the American League pennant
the Boston Red Sox
Leigh
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
Twin brothers named Dromio are servants to twin brothers named Antipholus in this highly confusing play
The Comedy of Errors
John
|
$1,200
[13]
Winkle pickers, named because they were so pointed you could dig up periwinkles with them, were a style of these
shoes
Leigh
|
$1,200
[20]
Cairo's "hanging church" is the site of services for this ancient group of Christians
the Coptics
John
|
$1,600
[4]
Enos lost his way in the snow in this Scandinavian city
Oslo (En os lo st)
Mike
|
|
$1,600
[29]
(Jon of the Clue Crew is) From the French for "to slide," it's the term for sliding across the notes on a piano or keyboardlike this
glissando
John
|
$1,600
[26]
In 1962, in its first year in the National League, this East Coast team lost 120 regular season games
the Mets
Mike
|
$1,200
[11]
In "Julius Caesar", this man "has a lean and hungry look"; in "Antony and Cleopatra", he's "lean and wrinkled"
Cassius
Leigh
|
$1,600
[14]
"Enchanted Evening", a pink satin gown worn by this somewhat plastic icon in the '60s, was produced again in 1996
Barbie
Leigh
|
$1,600
[21]
The Jewish prayer known by this Hebrew name begins, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one"
Shema Yisrael
|
$2,000
[5]
Down Under you can find a super theme park near this city
Perth (su per th eme)
|
|
$2,000
[28]
Term for an opera passage that's more spoken than sung, with little accompaniment
a recitativo
Leigh
John
|
$2,000
[27]
On June 21, 1964 this Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, now a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, hurled a perfect game
Jim Bunning
|
$2,000
[19]
He's the brutish character who says, "This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak'st from me"
Caliban
John
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1954 this great French couturier unveiled his "flat look", which some feared would abolish bosoms; it didn't
Christian Dior
John
|
$2,000
[22]
Meaning "enlightenment being", in Buddhism this person has enough good karma to hand it out to others
Bodhisattva
Mike
Leigh
|
DD
$2,200
[3]
Help a soldier find this Texas city as fast as possible
El Paso (H elp a so ldier)
Mike
|
2 of the 5 women to win both Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress Oscars
(2 of) Meryl Streep, Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes, Jessica Lange, & Maggie Smith