Bonnie Humphrey — an attorney from Tuxedo Park, New York
Dave Dye — an import specialist from Torrance, California
Jesse Berry — a tax analyst from Little Rock, Arkansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse | $600 | $3,600 | $18,000 |
$11,000
2-day champion: $31,000 |
$18,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dave | $200 | $3,400 | $3,400 |
$3,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,400
12 R, 4 W |
| Bonnie | $4,200 | $5,400 | $10,600 |
$7,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
12 R, 0 W |
| PTOLEMY...WHY NOT TAKE PTOLEMY? | TV LAND'S TOP QUOTES | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE SOME NAME | EARLS! EARLS! EARLS! | FOOD | CROSSWORD HELPER |
|
$200
[17]
Ptolemy XII, Egypt's king for nearly 30 years, used bribery to prevent this empire from annexing the country
the Roman Empire
Jesse
|
$200
[11]
"I'm not a crook"
Nixon
Jesse
|
$200
[1]
In Waukesha, Wisconsin you can actually live on this, a 2-word phrase for a life of comfort & security
Easy Street
Jesse
|
$200
[25]
The "Architect Earl" of Pembroke laid the first stone in the first Westminster Bridge over this river
the Thames
Dave
|
$200
[6]
Food used in many Thai dishes & also mentioned in "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
peanuts
Bonnie
|
$200
[5]
Ara: one of these star groups between Triangulum Australe & Scorpius
a constellation
Dave
|
|
$400
[18]
Her dad was Ptolemy XII; lucky no. XIII, 10 years old at the time, became her co-ruler & husband
Cleopatra
Dave
|
$400
[12]
"Heeere's Johnny!"
Ed McMahon
Jesse
Dave
|
$400
[2]
Swing down to the intersection of Count & Basie in this capital of Virginia
Richmond
Bonnie
|
$400
[26]
In 1595 Hugh O'Neill, "the Great Earl" of Tyrone, led a revolt against British rule here
Ireland
Jesse
|
$400
[7]
Munich's traditional Weisswurst, a veal sausage, is naked without Senf, German for this
mustard
Jesse
Dave
|
$400
[21]
Gam or pod: a herd of these large mammals
whales
Bonnie
|
|
$600
[19]
Fire was an important part of this structure, one of the 7 ancient wonders, finished during Ptolemy II's reign
the Lighthouse at Alexandria
Jesse
|
$600
[13]
"You're fired"
(Donald) Trump
Jesse
|
$600
[3]
You can clean up on Dirty Ankle Road in Lawndale, located in this "Tar Heel State"
North Carolina
Jesse
|
DD
$800
[27]
The Earl of Carnarvon gave up race horses for archaeology & financed the 1922 discovery of this
King Tutankhamen's tomb
Jesse
|
$600
[8]
At his first news conference, George W. Bush compared Iraq sanctions to this dairy food
Swiss cheese
|
$600
[22]
Ria: a narrow inlet of the sea formed by this type of valley that's been partly submerged
a river valley
Jesse
|
|
$800
[20]
Ptolemy's system of astronomy held up until 1543, when this Polish astronomer went heliocentric
Copernicus
Bonnie
|
$800
[14]
"Baby, you're the greatest"
Jackie Gleason (or Ralph Kramden)
Bonnie
|
$800
[4]
Traverse to Traverse City, Mich. & go nuts a la Anthony Perkins, for you'll find this "Path" there
Psycho
Dave
|
$800
[28]
Earl "Citizen" Stanhope chaired a society to promote this the year before the French one
a revolution
Dave
|
$800
[9]
The main ingredients of ratatouille are tomatoes, onions, peppers, zucchini & this veggie that's bigger than those
eggplant
Bonnie
|
$800
[23]
Eft: the land-dwelling form of this type of salamander
a newt
Dave
|
|
$1,000
[24]
Ptolemy V's decree pardoning prisoners was inscribed on this block of basalt discovered in 1799
the Rosetta Stone
Jesse
|
$1,000
[15]
"Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
Gary Coleman
Jesse
Bonnie
|
$1,000
[16]
Fittingly, Bakersfield, Calif. has car dealers on this alley that's also the name of a comic strip
Gasoline Alley
Jesse
|
$1,000
[29]
In 1348 the Earl of Salisbury found his feminine side as one of the original Knights of this
the Garter
Dave
|
$1,000
[10]
Meat on a stick sounds better if you use the French term, "en" this
brochette
Bonnie
|
$1,000
[30]
Til: this type of plant; the seeds are used to make tahini
sesame
|
| PHYSICS | COLD MOVIES | HERE COMES UKRAINE AGAIN | ALSO A GUM BRAND | EVERYONE'S A CRITIC | "MAN" ALIVE |
|
$400
[1]
Relativity theory assumes that the effect of acceleration on an object equals the effect of this force
gravity
|
$400
[23]
Peter Billingsley watches Flick get triple-dog-dared into sticking his tongue to a flagpole in this film
A Christmas Story
Jesse
|
$400
[11]
Born in Ukraine in 1894, he became the undisputed leader of the USSR in 1958
Khrushchev
Bonnie
|
$400
[5]
A shoulder-held weapon for firing armor-piercing rockets
a bazooka
Dave
|
$400
[2]
In the "Republic", he criticized the job of painter as just a "creator of appearances...what he creates is untrue"
Plato
Dave
|
$400
[12]
The unlawful killing of another, but without malice aforethought
manslaughter
Dave
|
|
$800
[7]
This positively charged nuclear particle has almost 2,000 times the mass of the negatively charged electron
a proton
Jesse
|
$800
[24]
In the '70s, he was a hockey player in "Slap Shot" & faced a future ice age in "Quintet"
Paul Newman
|
$800
[17]
Called "Mother of Cities", this Ukrainian capital was heavily damaged in WWII & not fully rebuilt until around 1960
Kiev
Jesse
|
$800
[6]
To walk with long steps (you may "hit" yours or "take things in" it)
a stride
Jesse
|
$800
[3]
This film critic became a leading director of the French New Wave with "The 400 Blows" & "Shoot the Piano Player"
Francois Truffaut
Jesse
|
$800
[13]
Marvelously meticulous medieval monks would methodically "illuminate" them
a manuscript
Jesse
|
|
DD
$1,400
[8]
In wave motion, period, the time one complete cycle takes, is the reciprocal of this, the no. of cycles in a given time
frequency
Jesse
|
$1,600
[26]
The Uruguayan rugby team has a bad day & not enough seasoning in this 1993 Ethan Hawke film
Alive
Jesse
|
$1,200
[18]
Ukraine prospered for several centuries in the Middle Ages until its 1240 conquest by these forces from the East
the Mongols
Dave
|
$1,200
[28]
A special edition of a newspaper
extra
Dave
|
$1,200
[4]
He wrote "Lyrical Ballads" with Wordsworth, & his "Biographia Literaria" is the best of English Romantic criticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
|
$1,200
[14]
The name of these handcuffs comes from the Latin for "little hand"
manacles
Bonnie
|
|
$1,600
[9]
An object on a table & a compressed spring both have this type of energy; one gravitational, one elastic
potential
Jesse
|
DD
$1,800
[25]
This sequel starts on the icy planet of Hoth
The Empire Strikes Back
Jesse
|
$1,600
[19]
First name shared by both the current prime minister & current president of Ukraine
Viktor
Dave
|
$1,600
[29]
The lunar kind means the light of the Moon is obscured because the Earth is between the Moon & the sun
an eclipse
Bonnie
|
$1,600
[21]
"The Sacred Wood" was the first book of criticism by this Missouri-born "Four Quartets" poet
T.S. Eliot
Jesse
|
$1,600
[15]
Perhaps the world's first industrial city was this one, later home to the British band Oasis
Manchester
Jesse
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Term for the distance from the center of a lens to the pt. where parallel rays that pass through it converge
focal length
Dave
|
$2,000
[27]
The end of this John Carpenter South Pole-set film finds Keith David & Kurt Russell shivering & paranoid
The Thing
Jesse
|
$2,000
[20]
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine joined Russia & Belarus in forming this, the C.I.S.
the Commonwealth of Independent States
Jesse
|
$2,000
[30]
Without worry
carefree
Jesse
|
$2,000
[22]
Her 1991 book said "the undeclared war against American women" is the "backlash against the women's movement"
Susan Faludi
Bonnie
|
$2,000
[16]
After they invaded China & captured Beijing in 1644, they established the Ching dynasty
the Manchus
Jesse
|
In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper
Mark Twain