Marguerite Hester — a computer trainer from Raleigh, North Carolina
Mike Kelley — a high school physics teacher from Newburgh, Indiana
Roxanne Crocco — a graduate student from Powell, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roxanne | $1,000 | $2,600 | $6,000 |
$12,000
2nd place: Trip to the Hilton at Short Hills Hotel & Spa, New Jersey |
$6,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mike | $1,500 | $2,900 | $11,900 |
$15,300
New champion: $15,300 |
$9,700
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Marguerite | $500 | $1,400 | $4,200 |
$2,499
3rd place: Pair of Jaguar Friendship Watches |
$4,200
10 R, 1 W |
| DOWN UNDER | POP MUSIC | BERKELEY IN THE '60s | CLIFFS NOTES | MATTHEWS | MULTIPLE MEANINGS |
|
$100
[6]
The ABA, Inc. in Sydney is an Australian association that gives lessons in how to throw these
boomerangs
Mike
|
$100
[3]
In February 1995 he reunited with his E Street Band to perform for a "Murder Incorporated" video shoot
Bruce Springsteen
Mike
|
$100
[20]
In October 1965 Oakland police turned back over 10,000 marchers protesting this war
the Vietnam War
Mike
|
$100
[14]
Napoleon invades Russia; causes problems for Natasha; leaves
War and Peace
Roxanne
|
$100
[16]
One of two "Friends" actors who fit the category
Matt LeBlanc (or Matthew Perry)
Roxanne
|
$100
[1]
A spinning toy, or the location of this clue in the category
top
Roxanne
|
|
$200
[8]
It has webbed feet, no teeth or external ears, brown fur & a rubbery, duckbill-shaped muzzle
the platypus
Mike
|
$200
[4]
Feedback was first used in pop music in this Beatles song heard here:
"I Feel Fine"
Roxanne
|
$200
[26]
This actor won the California governorship in 1966 using the unrest at Berkeley as a campaign issue
Ronald Reagan
Roxanne
|
$200
[15]
Poet goes to hell; then purgatory (where he meets an old flame); then heaven!
The Divine Comedy
Mike
Marguerite
|
$200
[17]
This Texan was "Dazed and Confused" before starring in "Contact" & "Amistad"
Matthew McConaughey
Roxanne
|
$200
[2]
Magically conceal a card in your hand, or a tall tropical tree
palm
Mike
|
|
$300
[12]
Walter Burley Griffin, an architect from Chicago, designed this capital city, site unseen
Canberra
Roxanne
Mike
|
$300
[5]
This group's "Night Fever" stayed at No. 1 longer than any other single of 1978--8 weeks
the Bee Gees
Marguerite
|
$300
[27]
Mario Savio was an informal leader of the FSM, a group named for this constitutional right
the Free Speech Movement
Roxanne
|
$300
[23]
George & Martha throw an after-party for Nick & Honey; play games; start for bed at dawn
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Roxanne
|
$300
[18]
His character on "Party of Five" battled cancer
Matthew Fox
|
$300
[10]
To trample underfoot, a closed court sport or a vegetable
squash
Roxanne
|
|
$400
[21]
This now popular tourist attraction almost wrecked the Endeavour, Captain Cook's ship
the Great Barrier Reef
Mike
|
$400
[7]
This Tony Orlando & Dawn hit became a theme of hope during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, 1979 to 1981
"Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree"
Marguerite
|
$400
[28]
It completes the protest slogan "I am a UC student: do not fold, bend or" this
mutilate
Mike
|
$500
[25]
Mysterious rich guy throws lavish parties to impress old flame; gets shot; dies
The Great Gatsby
Roxanne
Marguerite
|
$400
[19]
This Matthew has been in the movies "Married to the Mob" & "Short Cuts"
Matthew Modine
Marguerite
|
$400
[11]
Vulgar, or a dozen dozen
gross
Mike
|
|
$500
[22]
Over 309 of these are operating in the Barossa Valley, the Aussie equivalent of our Napa
wineries
Mike
|
$500
[9]
After disbanding in 1968 these "brothers" reunited in 1974 & had a No. 3 hit with "Rock And Roll Heaven"
The Righteous Brothers
Mike
|
$500
[29]
In May 1960, the San Francisco meeting of this House committee was disrupted by protesters from Berkeley
the House Un-American Activities Committee
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
Bored French housewife commits adultery; commits herself to huge debt; commits suicide
Madame Bovary
Roxanne
|
— |
$500
[13]
Somber, serious matter, or where a body's buried
grave
Mike
|
| AFRICAN HISTORY | ASTRONOMY | THE MOVIES | WHERE ARE THEY NOW? | SAY WHAT? | THE END OF THE LINE |
|
$200
[26]
The Organization of African Unity was founded in 1963 at a conference in this Ethiopian capital
Addis Ababa
Mike
|
$200
[12]
Event seen here:(moon blocking sun)
Solar eclipse
Marguerite
|
$200
[1]
He was in "Sabrina", "Witness" & "Frantic"
Harrison Ford
Marguerite
|
$200
[13]
This actress is buried in Monaco at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, where she was married in 1956
Grace Kelly
Mike
|
$200
[6]
This Asian language uses over 40,000 ideographic characters & is spoken by over 600 million people
Chinese
Roxanne
|
$200
[25]
"Frankly, my dear..."
"I don't give a damn"
Marguerite
|
|
$400
[27]
This trade in Africans was long practiced by Arabs but increased with the New World's plantations
Slavery
Mike
|
$400
[11]
The acronym SETI stands for the Search for this
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Mike
|
$400
[2]
The character seen here is based on a role created by this actor in 1932:(The Mummy)
Boris Karloff
Marguerite
|
$400
[21]
This editor is buried near her first husband & her former brother-in-law at Arlington National Cemetery
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Roxanne
|
$400
[7]
Extinct British Celtic vernacular, or some game hens
Cornish
Mike
|
$400
[14]
"One flew east, one flew west..."
"One flew over the cuckoo's nest"
Roxanne
|
|
$600
[28]
Black "homelands" called Bantustans were part of this South African system of segregation
Apartheid
Mike
|
$600
[10]
It was the first planet discovered with a telescope
Uranus
|
$600
[3]
1967 animated feature that included the line "Old Baloo's gonna learn you to fight like a bear"
The Jungle Book
Mike
|
$600
[22]
Chopin is at Paris' Pere Lachaise, but the kids flock to the grave of this American singer who died in 1971
Jim Morrison
Roxanne
|
$600
[20]
"Old" Scandinavian language from which Icelandic, Faroese & Swedish developed
Old Norse
Mike
|
$600
[15]
"Float like a butterfly..."
"Sting like a bee"
Mike
|
|
$800
[29]
In 1873 the heart of this doctor & missionary was buried under a tree in Africa
David Livingstone
Roxanne
Mike
|
$1,000
[8]
After Earth, it's the planet whose day is closest to 24 hours long
Mars
Mike
|
$800
[4]
Eddie Murphy played "The Nutty Professor" in 1996, 33 years after this man did
Jerry Lewis
Marguerite
|
$800
[23]
Residents of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. include Emerson & this Walden Pond resident
Henry David Thoreau
Mike
|
$800
[18]
To sing this country's national anthem, a resident of Tirane would sing it in this official language
Albanian
|
$800
[16]
"I'll get you my pretty..."
"And your little dog too!"
Roxanne
|
|
DD
$800
[30]
The medieval Ouagadougou Empire was built on the upper reaches of this river
Volta
Roxanne
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
This closest galaxy to our own is named for an Ethiopian princess in Greek myth
Andromeda
Mike
|
$1,000
[5]
This 1962 Cinerama epic had segments directed by George Marshall, Henry Hathaway & John Ford
How the West Was Won
Marguerite
|
$1,000
[24]
Buried in Rome, this poet wrote as his own epitaph, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"
John Keats
|
$1,000
[19]
A Khoikhoi would pronounce "Jeopardy!" with one of these at the end, as their language requires
Click (for the exclamation mark)
Mike
|
$1,000
[17]
"As Maine goes..."
"So goes the nation"
Roxanne
|
This memoir, winner of a 1997 Pulitzer Prize, has made Limerick a hot tourist destination
"Angela's Ashes"