Rick Goldfarb — an attorney from Seattle, Washington
Jolyn Dunavant — a budget administrator from Lancaster, Texas
William Toren — a copy editor from Northridge, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | $2,000 | $2,800 | $14,400 |
$4,400
2-day champion: $6,800 |
$11,800
30 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jolyn | $300 | $1,500 | $1,500 |
$0
3rd place: Panasonic Portable DVD Player |
$1,500
8 R, 2 W |
| Rick | $1,800 | $4,400 | $11,600 |
$3,000
2nd place: Trip to Holiday Inn Aruba Beach Resort & Casino |
$10,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| AMERICAN HISTORY | KEEPIN' IN SHAPE | BY 2000 | COUNTRY MUSIC | FOOD STUFF | ONLY IN "L.A." |
|
$100
[4]
During his first term as president, the Bill of Rights became law
George Washington
Rick
|
$100
[21]
Experts say to drink 8 cups of this a day; that's about 5.3 cups of H & 2.7 cups of O
water
Jolyn
|
$100
[16]
Phi Delta Theta & Sigma Nu are 2 of these that are trying to ban alcohol by 2000
fraternities
Rick
|
$100
[22]
His 1969 hit with the First Edition, "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", was written by Mel Tillis
Kenny Rogers
William
|
$100
[11]
Rice whose length is over 4 times its width is typed with this 2-word name
long grain
William
|
$100
[1]
Desi's daughter
Luci Arnaz
Jolyn
|
|
$200
[5]
In 1813 the U.S. defeated the British in the Battle of the Thames River in what is now this country
Canada
William
|
$200
[25]
A 1997 recall ended the pairing of the diet drugs known by this homophonic name
Phen-Fen
Jolyn
|
$200
[17]
Computers that recognize 00 as this date have to be fixed by the year 2000
1900
William
|
$200
[23]
Classic song heardherein a remake by Randy Travis:"Trailers for sale or rent..."
"King Of The Road"
William
|
$200
[12]
Gouda cheese is named for Gouda, a town in this country
the Netherlands (or Holland)
William
|
$200
[2]
Spanish for "the poplars", the first hydrogen bomb was designed there
Los Alamos
Jolyn
|
|
$400
[9]
In November 1689 Joseph Wadsworth hid this colony's charter from the British by placing it in an oak tree
Connecticut
William
|
$300
[28]
Your body can convert beta carotene into this vitamin found in liver & stored in your liver
vitamin A
William
|
$300
[18]
British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar hopes to have fully restored this composer's 9 symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
Rick
|
$300
[24]
In 1997 some of country music's biggest names celebrated this "Singing Cowboy's" 90th birthday
Gene Autry
Rick
|
$300
[13]
Kimbunda speakers know nguba, from which we get goober, means this
peanut
William
|
$300
[3]
She sat behind the reception desk at "WKRP"
Loni Anderson
Rick
|
|
$500
[10]
He earned his captain's commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804
Stephen Decatur
William
|
$400
[29]
From the Greek for air, this type of exercise, like race walking & swimming, helps your heart & lungs
aerobic
William
Jolyn
|
$400
[19]
Ukraine has promised to close this nuclear plant by 2000
Chernobyl
Rick
|
$400
[26]
A flower arrangement at his 1998 funeral included a pair of blue suede shoes
Carl Perkins
William
|
$400
[14]
An Englishman might "win one for" this flattened, cold-smoked herring
the kipper
William
|
$400
[6]
Tibetan monks reputedly believed that their souls would enter the bodies of these watchdogs
Lhasa Apsos
William
|
|
DD
$900
[8]
In 1832 this president declared, "The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me; but I will kill it"
Andrew Jackson
Rick
|
$500
[30]
By definition, lactoovo-vegetarians eat these 2 types of foods along with the veggies
milk & eggs
Rick
|
$500
[20]
A 500-foot-tall one of these fair attractions is planned to be built across the Thames from Parliament
a Ferris wheel
Rick
|
$500
[27]
Sexy singing sensation heard here with a recent hit:
Shania Twain
Jolyn
|
$500
[15]
Obtained by hard milling durum wheat, this flour is used in cream of wheat cereal
semolina
Rick
|
$500
[7]
Citing personal reasons, he announced his resignation as Secretary of Defense in 1993
Les Aspin
William
Rick
|
| COUNTRIES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | "BAD" MOVIES | BOOKS FOR THE BRAVE | ANIMAL ANAGRAMS | NATIVE AMERICANS | NON-NATIVE AMERICANS |
|
$200
[3]
Discounting China, it's the most populous country named for a person
the United States of America (Amerigo Vespucci)
Rick
|
$200
[22]
This kids' baseball team was so "bad" they had a different coach for each of 3 movies about them
the Bad News Bears
William
|
$200
[19]
You could write a brief history of the times people have tackled this physicist's "A Brief History of Time"
Stephen Hawking
William
|
$200
[1]
Kay got to ride this animal when she visited Tibet
a yak (Kay)
Rick
|
$200
[2]
The currency called wampum was originally strings of these made from shells
beads
William
|
$200
[12]
In 1983, the year he became a U.S. citizen, he flexed his acting muscles making "Conan the Destroyer"
Arnold Schwarzenegger
William
|
|
$400
[4]
This South American country was named for "El Libertador"
Bolivia (Simon Bolivar)
William
|
$600
[24]
Drew Barrymore was one of several pistol packin' prostitutes in this 1994 Western
Bad Girls
William
|
$400
[27]
Your grasp of this French existentialist's "Being and Nothingness" may be closer to nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
William
|
$400
[17]
A wee female sheep can grow up to be a great big one
a ewe (wee)
William
|
$400
[8]
This tribe called themselves Hotcangara & moved around the Great Lakes in canoes, not motor homes
Winnebago
William
|
$400
[13]
This Korean-born woman married Woody Allen in December 1997
Soon-Yi Previn
Rick
|
|
$600
[5]
This Pacific island nation was named for the crown prince of Spain in 1542
Philippines
Rick
|
$800
[25]
Bad, Patty, bad! Patty McCormack played the evil little girl in this 1956 classic based on an Anderson play
The Bad Seed
William
Jolyn
|
$600
[28]
After starting this last James Joyce novel, you may talkingbe pas Anglais this saway
Finnegans Wake
William
|
$600
[18]
Verna has a pet one perching just above her chamber door
a raven (Verna)
Rick
|
$600
[9]
A wigwam is an Algonquin bent pole-&-bark dwelling; this Sioux word means a house of animal skins
teepee
William
|
$600
[14]
This Czech-born tennis star seenherewon 3 straight U.S. Opens & is now a U.S. citizen
Ivan Lendl
Rick
|
|
$1,000
[7]
This Mideast country was named for a man named Abdul
Saudi Arabia (Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud)
Rick
|
$1,000
[26]
Harvey Keitel protects & serves only himself as a corrupt cop in this Abel Ferrara drama
Bad Lieutenant
William
|
$800
[29]
It's a lot easier to finish this author's "Death in Venice" than his "Dr. Faustus"
Thomas Mann
Jolyn
|
$800
[20]
An astronaut drinking Tang doesn't want to find this insect in it
a gnat (Tang)
William
|
$800
[10]
This grouping including the Crow & Wichita is named for the area from the Rockies to the Mississippi
the Plains Indians
Rick
|
$800
[15]
The ABC News fifth column includes Peter Jennings from Canada & this British-born "Nightline" host
Ted Koppel
William
|
|
DD
$1,800
[6]
Zambia & Zimbabwe were formed out of this country named for a British colonizer
Rhodesia (Cecil Rhodes)
Rick
|
DD
$3,000
[23]
It's the movie whose theme isheard here:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
William
|
$1,000
[30]
Few have finished both the Barsetshire & Palliser series by this "wanton" 19th century novelist
Anthony Trollope
Jolyn
|
$1,000
[21]
Some folks love this ratlike rodent related to the lemming
a vole (love)
|
$1,000
[11]
Colonists called it the elk, though the Shawnee had given it this perfectly good name
Wapiti
Rick
|
$1,000
[16]
This Havana-born actor is not related to poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom he played in a 1997 film
Andy Garcia
William
Jolyn
|
A February 1998 study found the world's highest store rents, $580 a square foot, on this street
Fifth Avenue (New York City)