Sam Paparo — a Navy fighter pilot from Morton, Pennsylvania
Don Lessem — a dinosaur expert and writer from Newton, Massachusetts
Lynn Walters — a stay-at-home mom from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 3-day cash winnings total $23,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn | $500 | $2,500 | $8,300 |
$6,999
4-day champion: $30,000 |
$8,100
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Don | $500 | $800 | $200 |
$0
3rd place: a Clio PC Companion |
$1,200
12 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sam | $1,100 | $1,600 | $4,800 |
$401
2nd place: a trip to Atlantis Paradise Island Resort, Bahamas |
$4,800
15 R, 1 W |
| BRITISH AUTHORS | AMERICAN FADS | MEXICAN GEOGRAPHY | ITALIAN CINEMA | EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY | "ONE" PLANET |
|
$100
[1]
He originally intended his creation James Bond to be an "uninteresting man to whom things happened"
Ian Fleming
Don
|
$100
[2]
10-4, good buddy, it's what the CB in CB radio stands for
citizens' band radio
Sam
|
$100
[12]
This U.S. state has the longest common border with Mexico
Texas
Sam
|
$100
[11]
His film "Life Is Beautiful" was widely compared to Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried"
Roberto Benigni
Sam
|
$100
[10]
She's the tragic Egyptian ruler depicted here, appropriately with cobras:
Cleopatra
Lynn
Don
|
$100
[13]
In Dumas, it follows the line "All for one"
"and one for all"
Don
|
|
$200
[3]
Like Dickens, this "Vanity Fair" contemporary left his last novel, "Denis Duval", unfinished
William Makepeace Thackeray
Lynn
|
$200
[7]
These groovy home furnishings, seen here, were invented in 1963 & are still popular today:
lava lamps
Lynn
|
$200
[17]
You'll find the Mayan ruins of Tulum on this large peninsula
Yucatan
Don
|
$200
[15]
Literary classics Pasolini adapted for the screen include this one, as "I Racconti di Canterbury"
The Canterbury Tales
Sam
|
$200
[14]
Howard Carter could tell you it's the name for the style of script seen here, meaning "sacred inscriptions":
hieroglyphics
Sam
|
$200
[20]
Referring to its operative lever, it's a derogatory term for a Las Vegas slot machine
"one-armed bandit"
Lynn
|
|
$300
[4]
In a Robert Browning title, "The Book" is paired with this object--but not the one Robert gave Elizabeth
a ring (but not the ring he gave her)
Sam
|
$300
[8]
California advertising man Gary Dahl created this popular geological "pet" in 1975
a Pet Rock
Sam
|
$300
[30]
This cape or "cabo" is at the southern tip of Baja California
Cabo San Lucas
Don
|
$300
[16]
"Miss Italia" was an early film by this beauty known as "La Lollo"
Gina Lollobrigida
Lynn
|
$300
[18]
The well-known tomb of this man is seen here:
Cheops (Khufu)
Lynn
|
$300
[21]
Valerie Bertinelli spent 9 seasons playing Barbara Cooper on this sitcom
One Day at a Time
Lynn
|
|
$400
[5]
Isaac D'Israeli, a critic & friend of Lord Byron's, named his oldest son this
Benjamin
Sam
|
$400
[9]
She's the actress who launched the popular hairstyle seen here:
Farrah Fawcett
Don
|
$400
[29]
Hopefully you'll "treasure" this extensive mountain range of western Mexico
Sierra Madre
Lynn
|
$500
[27]
It's the "Open City" in the title of Rossellini's film about the German occupation
Rome
|
$400
[23]
With enormous depictions of himself like the one seen here, this pharaoh showed he was "second" to none:
Ramses II
Don
|
$400
[22]
Proverbially, it's "another man's poison"
one man's meat
Don
|
|
$500
[6]
Ask, don't tell the name of this 18th century author of "The Beggar's Opera"
John Gay
|
$500
[19]
It seemed we were all trying to learn this "forbidden" South American dance in the early 1990s
the lambada
Lynn
|
$500
[28]
Bordering Guatemala, this troubled state is Mexico's southernmost
Chiapas
|
DD
$1,000
[26]
In "La Dolce Vita", Walter Santesso played the photographer who gave his name to this profession
paparazzi (named for Paparazzo)
Don
|
$500
[24]
The obelisk seenhereis part of an elaborate temple complex that shares its name with this Las Vegas hotel:
Luxor
Don
Sam
|
$500
[25]
In 1962 Ken Kesey published this nonconformist classic
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Don
|
| JANUARY 24 | BROADWAY | LAST NAME'S THE SAME | THE SUN | TELLING TIME | 13-LETTER WORDS |
|
$200
[21]
In this speech on Jan. 24, 1995, President Clinton outlined his vision of a "new covenant"
State of the Union address
Lynn
Sam
|
$200
[2]
In 1999 she "Cruise"d onto Broadway without her husband (& briefly appeared nude) in "The Blue Room"
Nicole Kidman
Sam
|
$200
[8]
Fred, Gracie, Woody
Allen
Sam
|
$200
[16]
About half the amount of this gas in the sun's core has been fused into helium
hydrogen
Lynn
|
$200
[25]
Use of this mineral became common in watches around 1970, greatly increasing accuracy
quartz
Don
|
$200
[1]
Profession of Edgar Bergen or Shari Lewis
ventriloquist
Lynn
|
|
$400
[22]
This enigmatic actress, star of "Cat People" & "Tess", was born on Jan. 24 around 1960
Nastassja Kinski
Sam
|
$400
[3]
(Hi, I'm Andrea McArdle.) 1977 was the year Broadway audiences first heard me sing "Tomorrow" in this musical
Annie
Lynn
|
$400
[9]
Michael, William O., Buster
Douglas
Don
|
$400
[17]
The Romans called the sun sol & the Greeks called it this, which contains the letters S, O & L
Helios
|
$800
[28]
The key device in Bulova's original Accutron was one of these musical pitch finders
a tuning fork
Lynn
|
$400
[7]
This state's Middlesex County is its largest with a population of over 1.3 million
Massachusetts
Sam
|
|
$600
[23]
On Jan. 24, 1999 this committee recommended expulsion of 6 members for taking bribes from Salt Lakers
the International Olympic Committee
Lynn
|
$600
[4]
A little bird told us Matthew Bourne won a 1999 Tony for choreographing this ballet
Swan Lake
|
$600
[13]
John, Emily, Angie
Dickinson
Lynn
|
$600
[18]
These dark areas on the 6100-degree-Celsius photosphere have a temperature of about 4100 degrees
sunspots
Lynn
|
$1,000
[26]
Using an ammonia molecule, in 1949 the first atomic clock came from what was then called the U.S. Bureau of these
Standards
|
$600
[10]
A vertical line, it's from the Latin for "to hang a plumb line"
perpendicular
Don
|
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
On Jan. 24, 1972 WWII soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found in the jungle of this island, a U.S. territory
Guam
Lynn
|
$800
[5]
While Liam Neeson was having a Wilde time playing Oscar Wilde, life was a "Cabaret" for this actress, his wife
Natasha Richardson
Sam
|
DD
$800
[14]
Steve, Abigail, Martin
Van Buren
Lynn
|
$800
[19]
It's the only planet whose orbit is tilted 17 degrees off the plane of the Sun's equator
Pluto
Don
|
— |
$800
[11]
This medical specialty encompasses the anatomy, function, pathology & treatment of the eye
ophthalmology
Lynn
|
|
$1,000
[27]
Winston Churchill died Jan. 24, 1965, exactly 70 years after this man, his father
Lord Randolph Churchill
Don
|
$1,000
[6]
It was a red-letter day in 1997 when Douglas Sills debuted as the hero of this French Revolution musical
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Don
|
$1,000
[15]
Donald Ogden, Jimmy, Jon
Stewart
Don
|
$1,000
[20]
The Earth's magnetic field interacts with this flow of charged particles from the Sun to produce the aurora
the solar wind
Sam
|
— |
$1,000
[12]
In professional boxing, it's the class between bantamweight & lightweight
featherweight
|
Its name is from Gaelic for "water of life"
whiskey