Ed Friesema — a graduate student from La Jolla, California
Angela Toussaint — a schoolteacher from West Roxbury, Massachusetts
Amanda Yuzzi — a federal employee from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda | $800 | $800 | $2,800 |
$0
3rd place: Polaroid Photomax Digital Camera Creative Kit |
$2,800
11 R, 2 W |
| Angela | $400 | $1,500 | $6,000 |
$11,000
New champion: $11,000 |
$6,500
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ed | $600 | $1,300 | $5,400 |
$4,799
2nd place: Sony Home Entertainment System featuring WebTV |
$5,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| IT HAPPENED ON GROUNDHOG DAY | 12-LETTER WORDS | SEATTLE | DAN RATHER | WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY? | KENNETHS |
|
$100
[21]
In 1959 this state's schools were integrated as black students joined white in Norfolk & Arlington
Virginia
Angela
|
$100
[1]
They grow with the silver bells in Mary Mary's garden
Cockleshells
Ed
|
$100
[2]
Despite the city's reputation, only about 35 inches a year
Rain
Angela
|
$100
[3]
Dan Rather was co-editor of this TV show from 1975 to 1981
60 MInutes
|
$100
[11]
The Miss Universe pageant
Once a year
Ed
|
$100
[4]
On August 8, 1994 he was sworn in as an independent counsel
Kenneth Starr
Amanda
|
|
$200
[22]
Jascha Heifetz, born Feb. 2, 1901, was giving concerts on this instrument by 1907
Violin
Ed
|
$200
[7]
It's the sometimes high-"Pei-ing" art of designing & erecting buildings
Architecture
Angela
|
$200
[17]
The main Seattle airport is known as Sea-Tac Airport, for this city to the south
Tacoma
Angela
|
$200
[27]
Dan was born on October 31, 1931 in this U.S. state
Texas
|
$200
[12]
Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives
Every 2 years
Amanda
|
$200
[5]
This country music Kenny was born Kenneth in Houston on August 21, 1938
Kenny Rogers
Amanda
|
|
$300
[24]
In 1959 this 22-year-old singer played his last gig, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa
Buddy Holly
Amanda
|
$300
[8]
A penetration of the enemy's wall, or a great scientific advance
Breakthrough
Angela
|
$300
[18]
In the early '60s this martial arts master waited tables at Seattle's Ruby Chow's Restaurant
Bruce Lee
Ed
|
$300
[28]
In 1981 Dan replaced this legendary longtime anchorman
Walter Cronkite
Amanda
|
$300
[13]
The U.S. Population Census
Every 10 years
Amanda
|
$300
[6]
Poet Kenneth Rexroth earned the title "Godfather of" this Jack Kerouac literary movement
Beat movement
Angela
|
|
$400
[25]
In 1986 the Pope met in India with this exiled Buddhist leader
Dalai Lama
Angela
|
$400
[9]
A pygmy one of these animals can weigh up to 600 pounds
Hippopotamus
|
DD
$300
[19]
(Hi, I'm Gary Payton of the Seattle Super Sonics.) As a member of the 1996 "Dream Team", I know all about this mountain range just west of Seattle
the Olympic Mountains
Ed
|
$400
[29]
Dan was upped to a national post by CBS after covering one of these natural disasters in September 1961
Hurricane
Angela
|
$400
[14]
Soccer's World Cup
Every 4 years
Ed
|
$400
[16]
3 Kenneths ruled this European country in the 9th & 10th centuries
Scotland
|
|
$500
[26]
German troops' surrender in 1943 ended the seemingly endless battle for this Russian city
Stalingrad
Ed
|
$500
[10]
You may hear a jam session at 726 St. Peter St. in this New Orleans hall
Preservation Hall
|
$500
[20]
The Space Needle was built for a World's Fair with this futuristic name that also belongs to a real estate company
Century 21
Ed
|
$500
[30]
The title of one of Dan's books on broadcast journalism states that "The Camera Never" does this
Blinks
Amanda
Ed
|
$500
[15]
Mexican presidential elections
Every 6 years
Angela
|
$500
[23]
Kenneth is the middle name of this economist who wrote "The Affluent Society"
John Kenneth Galbraith
Amanda
|
| MICHELANGELO | AT THE MOVIES | ANCIENT MESOAMERICA | POETRY | SENIOR CITIZENS | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS |
|
$200
[12]
Until the Pope demanded Pietrasanta, Michelangelo quarried this material from Carrara
Marble
Ed
|
$200
[1]
This 1939 film is the highest-ranking musical on the AFI's list of the 100 greatest American movies
The Wizard of Oz
Angela
|
$200
[6]
Ah Kin, whose help was vital to farming, was the Mayan god of this heavenly body
Sun
Amanda
|
$200
[22]
"And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, no stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas" he
Casey (at the bat)
Angela
|
$200
[7]
He had his best years with the Cincinnati Reds, but finished up as his son's teammate in Seattle
Ken Griffey, Sr.
Angela
|
$200
[16]
Author Roald's Barbies
Dahl's dolls
Amanda
|
|
$400
[13]
Like Shakespeare, Michelangelo wrote these poems, many in praise of Tommaso de Cavalieri
Sonnets
Ed
|
$400
[2]
At times an animatronic double played the title porker in this 1995 Oscar-winning family movie
Babe
Amanda
|
$400
[27]
Popular trade items were these, made of iron or obsidian & highly polished to aid reflection
Mirrors
Ed
|
$400
[23]
"Honor the charge they made! Honor" them, "noble six hundred!"
The Light Brigade
Angela
|
$400
[8]
Born Michael, he changed his name--& his son's--to honor the German Protestant leader
Martin Luther King, Sr.
Amanda
Ed
|
$400
[17]
Alterations experts for president Zachary
Taylor's tailors
Angela
|
|
DD
$700
[14]
This Sistine Chapel work shocked many good people & scared many sinners:
"The Last Judgment"
Ed
|
$600
[3]
The "Witches of Eastwick" were played by these 3 actresses
Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer & Susan Sarandon
Ed
|
$600
[28]
The Olmec were associated with this big cat & made statues combining it & man
Jaguar
Ed
|
DD
$500
[24]
This Longfellow poem is subtitled "A Tale of Acadie"
Evangeline
Angela
|
$600
[9]
The host of "Firing Line" inherited oil millions & conservative beliefs from this man
William F. Buckley, Sr.
Ed
|
$600
[18]
A conceited wind direction indicator
Vain vane
|
|
$800
[15]
As well as sculpting this king, Michelangelo painted him as one of the "ancestors of Christ"
David
Amanda
|
$800
[4]
This 1948 film inspired by a real murder was Alfred Hitchcock's first movie in color
Rope
Angela
|
$800
[29]
The largest ball court in Mesoamerica is at this site in the Yucatan:
Chichen Itza
|
$800
[25]
Carl Sandburg penned that this "sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on"
Fog
Angela
|
$800
[10]
"Chafed Elbows" is an underground classic by this film director whose son played Chaplin
Robert Downey, Sr.
Angela
|
$800
[19]
Marquis' ultimate reference works on identifying owls by their sounds
Who's hoos
Angela
|
|
$1,000
[21]
The son of a small-town government agent, Michelangelo had this last name
Buonarroti
Angela
|
$1,000
[5]
This 1984 science fiction sequel directed by Peter Hyams contains the line "My God, it's full of stars"
2010
Ed
|
— |
$1,000
[26]
Poem in which Robert Frost said, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in"
"The Death of the Hired Man"
|
$1,000
[11]
This eminent violin virtuoso was the grandfather of "Remington Steele" actress Stephanie
Efrem Zimbalist, Sr.
Angela
|
$1,000
[20]
A rough route
Coarse course
|
The Federal Reserve System was founded partly in response to his March 31, 1913 death
J.P. Morgan