Mike Blumenfeld game 3.
Terri Ross — a travel agent from Birmingham, Alabama
Derek Schatz — a computer security consultant from San Jose, California
Mike Blumenfeld — a network administrator from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | $900 | $900 | $4,500 |
$8,500
3-day champion: $28,500 |
$5,000
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Derek | $1,100 | $2,600 | $4,200 |
$50
3rd place: Vtech cordless phones |
$4,200
16 R, 3 W |
| Terri | $200 | $800 | $4,100 |
$1,000
2nd place: a Sanyo Blimp trip in the U.S. |
$4,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| PEOPLE IN HISTORY | LATE-NIGHT TV | WORLD OF BUSINESS | STEAM | VEGETARIAN CUISINE | GOT "ILK"? |
|
$100
[1]
It's believed that Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of this conqueror, commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry
William the Conqueror
Derek
|
$100
[9]
This Saturday night "TV" show is inspired by the magazine that gave us Alfred E. Neuman
MADtv
Derek
|
$100
[2]
The name of the oil additive STP stands for scientifically treated this
petroleum
Mike
|
$100
[24]
They're the two chemical elements that make up steam
hydrogen & oxygen
Derek
|
$100
[17]
You can make a dark vegetarian stock from the red or black type of these legumes
beans
Terri
|
$100
[14]
To cheat or swindle
bilk
Mike
|
|
$200
[7]
Archduchess Maria Theresa was one of the finest rulers born into this Austrian family
Hapsburgs
Mike
|
$200
[10]
Stuttering John & Jackie the Joke Man are featured on his late-night show on E!
Howard Stern
Derek
|
$200
[3]
(Hi, I'm Deidre Hall from Days of Our Lives.) This California company that began in 1945 turned Erica Kane & my character, Marlena Evans, into dolls
Mattel
Mike
Terri
|
$200
[27]
In central heating systems using steam, this is the equivalent of a furnace
boiler
Derek
|
$200
[18]
This 4-letter word is seen after "apple" less often than after "cole"
slaw
Mike
|
$200
[15]
Some worms make it
silk
Mike
|
|
$300
[8]
Alaric II, king of this branch of the Goths. was defeated in battle & slain in 507 A.D.
Visigoths
Mike
Derek
|
$300
[11]
(Hi, I'm Al Franken.) ABC's 11:30 P.M. reports on "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage" evolved into this regular program
Nightline
Mike
|
$300
[4]
Headlines in January 2000 said of this company, "You've Got Time Warner"!
America Online (AOL)
Mike
|
$300
[28]
Steam well above the temperature where it condenses into liquid isn't just heated, it's this
superheated
Derek
Terri
|
$300
[19]
The main ingredients of the Greek dish spanakopita are cheese & this green vegetable
spinach
Mike
|
$300
[16]
An assassin's middle name
(John) Wilkes (Booth)
Terri
|
|
$400
[22]
This Dutch queen, born in 1880, was the daughter of King Willem III & his second wife, Queen Emma
Wilhelmina
Mike
|
$400
[12]
This saxophonist played "Heartbreak Hotel" when he appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show" June 3,1992
Bill Clinton
Derek
|
DD
$500
[5]
Hilton's first hotel in this city opened in 1999; the earlier "Hilton" there was actually a prison
Hanoi
Mike
|
$400
[29]
Most of the world's electriic power comes from steam turning the wheels of this type of machine
turbine
Derek
|
$400
[20]
As a vegetarian Jimmy Buffett "made it nearly 70 days...drinkin' lots of" this juice "and soakin' up rays"
carrot juice
|
$400
[26]
Irish home of legendary fighting cats
Kilkenny
Mike
|
|
$500
[23]
This U.S. president was nicknamed "Matty"
Martin Van Buren
|
$500
[13]
In 1980 NBC cut the "Tonight" show to 60 minutes & extended this Tom Snyder program to 90
Tomorrow
Mike
|
$500
[6]
This soap for "All Your...Parts" was introduced in 1990
Lever 2000
Mike
|
$500
[30]
One of this Scotsman's big ideas was using the expansion of steam to complete a piston stroke
James Watt
Derek
|
$500
[21]
The name of this fragrant type of rice means "queen of fragrance" in Sanskrit
Basmati
Terri
|
$500
[25]
Austrian poet & sonneteer "To Orpheus"
Rainer Maria Rilke
|
| THE MAP OF 1950 | WORDS OF 1960 | BOOKS OF 1970 | THE OLYMPICS OF 1980 | SCIENCE OF 1990 | NEWS OF 2000 |
|
$200
[11]
Today it's Brasilia, but a map from 1950 would have shown this city as its nation's capital
Rio de Janeiro
Mike
|
$200
[15]
This 9-letter word evolved around 1960 for a fictional movie or TV show based on real events
docudrama
Derek
|
$200
[4]
"Don't Fall Off the Mountain" is a memoir from one of the lives of this actress
Shirley MacLaine
Derek
|
$200
[1]
With the U.S. boycotting the summer games, this host country won 197 medals
Soviet Union
Terri
|
$200
[18]
The first swarm of these to enter the U.S. was destroyed
killer bees
Mike
|
$200
[22]
This actress & Ted Turner announced their separation after 8 years of marriage
Jane Fonda
Derek
|
|
$400
[12]
This European nation occupied 42,000 square miles in 1949; 41 years later it ceased to exist
East Germany
Mike
|
$400
[16]
The Ford Falcon was the first Big 3 version of this smaller type of car
compact
Derek
|
$400
[5]
This 1970 Irwin Shaw book became a TV miniseries in 1976
Rich Man, Poor Man
Derek
|
DD
$300
[2]
This woman who had been perfect in 1976 fell off the uneven parallel bars in 1980
Nadia Comaneci
Terri
|
$400
[19]
The FDA approved Simplesse, a "fake" type of this
fat
Terri
|
$400
[26]
This "geographic" police outfit announced it had foiled a kidnap plot against Posh Spice
Scotland Yard
Terri
|
|
$600
[13]
Today known as Belize, this colony in Central America had a population of only about 70,000 in 1950
British Honduras
Terri
|
$600
[17]
This word altered the term for a follower of Jack Kerouac to mean someone compulsively tidy
neatnik
Derek
|
$600
[6]
In 1970 Maya Angelou wrote about a "Caged Bird" & he flew up the charts with "Love Story"
Erich Segal
Terri
|
$600
[3]
He's the hero of Lake Placid seen here:
Eric Heiden
Derek
|
$600
[20]
A genetic cause was found for some cases of the "osteo" type of this joint disease, the most common form
arthritis
Terri
|
$1,000
[24]
Besides Bush, McCain & Forbes, 1 of the 3 other participants in the Republican debate held Jan. 10, 2000
Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch or Alan Keyes
Mike
|
|
DD
$600
[14]
In 1950 delegates from the Italian colonies Fezzan, Cyrenaica & Tripolitania met to discuss union as this nation
Libya
Terri
|
— |
$800
[7]
A libel trial is the focus of this "Exodus" author's riveting 1970 novel "QB VII"
Leon Uris
Mike
|
$800
[9]
This man was elected president of the IOC just before the summer games; he's still there
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Terri
|
$800
[21]
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed by this space shuttle; 3 years later the Endeavour fixed its mirror
Discovery
Derek
|
— |
|
$1,000
[25]
Traveling to Timbuktu in 1950 would take you through French Sudan, today known as this country
Mali
|
— |
$1,000
[8]
His "Hard Times" was "An Oral History of the Great Depression"
Studs Terkel
|
$1,000
[10]
Lutz Dombrowski's 28 feet 1/4 inch was the longest ever of these at sea level
long jump
Mike
|
$1,000
[23]
This mapping project begun in 1990 is less than 50% done, though a private firm, Celera, claims to have 90% finished
the Human Genome Project
Derek
|
— |
This nursery rhyme character's name goes back to the Jacobites' satiric nickname for the Prince of Orange
Wee Willie Winkie