Joe Bellas — a high school teacher from Troy, Ohio
Darren Millam — a customer service representative from Kansas City, Missouri
Jason Karpf — a realtor from Thousand Oaks, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $46,499)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $1,300 | $3,100 | $3,000 |
$6,000
3rd place: Vtech Cordless Phones |
$5,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| Darren | $-100 | $1,700 | $4,800 |
$7,500
New champion: $7,500 |
$4,900
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Joe | $-500 | $-500 | $3,700 |
$6,001
2nd place: Intel Any Point Home Network Software |
$3,700
14 R, 5 W |
| FOREIGN NATIONAL PARKS | TEXTILES | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS | DIRIGIBLES, BLIMPS & ZEPPELINS | "O" YES! | NAMED FOR THE STAR |
|
$100
[4]
Cooloola & Goongarrie
Australia
Darren
|
$100
[18]
Panne, cut & crushed are types of this thick pile fabric
velvet
Darren
|
$100
[9]
This star of the 1952 movie "Million Dollar Mermaid" called her 1999 memoir "The Million Dollar Mermaid"
Esther Williams
Jason
|
$100
[1]
In 1925 this Ohio company unveiled its first blimp, the Pilgrim
Goodyear
Jason
|
$100
[11]
A synonym for scent, this noun is from the Latin for "smell"
odor
Jason
Joe
|
$300
[27]
(Hi, I'm Danny Masterson of That '70s Show.) For 2 seasons I played Christine Baranski's son & Alicia Witt's love interest on this show
Cybill
Jason
|
|
$200
[5]
Gran Paradiso
Italy
Jason
Darren
Joe
|
$200
[19]
Ancient Egyptian priests wore this textile made from flax; so did mummies
linen
Jason
|
$200
[10]
"King of the World" chronicles "The Rise of an American Hero", this legendary boxer & minister of Islam
Muhammad Ali
Joe
|
$200
[2]
In 1925 Amundsen, Ellsworth & Nobile made news when they flew over this point in a blimp
North Pole
Jason
|
$200
[12]
Impenetrable to light, like some glass
opaque
Joe
|
$400
[26]
Led Zeppelin appeared on U.S. TV in 1976 on this impresario's "Rock Concert"
Don Kirshner
Jason
|
|
$300
[6]
Cali Headlands
Colombia
Jason
Joe
|
$300
[23]
Pashmina is a fashionable type of this luxurious fabric made from the hair of a wild goat native to India & Tibet
cashmere
Jason
Darren
|
$300
[20]
No surprise, this lead singer of Jefferson Airplane talks about sex, drugs & rock & roll in "Somebody to Love?"
Grace Slick
Jason
|
$300
[3]
The U.S. Navy's ZR1, Shenandoah, was its first filled with this gas
helium
Joe
|
$300
[13]
It's a single performance by a band in a single locale, or the title of a Wesley Snipes film
One Night Stand
Jason
|
$500
[25]
"Eye to Eye With" this newswoman made news for a 1995 interview with Newt Gingrich's mom
Connie Chung
Darren
|
|
$400
[7]
Great Gobi Desert
Mongolia
Jason
Joe
|
$400
[24]
This textile with a printed design is named for the Indian city where it was created
Madras/calico
Jason
|
$400
[21]
"Lost in the Funhouse" explores "The Life and Mind" of this comic & world champ of inter-gender wrestling
Andy Kaufman
Darren
|
$400
[15]
Of the Bucs, Broncos or Bills, the one whose NFL stadium you'll never see the Fujifilm blimp fly over
Broncos (that blimp has an altitude limit of 5000 feet)
Jason
Joe
|
$400
[14]
A temporary suspension of operation; of electrical power, for example
outage
Jason
|
— |
|
$500
[8]
Granma Landing
Cuba
|
$500
[28]
From the French for "caterpillar", this tufted fabric makes cozy robes & bedspreads
chenille
Jason
|
$500
[22]
"'Tis" is the sequel to "Angela's Ashes", his memoir of an Irish Catholic childhood
Frank McCourt
|
DD
$1,000
[16]
L.A. & this N.J. city were the only U.S. stops the Graf Zeppelin made during its round-the-world trip in 1929
Lakehurst
Jason
|
$500
[17]
From the Old Norse for "manager", it's a non-governmental investigator who resolves complaints
ombudsman
Darren
|
— |
| THE ARCHER | THE GOAT | THE BULL | THE "RAM" | THE CRAB | THE TWINS |
|
$200
[16]
It's William Tell's famous familial feat of archery
shooting the apple off his son's head
Joe
|
$200
[1]
Many blamed France's financial problems just before the revolution on this queen's spending
Marie Antoinette
Joe
|
$200
[6]
At 1999's end, this internet bookseller had seen its stock rise 6,000% without showing a profit
Amazon.com
Jason
|
$200
[11]
An episode of violent, destructive behavior
rampage
Joe
|
$600
[22]
A crab that's sold as "soft-shelled" is one that has just done this, so its shell is soft
molted
Joe
|
$400
[21]
The Twins' web site says the highlight of their losing 1999 season was this feat on September 11 by pitcher Eric Milton
No-hitter
Joe
|
|
$400
[18]
This "diminutive" companion of Robin Hood was a skillful archer too
Little John
Jason
|
$400
[2]
In 1999 this U.S. city's police chief quit after riots disrupted the World Trade Organization meetings
Seattle
Joe
|
$400
[7]
In January 2000 Alan Greenspan was nominated to a fourth term as chairman of this agency
Federal Reserve
Joe
|
$400
[12]
If there's no room at this company's inn, try one of its Limiteds or Plaza Hotels
Ramada
Jason
|
$800
[23]
This rhesus monkey of southeast Asia likes to "craque" open a crab for lunch
macaque
Darren
|
$600
[20]
This Twins Hall of Famer seenheremade a run at a .400 average in 1977:
Rod Carew
Joe
|
|
$600
[19]
This Homeric hero shot the suitors of his wife Penelope "till the dead lay in piles"
Odysseus
Joe
|
$600
[3]
In May 1988 Ed Meese, facing calls to quit this cabinet post, instead fired his spokesman
Attorney General
Joe
|
$600
[8]
It set a trading volume record on December 17, 1999 at 1,349,711,000 shares
New York Stock Exchange
Darren
|
$600
[13]
"Aimless" name for the type of roses seen here:
rambling roses
Jason
|
$1,000
[24]
Want really long crab legs for dinner? Try this crab's which can span over 10 feet (just check their "web" site)
spider crab
Jason
Darren
|
$800
[26]
In '65, in their first World Series, the Twins lost game 7 to this Dodger lefty
Sandy Koufax
Jason
|
|
$800
[17]
This rock star says his hero is Michigan bow hunter Claude Pollington
Ted Nugent
Jason
|
$800
[4]
In 1998 Japanese premier Hashimoto quit after leading this party, the LDP, to defeat
Liberal Democratic Party
Joe
|
DD
$700
[9]
In November 1999 this 93-year-old delivery company brought home $5.47 billion in its initial public offering
UPS (United Parcel Service)
Darren
|
$800
[14]
Harpsichordist Robert Veyron-Lacroix was a longtime musical partner of this celebrated flutist
Jean-Pierre Rampal
|
DD
$3,300
[27]
An organization called CRAB does research into this disease by using biostatistics
cancer
Jason
|
$1,000
[25]
From 1901 to 1960, the franchise represented the nation's capital as this team
Washington Senators
Darren
|
| — |
$1,000
[5]
Nixon's personal secretary, she took the blame for an 18-minute gap on one of the Watergate tapes
Rose Mary Woods
Jason
|
$1,000
[10]
Founded by Bill Porter in 1982, this online brokerage launched its own web site in 1996
E*TRADE
Jason
|
$1,000
[15]
Heraldic pose of the creature seen here:
rampant
Jason
Darren
|
— | — |
The first person selected to the Intl. Swimming Hall of Fame, his last starring film role was in 1955's "Devil Goddess"
Johnny Weissmuller