Kate Lowe — an Internet copywriter from Shoreview, Minnesota
Vernon Martin — an aspiring screenwriter from Brooklyn, New York
Darren Millam — a customer service representative from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darren | $700 | $1,500 | $3,500 |
$7,000
2nd place: Intel Any Point Home Network Software |
$3,500
17 R, 5 W |
| Vernon | $0 | $300 | $-400 |
$-400
3rd place: TicketsNow.com Gift Certificate |
$100
12 R, 11 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kate | $700 | $1,800 | $5,400 |
$7,001
New champion: $7,001 |
$5,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| ZOOLOGY | TRIANGLES | THE CATEGORY OF DANIEL | THE U.S. MINT | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" | CLOWN SONGS |
|
$100
[4]
When the European mole wants lunch, it goes after this annelid that comes out after the rain
an earthworm
Darren
Vernon
|
$100
[5]
In 1918 the USS Cyclops vanished into this "Triangle"
the Bermuda Triangle
Vernon
|
$100
[8]
In 1775 this pioneering American blazed the Wilderness Road
Daniel Boone
Vernon
|
$100
[27]
The U.S. Mint Police protect $100 billion in assets at this Kentucky site
Fort Knox
Kate
|
$100
[3]
Manicotti or macaroni(5)
Pasta
Darren
|
$100
[1]
"Fe Fe Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum" this title character of a Coasters song is "a clown"
"Charlie Brown"
Darren
|
|
$200
[18]
Rodents native to this continent include the cavy, coypu & capybara
South America
Darren
Vernon
Kate
|
$200
[6]
Term for the process of putting all your billiard balls in a triangle to set them for a break
Racking
Darren
|
$200
[13]
One of his literary works gave us the term "Man Friday"
Daniel Defoe
Darren
|
$200
[28]
During WWII these were made of steel, but a rare 1943 copper one has sold for over $80,000
Penny
Darren
|
$200
[9]
Pilgrims' stepping stone(8,4)
Plymouth Rock
Vernon
|
$200
[2]
Judy Collins recorded a version of this song from "A Little Night Music"
"Send in the Clowns"
Vernon
|
|
$300
[19]
The white variety of this pachyderm is the only type that eats by grazing
Rhinoceros
Darren
Kate
|
$300
[7]
A Badfinger hit or the 4-word phrase associated with the item seen here:
"Come And Get It"
Kate
|
$300
[14]
On the big screen he's been Gerry Conlon, Hawkeye & Christy Brown
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
$300
[29]
Perhaps the young woman seenhereis looking to these 2 expedition leaders for their next words to translate:
Lewis & Clark
Darren
|
$300
[10]
Coffin carrier(10)
Pallbearer
Kate
|
$300
[15]
In 1960 the Everly Brothers reached the top of the charts with this tune
"Cathy's Clown"
Darren
Vernon
|
|
$400
[20]
The big toe on a marmoset doesn't have a claw like its other digits; it has one of these, like you
Nail
Darren
Vernon
|
$400
[25]
Body part in the triangle atop the pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States
Eye
Kate
|
$400
[21]
One of his best-known orations is the Bunker Hill speech of 1825
Daniel Webster
Vernon
|
$500
[26]
He crossed from heads to tails to appear on the reverse of the 1999 New Jersey quarter
George Washington
Kate
|
$500
[12]
Ahab's vessel(6)
Pequod
Vernon
Kate
|
$400
[16]
His hit "I'm Still Standing" says, "If our love was just a circus, you'd be a clown by now"
Elton John
Darren
|
|
$500
[23]
Unlike birds today, the Hesperornis of the Cretaceous period had these, all the better to eat fish with
teeth
Darren
|
$500
[24]
To get into this city's Golden Triangle you can use the Fort Pitt Bridge
Pittsburgh
Darren
|
$500
[22]
The Pentagon Papers he gave to the N.Y. Times in 1971 revealed deceptions about Vietnam dating back to the 1940s
Daniel Ellsberg
|
— |
DD
$600
[11]
A seedy fruit(11)
Pomegranate
Kate
|
$500
[17]
This title of a Stealers Wheel song completes the line "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am..."
"Stuck in the Middle With You"
Darren
|
| EUROPEAN HISTORY | NOTABLE WOMEN | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR | MONTANA | I GOT A CALDECOTT! | LEGENDARY RHYME TIME |
|
$200
[22]
In 1161 Pope Alexander III canonized this British king & gave him the title of Confessor
Edward
Vernon
|
$200
[1]
She was named for her birthplace: Winona, Minnesota
Winona Ryder
Darren
Vernon
|
$200
[20]
"The Crusades","The King of Kings","The Ten Commandments"
Cecil B. DeMille
Darren
|
$200
[3]
In a bitterly fought 1894 election to decide the state capital, Anaconda lost to this city
Helena
Kate
|
$200
[21]
Arnold Lobel took a page out of Aesop's book, publishing a book of these that won in 1981
Fables
Kate
|
$200
[8]
A survey of the gnomelike beings of Scandinavian folklore
Troll poll
Vernon
|
| — |
$400
[2]
These ever-popular singing sisters perform at the Lawrence Welk Champagne Theatre in Branson, Missouri
Lennon Sisters
Darren
Vernon
Kate
|
$400
[16]
"Dick Tracy","Reds","Heaven Can Wait"
Warren Beatty
Darren
|
$400
[4]
This nickname used on Montana license plates is also the name of a popular ski resort
Big Sky
Vernon
|
$400
[23]
If you wonder where the Caldecotts are, in 1964 the new one was with this author/illustrator
Maurice Sendak
Vernon
|
$400
[9]
A perspiring abominable snowman
Sweaty yeti
Kate
|
| — |
$600
[5]
Kay Waldo Barnes, this former CBS anchorman's cousin, became the first female mayor of Kansas City, MO. in 1999
Walter Cronkite
Darren
|
DD
$500
[15]
"Straw Dogs","The Killer Elite","The Wild Bunch"
Sam Peckinpah
Vernon
|
$600
[13]
The Cartwright family would be right at home with this type of pine, the state tree of Montana
Ponderosa pine
Vernon
|
$600
[24]
The 1998 Paul O. Zelinsky book about this girl isn't a hair-raising tale, just the opposite!
Rapunzel
Vernon
|
$600
[10]
Goat god's well-thought-out merrymaking schemes
Pan's plans
Kate
|
| — |
$800
[6]
Her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall", was published in 1948, the same year as her short story "The Lottery"
Shirley Jackson
Kate
|
$800
[18]
"Three Amigos!","National Lampoon's Animal House","The Blues Brothers"
John Landis
Darren
|
$800
[17]
In 1882 the Northern Pacific Railroad founded this city & named it for one of its presidents, not a collection dept.
Billings
Vernon
|
$800
[25]
Remember, this 1982 Chris Van Allsburg winner is only a book; well, a game, too...a book & a game
"Jumanji"
Vernon
|
$800
[11]
Top Greek god's prune squeezin's
Zeus's juices
Kate
|
| — |
$1,000
[7]
(Hi, I'm Ekaterina Gordeeva.) I won my first Olympic gold medal in 1988, the same year this skater won her second gold medal
Katarina Witt
Vernon
Kate
|
$1,000
[19]
"Death Becomes Her","Back to the Future","Forrest Gump"
Robert Zemeckis
Darren
Kate
|
$1,000
[14]
In 1916 this Missoula, Montana native became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress
Jeannette Rankin
|
$1,000
[26]
1948's & '49's books had this weather condition in their titles; Roger Duvoisin's was "White" & "Bright"; the Haders', "Big"
Snow
|
$1,000
[12]
A wisdom goddess' amphitheaters
Athena's arenas
Vernon
Kate
|
Retired since 1977, he said, "All I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm"
Pele