Ted Miller — a technical service manager from Columbus, Ohio
Camille Brovold — a bank trust officer from Eagan, Minnesota
Jason Parker — a graduate student from Gainesville, Florida (whose 3-day cash winnings total $31,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $2,700 | $5,400 | $20,000 |
$28,000
4-day champion: $59,800 |
$12,800
31 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Camille | $-100 | $500 | $2,100 |
$4,100
3rd place: Polaroid Photomax Digital Camera Creative Kit |
$2,100
8 R, 2 W |
| Ted | $200 | $1,500 | $4,500 |
$4,799
2nd place: Trip to St. James's Club, Antigua |
$4,500
12 R, 3 W |
| HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY | 5-LETTER WORDS | PUT 'EM IN ORDER | INSPIRED CHARACTERS | SEWING TERMS | THEY CAME FROM ANOTHER WORLD |
|
$100
[1]
Explorer Sir Richard Burton disguised himself as an Afghani to make a pilgrimage to this city & sketch its Kaaba
Mecca
Camille
Ted
|
$100
[7]
On the internet www.dol.gov gets you the Department of this
Labor
Jason
|
$100
[15]
TV's "Ren & Stimpy","Laverne & Shirley","Once & Again"
"Laverne & Shirley", "Ren & Stimpy", "Once & Again"
Jason
|
$100
[20]
He fictionalized his early love Maria Beadnell as Dora Spenlow, the first wife of "David Copperfield"
Charles Dickens
Jason
|
$100
[21]
This term for temporary stitching sounds like something you'd do when roasting fowl
Basting
Camille
|
$100
[23]
In the early '80s he was Dr. Canard on "Another World"; today he's another doctor, Frasier Crane
Kelsey Grammer
Camille
|
|
$200
[3]
Once the center of the Hittite Empire, Bogazkoy is located in this country's Anatolia region
Turkey
Jason
|
$200
[8]
MTV's 1997 award for Best New Artist in a Video went to this "Sleep to Dream" singer with 2 5-letter names
Fiona Apple
|
$200
[16]
The first Super Bowl, the first Rose Bowl, the first Sugar Bowl
Rose, Sugar, Super
Ted
|
$200
[2]
This author said that he based Injun Joe on a real man he knew who got lost in a cave
Mark Twain
Jason
|
$300
[22]
This stitch that forms a pattern resembling a strong rope is often used in knit sweaters
Cable stitch
Ted
|
$200
[26]
Starting out as Joey Perini in "Another World", he's best remembered as Henry Hill in "Goodfellas"
Ray Liotta
Jason
|
|
$300
[4]
Rebels took the post office in this city during their "rising" on Easter Monday, 1916
Dublin
Jason
Camille
Ted
|
$300
[9]
The 2 5-letter words for the appliance being repaired here:
range & stove
Jason
Ted
|
$300
[17]
Madonna's "Bedtime Stories","Like A Virgin","Like A Prayer"
"Like A Virgin", "Like A Prayer", "Bedtime Stories"
Ted
|
$300
[12]
Mr. Flosky in the 1818 novel "Nightmare Abbey" is a caricature of this "Ancient Mariner" poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jason
|
$400
[24]
This synonym for a spool is also found in the name of a type of lace
Bobbin
Camille
|
$300
[27]
Back in 1990 this actor seen here was Sam Fowler on "Another World":
Thomas Gibson
|
|
$400
[5]
Under Darius I the capital of this empire was moved from Pasargadae to Persepolis
Persian Empire
Jason
|
$400
[10]
It's a glass bottle used to hold vinegar or oil for salad dressing
a cruet
Camille
Ted
|
$400
[18]
"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective","The Cable Guy","The Truman Show"
"Ace Ventura", "Cable Guy", "Truman Show"
Jason
|
$400
[13]
This "Sister Carrie" author modeled the heroine of his novel "Jennie Gerhardt" in part on his sister Mame
Theodore Dreiser
Jason
|
$500
[25]
This type of stitch that holds hems in place gets its name because it's supposed to be unseen
Blind stitch
Ted
|
$400
[28]
Julia Shearer on "Another World", she was the quirky Corky on "Murphy Brown"
Faith Ford
Jason
|
|
$500
[6]
On April 1, 1945 U.S. forces landed on this largest of the Ryukyu Islands; in 1972 we gave it back to Japan
Okinawa
Ted
|
$500
[11]
This diminutive of Bridget usually refers to a fussy old woman
Biddy
Camille
|
DD
$1,500
[19]
English kings Henry VIII, Edward VIII, George III
Henry VIII, George III, Edward VIII
Jason
|
$500
[14]
Her close friend Vita Sackville-West inspired the gender-bender title character of her 1928 novel "Orlando"
Virginia Woolf
Jason
|
— | — |
| LITTLE PLACES | WORLD RELIGION | WOOD | NOTABLE NAMES | MIDDLE "C" | THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE |
|
$200
[12]
It was Byrd's base in Antarctica
Little America
Jason
|
$200
[6]
During Hanukkah the candles on this are lit by a separate candle called a shammash
Menorah
Ted
|
$200
[25]
The Acer saccharum is the sugar species of this
Maple
Ted
|
$200
[2]
In 323 B.C. this "great" man, who had conquered much of the known world, died at age 33 of a nasty fever
Alexander the Great
Jason
|
$200
[17]
In blackjack, it can be worth 1 or 11
Ace
Jason
|
$400
[20]
(Jack Lemmon speaking) This actor, my fellow grumpy old man, was one of the speakers when I got AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1988
Walter Matthau
Jason
|
|
$400
[13]
On September 10, 1863 Union troops captured this capital
Little Rock
Camille
|
$400
[7]
Inti was the sun god prayed to by the ruling family of this South American empire
Incas
Camille
|
$400
[26]
"Quaking" poplar popularized in the name of a Colorado ski resort city on the Roaring Fork River
Aspen
Ted
|
$400
[1]
Buried in 1953, this leader was moved in 1961 to a less prestigious grave along the Kremlin wall
Josef Stalin
Jason
|
$400
[8]
It's the "Heart of Georgia" & the home of Mercer University
Macon
Jason
|
$600
[21]
Made a year apart in 1941 & '42, they were Nos. 1 & 2 on the AFI's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies
Citizen Kane & Casablanca
Jason
|
|
$600
[14]
This informal Miami community was formed in the 1960s by Cuban refugees
"Little Havana"
Jason
|
$600
[9]
With over 15 million members, this Baptist denomination is the USA's largest branch of Protestantism
Southern Baptist
Jason
|
$600
[27]
This tree's name has passed into the names of honors, like a poet's post or a degree
the laurel
Ted
|
$600
[3]
In 1870 the first black U.S. senator, Hiram Revels of Miss., occupied the Senate seat of this Confederate leader
Jefferson Davis
Jason
|
$600
[18]
It makes the sound heard here:
Piccolo
Ted
|
$1,000
[23]
The AFI was established in 1967 by this government body that's had its funding troubles
National Endowment for the Arts
Ted
|
|
$800
[15]
This British dependency in the West Indies has a "Little" island, as well as a "Grand" one
Cayman Islands
Jason
|
$800
[10]
He was born Kong Qiu around 551 B.C. in the Chinese state of Lu
Confucius
Jason
|
— |
$800
[4]
Thelonious Monk's Time magazine cover was pulled in 1963 for coverage of this man's death
John F. Kennedy
Jason
|
$800
[19]
If you're eating bagels & drinking mimosas late on a weekend morning, you're doing this
Brunching
Camille
|
DD
$5,000
[22]
Alphabetically, this Woody Allen film is last among the 500 films nominated as America's Funniest
Zelig
Jason
|
|
$1,000
[16]
This "Little" island in the Bering Strait belongs to the U.S.; its "Big" companion, to Russia
Little & Big Diomede Island
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
This religion grew out of the Babi Faith, which was founded in Iran in 1844
Baha'i Faith
Jason
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
Chief by age 33, he's the Nez Perce leader seen here:
Chief Joseph
Jason
|
$1,000
[24]
This type of transport seenherehas its ups & downs:
a funicular
Jason
|
— |
In 1925 it was founded by an ex-editor of Stars and Stripes; in the '90s it was run by an ex-editor of Vanity Fair
The New Yorker