Allen Tatman — a public historian from Jefferson City, Missouri
Mary Friedman — a teacher and vice principal from Clovis, California
Steven Silver — a technical writer from Northbrook, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven | $1,400 | $1,800 | $4,900 |
$7,601
2-day champion: $15,001 |
$5,300
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mary | $900 | $2,800 | $3,800 |
$0
3rd place: Meade ETX90 Telescope |
$3,800
13 R, 1 W |
| Allen | $1,500 | $1,600 | $6,800 |
$3,799
2nd place: Trip to Outrigger Hotel, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii |
$6,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER QUIZ | 4 YEARS | A DELICATE OPERATION | ROCK 'N' POP | SOCK IT TO ME! | OH "K" |
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$100
[1]
The words of the anthem were written late in this war
War of 1812
Steven
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$100
[17]
In 1960 Abebe Bikila won this Olympic event barefoot; 4 years later he won it again, this time wearing shoes
Marathon
Steven
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$100
[12]
A bypass operation may bypass the carotid or coronary one of these
Artery
Allen
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$100
[6]
One of the ska anthems of the '80s was the Specials' plea to "free" this South African
Nelson Mandela
Mary
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$100
[7]
It's a shoe-free dance held in the school gymnasium
Sock hop
Allen
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$100
[13]
It's played like baseball, only you bat with your feet
Kickball
Steven
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$200
[2]
3 of the 4 full sentences in the first verse end in this punctuation mark
Question mark
Steven
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$200
[19]
He was the first U.S. president to serve just 4 years
John Adams
Steven
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$200
[23]
An instrument called a reamer is used in the replacement of this joint at the top of the femur
the hip
Steven
Mary
Allen
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$200
[27]
Years before hooking up with Dawn, he recorded the demo for the Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"
Tony Orlando
Allen
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$200
[8]
It's the useful meteorological instrument seen here:
Windsock
Allen
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$200
[14]
A basic unit of mass, it's equal to 2.2046 pounds
Kilogram
Steven
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$300
[3]
In 1912 Eben Appleton of New York donated the banner in the song to this, on the condition it always stay there
Smithsonian
Allen
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$300
[20]
His book "Daisy-Head Maysie" was published in 1995, 4 years after his death
Dr. Seuss
Steven
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$300
[24]
The technical term for the common operation to remove the uterus
hysterectomy
Allen
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$300
[28]
In January 1969 the Beatles recorded "Get Back" on the roof of this record company's Savile Row Studio in London
Apple Records
Mary
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$300
[9]
(Alex speaking in "Scottish" accent) Look, man! It's the classic sock pattern seen here:
Argyle
Allen
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$300
[15]
It's the Native American ceremonial item seen here:
Kachina doll
Mary
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$400
[4]
This word means a fortification on an embankment with a parapet on top
Rampart
Steven
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DD
$500
[21]
In Julius Caesar's time this month had 30 days once every 4 years
February
Steven
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$400
[25]
If someone's reconnecting your bile ducts, you've just had this transplant first performed by Dr. Thomas Starzl
Liver transplant
Mary
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$400
[29]
He wrote several earlier hits for others, but didn't have his own Top 10 hit until "Like A Rolling Stone" in 1965
Bob Dylan
Allen
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$400
[10]
At one time you could get a guided tour from Socks the Cat on this building's official website
White House
Steven
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$400
[16]
He directed "The Hidden Fortress", "Rashomon" & "Throne of Blood"
Akira Kurosawa
Allen
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$500
[5]
The first Olympics at which the song could be played as our official national anthem were held in 1932 in this country
USA (Lake Placid)
Allen
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$500
[22]
Every 4 years the Boy Scouts hold international rallies known as these
jamborees
Steven
Mary
Allen
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$500
[26]
The acronymic word "laser" is represented in this acronym for a popular sight-improvement surgery
LASIK
Mary
Allen
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$500
[30]
His group, The Union Gap. took its name from the town of Union Gap, Washington
Gary Puckett
Mary
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$500
[11]
These socks with a "digital" name seen here can be very cozy:
Toe socks
Mary
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$500
[18]
It's the first name used by the Lebanese-American poet who wrote "The Prophet" & "Sand and Foam"
Khalil (Gibran)
Mary
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| AMERICAN FIRSTS | CINEMATIC TITLE PAIRS | OREGONE | POEM-POURRI | FAMOUS PERCIVALS | NUMERICAL EXPRESSIONS |
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$200
[1]
Until Yale gave the USA's first of these in 1861, the M.A. degree was the peak of scholarly achievement
Ph.D.
Mary
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$200
[22]
1984:"...and the Temple of Doom"
Indiana Jones
Mary
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$200
[8]
The town of Fossil once held annual "Days" of these departed reptiles, but the event is now extinct
Dinosaurs
Allen
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$200
[17]
Wallace Stevens' "Farewell to" this state says, "Key West sank downward under massive clouds"
Florida
Allen
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$200
[6]
Perseverance wasn't the middle name of this man who climbed Everest in 1953, it was Percival
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
Mary
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$200
[7]
The phrase "Animal, vegetable or mineral" is associated with this game of yes-or-no responses
Twenty Questions
Allen
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$400
[2]
Royall Tyler created the flirtatious fop Billy Dimple in "The Contrast", the USA's first play of this type
comedy (satire accepted)
Steven
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$400
[23]
1971:"...and Broomsticks"
Bedknobs
Mary
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$400
[9]
A grand hotel on what's now this city's Pioneer Courthouse Square became a parking lot in the '50s
Portland
Allen
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$400
[18]
Sara Teasdale wrote about these plants' "wet, sleepy fragrance"; Monet would understand
Water lilies
Allen
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$400
[13]
As prime minister of this country, Percival J. Patterson makes his home in Kingston
Jamaica
Allen
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$400
[27]
An expression meaning "Open All Hours", or the score of the Jan. 2, 2000 Jaguars-Bengals game
24-7
Allen
|
|
DD
$500
[5]
Appropriately, this Hartford company was the first insurer of automobiles
Travelers
Steven
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$600
[24]
1975:"...and His Dog"
A Boy
Steven
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$600
[10]
In 1948 the town of Vanport was so devastated by one of these disasters, it had to be sold for salvage
a flood
Allen
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$600
[19]
In Tennyson's poem about "The Lady of" this place, he rhymes it with "Camelot" & "Lancelot"
Shalott
Steven
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$600
[14]
Sir Percival joined this knight's quest for the holy grail
Sir Galahad
Steven
Allen
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— |
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$600
[3]
(Hi, I'm Peter Krause) The 1st live game on this network that's like mine on "Sports Night" was the Bourbons vs. the Schlitzes in softball
ESPN
Allen
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$800
[25]
1997:"...& Out"
In
Allen
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$800
[11]
In 1995 Bob Packwood resigned & this other veteran Oregon senator announced his retirement
Mark Hatfield
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$800
[20]
This Edwin Arlington Robinson poem about a wealthy suicide was set to music by Simon & Garfunkel
"Richard Cory"
Allen
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$800
[15]
In 1894 he founded his observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona
Percival Lowell
Steven
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— |
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$800
[4]
Henry Flipper, the first black graduate of this academy, was assigned to mosquito control
West Point/USMA/Army
Steven
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$1,000
[26]
1982:"...and Treacle"
Brimstone
Steven
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DD
$1,000
[12]
In this city named for a fur-trading mogul, a park sits on the site of the 1811 fort
Astoria
Allen
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$1,000
[21]
Inthe following, Johnny Gilbert portrays Marlowe's "Passionate" one of these men "to His Love":Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove, / That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields."
shepherd
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$1,000
[16]
Percival Christopher Wren wrote this classic 1924 tale of the French Foreign Legion
"Beau Geste"
Allen
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— |
The 3-letter code for this airport came from what was on the site before it--Orchard Place
O'Hare Airport, Chicago - ORD