Meg Smath — a geologic editor from Nicholasville, Kentucky
Scott Myre — a marketing director from Thousand Oaks, California
Steven Silver — a technical writer from Northbrook, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven | $1,700 | $3,200 | $4,400 |
$4,410
2nd place: Konka 30" HDTV & DirecTV Satellite System |
$4,400
17 R, 6 W |
| Scott | $100 | $500 | $6,700 |
$2,999
3rd place: Samsung Hi-Fi Stereo VCR |
$6,300
17 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Meg | $1,300 | $2,800 | $5,200 |
$5,200
New champion: $5,200 |
$5,100
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| HISTORIC AMERICANS | COMFORT FOOD | U.S. "CITY"s | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS | BIBLICAL PAINTINGS | BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$100
[6]
In February 1865 he became chief of all Confederate armies
Robert E. Lee
Meg
|
$100
[16]
Ketchup is baked right into this main dish that shares its name with a pop music star
Meat Loaf
Steven
|
$100
[11]
In 1990 Donald Trump took a gamble & opened his Taj Mahal Casino in this city
Atlantic City
Meg
|
$100
[1]
"Part of Your World" & "Under the Sea"
The Little Mermaid
Meg
|
$100
[19]
Old Testament leader depicted here by Philippe de Champaigne:(holding Ten Commandments)
Moses
Scott
|
$100
[26]
"Paradise Lost" poet considered by some to be TV's 1st male comedy star
John Milton Berle
Steven
Meg
|
|
$200
[7]
Before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he led the NCAA in overall yards gained as a football player at UCLA
Jackie Robinson
Scott
|
$200
[17]
With the Kraft product of this pasta & cheese, kids can now bite into the Rugrats & swallow Bugs Bunny
Macaroni
Scott
|
$200
[12]
At Christmas, a dazzling light display lights up Temple Square in this city
Salt Lake City
Meg
|
$200
[2]
"Belle" & "Be Our Guest"
Beauty and the Beast
Steven
|
$200
[20]
Object placed on Christ's head in the Bosch work seen here:
Crown of thorns
Scott
|
$200
[27]
San Antonio Spurs "Admiral" marooned by Daniel Defoe
David Robinson Crusoe
Meg
|
|
$300
[8]
In 1836 this artist unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York City: a year later he invented the telegraph
Samuel Morse
Steven
|
$300
[18]
It's hot breakfast cereal made from & named for the most nutritious of the cereal grains
Oatmeal
Steven
|
$300
[13]
In the 1870s Wyatt Earp was a lawman in this "Wickedest Little City in America"
Dodge City
Steven
|
$300
[3]
"I'm Late" & "March of the Cards"
Alice in Wonderland
Meg
|
$300
[21]
Object of worship in the Poussin painting seen here:
the golden calf
Steven
Meg
|
$300
[28]
14th U.S. president who changed careers & became a big-screen James Bond
Franklin Pierce Brosnan
Steven
Scott
|
|
$400
[9]
For 4 years during the American Revolution, this future Treasury Secretary served as Washington's private secretary
Alexander Hamilton
Steven
|
$400
[24]
Cheese & blueberries are popular fillings for these Jewish crepes
Blintzes
Steven
Scott
|
$400
[14]
It's been publishing Nevada's oldest newspaper, The Nevada Appeal, since 1865
Carson City
Scott
|
DD
$500
[4]
"The Second Star to the Right" & "A Pirate's Life"
Peter Pan
Meg
|
$400
[22]
"Vain" glorious structure shown here in a Peter Bruegel work:
Tower of Babel
Steven
|
$400
[29]
Orbiting Buckeye senator with a "Fatal Attraction" for Michael Douglas
John Glenn Close
Steven
|
|
$500
[10]
The first first lady who was a college graduate, she banned all alcoholic beverages from state functions
"Lemonade Lucy" Hayes
Scott
Meg
|
$500
[25]
South America's Tupi Indians named this cassava starch that we use in pudding
Tapioca
Meg
|
$500
[15]
A monument in this Iowa city honors Sgt. Charles Floyd, who died during the Lewis & Clark expedition
Sioux City
Meg
|
$500
[5]
"Bella Notte" & "The Siamese Cat Song"
Lady and the Tramp
Steven
|
$500
[23]
He's returning in Rembrandt's illustration of a parable:
Prodigal Son
Meg
|
$500
[30]
"Pulp Fiction" star who might have his royale drip all over a canvas as an artist in the late 1940s
Samuel L. Jackson Pollock
Meg
|
| AMERICAN LIT | MOVIE QUOTES | THAT 1870s SHOW | HIGH SCHOOL NAMES | THE MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA | HAPPY TALK |
|
$200
[11]
Chapter 3 of this Mark Twain novel introduces us to the "Knights of the Table Round"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Meg
|
$200
[6]
1988:"My dad lets me drive slow on the driveway. I'm an excellent driver"
Rain Man
Scott
|
$200
[1]
In a wacky episode, Clovis spills acid, prompting this inventor to make his call to Watson on March 10, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
Scott
|
$200
[21]
L.A.'s Alain Leroy Locke High is named for the first black student to get this scholarship to Oxford
Rhodes Scholarship
Meg
|
$200
[14]
Sailing down the Orinoco, you'll wind up in this ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Steven
Scott
Meg
|
$200
[26]
If you're really happy, you may be "pleased as" this highly emotional puppet
Punch
Meg
|
|
$400
[12]
A minor character from "Breakfast of Champions" became the hero of his 1987 novel "Bluebeard"
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Steven
|
$400
[7]
1986:"I feel the need--the need for speed"
Top Gun
Scott
|
$400
[2]
Bo pays his sister to do a book report on this 1872 Jules Verne novel & gets almost 3 months in detention
Around the World in Eighty Days
|
$400
[22]
Many schools are named for Lincoln; one in Orland Park, Illinois is named for this poet & Lincoln biographer
Carl Sandburg
Steven
|
$400
[17]
Captain Cook "rounded" it with little difficulty in early 1769
Cape Horn
Scott
|
$400
[27]
Title adjective for mistresses Ford & Page, Shakespeare's "Wives of Windsor"
Merry
Steven
Scott
|
|
$600
[13]
In 1912 Zane Grey published this "colorful" classic of the American West
Riders of the Purple Sage
Steven
|
$600
[8]
1981:"...Wanna dance, or would you rather just suck face?"
On Golden Pond
Meg
|
$600
[3]
In a special episode, Marcy finds out her boyfriend Jerry was killed in this June 25, 1876 battle
Little Big Horn
Scott
|
$600
[23]
In 1999 a school was named for Governor Lawton Chiles in this state capital
Tallahassee, Florida
Steven
|
$600
[18]
Georgetown is capital of this country, once a British colony
Guyana
Scott
|
$600
[28]
An unaccented unit of musical time that may begin a piece
Upbeat
|
|
$800
[15]
In a 1989 novel by E.L. Doctorow, gangster Dutch Schultz takes this title teen under his wing
Billy Bathgate
Scott
|
$800
[9]
1988:"The dingo's got my baby!"
A Cry in the Dark
|
$800
[4]
The gang holds a buggy wash to raise a million dollars' bail for this Tammany "Boss" when he's arrested in 1871
Boss Tweed
Steven
|
$800
[24]
A Washington-area high school bears the name of this Senators pitcher, "The Big Train"
Walter Johnson
Scott
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
Country named for the person who became president of Gran Colombia in 1819
Bolivia (for Simon Bolivar)
Scott
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
This English word comes from Latin for "under the influence of Jupiter"
jovial
Scott
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Old Ben, not Gentle Ben, is the title character in this William Faulkner novelette
The Bear
|
$1,000
[10]
1976:"Follow the money"
All the President's Men
Meg
|
$1,000
[5]
Larry tries to get a job with this New York Tribune founder, who tells him to get out of his office & go west:
Horace Greeley
Steven
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$1,000
[25]
(Hi, I'm Kevin Garnett) My high school was named after this man for whom the rank of full admiral was created in 1866
David Farragut
Steven
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$1,000
[20]
They're the 2 South American countries that don't border Brazil
Chile & Ecuador
Steven
|
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These 2 justices who graduated at the top of their classes were both first offered jobs as typists by the top law firms
Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Sandra Day O'Connor