Jeff Kirby — an elementary school teacher from Santa Maria, California
Amanda Folk — a paralegal from Columbia, South Carolina
Sam Raman — a telecom consultant from Boca Raton, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $8,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | $1,800 | $900 | $3,500 |
$5,500
2nd place: Sony Home Entertainment System featuring WebTV |
$4,500
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amanda | $1,200 | $3,100 | $7,900 |
$7,800
New champion: $7,800 |
$8,100
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Jeff | $700 | $2,500 | $2,700 |
$3,700
3rd place: Polaroid Photomax Digital Camera Creative Kit |
$2,700
15 R, 4 W |
| SCI-"FI" | WINE & CHEESE | BRITISHISMS | THE CINEMA | MAIDEN | JAPAN |
|
$100
[1]
This bone runs down the side of the leg from just below the knee to the ankle
fibula
Amanda
|
$100
[17]
It's Gouda to know that Gouda & Edam are cheeses from this country
Netherlands (Holland)
Sam
Jeff
|
$100
[2]
If you order bangers & mash at a London restaurant, you'll receive these & mashed potatoes
sausages
Sam
|
$100
[10]
Scenes in this 1995 Oliver Stone film include the Checkers Speech & the summit in China
Nixon
Amanda
|
$100
[15]
Rose Kennedy's was Fitzgerald
maiden name
Sam
|
$100
[26]
You'll find this sacred landmark, seen here, on the island of Honshu:
Mount Fuji
Jeff
|
|
$200
[3]
The splitting of a heavy nucleus--it sounds like where Fermi has "gone" on vacation
fission
Jeff
|
$200
[18]
This Belgian cheese is said to be "undoubtedly the stinkiest of the strong-smelling cheeses"
Limburger
Amanda
|
$200
[4]
You'll need to ask a Savile Row tailor for a waistcoat if you want to add one of these to your wardrobe
vest
Sam
|
$200
[11]
In this 1999 Steve Martin film, Eddie Murphy plays 2 roles: movie star Kit Ramsey & his brother Jiff, a hapless loser
Bowfinger
Sam
|
$200
[19]
Robin Hood's sweetheart
Maid Marian
Amanda
|
$200
[27]
The Japanese began following this religious leader's beliefs around 500 A.D.:
Buddha
Jeff
|
|
$300
[6]
It's the fruit of the Ficus carica
fig
Jeff
|
$300
[23]
In the '70s this name brand was advertised with the slogan "We Will Sell No Wine Before Its Time"
Paul Masson
Amanda
|
$300
[5]
At British construction sites, a tipper lorry is this specific type of vehicle
dump truck
Jeff
|
$300
[12]
This superstar directs himself as an investigative reporter in the 1999 film "True Crime"
Clint Eastwood
Jeff
|
$300
[20]
Nautical term for a first launch
maiden voyage
Jeff
|
$300
[28]
It's said a Baptist minister living in Yokohama invented this popular vehicle in 1869; it was quickly copied:
rickshaw
Amanda
|
|
$400
[7]
It's the hot, glowing part of an incandescent lamp
filament
Sam
|
$400
[24]
Vermont & Tillamook are American varieties of this cheese
Cheddar
Amanda
|
$400
[8]
If you use a rubber to fix a mistake, you're using one of these
eraser
Sam
|
$400
[13]
The music of Ritchie Valens was performed by Los Lobos in this 1987 biography of the rock star
La Bamba
Sam
Jeff
|
$400
[21]
The chief unmarried woman attendant of a bride
maid of honor
Jeff
|
$400
[29]
Known locally as Shinkansen, the Japanese technological advancement seen here is known by this "ballistic" name:
bullet train
Jeff
|
|
DD
$1,000
[16]
This branch of physics came out of the combined work of Bell Labs & Corning Glass
fiber optics
Sam
|
$500
[25]
The name of this red-wine grape means "young blackbird" in French
Merlot
Amanda
|
$500
[9]
A member of the RAF knows an airscrew is called this in the USAF
propeller
Amanda
|
$500
[14]
1972 film that ends with "Here life is beautiful." The girls are beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful"
Cabaret
Amanda
|
$500
[22]
They guard the gold in "Der Ring Des Nibelungen"
Rhine maidens
|
$500
[30]
Chanting & melodramatic portrayal are hallmarks of this traditional Japanese art form seen here:
Kabuki
Jeff
|
| COLORFUL U.S. CITIES | PARDON MY ROBOT | MEDICAL EQUIPMENT | BEASTLY BOOKS | LET'S GET GRAPHIC | CATCHING SOME "Z"s |
|
$200
[7]
A part of Newark until 1806, it was named for the Dutch royal house of Prince William
Orange
Sam
|
$200
[1]
Rosie was this futuristic cartoon family's robot maid
The Jetsons
Jeff
|
$200
[30]
It's the organ associated with dioptometers & ophthalmoscopes
eye
Jeff
|
$200
[20]
This Richard Bach story is an allegory about a seabird who seeks to attain perfect flight
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Sam
|
$200
[14]
In Gutenberg's time, each printer had his own lampblack & linseed oil formula for this
ink
Jeff
|
$200
[29]
If you don't keep an eye on it, this Italian squash can grow to the size of a watermelon
zucchini
Sam
|
|
$400
[8]
Once the capital of the Colorado Territory, it's home to the Adolph Coors Brewery
Golden
Sam
|
$400
[2]
Ripley discovers Ash is actually a dangerous robot in this 1979 sci-fi thriller
Alien
Amanda
|
$400
[24]
From the Greek for "pipe", this device can withdraw fluids from as well as inject fluids into a body
syringe
Sam
|
DD
$200
[22]
Desmond Morris stripped humanity bare in this provocative 1967 bestseller
The Naked Ape
Amanda
|
$400
[15]
In dithering, shades of this are created by using different densities of black & white dots
gray
Sam
|
$400
[27]
Ye Gods! One of the 7 Ancient Wonders was a 40 foot-high statue of him on his throne
Zeus
Sam
|
|
$800
[11]
Washington used Elijah Miller's house in this New York town as his HQ at the Battle of Chatterton Hill
White Plains
|
$600
[3]
On this show the robot was often heard to remark "Warning! Warning!" & "Danger, Will Robinson!"
Lost In Space
Sam
|
$600
[28]
A knife a surgeon uses for puncturing, or a famed medical journal
The Lancet
Amanda
Jeff
|
$400
[21]
The romantic saga of sheep-rearing Australians plays out in this 1977 Colleen McCullough work
The Thorn Birds
Amanda
|
$600
[16]
This software company makes the Photoshop & Illustrator graphic programs
Adobe
Jeff
|
$600
[6]
In 1997 this country reverted to its previous name: The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zaire
Amanda
|
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
Built around 1776, Tank Cottage in this city is said to be the oldest house in Wisconsin
Green Bay
Amanda
|
$800
[4]
The brave humans of "Battlestar Galactica" battled these towering men of metal
Cylons
|
$800
[25]
To stitch up a wound, or the thread itself
suture
Amanda
|
$600
[19]
Daryl Hannah starred in the 1986 big screen version of this Jean Auel work
Clan of the Cave Bear
Jeff
|
$800
[17]
A print made to test the accuracy of the press, it's also "in the pudding"
proof
Sam
|
$800
[9]
It's featured in the folk tune heard here:
zither
Amanda
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Texan & Mexican culture are combined in this city's pre-Lenten festival Charro Days
Brownsville
Sam
|
$1,000
[5]
This Capek play about machine-men premiered in London in 1923
R.U.R. ("Rossum's Universal Robots")
Sam
|
$1,000
[26]
The bulldog type of these clamp blood vessels
forceps
|
$1,000
[23]
Savagery lurking beneath the Hollywood dream breaks free in this Nathanael West novel
The Day of the Locust
|
$1,000
[18]
In 1987 this online company came up with the GIF, a graphics interchange format
CompuServe
Sam
|
$1,000
[13]
Go shopping in Poland & you might need to swap your dollars for this unit of currency
zloty
Jeff
|
This man for whom a car is named previously worked for Daimler-Benz & designed the Volkswagen
Ferdinand Porsche