Roy Flynn — a public television producer from Centerville, Ohio
Maureen Madison — a Ph.D. candidate from Washington, D.C.
John Trzaska — a fleet service clerk from Chicago, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $900 | $800 | $2,200 |
$1
3rd place: a Meade ETX90 telescope |
$2,200
10 R, 4 W |
| Maureen | $0 | $400 | $5,400 |
$5,300
New champion: $5,300 |
$5,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Roy | $1,400 | $1,700 | $2,700 |
$100
2nd place: a Princess cruise to Bermuda |
$3,300
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| BEASTLY GEOGRAPHY | TELEVISION | HOLIDAY SONGS | SANE SCIENTISTS | WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? | BEING PUNCTUAL |
|
$100
[2]
Cities in this nation include Iskenderun, Islahiye & Istanbul
Turkey
Roy
|
$100
[7]
Roz Doyle, a character on this sitcom, is named for a late producer of the NBC sitcom "Wings"
Frasier
Maureen
|
$100
[1]
"Sleep in heavenly peace" is a line from this carol
"Silent Night"
Roy
|
$100
[19]
Radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden, holder of 500 patents, once worked in this man's New Jersey lab
Thomas Edison
John
|
$100
[13]
The Federal Aviation Administration
Transportation
Maureen
|
$100
[12]
In abbreviations of 3 or more capital letters, like NCAA, these marks are often omitted
Periods
Roy
|
|
$200
[3]
By population, it's the second-largest city in New York
Buffalo
Maureen
Roy
|
$200
[8]
This Emmy-winning drama series features the opening heard here:("In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate & equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, & the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.")
Law & Order
Maureen
|
$200
[20]
"Oh" this, this, this, "I made it out of clay...and when it's dry and ready then" this "I shall play"
Dreidel
Maureen
|
— |
$200
[15]
(OSHA) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Labor
John
Maureen
Roy
|
$200
[14]
Shorter than a dash, it came between the Angles & Saxons
Hyphen
Roy
|
|
$300
[4]
In 1903 Wilbur & Orville flew to new heights near this city
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
John
|
$300
[9]
Robert Pastorelli was the star of "Cracker", but he's best-known for playing Eldin the Painter on this sitcom
Murphy Brown
John
|
$300
[21]
(Hi, I'm Art Alexakis of the rock group Everclear.) In a 1998 holiday ad for The Gap, my band did a rendition of this song about an alienated animal
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
John
|
— |
$300
[16]
The Bureau of Prisons
Justice Department
|
$300
[24]
3-letter word commonly replaced in a sentence by a semicolon
And
Maureen
|
|
$400
[5]
Saddle up! These high pressure belts are located on either side of the Doldrums
Horse Latitudes
|
$400
[10]
Diane Keaton directed an episode of this David Lynch series about a strange town in the Northwest
Twin Peaks
Roy
|
$400
[22]
"Put on your yarmulke, it's time for Chanukah" is a line from his "Chanukah Song"
Adam Sandler
Roy
|
— |
$400
[17]
The Fish & Wildlife Service
Interior
Roy
|
$500
[26]
If 1 of these takes 3 paragraphs, the marks go at the start of each paragraph & at the end of only the third
Quotation
Roy
|
|
$500
[6]
These Spanish islands were named for a breed of large dog Romans found there, not a yellow songbird
Canary Islands
Roy
|
$500
[11]
In the mid-'80s Barbara Bel Geddes left this series & Donna Reed stepped in briefly as Miss Ellie
Dallas
John
|
$500
[23]
Bobby Helms charted (several times) with this song that mentions "glidin' in a one-horse sleigh"
"Jingle Bell Rock"
Maureen
|
— |
$500
[18]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Treasury
John
|
DD
$600
[25]
It turned the 46th state into the title of a musical
an exclamation point
Maureen
|
| 20th CENTURY AUTHORS | NAME THE MOVIE | HEDGEHOG HODGEPODGE | JANES ADDICTION | "R"RRRRR! | A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME |
|
$200
[1]
It wasn't until 7 years after publishing "Lord of the Flies" that he retired from teaching in England
William Golding
Maureen
|
$200
[6]
1937:"Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Roy
|
$200
[23]
Hedgehogs make themselves at home in flower beds, in compost heaps &, obviously under these
hedges
John
|
$200
[16]
Now in prime time, she was an original "Not Ready for Prime Time Player"
Jane Curtin
Maureen
|
$200
[11]
It's the creature from which hats like the one seen here were originally made:
Raccoon
John
|
$200
[21]
Around 405 A.D. this future patron saint was captured by pirates & sold as a slave in Ireland
Saint Patrick
Roy
|
|
$600
[3]
Mrs. Morel in "Sons and Lovers" is based in part on his own mom
D.H. Lawrence
Maureen
|
$400
[7]
1982:"God didn't make Rambo. I made him"
First Blood
|
$400
[27]
Folk belief has it that hedgehogs do this to sleeping cows
Drink their milk
Roy
|
$400
[17]
She was nominated for a 1993 Best Director Oscar
Jane Campion
Maureen
|
$400
[12]
A man with the head of a hawk crowned with a solar disk represents this ancient Egyptian sun god
Ra
Roy
|
$400
[22]
Together they wrote "The Pirates of Penzance" in 1879
Gilbert & Sullivan
Roy
|
|
$800
[4]
Let the trumpets sound! Bang "The Tin Drum"! He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature
Gunter Grass
|
DD
$600
[8]
1998:"I'll see you on the beach"
Saving Private Ryan
Roy
|
$1,000
[28]
The hedgehog genus Hemiechinus is notable for the length of these sensory appendages
ears
John
Roy
|
$600
[18]
She's an Agatha Christie detective
Miss Jane Marple
|
$600
[13]
Frank Gorshin played him on the small screen, Jim Carrey on the big
The Riddler
Maureen
|
$600
[24]
The ruins of ancient Carthage lie just outside this capital city enriched by pirating in the 1600s & 1700s
Tunis
John
Maureen
|
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
In 1974 this Brit turned out another novel like clockwork, "The Clockwork Testament"
Anthony Burgess
Maureen
|
$800
[9]
1940:"Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there"
The Grapes of Wrath
Maureen
|
— |
$800
[19]
Ronald Reagan's ex-wife
Jane Wyman
Maureen
|
$800
[14]
It's a stream of particles or waves emitted as the result of nuclear decay
Radiation
John
|
$800
[25]
This name for a swift pirate ship comes from the Latin cursus, meaning "plunder"
Corsair
John
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Barbara Vine is a pseudonym of this leading British mystery writer of today
Ruth Rendell
|
$1,000
[10]
1967:"We rob banks"
Bonnie and Clyde
Roy
|
— |
$1,000
[20]
French director Roger Vadim was this American actress' first husband
Jane Fonda
John
|
$1,000
[15]
An 11-letter word meaning extreme conservative opponent of progress or liberalism
Reactionary
Maureen
|
$1,000
[26]
Celebrating his victory over the Barbary Pirates, this naval hero toasted "Our country, right or wrong!"
Stephen Decatur
|
Name shared by a British film company & an American who made millions in oil & pharmaceuticals
Hammer (Hammer Films/Armand Hammer)