Mitch Teich — a public radio news reporter from Flagstaff, Arizona
Sarah Bagby — a student from Las Cruces, New Mexico
Yancy Naughton — a golf magazine publisher from Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,831)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yancy | $-200 | $100 | $-399 |
$-399
3rd place: World of Science Shopping Spree |
$3,100
14 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $1,900 | $3,000 | $5,800 |
$0
2nd place: Intel PC Camera Pro Pack & Compaq Presario Internet Desktop PC |
$5,800
15 R, 1 W |
| Mitch | $1,600 | $4,200 | $8,500 |
$11,610
New champion: $11,610 |
$7,500
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK | BLACK AMERICANS | THE GREAT LAKES | MY DAD | BESTSELLERS | ANAGRAMMED MUSICALS |
|
$100
[22]
"Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say, 'Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you'" do this
Guide my sleigh tonight
Yancy
|
$100
[27]
In 1940 he won the NCAA title in the broad jump; 7 years later, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson
Mitch
|
$100
[8]
Geologists believe the basins of the Great Lakes were scooped out by these about 20,000 years ago
Glaciers
Yancy
|
$100
[1]
Anna, founder of child psychoanalysis, was the youngest daughter of this man, founder of a similar field
Sigmund Freud
Mitch
|
$100
[12]
In 1998 this master of horror rattled our nerves with "Bag of Bones"
Stephen King
Sarah
|
$100
[6]
Lots of suckers saw it:"BAN RUM"
Barnum
Yancy
|
|
$200
[24]
Its second verse begins, "See the blazing yule before us, fa la la la la la la la la"
"Deck the Halls"
Sarah
|
$200
[26]
In 1896 he became director of agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute
George Washington Carver
Yancy
|
$300
[10]
Superior, Wisconsin & this Minnesota port lie at the western terminus of the Great Lakes
Duluth
Mitch
|
$200
[2]
Mehli Mehta, conductor & founder of the American Youth Symphony, is the father of this famed conductor
Zubin Mehta
Mitch
|
$200
[13]
It's the one-word title of Arthur Hailey's 1971 bestseller about the auto industry
"Wheels"
Sarah
|
$200
[15]
Let's clap for this one:"LAP PAUSE"
Applause
Sarah
|
|
$300
[25]
In song he says, "Let's run and we'll have some fun now before I melt away"
"Frosty the Snowman"
Mitch
|
$300
[21]
In 1952 she made her opera debut in "Four Saints in Three Acts", which led to her playing Bess in "Porgy and Bess"
Leontyne Price
|
$400
[7]
Manitoulin Island in this second-largest Great Lake is the world's largest freshwater island
Lake Huron
Yancy
Sarah
Mitch
|
$300
[3]
This leader of the Argonauts was raised by Chiron, a Centaur
Jason
Mitch
|
$300
[14]
Arthur Golden tells the tale of Sayuri, a Japanese artisan, in his "Memoirs of..." this
A Geisha
|
$300
[16]
Lerner & Loewe's Scotstravaganza:"A GOON BIRD"
Brigadoon
Mitch
|
|
$400
[29]
This song heardherewas a big hit for the King in 1964:"Decorations of red, on a green..."
"Blue Christmas"
Yancy
Mitch
|
$400
[20]
On March 11, 1959 her "A Raisin in the Sun" became the first play on Broadway written by a black woman
Lorraine Hansberry
Sarah
|
$500
[9]
This Frenchman's interpreter actually saw the Great Lakes first, but the boss got the credit
Samuel de Champlain
Sarah
|
$400
[4]
(Hi, I'm Holly Robinson-Peete.) My dad, Matt Robinson, played Gordon on this PBS series
Sesame Street
Mitch
|
$400
[17]
In 1970 Irwin Shaw gave us this bestselling saga of the Jordache family
"Rich Man, Poor Man"
|
$400
[19]
A Rodgers & Hammerstein classic:"CAR LOUSE"
Carousel
Yancy
|
|
$500
[23]
This is the true title of the song that begins, "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire"
"The Christmas Song"
Mitch
|
$500
[28]
Robert Peary's companion on several Arctic trips, he wrote the 1912 book "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole"
Matthew Henson
Mitch
|
DD
$700
[11]
The 5 Great Lakes border 8 U.S. states but only this one Canadian province
Ontario
Mitch
|
$500
[5]
This author's dad was a missionary in China; she was a teacher there in the 1920s
Pearl S. Buck
Sarah
|
$500
[18]
A mammoth bestseller in 1985 was her "The Mammoth Hunters"
Jean Auel
Sarah
|
$500
[30]
Mark my words, Twain would have loved it:"RIB GIVER"
Big River
Mitch
|
| HE'S THE MAYOR | DEAR JEAN LETTERS | REPORTER'S DICTIONARY | IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT | BEFORE & AFTER | TV ARCHIVE |
|
$200
[5]
Washington, D.C.1979-1990
Marion Barry
Sarah
|
$200
[23]
I wrote you a poem: "Rub-a-dub-dub, you died in a tub"
Jean-Paul Marat
|
$200
[6]
From Latin for "death", it's an announcement of a person's death
Obituary
Yancy
|
$200
[15]
This legendary creature lives in deep water in Scotland's Great Glen Fault
Loch Ness Monster
Sarah
|
$200
[24]
The night of December 24 celebrated with the actress who played Jan Brady
Christmas Eve Plumb
Yancy
Sarah
|
$400
[28]
He was Major Nelson's girl-crazy fellow astronaut
Major Roger Healey
|
|
$600
[3]
Los Angeles, California1973-1993
Tom Bradley
Mitch
|
$400
[22]
If you lived in Guam instead of Finland, would you have composed "Guamia" instead of "Finlandia"?
Jean Sibelius
Yancy
Sarah
|
$400
[7]
"Standard" term for a large, front-page headline extending the width of the page
Banner headline
Yancy
|
$400
[16]
The San Andreas Fault is on the boundary between the North American & Pacific ones
Tectonic plates
Sarah
|
$400
[25]
"Tutti Frutti" singer who led the Third Crusade
Little Richard the Lionhearted
Yancy
|
$600
[13]
It's the title TV high-tech vehicle seen here:
Airwolf
Yancy
|
|
$800
[2]
West Berlin1957-1966
Willy Brandt
Yancy
|
$600
[21]
I thought the U.S. remake of your 1932 film "Boudu Saved From Drowning" was faithful to your work
Jean Renoir
|
$600
[9]
It's the "sloping" point of view taken in a news story or feature
Slant
Yancy
|
$600
[17]
The Taupo Fault Zone on this country's North Island has produced intensive volcanic activity
New Zealand
Mitch
|
$600
[26]
Tragic Shakespearean play about a Montague & a '70s TV "Nanny"
Romeo and Juliet Mills
Yancy
Mitch
|
$800
[12]
Steve Austin's "metallic" TV boss in the mid-'70s
Oscar Goldman
Mitch
|
|
DD
$900
[4]
Carmel, California1986-1988
Clint Eastwood
Mitch
|
$1,000
[20]
After seeing this painting of yours, I thought, "Hey, he's good":
Jean-Francois Millet
Sarah
|
$800
[8]
A publicist is also known as this kind of agent
Publicity/press agent
Yancy
|
$800
[14]
An elongated fault zone may be this type of "valley", like the "Great" one of Asia & Africa
Rift
Sarah
|
$800
[27]
Vice presidential spouse who penned "Myra Breckinridge"
Tipper Gore Vidal
|
$1,000
[11]
As truck driver Billie Joe McKay, this actor teamed on TV with a chimp named The Bear
Greg Evigan
Mitch
|
|
$1,000
[1]
Atlanta, Georgia1982-1989
Andrew Young
Mitch
|
DD
$3,499
[19]
Do you think your career went downhill after winning all the Alpine golds at the Grenoble Olympics?
Jean-Claude Killy
Yancy
|
$1,000
[10]
This short 1- or 2-word label for a news story sounds like a mollusk without a shell
Slug
Yancy
|
$1,000
[18]
This 10,000-mile-long sub-oceanic "ridge" has its faults--there's one every 20 to 60 miles
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Yancy
|
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In August 1999, for the first time in its 75-year history, Wheaties began featuring players of this sport on its boxes
soccer