Lisa Klink game 5.
Ralph Dellanno — a high school theology teacher from Edison, New Jersey
Per Milam — a graduate student of philosophy from San Diego, California
Lisa Klink — a TV writer from Los Angeles, California (whose 4-day cash winnings total $53,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa | $3,000 | $4,500 | $16,950 |
$17,050
5-day champion: $70,150 |
$18,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Per | $1,800 | $4,000 | $8,400 |
$4,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,400
16 R, 7 W |
| Ralph | $2,200 | $4,400 | $7,200 |
$5,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
16 R, 4 W |
| STATES OF THE UNION | BREAKFAST CEREALS | PUBLIC DOMAIN JUKEBOX | WHICH U.S. CABINET DEPT.? | MOVIE KISSES | HOW ABOUT A LITTLE ROMANCE LANGUAGE? |
|
$200
[10]
Part of this big state crosses the 180th meridian of longitude
Alaska
Per
Ralph
|
$200
[1]
Since 1979 it's been tempting the "tummy with the taste of nuts & honey"
Honey Nut Cheerios
Ralph
|
$200
[21]
She's the lass in the Stephen Foster ditty heard here
Jeannie (with the light brown hair)
Ralph
|
$200
[26]
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
the Department of Transportation
Lisa
|
$200
[6]
Tobey Maguire said kissing Kirsten Dunst upside-down in the rain was the hardest thing he's done as this superhero
Spider-Man
Per
|
$200
[16]
Around the Vatican you might be able to practice this source language of all Romance languages
Latin
Lisa
|
|
$400
[11]
With a population of about 120,000, Columbia is this state's most populous city
South Carolina
Ralph
|
$400
[2]
As its name suggests, this General Mills cereal provides 100% daily value of 12 vitamins & minerals
Total
Per
|
$400
[22]
Aye, aye! It's the title of the military anthem heard here
"Anchors Aweigh"
Ralph
|
$400
[27]
Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration
the Department of Agriculture
Per
Ralph
|
$400
[7]
In "To Have and Have Not", she kisses Bogart & says, "It's even better when you help"
Lauren Bacall
Lisa
|
$400
[17]
Of Catalan, Bulgarian or Romanian, the one that is not a Romance language
Bulgarian
Per
Ralph
|
|
$600
[12]
These 2 states have the shortest coasts on the Gulf of Mexico, only about 50 miles apiece
Alabama & Mississippi
Per
|
$600
[3]
About a third of all Life cereal sold is of this flavor introduced in 1978
cinnamon
Ralph
|
$600
[23]
You might need to join A.A. if you take this song literally
"Little Brown Jug"
Ralph
|
DD
$500
[30]
Government National Mortgage Association
the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Lisa
|
$600
[8]
A mutt & a cocker spaniel slurp spaghetti & smooch in this 1955 classic
Lady and the Tramp
Lisa
|
$600
[18]
It's the most widely spoken Romance language in the world
Spanish
Per
|
|
$800
[13]
This state has the highest average altitude of any state east of the Mississippi; must be pretty "mountainous"
West Virginia
Per
|
$800
[4]
Introduced in the 1980s, it's the trademark name for a cereal of "seven whole grains & sesame" & little puffs
Kashi
|
$800
[24]
Some big gloves might be a nice present for the guy in this song heard here
"He's Got The Whole World In His Hands"
Lisa
|
$600
[28]
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
the Department of the Interior
Per
|
$800
[9]
1940s classic film in which the heroine says, "Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time"
Casablanca
Ralph
|
$800
[19]
Ligurian, Lombard & Piedmontese are all dialects of this Romance language
Italian
Ralph
|
|
$1,000
[14]
Tears were shed when the Teddy Bear Museum in Naples in this state closed its doors forever in 2005
Florida
Lisa
|
$1,000
[5]
This cereal from Kellogg's is "crispy rice on one side, crunchy corn on the other"
Crispix
Lisa
|
$1,000
[25]
They're the dancing title females in the song heard here
"Buffalo Gals"
Ralph
|
$800
[29]
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
the Department of Energy
Lisa
|
$1,000
[15]
1981 drama in which Norman Thayer asks wife Ethel, "Wanna dance or would you rather just suck face?"
On Golden Pond
|
$1,000
[20]
Linguists trace Romance languages back to this hyphenated family of languages
Indo-European
Per
|
| THE JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY | MYTHICAL MENAGERIE | WESTWARD EXPANSION OF THE U.S. | HOSPITALS | BESTSELLERS OF THE DECADE | "G" WHIZ |
|
$400
[3]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kyoto, Japan.) Among the many utensils used in the ceremony are the chashaku, or scoop, & achasen, or wisk, made from a single piece of this
bamboo
Per
|
$400
[1]
Nessus, one of these half-horse creatures, tried to abduct Hercules' wife; big mistake
a Centaur
Lisa
Per
|
$400
[23]
It created an all-water link from NYC to the Great Lakes & opened up the settlement of the Great Lakes area
the Erie Canal
Per
|
DD
$50
[30]
London's HTD, Hospital for these Diseases, has a consultant parasitologist & leprologist
tropical diseases
Lisa
|
$400
[12]
"Jaws" &"Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
the 1970s
Ralph
|
$400
[7]
Battles between these fighters in the Roman Colosseum were stopped in 404 A.D.
the gladiators
Ralph
|
|
$800
[19]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kyoto, Japan.) Crawling or crouching through the door to enter the room signifies kenson, Japanese for this 8-letter opposite of pride
humility
Lisa
|
$800
[2]
Every 500 years or so, this bird was reborn from its own ashes
the Phoenix
Ralph
|
$800
[24]
On May 10, 1869 telegraph operators in Utah signaled the nation that this had been completed
the Transcontinental Railway
Per
|
$400
[17]
Of U.S. News & Word Report's 5 top U.S. hospitals in pediatrics, 4 include these 2 words in their names
Children's Hospital
Per
|
$800
[13]
"Red Storm Rising"& "The Prince of Tides"
the 1980s
Per
Ralph
|
$800
[8]
Bartenders use it to make an orange blossom
gin
Ralph
|
|
$1,200
[20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kyoto, Japan.) Like the altar of a Zen chapel which inspired it, the tokonoma, a decorated alcove, faces this direction, thought lucky due to its exposure to sunlight
south
Per
Ralph
|
$1,200
[4]
The Nemean Lion was the sibling of this monster who liked to riddle people with her own riddle before eating them
the Sphinx
Per
|
$1,200
[25]
This 1862 act gave 160 acres of free land to anyone who had lived on it & improved it for 5 years
the Homestead Act
Lisa
|
$800
[18]
There's a stroke center at Boswell Hospital in this Arizona retirement city
Sun City
|
$1,200
[14]
"The Agony and the Ecstasy" &"You Only Live Twice"
the 1960s
Lisa
Ralph
|
$1,200
[9]
These large masses of slow-moving ice occur where winter snowfall exceeds summer melt
glaciers
Lisa
|
|
$1,600
[21]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kyoto, Japan.) Many elements of the ceremony like the fire & water, the open tea bowl & theclosed tea caddy, represent these two complementary forces of nature borrowed from the Chinese
yin & yang
Lisa
|
$1,600
[5]
It wasn't hard for this Lernaean serpent to get ahead; every time one of its heads was cut off, 2 grew in its place
the Hydra
Per
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
In the 1846 Oregon Treaty, the British gave up claims to all territory below the 49th parallel except this large island
Vancouver Island
Lisa
|
$1,200
[28]
An L.A. "home for the incurables" named for this holy mountain later merged with Cedars of Lebanon
Mount Sinai
Per
|
$1,600
[15]
"Forever Amber" &"The Naked and the Dead"
the 1940s
|
$1,600
[10]
Rich in phosphates, this waste matter left by bats & seabirds can be a valuable commodity
guano
Per
|
|
$2,000
[22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kyoto, Japan.) Once, sitting on these mats could signify one's noble stature; today, everyone sits on them for the tea ceremony
tatami
Per
|
$2,000
[6]
She was a beautiful nymph before she was turned into a sea monster, doomed to live in a cave opposite Charybdis
Scylla
Lisa
|
$2,000
[27]
This 1853 deal that brought the U.S. chunks of New Mexico & Arizona is known in Mexico as the sale of La Mesilla
the Gadsden Purchase
Ralph
|
$2,000
[29]
Seen here is this fittingly named Paris complex founded as a veterans' hospital by Louis XIV
Les Invalides (or Hôtel des Invalides)
Lisa
|
$2,000
[16]
"Arrowsmith" &"The Age of Innocence"
the 1920s
Per
|
$2,000
[11]
In construction, it's a horizontal load-bearing structural member
a girder
|
This term for a deadly substance may derive from the name of a love goddess
venom