Cason Butterworth — a bartender from Trussville, Alabama
Heidi Daniels — a flight attendant from Crownsville, Maryland
Gino Scalo — a seventh grade teacher from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gino | $2,400 | $2,600 | $9,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: a trip to Grand Lido Braco Resort, Jamaica |
$6,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Heidi | $300 | $800 | $5,000 |
$0
3rd place: a Meade ETX90 telescope |
$5,000
11 R, 0 W |
| Cason | $1,800 | $5,900 | $5,900 |
$10,900
New champion: $10,900 |
$5,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| TOM CRUISE FILMS | EYE, EYE DOCTOR | LET'S DANCE | BARRY ME | KNOT | ON THE LONE PRAIRIE |
|
$100
[16]
Tom glides across the floor to "Old Time Rock & Roll" in an Oxford shirt & tightie-whities in a classic scene in this '83 flick
Risky Business
Cason
|
$100
[22]
It's the transparent part of the eyeball contact lenses are designed to come into contact with
Cornea
Cason
|
$100
[1]
You're dancing if you're cutting this item of decor
Rug
Cason
|
$100
[6]
He's the singer heard here:("I made it through the rain...")
Barry Manilow
Gino
|
$100
[27]
This knot that shares its name with an older relative is prone to slipping & is basically useless
Granny knot
Gino
Cason
|
$100
[11]
The prairie has been called a "Sea of" this, like the over 6-foot-tall Big Bluestem
Grass
Gino
|
|
$200
[17]
Tom Cruise learns that he has an autistic older brother in this 1988 film
Rain Man
Heidi
|
$200
[23]
It's not the opposite of youropia, but of hyperopia
Myopia
Gino
|
$200
[2]
"Dancing on air" is an expressive phrase for this form of capital punishment
Hanging
Cason
|
$200
[7]
He played Brad Majors in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
Barry Bostwick
Cason
|
$200
[28]
It's the geometric alternate name for a reef knot
Square knot
Gino
|
$200
[12]
A lot fewer of this Kansas state animal "roam" the prairies today than in the 19th century
Buffalo/bison
Gino
|
|
$300
[18]
Tom Cruise starred as professional spy Ethan Hunt in this 1996 film & its sequel
Mission: Impossible
Gino
|
$300
[24]
From the Greek for "gray", this condition may cause blindness by increasing pressure on the optic nerve
Glaucoma
Heidi
|
$300
[3]
If this lively dance "is up", it's all over
Jig
Gino
|
$300
[8]
This Conservative was born in Phoenix in 1909
Barry Goldwater
Cason
|
$300
[19]
Clove, rolling & half are types of these, used to tie a rope to a post or other object
Hitches
Cason
|
$300
[13]
This city's nicknames include "City of the Lakes and Prairies" & "Hog Butcher for the World"
Chicago
Heidi
|
|
$400
[20]
In a 1992 film this actor told Tom, "You can't handle the truth!"
Jack Nicholson (in A Few Good Men )
Cason
|
$400
[25]
Macular degeneration affects these parts that when detached may be reattached with a laser
Retinas
Cason
|
$400
[4]
As a verb, it can mean to move like Gregory Hines, or to improvise to hide your ignorance
Tap dance
Gino
|
$400
[9]
With Cynthia Weil, he's written songs like "Make Your Own Kind of Music" & "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Barry Mann
Gino
|
$400
[29]
As 2 words, it's part of a ram's or ewe's leg; as 1 word, it's a knot for shortening rope
Sheepshank
Gino
Cason
|
$400
[14]
They're the family who resided in TV's "Little House on the Prairie"
Ingalls
Gino
|
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
Leonard Maltin said the cliches in this 1990 action drama gave new meaning to the term "Formula One"
Days of Thunder
Cason
|
$500
[26]
Toric contact lenses are designed to correct this condition when it's moderate
Astigmatism
Cason
|
$500
[5]
This character from "Li'l Abner" gave her name to a dance where the girls invite the boys
Sadie Hawkins
Gino
|
$500
[10]
"Guilty" & "What Kind of Fool", his duets with Barbra Streisand, were Top 10 hits
Barry Gibb
Cason
|
$500
[30]
The simple knot seen here; it's also a style of throwing a ball
Overhand knot
|
$500
[15]
Legendary Pecos Bill was raised by one of these animals that's also known as a prairie wolf
Coyote
Cason
|
| INAUGURAL ADDRESSES | QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2000 | ISN'T IT BYRONIC? | TV STARS | SECOND-MOST POPULOUS CITIES | BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$200
[2]
"Now, for the third time, a new century is upon us, and another time to choose"
Bill Clinton
Gino
|
$200
[26]
This "Dead Cert" writer jockeyed to the forefront of the list, getting a CBE
Dick Francis
|
$200
[16]
Of John, Paul, or George, Byron's given name
George
Cason
|
$200
[5]
Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia on this TV series, recorded a country music album in 1995
The Brady Bunch
Heidi
|
$200
[19]
Cork
Ireland
Gino
|
$200
[1]
He scribed "The Green Mile" & "Carrie", but not while aping around the Empire State Building with Fay Wray
Stephen King Kong
Cason
|
|
$400
[3]
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed..."
John F. Kennedy
Gino
|
$400
[27]
Sam Mendes was directed to pick up this CBE in June 2000, 3 months after winning an Oscar for directing this film
American Beauty
|
$400
[17]
In 1816 Byron summered in Switzerland where he joned this poet & his wife Mary
Percy Shelley
Cason
|
$400
[6]
When she played a stage mother in the TV movie "Model Behavior", her real-life son Cody appeared as her son
Kathie Lee Gifford
Heidi
|
$400
[20]
Goteburg
Sweden
Heidi
|
$400
[12]
"Hit The Road, Jack" hitmaker who hit us in print with "Oliver Twist" & "David Copperfield"
Ray Charles Dickens
|
|
$600
[4]
"Eight years from now America will celebrate its two-hundredth anniversary as a nation"
Richard Nixon
Heidi
|
$600
[28]
Oh me oh my--this Scottish singer's OBE was given "To" her "With Love" by the Queen
Lulu
|
$800
[24]
One of Byron's greatest poems was his unfinished epic about this villainous Spanish rake
Don Juan
Gino
|
$600
[7]
An understudy in "Biloxi Blues", this "Cheers" co-star was back on Broadway in '99, starring in "The Rainmaker"
Woody Harrelson
Heidi
|
$600
[21]
Pusan
South Korea
Heidi
|
$600
[13]
1988 Brat-Packer western starring the rock band that charted with "Welcome to the Jungle"
Young Guns N' Roses
Heidi
Cason
|
|
$1,000
[11]
"In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gino
|
$800
[29]
Hazel Ann Esson, the head housemaid at this Scottish castle, got a Royal Victorian Medal
Balmoral Castle
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
While helping this country fight for its independence, Byron died at Missolonghi in 1824
Greece
Cason
|
$800
[8]
Few believed this actor's weird journalistic discoveries as "The Night Stalker"
Darren McGavin
Cason
|
$800
[22]
Maracaibo
Venezuela
Heidi
|
$800
[14]
"Talented Mr. Ripley" actor whose colorful stories became "Guys and Dolls"
Matt Damon Runyon
Gino
|
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
"...Let us strive on to finish the work we are in...to do all which may achieve & cherish a just & lasting peace..."
Abraham Lincoln (second inaugural)
Gino
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
Byron first came to fame with a poem about this young noble's "Pilgrimage"
Childe Harold
Gino
|
$1,000
[9]
John Lithgow appeared as a Broadway director in this autobiographical Bob Fosse film
All That Jazz
Gino
|
$1,000
[23]
Brno
Czech Republic
|
$1,000
[15]
He sang for Motley Crue but only after he'd teamed up with Crosby, Stills & Nash
Vince Neil Young
|
By 1948, all but one of the 9 in this group charged in a 1931 crime had been freed
the Scottsboro Boys