First show of the 21st century.
Sherry Huiner — a stay-at-home mom from Marietta, Georgia
Mike Currie — an Air Force officer from Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts
Richard Kolostian — an attorney from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard | $2,000 | $2,500 | $8,700 |
$5,999
2-day champion: $17,198 |
$8,700
20 R, 2 W |
| Mike | $900 | $1,700 | $5,700 |
$5,700
2nd place: Trip to Walt Disney World, Florida |
$6,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Sherry | $400 | $1,300 | $2,500 |
$0
3rd place: Samsung Cameras |
$2,500
11 R, 1 W |
| NEW YEAR'S DAY | GEOGRAPH"IA" | EPITAPHS | 1802 | BROADWAY DEBUTS | RHYME TIME |
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$100
[11]
The Tournament of Roses Parade & the Rose Bowl are held in this city on New Year's Day
Pasadena
Richard
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$100
[1]
Victoria is the capital of this Canadian province
British Columbia
Mike
|
$100
[6]
"Quoth the raven nevermore"
Edgar Allan Poe
Mike
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$100
[16]
In 1802, after he'd been in office for a year, the first article on his involvement with Sally Hemings was published
Thomas Jefferson
Sherry
|
$100
[21]
In 1999 she was dishing with Regis in the daytime & "Putting It Together" on Broadway at night
Kathie Lee Gifford
Sherry
|
$100
[26]
A noisy cumulonimbus
Loud cloud
Mike
|
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$200
[12]
Also called the Feast of Trumpets, this holiday, the Jewish New Year, is celebrated on the first 2 days of Tishri
Rosh Hashanah
Richard
|
$200
[2]
In 1976 Nadia Comaneci scored perfect 10s & Olympic gold for this country
Romania
Mike
|
$200
[7]
"Everybody loves somebody sometime"
Dean Martin
Richard
|
$200
[17]
Incorporated as a town in 1802; made capital of the Michigan Territory in 1805; burned down the same year
Detroit
Mike
|
$200
[22]
Robert Goulet debuted as Lancelot in this 1960 show; in 1993 he brought it back to B'way & played King Arthur
"Camelot"
Mike
|
$200
[27]
A grizzly that isn't hip
Square bear
Richard
|
|
$300
[13]
It's the palindromic name for the Vietnamese New Year
Tet
Richard
|
$400
[4]
Lake Titicaca is on the border of Peru & this country
Bolivia
Mike
|
$300
[8]
"Faithful to the cause of Prohibition--she hath done what she could"
Carrie Nation
Richard
|
$300
[18]
In his "Heiligenstadt Tastament", Beethoven lamented over his loss of this
Hearing
Mike
|
$300
[23]
The sexy 1969 musical "Canterbury Tales" marked the Broadway debut of this perky star seen here
Sandy Duncan
Sherry
|
$300
[28]
An adorable wind instrument
Cute flute
Richard
|
|
$400
[14]
In the Middle Ages New Year's Day was observed on March 25, this feast day that celebrates Mary's visit from Gabriel
Annunciation
Mike
Sherry
|
DD
$500
[3]
George Washington helped lay out the streets of this Virginia city
Alexandria
Mike
|
$400
[9]
"That's all folks"
Mel Blanc
Richard
|
$400
[19]
French mining engineer Albert Matieu-Favier suggested building a tunnel under this
English Channel
Richard
Sherry
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$400
[24]
Keith Carradine was a teenager when he was cast in this "American Tribal Love-Rock" musical in 1968
"Hair"
Richard
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$400
[29]
A hilarious little rabbit
Funny bunny
Mike
|
|
$500
[15]
The Mummers New Year's Day Parade in this city started officially in 1901
Philadelphia
Mike
|
$500
[5]
This country is moving its capital to Dodoma from Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
Mike
|
$500
[10]
Died 1789:"His spirit is in Vermont now"
Ethan Allen
Richard
|
$500
[20]
Napoleon established this "Legion" as an Order of Merit in 1802
Legion of Honor (Legion d'honneur)
Richard
|
$500
[25]
My cousin Vinny saw her in the 1998 revival of "Wait Until Dark", with Quentin Tarantino as her stalker
Marisa Tomei
Richard
|
$500
[30]
A fake foot covering
a mock sock
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| LITERATURE | CHEMISTRY | ECONOMICS | PHYSICS | "PEACE" | MADISON & PHYSIOLOGY |
|
$200
[1]
This Nobel Prize winner dedicated "The Waste Land" to fellow poet Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
Sherry
|
$200
[25]
He said about his romance with Soon-Yi, "The heart wants what it wants"
Woody Allen
Sherry
|
$200
[4]
In the U.S., the total of this type of debt has "charged" ahead to around $585 billion
Credit card debt
Sherry
|
$200
[17]
Transonic speed is about 741 MPH at sea level; supersonic is faster & this is the term for slower
Subsonic
Mike
|
$200
[11]
Black's Law Dictionary defines it as a violation of the public tranquility & order
Disturbing/breach of the peace
Sherry
|
$200
[16]
Both men who held this post under James Madison, George Clinton & Elbridge Gerry, died in office
Vice president
Mike
|
|
$400
[2]
His "Dr. Zhivago" aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he said "Nyet" to the Nobel Prize in 1958
Boris Pasternak
Mike
|
$400
[26]
Joe Lieberman's beloved, or the Women's Zionist Organization of America
Hadassah
Richard
|
$400
[5]
The CPI is the Consumer Price Index & the PPI is this
Producer Price Index
Richard
|
$400
[18]
With wavelengths between those of visible light & microwaves, they come from the sun & heat the Earth
Infrared waves
Mike
|
$400
[12]
George Clooney & Nicole Kidman team up against terrorists in this 1997 movie
The Peacemaker
Mike
|
$400
[20]
Neurons don't weigh much; why, there are billions of them in this roughly 3-pound organ
Brain
Mike
|
|
$600
[3]
In 1953 this British politician won the Nobel Prize for his biographical & historical works & for his oratory
Winston Churchill
Richard
|
$600
[27]
She had high school chemistry with Peter Jacobson, whom she married in 1978 & later helped create "The Nanny"
Fran Drescher
Richard
|
$600
[6]
Rude term for the unfair trade practice of selling goods below cost in a foreign market
Dumping
Mike
|
$600
[19]
5-letter word that precedes "isotope" in a term for isotopes like strontium-90 & cobalt-60
Radio
Richard
|
$600
[13]
Leviticus 7 discusses these "unto the Lord", saying they may include unleavened cakes
Peace offerings
Mike
|
$600
[21]
Madison pooh-poohed that he was "The Father of" this; he said it was "The work of many heads and many hands"
The Constitution
Sherry
|
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
He was no "Stranger" to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957
Albert Camus
Mike
|
$800
[28]
Hearts were broken when Sarah Michelle Gellar took up with this "She's All That" star
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Richard
|
$800
[9]
Seen here, it's what's moving the chess piece, & also the name of an economics term
"Invisible Hand"
Richard
|
$1,000
[24]
Found after "de" in a term meaning to demagnetize, it's the last name of German mathematician Karl
Gauss
|
$800
[14]
In Handel's "Messiah", his name shall be called "The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father", this
"Prince of Peace"
Sherry
|
$800
[22]
After leaving the presidency Madison returned to his estate named this
Montpelier
Mike
|
|
$1,000
[8]
A poem by this 1923 Nobel Prize winner is heard here:("I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made")
William Butler Yeats
Sherry
|
$1,000
[29]
In 2000 she married David Bale, father of actor Christian, but we assume she's still "Ms.", not Mrs.
Gloria Steinem
Richard
Mike
|
$1,000
[10]
5-letter word for temporary paper money issued in economic emergencies
Scrip
Richard
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
It's the tendency of an object to float, or the upward pressure of fluid in an object
Buoyancy
Mike
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1963 it was Khrushchev's professed policy of tolerance in his dealings with the West
Peaceful coexistence
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She said, "The reason I'm not a nun is...you can't take your own name...I have the most holy name a woman can have"
Madonna