Vaughan Williams — a lieutenant in the United States Navy from Arlington, Virginia
Dawn Frank — a special education teacher from Washington, D.C.
C.W. Van Baale — a rentals coordinator from Chicago, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C.W. | $-400 | $300 | $-1,300 |
$-1,300
3rd place: a Novica.com shopping spree |
$-1,300
6 R, 7 W |
| Dawn | $1,200 | $2,300 | $3,100 |
$4,100
2nd place: a trip to Forest Inn Suites, Lake Tahoe |
$3,400
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Vaughan | $500 | $2,500 | $8,500 |
$6,500
New champion: $6,500 |
$8,300
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| U.S. PLACE NAMES | CRIMINAL'S DICTIONARY | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS | NHL TEAMS | PAPER | ENDS IN "OLA" |
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$100
[8]
A type of treeless plain, or the oldest city in Georgia
Savannah
Vaughan
|
$100
[26]
It's not a novel builder, it's a person accepting bets
a bookmaker (or a bookie)
Vaughan
|
$100
[1]
1851:A white whale
Moby-Dick
Dawn
|
$100
[3]
This city is represented by Le Club de Hockey Canadien
Montreal
Vaughan
|
$100
[21]
This quantity of paper was once 480 sheets but is now usually 500
a ream
Dawn
|
$100
[16]
It's what you ride along the canals of Venice
a gondola
Vaughan
|
|
$200
[9]
The man seenhereshares his name with this Maryland suburb
Chevy Chase
Dawn
|
$200
[27]
A person confessing info to police is known as one of these yellow songbirds
a canary
Dawn
|
$200
[2]
1880:Siblings Dmitry, Ivan, Alyosha & Smerdyakov
The Brothers Karamazov
C.W.
Vaughan
|
$200
[4]
The name of Canada's capital's NHL team, it was once the name of the U.S. capital's AL team
Senators
Vaughan
|
$200
[22]
Paper gets its name from this reed that the ancient Egyptians used to make their writing materials
papyrus
Dawn
|
$200
[17]
It often includes rolled oats, wheat germ, honey, fruit & nuts
granola
Dawn
|
|
DD
$300
[10]
Appropriately, this Pennsylvania city that was founded in 1741 was named at Christmastime
Bethlehem
Dawn
|
$300
[28]
It's the 2-word slang term for the photograph taken of a suspect in custody
a mug shot
Vaughan
|
$300
[13]
1925:Self-made millionaire James Gatz
The Great Gatsby
C.W.
|
$300
[5]
Citizens of "Hockeytown" support this team by wearing the logo seen here
the Detroit Red Wings
Dawn
|
$300
[23]
In 1859 William Goodale patented the first machine to manufacture these, which some people can't punch their way out of
paper bags
Vaughan
|
$300
[18]
This early phonograph began cranking out music in 1906
a Victrola
C.W.
|
|
$400
[11]
Mark Twain's brother Orion owned this Missouri city's Journal, for which Twain set type & wrote
Hannibal
Dawn
|
$400
[29]
This term for a gangster's girlfriend sounds like where she might spend all his money
a moll
Dawn
|
$400
[14]
1759:Dr. Pangloss' naive student
Candide
|
$400
[6]
On June 14, 1994 they beat Vancouver at the Gahden for their first Stanley Cup since 1940
New York Rangers
Vaughan
|
$400
[24]
This translucent identifier in paper is made by pressing a wire pattern into the paper while it's still wet
a watermark
Vaughan
|
$400
[19]
Italy's Lombardy region is famous for producing this soft (& smelly) blue cheese
Gorgonzola
C.W.
|
|
$500
[12]
This town, site of the Scopes Trial, plays host to the annual East Tennessee Strawberry Festival
Dayton, Tennessee
|
$500
[30]
From Latin for "elsewhere", it's the claim to have been somewhere else when a crime was committed
an alibi
Vaughan
|
$500
[15]
1895:Jude Fawley
Jude the Obscure
Dawn
|
$500
[7]
The team that wears the logo seenhereplays home games in this former Olympic venue
the Saddledome
C.W.
Vaughan
|
$500
[25]
Paper was first made by the Chinese using the bark of this tree whose leaves are fed to silkworms
the mulberry tree
|
$500
[20]
Haiti occupies a third of this island; the Dominican Republic covers the rest
Hispaniola
Vaughan
|
| BIG 10-LETTER WORDS | 20 QUESTIONS | 30 DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER | FOODS OF THE '40s | 50 CENTS | 60 MINUTES |
|
$200
[14]
A person with a body mass index of 27 is considered to be this
overweight
Dawn
|
$200
[4]
In 1937 he became the first man sworn in as U.S. president on a January 20
FDR
C.W.
|
$200
[26]
With no party having a majority in September 1984 this country's Knesset voted for a coalition government
Israel
Vaughan
|
$200
[1]
Smile & say this, the first product Sara Lee put into supermarket refrigerators
cheesecake
|
$200
[8]
The crack on the back of the coins produced from 1948 to 1963 wasn't a design flaw, it was part of this object
the Liberty Bell
Dawn
|
$200
[21]
He won Emmys in 1971, 1972 & 1973 for his correspondent chores on "60 Minutes"
Mike Wallace
Vaughan
|
|
$400
[15]
Big, perhaps like the object seen here
monumental
C.W.
Dawn
|
$400
[5]
The 20th consonant in the English alphabet, some Canadians say it's always a vowel
Y
C.W.
Dawn
Vaughan
|
$400
[27]
September 30 premieres include this composer's "Magic Flute" in 1791
Mozart
C.W.
|
$400
[2]
New round foods of 1941 included M&Ms & this General Mills cereal
Cheerios
Dawn
|
$400
[9]
From 1794 to 1947 the half dollar featured this creature on the reverse
an eagle
Vaughan
|
$400
[22]
This spin-off debuted in the middle of the 1998-99 season
60 Minutes II
Vaughan
|
|
$600
[16]
This big adjective comes from Rabelais' giant king
gargantuan
|
$600
[6]
The one Solomon built had a breadth of 20 cubits & a porch the same length
the Temple
|
$600
[29]
A highlight of Marie Antoinette's day on September 19, 1783 was watching a sheep, duck & rooster do this
go up in a hot air balloon
C.W.
|
$600
[3]
In 1946 the first frozen foods out of Mrs. Paul's kitchen were these, deviled
crabs
C.W.
|
$600
[10]
Face it, he's on the front of the 2000 coin
John F. Kennedy
|
$600
[23]
Made a regular correspondent in 1984, she's currently a co-host of "Good Morning America"
Diane Sawyer
Vaughan
|
|
$800
[17]
Big, like an encyclopedia that fills many books
voluminous
C.W.
|
$800
[7]
80 to the French is quatre-vingts; 4 twenties; to Abe Lincoln it was four this
score
Vaughan
|
$1,000
[28]
Pieter W. Botha was elected as this country's first executive state president September 5, 1984
South Africa
Vaughan
|
$800
[19]
In 1948 Aaron Lapin's company introduced this aerosol dessert topping brand
Reddi-wip
Dawn
|
DD
$800
[11]
1 of the 2 years on the front of the 50-cent coin that displayed Independence Hall on the reverse
1976 (or 1776)
Vaughan
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
This 1999 film was based on a 1994 "60 Minutes" story
The Insider
Vaughan
|
|
$1,000
[18]
From the Latin for "stunned", it's a colossal amount or just plain great
stupendous
|
$1,000
[13]
Teams of 20 of these used to haul borax out of Death Valley; those were the days
mules
|
— |
$1,000
[20]
Jeno Paulucci started selling his canned chicken chow mein under this label in 1945
Chun King
C.W.
|
$1,000
[12]
In 1999 the mints in these 2 cities produced a total of 19,582,000 50-cent pieces for general circulation
Philadelphia & Denver
Vaughan
|
$1,000
[25]
In the late '70s the debates were between the conservative James J. Kilpatrick & this liberal woman
Shana Alexander
|
In the 1890s he established steamer lines on the Great Lakes to control the transport of iron to Pittsburgh
Andrew Carnegie