Buffy Thoms — a schoolteacher from Watson, Louisiana
Michael Guard — a financial manager from Atlanta, Georgia
Christa Franklin Ishino — a homemaker and freelance editor from Northville, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,798)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christa | $2,400 | $3,400 | $9,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Michael | $4,200 | $6,000 | $11,400 |
$18,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Buffy | $400 | $5,600 | $11,600 |
$22,801
New champion: $22,801 |
$11,600
15 R, 2 W |
| ALL ABOUT AUTHORS | TEAMS OF SUPER BOWL MVPs | VETERAN-ARY MEDICINE | DUEL | POSTAL POTPOURRI | REARRANGING WORDS |
|
$200
[1]
In the early 1920s she scandalized Atlanta society by doing a provocative dance at a debutante ball
Margaret Mitchell
Michael
|
$200
[2]
VI: Roger Staubach
the Dallas Cowboys
Michael
|
$200
[24]
The oldest operating V.A. hospital opened in this first post-Civil War year in Maine
1866
Michael
|
$200
[7]
To avoid war in this country in 2002, its VP Taha Ramadan offered instead to duel Dick Cheney
Iraq
Michael
|
$200
[15]
In 1661 Britain's Henry Bishop introduced this, showing only day & month, to monitor lazy letter carriers
a postmark
Michael
|
$200
[19]
Rearrange the letters in "skate" to come up with this surname of a Romantic poet
Keats
Buffy
|
|
$400
[11]
(Alex gives the clue from the Mark Twain house in Hartford.) Twain was fond of saying, "I came in with" this celestial object in 1835, "and I expect to go out with it"; and in 1910 he did, passing away in this very bed
Halley's Comet
Buffy
|
$400
[3]
IX: Franco Harris
the Pittsburgh Steelers
Michael
|
$400
[25]
One mission of Paralyzed Veterans of America is research on SCI, short for this "injury"
spinal cord
|
$400
[8]
In 1792's "Petticoat Duel", 2 British society ladies fought a duel when one questioned the other about this
her age
|
$400
[16]
Canadian postal codes use the format letter-number-letter number-letter-number; his is H0H 0H0
Santa Claus
Christa
Buffy
|
$400
[20]
Rearrange the letters in "listen" to get this not-so-audible word
silent
Buffy
|
|
$600
[12]
This seafaring author had a lot to "wail" about: his somber 1852 novel "Pierre" is semi-autobiographical
Herman Melville
Michael
|
$600
[4]
XXXV: Ray Lewis
the Baltimore Ravens
Michael
|
$600
[27]
Civil War field medicine created many veterans addicted to this class of drug that includes morphine
opiates
Buffy
|
$600
[9]
In the 4th novel about this young man, he sees his dead mother & father come out of his dueling opponent's wand
Harry Potter
Christa
|
$600
[17]
In the '90s the Postal Service launched a program aptly named do this to breast cancer
stamp out
Buffy
|
$600
[21]
An earthquake on "Crete" might find its buildings no longer this
erect
Christa
|
|
$800
[13]
This novelist who wrote about gorillas in "Congo" is on the board of the Gorilla Foundation
Michael Crichton
Christa
|
$800
[5]
XI: Fred Biletnikoff
the Raiders
Michael
|
$800
[28]
Reliving trauma, avoiding reminders of it & general irritability are the 3 main symptoms of PTSD, short for this
post traumatic stress disorder
Michael
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
Though he supposedly fought 103 duels before becoming president, he killed a man in only one of them
Andrew Jackson
Christa
|
$800
[18]
Deltiologists specialize in this collectible & may "wish you were here" at their meetings
postcards
Michael
|
$800
[23]
Rearrange the letters in "late" to get this color
teal
Buffy
|
|
$1,000
[14]
His father disapproved of his poetry writing, so Chile's Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto adopted this pen name
Pablo Neruda
|
$1,000
[6]
XXII: Doug Williams
the Washington Redskins
Michael
|
$1,000
[29]
Among diseases associated with exposure to Vietnam-era Agent Orange is this lymph disease named for a Dr.
Hodgkin's disease
|
$1,000
[26]
He might have been cute as a "button", but shortly after he signed the Dec. of Ind., he died from dueling wounds
Button Gwinnett
Buffy
|
$1,000
[30]
It's what you send to Grandma in Guatemala with the USPS' Dinero Seguro system
a money order
Buffy
|
$1,000
[22]
Rearrange the letters in "supersonic" to get this orchestra section
percussion
Buffy
|
| WORLD CITIES | 1940s TELEVISION | SENATE MAJORITY LEADERS | BRITISH ROYALTY | WEIGHT FOR IT | "EX"CELLENT |
|
$400
[1]
Like the British city of the same name, this Ontario city lies on the Thames River
London
Michael
|
$400
[3]
Boxing came to network TV in 1944 with "Cavalcade of Sports" sponsored by this razor company
Gillette
Michael
|
$400
[7]
1955 to 1961: This Texan later to be president
LBJ
Michael
|
$400
[12]
It was the royal family name of Henry VIII
Tudor
Buffy
|
$400
[21]
It's your second-largest internal organ by weight; think about it
your brain
Christa
|
$400
[24]
It comes out of your car's tailpipe
exhaust
Michael
|
|
$800
[2]
This capital's airport is variously called Taoyuan, Zhongzheng & Chiang Kai-Shek International
Taipei
Michael
Buffy
|
$800
[13]
When this series debuted in 1948, it used its radio title "Candid Microphone"; the title was changed 9 months later
Candid Camera
Christa
|
$800
[8]
2003 to 2007: a surgeon
Bill Frist
Michael
|
$800
[14]
When crowned British king in 1714, he spoke no English & had to have the ceremony described to him in Latin
George I
Michael
|
$800
[22]
"Frail" can mean 75 pounds of this dried fruit; Calif. produces 10.5 million frails of this Thompson kind a year
raisins
Christa
|
$800
[25]
A physical piece of evidence, such as a murder weapon, presented to a trial court
exhibit
Christa
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Nigeria's chief port, it sprawls over 4 main islands connected by bridges
Lagos
Michael
|
$1,200
[17]
This "Howdy Doody" host had a variety show during the 1948-49 season called "the Gulf Road Show"
"Buffalo Bob" Smith
Buffy
|
$1,200
[9]
1985 to 1987 & 1995 to 1996: a war hero
Bob Dole
Christa
|
$1,600
[16]
He was the last emperor of India
George VI
Buffy
|
$1,200
[23]
Now extinct, the elephant bird of this largest African island could reach 10 feet high & weigh 1,000 lbs.
Madagascar
Michael
|
$1,200
[27]
This word for an unfairly high price comes from the Latin for "to deviate from the path"
exorbitant
Michael
|
|
DD
$1,800
[5]
The ancient Greeks founded this Italian city around 600 B.C. & gave it a name meaning "New City"
Naples
Michael
|
$1,600
[18]
First seen on experimental TV in 1939, Burr Tillstrom's series about this trio began airing on NBC in 1948
Kukla, Fran & Ollie
Buffy
|
$1,600
[10]
2001 to 2003:A Democrat from the Dakotas
Tom Daschle
Christa
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
A vault at St. George's chapel, Windsor contains the remains of this king buried in 2 pieces
Charles I
Michael
|
$2,000
[26]
Just over 1% of your body weight is P--this element
phosphorus
Buffy
|
$1,600
[28]
In the Navy, "XO" is short for this person
the Executive Officer
Buffy
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Founded as a penal colony in 1824, this capital of Queensland was the site of the World's Fair Expo '88
Brisbane
Christa
Michael
|
$2,000
[19]
Beginning in 1948, this long-time Miss America host had 2 game shows on the air: "Stop the Music" & "Break the Bank"
Bert Parks
Michael
|
$2,000
[11]
1989 to 1995: from southern Maine, he went on to negotiate a landmark peace treaty for Northern Ireland
George Mitchell
Christa
|
$2,000
[20]
Reportedly, this king was beaten with candles as a boy, leaving him "unready" to even look at them as an adult
Æthelred
Michael
|
— | — |
This word meaning "gruesome" was inspired by the deaths of the leaders of a Jewish revolt in the 100s B.C.
macabre