Stephen Fineman — a science teacher from Morristown, New Jersey
Chris Dixon — a sales associate from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Melissa Prusi — a marketing writer originally from Negaunee, Michigan (whose 3-day cash winnings total $80,796)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa | $1,000 | $-200 | $1,400 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
6 R, 3 W |
| Chris | $200 | $0 | $3,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
14 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Stephen | $3,600 | $3,600 | $9,600 |
$6,001
New champion: $6,001 |
$14,600
24 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| MR. X'S OBITUARY | PRO SPORTS HALL OF FAME CITIES | NOVELS' FIRST LINES | NEW IDEAS IN BUSINESS | GO OLD WEST, YOUNG MAN | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS |
|
$200
[1]
Mr. X was born Jul 14, 1923 in Knoxville in this state & attended Johnson Bible College there
Tennessee
Melissa
|
$200
[4]
Cooperstown, New York
baseball
Melissa
|
$200
[9]
Orwell: "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night..."
Animal Farm
Chris
|
$200
[20]
The man behind Learjet was also the inventor of this early tape format that carried 4 pairs of stereo tracks
8-track
Melissa
Chris
|
$200
[26]
Fort Bonneville in this "Cowboy State" was "Fort Nonsense" to scoffing trappers
Wyoming
Stephen
|
$200
[13]
An ambitious person is often described as an "eager" one of these
an eager beaver
Stephen
|
|
$400
[2]
He was in this military service, first ashore in the recapture of Guam on July 21, 1944
the Marines
Chris
|
$400
[7]
Springfield, Massachusetts
basketball
Stephen
|
$400
[10]
Fitzgerald: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind..."
The Great Gatsby
Stephen
|
$400
[21]
This keyboard layout was developed to slow typing down, keeping the keys from jamming
QWERTY
Stephen
|
$400
[27]
Wells, Fargo & Company opened in this California city in 1852 to offer miners express & banking services
San Francisco
Chris
|
$400
[14]
If you're a little eccentric, you likely have one of these in your "bonnet"
a bee
Stephen
|
|
$600
[3]
It's not great advertising, but his obit names a hospital--Northwestern Memorial in this city
Chicago
Stephen
|
$600
[8]
Toronto, Ontario
hockey
Melissa
|
$600
[16]
Tolstoy: "'Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes'"
War and Peace
Chris
|
$800
[23]
(Alex reports from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) Surprisingly, the first Sony product wasn't anything hi-tech, & it wasn't a big success either; it was a kitchen item, acookerfor this kind of food
rice
Chris
|
$600
[28]
"Cowpuncher" was a term for a cowboy; this "puncher" was a preacher
a Bible puncher
|
$600
[15]
In the familiar proverb, it's when "the mice will play"
when the cat's away
Chris
|
|
$800
[5]
Due to Mr. X's long battle with this, the obit suggests giving to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to continue the fight
Parkinson's Disease
Stephen
|
$800
[11]
Canton, Ohio
football
Stephen
|
$800
[17]
Golding: "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down...and began to pick his way toward the lagoon"
Lord of the Flies
Stephen
|
$1,000
[24]
The automatic one Josephine Cochran invented was too expensive for home use, but restaurants loved it
dishwasher
|
$800
[29]
Thomas Moran's artwork helped influence Congress to make this America's first national park
Yellowstone
Chris
Stephen
|
$800
[18]
When it comes to a crisis, you shouldn't do this "in midstream"
change horses
Stephen
|
|
$1,000
[6]
The late one spent many years with Ernst & Whinney, this type of firm, before its merger with Arthur Young
an accounting firm
Stephen
|
$1,000
[12]
St. Augustine, Florida
professional golf
Chris
Stephen
|
$1,000
[25]
Bronte: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day"
Jane Eyre
Chris
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
At one of this man's auto plants, scrap wood was turned into charcoal & sold as briquettes
Henry Ford
Stephen
|
$1,000
[30]
A cowboy who "cut a man down" shot him; if he "cut the dust", he did this
taking a drink
Melissa
Stephen
|
$1,000
[19]
Don't be afraid to meet a problem head on; just do this, like a matador
take the bull by the horns
Stephen
|
| BIT PARTS | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE | CANALS | GROUCHY MARXISTS | TAKE THE FIFTH | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" |
|
$400
[13]
This film based on a "SNL" skit features a cameo by Steven Spielberg as a Cook County assesor clerk
The Blues Brothers
Stephen
|
$400
[4]
Sivapithecus, once thought to be our ancestor, turned out to be the ancestor of this Sumatran ape
the orangutan
Chris
|
$400
[23]
Vessels pass under the Bridge of the Americas as they enter or leave this canal
the Panama Canal
Stephen
|
$400
[7]
Not a member of his country's Communist party, he forced the party & his 26th of July movement to merge in 1961
Castro
Stephen
|
$400
[18]
The two U.S. presidents who were fifth cousins
Teddy Roosevelt and FDR
Chris
|
$400
[1]
To pillage like a pirate (7)
plunder
Stephen
|
|
$1,200
[15]
In the film "Maverick", he has a cameo, almost recognizes Mel Gibson & says, "I'm gettin' too old for this..."
Danny Glover
Melissa
Chris
|
$800
[5]
Vincent du Vigneaud synthesized 2 of these: vasopressin & oxytocin
hormones
|
$800
[24]
In 1986 the canal named for this woman began providing irrigation to the Great Indian Desert
Indira Gandhi
Chris
|
$800
[8]
From the Russian for "majority", this Marxist group opposed WWI as an imperialist conflict
the Bolsheviks
Stephen
|
$800
[19]
Earth is the fifth-largest planet in size; this planet is fifth out from the sun
Jupiter
Stephen
|
$800
[9]
Commonplace, or one who travels on foot (10)
pedestrian
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[16]
Ricky Gervais created this series concerning bit-part actors in England
Extras
Chris
|
$1,200
[6]
In 1937 Carlo Perrier & Emilio Segre filled in no. 43 on this table, the first entry to be artificially produced
the periodic table
Melissa
|
$1,200
[25]
France's historic Canal du Midi & the Garonne River connect the Mediterranean with this bay on the Atlantic
the Bay of Biscay
Stephen
|
$1,600
[29]
At a 1996 party in Lima honoring this Asian emperor, a Marxist group invaded & took hostages
Akihito, Emperor of Japan
|
$1,200
[20]
It goes Lexington, Park, Madison, this
Fifth Avenue
Chris
|
$1,200
[10]
Just fowl, collectively (7)
poultry
Melissa
|
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
This man whom Nixon called "the most dangerous man in America" had a cameo in Cheech & Chong's "Nice Dreams"
Timothy Leary
Stephen
|
$1,600
[3]
John Northrop joined this generation when he found that this digestive enzyme is a protein
the pepsin generation
Chris
|
$1,600
[26]
1/3 of Scotland's Caledonian Canal is manmade; the rest consists of 3 connected lakes: Loch Lochy, Loch Oich & this one
Loch Ness
Chris
|
DD
$3,000
[28]
Unhappy with the dictatorial Somozas, these Marxist revolutionaries overthrew them in 1979
the Sandinistas
Chris
|
$1,600
[21]
It's the southernmost Greek island, & the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean
Crete
|
$1,600
[11]
Tiny measure of dust (8)
particle
Stephen
|
|
$2,000
[17]
David Letterman tries to sell Chris Elliott a monkey before Chris' long ocean voyage in this 1994 yukfest
Cabin Boy
Stephen
|
$2,000
[2]
(I'm astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson.) We were just getting used to dark matter being 90% of the universe when in 1998 we were hit with this discovery, which is making the universe expand much faster than anyone had expected
dark energy
|
$2,000
[27]
This European Capital's 4 main city center canals are Prinsengracht, Herengracht, Keizersgracht & Singel
Amsterdam
Melissa
Chris
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
The Fifth Amendment says that private property shall not "be taken for public use without" this
just compensation
Stephen
|
$2,000
[12]
Turkish title for officials (5)
pasha
Stephen
|
This capital city of 113,000 is the closest national capital to the Arctic Circle
Reykjavík