Mike Lenahan — a cargo handler from Arlington Heights, Illinois
Amy McEntee — an attorney from Durham, North Carolina
Ajuan Mance — an English professor from Eugene, Oregon (whose 3-day cash winnings total $15,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajuan | $800 | $2,300 | $6,200 |
$7,399
2nd place: Panasonic 32" TV & Broyhill Entertainment Center |
$6,900
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amy | $0 | $1,300 | $2,500 |
$2,500
3rd place: Pair of Croton Watches |
$2,500
11 R, 3 W |
| Mike | $1,400 | $2,000 | $6,400 |
$12,401
New champion: $12,401 |
$5,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| U.S. PRESIDENTS | RADIO STARS | TOP O' THE STATE | COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG | GANGSTERS | YOU NEED TO BE PUNISHED |
|
$100
[10]
In 1985 he said that freedom was "The universal right of all God's children"
Ronald Reagan
Ajuan
|
$100
[11]
This conservative icon describes himself as having "talent on loan from God"
Rush Limbaugh
Amy
|
$100
[23]
Pu'u Wekiu on Mauna Kea
Hawaii
Mike
|
$100
[20]
It's a dickory dock, whether or not a mouse runs up it
Clock
Amy
|
$100
[2]
He's quoted as saying, "They've hung everything on me but the Chicago Fire"
Al Capone
Mike
|
$100
[1]
Get your comeuppance & you get your "just" these, not ice cream & cake
Desserts
Mike
|
|
$200
[16]
His grandfather Kindred was the first of his family to settle in Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Ajuan
|
$200
[12]
He took over from Red Barber & has been the voice of the Dodgers for almost 50 years
Vin Scully
|
$200
[24]
Mount McKinley
Alaska
Mike
|
$200
[21]
Ask a Cockney barber for a dig in the grave & he should give you one of these
Shave
Amy
|
$200
[3]
Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein was accused of masterminding the big fix of this in 1919; it wasn't proved
World Series
|
$200
[5]
In "Hanky Panky" Madonna sings "I don't want you to thank me, you can just" do this
Spank me
Amy
|
|
DD
$200
[18]
On July 9, 1850 this president died in office; Millard Fillmore was sworn in the following day
Zachary Taylor
Ajuan
|
$300
[13]
Kyle Cantrell, operations manager at Nashville's WSM-AM, is the Saturday night announcer for this show
Grand Ole Opry
Ajuan
|
$300
[25]
Mount Whitney
California
|
$300
[22]
It's what a Mother Hubbard is; hers was bare by the way
cupboard
Mike
|
$300
[4]
His brother Buck was part of his gang, as was his moll Bonnie
Clyde Barrow
Ajuan
Amy
Mike
|
$300
[6]
A caustic verbal attack when done with a tongue or a more painful one done with a whip
Lashing
Ajuan
|
|
$300
[17]
In 1965 he became the first sitting president to meet a pope in the U.S. when he met Paul VI
Lyndon Johnson
Ajuan
|
$400
[14]
Heard here, he's been the voice of the U.S. heartland for decades("Now you know the rest of the story")
Paul Harvey
Ajuan
|
$400
[26]
Mount Hood
Oregon
Ajuan
|
$400
[28]
We bet Camus knew this kind of person is a Glasgow Ranger
Stranger
Ajuan
|
$400
[7]
His fateful July 22, 1934 night at Chicago's Biograph Theater might be featured on "Biography"
John Dillinger
Mike
|
$400
[9]
A verb meaning to give permission, or a penalty, economic or otherwise
Sanction
|
|
$500
[19]
Teddy Roosevelt quipped that this successor "meant well but meant well feebly"
William Howard Taft
|
$500
[15]
This shock jock rival of Howard Stern is heard "in the Morning" on about 100 stations
Don Imus
Amy
|
$500
[27]
Mount Elbert
Colorado
|
$500
[29]
Cockneys use the name of this Dickens title character as rhyming slang for a judge
Barnaby Rudge
|
$500
[8]
Bribes from Big Bill Dwyer turned members of this armed service into rum-runners
Coast Guard
Mike
|
$500
[30]
Literally, it means drawing a person under a ship from side to side or from bow to stern
Keelhaul
Amy
|
| REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST | OLYMPIC MASCOTS | PEOPLE | RUSSIAN "T" ROOM | MUSICAL MUSICALS | FIRST & LAST |
|
$200
[1]
At the age of 9 Proust had his first wheezing attack of this disease that plagued him the rest of his life
Asthma
Mike
|
$200
[2]
The 1976 Winter Games' mascot was Olympiamandl, one of these frosty guys
Snowman
Mike
|
$200
[24]
The leader of rock & roll's Family Stone
Sly
Mike
|
$200
[5]
His writing career began with the short novel "Detstvo" in 1852; the much longer pieces came later
Leo Tolstoy
Mike
|
$200
[17]
This song from "The Music Man" is Harold Hill's paean to the glory of a marching band
"Seventy-six Trombones"
Mike
|
$200
[10]
A 1961 home run king,5 letters:M---s
(Roger) Maris
Amy
|
|
$400
[20]
One of Marcel's chums at the Lycee Condorcet was Jacques, son of this "Carmen" composer
Georges Bizet
Amy
|
$600
[4]
Olly the Kookaburra, Syd the Platypus & Millie the Echidna will represent the games held in this year
2000 (Summer Games in Sydney, Australia)
Ajuan
|
$400
[25]
The collective big screen name of brothers Arthur, Herbert, Julius & Leonard
The Marx Brothers
Mike
|
$400
[6]
The taiga is the forest land of Russia & this is its nearly treeless northern belt
Tundra
Ajuan
|
$400
[18]
I hear "Do I Hear A Waltz?" had lyrics by Stephen Sondheim & music by this Hammerstein collaborator
Richard Rodgers
Ajuan
|
$400
[11]
A "Snow White" dwarf,7 letters:B-----l
Bashful
Ajuan
|
|
$600
[21]
One of the first critiques in English of Proust's work was by this "Godot" playwright in 1931
Samuel Beckett
Amy
|
$800
[15]
One of the symbols used at the 1968 games in this city was a red jaguar
Mexico City
|
$600
[26]
This man was in the news in 1978(Guyana)
Rev. Jim Jones
Ajuan
|
$600
[7]
In 1919 he & Lenin founded the Third International to bring together comrades from around the world
Leon Trotsky
Ajuan
|
DD
$500
[28]
The title of this '50s show refers to the phone calls taken by Sue Summers' answering service
Bells Are Ringing
Ajuan
|
$600
[12]
A constellation,9 letters:A-------a
Andromeda
Ajuan
|
|
$800
[22]
In the 1890s Proust helped organize petitions on behalf of this Jewish army captain
Alfred Dreyfus
|
$1,000
[16]
The computer-generated "Whatizit" that symbolized the '96 games in Atlanta was called this for short
Izzy
Ajuan
|
$800
[29]
This 11-year-old girl won an Oscar for a 1993 film
Anna Paquin
Mike
|
$800
[8]
A group of 3 in power, or a vehicle drawn by 3 horses abreast
Troika
Amy
|
$600
[19]
It featured the songs "Sunrise, Sunset" & "Matchmaker, Matchmaker"
Fiddler on the Roof
Amy
|
$800
[13]
A world capital,10 letters:M--------o
Montevideo (Uruguay)
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[23]
In "Remembrance of Things Past", Proust immortalized this shell-shaped cake that prompted a flood of memories
Madeleines
Amy
|
DD
$1,200
[3]
The 1988 Winter Games in Calgary & the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow had species of these as mascots
Bears
Mike
|
$1,000
[30]
This former head of the Urban League & of Bill Clinton's transition team testified on tape Feb. 2, 1999
Vernon Jordan
Ajuan
|
$1,000
[9]
In 1992 this news agency added ITAR to its name, for the Information-Telegraph Agency of Russia
TASS
Mike
|
$800
[27]
Bessie Smith's music is heard in the sultry revue of this style "in the Night"
Blues
Ajuan
|
$1,000
[14]
An 1881 assassin,7 letters:G-----u
(Charles) Guiteau
|
In use from January 1, 1999, it's represented by the symbol seen here
the euro