Susan Hawks Wheeler — a communications director originally from Blackfoot, Idaho
Edgar Smith, Jr. — a math instructor from Houston, Texas
Maria Valgenti — an administrative assistant from Boston, Massachusetts
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria | $600 | $1,400 | $2,600 |
$1
3rd place: a Bushnell Astronomical reflector telescope |
$2,600
9 R, 1 W |
| Edgar | $1,800 | $3,400 | $9,610 |
$10,000
New champion: $10,000 |
$8,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Susan | $-300 | $700 | $4,500 |
$5,300
2nd place: a Techmedia desktop computer + a Broyhill home office armoire |
$5,500
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| AROUND THE WORLD | OH, DADDY! | 1820s AMERICA | ANIMAL ALBUM | LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO | ANAGRAMMED MUSICALS |
|
$100
[11]
Locally, this world capital is spelled W-I-E-N
Vienna
Maria
|
$100
[17]
In the 20th anniversary production of "Annie", John Schuck played this billionaire
Daddy Warbucks
Susan
|
$100
[2]
On Oct. 26, 1825 the Seneca Chief left Buffalo on this waterway & became the first boat to travel its entire length
Erie Canal
Edgar
|
$100
[16]
This South American native has been domesticated for more than 4,000 years
Llama
Susan
|
$100
[24]
"Do not go gentle into" Vesuvio, a favorite watering hole of the Beat generation & of this Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas
Edgar
|
$100
[1]
"Scat"
Cats
Edgar
|
|
$200
[12]
The strategic importance of the Black Sea is not lost on this country that occupies its southern rim
Turkey
Edgar
|
$200
[18]
The Pollitts celebrate Big Daddy's 65th birthday & fight over inheriting his plantation in this drama
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Susan
|
$200
[3]
Discovered in 1806, this Colorado peak was first climbed in July 1820 by 3 members of Major Long's expedition
Pikes Peak
Edgar
|
$200
[21]
This shaggy load-bearer is also an important milk & food source
Yak
Susan
|
$200
[27]
Hey, birdbrain: John's Grill on Ellis Street is famous because Sam Spade dined there in this novel
"The Maltese Falcon"
|
$200
[7]
"Emma"
Mame
Maria
|
|
$300
[13]
You'll find Reindeer Lake covering over 2,400 square miles in this country
Canada
Susan
|
$300
[19]
"Oh Daddy" is one of the songs on this band's "Rumours" album
Fleetwood Mac
Edgar
|
$300
[4]
On June 17, 1825 this Frenchman laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument
Marquis de Lafayette
Edgar
|
$300
[23]
The average day of this wild canine is spent hunting & scavenging
Jackal
|
$300
[28]
When you visit the City Lights Bookstore, look for the nearby street named for this "On the Road" author
Jack Kerouac
Maria
|
$300
[8]
"Bare Act"
Cabaret
Maria
|
|
$400
[14]
Located in the southwestern part of the continent, it's the second-largest desert in Africa
Kalahari
Maria
Edgar
|
$500
[22]
"Big Daddy from the Pedernales" is a biography of this Texan
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
$400
[5]
On Aug. 10, 1821 it entered the Union as a slave state with Thomas Hart Benton representing it in the Senate
Missouri
|
$400
[25]
"Snow" creature seen here
Leopard
Edgar
|
$400
[29]
Oscar Wilde & this "Gunga Din" author both stayed in the Palace Hotel--presumably not together
Rudyard Kipling
Susan
|
$400
[9]
"Boot Wash"
Show Boat
Maria
|
|
$500
[15]
Ukraine, Germany & the Baltic Sea all border this country
Poland
|
DD
$800
[20]
The name of this '50s TV show came from a phrase used in Danny Thomas' house when he returned from the road
Make Room for Daddy
Edgar
|
$500
[6]
In 1829, in his 1st annual message to Congress, he questioned the constitutionality of the Bank of the U.S.
Andrew Jackson
Edgar
|
$500
[26]
Forest dweller seen here in...no...hurry
Sloth
Maria
|
$500
[30]
He detailed the high life in Haight-Ashbury in his '60s opus "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Tom Wolfe
|
$500
[10]
"Itchy Sweater"
Sweet Charity
|
| SCI. | "FI" | LET'S FLY | JAI ALAI | EAT THAI | CRY |
|
$200
[7]
This object in a spectrometer spreads a beam of light into separate colors
Prism
Edgar
|
$200
[15]
The basic pitch of this small flute is usually A-flat
Fife
Edgar
|
$200
[6]
In his first stories, he was able to "leap tall buildings at a single bound"; he didn't fly until later
Superman
Edgar
|
$200
[26]
The cancha or walled court of jai alai can have no more than this many walls
3
Edgar
|
$200
[21]
The staple food in the north of Thailand is the sticky or glutinous type of this
Rice
Maria
|
$200
[1]
She wept in 1998 when President Clinton agreed to settle her harassment lawsuit
Paula Jones
Susan
|
|
$400
[8]
The part of a tree from which quinine & aspirin's salicyclic acid are extracted
Bark
Edgar
|
$400
[16]
This car company was established in Turin in 1899
Fiat
Edgar
|
$400
[12]
A flat one needs a tail to supply drag & to keep it pointed to the sky
Kite
Edgar
|
$400
[27]
A popular sport in Spain & the Philippines, jai alai first became popular in the U.S. in this state
Florida
Susan
|
$400
[22]
Tom Kha Kai is a chicken soup flavored with the "milk" of this
Coconut
Maria
|
$400
[2]
Messner is now the last name of this televangelist known for putting on mascara & shedding tears
Tammy Faye (Bakker)
Susan
|
|
$600
[9]
Crowbars, nutcrackers & ice tongs are different types of this simple machine
Lever
Edgar
|
$600
[17]
It's the last "Jeopardy!" in the game
Final Jeopardy
Susan
|
$600
[13]
"He flies through the air with the greatest of ease"
"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
Maria
|
$600
[28]
Jai alai players know it's called the pelota
Ball
Edgar
|
$600
[23]
In the names of noodle dishes this word precedes "Thai", "see ew" & "woon sen"
Pad
Susan
|
$600
[3]
In 1961 Jimmy Stewart wept while accepting an Oscar for this terminally ill "High Noon" star
Gary Cooper
Susan
|
|
$800
[10]
This order of mammals is divided into prosimians & anthropoids
Primates
|
$800
[19]
This adjective denotes a certain known number of possibilities
Finite
Edgar
|
$800
[14]
In the 1954 World Series, this Giants center fielder made a memorable running catch of a Vic Wertz fly ball
Willie Mays
|
$800
[29]
Surprisingly, some historians believe jai alai was invented by this founder of the Jesuit order
Saint Ignatius Loyola
Edgar
|
$800
[24]
You might wish this skewer of chicken or beef served with peanut sauce was "just a little bit longer"
Satay
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
His apparent tears during a New Hampshire campaign stop damaged his 1972 presidential bid
Edmund Muskie
Susan
|
|
DD
$1,810
[11]
In a chemical process, monomers, small molecules, link in chains to form these large molecules
Polymers
Edgar
|
$1,000
[20]
In computer security, this device blocks unauthorized access to a LAN, a local area network
Firewall
|
$1,000
[18]
This "Arctic" bird, Sterna paradisaea, breeds on the coasts of North America but makes its winter home in the Antarctic
Tern
|
$1,000
[30]
Jai alai means "merry festival" in the language of this ethnic group of Spain
Basques
Susan
|
$1,000
[25]
Like Southern cooking, Thai-American cuisine features this be"whiskered" creature, deep-fried
Catfish
Susan
|
$1,000
[5]
The anti-pollution commercial in which an Indian sheds one tear featured actor Oscar Cody, nicknamed this
Iron Eyes Cody
|
In 1913 prima ballerina Ellen Price inspired the look of this famous statue by Edvard Eriksen
the Little Mermaid