Lindsay Peet — a plumbing contractor from Studio City, California
Roberta Berg — a musician from Los Angeles, California
Edgar Smith, Jr. — a math instructor from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $21,608)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgar | $-100 | $0 | $7,000 |
$3,387
2nd place: Intel Camera Pak, Dell Gift Certificate & Broyhill Home Office |
$6,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Roberta | $200 | $1,400 | $4,000 |
$0
3rd place: Daewoo Video System |
$4,000
12 R, 2 W |
| Lindsay | $700 | $2,700 | $10,612 |
$7,212
New champion: $7,212 |
$9,700
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| RUSSIAN HEADS OF STATE | THE BRITISH INVASION | LET'S EAT ITALIAN! | AMERICAN LITERATURE | CANADIAN BORN | MANY "COUNTRY"s |
|
$100
[6]
1985-1991
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lindsay
|
$100
[11]
These bad boys began calling themselves the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" in the late '60s
Rolling Stones
Edgar
|
$100
[5]
Served before the pasta, it's an appetizer plate of meats, cheese, fish & vegetables
antipasto
Lindsay
|
$100
[13]
Urged to make his peace with God, this "Walden" author replied, "I did not know we had ever quarreled"
Henry David Thoreau
Lindsay
|
$100
[1]
At age 9, this Canadian ABC News anchor hosted a weekly CBC music & news show for children
Peter Jennings
Edgar
|
$100
[19]
It's a very long distance, whether or not it's 5,280 feet
a country mile
Edgar
|
|
$200
[7]
1894-1917
Czar Nicholas II
Roberta
|
$200
[18]
This pop-rock band that formed in Manchester in 1963 had their first American hit with "I'm Into Something Good"
Herman's Hermits
|
$200
[22]
Long, very thin pasta called capellini is also known by this "divine" name
angel hair pasta
Roberta
|
$200
[14]
Clement C. Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is more popularly known by this title
"Twas' the Night Before Christmas"
Roberta
|
$200
[2]
This actress can make temperatures rise even on the coldest day of the year in Ladysmith, British Columbia, her birthplace
Pamela Anderson Lee
Edgar
|
$200
[20]
Rustic relative who's the son or daughter of your aunt & uncle
a country cousin
Roberta
|
|
$300
[8]
1917-1924
Vladimir Lenin
Roberta
|
$300
[25]
"God Save the Queen" is a classic by this punk rock band, the leaders of the second British Invasion
Sex Pistols
Lindsay
|
$300
[23]
This blue-veined cheese is named for a suburb of Milan, not a snake-haired monster
Gorgonzola
Roberta
|
$300
[15]
"Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands" begins his poem "The Village Blacksmith"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lindsay
|
$400
[4]
3 days after her death in 1991, this ex-wife of George C. Scott won an Emmy for playing Murphy Brown's mom
Colleen Dewhurst
Roberta
|
$300
[21]
Membership can be expensive at one of these suburban properties for social life, golf & other recreation
a country club
Lindsay
|
|
$400
[9]
1958-1964
Nikita Khrushchev
Lindsay
|
$400
[26]
The 2 Davies brothers were the core of this British group
The Kinks
Lindsay
|
$400
[24]
From the Italian for "knot of wood", these potato dumplings may have cheese or spinach in them
gnocchi
Lindsay
|
$400
[16]
In Fred Gipson's novel, this "colorful" dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s
Old Yeller
Lindsay
|
DD
$500
[3]
(Hi, I'm David James Elliott ofJAG.) I was born in this city founded in the 1700s & whose name comes from the Huron term meaning "meeting place"
Toronto
Edgar
|
$400
[29]
This American folksinger teamed up with "The Fish" to form a popular psychedelic band of the 1960s
Country Joe
Lindsay
|
|
$500
[10]
1547-1584
Ivan the Terrible
Roberta
|
$500
[27]
With "Telstar", this band named for a weather phenomenon was the first British group to top the U.S. charts
The Tornados
Lindsay
|
$500
[28]
It's a layered ice cream dessert usually containing chopped fruits & nuts
spumoni
Roberta
|
$500
[17]
One of his best known works was "The Man Without a Country", but he himself was a man from Boston
Edward Everett Hale
|
$500
[12]
This pioneering pop-media theorist born in Edmonton, Alberta coined the phrase "The medium is the message"
Marshall McLuhan
|
— |
| 1945 | A CINEMATIC TRIP TO VEGAS | ASTRONOMY | WEATHER TERMS | THE FATHERS OF... | FILE UNDER "M" |
|
$200
[5]
On October 24 this organization came into existence with the ratification of its charter by 29 countries
United Nations
Edgar
|
$200
[30]
Nicolas Cage drives to the desert to drink himself to death & meets an angelic hooker in this 1995 drama
Leaving Las Vegas
Lindsay
|
$200
[3]
On February 11, 1999 it again became the farthest planet from the sun & will remain so for 248 years
Pluto
Edgar
|
$200
[11]
In "Paint Your Wagon" it's called "Maria"
wind
Roberta
|
$200
[12]
"The Father of Frozen Foods"
Clarence Birdseye
Edgar
|
$200
[1]
Pounds, pieces of eight & pesos are examples of this
money
Edgar
|
|
$400
[9]
In February 1945, the "Big 3" met in this Crimean resort to work out the fate of the postwar world
Yalta
Roberta
|
$400
[29]
Felons skyjack a plane with Nicolas Cage (who else?) on board & crash-land on the Vegas Strip in this 1997 thriller
Con Air
Edgar
|
$400
[8]
Alnilam, Alnitak & Mintaka are the 3 stars of this constellation's belt
Orion
Edgar
|
$400
[18]
It's the "culinary" term for the thick weather condition indicated by the following(sound of a foghorn)
pea soup
Roberta
|
$400
[20]
"The Father of Basketball"
James Naismith
Edgar
|
$400
[2]
The 2 "M" combatants in the Battle of the Ironclads March 9, 1862
the Monitor & the Merrimac
Lindsay
|
|
$600
[10]
A Mannheim, Germany traffic accident claimed the life of this controversial U.S. general in December 1945
George S. Patton
Roberta
|
$600
[28]
Nicolas Cage (of course) skydives into Vegas with a troup of Elvis impersonators in this 1992 comedy
Honeymoon in Vegas
Edgar
|
$800
[16]
In 1937 in Wheaton, Illinois, Grote Reber built the first one of these telescopes using a parabolic dish
a radio telescope
Edgar
Lindsay
|
$600
[19]
Peter Hoeg's Smilla Jaspersen had a "sense of" this
snow
Lindsay
|
$600
[21]
"The Father of Medicine"
Hippocrates
Edgar
|
$600
[4]
It's the Army's equivalent of the Navy's Shore Patrol
Military Police
Lindsay
|
|
$800
[13]
In 1945 John Steinbeck published this novel about life on the Monterey waterfront
Cannery Row
Lindsay
|
$800
[27]
1996 film in which L.A. hipsters Vince Vaughn & Jon Favreau take a road trip to "Vegas, Baby, Vegas!"
Swingers
Edgar
|
$1,000
[17]
This Alexandrian astronomer discusses eclipses in book VI of his 2nd century work "Almagest"
Ptolemy
|
$800
[24]
Director Michael Mann took his name off this 1995 DeNiro-Pacino film in protest of NBC's editing of it
Heat
|
$1,000
[23]
"The Father of the Tommy Gun"
John Thompson
Lindsay
|
$800
[6]
Mississippi celebrates a version of this holiday the last Monday in April to honor Confederate dead
Memorial Day
Edgar
|
|
$1,000
[14]
On January 31, 1945 this U.S. Army private was executed for desertion
Eddie Slovik
Lindsay
|
$1,000
[26]
Frank Sinatra leads 10 other men in an attempt to rob 5 Vegas casinos in this 1960 classic
Ocean's Eleven
Roberta
|
DD
$1,512
[15]
Among these objects, Encke's has an orbital period of 3.3 years; Tago-Sato-Kosaka, 420,000 years
comets
Lindsay
|
$1,000
[25]
Richard Pryor's daughter, she's been seen on Showtime's "Rude Awakening"
Rain Pryor
Edgar
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
"The Father of American Political Cartoonists"
Thomas Nast
Edgar
|
$1,000
[7]
Called Peru's chief tourist attraction, it was discovered by an American, Hiram Bingham
Machu Picchu
Lindsay
|
This Peace Prize winner financed his medical studies partly through royalties from his Bach biography
Dr. Albert Schweitzer