Jan Franck — an import specialist from Coarsegold, California
Frank Stokes — a financial analyst originally from Heber Springs, Arkansas
Melissa Koester — a library media specialist from Wixom, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa | $600 | $1,400 | $3,400 |
$3,300
2nd place: trip on Taca Airlines to Guatemala & stay at Guatemala City Marriott |
$3,400
9 R, 1 W |
| Frank | $500 | $2,300 | $8,600 |
$9,801
New champion: $9,801 |
$5,500
25 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Jan | $200 | $700 | $4,900 |
$1
3rd place: Vivitar Z360ix camera & binoculars with accessories |
$4,700
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| DORIS' DAY | "WHOLE"SOME | CALAMITY JANE | PILLOW TALK | ROCK | THE HUDSON |
|
$100
[4]
Each morning Doris logs onto wsj.com, the interactive edition of this newspaper, to check her stocks
The Wall Street Journal
Jan
|
$100
[16]
If Freddy, Wilbur or Babe indulged himself completely, he'd "go" this
whole hog
Frank
|
$100
[8]
Jane had some "dark times" as a camp follower of an expedition to these South Dakota hills
Black Hills
Frank
|
$100
[1]
A 1996 Kiplinger's column found that $1 is a common amount left under pillows by this sprite
tooth fairy
Frank
|
$100
[2]
Halite is used as the "table" variety of this
salt
Melissa
|
$100
[11]
A bridge named for this fictional snoozer crosses the Hudson at Catskill
Rip Van Winkle
Frank
Jan
|
|
$200
[5]
Doris stays fit with her 3-times-a-week workout at one of this "Total Fitness" company's 320 centers
Bally's
Frank
|
$200
[17]
A completely fictitious tale is "made out of" this
whole cloth
Melissa
|
$200
[21]
Jane's job title of bullwhacker indicates she drove cattle with one of these implements
whip
Melissa
|
$200
[3]
This mythic sculptor whose name became a Shaw play, made a feather pillow for his favorite creation
Pygmalion
Jan
|
$200
[22]
This organic rock is found in the Christmas stockings of people who've been bad
coal
Frank
|
$200
[12]
In 1802 a military academy was established at this site
West Point
Frank
|
|
$300
[6]
Doris picked up a travel guide to the Kalahari; she plans to follow this Scotsman's 1849 route across it
Dr. Livingstone
|
$300
[18]
In a joking W.C. Fields epitaph, these 3 words precede "I'd rather be in Philadelphia"
On the whole
Frank
|
$300
[23]
General George, whose troops Jane rode with, had this last name that Nixon said didn't apply to him
Crook
Frank
|
$300
[7]
This molten stuff can harden into glassy "pillows" if it comes into contact with water
lava
Jan
|
$300
[28]
If shale has misbehaved, it can say, "My name is" this, 'cause that's what it was made from
mud
Frank
|
$300
[13]
In 1807 the first practical steamboat, commonly known by this name, was launched on the Hudson
Clermont
Frank
Jan
|
|
$400
[9]
For dinner, Doris tried her hand, or at least her fingers, with this staple dish of Hawaii made from taro
poi
Frank
|
$400
[19]
Shebeen, a word for an Irish tavern, may be the origin of this expression
whole shebang
|
$400
[24]
A woman surfaced in 1941 claiming to be the daughter of Jane & this man who played one poker hand too many
Wild Bill Hickok
Frank
|
$400
[26]
As seen in Genesis 28 & in the name of a dance festival, he used stones for a pillow
Jacob
Melissa
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
While some people can "talk" one, chalcanthite & azurite can leave one on a hard surface
a blue streak
Frank
|
$400
[14]
This interstate park on the Hudson features 300-500 foot high cliffs
Palisades
Frank
|
|
$500
[10]
Doris ends her day walking Binky & Albert, these 2 breeds of dog seen here:
basset hound & Great Dane
Melissa
Frank
|
$500
[20]
Completes the famous Alka-Seltzer ad line, "I can't believe..."
I ate the whole thing
Jan
|
$500
[25]
Jane's gig at the 1901 Pan-American Expo in this city was overshadowed by ths McKinley assassination there
Buffalo
Frank
|
$500
[27]
In the second Shakespeare play named for him, this king sleeps with the crown on his pillow
Henry IV
Frank
|
— |
$500
[15]
It was on this ship that Henry Hudson was first sent up the river
Half Moon
|
| CLASSIC DRAMA | COLLEGES | ART & ARTISTS | BEST DIRECTOR | THE JACKSON FIVE | SAY CHEESE! |
|
$200
[23]
It includes the foreshadowing line "Hedda darling--Don't touch those dangerous things!"
Hedda Gabler
Jan
|
$200
[2]
Irvin Feld founded a college in Venice, Florida in 1968 to train these performers for the circus
clowns
Frank
|
$200
[6]
Jan Vermeer's "Young Woman with a Water Jug" is an example of genre painting from this country
Holland
Jan
|
$200
[15]
"Schindler's List"
(Steven) Spielberg
Jan
|
$200
[9]
This general gained his famous nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run
Stonewall Jackson
Frank
|
$200
[1]
His "Poor Richard's Almanac" says that "Cheese and salt meat should be sparingly eat"
Benjamin Franklin
Frank
|
|
$400
[27]
He's the king or "Rex" who saves Thebes in an ancient work by Sophocles
Oedipus
Frank
|
$400
[3]
Mesa State is a college in Grand Junction in this state
Colorado
Frank
|
$400
[13]
Take a look: He once smashed a Fifth Avenue window to rearrange a display of his work
(Salvador) Dali
Jan
|
$400
[16]
"Reds"
Warren Beatty
Frank
|
$400
[10]
In 1971 this Baptist minister founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity)
Jesse Jackson
Frank
|
$400
[7]
"Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly", this author wrote in "Treasure Island"
(Robert Louis) Stevenson
Frank
|
|
$600
[28]
Pierre Corneille wrote a 1637 play about this medieval Spanish hero
El Cid
Jan
|
$800
[5]
The graduates of this Owatonna, Minnesota Baptist Bible college must be poppin' fresh (we couldn't resist the joke)
Pillsbury
Melissa
|
$600
[20]
Former Premier Georges Clemenceau attended the 1926 funeral of this "Water Lilies" painter
Monet
Melissa
|
$600
[19]
"Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
John Huston
Melissa
|
$600
[11]
He closed nearly 5 decades of sportscasting at the end of January 1999's Fiesta Bowl
Keith Jackson
Frank
|
$600
[14]
This French President asked how one could be expected to govern a country that has "265 kinds of cheese?"
de Gaulle
Jan
|
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
Shakespearean woman who asks "Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?"
Ophelia
Jan
|
$1,000
[8]
Located in Charleston, it's "The Military College of South Carolina"
The Citadel
Frank
|
$800
[21]
Although known for his Maine seascapes, he often traveled to the Adirondacks & Florida to paint
Winslow Homer
|
$800
[24]
"You Can't Take It with You"
Frank Capra
|
$800
[12]
This British actress & Labour politician said, "Acting is not about dressing up" but "about stripping bare"
Glenda Jackson
Melissa
|
$800
[18]
This Browning work says, "Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats...and ate the cheeses out of the vats"
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Melissa
|
| — |
DD
$3,100
[4]
A college of podiatry in Chicago is named for this doctor
Dr. Scholl
Frank
|
$1,000
[22]
In this Renaissance master's "Madonna of the Goldfinch", the infants Jesus & John the Baptist are next to the Virgin Mary
Raphael
|
$1,000
[25]
"Gandhi"
Richard Attenborough
|
$1,000
[17]
In October 1973 he became the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
Maynard Jackson
Frank
|
$1,000
[26]
In his introduction to "A Tale of a Tub", this Irish-born satirist says that wisdom "is a cheese"
Jonathan Swift
Jan
|
The fact that he didn't play September 20, 1998 made headlines
Cal Ripken