Preston Spickler — an actor originally from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Marina Rimer — a bartender from Los Angeles, California
Dave Martin — an English teacher from Sweet Home, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave | $2,300 | $3,200 | $5,800 |
$400
2nd place: a trip to Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada |
$5,800
17 R, 2 W |
| Marina | $-700 | $0 | $3,000 |
$100
3rd place: Olympus Centurion S zoom lens camera |
$3,000
14 R, 5 W |
| Preston | $-200 | $-100 | $5,600 |
$4,200
New champion: $4,200 |
$6,100
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS | COUNTY SEATS | "DREAM"Y SONGS | BILL GATES' 50 BILLION | SPOUSE IN COMMON | GANGSTER'S DICTIONARY |
|
$100
[16]
1940-1945,1951-1955
Winston Churchill
Marina
|
$100
[11]
Hilo, I love you, you're the seat of this county that's also a "Big Island"
Hawaii
Marina
|
$100
[1]
1 of 2 "dream"y Top 20 songs recorded by Cass Elliott with The Mamas and The Papas
"California Dreamin'" & "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
Marina
|
$100
[26]
If his employee's price is $50.00, Bill could buy a billion of the "98" version of this operating system
Windows
Marina
|
$100
[3]
Elliott Gould, James Brolin
Barbra Streisand
Preston
|
$100
[17]
I hates it when the cops put these "bracelets" on me after a bust
Handcuffs
Preston
|
|
$200
[18]
1990-1997
John Major
Marina
Preston
|
$200
[12]
Paris (population 8,730) is the seat of Bourbon County in this state
Kentucky
Dave
Preston
|
$200
[2]
Title that follows "When I want you in my arms, when I want you and all your charms, whenever I want you..."
"All I Have to Do Is Dream"
Marina
|
$200
[27]
In this state where he lives, Bill could pay the governor's salary for 413,000 years
Washington
Marina
|
$200
[7]
Heather Locklear, Pamela Anderson
Tommy Lee
Dave
|
$200
[22]
You mugs, I need a "can opener", a tool used to open one of these, not a tin can
Safe
Dave
|
|
$300
[19]
1937-1940
Neville Chamberlain
Preston
|
$300
[13]
This Iowa city, the seat of Black Hawk County, has a name Wellington would remember
Waterloo
Dave
Marina
|
$300
[4]
"Cheer up sleepy Jean, oh what can it mean to" one of these "and a homecoming queen"
A daydream believer
Dave
|
$300
[28]
In 1997 Americans spent about $40 billion on these, & many wanted to be in Bill's
shoes
|
$300
[8]
Roger Vadim, Tom Hayden
Jane Fonda
Dave
|
$300
[23]
Roll out these "bones", boys, so we can play some games of chance
Dice
Dave
|
|
DD
$400
[20]
The Elder,1766-1768; The Younger,1783-1801,1804-1806
William Pitt
Preston
|
$400
[14]
Quincy, Illinois is the seat of a county with this presidential name
Adams
Marina
Preston
|
$400
[5]
In 1959 Bobby Darin wailed, "Every night I hope and pray", she "will come my way"
"Dream Lover"
Marina
Preston
|
$400
[29]
OK, we're not allowing for inflation, but Bill could afford over 8,000 Steve Austins, this title character
the Six Million Dollar Man (or the Bionic Man)
Preston
|
$400
[9]
Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow
Frank Sinatra
Dave
|
$400
[24]
One day I might go legit & get a cush job as a "gumshoe", a private one of these
a detective (or private eye)
Dave
|
|
$500
[21]
1945-1951
Clement Attlee
|
$500
[15]
As I walked out in the streets of this city, I was in the seat of Webb County, Texas
Laredo
Dave
|
$500
[6]
In the 1986 film "Blue Velvet", Dean Stockwell performs a lip-synched rendition of this Roy Orbison hit
"In Dreams"
Preston
|
$500
[30]
Bill could easily bid on Bolivia: their GDP, this annual figure, is less than half what he's worth
Gross Domestic Product
Preston
|
$500
[10]
Ursula Andress, Linda Evans
John Derek
Dave
|
$500
[25]
Keep your head low... I just saw a "salt & pepper", one of these, go by
a police car
Marina
|
| CIVIL WAR LITERATURE | HISTORIC NAMES | TV MINISERIES | TAKE A PILL | KNOTS TO YOU | THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID |
|
$200
[1]
Henry Fleming shares a tent with a loud soldier & a tall soldier in this Stephen Crane novel
The Red Badge of Courage
Dave
|
$200
[6]
His epitaph reads, "Founder of Boys Town and Lover of Christ and Man"
Father Flanagan
Marina
|
$200
[12]
You could call Henry Thomas Ishmael & Patrick Stewart Ahab in this 1998 miniseries
Moby-Dick
Dave
|
$200
[26]
Bayer hailed the FDA's endorsement of this drug for use during a suspected heart attack
aspirin
Dave
|
$200
[17]
The honda is a slip knot used by cowboys to make this tool of the trade
a lasso
Marina
|
$200
[11]
After her election, this British prime minister said that she owed "everything to my father"
Margaret Thatcher
Marina
|
|
$400
[2]
Joanna Higgins' 1998 novel "A Soldier's Book" tells the story of Ira Stevens, a Union P.O.W. in this notorious prison
Andersonville
Preston
|
$400
[7]
While rounding the tip of South America in 1520, this Portuguese explorer named Cape Virgines & Patagonia
Ferdinand Magellan
Marina
Preston
|
$400
[18]
Vanessa Williams played Calypso & Greta Scacchi was the long-suffering Penelope in this 1997 epic
The Odyssey
Dave
|
— |
$400
[22]
Alexander the Great cut it with his sword after being told that whoever could undo it would rule Asia
Gordian Knot
Dave
|
$400
[13]
This author's Mr. Bumble declared that "The law is a ass, a idiot"
Charles Dickens
Dave
|
|
DD
$500
[3]
He drew on his wartime nursing experience for the poem "The Wound-Dresser"
Walt Whitman
Preston
|
$600
[8]
It's been said that the 1831 Russian capture of Warsaw inspired him to write his C minor etude
Frédéric Chopin
Marina
Preston
|
$600
[19]
(Hi, I'm Kristoff St. John from The Young and the Restless.) Earlier in my career, I appeared in "Roots: The Next Generation", playing this author as a boy
Alex Haley
Preston
|
— |
$600
[23]
It is second only to "Gunsmoke" as TV's longest-running primetime drama series
Knots Landing
Preston
|
$600
[14]
In 1803 Jacques Delille wrote, "Fate chooses our relatives, we choose" these
our friends
Marina
|
|
$800
[4]
His works about the war include the essay "What I Saw of Shiloh" & the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Ambrose Bierce
Preston
|
$800
[9]
This family that once controlled Nicaragua saw 2 members killed--the father in 1956, a son in 1980
Somoza
Dave
|
$800
[20]
Robert Duvall sat tall in the saddle as Augustus McCrae in this 1989 4-part western
Lonesome Dove
Preston
|
— |
$800
[24]
This South American civilization used Quipu, a system of knots, to record dates & large sums of figures
Incas
Preston
|
$800
[15]
"When the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks--not that you won or lost--but" this
how you played the game
Dave
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Jeff Shaara has written a prequel & a sequel to this 1974 novel about Gettysburg by his father Michael
The Killer Angels
Preston
|
$1,000
[10]
This discoverer of Uranus thought the sun was an inhabited body with a luminous atmosphere
William Herschel
|
$1,000
[21]
(Hi, I'm Stephen Collins of7th Heaven.) In 1994 I played Ashley Wilkes in this miniseries sequel to "Gone with the Wind"
Scarlett
Marina
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
From the Turkish for "napkin", it's the art which creates decorative items by knotting cord, rope or string
Macrame
Marina
|
$1,000
[16]
In his 1918 poem "Prairie", he wrote, "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes"
Carl Sandburg
|
The 3 people who did this most recently were Midori Ito, Muhammad Ali & Crown Prince Haakon of Norway
Lighting the Olympic flame at the Olympic Games