Will Austin — an undergraduate student from Boston, Massachusetts
Sherry Rhodes — a full-time mom from Pinckney, Michigan
Kit Salisbury — a furniture salesman from Lake Worth, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kit | $800 | $800 | $4,200 |
$3,150
2nd place: Trip to Prospect Plantation Villa, Ocho Rios, Jamaica |
$4,200
14 R, 3 W |
| Sherry | $1,200 | $3,700 | $11,800 |
$10,000
New champion: $10,000 |
$11,100
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Will | $700 | $600 | $2,600 |
$200
3rd place: Rand McNally Gift Certificate |
$3,800
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| DISNEYANA | PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN | HAUNTED MANSION | IT'S A "SMALL" WORLD | SPACE | MOUNTAIN |
|
$100
[6]
The exterior of this "Center" is seen here
EPCOT Center
Sherry
|
$100
[11]
American forces won this January 1815 battle with the help of pirates led by Jean Lafitte
the Battle of New Orleans
Will
|
$100
[1]
Every Thursday after "Jeopardy!" we hold one of these "sittings" to receive messages from our late Uncle Wiggin
Seance
Sherry
|
$100
[12]
In 1979 the World Health Organization marked the disappearance of this viral disease from the Earth
Smallpox
Kit
|
$100
[17]
Of 24,000, 240,000 or 2,400,000, the one that's closest to the mean distance in miles between the Moon & the Earth
240,000
Kit
|
$100
[22]
About 300 miles southwest of Lhasa:29,028 feet
Mount Everest
Sherry
|
|
$200
[7]
This terrible trio hit the big screen for the first time in 1938
Huey, Dewey & Louie
Sherry
|
$200
[27]
A type of Oldsmobile shares its name with this kind of sword no self-respecting pirate would be without
a cutlass
Kit
Will
|
$200
[2]
Whenever we have a devilish problem, Father Gary helps us with one of these spirited expelling rites
Exorcism
Kit
|
$200
[13]
This federal loan-assistance agency located in Washington, D.C. is known as the SBA for short
the Small Business Administration
Kit
Sherry
Will
|
$200
[18]
It's the colossal booster rocket that lifted the Apollo missions to the moon
Saturn
Sherry
|
$200
[23]
On the Italy-Switzerland border:14,692 feet; in Anaheim:147 feet
the Matterhorn
Will
|
|
$300
[8]
It's the eastern hemisphere city where this photo was taken
Tokyo
Kit
|
$300
[28]
Pirates officially licensed to attack enemy ships during wartime were known by this "secretive" name
Privateers
|
$300
[3]
None of us got any sleep last night with one of these "noisy" ghosts wandering all about
Poltergeist
Sherry
|
$300
[14]
This narrow, winding body part consists of the duodenum, jejunum & ileum
Small intestine
Sherry
|
$400
[20]
The Ariane launch vehicle is used prominently by this organization, abbreviated the ESA
European Space Agency
Sherry
|
$300
[24]
In Alaska's Denali National Park:20,320 feet
Mount McKinley (Denali)
Kit
Sherry
|
|
$400
[9]
Several historic American figures have been portrayed by this actor, named a Disney legend in 1991
Fess Parker
Kit
|
$400
[29]
This "colorful" pirate was paid by the British to attack Spanish ships in the early 1700s
Blackbeard
Sherry
Will
|
$400
[4]
Sometimes our phantoms leave behind this spectral stuff whose name comes from Greek for "outside mold"
Ectoplasm
Will
|
$400
[15]
Animatronic big-screen warriors seen here
Small Soldiers
Will
|
DD
$500
[19]
The Voskhod program & this U.S. program were the first to use multiperson space flights
Gemini
Sherry
|
$400
[25]
In Kashmir:28,250 feet
K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen)
Sherry
|
|
$500
[10]
It's the first name of this Disney family member, vice-chairman of the board & head of the animation department
Roy Disney
Kit
|
$500
[30]
From the French for "one who cures meat", it was a pirate who preyed on Spanish shipping in the West Indies
Buccaneer
|
$500
[5]
Our ghosts are so troubled, they may have taken lessons from this title ghost in an Oscar Wilde work
"The Canterville Ghost"
Kit
|
$500
[16]
The National Weather Service issues sailors these "advisories" when winds are between 18 & 33 knots
small craft advisories (or small craft warnings)
Sherry
|
$500
[21]
Your "flare" for astronomy will help you name this solar feature that lasts longer than a solar flare
solar prominence
Will
|
$500
[26]
In the Andes:22,831 feet
Mount Aconcagua
Sherry
|
| THE YUKON | THE RIGHT GENES | THE Y2K BUG | SUMMER | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" |
|
$200
[2]
This bird found in a famous "Poe"m is the official bird of the Yukon Territory
Raven
Kit
|
$200
[26]
He was lucky enough to co-star with Judy Garland in his first feature film, "For Me and My Gal", in 1942
Gene Kelly
Sherry
|
$200
[1]
The basic danger of the bug is that in 2000, computers will think it's this year
1900
Sherry
|
$200
[7]
1935 folk opera that featured the song "Summertime"
Porgy and Bess
Kit
|
$200
[13]
"Stand By Me","When Harry Met Sally...","A Few Good Men"
Rob Reiner
Will
|
$200
[19]
Zane, or Lady Jane(4)
Grey
Sherry
|
|
$400
[3]
On August 17, 1896 gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, a tributary of this river
the Klondike
Kit
Sherry
|
$400
[27]
In 1999 Warner Bros. eulogized him with an ad that said, "The balcony is closed. Our hearts are broken."
Gene Siskel
Will
|
$400
[12]
This giant's customers had the "Big Blues" until it announced Y2K transition support in 1995
IBM
Kit
|
$400
[8]
1 of the 2 months in the U.S. in which an "Indian Summer" may occur
October or November
Sherry
|
$400
[17]
"The Age of Innocence","Boxcar Bertha","Goodfellas"
Martin Scorsese
Will
|
$400
[20]
"Convention"al Swiss city(6)
Geneva
Sherry
|
|
$600
[4]
The Yukon territorial coat of arms is topped by a depiction of this breed of dog important to its early history
Husky/malamute
Kit
|
$600
[29]
Cher & this bass player of Kiss dated in the '70s & performed at the Super Bowl in 1999 (but not together)
Gene Simmons
Will
|
$600
[23]
The bug partly stems from 6-digit dates in this 1960s "business-oriented" computer language
COBOL
Sherry
|
$600
[9]
As Summer Quinn, Nicole Eggert saved lives on this internationally syndicated series
Baywatch
Will
|
$600
[16]
"Rhapsody in August","Ikiru","Yojimbo"
Akira Kurosawa
Sherry
|
$600
[18]
Style of novels, or of architecture(6)
Gothic
Sherry
|
|
$800
[5]
Each February this capital hosts a winter festival called the Sourdough Rendezvous
Whitehorse
Kit
|
$1,000
[28]
He co-wrote & starred in the 1999 A&E movie "Murder in a Small Town"
Gene Wilder
Sherry
|
$1,000
[25]
A Time/CNN poll found only 9% of respondents believed Y2K was likely to bring this title subject of an R.E.M. song
"It's the End of the World"
Sherry
|
$1,000
[11]
The summer one of these is in Pushkin; the winter one is north of it in St. Petersburg
Palace
Sherry
|
$800
[15]
"Ivan the Terrible","Alexander Nevsky","Battleship Potemkin"
Sergei Eisenstein
Kit
|
$800
[21]
Sondheim striptease show(5)
Gypsy
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Yukoners have only one representative in the Canadian senate & one in this other house
House of Commons
|
— |
DD
$1,300
[24]
To show it's safe, Jane Garvey, head of this U.S. administration, plans to be in the air as the year 2000 arrives
the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)
Sherry
|
DD
$1,200
[10]
This country hosted the Summer Olympic Games only once, in 1896
Greece
Will
|
$1,000
[14]
"Witness","The Truman Show","Dead Poets Society"
Peter Weir
Will
|
$1,000
[22]
A "monster" of a Southwestern river(4)
Gila
Sherry
|
It's the opera mentioned in the lyrics of a 1970 No. 1 hit by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Pagliacci