Dan Melia game 2.First game of Season 14 (1997-1998).First season to offer a car as a bonus prize to all 5-time undefeated champs.New theme and "Think!" music. Microphones on contestants' podiums removed.
Janet vanGrasstek — an international trade reporter from Washington, D.C.
Atish Choudhury — an undergraduate student from Silver Spring, Maryland
Dan Melia — a professor from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $700 | $3,000 | $8,400 |
$16,800
2-day co-champion: $29,600 |
$7,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Atish | $600 | $1,800 | $8,400 |
$16,800
New co-champion: $16,800 |
$8,100
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Janet | $-400 | $1,000 | $3,800 |
$3,800
2nd place: a trip to Majorca, Spain |
$3,800
11 R, 2 W |
| FILMS OF THE '90s | UNINTELLIGIBLE | SALUTE TO LABOR | MOUNTAINS | SUMMIT MEETINGS | THINGS I WISH I'D SAID |
|
$100
[12]
In a 1996 film Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes play these star-crossed lovers in a modern setting
Romeo & Juliet
Janet
|
$100
[8]
In "Julius Caesar" Casca says, "For mine own part, it was" this "to me"
Greek
Atish
|
$100
[10]
Promising more assertiveness, John Sweeney was elected president of this labor federation in 1995
the AFL-CIO
Dan
|
$100
[6]
Indonesia's Mount Marapi, whose name means "fire mountain", is one of these
Volcano
Atish
|
$100
[18]
In March 1997 Clinton & Yeltsin agreed to disagree on the expansion of this defense organization
NATO
Dan
|
$100
[1]
In 1983 he said, "We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back"
Lee Iacocca
Janet
|
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$200
[20]
This shock jock exposed his "Private Parts" in a recent film based on his autobiography
Howard Stern
Dan
|
$200
[14]
Glossolalia, nonmeaningful speech, is also called speaking in these
tongues
Dan
|
$200
[11]
In 1969 the brakemen, firemen & switchmen on these were "tied" together in one union
railroads
Atish
|
$200
[7]
As the highest peak, 4,000-foot Ataviros could be called the colossus of this Greek island
Rhodes
Dan
|
$200
[19]
In 1989 this president met Gorbachev on a ship in the "Seasick Summit"
George H.W. Bush
Atish
|
$200
[2]
Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn: "Any man who goes to" one of these people "ought to have his head examined"
a psychiatrist
Dan
|
|
$300
[24]
In this 1993 film, Holly Hunter performed the musical sequences herself
The Piano
Atish
|
$300
[15]
Unclear bureaucratic talk; it's not talking turkey, but sounding like one
Gobbledygook
Dan
|
$300
[13]
OCAW is the union of oil, chemical & these workers; let's hope Homer Simpson's not a member
Nuclear/Atomic Workers
Dan
|
$300
[9]
The wind-blocking Panamint Range helps keep this lowest area of the U.S. hot & dry
Death Valley
Dan
|
$300
[21]
Jimmy Carter invited Begin & Sadat to talk peace at this Maryland retreat & they acted accordingly
Camp David
Dan
|
$300
[3]
"Touch a scientist and you touch a child", said this "Martian Chronicles" author
Ray Bradbury
Dan
Atish
|
|
$500
[26]
In this 1991 satire, Sally Field played the star of a daytime serial, "The Sun Also Sets"
Soapdish
Janet
|
$400
[16]
People had a tough time figuring out exactly what the lyrics were to this 1963 Kingsmen hit
"Louie Louie"
Dan
|
$400
[27]
This worker may be found on an airplane or as a union representative on a shop floor
Steward
Janet
|
$400
[29]
The names Mont Blanc & the Rockies' Blanca Peak both mean this
"white mountain"
Atish
|
$400
[22]
A 1961 JFK-Khrushchev summit ended in an agreement on this neighbor of Vietnam & Cambodia
Laos
Janet
|
$400
[4]
John Buchan defined this kind of skeptic as "a man who has no invisible means of support"
an atheist
Dan
|
|
DD
$700
[25]
Letter perfect names of the 2 characters seen here:"I don't suppose you know what kind of alien life form leaves a green spectral trail and craves sugar water, do you?""Oh, wait. That was on Final Jeopardy! last night!"
J & K
Atish
|
$500
[17]
Specialized language of a profession or trade that's meaningless to those outside the field
jargon
Dan
|
$500
[28]
In 1995 the Int'l Association of Machinists staged a 69-day strike against this Seattle-based company
Boeing
Atish
|
— |
$500
[23]
In 1945 Truman conferred with Stalin & with British leaders Churchill & Attlee at this Berlin suburb
Potsdam
Atish
|
$500
[5]
P.G. Wodehouse defined it as the "only one real cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman"
the guillotine
Atish
Janet
|
| O MINNESOTA! | PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONSTANTS | A.K.A. | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS | ART & ARTISTS | OUR "WORLD" (& WELCOME TO IT) |
|
$200
[9]
In 1961 the Washington Senators moved to Bloomington & became this A.L. team
Minnesota Twins
Atish
|
$200
[2]
An astronomical unit is defined as the average distance between these 2 bodies
Earth & Sun
Atish
|
$200
[17]
This was Bonnie Bedelia's original last name; she's Macaulay's aunt
Culkin
Atish
|
$200
[1]
The title character in this classic came into the world as James Gatz
"The Great Gatsby"
Atish
|
$200
[12]
In the 1550s this artist & sculptor was architect for the Palazzo Farnese
Michelangelo
Janet
|
$200
[25]
In Shakespeare, the 5 words that precede "And all the men and women merely players"
"All the world's a stage"
Dan
|
|
$400
[18]
A state nickname was derived from a cartoon in which railroad promoters were likened to these pesky rodents
Gophers
Atish
|
$400
[3]
At standard pressure it's the boiling point of water on the Fahrenheit scale
212 Degrees
Atish
|
$400
[21]
Here's "The Naked Truth"; she was born with the last name Pantleoni
Tea Leoni
Atish
Janet
|
$400
[5]
She started sleuthing in 1930 & in 1991 solved her 100th mystery
Nancy Drew
Dan
Atish
|
$400
[13]
First name shared by French artists Toulouse-Lautrec & Matisse
Henri
Janet
|
$400
[26]
It was not called just the Pretty Good War, but the Great War
World War I
Janet
|
|
$600
[19]
Minnesota's lowest point is 602 feet above sea level at the shore of this Great Lake
Lake Superior
Atish
|
$600
[4]
This small letter denotes the speed of light in a vacuum: 299,792,458 meters per second
c
Dan
|
$600
[22]
Her name was Holly Michelle Gilliam before she married Papa John & became a singing Mama
Michelle Phillips
Dan
|
$600
[6]
Arkady Renko, a Moscow investigator in this author's "Gorky Park", becomes a seaman in "Polar Star"
Martin Cruz Smith
Janet
|
$600
[14]
Out of favor with the leftists in Mexico, he created murals in the U.S., like one in the Detroit Inst. of Arts
Diego Rivera
Janet
|
$600
[27]
The domain of Hades, brother of Zeus & Poseidon
The Underworld
Atish
|
|
$800
[20]
A Duluth park named for this Norseman features a replica of the ship in which he sailed to America c. 1000
Leif Erickson
Dan
|
$800
[10]
The acceleration of this at the Earth's surface is 9.8 meters per second squared
Gravity
Atish
|
$1,000
[24]
Professional name of the punk rocker born James Jewel Osterberg; it sounds like a weird soft drink
Iggy Pop
|
$800
[7]
"Treasure" & "Raise The Titanic" by this author feature salvage expert Dirk Pitt
Clive Cussler
|
$800
[15]
"The Hay Wain" helped this British landscape artist win a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824
John Constable
Dan
|
— |
| — |
DD
$2,000
[11]
F is 96,500 coulombs; F being named for this British physicist
Michael Faraday
Atish
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
Born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, he became the "monarch" of TV interviewers
Larry King
Dan
|
$1,000
[8]
She had "Great Expectations" until she was jilted on her wedding day
Miss Havisham
Janet
|
$1,000
[16]
They shut the lid on this Dutch master after his death, March 19, 1997
Willem de Kooning
Atish
|
— |
At this man's death in 1997, Jacques Chirac called him probably the best known Frenchman in the world
Jacques-Yves Cousteau