(Jimmy: There's something fishy going on, today onJeopardy!)
Ben Whitlock — a surveyor and musician from Winchester, Virginia
Matt Moline — a technology consultant from Los Angeles, California
Lisa Caucci — an administrative manager from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa | $-1,200 | $1,200 | $400 |
$800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$400
7 R, 5 W |
| Matt | $3,400 | $7,000 | $13,000 |
$12,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Ben | $1,800 | $3,800 | $18,800 |
$26,001
New champion: $26,001 |
$13,400
17 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| THE LAST BOY SCOUT | LOOK WHO'S TALKING | PULP FICTION | UNBREAKABLE | THE "FIFTH" ELEMENT | BRUCE WILLIS |
|
$200
[26]
Be prepared to fly high when you achieve this highest rank in the Boy Scouts
Eagle Scout
Matt
|
$200
[16]
1865:"The South is avenged!"
John Wilkes Booth
Matt
|
$200
[21]
He may no longer play Captain Kirk but he's kept the name alive in a series of "Star Trek" books
William Shatner
Matt
|
$200
[8]
In the 2000 campaign, Al Gore insisted that as president he'd keep Medicare in one of these
lock box
Lisa
|
$200
[3]
Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village is the starting point for this thoroughfare
Fifth Avenue
Ben
|
$200
[1]
Little Richard performed the ceremony when Bruce married this woman
Demi Moore
Matt
Ben
|
|
$400
[27]
This artist whose work is seen here illustrated the Boy Scout calendar from 1926-1976
Norman Rockwell
Lisa
|
$400
[17]
1651:"L'etat c'est moi!"("I am the state")
Louis XIV
Lisa
|
$400
[22]
In "Blood and Gold", she fills in details about the life of 2,000-year-old vampire Marius
Anne Rice
Ben
|
$400
[9]
This X-Man seen here has bones & claws made from unbreakable adamantium
Wolverine
Matt
|
$400
[4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew) Many ballet moves like the glissade begin from & end in this posture
fifth position
Matt
|
$400
[2]
The title of the third film in this series starring Bruce Willis as cop John McClane added "With A Vengeance"
Die Hard
Ben
|
|
$600
[28]
Like the forestry merit badge, the genealogy merit badge has one of these on it
tree
Matt
|
$600
[18]
1936:"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before"
Mae West
Ben
|
$600
[23]
It took a decade but in 1999 he fed us "Hannibal", a follow-up to "Silence of the Lambs"
Thomas Harris
Matt
|
$600
[10]
DuPont says this fiber product, its trademark, is used for automotive hoses & bullet-resistant apparel
Kevlar
Lisa
Ben
|
$600
[13]
Deuteronomy
the fifth book of the Bible
Matt
|
$600
[5]
Bruce thanked Al Pacino & The Three Stooges when he picked up an Emmy in 1987 for his work on this TV show
Moonlighting
Matt
|
|
$800
[29]
Published since 1911, it's the Boys Scouts' bimonthly magazine
Boys Life
Lisa
|
$800
[19]
1770:"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"
Voltaire
Lisa
|
$800
[24]
Some 15 years after the original novel, she published "Hollywood Wives: The New Generation"
Jackie Collins
Matt
|
$800
[11]
Gilbert Vernam, an engineer with this telecom company, came up with an "unbreakable" cipher, using a random code
AT&T
Ben
|
$800
[14]
Political entity proclaimed in France in 1958
Fifth Republic
Lisa
|
$1,000
[7]
The first feature film Bruce starred in was this dating comedy that also starred Kim Basinger
Blind Date
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[30]
He's the patron saint of both the Boy Scouts & England
Saint George
Ben
|
$1,000
[20]
1685:"Let not poor Nelly starve"
King Charles II
|
$1,000
[25]
This Olivia Goldsmith bestseller about 3 vengeful divorcees was initially rejected by 27 publishers
"The First Wives Club"
Matt
|
$1,000
[12]
Hermes gave this mythical hero an unbreakable sword he used to cut Medusa into Gorgon-zola
Perseus
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
This term for a secret, subversive group originated during the Spanish Civil War
fifth column
|
DD
$1,200
[6]
This Bruce Willis film premiered in 1998 at the Kennedy Space Center
Armageddon
Matt
|
| COMPOSERS | CANADIAN PROVINCES | DIRECT TV | 10-LETTER WORDS | DON'T BE SUCH A HEDGEHOG | "UR" RIGHT |
|
$400
[16]
Of the 3 B's of classical music, the one born last
Johannes Brahms
Ben
|
$400
[9]
This province's southernmost tip lies farther south than Boston
Ontario
Lisa
Ben
|
$400
[1]
Mimi Leder moved from directing George Clooney in this medical drama to directing him in "The Peacemaker"
ER
Ben
|
$400
[2]
This synonym for "friendliness" is what a friendly university gives a student to keep him alive
fellowship
Matt
|
$400
[30]
In 1999 this Sega video game hedgehog starred in his own home video
Sonic the Hedgehog
Matt
|
$400
[21]
This constellation is known as the "Great Bear"
Ursa Major
Matt
|
|
$800
[17]
He paradoxically described his "Bolero" as a piece for orchestra without music
Maurice Ravel
Ben
|
$800
[10]
In August 1998 Canada's highest court ruled this province cannot secede simply by majority vote
Quebec
Ben
|
$800
[7]
Peter Bonerz directed several episodes of this sitcom, on which he also played Jerry the dentist
The Bob Newhart Show
Lisa
Matt
|
$800
[3]
The ridges in this type of heavy carton paper, from the Latin for "wrinkle", are called flutes
corrugated
Matt
Ben
|
$800
[29]
Khrushchev said, "If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw" 2 of these prickly beasts under you
porcupines
Ben
|
$800
[22]
Some oxides of this silver-white element have been used to color glass & ceramics
uranium
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[18]
He composed the waltz heard here
Peter Tchaikovsky
Ben
|
$1,600
[12]
It's not only the smallest province in area, it's the smallest in population as well
Prince Edward Island
Matt
|
$1,200
[8]
Joe Pytka is known for directing Pepsi commercials & the 1987 PSA of a frying egg with this slogan
"This Is Your Brain on Drugs"
Ben
|
$1,200
[4]
It's a 10-letter word that can be used to describe the fractions 3/9 & 9/27
equivalent
Lisa
|
$1,200
[26]
The Intl. Hedgehog Society says the 38 accepted ones of these for show hedgehogs include silver & cinnamon
colors
Matt
|
$1,200
[23]
This American author's first book, "Battle Cry", was drawn from his World War II experiences
Leon Uris
|
|
$1,600
[19]
Amid much "Pomp and Circumstance", he was knighted by King Edward VII in 1904
Edward Elgar
|
$2,000
[13]
It's called the Loyalist province because during the American Revolution many Loyalists fled there
New Brunswick
|
$1,600
[14]
Future "Patton" helmer Franklin Schaffner won the first directing Emmy for this 1954 jury drama
12 Angry Men
Ben
|
$1,600
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Seattle) Used in "Hamlet", it's the common British term for the vendor I'm buying from
fishmonger
Matt
|
$1,600
[27]
This Fairy queen in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" mentions the hedgehog
Titania
|
$1,600
[24]
This Hittite was one of King David's soldiers
Uriah
Matt
|
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
His Opus 44 is also known as "From Fjeld and Fjord"
Edvard Grieg
Ben
|
DD
$6,600
[11]
Place names in this province include Inverness & Caledonia
Nova Scotia
Ben
|
$2,000
[15]
Directors who went from TV to film include John Frankenheimer & this John who made "Midnight Cowboy"
John Schlesinger
Lisa
|
$2,000
[6]
As an adjective, it means dependent on an uncertain event; as a noun, it's a group that's part of a larger one
contingent
|
$2,000
[28]
Though hedgehogs' diet may include mice & snakes, they're still classified as part of this order
Insectivores
Ben
|
$2,000
[25]
It's the same language as Hindi but written in a modified Arabic script
Urdu
Lisa
Matt
|
A British airport recently named for him features a logo with the words "Above Us Only Sky"
John Lennon