Jonathan Auyoung — a receiving clerk from Benicia, California
Mary Boehm — a speech and language pathologist from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Kay Reimann — an attorney from Pebble Beach, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kay | $2,400 | $5,800 | $20,400 |
$31,201
2-day champion: $56,201 |
$14,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Mary | $8,400 | $9,600 | $13,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Jonathan | $0 | $3,800 | $15,600 |
$29,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| THAT'S MY ATTORNEY GENERAL | MERCURIAL | LITERARY LINES | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS | EARNINGS FROM THE CRYPT | HOW ODD! |
|
$200
[1]
John Ashcroft
George W. Bush
Jonathan
|
$200
[19]
The Mercury News bills itself as "The Newspaper of" this California tech area
Silicon Valley
Kay
Mary
|
$200
[14]
"This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure" is a line from Chapter 1 of this novel
The Hobbit
Kay
|
$200
[24]
A person who can get out of tight situations is one of these, the name of a '20s escape artist
a Houdini
Jonathan
|
$200
[7]
With $37 million in 1 year, the "King" of the world's top-earning late celebrities is this man
Elvis Presley
Kay
|
$200
[2]
To make the film "The Sound of Music" shorter, a theater manager in Seoul, South Korea cut all of these out of it
the songs
Kay
|
|
$400
[8]
Janet Reno
Bill Clinton
Kay
|
$400
[20]
In the early '60s this man known as Q became a vice president at Mercury Records
Quincy Jones
Jonathan
|
$400
[15]
Completes the concluding line from "Gone with the Wind": "After all..."
"tomorrow is another day"
Kay
Mary
|
$400
[25]
2 feuding families can be the Montagues & the Capulets or the Hatfields & these
the McCoys
Mary
|
$400
[10]
Of the 2 Beatles who qualify for the Forbes list, this man made more with a total of $20 million
John Lennon
Mary
|
$400
[3]
Reportedly, when Henry Ford built his first automobile, he forgot to put in one of these gears
reverse
Mary
|
|
$600
[9]
Robert Kennedy(2 presidents, please)
John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson
Mary
|
$600
[21]
The Mercury is the WNBA team in this city in which the mercury has hit 122
Phoenix
Jonathan
|
$800
[17]
"1984" begins, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking" this odd hour
thirteen
Jonathan
|
$600
[26]
You may be "read" this; England passed the original one back in 1715 to deal with noisy protests
the riot act
Kay
|
$600
[11]
The highest-earning late female celebrity is this sex symbol who pulled in $7 million
Marilyn Monroe
Jonathan
|
$600
[4]
It's the only precious gem composed of only one element
diamond (carbon)
Mary
|
|
$800
[29]
Edwin Meese III
Ronald Reagan
Jonathan
|
$800
[22]
This Mercury astronaut didn't make it into orbit when launched May 5, 1961
Alan Shepard
Kay
|
$1,000
[18]
This 1934 novel begins "Monsieur Van Gogh! It's time to wake up!"
Lust for Life
|
$800
[27]
The double whammy goes back to Evil-Eye Fleegle, a character in this Al Capp strip
Li'l Abner
Kay
|
$800
[12]
With $28 million, the number 2-earning late celebrity in the world is this cartoonist
Charles Schulz
Kay
Jonathan
|
$800
[5]
This insect, the Musca domestica, can become a great-grandmother in only 60 days
common housefly
Mary
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Elliot Richardson
Richard Nixon
Kay
|
$1,000
[23]
The most famous broadcast of "The Mercury Theater on the Air" was this tale about Mars, broadcast October 30, 1938
War of the Worlds
Mary
|
DD
$4,200
[16]
1954 novel that contains the lines "This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we'll have fun"
Lord of the Flies
Mary
|
$1,000
[28]
Being in the middle of things puts you at this, the point on the surface above the focus of an earthquake
the epicenter
Jonathan
|
$1,000
[13]
At $10 million made in a year, this man is certainly the highest-earning late Jamaican on the list
Bob Marley
Kay
|
$1,000
[6]
His name may be erased from your head, but he directed odd movies like "Eraserhead" & "Mulholland Drive"
David Lynch
Mary
|
| PHYSICAL SCIENCE | POND CROSSERS | GUINNESS RECORDS | AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CITIES | SKI YOU AT THE MOVIES | "RH" FACTOR |
|
$400
[7]
If a recipe told you to bring carbon to this point, you'd need to raise its temperature to 8,720 degrees
the boiling point
Mary
|
$400
[6]
Once NYC's chief engineer, Marc Brunel later spent 19 years digging the first tunnel under this British river
Thames
Jonathan
|
$400
[13]
Tish, one of these won by a British couple at a fair in 1956, swam happily in its bowl for a record 43 years
goldfish
Mary
|
$400
[23]
Zagazig, Memphis, Aswan
Egypt
Kay
|
$400
[16]
This actor who owns his own ski resort did much of his own skiing in the 1969 film "Downhill Racer"
Robert Redford
Kay
|
$400
[1]
The African species of this mammal are either hook-lipped or square-lipped
rhinoceros
Jonathan
|
|
$800
[8]
A 1992 experiment using surface tension on polished silicon got water to defy physics by doing this
to go up
Kay
|
$800
[9]
In the 1820s American publishers ignored his bird drawings, so he took them to England
John James Audubon
Jonathan
|
$800
[14]
Though its name is only 3 letters long, it's the biggest retail fashion chain
Gap
Kay
|
$800
[24]
Kimberley, Humansdorp, Soweto
South Africa
Jonathan
|
$800
[17]
Peter Sellers "Clouseaus" in on jewel thief David Niven at a ski resort in this 1964 film
The Pink Panther
Mary
|
$800
[2]
This island 12 miles off the coast of Turkey was the site of one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
Rhodes (the Colossus)
Mary
|
|
$1,600
[11]
In 1925 Wolfgang Pauli stated his exclusion principle--no 2 of these particles in an atom can be in the same state
electrons
Jonathan
|
$2,000
[28]
This last name of British lord Jeffrey, who captured Montreal, is on a Massachusetts college
Amherst
|
$1,600
[21]
Guinness lists this product line as the most successful portable music system
Sony Walkman
Mary
|
$1,200
[25]
Tangier, Meknes, Casablanca
Morocco
Jonathan
|
$1,200
[18]
An Oscar-winning documentary profiled Yuichiro Miura, "The Man Who Skied Down" this mountain
Mount Everest
Kay
Mary
|
$1,200
[3]
From the Greek for "orator", it's the art of using language effectively & persuasively
rhetoric
Mary
|
|
$2,000
[12]
Its formula is H2S & it smells like rotten eggs
hydrogen sulfide
Mary
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
Alan Whitworth figures when he's done in 2007, his sketch of this fortification in England will be 73 miles long
Hadrian's Wall
Kay
|
$1,600
[26]
Malindi, Machakos, Mombasa
Kenya
|
$1,600
[19]
In a 1969 film, Dean Martin's daughter Claudia & this star of "Adam-12" got "Ski Fever"
Martin Milner
Kay
|
$1,600
[4]
In 1910 this future South Korean president became the first Korean to earn a Ph.D. from an American university
Syngman Rhee
Jonathan
|
|
DD
$5,000
[10]
This field is measured in nanoteslas--it's about 60,000 nanoteslas at the poles & 30,000 at the equator
Earth's magnetic field
Jonathan
|
— |
DD
$7,400
[15]
In this 1996 film Madonna went through a record 85 costume changes
Evita
Kay
|
$2,000
[27]
Tobruk, Benghazi, As-Sidrah
Libya
|
$2,000
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew at a ski resort in Colorado) I've wanted to go skiing ever since I saw Audrey Hepburn meet Cary Grant at a ski resort in this classic 1963 caper
Charade
|
$2,000
[5]
Irises have this horizontal, underground stem which produces shoots & roots of a new plant
rhizome
Mary
|
The organization that sponsored the Stage Door Canteens during WWII is now known for these annual awards
Tony Awards