Mike Cantor — a physician and medical ethicist from Bethesda, Maryland
Donna Lee DePrille — a professional musician from Westfield, Massachusetts
Jay Stang — a United States Marine from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay | $2,200 | $4,400 | $7,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,200
12 R, 1 W |
| Donna Lee | $600 | $2,600 | $9,000 |
$1
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
12 R, 1 W |
| Mike | $1,800 | $4,600 | $19,400 |
$19,000
New champion: $19,000 |
$16,600
21 R (including 3 DDs), 4 W |
| VICE PRESIDENTS | AT THE ARCADE | ODE TO ENGLAND | FOOD & DRINK | BUY "ONE" | GET ONE FLEA |
|
$200
[21]
In 1993 he headed the National Performance Review, which suggested ways to reduce the costs of government
Al Gore
Mike
|
$200
[16]
Stern, of Melrose Park, Illinois, is now the world's only maker of these machines that used to rule arcades
pinball machines
Donna Lee
|
$200
[1]
Edward IV called off this invasion after Louis XI tendered some financial persuasion
invading France
|
$200
[4]
Milder than both, broccoflower is a cross between these 2 vegetables
broccoli & cauliflower
Donna Lee
|
$200
[26]
An ace in golf
hole-in-one
Donna Lee
|
$200
[9]
Bargain hunters regularly head to the Rose Bowl Flea Market in this city
Pasadena
Jay
|
|
$400
[22]
On Nov. 22, 1875 Henry Wilson died while serving as vice president under this man
Ulysses S. Grant
|
$400
[17]
This game gets its name because a player represents an amphibian trying to cross a street & then a river
Frogger
Jay
|
$400
[2]
Chiefs & rajahs were there to see, in 1897, her diamond jubilee
Queen Victoria
Jay
|
$400
[5]
This rich, creamy sauce that tops Eggs Benedict is also excellent on asparagus
Hollandaise sauce
Donna Lee
|
$400
[27]
The president's plane
Air Force One
Jay
|
$400
[10]
Proverbially, if you do this, "you'll wake up with fleas"
lie down with dogs
Mike
|
|
$800
[24]
At the 1900 GOP Convention, he received 925 of 926 votes for the VP nomination; he declined to vote for himself
Theodore Roosevelt
Mike
|
$600
[18]
Featuring menacing descending aliens, it was the first arcade game offered on a home cartridge system
Space Invaders
Jay
|
$600
[3]
These Londoners turned the simple word "wife" into the rhyming "trouble-and-strife"
Cockneys
Donna Lee
Mike
|
$600
[6]
When it comes to steak, try this cut from just in front of the rump; it's "top"s
sirloin
Donna Lee
|
$600
[28]
The pressures & joys of life after a divorce were explored on this sitcom starring Bonnie Franklin
One Day at a Time
Donna Lee
|
$600
[11]
"Song of the Flea" & "Song of the Rat" are found in Berlioz' work about the "Damnation of" this man
Faust
|
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
He's the only vice president who became president not immediately after his vice presidency
Richard M. Nixon
Mike
|
$800
[19]
Alexey Pajitnov invented this classic game seen here
Tetris
Jay
|
$800
[14]
Headquarters was needed for Peel's new police force & this place was chosen as a matter of course
Scotland Yard
Jay
|
$800
[7]
Rhyming with cod, it's a young fish like cod or haddock that's been split & readied for cooking
scrod
Mike
|
$800
[29]
In boxing, a left jab followed immediately by a right cross
one-two punch
Mike
|
$800
[12]
This popular golfer's fans were known as "Lee's Fleas"
Lee Trevino
Jay
|
|
$1,000
[25]
1 of 2 Whigs who served as vice president
Millard Fillmore or John Tyler
Mike
|
$1,000
[20]
In the original Asteroids game, this was the term for jumping to a random location
warping to hyperspace
|
$1,000
[15]
A Westminster court with the power to seize was in a chamber whose ceiling was covered in these
stars
Mike
|
$1,000
[8]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in London) Traditionally at tea, scones is served warm with jam & this, named for an English county
Devonshire cream
Mike
|
$1,000
[30]
"In the country of the blind" this person "is king"
the one-eyed man
Donna Lee
Mike
|
$1,000
[13]
The name of this brilliant purplish-red color comes from a word meaning flea
puce
|
| THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION | OUT-OF-FASHION BABY NAMES | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF AUTHORS | MUSIC FOR FOOLS? | CEREMONIES | "W" |
|
$400
[17]
Around 300 A.D. Christianity's main rival was the worship of Mithra, god of this heavenly body
sun
Mike
|
$400
[12]
It's the pet form of Chester used by newsman Huntley
Chet
Mike
|
$400
[8]
The Palace Hotel in S.F. has played host to such luminaries as Oscar Wilde & this "Prince and the Pauper" scribe
Mark Twain
Jay
|
$400
[1]
This singer's version of "Moon River" wasn't the big hit, but he did take "A Fool Never Learns" to No. 13
Andy Williams
Donna Lee
|
$400
[3]
At this type of ceremony May 20, 2002, John McCain spoke of parents' sacrifices & leaders of tomorrow
graduation
Jay
|
$400
[26]
In some cultures, instead of becoming this creature of the full moon, men become hyenas instead
werewolf
Mike
|
|
$800
[18]
In the Vedic cult of this country, priests offered a hallucinogen called Soma to the gods, & had a nip themselves
India
Jay
|
$800
[13]
Author Ferber might have known that this 4-letter female name is likely from the same root as a Biblical garden
Edna
Mike
|
$800
[9]
This Scot is buried at Dryburgh Abbey near a view he so loved that his horses paused there on the way to his funeral
Sir Walter Scott
|
$800
[2]
He had a hit with "Fools Rush In" in 1963, back when he was on a TV series with his parents & his brother
Ricky Nelson
Mike
|
$800
[4]
On Sept. 11, 2002, George W. Bush laid one of these bearing a special plaque at Ground Zero
wreath
Jay
Mike
|
$800
[27]
A system of pipes & reservoirs, or a flood of tears that may be turned on for sympathy
waterworks
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Around 500 B.C. this country's King Darius I recognized Zoroastrianism
Persia
Mike
|
$1,200
[14]
It's the first name used by the mogul seen here, but not by many of your kids' classmates
Rupert (Murdoch)
|
$1,200
[10]
"Women in Love" with this author can find the ranch he lived on in the '20s near Taos, New Mexico
D.H. Lawrence
Mike
|
$1,200
[23]
This Beatles tune was the 2nd Top 10 hit for Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
"Fool on the Hill"
Donna Lee
|
$1,200
[5]
It's what a woman is holding when she says, "In the name of the United States I christen thee..."
bottle of champagne
Mike
|
$1,200
[28]
This impulse to travel is the title of Rebecca Solnit's book on the history of walking
wanderlust
Donna Lee
|
|
$2,000
[21]
This sect associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls numbered about 4,000--not for long, due to their celibacy
Essenes
Jay
|
$2,000
[16]
It's the first name of Buddy Glass' big brother in stories by J.D. Salinger; he really needs no introduction
Seymour
|
$1,600
[11]
This hard-drinking Welshman was residing in NYC's Chelsea Hotel when he met an untimely demise in 1953
Dylan Thomas
Mike
|
$1,600
[24]
You'll feel "Guilty" if you don't know that Barry Gibb sang "What Kind of Fool" with her
Barbra Streisand
Donna Lee
|
$1,600
[6]
These ancient religious rites that include the Eleusinian ones sound like they were created by Agatha Christie
mysteries
Mike
|
— |
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Colosseum in Rome.) Most women sat in the top rows, but this group of women stood next to the emperor in a special box
the vestal virgins
Mike
|
DD
$2,600
[15]
It's more popular as the name of a beach on South Carolina's Grand Strand than of a baby girl
Myrtle
Mike
|
$2,000
[22]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from London.) This "Private Lives" playwright & man about town loved to stay here in the Oliver Messel Suite at the Dorchester
Noël Coward
Donna Lee
|
$2,000
[25]
This bizarre band with a bassist named Sputnik had the same name as a Katherine Anne Porter novel
Ship of Fools
|
$2,000
[7]
Kodo is the Japanese ceremony of burning this, & sometimes trying to guess the type from the smell
incense
Mike
|
— |
It's the common English word that is pronounced differently when it becomes the name of a language
polish/Polish