Penny Frisbie — a systems engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina
Rich Levine — a software process engineer from Chandler, Arizona
Kathleen Ellis — a registered nurse from Red Oak, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,501)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen | $3,800 | $7,800 | $31,000 |
$35,000
3-day champion: $78,501 |
$17,800
24 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Rich | $2,800 | $5,000 | $10,600 |
$21,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
19 R, 3 W |
| Penny | $1,000 | $1,000 | $-3,800 |
$-3,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-3,800
1 R, 3 W |
| BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS | IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS | BESTSELLERS | COUNTRY COOKING | TV CARTOONS | THE "IGHT" STUFF |
|
$200
[26]
For thousands of years, the Chinese have used the cocoons of the Bombyx mori moth to produce this
silk
Rich
|
$200
[16]
Isaac Newton said he felt like a boy finding these small stones on the seashore of the Ocean of Truth
pebbles
Kathleen
|
$200
[11]
Selected by daughter Caroline, "The Best-Loved Poems of" this beloved First Lady was a bestseller in 2001
Jacqueline Kennedy
Rich
|
$200
[6]
Tempura
Japan
Rich
|
$200
[1]
According to their theme song, they're "The modern Stone-Age family"
The Flintstones
Kathleen
|
$200
[21]
Proverbially speaking, things "out of" this are "out of mind"
sight
Kathleen
|
|
$400
[27]
Because hawk moths flap their wings so rapidly, they are sometimes mistaken for these small birds
hummingbirds
Rich
|
$600
[18]
From the French for "little hook", this form of needlework can be used to make decorative clothes & gifts
crochet
Rich
|
$400
[12]
This talk show host's candid memoir "Find Me" came out in April 2002
Rosie O'Donnell
|
$400
[7]
Goulash
Hungary
Kathleen
|
$400
[2]
In a 2001 10th anniversary special, these kids were "All Growed Up"
Rugrats
Kathleen
|
$400
[22]
It's a synonym for stingy or slightly inebriated
tight
Rich
|
|
$600
[28]
Female butterflies & moths release pheromones to attract males, who use these organs to "smell" the chemicals
antennae
|
$800
[19]
It's the interchangeable writing point of a fountain pen
nib
Kathleen
|
$600
[13]
According to the title of a 1960s bestseller by Charles Schulz, "Happiness is" this
a Warm Puppy
Kathleen
|
$600
[8]
Hasenpfeffer
Germany
Kathleen
|
$600
[3]
Before moving on to "King of the Hill", Mike Judge created & gave voice to this adolescent pair
Beavis and Butt-head
Rich
|
$600
[23]
On film, Dracula refers to the howling wolves as "the children of" this
the night
Kathleen
|
|
$800
[29]
This butterfly family is named for the way it flies, not for Alan Hale's character on "Gilligan's Island"
skipper
Rich
|
$1,000
[20]
BB can be a small lead pellet, or an abbreviation for this spherical friction-reducing object
ball bearing
Kathleen
|
$800
[14]
Mitch Albom's weekly visits with his dying college professor inspired this touching book
"Tuesdays with Morrie"
Kathleen
|
$800
[9]
Osso Buco
Italy
Rich
|
$800
[4]
He's the PBS title character seen here, along with someone else you might recognize
Arthur
Kathleen
|
$800
[24]
In the King James Bible, it's the fourth word spoken by God
"(Let there be) light"
Kathleen
Rich
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In the names of butterflies, this word immediately follows black, tiger & checkered
swallowtail
Rich
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
In French these office supplies are called trombones
paper clips
Kathleen
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1977 his "All Things Wise and Wonderful" was a No. 1 bestseller
James Herriot
Penny
|
$1,000
[10]
Souvlaki
Greece
Rich
|
$1,000
[5]
In a '70s spinoff from the original series, these gals found themselves "in Outer Space"
Josie and the Pussycats
|
$1,000
[25]
Among Whittier's saddest "Words of Tongue or Pen", it's the word that fits the category
"(It) might (have been)"
|
| ISLANDS | THE OLYMPICS | LET'S MONKEY AROUND | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS | FIRST LADIES | NOISES IN THE DICTIONARY |
|
$400
[1]
This island off Guinea-Bissau bears the old name of Taiwan
Formosa
Kathleen
|
$400
[16]
The 2 cities that hosted the Summer Olympics in the 1970s, they both begin with the same letter
Munich & Montreal
Rich
|
$400
[19]
Most old world monkeys just use it for balance; it's prehensile on many new world monkeys
tail
Rich
|
$400
[24]
For playing Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff", this dramatist got an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor
Sam Shepard
Rich
|
$400
[6]
Jenna's grandmother, in the '80s she was looked upon as "Everybody's Grandmother"
Barbara Bush
Rich
|
$400
[11]
A type of band or the imitation of a tuba's sound, it can have one "pah" or two
oompah
Rich
|
|
$800
[2]
The U.S. took this largest of the Ryukyu Islands during WWII & didn't give it back to Japan until 1972
Okinawa
Kathleen
|
$800
[17]
This competition combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting at targets along the course
biathlon
Kathleen
|
$800
[20]
Experts say that among playground equipment, this "simian" piece may be responsible for the most injuries
monkey bars
Kathleen
|
$800
[26]
Many of his plays are set in his native Chicago, including "American Buffalo" & "Glengarry Glen Ross"
David Mamet
Kathleen
|
$800
[7]
Jackie Kennedy especially admired this First Lady for the way she raised Margaret in the White House glare
Bess Truman
Kathleen
|
$800
[12]
A light ringing sound, as of glasses in a toast; it also means prison
clink
Rich
|
|
$1,200
[3]
"Able was I ere I saw" this largest island of the Tuscan archipelago
Elba
Kathleen
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
In 1908 the marathon was extended to end before this city's royal viewing area, establishing today's distance
London
Kathleen
|
$1,200
[21]
Actress seen here with Tyson, a monkey who worked with her on a biopic of Frida Kahlo
Salma Hayek
Rich
|
$1,200
[27]
His first major work, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", received a 1985 N.Y. Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
August Wilson
|
$1,600
[9]
Her first husband John Todd & their infant son died during a yellow fever epidemic in 1793
Dolley Madison
Penny
|
$1,200
[13]
It's a short, high-pitched tone, & can also mean "to summon"
beep
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Gotland? It's an island in this sea between Sweden & Latvia
Baltic Sea
Penny
|
$1,600
[25]
Based on a true story, this film was about the formation of a Jamaican bobsled team for the 1988 Winter Olympics
Cool Runnings
Kathleen
|
$1,600
[22]
It's the fruit of the baobab tree
monkey bread
Rich
|
$1,600
[28]
1953 was his year: he won both the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award & the Pulitzer Prize for "Picnic"
William Inge
Penny
|
$2,000
[10]
It was the first name of Mrs. Grant & the second Mrs. Tyler
Julia
|
$1,600
[14]
In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", the mariner's shipmates keel over "with heavy" this, "a lifeless lump"
thump
|
|
$2,000
[5]
The last name of English captain Robert Bylot's pilot, it was given to Canada's largest island
Baffin
Kathleen
|
$2,000
[30]
Last name of twins Phil & Steve who won gold & silver in the slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Mahre
Rich
|
$2,000
[23]
He was the defendant in the 1925 "Monkey Trial"
John Scopes
Rich
|
$2,000
[29]
Until his World War I drama "What Price Glory" was produced in NYC in 1924, he was a journalist & schoolteacher
Maxwell Anderson
|
DD
$13,000
[8]
Receiving a "rock solid" education at Stanford, Lou Hoover was the first woman to earn a degree in this
geology
Kathleen
|
$2,000
[15]
This sound of vibration can be pronounced like the third person plural past indicative of "to be"
were/whir
|
This brand's famous logo originally represented Vulcan about to strike his anvil
Arm & Hammer