Don Wynne — a lawyer from Stamford, Connecticut
Valerie Takacs — an accounting assistant from Hudson, Ohio
Mike Smith — a litigation technology specialist from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | $2,400 | $3,400 | $5,000 |
$6,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,000
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Valerie | $2,000 | $3,000 | $12,400 |
$18,400
New champion: $18,400 |
$13,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Don | $2,000 | $4,200 | $9,000 |
$18,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
15 R, 5 W |
| 20th CENTURY PEOPLE | A QUESTION ABOUT TELEVISION | TUNE IN TUNISIA | SPOT THE POOCH | FACTS IN THE WORLD ALMANAC | "Z" END |
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$200
[1]
On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, Padraic Pearse & his men seized this city's general post office
Dublin
Mike
|
$200
[10]
This question is the first line of the theme song from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Don
|
$200
[20]
Tunisia's official language is Arabic, with this European tongue used widely as a second national language
French
Mike
|
$200
[17]
The margay, the mastiff, the moa
mastiff
Valerie
Don
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$200
[15]
Most Americans get most of their cheese from these, makers of which bought $2.5 billion of cheese in 2002
pizzas
Don
|
$200
[6]
An instructional book is "Juggling for the Complete" one of these, a word from Yiddish meaning "clumsy person"
Klutz
Mike
|
|
$400
[2]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Munich, Germany.) His first speech to a mass meeting was in a 1919 German Workers Party rally at the Hofbrauhaus
Hitler
Mike
|
$400
[11]
After this hero left the scene, someone inevitably asked, "Who was that masked man?"
The Lone Ranger
Valerie
|
$400
[21]
Also found on the flags of Pakistan & Turkey, they're the 2 symbols found on the Tunisian flag
the crescent & the star
Mike
|
$400
[18]
The Savannah, the serval, the shar-pei
the shar-pei
Don
|
$400
[27]
The Marine Corps emblem is an American eagle, a globe & one of these marine items
an anchor
Mike
|
$400
[7]
This online travel service can ticket you on 455 airlines & put you in 500,000 lodging properties
Orbitz
Don
|
|
$600
[3]
This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of detective fiction
Dashiell Hammett
Don
|
$600
[12]
This 5-word question became a catchphrase for Gary Coleman on "Different Strokes"
What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
Mike
|
$600
[22]
Tunisia's Cape Bon is only about 90 miles from the southwest coast of this Italian island
Sicily
Mike
|
$600
[19]
The burmilla, the balbinus, the bichon frise
the bichon frise
Mike
|
$600
[28]
In an almost 5-hour flight in 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth a total of this many times
3
|
$600
[8]
Artificial or synthetic
ersatz
|
|
$800
[4]
Born in 1895, this movie choreographer would drill through floors to film his arrays of girls
Busby Berkeley
Valerie
|
$800
[13]
Watching "Twin Peaks", the lynch mob wondered, "Who killed" this teenager
Laura Palmer
Valerie
|
$1,000
[24]
This "Red-Bearded" pirate used Tunisia as a base when fighting off 16th C. Christian attempts to control the area
Barbarossa
Don
|
$800
[25]
The cymric, the cockapoo, the caballado
the cockapoo
Valerie
|
$800
[29]
Prior to Sacagawea, she was the last woman on the $1 coin in general circulation
Susan B. Anthony
Mike
|
$800
[9]
The characters from this comic strip seenhereare often found at Bryson Elementary
Frazz
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This Frenchman turned down the Nobel Literature Prize in 1964 because it might compromise his freedom
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
Don
|
$1,000
[14]
This popular game show featured the question "Will our mystery guest enter and sign in, please?"
What's My Line?
Mike
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
The ancient ruins of this city destroyed in 146 B.C. are just outside the capital city of Tunis
Carthage
Mike
|
$1,000
[26]
The kelpie, the krait, the kabaddi
the kelpie
|
— |
$1,000
[16]
It's a printed cotton fabric, often used for drapes
chintz
Don
|
| ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING | '70s MOVIE THEMES | THE WRITER WRITES A LETTER | FOOD & DRINK BRANDS | NAMES IN NATURE | BEGINS & ENDS WITH "N" |
|
$400
[24]
Henry Bacon designed this Washington, D.C. landmark: a white marble Doric temple above a pool
the Lincoln Memorial
Valerie
|
$400
[11]
Start spreadin' the news--Liza Minnelli introduced this title track, the theme to a 1977 film
"New York, New York"
Don
|
$400
[16]
In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, he wrote, "We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow. Been trout fishing"
Ernest Hemingway
Mike
|
$400
[1]
Its jingle says, "Thank Goodness for" this chef
Chef Boyardee
Valerie
|
$400
[21]
The canvasback, a large variety of this bird, is named for the male's grayish-white back & sides
duck
Valerie
|
$400
[6]
A resident of Naples
Neapolitan
Mike
|
|
$800
[27]
Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of these & left it a city of marble
bricks
Don
|
$800
[12]
"Evergreen" is the love theme from this 1976 movie
A Star Is Born
Valerie
Don
|
$800
[17]
This author of "Les Miserables" wrote to his future wife that "It seems to me that what I feel is not of Earth"
Victor Hugo
Mike
Valerie
|
$800
[2]
This hot state inspired the name of John Ferolito & Don Vultaggio's beverage company that's known for its iced tea
Arizona
Valerie
|
$800
[22]
The devilfish, seen here, is also known by this 2-word non-devilish name
manta ray
Don
|
$800
[7]
A small measurement of liquid, or a slang term for your head
noggin
Don
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Tudor, ogee & horseshoe are different types of these; a state with many of them would be a keystone state
arches
|
$1,200
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Philadelphia.) This song, "Rocky"'s theme, was playing as Rocky ran up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Gonna Fly Now"
Don
|
$1,200
[18]
His 1879 letter to a confused reader explains, "Old Man Karamazov was killed by the servant Smerdyakov"
Dostoevsky
Don
|
$1,200
[3]
This brand, made from 100% Colombian coffee, bills itself as "The Essence of Coffee"
Yuban
Don
|
$1,200
[23]
Aku is another name for this fast-moving tuna which seems to "skip" over the water
skipjack
Don
|
$1,200
[8]
Nicotinic acid
niacin
Don
|
| — |
$1,600
[14]
Andy Williams had a 1972 hit with "Speak Softly Love", the theme from this epic film
The Godfather
Valerie
|
$1,600
[19]
4 years before writing "Little Dorrit", he wrote his wife that their daughter "Little Dora... is suddenly stricken ill"
Charles Dickens
Mike
|
DD
$1,800
[4]
It's said that Leonardo da Vinci visited this Italian mineral water's spring to treat his ailments
San Pellegrino
Valerie
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
It's said the Mormons named this desert plant, seen here, for its resemblance to a Biblical prophet with arms lifted
the Joshua tree
Valerie
|
$1,600
[9]
A wrestling hold applied to the head, neck & one or both arms
a nelson
Don
|
| — |
$2,000
[15]
The instrumental "Tubular Bells" was the theme to this 1973 scarefest
The Exorcist
Valerie
|
$2,000
[20]
He responded to an admirer that "Nothing was omitted in 'Marie Roget' but what I omitted myself"
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Valerie
|
$2,000
[5]
The name of this brand of hard candies was meant to suggest a friendly Western company
Jolly Rancher
|
$2,000
[26]
This common greenhouse pest is named for the white, flourlike substance that covers its body
mealybug
|
$2,000
[10]
From the Greek for "kidney", it's 1 of many filtering units in the kidney that remove waste matter from the blood
nephron
|
A circumorbital hematoma is more commonly known as this
a black eye