David Rozenson game 1.
David Rozenson — a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
Neill Kovrig — a counseling support specialist from San Marcos, California
Lisa Voss — a library assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa | $1,200 | $4,200 | $9,200 |
$18,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,400
19 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Neill | $2,200 | $5,000 | $11,400 |
$5,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,400
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| David | $1,600 | $5,400 | $10,200 |
$20,200
New champion: $20,200 |
$10,200
14 R, 4 W |
| LITERARY COLLABORATORS | POKER FACE | POUR ME A STIFF ONE | "COURT" BRIEFS | TALK LIKE A BRIT | 'ALLO, GOVERNOR! |
|
$200
[1]
These brothers first published their "Fairy Tales" in 1812 as "Kinderund Hausmarchen"
the Brothers Grimm
Neill
|
$200
[2]
The poker face seenheredropped out of this university just short of a degree to pursue a career in acting
Harvard
David
|
$200
[14]
Nonpotent potable in common to a fuzzy navel & a screwdriver
orange juice
Neill
|
$200
[23]
A stenographer employed to transcribe an official verbatim record of legal proceedings
a court reporter
Neill
|
$200
[30]
If you're right on queue for a movie in Piccadilly, you're in one of these
a line
Lisa
|
$200
[7]
Al Smith, Mario Cuomo
New York
Neill
|
|
$400
[19]
She & her tres cher ami Jean-Paul Sartre collaborated on the political & literary journal Modern Times
Simone de Beauvoir
David
|
$400
[3]
It's the TV show on which the poker face seenhereco-starred for most of the 1970s
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Neill
|
$400
[15]
Stolichanya, or stoli to its friends, is a brand of this
vodka
Neill
|
$400
[26]
Marsupial term for a self-appointed tribunal that parodies existing principles of law
a kangaroo court
Neill
|
$400
[25]
Of stay in bed, hit someone on the head or rub till it's red, what you do if you cosh
hit someone on the head
Lisa
|
$400
[8]
Calvin Coolidge, Michael Dukakis
Massachusetts
Lisa
Neill
|
|
$600
[20]
For "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", Malcolm collaborated with this author
Alex Haley
David
|
$600
[4]
In a memorable 1987 big screen biography, the poker face seenhereplayed this 1950s music legend
Ritchie Valens
Neill
|
$600
[16]
Invented in Cuba, a mojito is made with lime juice, club soda, sugar, ice, mint leaves & this kind of alcohol
rum
Neill
|
$600
[27]
It's a special judicial assembly with power over the administration of estates & wills of deceased people
probate court
David
|
$600
[12]
On British TV's "Top of the Pops" this Booker T. & the MGs hit might be titled "Spring Onions"
"Green Onions"
Lisa
|
$600
[9]
Beauford Jester, John B. Connally, Jr.
Texas
Neill
|
|
$800
[21]
Sidney Howard helped this author dramatize "Dodsworth"
Sinclair Lewis
Lisa
David
|
$800
[5]
This poker face seenhereearned an Oscar nomination for her work in 1994's "Bullets Over Broadway"
Jennifer Tilly
David
|
$800
[17]
This brand of liqueur made its debut in Dublin on November 26, 1974
Bailey's (Irish Cream)
Lisa
|
$800
[28]
AKA amicus curiae, it's someone not party to the litigation but who offers information pertinent to the case
a friend of the court
Lisa
|
$800
[13]
If you're a British secret agent, you may have a license to kill, but you spell license this way
L-I-C-E-N-C-E
Neill
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
Henry S. Thibodaux, P.B.S. Pinchback
Louisiana
Neill
|
|
$1,000
[22]
George S Kaufman died in June 1961; this man, his frequent collaborator, in December of that year
Moss Hart
David
|
$1,000
[6]
This Ontario-based poker face has a Nabokovian first name
Lolita Davidovich
David
|
$1,000
[18]
Mon dieu! This French liqueur was originally made at the Abbey of Fecamp by the monks for which it is named
Benedictine
David
|
$1,000
[29]
Law students try mock hypothetical legal cases in this kind of court
moot court
David
|
$1,000
[24]
If you can't get through to your friend in Brighton, you wouldn't say the telephone is busy, you'd say it's this
engaged
Neill
|
$1,000
[11]
Karl F. Rulvagg, Floyd Bjornsterne Olson, Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus
Minnesota
Lisa
|
| SCIENCE BRIEFS | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS | THE "CAPTAIN" | TO NEIL | MUSCAT LOVE | THE NAACP |
|
$400
[21]
It's a vital sign:BP
blood pressure
Neill
|
$400
[1]
Polonius uses the word "outbreak" about Laertes' fiery mind, not this title character
Hamlet
Lisa
|
$400
[11]
This enigmatic seafarer in 1954's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was portrayed by James Mason
Captain Nemo
Lisa
|
$400
[6]
On board Gemini 8, he performed the first successful docking of 2 vehicles in space
Neil Armstrong
Lisa
|
$400
[16]
Muscat is its capital city
Oman
Lisa
|
$1,600
[27]
This future Supreme Court justice won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the court as a lawyer for the NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
Lisa
|
|
$800
[22]
It's elemental:Zn
zinc
Lisa
|
$800
[2]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from horseback.) Shakespeare used this word in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" to catch someone's notice; I use it to stop my horse
whoa (ho also accepted)
Lisa
Neill
|
$800
[12]
Hans Conried voiced this villain in a 1953 Disney classic
Captain Hook
David
|
$800
[7]
A star of D.W. Griffith's "America", Neil Hamilton played Commissioner Gordon on this TV show
Batman
Lisa
|
$800
[17]
The 3 main forts in Muscat date from the 1580s when this small Iberian nation conquered & occupied it
Portugal
Neill
|
$2,000
[26]
(Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.) In 1995 this widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers became the first woman to head the NAACP
Myrlie Evers(-Williams)
Lisa
|
|
$1,200
[23]
For water, it's 0 degrees Celsius:F.P.
freezing point
Neill
|
$1,200
[3]
From Latin for "indecent", this word in "Love's Labour's Lost" is the type of book banned by the Comstock Law
obscene
Lisa
|
$1,200
[13]
For his role as Manuel, Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for this 1937 fish story
Captains Courageous
David
|
$1,200
[8]
From 1979 to 1981, Neil Goldschmidt was Secretary of this department abbreviated D.O.T.
the Department of Transportation
Lisa
David
|
$1,200
[18]
Completed in 2001, the "Grand" one of these in Muscat is the 1st in the country to be open to non-Muslims
a mosque
Neill
|
DD
$2,400
[28]
(Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.) This award, the NAACP's highest honor, was first bestowed in 1915 & named for a past chairman of the NAACP
the Spingarn Medal
Lisa
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Used of radio waves:MHz
megahertz
David
|
$1,600
[4]
This word in "Henry VI Part 2" meant blase & world-weary, not having to do with nephrite
jaded
Lisa
|
$1,600
[14]
Hooray for this Groucho Marx character from "Animal Crackers"
Captain Spaulding
David
|
$1,600
[9]
In the '50s, Neil H. McElroy was this man's Secretary of Defense
President Eisenhower
Neill
|
$1,600
[19]
Qaboos bin Said al Said rules from his palace in Muscat under this title that means "ruler" in Arabic
sultan
Neill
David
|
— |
|
$2,000
[25]
When the stork won't come:IVF
in vitro fertilization
David
|
DD
$1,800
[5]
The word "fashionable" came into vogue with Ulysses' speech to Achilles in this play
Troilus and Cressida
Lisa
|
$2,000
[15]
Errol Flynn is a doctor who is forced to become a pirate in this 1935 action fest
Captain Blood
Lisa
|
$2,000
[10]
In 1989, this "bright" Neil Sheehan work about the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction
A Bright Shining Lie
David
|
$2,000
[20]
A main strategic value of Muscat stems from its position at the entranceway to this 90,000 sq. mi. body of water
the Persian Gulf
Lisa
Neill
|
— |
Chauffeur Alf Bicknell was the inspiration for this 1965 song
"Drive My Car"