Sherri Newhouse — a budget director from Benbrook, Texas
Jake Maeroff — a law student from Plantation, Florida
Myron Meyer — a scheduling coordinator from Owatonna, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $50,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myron | $7,600 | $10,200 | $20,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$19,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Jake | $1,600 | $3,200 | $33,200 |
$41,201
New champion: $41,201 |
$16,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Sherri | $800 | $2,800 | $6,000 |
$11,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
10 R, 0 W |
| HISTORIC HISTORIANS | RANDOM STUFF | CRITTERS | WHAT A BUNCH OF TV CHARACTERS | LET'S GET MARRIED | MEET MY "EX" |
|
$200
[6]
2nd century B.C. historian Ssu-Ma Ch'ien put together the first comprehensive history of this country
China
Sherri
|
$200
[11]
He "hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season... Please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason"
the Grinch
Myron
|
$200
[16]
It's the world's tallest animal whose young is known as a calf
a giraffe
Myron
Jake
|
$200
[17]
Luke, Bo, Daisy, Boss Hogg
The Dukes of Hazzard
Myron
|
$200
[22]
On Sept. 12, 1953 Boston Archbishop Richard Cushing conducted the marriage between this famous pair
JFK and Jackie
Jake
|
$200
[1]
The White House was once officially called this "Mansion"
Executive
Jake
|
|
$400
[7]
Christian Lange edited "Diplomatarium Norvegicum", a valuable source on this, his native land
Norway
Jake
|
$400
[12]
"He was doing jumping jacks yesterday", said George W. Bush, downplaying this man's heart problems
Dick Cheney
Myron
|
$400
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Zoo Atlanta.) The two panda species are the 6- to 12-pound red panda & this 200- to 250-pound species
the giant panda
Sherri
|
$400
[18]
Herman, Lily, Grandpa, Eddie
The Munsters
Jake
|
$400
[23]
About his mother's remarriage, Hamlet disdainfully remarks, "Frailty thy name is" this
woman
Jake
|
$400
[2]
Named shared by a Leon Uris novel, a Bob Marley album & a book of the Bible
Exodus
Myron
|
|
$600
[8]
William Prescott's 2 big tales of the Conquistadors were about "The Conquest of Peru" & "The Conquest of" this country
Mexico
Myron
|
$600
[13]
Daffy Duck, a fox from Disney in 1973 & Kevin Costner have all played this role from folklore
Robin Hood
Myron
|
$600
[28]
Not tabbies or flabbies, but these house cats are known as Abys
Abyssinians
Sherri
|
$600
[19]
Doug & Carrie Heffernan, Arthur Spooner
The King of Queens
|
$600
[24]
In the section on marriage in "The Prophet", he wrote, "Let there be spaces in your togetherness"
Khalil Gibran
Jake
|
$600
[3]
A third mate unlicensed to pilot this ship through Prince William Sound ran it aground
the Exxon Valdez
Sherri
|
|
$1,000
[10]
This venerable saint's eccesiastical history of England goes up to 731; he died in 735
the Venerable Bede
Myron
|
$800
[14]
In August of 1971 David Scott dropped a feather & a hammer here; they landed at the same time
the Moon
Myron
|
$800
[29]
Unlike a human, a shark's skeleton is made of this elastic tissue, not bone
cartilage
Myron
|
$800
[20]
Carlos Ramirez, Reverend Mother, Sister Bertrille
The Flying Nun
Jake
|
$800
[25]
The first 2 acts of this 1938 play are titled "The Daily Life" & "Love and Marriage"
Our Town
Myron
|
$800
[4]
This early 20th century German art movement tried to show subjective emotions
Expressionism
Myron
|
|
DD
$1,800
[9]
6th century Roman historian Flavius Cassiodorus did a history of this group that split into Visi- & Ostro- halves
the Goths
Myron
|
$1,000
[15]
This chess term for an opening in which pieces are sacrificed has come to mean any ploy or strategem
a gambit
Myron
|
$1,000
[30]
Hey, Dean! 8 species make up this group of weasel-like mammals including the fisher & sable
the marten family
Jake
|
$1,000
[21]
Joyce Davenport, Andy Renko, Frank Furillo
Hill Street Blues
Sherri
|
$1,000
[26]
He must have liked the family; Thomas Seymour married this English king's widow & later tried to marry his daughter
Henry VIII
Myron
|
$1,000
[5]
By tradition, No. 11 Downing Street is the residence of this chancellor
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Jake
|
| KJPY CLASSICAL RADIO | SAINTS ON THE MAP | GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? | EAT MEAT | LITERARY NAME'S THE SAME | THE SHORT FORM |
|
$400
[7]
In the next hour, Sir William Walton's concerto for this instrument, featuring Yo-Yo Ma
the cello
Myron
|
$400
[17]
It's home to over a dozen golden arches of McDonald's & a 630-foot high single stainless steel arch
St. Louis
Sherri
|
$400
[12]
If this character is coming, have a nice Chianti & some fava beans, though maybe it's best not to invite Ray Liotta
Hannibal Lecter
Jake
|
$400
[1]
This meat is also called kid & when curried is a Jamaican specialty
goat
Jake
|
$400
[2]
Poet Robert who wrote "The Ruling Passion", or prose writer Tom, who kept his "Common Sense"
Paine
Sherri
|
$400
[22]
In the military: AWOL
absent without leave
Myron
|
|
$800
[8]
Now we'll hear a belovedariaby this Italian composer
Rossini
Jake
|
$800
[18]
Located on the Gulf of Finland, it was capital of Russia for 2 centuries
St. Petersburg
Sherri
|
$800
[13]
In "Animal House" this actor who played Bluto calls for a "food fight!"
John Belushi
Myron
|
$800
[27]
In the film comedy "Love and Death", Napoleon says the Napoleon pastry must be developed before this British meat dish
Beef Wellington
Sherri
|
$800
[3]
Nathalia wrote "The Sunken Garden"; Stephen stayed above ground with "The Red Badge of Courage"
Crane
Sherri
|
$800
[23]
If your car breaks down: AAA
the American Automobile Association
Myron
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Time now for the KJPY clue of the day: born in 1770, he called himself Bacchus, pressing out the wine of musical revelation
Beethoven
Jake
|
$1,200
[19]
This California city was named for the bay, which was named for an Assisi saint
San Francisco
Jake
|
$1,200
[14]
Julia Roberts finds snails are "slippery little suckers" at dinner with Richard Gere and Ralph Bellamy in this film
Pretty Woman
Jake
|
$1,200
[28]
From a Cree word, this Native American food was made from cranberries, dried deer meat & melted fat
pemmican
Myron
|
$1,200
[4]
Last name of Edward, who wrote "A Venetian Lover", & of the better-known author of "Firestarter"
King
Myron
|
$1,200
[24]
On an invitation: RSVP
répondez s'il vous plaît
Jake
|
|
$1,600
[10]
Call & win tickets to this "talky" type of voice & piano performance, of songs by Hugo Wolf
a recital
|
$2,000
[21]
The stars on its flag seenherestand for hope & liberty, not it & Nevis
St. Kitts
Jake
|
$2,000
[16]
Though Wallace Shawn worked with "The Giant" wrestler elsewhere, this '81 food film was not about the big man
My Dinner with Andre
Myron
|
$1,600
[30]
From the French for "to crunch", it's meat combined with a thick white sauce & deep-fried
croquettes
|
$1,600
[5]
The 1874 novel "His Natural Life" by this Aussie author named Marcus was still a good read in 2001
Clarke
|
$1,600
[25]
To a swimmer, SCUBA
self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
Myron
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Tomorrow KJPY presents a tribute to this "Fiddler on the Roof" who died in 2001
Isaac Stern
|
DD
$14,000
[20]
Jesse James was terminated in this city, once home to a terminus of the Pony Express
St. Joseph
Jake
|
DD
$6,000
[15]
(Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin.) At the end of the deli scene, director Rob Reiner's mother has this romantic comedy's funniest line
When Harry Met Sally...
Jake
|
$2,000
[29]
These "meats", including the kidneys, heart & brain, must be "the spice of life"
variety meats
Myron
|
$2,000
[6]
Travel writer Robert; he could have had Childe Harold take a pilgrimage on his "Road to Oxiana"
Byron
Jake
|
$2,000
[26]
NAFTA, the treaty
North American Free Trade Agreement
Jake
|
He's the only athlete in history to play in both the Super Bowl & the World Series
Deion Sanders