David Madden game 10.
Laurie Parker — a writer and editor from Franklin, Tennessee
Brian Pearson — a naval officer from Virginia Beach, Virginia
David Madden — a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey (whose 9-day cash winnings total $217,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $3,400 | $6,000 | $24,000 |
$22,000
10-day champion: $239,100 |
$22,600
24 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W |
| Brian | $1,200 | $2,600 | $6,200 |
$1,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
15 R, 4 W |
| Laurie | $800 | $4,000 | $6,800 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
13 R, 6 W |
| PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS | CELEBRITY CEREAL | AMERICAN WORLD CAPTIALS | LONG A-GO | DON'T BUG ME | COOL "AID" |
|
$200
[9]
This 1968 candidate reportedly urged South Vietnam's President Thieu to scuttle possible peace talks
(Richard) Nixon
David
|
$200
[30]
A peanut butter & chocolate flavored cereal was named for this character from a Steven Spielberg movie
E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial )
Laurie
|
$200
[13]
As Starbucks' home base, there's always something brewing in this city, the "Coffee Capital of the World"
Seattle
Brian
|
$200
[18]
France's first rail line was built to transport this fuel that was essential to the Industrial Revolution
coal
David
|
$200
[29]
An insect called the water boatman uses these appendages as oars to navigate its watery habitat
legs
David
Brian
|
$200
[4]
To interweave 3 or more strands
braid
Laurie
|
|
$400
[10]
William Henry Harrison really had lived in one of these, his symbol in the 1840 campaign, but he added 12 rooms
a log cabin
David
|
$400
[14]
Jim Carrey, Val Kilmer & Tommy Lee Jones appeared on 1995 Corn Pops boxes to promote this "eternal" sequel
Batman Forever
David
Brian
Laurie
|
$400
[7]
It's both the "Entertainment Capital of the World" & the "Wedding Capital of the World"
Las Vegas
David
|
$400
[21]
During the Civil War he had headquarters in Cairo, Illinois & people from the area gave him a horse named Egypt
(Ulysses S.) Grant
David
|
$400
[28]
Of fly, mate or eat, the activity butterflies can't do if their body temperature is below 86 degrees
fly
Laurie
|
$400
[5]
A constant runner-up is said to be "always" one of these women
a bridesmaid
David
|
|
$600
[11]
In early October 1992 he was spending $2 million a day, most of it his own money
(Ross) Perot
David
Brian
|
$600
[15]
You only need to add an "s" to the name of this 1977 film android to get his popular cereal
C-3PO
|
$600
[6]
This New Mexico city is the self-proclaimed "UFO Capital of the World"
Roswell
Brian
|
$600
[22]
This nickname for the Model T Ford came from a woman's name used as slang for a reliable servant
Tin Lizzie
David
|
$600
[25]
During the day this nocturnal bloodsucker hides under mattress buttons or in cracks in floors; sleep tight!
a bed bug
Laurie
|
$600
[3]
Australian port city at the mouth of the Torrens River
Adelaide
Brian
|
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
Some historians call the election in which this man beat John Breckinridge the most important in U.S. history
(Abraham) Lincoln
David
|
$800
[16]
Add "os" to the last name of Jaleel White's role on "Family Matters" & you'll have this cereal he hawked
Urkel(-Os)
Laurie
|
$800
[1]
Holy guacamole! Fallbrook, California is known as this "Capital of the World"
avocado
David
|
$800
[23]
As a Shakespeare play begins, this title character has "Argosies with portly sail" carrying his goods
the Merchant of Venice
Brian
Laurie
|
$800
[26]
The larvae of the Ichneumon wasp develop inside the body of these arachnids
spiders
David
|
$800
[19]
Purchased ahead of time, like some legal services
prepaid
David
|
|
$1,000
[12]
In the Gore Vidal novel set in this election year, the hero pins his hopes on Tilden
1876
|
$1,000
[17]
In Britain this titular TV time lord from Gallifrey adorned boxes of Sugar Smacks in the 1970s
Doctor Who
Laurie
|
$1,000
[2]
A leading market for racehorses, this Kentucky city is the "Horse Capital of the World"
Lexington
Laurie
|
$1,000
[24]
This ancient galley was named for its 3 tiers of rowers--170 in all
a trireme
Brian
|
$1,000
[27]
This bug derives its name from the fact that adults mate continuously for up to 3 days
a love bug
Laurie
|
$1,000
[20]
To have attacked from ambush in order to seize, rob, or slay
waylaid
Brian
|
| ANCIENT EGYPT | "T"s ME | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN | HIRSCHFELD | BEFORE & AFTER | LADY'S NIGHT |
|
$400
[10]
A Jan. 2005 scan of this pharaoh's mummy showed he wasn't killed by a blow to the head; it did reveal a leg fracture, however
Tutankhamen
Brian
|
$400
[14]
Sun Devil Stadium is found in this city
Tempe
David
Laurie
|
$400
[15]
Though the 79 A.D. eruption gets more press, in 1631 this volcano claimed at least 3,000 lives
Vesuvius
David
Laurie
|
$400
[16]
Al Hischfeld depicted this noir classic in the drawing seen here
The Maltese Falcon
David
Brian
|
$400
[29]
Sickly Dickens character who's devoted to Susan Sarandon
Tiny Tim Robbins
Brian
|
$800
[2]
On Oct. 27, 1996 this American designer unveiled a new line she simply called D
Donna Karan
Brian
|
|
$800
[24]
Hieratic is this script in cursive form
hieroglyphics
David
|
$800
[23]
After suffering genocidal attacks by the Hutus in 1994, this ethnic group took over the Rwandan government
the Tutsis
Laurie
|
$800
[21]
Check out Michelangelo's "Holy Family" at the Uffizi in this Tuscan city, the "Athens of the West"
Florence
David
Laurie
|
$800
[17]
Thisfilm's subject matter was controversial in its day
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Laurie
|
$800
[28]
"Youthful" 1930s gangster who became a world leader in 1994
"Baby Face" Nelson Mandela
Brian
|
$1,200
[3]
In 2001, at the New York Public Library, Oprah & Jessye Norman helped pay tribute to this author on her 70th birthday
Toni Morrison
Brian
|
|
$1,200
[11]
The Egyptians called themselves Remetch, simply meaning this, like "Inuit"
people
Brian
|
$1,200
[1]
Sir Walter Raleigh was living in this prison when he wrote his "History of the World"
the Tower of London
Laurie
|
$1,200
[7]
At age 28 his third opera, "Nabucco", made him one of Italy's foremost composers
Verdi
Laurie
|
$1,200
[18]
The cast of this kooky 1991 film is seen here
The Addams Family
Brian
|
$1,200
[27]
1980s sportswear designer who began use as an immigration center near the Statue of Liberty in 1892
Perry Ellis Island
Brian
|
$1,600
[4]
Pitcher Dennis Martinez attended a 1991 White House dinner for this country's Pres. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Nicaragua
David
Brian
|
|
$2,000
[6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the foreground of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.) In a dream this falcon-headed son of Isistold Thutmose IV to clear the sand that buried the sphinx & he'd be king
Horus
David
|
$1,600
[12]
The opening in an early cannon or gun where the flame was applied
touch-hole
|
DD
$1,400
[9]
The first poems definitely attributed to this epic poet are the Eclogues, composed between 42 & 37 B.C.
Virgil
David
|
$1,600
[19]
Hirschfeld purr-fectly captured a sensual scene from this film
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Laurie
|
$1,600
[26]
"Friends" actor who traveled in time to become an Erle Stanley Gardner character in 1933
Matthew Perry Mason
|
$2,000
[8]
At a 1984 dinner, this "doubting" woman became the 1st woman to win the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award
Helen Thomas
David
|
|
DD
$3,000
[5]
Paradise in the Egyptian afterlife was in this god's"field of reeds"
Osiris
David
|
$2,000
[13]
By 1300 these Slav-conquering knights were the most powerful force in Central & Eastern Europe
Teutonic Knights
David
|
$2,000
[22]
What a political comeback! In '94 he quit as P.M. amid charges of corruption but was re-elected in 2001
Berlusconi
David
|
$2,000
[20]
This1936 silent classic proves that Luddite disaffection can be played for laughs
Modern Times
David
|
$2,000
[25]
Civil war nurse who became a Coen brothers title character in 1991
Clara Barton Fink
Laurie
|
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He called himself "the man who introduced the glass box and then, 50 years later, broke it"
Philip Johnson