Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.
Joe Holtzmann — a teacher from Wahiawa, Hawaii
Karen Kratzer — a tax accountant from Annapolis, Maryland
Scott Troy — a student from Highland Park, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $2,600 | $3,600 | $10,000 |
$9,953
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,000
12 R, 1 W |
| Karen | $800 | $4,200 | $14,200 |
$20,001
New champion: $20,001 |
$14,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Joe | $1,000 | $2,200 | $8,400 |
$11,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| WE "LOVE" LITERATURE | THE BOYS IN THE BAND | POTPOURRI | & IN THIS CORNER | THE FOOD BIZ | COMIN' UP SHORT |
|
$200
[15]
What can you say about a 33-year-old novel by Erich Segal? Perhaps just this, the book's title
Love Story
Karen
|
$200
[1]
Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
Scott
|
$200
[3]
Damon Runyon mentions gefilte fish in this 1932 collection of tales
Guys and Dolls
|
$200
[10]
In the 1411 Battle of Harlaw, it was the Lowland Scots vs. these Scots
the Highland Scots
Karen
|
$200
[17]
Peas & lima beans were among the first frozen foods sold by this Ho! Ho! Ho! company in 1961
Green Giant
Joe
|
$200
[4]
A DMZ is a demilitarized zone; dz is short for this quantity
a dozen
Karen
|
|
$400
[16]
(Video of Cheryl in Providence, RI.) This is the original 1920 manuscript of a horror story by this author, whose initials stood for Howard Phillips
H.P. Lovecraft
|
$400
[2]
Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen, Jr., The Edge
U2
Joe
|
$400
[13]
The British Home Office's crime computer was named the "Home Office Large Major Enquiry System" after him
Sherlock Holmes
Karen
|
$400
[11]
The First Peloponnesian War was just Sparta vs. this city
Athens
Karen
|
$400
[22]
The top ice cream brands sold at the supermarket are private label, followed by these 2 rhyming brands
Breyer's & Dreyer's
Karen
|
$400
[5]
for is short for foreign; aft is short for this period (a timely response is expected)
afternoon
|
|
$600
[26]
Modern lit just wouldn't be the same without such seminal works as this 1969 Jacqueline Susann novel
The Love Machine
|
$600
[7]
John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, Pete Townshend
The Who
Joe
|
$600
[14]
A belief that they increased the content of something in milk provided the name of these yellow flowers
buttercups
|
$600
[12]
On the card in the 1916 Battle of Jutland was the British fleet vs. this country's fleet
Germany
Karen
|
$600
[23]
"Do something good for yourself" is the slogan for this line of healthier frozen entrees from Stouffer's
Lean Cuisine
Karen
|
$600
[6]
Things you bought whsle, wholesale, might have come out of the whs, this
warehouse
Scott
|
|
DD
$800
[30]
Despite war & outbreaks of disease, the love of Florentino for Fermina endures in this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel
Love in the Time of Cholera
Karen
|
$800
[8]
Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, Paul Cook
the Sex Pistols
Scott
|
$800
[18]
(Video of Jeff Probst in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil.) Until about 1910, the economy of the Amazon depended on the other black gold, this resource, derived from latex.
rubber
Joe
|
$800
[20]
In the 1491-92 siege of Granada, the Spanish defeated this group
the Moors
|
$800
[24]
In the '50s Betty Bitesize was the spokesperson for this line of Ralston Purina cereals
Chex
Karen
|
$800
[28]
mgr, it's a title for a biggie in the Church, & no, it's not manager
Monsignor
Karen
Joe
|
|
$1,000
[29]
It's the only Evelyn Waugh novel we know that became a film starring Jonathan Winters & Liberace
The Loved One
|
$1,000
[9]
Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil
Mötley Crüe
Scott
|
$1,000
[19]
The Little Entente was a 1920s alliance of Romania, Yugoslavia & this country that's since split in 2
Czechoslovakia
Joe
|
$1,000
[21]
The Second Punic War was Rome vs. this
Carthage
|
$1,000
[25]
Tater Tots was an invention of this company in 1953
Ore-Ida
|
$1,000
[27]
sec is short for second & nsec is this, one-billionth of a second
a nanosecond
Scott
|
| STATES BY COUNTY | '90s MOVIE CHARACTERS | CALTECH | 2-LETTER WORDS | BUSH MEN | OF THE KALAHARI |
|
$400
[7]
Powhatan, Spotsylvania, Appomattox
Virginia
Karen
|
$400
[2]
In "Ed Wood", this movie Dracula describes Boris Karloff with a string of expletives
Bela Lugosi
Scott
|
$400
[11]
All Caltech undergrads take 5 terms of this, including Quantum & Classical Mechanics
physics
Joe
|
$400
[1]
In the children's game of tag, what the pursuer is
It
Scott
|
$400
[17]
William Farish, who gave Millie the dog to Bush I, was sent to London by Bush II with this nice job
ambassador
Karen
|
$400
[20]
The Kalahari's not all dry: the Okavango River feeds the Okavango one of these marshy areas
a swamp
Karen
|
|
$800
[8]
Barnstable, Nantucket, Plymouth
Massachusetts
Joe
|
$800
[3]
(Video of Sofia at the California Science Center Titanic Artifact Exhibit.) In "Titanic", this character, played by Kate Winslet, sweeps down the grand staircase to meet Jack
Rose
Karen
|
$800
[12]
Caltech Biochemist Henry Borsook helped develop these guidelines; 6 mg of Niacin for a 2-year-old is one example
RDAs (Recommended Daily Allowances)
Karen
|
$800
[9]
Follow the yellow brick road & give us this 2-letter nickname for Australia
Oz
Scott
|
$800
[18]
From 1995 to 2000 he was CEO of the energy firm Halliburton
Dick Cheney
Scott
Karen
|
$800
[21]
The hartebeest & tsessebe are 2 of these animals you may see bounding gracefully across the plain
antelopes
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Apache, Cochise, Navajo
Arizona
Karen
|
$1,200
[4]
This central character in "Clueless" shares her name with an entertainer
Cher
Scott
|
$1,200
[24]
Norman Church endowed the Chemical Biology lab after a Caltech Prof cleared him of doping this animal
a racehorse
|
$1,200
[10]
Eye-opening art movement of the 1960s
op
|
$1,200
[19]
Bush speechwriter Daid Frum coined this phrase for a trio of nefarious nations
Axis of Evil
Scott
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
Using watering holes, this Scot struggled across the Kalahari in 1849
Dr. Livingstone
Joe
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Antrim, Huron, Mackinac
Michigan
Karen
|
$1,600
[5]
The cop who gets Van Goghed in this film has a name, Marvin Nash
Reservoir Dogs
Scott
|
$1,600
[29]
Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zawail holds a chair named for this 2-time Nobelist (for Chemistry & Peace)
Linus Pauling
|
$1,600
[16]
In the title of a classic beginner book by PD Eastman, it comes before & after "Dog"
Go
Karen
|
$1,600
[22]
Thisever-poised Press Secretary left the post in July of 2003
Ari Fleischer
Scott
|
$1,200
[26]
A depression between these "hills", which can be a mile long & 200' high, is called a straat, "street"
sand dunes
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Waldo, Aroostook, Penobscot
Maine
Karen
|
$2,000
[6]
In "Braveheart", the English King who's trying to "take our freedom"
Edward I (Edward Longshanks)?
|
DD
$2,000
[30]
In 1935 Caltech alum Arnold Beckman developed this 2-letter meter to measure acidity in lemon juice
pH
Joe
|
$2,000
[23]
The home of Abraham, this Sumerian city was rediscovered in the 1850s
Ur
Joe
|
$2,000
[25]
In March 2003 Senate Democrats stalled Bush's nomination of this Hispanic-American to the Court of Appeals
Miguel Estrada
|
$2,000
[28]
(Video of Jimmy with a map of Africa.) The Kalahari covers portions of Botswana, South Africa, and this country
Namibia
Joe
|
The 2 main religions on this island nation are Greek Orthodox & Islam
Cyprus