Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.
Rebecca Fahrendorf — a validation engineer from Indianapolis, Indiana
Robert Morgan — a high school teacher from San Juan Capistrano, California
Benni Adkins — a school lunch lady from Glenpool, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benni | $1,000 | $4,600 | $11,400 |
$7,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,400
19 R, 2 W |
| Robert | $2,400 | $5,400 | $24,000 |
$23,500
New champion: $23,500 |
$24,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rebecca | $600 | $2,400 | $2,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,800
7 R, 2 W |
| PLACES TO GO BEFORE YOU DIE | MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" | FAMOUS VALEDICTORIANS | THE U.S. ARMY | VERBS |
|
$200
[21]
On the Greek isle of Aegina, at the orchards full of these nuts, you can see them before they're dyed red
pistachios
Rebecca
|
$200
[1]
Will Smith's "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" is the theme to this 2002 sequel
Men in Black II
Benni
|
$200
[13]
Genie container (4)
a lamp
Robert
|
$200
[8]
Lynnwood High's Valedictorian in 1975 was this rock parodist who probably thought himself the "Bald Victorian"
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Rebecca
|
$200
[3]
The Stephen Ailes Award goes to the top one of these trainers of recruits--What's that, soldier? I can't hear you!!
a drill instructor (or drill sergeant)
Robert
|
$200
[26]
As a noun, he calls signals for the plays in the huddle; as a verb, it means to direct the offense
quarterback
Benni
|
|
$400
[22]
This Canadian city's Bata Shoe Museum has Pierre Trudeau's sandals; now that's worth "CN"
Toronto
Benni
|
$400
[2]
The soundtrack to this 1983 yuppie reunion movie includes '60s hits like "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" & "My Girl"
The Big Chill
Robert
|
$400
[14]
Hilton's "Horizon", or Fitzgerald's "Generation" (4)
Lost
Rebecca
|
$400
[9]
A mole told us she was a model Valedictorian for Dekalb High in 1984
Cindy Crawford
Robert
|
$400
[4]
About 35,000 soldiers of the 8th Army are stationed on this Asian peninsula
the Korean Peninsula
Robert
|
$400
[27]
To tamper with something, or to be have in an "apish" manner
monkey (around)
Robert
|
|
$600
[23]
The Museumboot will take you through this city's canals with stops near the Rembrandt House & Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
Rebecca
|
$600
[18]
(This is Alison Krauss.) 3 of my songs, including "I'll Fly Away", are on the multi-Platinum soundtrack to this Coen Brothers film
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Benni
|
$600
[15]
Nabokov's nymphet (6)
Lolita
Benni
|
$600
[10]
He was behind the lectern for Binger High in 1965 & he was behind the plate for the Reds in the '70s
Johnny Bench
Benni
|
$600
[5]
Designed to accompany tanks, this fighting vehicle is named for a U.S. General of World War II
the Bradley
Benni
|
$600
[28]
It's a synonym for "efface" that also rhymes with it
deface (erase)
Benni
|
|
$800
[24]
Though this city encircled by Hebei province is China's second-largest, it's the one you think of first
Peking (Beijing)
Robert
Rebecca
|
$800
[19]
Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" is a No. 1 hit from the soundtrack to this 1985 John Hughes film
The Breakfast Club
Rebecca
|
$800
[16]
Fauntleroy is a "little" one (4)
Lord
Robert
|
$800
[11]
This game show host might have offered the Yale Law class of 1970 a chance to win his Valedictorian speech
Ben Stein
|
$800
[6]
This corps evolved from flags & torches in the 1850s to advanced electronic communications
the Signal Corps
Robert
|
$800
[29]
From the Old Norse for "to bathe", it means to lie on the beach & soak up the warm rays
bask
Benni
|
|
$1,000
[25]
In its native tongue, this Himalayan kingdom is called Drukyul
Bhutan
Benni
Robert
|
$1,000
[20]
(I'm Wynonna.) I covered Elvis Presley's "Burning Love" for the soundtrack to this 2002 animated film
Lilo & Stitch
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[17]
Versifier Vachel (7)
Lindsay
Benni
|
$1,000
[12]
When Gouverneur Morris was Valedictorian at this N.Y. school in 1768, it was known as King's College
Columbia University
Benni
Robert
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
Washington was the first 3-star General; this President the first 4-star General
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert
|
$1,000
[30]
Often used to mean "imply", it really means to draw a conclusion from what another has implied
infer
Benni
|
| PLACES TO GO AFTER YOU'RE DEAD | BASEBALL LEGENDS | HISTORIC NICKNAMES | AROUND THE KITCHEN | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL | GETTING UP THERE |
|
$400
[9]
If Peter forgets his keys at home, no one gets in here
heaven
Benni
|
$400
[4]
Only 2 pitchers have lost over 300 games in a career: Pud Galvin & this legend for whom a major award is named
Cy Young
Robert
|
$400
[14]
"Old Blood and Guts"
General George Patton
Robert
|
DD
$200
[30]
Found in many kitchens, polytetrafluoroethylene is more commonly called this
Teflon
Robert
|
$400
[24]
Nietzsche named the wild, creative impulse for Dionysus & the orderly one for this sun god
Apollo
Robert
|
$400
[19]
The base of the stratus, a low type of this, can get down to less than 6,000 feet
a cloud
Robert
|
|
$800
[10]
The friendless poor & strangers are buried in one of these, mentioned in Matthew 27:7
a potter's field
Benni
|
$800
[5]
Prior to entering the Major Leagues at age 42 in 1948, he had pitched 55 no-hitters in the Negro Leagues
Satchel Paige
Robert
|
$800
[15]
"The Serpent of the Nile"
Cleopatra
Benni
|
$400
[1]
The first automatic one of these was patented by Charles Strite in 1921; pop-up was added in 1925
a toaster
Benni
|
$800
[25]
Henri Bergson saw this not as a series of moments but as a flow he called duration
time
Robert
|
$800
[20]
The day before Alan Shepard went up, Malcolm Ross went 21 miles up, up & away in one of these
a balloon
Robert
|
|
$1,200
[11]
The Latin & Greek Churches agree it's a place of temporary suffering, but do not agree on the form of suffering
purgatory
Benni
|
$1,200
[6]
This Cardinals first baseman hit 583 career home runs, averaging a home run for every 10.6 times at bat
Mark McGwire
Benni
Robert
|
$1,200
[16]
"The Second Man on the Moon"
Buzz Aldrin
Robert
|
$800
[2]
Gibson added the first automatic interior light to this appliance
the refrigerator
Benni
|
$1,200
[26]
His "Two Treatises of Government", which influenced Jefferson, said man has a natural right to liberty
John Locke
Robert
|
$1,200
[21]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from Colorado) Drink extra water at 10,000 feet. Up here, this point is lower, so the air contains less water
the dew point
Benni
|
|
$1,600
[12]
In Greek mythology its subdivisions include Erebus & Tartarus
Hades
Robert
|
$1,600
[7]
Baseball's all-time strikeout king with 5,714, his uniform number was retired by 3 teams: California, Houston & Texas
Nolan Ryan
Robert
|
$1,600
[17]
"The Kingfish of Politics"
Huey Long
Robert
|
$1,200
[3]
It took 30 years for this appliance to be in over 50% of U.S. homes; the need to bake a potato in 3 min. wasn't pressing
a microwave oven
Robert
|
$1,600
[27]
This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms
Plato
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1975 one of these scavengers climbed to 37,000' over Africa--sadly, we know this because it hit a plane
a vulture
Robert
|
|
$2,000
[13]
It's a bottomless pit for the dead, or, in its special edition, an almost endless James Cameron movie
the abyss
Robert
|
$2,000
[8]
This shortstop, the "Flying Dutchman", outplayed Ty Cobb in their 1909 World Series showdown
Honus Wagner
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[18]
"The Wittenberg Monk"
Martin Luther
Robert
|
$1,600
[29]
Kitchen appliance that helped A.D. Hershey win a Nobel Prize; it removed a virus' protein coat from its DNA core
a blender
|
$2,000
[28]
Hobbes followed this-ism, not meaning he was greedy but that he reduced every experience to a physical process
materialism
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
The men seen here lunching above Manhattan include members of this Indian tribe
the Mohawk
Robert
|
These 2 words are anagrams of each other & for our location now one is about 34, the other about 74
latitude & altitude