Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.
Brian Lambert — a student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Renie Sotiropoulos — a high school teacher from Crownsville, Maryland
Jeffrey Burcaw — a vice president of an engineering firm from Warner Robins, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey | $3,200 | $6,800 | $5,600 |
$5,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Renie | $3,000 | $4,200 | $12,200 |
$12,400
New champion: $12,400 |
$14,200
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brian | $2,400 | $2,800 | $2,800 |
$5,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| AUTHORS | FOLK SONGS | COUNTRY COOKING | DISEASES | RABBITS, RABBITS, RABBITS | ISN'T THAT "SPECIAL"? |
|
$200
[19]
"The Hamlet" is 1/3 of his trilogy about the Snopes family
William Faulkner
|
$200
[18]
According to the folk song, it's what the top of Old Smokey was covered with
snow
Jeffrey
|
$200
[1]
Kung Pao chicken
China
Brian
|
$200
[3]
Dogs with this desease may "foam at the mouth" because saliva builds up in their paralyzed throats
rabies
Brian
|
$200
[16]
Going into Mr. McGregor's garden gets him into trouble
Peter Rabbit
Renie
|
$200
[11]
It's an international competition for physically or mentally challenged athletes
the Special Olympics
Renie
|
|
$400
[20]
William Styron took 12 years between his previous novel & this one about a female Auschwitz survivor
Sophie's Choice
|
$400
[21]
This 2003 mockumentary directed by Christopher Guest features The Folksmen
A Mighty Wind
|
$400
[2]
Wiener schnitzel
Austria
Jeffrey
|
$400
[5]
Pneumoconiosis mainly affects these organs
the lungs
Brian
|
$400
[17]
He's "framed" in Toontown
Roger Rabbit
Jeffrey
|
$400
[12]
Extraordinary visual images artificially created for a movie or TV show
special effects
Renie
|
|
$600
[25]
His "Hike and the Aeroplane" of 1912 didn't exactly put him on the Main Street of success
Sinclair Lewis
Jeffrey
Brian
|
$600
[28]
In "Animal House" Bluto breaks the guitar of a guy singing "I Gave My Love" this
a cherry
|
$600
[4]
Coq au vin
France
Jeffrey
|
DD
$400
[8]
Ashkenazi Jews are exceptionally prone to the disease named for Warren Tay & this doctor
Bernard Sachs
Jeffrey
|
$600
[22]
He wears sunglasses & flip-flops & keeps going & going & going ...
the Energizer Bunny
Jeffrey
Renie
|
$600
[13]
A limited print run of a newspaper to mark an important event
a special edition
Brian
|
|
$800
[26]
The history of this present-day country is the subject of James Michener's 1965 book "The Source"
Israel
Renie
|
$800
[29]
A line in a Russian novel, "Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them", inspired Pete Seeger to write this song
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
Jeffrey
|
$800
[7]
Paella
Spain
Jeffrey
|
$600
[6]
Oliver Hazard Perry died of this now-tamed "colorful" disease after a diplomatic mission in Venezuela
yellow fever
Renie
|
$800
[23]
This friend of the Skin Horse wants to become a real rabbit
the Velveteen Rabbit
Renie
|
$800
[14]
In 1885 the U.S. mail introduced this distinctive service
special delivery
Renie
|
|
$1,000
[27]
This 4-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was born March 26, 1874
Robert Frost
|
$1,000
[30]
This song asks a lot of important questions like "How many times must a man look up before he can see the sky"
"Blowin' in the Wind"
Brian
|
$1,000
[10]
Dhal
India
Brian
|
$1,000
[9]
Blindness can result from trachoma, a serious form of this inflammation also called pinkeye
conjunctivitis
Jeffrey
|
$1,000
[24]
He's a 6-foot-tall invisible rabbitlike pooka
Harvey
Jeffrey
|
$1,000
[15]
The job of Independent Counsel, created by Congress in 1978, was also called this
Special Prosecutor
Renie
|
| NEW DEAL PROGRAMS | THE MOVIES | STATE YOUR CASE | '90s NAMES IN THE NEWS | AFRICAN LANGUAGES | CROSSWORD CLUES "L" |
|
$400
[1]
The 3 initial requirements for adults 18-25 to be in the CCC were to be male, unemployed & this
single
Renie
|
$400
[13]
It's the familial title of the recent hit comedy seen here
Daddy Day Care
Brian
|
$400
[18]
In area it's the largest U.S. state that begins & ends with the same letter
Alaska
Renie
|
$400
[23]
In 1997 China appointed Tung Chee-Hwa Chief Executive Officer of this newly acquired region
Hong Kong
Brian
|
$400
[11]
The Nubian languages are mostly spoken along this river (between cataracts 1 & 4)
Nile
Brian
|
$400
[6]
Happy songbird (4)
a lark
Renie
|
|
$800
[2]
Of 25 cents, $1.10 or $1.60, the hourly wage minimum set by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act
25 cents
Brian
|
$800
[14]
In one of Burt Lancaster's last films, a boat originally called "Rock of" this becomes "Rocket" this
Gibraltar
|
$800
[19]
We freely volunteer the information that at 6,643 feet, Clingman's Dome is this state's highest point
Tennessee
Brian
|
$800
[24]
In August 1999 this Russian President fired his fourth Prime Minister in 18 months
Boris Yeltsin
Renie
|
$800
[12]
Hausa, one of the few Chadic languages with a written form, switched from the Arabic alphabet to this one
Roman
|
$800
[7]
Lion's den (4)
a lair
Renie
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1935 the REA was set up to supply cheap this (indicated by its "E") to some rural areas
electricity
Renie
Brian
|
$1,200
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from a Fedex facility)In a 2000 film, playing Fedex employee Chuck Noland, this actor said, "We live or we die by the clock."
Tom Hanks
Brian
|
$1,200
[20]
This state was admitted to the Union on Valentine's Day 1912
Arizona
Renie
|
$1,200
[25]
In 1992 Ron Carey, an ex-UPS driver, was elected president of this organization in its first secret ballot
the Teamsters Union
Brian
|
$1,200
[28]
The dialect of Lamu in Kenya has produced classic poetry in this Bantu language
Swahili
Renie
|
$1,200
[8]
Odysseus' father, or Ophelia's brother (7)
Laertes
Brian
|
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
When it began in 1933, it protected bank accounts up to a whopping $5,000!
the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Renie
|
$1,600
[16]
Steve Martin was a lip-synch & dance man in this 1981 movie musical
Pennies From Heaven
|
$1,600
[21]
During the 1980s this large southern state had the highest-percentage growth in the Union
Florida
Jeffrey
Renie
Brian
|
$1,600
[26]
This artist, who began with wrapping bottles & a tree, wrapped the old German Parliament building in 1995
Christo
Jeffrey
|
$1,600
[29]
Semitic languages are named for Shem; this group of languages, for another of Noah's sons
Hamitic
|
$2,000
[10]
Shirley Jackson's game (7)
lottery
Renie
|
|
$2,000
[5]
The Farm Security Administration's pictorial record of rural America includes this woman's photo of the migrant mother seen here
Dorothea Lange
|
$2,000
[17]
This seasonal 1971 film with Jennifer O'Neill tapped into nostalgia for the WWII era
Summer of '42
|
$2,000
[22]
Vidalia onions, some of the world's sweetest, hail from this U.S. state
Georgia
Jeffrey
|
$2,000
[27]
Born Faith Plotkin, this Nostradamus of marketing burst on the scene in 1991
Faith Popcorn
|
$2,000
[30]
A disapproving sound using the tongue is a version of this sound for which some Afr. tongues are named
the click
|
DD
$3,600
[9]
Noah Webster, for example (13)
lexicographer
Brian
|
It's the only U.S. battleship ever to have a one-syllable name
the Maine