Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.
Eok Ngo — a production assistant from Monterey Park, California
Sandy Topping — an indexer from Valparaiso, Indiana
Patrick Fernan — a government manager from Madison, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick | $1,600 | $3,000 | $10,200 |
$20,200
2-day champion: $32,199 |
$10,200
17 R, 3 W |
| Sandy | $400 | $0 | $6,600 |
$13,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
11 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eok | $2,600 | $6,200 | $9,900 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| SESAME STREET | MR. ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD | BLUES CLUES | ZOOM | READING RAINBOW | BETWEEN THE LIONS |
|
$200
[9]
It's the part of the Big Mac that contains sesame seeds
the bun
Sandy
|
$200
[14]
Roger Bacon, the first European with a gunpowder recipe, was educated at this English university
Oxford
Patrick
|
$200
[21]
Last name of Mamie, who had a 1920 hit with "Crazy Blues", & also of the better-known Bessie
Smith
Patrick
|
$200
[1]
Its velocity can be thousands of feet per second, so we know Superman's faster than that
a speeding bullet
Patrick
|
$200
[4]
He's the boy who had a "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day"
Alexander
|
$200
[26]
In the sixth chapter of his book, this prophet stands unafraid between the lions in their den
Daniel
Eok
|
|
$400
[10]
Sesame paste is used like & substituted for this sandwich spread made from legumes
peanut butter
Sandy
Eok
|
$400
[17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Providence, RI.) This compass is believed to be the one that guided this man to the place he called Providence in 1636
Roger Williams
|
$400
[22]
(Hi, I'm Buddy Guy.) This cat from Cream who's not a bad blues player himself called me the best guitar player around
Eric Clapton
Eok
|
$400
[2]
Using radar, scientists measured it at over 300 mph in Oklahoma in 1999
a tornado's wind
Patrick
Eok
|
$400
[5]
"Mr. Toad" & "Mr. Badger" are chapters in this Kenneth Grahame classic
The Wind in the Willows
Eok
|
$400
[27]
If you walk between the lions at 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue you're entering or exiting this New York City building
the New York Public Library
Patrick
|
|
$600
[11]
Baba Ghanoush is made with sesame oil & this member of the nightshade family
the eggplant
Sandy
|
$600
[18]
This king of low-budget moviemaking came to California from Michigan in his teens
Roger Corman
Sandy
|
$600
[23]
A wizard on this instrument, Meade "Lux" Lewis was a pioneer of boogie-woogie & later a success in cocktail bars
a piano
Patrick
|
$600
[3]
A "speedy" part of a river; you can go down them 30 mph at Raging Waters' Neptune's Fury ride
rapids
Eok
|
$600
[6]
Louise Fitzhugh continued the adventures of this little girl snoop in the book "The Long Secret"
Harriet the Spy
Eok
|
$600
[28]
Alex Karras & Barry Sanders both had success playing among their fellow Lions of this city
Detroit
Patrick
|
|
$800
[12]
The name of this confection made from honey & sesame seeds is from the Arabic for "sweet confection"
halva
|
$800
[19]
This French region was the birthplace of William the Conqueror & of Roger I, who conquered Sicily
Normandy
Eok
|
$800
[24]
Muddy Waters & Paul Butterfield performed the blues in this film of The Band's final concert
The Last Waltz
Eok
|
$800
[15]
A magazine named for this type of souped-up car debuted in 1948
a hot rod
Patrick
|
$800
[7]
Dictionopolis & Digitopolis are 2 of the unusual places Milo visits in this novel
The Phantom Tollbooth
Eok
|
$800
[29]
Nickname shared by France's Louis VIII & England's Richard I
Lionheart
Patrick
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Falafel is often served with this thick paste made primarily from ground sesame seeds
tahini
Sandy
|
DD
$2,400
[20]
1850s Chief Justice whose name, his fellow Marylanders write to tell us, rhymes with "brawny", not "brainy"
Roger Taney
Eok
|
$1,000
[25]
State that preceded the names of bluesmen John Hurt & Fred McDowell
Mississippi
|
$1,000
[16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY.) In 1973, this horse ran the Derby in a record 1 minute, 59 & 2/5, for an average speed of 38 miles per hour
Secretariat
Eok
|
$1,000
[8]
E.B. White named the main character in this book after Louis Armstrong
The Trumpet of the Swan
Sandy
|
$1,000
[30]
If you're standing between 2 lions at this country's Kruger National Park, let's hope they're not hungry!
South Africa
Sandy
Eok
|
| THE ELEMENTS | TV SHOWS & THEIR CHARACTERS | COUNTRIES' FORMER NAMES | RELATIVELY INTERESTING | POLITICIANS & LEADERS | "D" TALKS |
|
$400
[6]
This light metal, symbol Li, falls between helium & beryllium on the periodic table
lithium
Sandy
|
$400
[1]
Niles, Daphne, Roz
Frasier
Eok
|
$400
[11]
What's now Nelson Mandela Avenue in Harare, Zimbabwe was once Baker Avenue in Salisbury, here
Rhodesia
Patrick
|
$400
[21]
Percussionist Pete Escovedo played with Santana; this daughter of his played & sang with Prince
Sheila E.
|
$400
[13]
Georges Pompidou was a President of France & Georgios Papandreou was a Prime Minister of this country
Greece
Patrick
|
$400
[26]
John Hughes wrote the screenplay for this film based on Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip
Dennis the Menace
Patrick
|
|
DD
$600
[9]
Painter's colic is a group of symptoms caused by an excess of this element in the body
lead
Sandy
|
$800
[2]
Joey Potter, Pacey Witter, Jen Lindley
Dawson's Creek
Patrick
|
$800
[19]
What's now the Democratic Republic of the Congo used to be just the Republic of the Congo, & in between, this
Zaire
Eok
|
$800
[22]
Glenna Goodacre's creations include the Sacagawea dollar design & this daughter married to Harry Connick Jr.
Jill Goodacre
Patrick
|
$800
[15]
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the son of this country's dictator, founded its Falange Party in 1933
Spain
Sandy
|
$800
[27]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from in front of the Goodyear blimp.) This other name for an airship is also an adjective meaning "capable of being steered"
dirigible
Eok
|
|
$800
[7]
Reflecting about 95% of the light falling upon it, it's the most lustrous of all metals
silver
Patrick
|
$1,200
[5]
Tony, Carmela, Dr. Jennifer Melfi
The Sopranos
Eok
|
DD
$1,100
[20]
The country that made up most of the Spanish Netherlands in 1700 is known as this today
Belgium
Eok
|
$1,200
[23]
Francis Cugat, brother of bandleader Xavier, created the cover illustration for this novel, seen here
The Great Gatsby
Patrick
|
$1,200
[12]
A Swedish Cabinet Minister in 1951, he went on to become a U.N. Secretary-General
Dag Hammarskjold
Sandy
|
$1,200
[28]
While in Rome on a scholarship, Georges Bizet wrote a symphonic ode about this Portuguese explorer to India
Vasco da Gama
Eok
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Baddeleyite, an ore of this metal, symbol Zr, is used to make laboratory crucibles
zirconium
Sandy
|
$1,600
[4]
Paul Drake, Hamilton Burger, Della Street
Perry Mason
Patrick
|
$1,600
[17]
When still under British control, this present country was the Federation of South Arabia
Yemen
Patrick
Sandy
|
$1,600
[24]
Frank Lloyd Wright's daughter married Kenneth Baxter & gave birth to this Oscar-winning actress
Anne Baxter
Sandy
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1959 he got his butt booted out of office for a second time in Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Sandy
|
$1,600
[29]
This French seaport on the English Channel was the site of a disastrous Allied commando raid August 19, 1942
Dieppe
Eok
|
|
$2,000
[10]
This element used in the mantles of some camping lanterns was named for the Norse god of thunder
thorium
Eok
|
$2,000
[3]
Agnes Dipesto, David Addison, Maddie Hayes
Moonlighting
Patrick
|
$2,000
[18]
According to their legends, the Goths came from Scandza, now known as this country
Sweden
Sandy
|
$2,000
[25]
Last name of pundit William, a staunch critic of Bill Clinton, & his brother Robert, who was Clinton's lawyer
Bennett
|
$2,000
[16]
It should dawn on you that this man born back in 1866 is considered the Father of modern China
Sun Yat-sen
Patrick
|
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Aimed largely at women, this magazine that has its own institute took 110 years to make a woman its editor
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