Featuring blind contestant Dave Oberhart.
Dave Oberhart — a computer consultant from Durham, North Carolina
Erika Rogers — a bartender from Indianapolis, Indiana
Michele Bassett — a stay-at-home mom from McLean, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michele | $1,400 | $4,600 | $14,200 |
$3,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
18 R, 3 W |
| Erika | $3,200 | $3,000 | $12,600 |
$10,000
New champion: $10,000 |
$12,200
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Dave | $1,600 | $3,800 | $4,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | YULETIDE FAVORITES | FEMALE FIRSTS | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? | ABBREV. | OOOH...CHESS |
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$200
[1]
Nashville is "The Athens of the South"; this home of the Crimson Tide is "The Athens of Alabama"
Tuscaloosa
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$200
[18]
"Oh bring us a figgy pudding, oh bring us a figgy pudding, oh bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of"
good cheer
|
$200
[12]
In 1678, Elena Cornaro, fluent in 7 languages, became the first woman to receive this advanced degree
doctorate (of philosophy)
Dave
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$200
[3]
"This was the noblest Roman of them all"
Julius Caesar
Dave
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$200
[4]
Tho can be short for t-h-o-u-g-h, or this male name
Thomas
Michele
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$600
[28]
In German this piece is a springer; in French, cavalier
knight
Erika
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$400
[2]
Huntington Beach, California has been nicknamed this, also the title of a 1963 Jan & Dean hit
"Surf City"
Erika
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$400
[19]
In 1947 this singing cowboy co-wrote & recorded the perennial favorite "Here Comes Santa Claus"
Gene Autry
Dave
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$400
[13]
Fay Fuller, a Tacoma journalist, made the first female ascent of this mountain in 1980, wearing wool bloomers
Mount Rainier
Michele
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$400
[8]
"Get thee to a nunnery!"
Hamlet
Michele
Erika
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$400
[5]
With my new flat panel screen, I've gotten rid of my old monitor with that big CRT, this
cathode ray tube
Dave
|
$800
[27]
When it moves this piece will always wind up on the same color square that it began the game on
bishop
Dave
|
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$600
[23]
This capital has been designated the "Green Mountain City"
Montpelier, Vermont
Michele
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$600
[20]
The subject of a Christmas carol, this good king was not a king, but the Duke of Bohemia in the 10th century
Wenceslas
Dave
|
$600
[14]
In 1957 Dame Beryl Grey became the first foreign guest artist to dance with this Moscow company
the Bolshoi
Michele
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$600
[9]
"I am dying, Egypt, dying"
Antony and Cleopatra
Erika
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$600
[6]
Mth is month; M. Th. is master of this
theology
Michele
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$1,000
[26]
Invented in the 1500s to speed up the game, this manuever involves 2 pieces of the same color
castling
|
|
$800
[24]
New Orleans was dubbed this city; when it was laid out, that was the shape the Mississippi formed around it
"The Crescent City"
Michele
|
$800
[21]
In "Away in a Manger", it's what "The little Lord Jesus" was "asleep on"
the hay
Erika
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$800
[15]
Ehud Barak once dressed as a woman in a covert operation, but she was the only actual woman PM of Israel
Golda Meir
Michele
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$800
[10]
"I am a Jew! Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands..."
The Merchant of Venice
Erika
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$800
[7]
You'll get no help on a project labeled DIY, short for this
do it yourself
Dave
|
— |
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$1,000
[25]
Rockwell City in this state calls itself the "Golden Buckle on the Corn Belt"
Iowa
Michele
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$1,000
[22]
6 years before "Seventy-Six Trombones", he wrote "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
Meredith Willson
Dave
|
$1,000
[16]
Bill Clinton made Janet Reno the first woman attorney general & Hazel O'Leary the first woman secretary of this
Energy
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
"I come to wive it wealthily in Padua"
The Taming of the Shrew
Erika
|
$1,000
[17]
At the DOS, Department of State, a US would be a person in this post
undersecretary
Dave
|
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| THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD | SCREEN PLAYS | AFTER THE FOX | LEAVING SO SOON? | WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG | ENDS IN "OLD" |
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$400
[22]
It's estimated that the largest of these contains 2.3 million stone block, each averaging about 2.5 tons
the Pyramids
Erika
|
$400
[1]
Jason Miller went back home to Scranton in this state to make the '82 film of his play "That Championship Season"
Pennsylvania
Michele
Dave
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$400
[21]
Russ Meyer fans know this name for a female fox
vixen
Erika
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$400
[16]
Charles Tupper, one of this country's Fathers of Confederation, served 10 weeks as its prime minister
Canada
Michele
Dave
|
$400
[11]
During his summers in high school, Ronald Reagan worked as one of these, maybe inspiring David Hasselhoff
lifeguard
Erika
|
$400
[6]
Real estate agents' favorite 4-letter word; they like to add it to front yard signs
sold
Erika
|
|
$800
[23]
It's the only one of the ancient wonders that was located in present-day Iraq
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Michele
|
$800
[2]
Peter Firth horsed around as the unstable stable boy in the film version of this Peter Shaffer play
Equus
Dave
|
$800
[27]
The bat-eared fox, like the funnel-eared bat, eats mainly these
insects
Erika
|
$800
[17]
Theodore Pomeroy had the shortest tenure in this job, serving on the last day of the 40th Congress
Speaker of the House
Michele
|
$800
[12]
He got a violin at age 6 & continued to play through the rest of his 39 years (really 80)
Jack Benny
Dave
|
$800
[7]
Dionne Warwick, Marilyn McCoo & Rick Dees were among the hosts of "Solid" this
Gold
Michele
|
|
$1,200
[24]
This wonder depicted a sun god shading his eyes & gazing out across the Aegean Sea
Colossus of Rhodes
Dave
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$1,200
[3]
Everyone "nose" that Jose Ferrer starred in this play on Broadway before he made the film in 1950
Cyrano de Bergerac
Michele
|
$2,000
[28]
The Alopex lagopus, as this fox, turns white in winter
Arctic fox
Erika
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$1,200
[18]
Elected pope in 752, Stephen died 2 days later, before he could undergo this, from the Latin for "to make sacred"
consecration
Michele
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$1,200
[13]
Born in Hungary in 1874, the son of Samuel & Cecilia Weiss, he became a professional magician at age 17
Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz)
Erika
|
$1,200
[8]
The compartment of a passenger airline where animals usually fly
cargo hold
Michele
|
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
Reportedly, a spiral ramp allowed wagons to carry fuel up to the constantly burning fire at its top
the Lighthouse at Alexandria
Dave
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$1,600
[4]
Paul Newman was so good in this man's play "Sweet Bird of Youth" that he got to star in the film, too
Tennessee Williams
|
— |
$1,600
[19]
After less than 2 years in the job, he resigned as executive editor of The New York Times in June 2003
Howell Raines
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
When Joseph Haydn was 8, he joined this world-famous singing group
The Vienna Boys' Choir
Erika
|
$1,600
[9]
It's an enclosure for sheep
fold
Michele
|
|
$2,000
[26]
Tools & molds used by Phidias to sculpt this wonder have been discovered at Olympia
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Erika
|
$2,000
[5]
Aaron Sorkin adapted the screenplay for this 1992 film about a Marine murder trial from his own play
A Few Good Men
Michele
|
— |
$2,000
[20]
He was a Konstantinvalid during the year he led the USSR, February 1984 to March 1985
Konstantin Chernenko
Michele
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$2,000
[15]
Louisa May Alcott's first big crush was on this "Sage of Concord", almost 30 years her senior
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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$2,000
[10]
Hawthorne's tales were "Twice" this
Told
Michele
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Some refractive index numbers for you now: diamond, 2.42; air, 1.0003, this, 1.0000
a vacuum