Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.
Kasey Berry — a wife and mother from Covington, Louisiana
Micah Morken — a graduate student originally from St. Paul, Minnesota
Chris Stansfield — a bartender from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $4,800 | $9,800 | $13,600 |
$27,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$18,200
29 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Micah | $1,600 | $4,800 | $23,200 |
$28,200
New champion: $28,200 |
$18,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Kasey | $-200 | $-200 | $2,200 |
$1,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,200
7 R, 3 W |
| RIVERS | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES | A LUMPY CATEGORY | NOVEL TEASE | PRISONS | CELL BLOCK CINEMA |
|
$200
[3]
Lake Mead was formed by damming this river
the Colorado
Kasey
|
$200
[11]
Supermodel-actress Macpherson
Elle
Chris
|
$200
[16]
Thanks in part to Sir Henry Tate's innovation, tea drinkers opt for "one lump or two" of this
sugar
Chris
|
$200
[1]
1885:"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'"
( The Adventures of ) Huckleberry Finn
Chris
|
$200
[26]
You didn't get sent directly to this prison that closed in 1963; other U.S. prisons sent their worst prisoners there
Alcatraz
Chris
|
$200
[21]
In 1957, "everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to" this title tune
"Jailhouse Rock"
Chris
|
|
$400
[4]
An Iroquois word that means "where goods are brought in" gives this river that flows past D.C. its name
the Potomac
Kasey
|
$400
[12]
This pronoun refers to the one being addressed in a conversation
you
Chris
|
$400
[17]
In cheesemaking, first the proteins in the milk are turned into solid lumps called these
curds
Chris
Kasey
|
$400
[2]
1838:"Please, sir, I want some more"
Oliver Twist
Micah
|
$400
[27]
On May 5, 1981 Bobby Sands died on the 66th day of his hunger strike in this city's Maze Prison
Belfast
|
$400
[22]
Sean Penn was in the pen in this 1995 film directed by Tim Robbins
Dead Man Walking
Kasey
|
|
$600
[5]
(Jeff Probst gives the clue from Brazil.) The Rio Negro is a major tributary of this river, South America's longest
the Amazon
Chris
|
$600
[13]
Middle name of cosmetics queen Mary Ash
Kay
Chris
|
$600
[18]
Lumpy Brannum played this important role on "Captain Kangaroo"
Mr. Green Jeans
Chris
|
$800
[7]
1953:"He flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red"
Fahrenheit 451
Chris
Kasey
|
$600
[28]
It hasn't been a prison or even a building since 1789, but its "Place" is still a landmark
the Bastille
Micah
|
$600
[23]
(Hi, I'm Paul McCrane fromER.) I appeared as a prison guard in this Morgan Freeman film based on a story by Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption
Chris
|
|
$800
[9]
The Grand Coulee Dam derives electric power from this river
the Columbia
Micah
Kasey
|
$800
[14]
Dorothy Gale's aunt
Em
Kasey
|
$800
[19]
Robert Frost wrote that a poem "begins as a lump" here, "a sense of wrong, a homesickness"
the throat
Chris
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
1852:"I won't be taken, Eliza; I'll die first! I'll be free, or I'll die!"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chris
|
$800
[29]
Like his character Raskolnikov, he had a stay in a prison in Siberia
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Micah
|
$800
[24]
This harrowing 1978 film that made Brad Davis a star wasn't exactly a Turkish delight
Midnight Express
Micah
|
|
$1,000
[10]
It's the longest river entirely within Canada
the Mackenzie
Micah
|
$1,000
[15]
It precedes walk, hawk & cee
jay
Chris
|
$1,000
[20]
This lumpy substance, whose name is French for "gray amber", comes from sperm whales
ambergris
Chris
|
$1,000
[8]
1928:"She married Clifford Chatterley in 1917, when he was home for a month on leave"
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Micah
|
$1,000
[30]
This Lord Mayor of London, known for his cat, helped rebuild Newgate Prison, later home to William Penn
Dick Whittington
Chris
|
$1,000
[25]
Ashley Judd finds out that she can't be convicted twice for killing her husband in this 1999 drama
Double Jeopardy
Micah
|
| THAT'S THE TICKET | '90s TELEVISION | CHEMISTRY COMMERCIALS | PIANISTS | RELIGIOUS WORKS | NOT QUITE BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[11]
Joe Lieberman was his running mate
Al Gore
Chris
|
$400
[12]
Twins Brandon & Brenda had just moved to L.A. when this series debuted in 1990
Beverly Hills, 90210
Chris
|
$400
[22]
You've tried other peroxides, like zinc & barium--it's time to come back to this most widely used one
hydrogen
Chris
|
$400
[6]
He's the legendary piano-playing showman seen here
Liberace
Chris
|
$400
[1]
The "Great" one of these buildings in Damascus once had an acre of mosaics believed to depict paradise
a mosque
Chris
|
$400
[21]
"Ed Grimley" actor you eat with strawberries & cream
Martin Shortcake
Kasey
|
|
$800
[14]
In 1944 he ran with FDR
Harry Truman
Chris
|
$800
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) A moose wandered the streets in the credits of this 1990s TV show, set in Alaska
Northern Exposure
Micah
|
$800
[27]
Calling all Colorado cooks! Use Clapeyron's Equation to relate pressure to this point for a liquid
boiling point
Chris
|
$800
[7]
With his quartet, this pianist took "Take Five" onto the pop charts in 1961
Dave Brubeck
Micah
|
$800
[2]
Bach's cantata "Das Neugeborne Kindelein" was written for the season of this holiday
Christmas
Kasey
|
$800
[23]
"Basic Instinct" femme fatale who's a prehistoric temple on Salisbury Plain
Sharon Stonehenge
Chris
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Completes the ticket ____ Kemp
Dole
Chris
|
$1,200
[15]
Called "Hill Street Blues" with singing, this show from Steven Bochco lasted 3 months in 1990
Cop Rock
Chris
|
$1,200
[28]
When it's going to be a special night, dab on a little of an essential one of these, like patchouli
oil
Kasey
|
$1,200
[8]
We'll throw on this old rag & you tell us the name of the self-taught pianist who created it
Scott Joplin
Chris
Micah
|
$1,200
[3]
A novel by Walter Wangerin covers the life of this man from Tarsus who was himself a man of letters
St. Paul (or Saul)
Micah
|
$1,200
[24]
A drug to reduce physical discomfort that's also known as an orca
painkiller whale
Micah
|
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1968 Edmund Muskie looked up to him
Hubert Humphrey
|
$1,600
[16]
This sitcom was set primarily at an airfield on Nantucket
Wings
Micah
|
$1,600
[29]
An entire lump of sugar starts to vanish as you watch ordinary water act as this type of liquid! It's that easy!
a solvent
Chris
|
$1,600
[9]
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie & this pianist with a "religious" name created the Bebop style of jazz in the 1940s
Thelonious Monk
Micah
|
$2,000
[5]
In Byron's "Hebrew Melodies" on Biblical subjects, it's who "came down like the wolf on the fold"
the Assyrian
|
$1,600
[25]
Domicile for Lassie where you'll find the U.S. Congress at work
doghouse of Representatives
Chris
|
|
$2,000
[20]
Adlai Stevenson's running mate in 1956
Estes Kefauver
|
$2,000
[17]
Nerdy neighbor Brian Krakow pined for Angela on this teen angst show starring Claire Danes
My So-Called Life
Micah
|
DD
$5,000
[30]
For a wide range of isotopes, look for this element under the Fm symbol (not available in nature)
fermium
Chris
|
$2,000
[10]
He was a world-class concert pianist & in 1919 became the first Prime Minister of Poland
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
|
DD
$6,000
[4]
What the man in the center might be saying, it's the 2-word Latin title of the painting seen here
Ecce Homo
Micah
|
$2,000
[26]
"Insectlike" enthusiastic reader who is a hypothetical passage to distant parts of the universe
bookwormhole
Micah
|
The first person mentioned by name in "The Man in the Iron Mask" is this hero of a previous book by the same author
D'Artagnan