Michael Herman — an arts management consultant originally from Houston, Texas
Diane Lubniewski — a teacher from Pecksville, Pennsylvania
Tanya Palmer — a media buyer from Kansas City (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanya | $500 | $100 | $900 |
$1,800
2nd place: stay at Murieta Hot Springs Resort & Spa + Jason binoculars |
$2,500
9 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Diane | $-400 | $1,200 | $5,000 |
$5
3rd place: Queen Anne chair from Action |
$5,500
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $2,100 | $2,600 | $6,200 |
$10,001
New champion: $10,001 |
$6,200
21 R, 2 W |
| SCIENTISTS | SALADS | AMERICAN INDIANS | ARTISTS | THE OLYMPICS | COLUMBIA |
|
$100
[16]
The name of this German chemist is immortalized by the gas burner in every science lab
(Robert) Bunsen
Tanya
|
$100
[4]
A very large firm, "meaty" tomato, often served with onion slices in an oil & vinegar dressing
beefsteak
Michael
|
$100
[3]
He was the 1st to call the Native Americans "Indians"
Columbus
Diane
|
$100
[1]
Eugene Delacroix wrote "The first virtue of painting is to be a feast for" these
eyes
Tanya
|
$100
[20]
Celebrations might have been dampened at the 1932 L.A. games, since this U.S. amendment was in effect
Prohibition
Diane
|
$100
[22]
The Columbia River begins in Columbia Lake in this Canadian province
British Columbia
Michael
|
|
$200
[15]
Pause, take a deep breath, & then buzz in if you know that Joseph Priestley helped discover this
oxygen
Diane
|
$200
[6]
Greek salads are usually distinguished by this cheese
feta
Michael
|
$200
[5]
Long before baseball was invented, Indians built dugouts, which they used as these
canoes
Diane
|
$200
[2]
Charles Dana Gibson's wife was the model for this Gay '90s symbol of beauty
Gibson Girl
Michael
|
$200
[21]
In rowing, if a rower falls out of the boat, the crew can still win; if this person falls out, they can't
coxswain
Michael
|
$200
[23]
William Paley established this company in 1928
Columbia Broadcasting System
Michael
|
|
$300
[17]
On June 11, 1983, scientists met on Java to observe one of these, longest of the decade
(solar) eclipse
Diane
|
$300
[10]
Meat that frequently garnishes a spinach salad
bacon
Michael
|
$300
[7]
While Indiana, Kansas & Ohio all have counties named for this Algonquin tribe, Florida doesn't
Miami
Tanya
|
$300
[13]
Edward Hicks, best known for "The Peaceable Kingdom", was a minister of this religion
Friends (Society of Friends, Quakers)
Tanya
|
DD
$500
[27]
The 500-meter version of this is the quickest timed event in the Winter Games, with a record of 36.45 seconds
men's speed skating
Diane
|
$300
[24]
This state finds Columbia capital, just capital
South Carolina
Diane
|
|
$400
[18]
This friend & financier of Newon held the office of Astronomer Royal from 1720-1742
Edmond Halley
|
$400
[11]
It's the primary vegetable in Waldorf salad
celery
Tanya
Diane
|
$400
[8]
Guns obtained from early Dutch settlers helped this confederation dominate its neighbors
Iroquois
Michael
|
$400
[14]
1 of 2 Van Gogh paintings with floral titles that each sold for more than $39 million in 1987
Sunflowers (or Irises )
Michael
|
— |
$400
[25]
Number of the Apollo mission that had a command module nicknamed "Columbia"
11
Diane
|
|
$500
[28]
His 1543 book refuting an Earth-centered solar system was published when he was on his death bed
Copernicus
Tanya
Diane
|
$500
[12]
The bitter salad green that the English commonly call chicory Americans call this
endive
Diane
|
$500
[9]
The potlatch ceremony, in which they did this, impoverished many a northwest Indian
giving away all of one's possessions
Michael
|
$500
[19]
Modigliani gave up this form of art in 1915, partly because materials were too expensive
sculpture
Diane
|
— |
$500
[26]
Crossing the Lincoln & Rambouillet breeds of these farm animals produced the Columbia variety
sheep
|
| THE 20TH CENTURY | FIRST NOVELS | THE 3 "B"s | LAW | LANGUAGES | LINCOLN SPEAKS |
|
$200
[1]
He was assassinated October 6, 1981, 8 years to the day after he launched the Yom Kippur War
Anwar Sadat
Michael
|
$200
[11]
"Catch-22"
Joseph Heller
Diane
|
$200
[22]
C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach or J.S. Bach, the 1 responsible for the birth of the other 2
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tanya
Michael
|
$200
[7]
Works whose copyrights have expired have "fallen into" this
public domain
Michael
|
$200
[2]
The Flemish language of Flanders, Belgium is actually this language
Dutch
Michael
|
$200
[14]
Lincoln believed that if this social institution "is not wrong, nothing is wrong"
slavery
Michael
|
|
$400
[19]
In 1917, due to this, Mississippi called off the exposition marking its state centennial
outbreak of World War I (U.S. involvement in World War I)
Tanya
|
$400
[12]
"Catcher in the Rye"
J.D. Salinger
Michael
|
$400
[24]
Beethoven wrote the famous "Heiligenstadt Testament" in 1802, describing this disability
deafness
Michael
|
$400
[8]
While slander is spoken, a case of defamatory words written or printed is called this
libel
Michael
|
$400
[3]
Our words alcohol, alfalfa & algebra come from this language in which "al" means "the"
Arabic
Tanya
|
$400
[15]
Lincoln stated this general "is a copious worker & fighter but a very meager writer or telegrapher"
(Ulysses) Grant
Diane
|
|
$600
[20]
In 1951 Senator Estes Kefauver led a Senate investigation of this
organized crime, the Mafia
Diane
Michael
|
$600
[16]
"Sister Carrie"
Theodore Dreiser
Diane
|
$600
[25]
Brahms' first name
Johann (Johannes)
Tanya
|
$600
[9]
The only state whose basic law is not based on British common law but on the Napoleonic Code
Louisiana
Tanya
|
$800
[5]
The great poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote in this language, most common in Bangladesh
Bengali
Michael
|
$600
[23]
He described this huge world power as a "country where they make no pretense of loving liberty"
Russia
Diane
|
|
$800
[21]
To symbolize resolve not to fight each other again, these 2 countries built the Christ of the Andes
Chile & Argentina
Michael
|
$800
[17]
"The Postman Always Rings Twice"
James Cain
Diane
|
$800
[26]
The "B" who wrote the "Egmont Overture"
Beethoven
|
$800
[10]
Located on the site of the infamous Newgate Prison, London's central criminal court is commonly called this
The Old Bailey
Diane
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
Most people on Gibraltar speak these 2 languages
Spanish & English
Tanya
|
— |
|
$1,000
[28]
1919 massacre of Indian nationalists in this city was portrayed in the 1982 film "Gandhi"
Amritsar
|
$1,000
[18]
"The Tin Drum"
Günter Grass
Diane
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
Famous student song on which Brahms based this section of the "Academic Festival Overture":
"Gaudeamus Igitur"
Tanya
|
$1,000
[13]
The 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson decision declared this legal
discrimination, separate but equal facilities (segregation)
Michael
|
$1,000
[6]
Revised as a spoken language in modern times, it's the only colloquial speech based on a written language
Hebrew
Michael
|
— |
This 1951 musical is the only movie with a world capital in the title to win "Best Picture"
An American in Paris