David Bagley game 2.First game of Season 15.
Kathy Donegan — a systems analyst from Gaithersburg, Maryland
Brannon Denning — a graduate student from New Haven, Connecticut
David Bagley — an attorney from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $2,600 | $2,900 | $9,200 |
$12,400
2-day champion: $25,900 |
$8,300
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Brannon | $400 | $1,700 | $4,100 |
$2
3rd place: Card Scan 300 + Palm Pilot |
$4,100
12 R, 2 W |
| Kathy | $500 | $2,700 | $6,100 |
$9,201
2nd place: a trip to Madrid, Spain |
$5,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| LABOR | THE BOSS | "YOUNG" PEOPLE | U.S. AT WAR | THE 1998 PULITZER PRIZES | COMMON BONDS |
|
$100
[23]
This notice that consumers are encouraged to "look for" goes back to California carpenters in 1869
The Union Label
David
|
$100
[18]
Bruce Springsteen was born in 1949 in Freehold, near Asbury Park in this state
New Jersey
Kathy
|
$100
[2]
Amen to this leader whose statue represents Utah in Washington, D.C.'s Statuary Hall
Brigham Young
Kathy
|
$100
[1]
War during which "Gremlin", "Snafu" & "Kilroy Was Here" were popularized
World War II
Kathy
|
$100
[8]
39 years after "Goodbye, Columbus", this author won for his novel "American Pastoral"
Philip Roth
Brannon
|
$100
[16]
A bee, a con man, a sharp blow
a sting (things that sting)
Kathy
|
|
$200
[24]
Abbreviated WGA, it provides many services to members, including script registration
Writers Guild of America
David
|
$200
[20]
This longtime backup group was named for the address of the original keyboardist's mother
The E Street Band
Kathy
|
$200
[3]
On "Father Knows Best", he played dad to Betty, Bud & Kathy
Robert Young
David
|
$200
[4]
On September 14, 1847 U.S. troops raised the U.S. flag in this capital's Zocalo, or grand plaza
Mexico (City)
David
|
$200
[9]
This newspaper was shut out, but its ex-chairperson Katherine Graham won for her autobiography
The Washington Post
David
|
$200
[17]
Larks, crickets, informers
things that sing (things that chirp accepted)
Brannon
|
|
$300
[25]
When he was killed in 1968, he was planning a march of striking Memphis sanitation workers
Martin Luther King Jr.
Kathy
|
$300
[26]
This singer became Bruce's wife in 1991
Patti Scialfa
Brannon
|
$300
[13]
Of the 906 Major League Baseball games that he pitched, he won more than half; he deserves an award
Cy Young
David
|
$300
[5]
The Confederates bought a French-built ironclad & named it this, the nickname of General Jackson
"Stonewall"
David
|
$300
[10]
The History winner was about this 1925 event "and America's... debate over science and religion"
the Scopes Monkey Trial
Brannon
|
$300
[19]
A prisoner, a trap, a leak
things that get sprung
Brannon
|
|
$400
[27]
It's the F in AFL-CIO as well as in the Stallone film "F.I.S.T."
Federation
David
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
The Boss turned down $12 million from Chrysler to use this "All-American" song in ads
"Born In The U.S.A."
Kathy
|
$400
[14]
In 1992 he released "Harvest Moon", a sequel to his "Harvest" album from 1972
Neil Young
Kathy
|
$400
[6]
The Battle of the Little Big Horn was part of the Sioux Wars that also included the massacre here in 1890
Wounded Knee
David
|
$400
[11]
The prizewinning play "How I Learned to Drive" was inspired by Nabokov's novel about this girl
"Lolita"
Kathy
|
$400
[21]
Benny Goodman, Ken Griffey Jr., Tom Dooley
people who swing
David
|
|
$500
[28]
A strike by this union shut down UPS for 15 days in 1997
The Teamsters
Kathy
|
— |
$500
[15]
In a revealing memoir, Judy Lewis claims to be the "love child" of Clark Gable & this actress
Loretta Young
David
|
$500
[7]
Mark Twain was among those who opposed the U.S. acquiring these Pacific islands from Spain in 1898
The Philippines
Brannon
|
$500
[12]
A gold medal went to this state's Grand Forks Herald for coverage of a flood & other disasters
North Dakota
David
Brannon
Kathy
|
$500
[22]
A game of footsie, a bribe, a drunk person
things that are done under the table
Brannon
|
| HEALTH & MEDICINE | AFRICAN ATHLETES | WHEN IN ROME, N.Y. | QUESTIONS | BIG BOOKS | SLIM VOLUMES |
|
$200
[15]
In the U.S. this sex accounts for over 90% of the cases of gout
Male
Kathy
|
$200
[26]
The Olympic steeplechase has been won by men named Korir, Koriuki & Keter from this "K" country
Kenya
David
|
$200
[21]
In Rome you can visit the tomb of these nameless warriors of the revolution
Unknown Soldiers
|
$200
[11]
Cain responded with this question when God asked where Abel was
Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Kathy
|
$200
[1]
This term for a collection of maps arose because early ones pictured the titan of that name
Atlas
Kathy
|
$200
[6]
It would be easy to tear up the phone book of Winston, New Mexico, one of these "haunted" settlements
ghost towns
David
|
|
$400
[17]
Dr. Belding Scribner developed a shunt to allow long-term use of this kidney substitute
Dialysis
Kathy
|
$400
[27]
This Nigerian-born center played for the U. of Houston's Phi Slamma Jamma before joining the NBA's Rockets
Hakeem Olajuwon
Kathy
|
$400
[22]
A drum & bugle corps contest held annually is called "Drums Along" this nearby river
The Mohawk
Brannon
Kathy
|
$400
[12]
In a Longfellow poem, Priscilla asks this when John Alden urges her to marry Miles Standish
Why don't you speak for yourself, John?
David
|
$400
[2]
Among other events in this Tolstoy novel, the emperor Napoleon shouts, sneers & takes snuff
War and Peace
Kathy
|
$400
[7]
"Recent Interviews With" this author would be a lot shorter than his "Catcher In The Rye"
J.D. Salinger (he doesn't give interviews)
David
|
|
$600
[18]
A group of synthetic drugs are "anti" this chemical produced during an allergic reaction
Histamine
Brannon
|
$600
[28]
Running barefoot, Abebe Bikila surprised the track world by winning this Olympic event in 1960
The Marathon
David
|
$600
[23]
Do as the Romans Ski-Doo & ride this type of vehicle across the Tug Hill Plateau
Snowmobile
David
|
$600
[13]
In a Joe Jackson song, this title is followed by "Is she really going to take him home tonight?"
Is she really going out with him?
Brannon
|
$600
[3]
Karl Marx didn't live to complete this 3-volume work laying out his economic ideas
Das Kapital
David
|
$600
[8]
One quick read might be "Modern Naval Heroes Of" this European nation, "Helvetia" in Latin
Switzerland
David
|
|
$800
[19]
The pineal gland also makes this popular hormone used to remedy sleep disorder & jet lag
Melatonin
|
$800
[29]
South African runner whose encounter with Mary Decker in the 1984 Olympic 3,000 meters made headlines
Zola Budd
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
In Rome you're in this county that shares its name with an Indian tribe, a silverware brand & utopian group
Oneida
David
|
$800
[14]
In a well-known pickup line, it follows "If I said you had a great body,..."
Would you hold it against me?
Brannon
|
$1,000
[5]
His chilling "Gulag Archipelago" was originally published in 3 volumes
Solzhenitsyn
Brannon
|
$800
[9]
Don't waste your money on the complete lyrics of this band that gave us "Walk--Don't Run"
The Ventures
|
|
$1,000
[20]
Visual aids with concave lenses correct this defect in which light rays meet before they hit the retina
Nearsightedness/Myopia
Brannon
Kathy
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
You can ride a horse-drawn boat along a restored section of this waterway
Erie Canal
David
|
$1,000
[16]
This catchphrase from the comic strip "Zippy The Pinhead" has made its way into Bartlett's
Are we having fun yet?
|
DD
$1,500
[4]
Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel about these 2 surveyors runs over 700 pages--that's a lot of "line"s
Mason & Dixon
David
|
$1,000
[10]
Adrian IV, born Nicholas Breakspear, would be the only entry in "Lives of the English" these
Popes
Kathy
|
2 of the 4 countries that have had prime ministers who were father & daughter
(2 of) India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka