1998 Tournament of Champions final game 2.
Kim Worth — a freelance writer and stand-up comedian from Venice, California (subtotal of $6,100)
Dan Melia — a professor from San Francisco, California (subtotal of $10,300)
Bob Harris — a political humorist originally from Cleveland, Ohio (subtotal of $0)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $300 | $1,500 | $200 | $1 |
$3,300
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dan | $900 | $4,800 | $10,000 | $10,000 |
$10,000
23 R, 1 W |
| Kim | $1,000 | $1,300 | $1,200 | $1,700 |
$6,400
17 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| 20th CENTURY POLITICIANS | LOOK WHO'S TALKING | CAT PEOPLE | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | "ROCK" & "ROLL" | YOU CAN LOOK IT UP |
|
$100
[27]
In 1945 he became the oldest veep to succeed to the presidency upon the death of a president
Harry Truman
Bob
|
$100
[21]
Jim Hawkins
Treasure Island
Dan
|
$100
[6]
He later went back to Mellencamp, but under this name his album "American Fool" was No. 1 in 1982
John Cougar
Kim
|
$100
[11]
Benjamin Franklin encouraged this pamphleteer's 1774 move from England to America
Thomas Paine
Kim
|
$100
[1]
This cylindrical kitchen tool is useful for making pie crusts, or for keeping wayward husbands in line
a rolling pin
Bob
|
$100
[16]
One can be "tetched" in this body part
the head
Bob
|
|
$200
[28]
In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey; 2 years later he was elected president
Woodrow Wilson
Bob
|
$200
[22]
Jake Barnes
The Sun Also Rises
Dan
|
$200
[7]
It's the name of King John's crusading older brother
Richard the Lionhearted
Bob
|
$200
[13]
On June 14, 1777, he was given command of the Sloop Ranger
John Paul Jones
Dan
|
$200
[2]
Their exploits included a quest for the "Kurwood Derby" & the discovery of upsadaisium, a new mineral
Rocky & Bullwinkle
Kim
|
$200
[17]
A "bombilation" is this type of sound often heard near beehives
buzzing
Dan
|
|
$300
[24]
After a 19% showing in 1992, this presidential candidate could only muster 8 1/2% of the vote in 1996
Ross Perot
Dan
|
$300
[23]
Jing-Mei Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, Lena St. Clair & their mothers
The Joy Luck Club
Kim
|
$300
[8]
Role shared by Eartha Kitt on TV & Michelle Pfeiffer on the big screen
Catwoman
Kim
|
$300
[12]
It's been said that about 1/3 of all British troops in the colonies were these German mercenaries
Hessians
Dan
|
$300
[3]
For an incredible 50 years, 1926-76, he illustrated the official Boy Scout calendar
Norman Rockwell
Kim
|
$300
[18]
An "avuncular" person be have s in a way that reminds one of this relative
an uncle
Dan
|
|
$400
[29]
This Texan served a record 17 years as Speaker of the House between 1940 & 1961
Sam Rayburn
Bob
|
$400
[25]
Humbert Humbert
Lolita
Dan
|
$400
[9]
Amanda Blake played this saloon owner on "Gunsmoke" for 19 seasons
Miss Kitty
Dan
|
$400
[14]
The Boston Port Act was one of these laws passed by England to retaliate for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Bob
|
DD
$500
[4]
In 1986, Austrian-born Falco topped the charts with this song about another Austrian:
"Rock Me Amadeus"
Kim
|
$400
[19]
A "monoglot" only knows one of these
a language
Dan
|
|
$500
[30]
Known as "Battling Bob", he represented Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate from 1906 to 1925
Bob La Follette
Dan
|
$500
[26]
Sal Paradise
On the Road
|
$500
[10]
This character describes herself as the title animal in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Maggie the Cat
Dan
|
$500
[15]
On Dec. 10, 1778 this New York attorney was chosen president of the Continental Congress
John Jay
Dan
|
$500
[5]
George Carlin's feature debut & Doris Day's last starring role were in the 1968 film "With Six You Get" this
Eggroll
Kim
|
$500
[20]
When a joke causes people to "cachinnate", they're doing this too loudly
laughing
Dan
|
| WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE | INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS | LOVE SONGS | CUPID GOOFED | HE SAID | SHE SAID |
|
$200
[8]
Found in Central & South American forests, the spider monkey hangs from trees by this type of tail
prehensile
Dan
|
$200
[3]
This "Pieta" artist was born in Caprese, a village in Tuscany, in 1475
Michelangelo (Buonarroti)
Kim
|
$200
[29]
In 1962, his pop version of "I Can't Stop Loving You" was the No. 1 single of the year
Ray Charles
Kim
|
$200
[1]
Few were surprised when Julia Roberts split from this singer after 21 months of marriage
Lyle Lovett
Bob
|
$200
[18]
Jesus was still dripping from this event when a voice from heaven called him "my beloved Son"
baptism
Bob
Dan
|
$200
[21]
In 1997, as her daughter left for Stanford, she wondered "why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade"
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kim
|
|
$400
[12]
These smallest apes spend most of their lives, including mating & giving birth, in trees
gibbons
Bob
|
$400
[7]
This Dutchman's 1660s painting of "The Jewish Bride" is in the Rijksmuseum
Rembrandt
Kim
|
$400
[30]
Hit in which Sinatra sang, "Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away" ...dooby dooby do
"Strangers In The Night"
Bob
|
$400
[2]
Unhappy in his marriage, he loved his wife's sister & memorialized her in "Oliver Twist"
Charles Dickens
Dan
|
$400
[19]
After his name was changed to Israel, God still called him this, to tell him to go down to Egypt
Jacob
Dan
Kim
|
$400
[22]
Ironically, Marianne Moore began a poem about this literary form, "I, Too, Dislike It"
poetry
Dan
|
|
$600
[13]
This banded mammal can be seen in the Southern U.S. & in The Clash's "Rock The Casbah" video
the armadillo
Bob
|
$600
[9]
He painted the scandalous picture seen here:
Edouard Manet
Bob
|
$800
[28]
In 1986 Whitney Houston found this title lyric is "easy to achieve"
"The Greatest Love Of All"
Bob
|
$600
[4]
One of the things she asked Tom to return in their ugly divorce was her Emmy award
Roseanne Barr
Bob
|
$600
[16]
In Eden the Lord told Adam he would return to this & told the serpent he would eat it
dirt (or dust or earth or soil)
Bob
Kim
|
$600
[23]
In 1776 she wrote to husband John, "Remember the ladies, and be more generous... to them than your ancestors"
Abigail Adams
Kim
|
|
$800
[14]
The wild horned aoudad, or Barbary sheep, lives in the Aures & these northern African mountains
the Atlas Mountains
Kim
|
$800
[10]
The name of his 1896 painting "No Te Aha Oe Riri" means "Why Are You Angry"?
Paul Gauguin
Dan
|
$1,000
[27]
They're "an institute you can't disparage. Ask the local gentry, and they will say it's element'ry"
"Love And Marriage"
Bob
Kim
|
$800
[5]
In 1762 after Peter III threatened divorce, this wife deposed him & became empress of Russia
Catherine the Great
Dan
|
$800
[17]
God told Joshua, "Make thee sharp knives" & do this to the male Israelites "A second time"
circumcise them
Dan
|
$800
[24]
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one", this Frenchwoman wrote in "The Second Sex"
Simone de Beauvoir
Bob
Kim
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Resembling the antelope, this animal named for its forked horns is the fastest in the Western Hemisphere
the pronghorn
Kim
|
$1,000
[11]
This Belgian surrealist painted a 1957 mural called "La Fee Ignorante"--"The Ignorant Elf"
Rene Magritte
Dan
|
DD
$3,100
[26]
Henry Mancini topped the pop charts just once, with this movie theme heard here:
"Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet"
Bob
|
$1,000
[6]
To end his marriage in 1877, this Russian composer tried to catch a lethal case of pneumonia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dan
|
DD
$4,700
[20]
In 1 Kings 19 God tells him "Anoint Hazael", but he doesn't tell him to visit homes during the Seder
Elijah
Kim
|
$1,000
[25]
This British novelist & essayist thought human character changed "on or about December 1910"
Virginia Woolf
|
City where Goethe & Nietzsche died, & a republic & a breed of dog were born
Weimar (Weimar Republic & Weimaraner dog)