Holly Buchanan — a consultant from Silver Spring, Maryland
Carl Eeman — a pastor from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Kathy Robbins — a bed-and-breakfast owner from Denver, Colorado (whose 3-day cash winnings total $35,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathy | $2,100 | $2,000 | $2,800 |
$5,599
2nd place: trip to Maui & stay at The Whaler |
$2,800
13 R, 4 W |
| Carl | $1,000 | $3,800 | $9,800 |
$10,300
New champion: $10,300 |
$8,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Holly | $700 | $1,500 | $3,700 |
$1,700
3rd place: [unknown] |
$5,700
16 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| LEGISLATURES | FOOD | WORD ORIGINS | THE BODY HUMAN | ANNUAL EVENTS | COMEDIES |
|
$100
[1]
This country's legislature, the National People's Congress, has 2,978 members
China
Kathy
Carl
|
$100
[24]
Types of these vegetables include pearl, green & Bermuda
onions
Carl
|
$100
[6]
This term for a policeman comes from the Latin comes stabuli, an officer of the stable
constable
Holly
|
$100
[17]
This gland located at the front of the neck controls metabolic activity
thyroid
Carl
|
$100
[13]
The Mormon pageant is a dramatic annual event in Manti in this state
Utah
Kathy
|
$100
[11]
Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels played a couple of dimwits in this 1994 blockbuster comedy
Dumb and Dumber
Kathy
|
|
$200
[2]
In 1980 the government of this country granted the Basques the right to an elected parliament
Spain
Carl
|
$200
[25]
They're the only edible part of a frog; remember, overcooking will make them tough
legs
Carl
|
$200
[7]
The name of this Florida site is an alteration of the Spanish cayo huesa "island of bones"
Key West
|
$200
[18]
The visceral pleurae are thin, tough membranes that cover the outer surface of these organs
lungs
Kathy
|
$200
[22]
Head for Fargo in this state to celebrate Merry Prairie Christmas
North Dakota
Holly
|
$200
[12]
In 1980 Dolly Parton ventured onto the big screen, playing a secretary in this film
9 to 5
Carl
|
|
$300
[3]
Greenland & the Faroe Islands each have 2 seats in this nation's Folketing
Denmark
Holly
|
$300
[28]
A ficelle is a long, thin one of these about half the size of a baguette
loaf of bread
Holly
|
$300
[8]
From the Greek kubernao, "to direct a ship", it became someone who directs a ship of state
governor
Carl
|
$300
[19]
The small intestine includes the jejunum, the ileum & this horseshoe-shaped section
duodenum
Carl
Holly
|
$300
[23]
Scottish highland games take place every summer at North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain in this range
Blue Ridge Mountains
Kathy
Carl
Holly
|
$300
[14]
This cross-dressing comedy with Nathan Lane & Robin Williams is a remake of "La Cage aux Folles"
The Birdcage
Holly
|
|
$400
[4]
The rules, or takkanon, of this Israeli parliament are similar to those of Britain's House of Commons
Knesset
Kathy
|
$400
[29]
In different types of food, this crustacean's name precedes cake, apple & Louis
crab
Holly
|
$400
[9]
Thomas Jefferson helped coin this word for a certain coin; he got it from the French word for "tenth"
dime
Carl
|
$400
[20]
This lowest part of the brain stem helps regulate the digestive process, among other functions
medulla
Carl
|
$500
[27]
Founded by Gian Carlo Menotti, this music & arts festival has been an annual event in Charleston, S.C. since 1977
Spoleto
Holly
|
$400
[15]
In a 1983 film this comedy troupe pondered "The Meaning of Life"
Monty Python
Kathy
|
|
$500
[5]
Suspended in 1800, this country's Althing reconvened in 1843
Iceland
Kathy
|
$500
[30]
The top of a Dundee cake is usually covered with these nuts, blanched & split
almond
Carl
|
$500
[10]
From the Latin per, "through", & ager, "field", comes this long word for wandering
peregrination
Kathy
|
$500
[21]
The shoulder joint is formed by the scapula, the clavicle & this upper arm bone
humerus
Carl
|
DD
$1,000
[26]
The town of Winterset in this Iowa county is noted for its Covered Bridge Festival
Madison
Carl
|
$500
[16]
Ricki Lake is the daughter-in-law this actress never had in the film "Mrs. Winterbourne"
Shirley MacLaine
|
| EUROPEAN HISTORY | ELTON JOHN SONGS | PAINTERS | GENESIS | LIGHTHOUSES | TRAGEDIES |
|
$200
[3]
In 1981 Giovanni Spadolini became the first non-Christian Democrat premier of this country since 1945
Italy
Holly
|
$200
[19]
Elton sang Oscar-winning "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" over the end credits of this Disney film
The Lion King
Holly
|
$200
[16]
He also called Jan van der Meer van Delft
Jan Vermeer
Kathy
Holly
|
$200
[11]
To avoid being killed, Abram & Isaac told people their pretty wives were these relatives
sisters
Carl
|
$200
[1]
The oldest lighthouse on the coast of this state is Portland Head Light, built in 1791
Maine
Holly
|
$200
[18]
This playwright's "Hamlet" is considered the highest expression of the revenge tragedy
Shakespeare
Carl
|
|
$400
[7]
In 1832 Greece was formed from several Aegean islands, part of Rumelia & this peninsula
Peloponnese
Kathy
|
$400
[26]
It's the song that asks, "Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet, ooh but they're so spaced out"
"Bennie and the Jets"
Carl
|
$400
[17]
His father, N.C., son James & sisters Henriette & Carolyn were also well-known artists
Andrew Wyeth
Kathy
|
$400
[12]
The 2 things the Lord "rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah"
fire & brimstone
Carl
|
$400
[2]
In 1939 this armed service took over control of the Lighthouse Service
Coast Guard
Kathy
|
$400
[23]
This "Candide" author wrote his first tragedy, "Oedipe", while still a teenager
Voltaire
Carl
|
|
$600
[8]
In 1890 this grand duchy ended its political ties to the Dutch royal family
Luxembourg
Carl
|
$600
[27]
In 1987 Elton re-recorded this song inspired by Marilyn Monroe with the Melbourne Symphony Orch.
"Candle in the Wind"
Holly
|
$600
[20]
This pointillist painted a frame around his "La Grande Jatte"
Seurat
Holly
|
$600
[13]
Until Chapter 11 there was only one of these for all earth's people; then God confounded it into many
language
Holly
|
$600
[4]
Invented by Augustin Jean Fresnel, the compound type of this is used in lighthouses
lens
|
$600
[24]
The 100 tales in this Boccaccio work alternated between tragedy & earthy humor
Decameron
Kathy
|
|
$1,000
[10]
When Charles IV died without male heirs in 1328, this 341-year French dynasty ended
Capets
Kathy
Carl
|
$800
[29]
A fan of Billie Jean King, Elton wrote this 1975 hit for her
"Philadelphia Freedom"
Kathy
|
$800
[21]
Maurice de Vlaminck was a member of this French art group, literally "the wild beasts"
Fauves
Holly
|
$800
[14]
She is described as a "help meet"
Eve
Holly
|
$800
[5]
There's a lighthouse on this Oahu promontory, the crater of an extinct volcano
Diamond Head
Carl
|
$800
[25]
He wrote that Willy Loman's tragedy is "that he gave his life, or sold it, in order to justify the waste of it"
Arthur Miller
Carl
|
|
DD
$1,200
[9]
The House of Wittelsbach, which ruled Bavaria 1180-1918, made this city its capital in 1255
Munich
Carl
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1976 Elton team up with Kiki Dee for this No. 1 hit
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
|
$1,000
[22]
After the Nazis closed this design school in 1933, Josef Albers joined the faculty of Black Mountain College
Bauhaus
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
God saw he "was a just man and perfect in his generations"
Noah
Holly
|
$1,000
[6]
An 1833 lighthouse is a point of interest in this western New York city on Lake Erie
Buffalo
|
$1,000
[28]
This Swede's play "The Father" is a domestic tragedy detailing the in here nt cruelty of marriage
Strindberg
Kathy
|
In June 1996 he came in second in the race for mayor of Bucharest
Ilie Năstase