Barbara Jackson — an attorney from Raleigh, North Carolina
Charlie Patton — a journalist from Jacksonville, Florida
Lucy Shigemitsu — a writer originally from Tokyo, Japan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $12,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucy | $1,900 | $3,200 | $7,000 |
$11,601
2nd place: a trip to Barcelona, Spain |
$7,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Charlie | $800 | $2,100 | $8,700 |
$14,001
New champion: $14,001 |
$9,700
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Barbara | $200 | $1,800 | $5,800 |
$8,800
3rd place: a Broyhill entertainment armoire |
$5,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| FLORIDA | 5-LETTER WORDS | AWARDS | ANIMALS | HERBS & SPICES | SPORTS NICKNAMES |
|
$100
[6]
The Florida largemouth type of this is Florida's official freshwater fish
Bass
Charlie
|
$100
[18]
A metalworker, or a common surname
Smith
Barbara
|
$100
[8]
At the 1996 People's Choice Awards, this "Apollo 13" star received 2 awards for favorite actor
Tom Hanks
Barbara
|
$100
[13]
The silky & Yorkshire are toy breeds of this dog
Terrier
Lucy
|
$100
[22]
In the 1770s bergamot was used to brew this while the American colonies boycotted the British product
Tea
Lucy
|
$100
[1]
"Shaq"
Shaquille O'Neal
Lucy
|
|
$200
[7]
This inventor had the bright idea to plant hundreds of palms in Fort Myers, now known as "The City of Palms"
Thomas Edison
Barbara
|
$200
[27]
This term for a person who's authorized to act for another is short for procuracy
Proxy
Barbara
|
$200
[9]
In 1989 the N.A.B. established an award named for this wireless radio pioneer
Guglielmo Marconi
Lucy
|
$200
[14]
Perhaps referring to its erratic behavior, the gnu is also called this
Wildebeest
|
$200
[23]
Its botanical name is zingiber officinale & it will put a snap or a zing in your cookies
Ginger
Charlie
|
$200
[2]
"The Shoe"
Willie Shoemaker
Charlie
|
|
$300
[19]
The Spanish Beard Contest has been a hair-raising event at this oldest U.S. city's Days In Spain Festival
St. Augustine
Charlie
|
$300
[28]
It's the hollow, stemlike shaft of a feather
Quill
Charlie
|
$300
[10]
Kurt Wait, the first man to win this contest, captured $1 million for his Macadamia Fudge Torte
Pillsbury Bake-Off
Lucy
|
$300
[15]
The 2 popular breeds of dairy cattle named for Britain's 2 largest Channel Islands
Jersey & Guernsey
Lucy
|
$300
[24]
In large quantities, this eggnog topper is poisonous
Nutmeg
Lucy
|
$300
[3]
Football's "Boomer"
Boomer Esiason
Barbara
|
|
$400
[20]
A revolving platform called Kodak's Island in the Sky provides panoramic views of these gardens near Winter Haven
Cypress Gardens
Barbara
|
$400
[29]
Type of puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words or phrases
Rebus
Lucy
|
$400
[11]
Rosa Parks was among those honored by the president in 1996 with this highest civilian award
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Barbara
|
$400
[16]
Up to 50 feet in length, the whale species of this fish is the largest in the sea
Shark
|
$400
[25]
A mixture of this seed & salt is used in Bloody Marys & stuffings
Celery
Barbara
|
$400
[4]
Hockey's "The Great One"
Wayne Gretzky
Lucy
|
|
$500
[21]
Open since 1913, Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant is a highlight of this trendy area of Miami Beach
South Beach
Barbara
|
$500
[30]
A short, pithy expression, or a dwarfish creature who guards a treasure
Gnome
Charlie
|
$500
[12]
Her "Heidi Chronicles" won the 1989 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play
Wendy Wasserstein
Lucy
|
DD
$500
[17]
In summer, when its coat is brown, the ermine is referred to by this name
Stoat/Weasel
Lucy
|
$500
[26]
In old England this fruit was roasted & served with caraway; "Henry IV, Part 2" mentions it
Apples
|
$500
[5]
"The Brown Bomber"
Joe Louis
Charlie
|
| SCULPTURE | LITERATURE | AROUND THE WORLD | POLITICIANS | ANCIENT HISTORY | TV & FILM SAXOPHONISTS |
|
$200
[24]
This creator of "The Thinker" studied sculpture with Antoine Louis Barye
Auguste Rodin
Barbara
|
$200
[9]
In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelist's "The War of the Worlds" on radio
H.G. Wells
Charlie
|
$200
[16]
About 3% of this country's people live on collective settlements called kibbutzim
Israel
Charlie
|
$200
[1]
This Tennessee senator & father of the VP helped write the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act
Albert Gore, Sr.
Lucy
|
$200
[2]
The Bantu migration from modern Cameroon to the south of this continent began about 2,000 years ago
Africa
Charlie
|
$200
[21]
He was the guest saxophonist on the June 3, 1992 "Arsenio Hall Show"
Bill Clinton
Lucy
|
|
$400
[26]
Cyrus Edward Dallin's "Sir Isaac Newton" is in this Washington, D.C. library
Library of Congress
Lucy
|
$400
[10]
On his fifth voyage, he encounters the Old Man of the Sea
Sinbad
Barbara
|
$400
[17]
2 miles from Innsbruck, you can see one of this country's best-preserved castles, Schloss Ambras
Austria
Charlie
|
$600
[5]
William Scranton was governor of this state from 1963 to 1967 & later served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
Pennsylvania
Charlie
|
$400
[3]
In 337 Constantine The Great abolished this form of execution out of respect for Jesus
Crucifixion
Barbara
|
$400
[22]
Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 biopic about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker
"Bird"
Charlie
|
|
$600
[27]
This Michelangelo sculpture in Florence was carved from marble left by Agostino di Duccio
"David"
Lucy
|
$600
[11]
In this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Myrtle Wilson is accidentally run over & killed by Daisy Buchanan
"The Great Gatsby"
Barbara
|
$600
[18]
When in Ecuador you might "experiment" with new foods like cuy, which is this lab rodent, baked
Guinea Pig
Lucy
Charlie
Barbara
|
$800
[6]
In 1974 this Arkansas Democrat lost his bid for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate
William Fulbright
Charlie
|
$600
[7]
In the 200s Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of this within about 15% of accurate
The Earth
Barbara
|
$800
[25]
Series on which sheriff Jimmy Brock, played by Tom Skerritt, tooted his sax
"Picket Fences"
Charlie
|
|
$800
[28]
This Rochester, Minn. medical clinic commissioned William Zorach's 1953 "Man And Work"
The Mayo Clinic
Charlie
|
$800
[12]
This E.M. Forster novel is set in the fictional city of Chandrapore
"A Passage To India"
Charlie
|
$800
[19]
The capital of Indonesia is on this island
Java
Lucy
|
$1,000
[8]
This Illinois Republican served 8 terms in the House, & in 1959 became Senate Minority Leader
Everett Dirksen
Charlie
|
$800
[14]
Ephialtes, a Thessalian, betrayed the Greeks holding these "hot gates" against the Persian invasion
Thermopylae
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
1984 film that featuredthe following:"It's a free country, welcome to almost anyone, and I hope that someday you'll join me here; of course I'll continue to write to you every week. Yes, in America anything is possible. Good-bye for now, beloved family. I love you. Voya."[Playing a saxophone in a city park]
"Moscow on the Hudson" (with Robin Williams)
Charlie
|
|
$1,000
[29]
Between 1919 & 1925, he made several versions of "Bird In Space", in marble & bronze
Constantin Brancusi
Barbara
|
$1,000
[13]
In his 1938 work "The Unvanquished", the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War
William Faulkner
Charlie
|
$1,000
[20]
Each July this Swiss town plays host to a world-famous jazz festival
Montreux
Barbara
|
DD
$1,200
[4]
Jimmy Carter attended the 1996 funeral of this Maine senator, once his secretary of state
Edmund Muskie
Barbara
|
$1,000
[15]
Scipio Africanus the Elder was a hero of the second war against Carthage, known by this name
Second Punic War
Lucy
|
$1,000
[30]
This 1986 film earned a best actor nomination for tenor sax great Dexter Gordon
"'Round Midnight"
Charlie
|
"America's Favorite Food", a book about this company, contains 12 pages of Andy Warhol's art
Campbell Soup Company