Kevin Jack — a law student from Chicago, Illinois
Breck Jeffery — a research analyst from Kailua, Hawaii
Pam Wilson — an editor from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pam | $900 | $1,200 | $5,600 |
$50
3rd place: Swintec Single-Line Fax Machine |
$5,600
16 R, 3 W |
| Breck | $2,500 | $3,100 | $6,400 |
$11,201
New champion: $11,201 |
$8,300
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kevin | $400 | $2,500 | $5,200 |
$10,399
2nd place: Trip to Memphis, Tennessee |
$6,300
19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| DESERT LIFE | LANGUAGES | TOP MODELS | STATE CAPITALS | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | 6-LETTER WORDS |
|
$100
[11]
These can carry 1,000-pound loads & go for 10 days without water
Camels
Kevin
|
$100
[1]
Lao, the official language of this southeast Asian country, is mostly monosyllabic
Laos
Breck
|
$100
[16]
This magazine's January 29, 1996 swimsuit issue featured Valeria Mazza & Tyra Banks in bikinis in South Africa
Sports Illustrated
Kevin
|
$100
[6]
This Colorado city's capitol dome is covered with 47 ounces of gold leaf
Denver
Pam
|
$100
[21]
Take off for a fortnight & you'll be gone this many days
14
Kevin
|
$100
[26]
Popular for knickknacks, it's the shelf above a fireplace
Mantle
Pam
|
|
$200
[12]
This rattlesnake was named for its diagonal crawling pattern
Sidewinder
Breck
Kevin
|
$200
[2]
The dramas of Seneca & the histories of Tacitus belong to this language's silver age
Latin
Breck
|
$200
[17]
Holding a Cohiba panatella, Linda Evangelista was on a magazine cover for aficionados of these
Cigars
Kevin
|
$200
[7]
This Ohio city is home to Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery
Columbus
Breck
|
$200
[22]
To convert gallons to these units, multiply by 3.785
Liters
Kevin
|
$200
[27]
It can be a chest of drawers or a federal agency
Bureau
Pam
|
|
$300
[13]
Types of these desert animals that leap to mind are the collared, zebra-tailed & leopard
Lizards
|
$300
[3]
Romansh is spoken in this country's canton of Graubunden
Switzerland
Pam
Breck
|
$300
[18]
This wonder from Down Under appears in the 1996 film "Jane Eyre"
Elle Macpherson
Kevin
|
$300
[8]
This North Dakota city's capitol building is called The Skyscraper of the Prairies
Bismarck
Pam
|
$300
[23]
A square foot contains this many square inches
144
Breck
|
$300
[28]
It means composed of many different or clashing elements, like musician Tommy Lee's Crue
Motley
Kevin
|
|
$500
[15]
This large yucca plant of the Mojave has a national park named for it
Joshua Tree
Breck
Kevin
|
$400
[4]
This language whose name means "Jewish" arose between the 9th & 12th centuries in southwestern Germany
Yiddish
Pam
|
$400
[19]
Bijan features this "ten"acious actress in his ads
Bo Derek
Kevin
|
$400
[9]
According to the 1990 census, this Vermont capital had only 8,247 residents
Montpelier
Pam
|
$400
[24]
Jockeys know it's equal to an eighth of a mile
Furlong
Breck
|
$400
[29]
Japanese for "tray planting", it's the art of growing dwarfed trees & shrubs
Bonsai
Breck
|
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
The name of these Arabs means "dwellers in the desert"
Bedouins
Breck
|
$500
[5]
The Formosan languages, spoken by about 200,000 on this island, belong to the Austronesian family
Taiwan
Breck
|
$500
[20]
In the 1996 novel "Swan" this black beauty takes you behind the scenes of the modeling world
Naomi Campbell
Pam
|
$500
[10]
This capital was founded in 1851 as Eagle Station, a stop for wagons crossing the Sierra Nevadas
Carson City
Kevin
|
$500
[25]
If your recipe calls for a cup of liquid, you can use this many tablespoons
16
|
$500
[30]
Caused by oxidation, it's the greenish film that forms on copper or old bronze
Patina
Pam
|
| MARTIN LUTHER KING | CELEBRITY COUPLES | EDUCATORS | OPERA | TRAVEL EUROPE | WOMEN NOVELISTS |
|
$200
[7]
At Crozer Theological Seminary King learned of this Indian leader's idea of nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi
Pam
|
$200
[2]
Since their 1991 wedding, he's been Jane Fonda's "Cable Guy"
Ted Turner
Kevin
|
$200
[19]
Author & scholar Ruth R. Wisse is the 1st person to teach Yiddish literature at the Cambridge, Mass. university
Harvard
Kevin
|
$200
[17]
As a teen Gian Carlo Menotti turned this undersea H.C. Andersen fairy tale into an opera
"The Little Mermaid"
Pam
|
$200
[12]
You can see Rembrandt's "Adoration of the Shepherds" at the National Gallery on this British square
Trafalgar Square
|
$200
[1]
In 1996 this "Scrupulous" author published a book about the fashion industry called "Spring Collection"
Judith Krantz
Kevin
|
|
$400
[8]
It was the profession of King's father & grandfather as well
Minister
Breck
|
$400
[3]
She & Paul Newman became grandparents for the first time when daughter Lissy had a baby boy in 1996
Joanne Woodward
Pam
|
$400
[20]
Among the Challenger crew on its fateful mission was this social studies teacher from New Hampshire
Christa McAuliffe
Pam
|
$400
[18]
In this Puccini work, Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, is sung by a baritone
"Madame Butterfly"
Breck
|
$400
[13]
The northernmost 18-hole golf course in Europe is at Akureyri in this volcanic country
Iceland
Pam
Kevin
|
$400
[21]
Maiden name of "Frankenstein" author Mary, or "A Mother And Two Daughters" author Gail
Godwin
Pam
Kevin
|
|
$600
[9]
In December 1964 King conferred with this man, who was spying on him, about the FBI's role in civil rights
J. Edgar Hoover
Kevin
|
$600
[4]
These once-married stars are the parents of "Ellen" co-star Joely Fisher
Eddie Fisher & Connie Stevens
Pam
Kevin
|
$600
[25]
When Tuskeegee opened its doors in 1881, he was the school's only teacher
Booker T. Washington
Kevin
|
$600
[28]
This Richard Strauss opera is a "Wilde" tale set around 30 A.D. in Galilee
"Salome"
Breck
|
$600
[14]
You can tour the Peace Palace in this city when the International Court of Justice is not in session
The Hague
Breck
|
$600
[22]
Before moving to the U.S., this "Fountainhead" author worked as a guide in a Leningrad museum
Ayn Rand
Kevin
|
|
$800
[10]
King wished that his children "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of" this
Character
Pam
|
$800
[5]
Paula Prentiss played a perverse nurse in "Mrs. Winterbourne", directed by this man, her husband
Richard Benjamin
Pam
|
$800
[26]
She was teaching political science when President Reagan chose her as U.N. Ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Breck
|
$800
[29]
This "Billy The Kid" composer wrote 2 operas: "The Second Hurricane" & "The Tender Land"
Aaron Copland
Kevin
|
$1,000
[16]
You can see an enormous clock on Rue du Gros-Horloge in this city where time ran out for Joan of Arc
Rouen
Breck
|
$1,000
[24]
In her first book since "Waiting To Exhale", she tells "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"
Terry McMillan
Kevin
|
|
$1,000
[11]
This 3-word phrase from a spiritual is engraved 3 times on King's tombstone
"Free At Last"
Breck
|
$1,000
[6]
She married Steven Spielberg after co-starring in his film "Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom"
Kate Capshaw
Kevin
|
$1,000
[27]
Of Japanese descent, this educator & linguist represented California in the Senate 1977-1983
SI Hayakawa
Breck
|
$1,000
[30]
"The Tales of Hoffmann" was his last & greatest work
Jacques Offenbach
Pam
|
DD
$2,500
[15]
The Ra II is on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in this capital city
Oslo, Norway
Breck
|
DD
$1,100
[23]
She hopes to conclude her alphabet mysteries with "Z" around the year 2015
Sue Grafton
Kevin
|
The London Theatre's equivalent of Broadway's Tony Awards are named for him
Sir Laurence Olivier