John McKeon game 2.
Eric Schon — a molecular biologist from the Bronx, New York
Julia Simmons — a homemaker originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
John McKeon — a writer from Chevy Chase, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $800 | $2,300 | $8,500 |
$8,500
2-day champion: $21,600 |
$6,500
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Julia | $1,000 | $2,100 | $3,700 |
$3,000
2nd place: trip on TWA to Asheville, North Carolina & stay at Grove Park Inn Resort |
$3,700
11 R, 1 W |
| Eric | $1,000 | $2,000 | $8,600 |
$199
3rd place: /i> Hammerman gold earrings |
$9,100
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE CIVIL WAR | SPORTS | THE CUTTING BOARD | STATE CAPITALS | LONG TIME PASSING | CROSSWORD CLUES "Y" |
|
$100
[1]
Union Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee was a distant relative of this Confederate commander-in-chief
Robert E. Lee
John
|
$100
[7]
In 1962 baseball's National League expanded to 10 teams, adding the Houston Colt .45s & this N.Y. team
the New York Mets
Eric
|
$100
[21]
To cut out this citrus fruit's sections, use a special curved, serrated knife
a grapefruit
John
|
$100
[6]
It's named for Sir Walter
Raleigh, North Carolina
John
|
$100
[22]
Amount of time Richard Henry Dana spent "Before the Mast"
Two Years
John
|
$100
[16]
A tired response(4)
a yawn
John
|
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$200
[2]
In this July 1863 Pennsylvania battle, the Southern lines were north of the Northern lines
Gettysburg
Julia
|
$200
[11]
This former 49ers quarterback holds the Super Bowl record for yards passing in a game with 357
Joe Montana
Eric
|
$200
[27]
A special knife or vegetable peeler is used to do this, removing the outer skin of a potato
pare
Julia
|
$200
[8]
California's oldest newspaper is this city's Union, which dates back to 1851
Sacramento
Eric
|
$200
[23]
If a millipede takes a millennium to cross a mill floor, it takes this many years
1,000
Eric
|
$200
[17]
Finger lickin' good(5)
yummy
Julia
|
|
$300
[3]
Sam Houston was ousted as governor of this state when he refused to support the Confederacy
Texas
John
|
$300
[13]
In 1993 this team's Shaquille O'Neal was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA
the Orlando Magic
Julia
|
$300
[28]
To completely bone & trim a fish, or the piece of fish itself after you're done
fillet
Eric
|
$300
[9]
South Dakota's executive mansion overlooks Capitol Lake in this city
Pierre
Eric
|
$300
[24]
In 1964 Richard Russell led a 74-day-long one of these in the Senate
a filibuster
John
|
$300
[18]
It's used by knitwits(4)
yarn
Julia
|
|
$400
[4]
Later U.S. Sec. of State, John Milton Hay served as asst. private secretary to this man during the war
President Lincoln
John
|
$400
[14]
It's the "manly" nickname of former WBC lightweight champ Hector Camacho
"Macho"
Eric
|
$400
[29]
To cut a food item almost in half horizontally, then open the halves outward like wings
to butterfly
John
|
$400
[10]
This Idaho city is the southwest terminus of the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Route
Boise
John
|
$400
[25]
The current longest-running prime time network series, its title is much shorter than its 26-year run
60 Minutes
|
$400
[19]
Hurray for a Flintstone(5,5,3)
Yabba Dabba Doo
Julia
|
|
$500
[5]
The sympathies of his wife Varina were suspect because she had Northern ancestry
Jefferson Davis
Julia
|
$500
[15]
In 1947 she became the first U.S. woman to win the British Amateur Golf Tournament
Babe Didrikson (Zaharias)
John
Eric
|
$500
[30]
This French term refers to food cut into "matchsticks"
julienne
John
|
DD
$700
[12]
Rhodes Hall, a mansion in this city, was built in 1903 with granite from nearby Stone Mountain
Atlanta
Eric
|
$500
[26]
New fossil dating has pinpointed the age of this famous skeleton at 3.18 million years
Lucy
Eric
|
$500
[20]
Park Place(8)
Yosemite
|
| THE 1920s | TECHNOLOGY | ARTISTS | WOMEN AUTHORS | WORLD MONEY | GILBERT & SULLIVAN |
|
$200
[10]
On the 5th day of the 5th month of 1921, she introduced her No 5 perfume
(Coco) Chanel
Eric
|
$200
[1]
In the U.S. most of these devices have 525 lines per image; soon they may have over 1,000
television sets
John
|
$200
[11]
His 1782 painting "The Skater" made him famous in London years before he painted George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Julia
|
$200
[2]
She said, "Miss Marple insinuated herself so quietly into my life that I hardly noticed her arrival"
Agatha Christie
John
|
$200
[22]
Since 1971 this British currency has been divided into 100 new pence
the pound (sterling)
Eric
|
$200
[13]
Samuel, a baritone, begins this opera singing, "Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry"
The Pirates of Penzance
Eric
|
|
$400
[12]
The forerunner of this British dictionary was published in 10 volumes in 1928
the Oxford English Dictionary
John
|
$400
[5]
The laser beam on a compact disc player is equivalent to this on a phonograph
a needle
Eric
|
$400
[15]
George Romney painted many portraits of this beauty before she became Lord Nelson's mistress
(Lady) Hamilton
Eric
|
$400
[3]
From 1921 to 1931 she was a university teacher in Nanking
Pearl Buck
Julia
|
$400
[23]
The islands of St. Pierre & Miquelon just south of Newfoundland use this basic unit of currency
the (French) franc
Eric
|
$400
[28]
W.S. Gilbert wrote, "Things are seldom what they seem; skim milk masquerades as" this
cream
John
|
|
$600
[17]
He came to power after leading his black-shirted Fascists in a "March on Rome"
Mussolini
John
|
$600
[6]
AM is short for amplitude modulation & amp is short for this unit of electricity
an ampere
Eric
|
$600
[16]
Many people hated the sculptor Pietro Torrigiano for breaking this fellow Florentine artist's nose
Michelangelo
Julia
Eric
|
$600
[4]
Mary Ann Evans chose this pen name partly in honor of her lover George Henry Lewes
George Eliot
Julia
Eric
|
$600
[24]
Gibraltar's 25-pence coin of 1971 featured one of these animals on the back
a Barbary ape
Eric
|
$800
[19]
Hamilton Clarke, not Sullivan, constructed the overture for this opera set in Japan
The Mikado
Eric
|
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
Condemned earlier to internal exile, he was banished from the USSR in 1929
Trotsky
John
|
$800
[7]
As unique as fingerprints, strands of this genetic material are used to establish paternity
DNA
John
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
This artist lived in Paris in the late 1880s, when Toulouse-Lautrec painted the portrait of him seen here:
(Vincent) van Gogh
Eric
|
$800
[8]
This Round Table wit collaborated with Elmer Rice on the 1924 play "Close Harmony"
Dorothy Parker
John
|
$800
[25]
In 1936 Hungary issued a 2-pengo coin on the 50th anniversary of this composer's death
Liszt
John
|
$1,000
[18]
The inspiration for "Princess Ida" came from this lord's poem "The Princess - a Medley"
Lord Tennyson
John
|
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$1,000
[14]
It's the term for the place in virtual reality where the virtual objects appear
cyberspace
Eric
|
$1,000
[21]
Frida Kahlo, this Mexican artist's wife, created some 200 paintings, many of them self-portraits
Diego Rivera
Eric
|
$1,000
[9]
In 1969 this "Rebecca" author was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Daphne du Maurier
Julia
|
$1,000
[27]
The first Dutch coins to depict this queen were used in 1892, when she was 12 years old
Wilhelmina
Eric
|
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It's Europe's largest & the world's fourth-largest automaker
Volkswagen