Anne Ellis — a managing editor originally from Madison, New Jersey
Ginger Jensen — a financial planner originally from Scottsdale, Arizona
Matt Fels — an advertising executive from Fort Worth, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $1,700 | $4,000 | $9,200 |
$0
3rd place: serigraph Paradise Found by Ken Auster from Marco Fine Arts Gallery + Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Jeopardy! , Wheel of Fortune featuring Vanna White, & InfoGenius for Game Boy |
$8,900
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Ginger | $0 | $1,500 | $2,300 |
$100
2nd place: trip on Delta to Nassau, Bahamas & stay at Paradise Island Resort & Casino |
$2,300
8 R, 0 W |
| Anne | $1,300 | $2,800 | $10,000 |
$1,599
New champion: $1,599 |
$7,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| TRANSPORTATION | RECENT EVENTS | PLAYGROUND RHYMES | WORLD CITIES | FRUITS & VEGETABLES | THE LETTER G |
|
$100
[1]
In 1925 Goodyear pioneered the use of this nonflammable gas in airships
helium
Matt
|
$100
[26]
Good news for Peru: the rate of this in 1991 was only 139.2%, down from 7,650% in 1990
the rate of inflation
Matt
|
$100
[11]
Step on a line, you'll break your father's spine; step on a crack & you'll do this
break your mother's back
Anne
|
$100
[16]
This largest French port handles more freight than any other port city on the Mediterranean
Marseille
Anne
|
$100
[21]
Like raisins, currants & sultanas are dried forms of this fruit
the grape
Ginger
|
$100
[4]
A G-note is slang for this amount of money
a $1,000
Matt
|
|
$200
[2]
This pipeline opened in 1977 at an estimated cost of $7.7 billion
the Alaska Pipeline
Anne
|
$200
[27]
Though ineligible for election, he got 41 write-in votes for Baseball's Hall of Fame
Pete Rose
Ginger
|
$200
[12]
1 this veggie,2 this veggie,3 this veggie. 4,5 this veggie,6 this veggie,7 this veggie, more
potato
Anne
|
$200
[17]
The name of this capital of Bavaria is from a word which means "home of the monks"
Munich
Ginger
|
$200
[22]
Having large leaves, the Savoy variety of this vegetable is exceptional for stuffing
cabbage
Anne
|
$200
[5]
Item in common to a stripper & the guitarist in her band
a G-string
Matt
|
|
$300
[3]
When completed, this highway system will run from the U.S. to Chile
the Pan-American Highway
Matt
|
$300
[28]
The toe of this Michelangelo statue was damaged by a hammer-wielding vandal in September 1991
David
Anne
|
$300
[13]
"Tom & Jane"sitting in a treeK-I-S-S-I-N-G,1st comes love, then comes marriage, then comes" this
Jane with a baby carriage
Anne
|
$300
[18]
This city on Lake Ontario is home to Pearson International Airport, Canada's busiest
Toronto
Matt
|
$300
[23]
This legume is the No. 1 source of vegetable protein in the Japanese diet
the soybean
Matt
|
$300
[6]
The logo of this Cheerios maker is a big letter G
General Mills
Matt
|
|
$400
[9]
Providing a shortcut around Jutland, Germany's Kiel Canal connects the North Sea & this sea
the Baltic Sea
Matt
|
$400
[29]
In Jan. 1992 this Central American country's government & FMLN rebels signed a peace treaty
El Salvador
Matt
|
$400
[14]
Another stanza of this rhyme begins, "This is the way we wash our clothes"
"Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"
|
$400
[19]
This city contains about 70% of the population of Australia's state of Victoria
Melbourne
Anne
|
$400
[24]
Named for the capital of Veracruz, this hot chili pepper is a popular ingredient in Mexican cooking
the jalapeño
Matt
|
$400
[7]
Of the U.S. presidents, the one whose middle name is usually shown as G.
Harding
Matt
|
|
$500
[10]
Ever since a 1562 law against extravagance, Venetian gondolas have been painted this color
black
Anne
|
$500
[30]
In March 1992, this largest maker of silicone breast implants announced it was ending production
Dow Corning
Ginger
|
$500
[15]
First line of the rhyme that includes the lines "11, 12, dig and delve; 13, 14, Maids a-courting"
One, two, button (buckle) my shoe
Ginger
|
$500
[20]
Proposed by Pizarro, this city's Great Cathedral was rebuilt after a 1746 earthquake
Lima
Anne
|
DD
$800
[25]
This cranberry-like fruit is popularly used in Swedish pancake sauces, jellies & jams
the lingonberry
Matt
|
$500
[8]
This fusion saxophonist's real last name is Gorelick
Kenny G
Matt
|
| BIOLOGY | HISTORY | INDIA | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | EXPLORATION | LITERATURE |
|
$200
[21]
In vertebrates the frontal bone covers the front of this organ
the brain
Anne
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$200
[3]
On April 18, 1521 he told the Diet of Worms, "Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen."
Martin Luther
Matt
|
$200
[23]
When shopping in India, you should know that 100 paise equal one of these
a rupee
Anne
|
$200
[16]
This city's Eastman School of Music has one of the nation's largest college music libraries
Rochester
Matt
Ginger
|
$200
[11]
After looking for another explorer, he traced the course of the Congo River
Stanley
Matt
|
$200
[1]
George Aiken's dramatization of this Stowe novel was one of the most popular U.S. plays of the 1850s
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ginger
|
|
$400
[22]
In mammals the 2 oviducts, which carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus, are also called these
the Fallopian tubes
Ginger
|
$400
[4]
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of this country, became its first governor-general in 1947
Pakistan
Matt
|
$400
[27]
A popular tourist attraction in this Taj Mahal city is the 16th century fort built by Akbar
Agra
|
$400
[17]
Oglethorpe University is a private coed institution in this state capital
Atlanta
Matt
|
$400
[12]
Designers for this Portuguese prince came up with the caravel, the standard ship of 15th & 16th c explorers
(Prince) Henry
Matt
|
$400
[2]
"Mme de Beaumont's "Belle et la bete" is known as this in English
Beauty and the Beast
Matt
|
|
$600
[24]
Zymase, an enzyme in yeast, converts sugar into alcohol during this process
fermentation
Matt
|
$600
[5]
During his reign from 1740-1786, Frederick the Great nearly doubled the size of this country
Prussia
Anne
|
— |
$600
[18]
This university in Los Angeles supports a marine science center on Catalina Island
USC (the University of Southern California)
Anne
|
$600
[13]
In 1519 this explorer was beheaded by a rival in Acla on the isthmus of Panama
Balboa
Anne
|
$800
[7]
Cathy Ames abandons Adam Trask & their twin sons in this Steinbeck work
East of Eden
Anne
|
|
$800
[25]
Venation, used to identify insects, is the arrangement of veins in these parts of their bodies
their wings
Anne
|
$800
[9]
In 1685, declaring France entirely Catholic, Louis XIV revoked this edict
the Edict of Nantes
Anne
|
— |
$800
[19]
In 1718 Conn.'s Collegiate School was renamed this after a British trader whose donated books raised £562
Yale
Anne
|
$800
[14]
When he reached Newfoundland in 1497, this Italian-born explorer thought he was in Asia
Cabot
Matt
|
$1,000
[8]
It's Longfellow's poem subtitled "A Tale of Acadie"
Evangeline
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[26]
Some protozoa, such as the euglena, move about by means of these hairlike structures similar to cilia
flagella
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
In 1919 veterans of this rebellion formed the Irish Republican Army
the Easter Rebellion
Anne
|
— |
$1,000
[20]
A coed college in Rindge, N.H. is named for this New Hampshire-born U.S. president
Franklin Pierce
Anne
|
$1,000
[15]
When he claimed what is now California for England, he was on a secret mission for Elizabeth I
(Sir Francis) Drake
Matt
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
In this Dickens work, embittered Miss Havisham teaches Estella how to break men's hearts
Great Expectations
Anne
|
On her death, Will Rogers said her "consideration of others will live as a mark for any woman to shoot at"
Annie Oakley