Preempted on most affiliates by coverage of the start of the Iraq War.
Jim Weir — a high school mathematics teacher from Germantown, Maryland
Rance Craft — an attorney from Austin, Texas
Sara Glidden — a college theater manager from West Roxbury, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,150)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sara | $3,400 | $4,600 | $15,800 |
$21,800
2-day champion: $27,950 |
$14,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Rance | $600 | $4,400 | $10,800 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,800
16 R, 3 W |
| Jim | $2,600 | $4,600 | $17,400 |
$3,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| NOVEL VOCABULARY | THE U.S. EMBASSY | WYOMING | MALAMUTE, HUSKY OR SEA OTTER | DATELINE NBC | NOT SO "E"ASY |
|
$200
[8]
Swipes, a slang term for weak beer, appears in his novel "Bleak House"
Charles Dickens
Sara
|
$200
[13]
As of April 2002, U.S. embassies won't normally issue these, but they'll still help if you lose yours
a passport
Sara
|
$200
[19]
Among the states, it's Wyoming's rank in population as well as alphabetization
last (50th)
Jim
|
$200
[26]
A clothing size for big kids
husky
Jim
|
$200
[6]
On May 25, 1992 he was behind the desk as the new permanent host of "The Tonight Show"
(Jay) Leno
Rance
|
$200
[1]
Since its name is from the Latin "smaragdus", this precious gem may be called a smaragd
an emerald
Rance
|
|
$400
[9]
The phrase "flighted to death", meaning "scared to death", is spoken by Mr. Earnshaw in this Bronte novel
Wuthering Heights
|
$400
[14]
Security at U.S. embassies is mainly provided by members of this branch of the armed forces
the Marines
Jim
|
$400
[20]
Devil's Tower is the neck of an ancient one of these
volcano
|
$400
[27]
Once nearly hunted to extinction, they're found in Northern Pacific coastal waters
sea otters
Sara
|
$400
[7]
"Adding sight to sound", NBC began regular TV broadcasts on May 30, 1939 at this expo
the World's Fair
Jim
|
$400
[2]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from a laboratory.) Sublimation is when a solid changes directly into a gas; thisis the general term for a liquid becoming a gas
evaporation
Sara
|
|
$600
[10]
Chapter 1 of "The Scarlet Letter" uses this synonym for an ideal place that was coined by Sir Thomas More in the 1500s
Utopia
Sara
|
$600
[15]
That tight-lipped guy in the shades is the Defense Department's man at the embassy, called by this French term
attaché
Rance
|
$600
[21]
Carbon County really digs this solid fuel, really
coal
Jim
|
$600
[28]
The name of this Eskimo group means "man living in the place where there are big waves"
Malamute
Rance
|
$600
[16]
When it premiered October 11, 1975 George Carlin was its first guest host
Saturday Night Live
Rance
|
$600
[3]
It's the provincial capital that's home to the Canadian Football League's Eskimos
Edmonton
Rance
|
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
It's the novel that told us, "Even to understand the word 'doublethink involved the use of doublethink"
1984
Sara
|
$800
[22]
The U.S. embassy in Israel remains in this city, despite decades of talk about moving it to the capital, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Rance
|
$800
[23]
The first school in Wyoming was founded at this fort in 1852
Laramie
Sara
|
$800
[29]
It's the mascot of the University of Washington's athletic teams
Huskies
Jim
|
$800
[17]
On Noy. 23, 1939 NBC us here d in Thanksgiving with the first TV broadcast of this
the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Rance
Jim
|
$800
[4]
It's the real last name of Ricardo Klement, who was forcibly taken in 1960 after he left a bus in Buenos Aires
Adolf Eichmann
Jim
|
|
$1,000
[12]
The word circumambulate, meaning "to walk around", is used by this narrator in "Moby-Dick"
Ishmael
Sara
|
$1,000
[24]
Some embassies help out the locals through a mission of USAID, the U.S. Agency for this
International Development
Jim
|
$1,000
[25]
Splitting North America, it actually splits in two itself while running through Wyoming
the Continental Divide
Jim
|
$1,000
[30]
This species stays frisky & healthy on a diet of mostly mollusks & sea urchins
sea otters
Rance
|
$1,000
[18]
"The Life of Riley", which debuted October 4, 1949, starred this young comic in his first TV series
Jackie Gleason
Jim
|
$1,000
[5]
This Old Testament prophet had a famous vision of dry bones
Ezekiel
Rance
Jim
|
| SHAKESPEARE'S STRATFORD | COMPUTER SCIENCE | 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS | DEWEY | CHEAT 'EM | "HOW" |
|
$400
[6]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from Stratford-upon-Avon in England.) The main purpose of the grammar school at Stratford-upon-Avon was the teaching of this language
Latin
Sara
Rance
|
$400
[19]
The process of turning data like pictures into numbers is called this, from a word meaning "finger"
digitizing
Sara
|
$400
[1]
Thisclassic, the Best Picture of 1953, made getting sandy seem sexy
From Here to Eternity
Rance
|
$400
[14]
Collectively, they're Donald Duck's 3 nephews
Huey, Louie & Dewey
Sara
|
$400
[23]
90 cadets were expelled in a 1951 cheating scandal at this academy
West Point
Jim
|
$400
[9]
Strings were pulled to gethimon TV in 1947
Howdy Doody
Jim
|
|
$800
[7]
The mother of the man who founded this U.S. college in 1636 lived in a house that still stands on High Street
Harvard
Jim
|
$800
[20]
Also called a catalog, it's the hierarchical structure of files used in DOS & Unix
a directory
|
$800
[2]
The second African-American actress to win an Oscar, she hosted the ceremony the night Halle Berry won
Whoopi Goldberg
Rance
|
$800
[15]
Jazz instrument on which Miles Dewey Davis III was a legendary virtuoso
trumpet
Sara
|
$800
[24]
His classic song "Your Cheatin' Heart" didn't hit the charts until several weeks after his untimely death
Hank Williams
Rance
|
$800
[10]
Proverbially in sports, "It's not whether you win or lose, but" this
how you play the game
Sara
|
|
$1,200
[8]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from Stratford-upon-Avon in England.) This monument was in place by 1623, the year of a historic collection of Shakespeare's work, known by these two words
the First Folio
Rance
|
$1,600
[29]
Introduced in 1995, it's the Sun Microsystems programming language symbolized here
Java
Jim
|
$1,200
[3]
This comedian holds the record for hosting the most Oscar ceremonies: a whopping 18 of them
Bob Hope
Rance
|
$1,200
[16]
In 1960 he said, "Mr. Nixon dismissed me as... 'another Truman'... I consider him another Dewey"
(John F.) Kennedy
Sara
Rance
|
$1,200
[25]
It can mean to cheat or swindle somebody or to carve stone with a bevel-bladed tool
chisel
|
$1,600
[12]
Ginsberg's landmark 1956 beat book
Howl
Sara
|
|
$1,600
[21]
In the nearby village of Shottery is the childhood home of this woman, Shakespeare's wife
Anne Hathaway
Sara
|
$2,000
[28]
Transportation "vehicle" for a set of wires or circuits connecting a computer's various components
the bus
|
$1,600
[4]
This late, great actor's performance in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" made him the Best Actor of '57
Alec Guinness
Rance
Jim
|
$1,600
[17]
As its name implies, Melvil Dewey's "system" of library organization is based on this number
10
Jim
|
$1,600
[26]
In Ovid's "Metamorphoses", this lame fire god breaks up his cheatin' wife's affair with Mars with a bronze net
Vulcan
Jim
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
Its alumni include Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young & Toni Morrison
Howard University
Sara
|
|
$2,000
[22]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from Stratford-upon-Avon in England.) His birthroom shows the 16th century constructiontechniqueusing twigs & clay or mud known as wattle & this
daub
Sara
|
DD
$8,000
[30]
In 1956 John McCarthy coined this term for human-like thought processes in computers
artificial intelligence
Jim
|
$2,000
[5]
This1939 classic earned 11 Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture"The whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better"
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Sara
|
$2,000
[18]
U.S. educator & psychologist John Dewey helped develop this philosophic branch associated with William James
pragmatism
|
$2,000
[27]
In his "Devil's Dictionary", he defined peace as "a period of cheating between two periods of fighting"
Ambrose Bierce
Rance
|
$2,000
[13]
It's a large seat on top of an elephant
howdah
Sara
|
In 1996 IGT introduced the first themed slot machine based on a TV show, this one
Wheel of Fortune