Gil Jones — a copyright investigator from Baltimore, Maryland
Chris Morris — a medical intern from Knoxville, Tennessee
Jack Walsh — an accountant from Hermitage, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack | $1,900 | $3,100 | $7,700 |
$12,100
2-day champion: $20,200 |
$8,700
23 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chris | $-100 | $1,500 | $2,100 |
$4,100
3rd place: Queen Anne chair by Action Recliners by Lane |
$2,100
9 R, 3 W |
| Gil | $1,500 | $1,900 | $6,000 |
$12,000
2nd place: Soundesign audio/video center & Pressman games |
$6,500
16 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| 18th C. AMERICA | SONGS | BIRDS | NAIL CARE | COMPANY TOWNS | 9-LETTER WORDS |
|
$100
[4]
Congress authorized the selection of this city's site on July 16, 1790
Washington, D.C. (the District of Columbia)
Jack
|
$100
[2]
In 1956 & '57, Fats Domino had back to back hits with this color in the title
blue
Gil
|
$100
[9]
Today Alcatraz hosts the world's 6th largest colony of these sea birds
Western gulls
Gil
|
$100
[18]
Type of nail file named for the powdered mineral substance that coats it
an emery board
Jack
|
$100
[1]
It's home to Monsanto, Ralston Purina & Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
Gil
|
$100
[24]
To car buffs, a "mag" was originally a lightweight wheel made of this metal
magnesium
Jack
Chris
|
|
$200
[13]
Even with tax, this beverage when imported from England was cheaper than that smuggled from Holland
tea
Jack
|
$200
[3]
Little Richard, The Everly Brothers& Kenny Rogers all sang about a woman named this
Lucille
Gil
|
$200
[10]
Of a covey, coven or covet, the one that's a group of partridges
covey
Chris
|
$200
[19]
Between 0.5 & 1.2 millimeters per week
how much do nails grow in a week on average
Jack
|
$200
[5]
Heinz; Westinghouse; USX, formerly U.S. Steel
Pittsburgh
Jack
|
$200
[25]
The name for this popular sausage comes from the Italian word for "(hot) chilis"
pepperoni
Chris
|
|
$300
[14]
Ben Franklin began publishing this the year George Washington was born
Poor Richard's Almanack
Jack
|
$300
[11]
Old song which says, "We'll kill the old red rooster" after "we'll all go out to meet her"
"She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain"
|
$300
[17]
This process of cleaning & smoothing feathers w/their bills is to birds what primping is to people
preening
Chris
|
$300
[20]
It's the nonliving epidermis at the base of your nails
the cuticle
Chris
|
$300
[6]
Gencorp; B.F. Goodrich; Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Akron
Jack
Chris
|
$300
[26]
Term for capital letters, from printers' practice of keeping larger type in bins above smaller type
uppercase
Jack
|
|
DD
$300
[16]
This neighbor, originally annexed as a county of Virginia, became a state itself in 1792
Kentucky
Gil
|
$400
[12]
1 of 2 Dionne Warwick Top 10 songs with "Never" in the title
"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" (or "I'll Never Love This Way Again")
Jack
|
$400
[29]
New species of this nocturnal predator are still being discovered at the rate of 1 every decade
owls
Gil
|
$400
[21]
Despite what you've heard, eating this glutinous substance won't keep your nails from splitting
gelatin
Chris
|
$400
[7]
Bank of America; Transamerica; Levi Strauss
San Francisco
Jack
|
$400
[27]
A moveable bridge between ship & shore
a gangplank
|
|
$400
[15]
In 1792, on his way to China, American Robert Gray named this northwest river for his ship
Columbia
Gil
|
$500
[23]
In 1967 Al Martino thought "nothing's quite as pretty as" she is "in the morning"
Mary
|
$500
[30]
Stubborn albatrosses that had to be removed from airstrips at Midway Is. were nicknamed this
gooney birds
Chris
|
$500
[22]
As you can tell from its name, this manicure tool comes from a citrus tree
an orange stick
|
$500
[8]
Pillsbury; General Mills; Land o' Lakes
Minneapolis
Gil
|
$500
[28]
The period during which the collection is taken in church
the offertory
Jack
|
| THE ROMAN EMPIRE | AUTHORS | MOVIES | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | WORLD GEOGRAPHY | PROVERBS |
|
$200
[9]
By the time he was appointed dictator in 49 B.C., the Roman "bread dole" had risen to 200,000 people
Julius Caesar
Gil
|
$200
[17]
After marrying Eliza Stowe's widower, she had a daughter named Eliza & wrote a book about an Eliza
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Chris
|
$200
[1]
"Melvin & Howard" is the story of a gas station attendant who claims to be a beneficiary in this man's will
Howard Hughes
Jack
|
$200
[16]
According to Ted Williams, Babe Ruth had one that weighed 54 ounces
a bat
Gil
|
$200
[3]
Yokohama is on the bay named for this larger city
Tokyo
Gil
|
$200
[2]
It is this "that blows nobody any good"
an ill wind
Gil
|
|
$400
[10]
Since Agrippina was a niece of Emperor Claudius, consent of this body was needed for them to wed
the Senate
Jack
|
$400
[25]
Poet whose wife died after her dress caught fire while he worked on "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
Longfellow
Jack
|
DD
$300
[22]
Only No. 1 hit for Henry Mancini & His Orchestra was this movie theme written by Nino Rota:[Instrumental music plays]
"A Time For Us"
Gil
|
$400
[18]
Spelled "G-E-R-D" in Old English where it meant a small stick, it now means a precise length
a yard
Chris
|
$400
[4]
It's the ocean bordering Australia to the west
the Indian Ocean
Jack
|
$400
[5]
"East or west", this "is best"
home
|
|
$600
[11]
At one point in the 2nd Punic War, his forces almost annihilated the Roman army
Hannibal
Jack
|
$600
[26]
Besides some songs, he wrote only 1 major poem, "Tam o' Shanter", after age 27
Robert Burns
Jack
|
$400
[21]
In 1926 John Barrymore kissed Mary Astor & Estelle Taylor a total of 127 times playing this lover
Don Juan
Gil
|
$600
[19]
It's the only measure of distance mentioned in the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
a league
Jack
|
$600
[13]
In both area & population it's the 2nd largest country in South America
Argentina
Chris
|
$600
[6]
In his collection "Hesperides", Robert Herrick advised to do this "while ye may"
gather ye rosebuds
Chris
|
|
$800
[12]
Under the Romans, this kingdom in the Holy Land included Jerusalem & Bethlehem
Judea (Judah)
Gil
|
$800
[27]
Mark Twain's last home, Stormfield, named for one of his last characters, was in this state
Connecticut
Jack
|
$800
[23]
"Black Sunday"s terrorist target
the Super Bowl
Jack
|
$800
[29]
Used in surveying, a chain is divided into 100 units called these
a link
Jack
|
$800
[14]
Only country on the American mainland that borders only 1 other country
Canada
Gil
|
$800
[7]
Proverbial phrase that precedes "... so is the tree inclined"
as the twig is bent
Jack
|
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
The largest provincial capital of the Roman Empire, it was once ruled by Marc Antony
Alexandria
Jack
|
$1,000
[28]
His story, "Music for Chameleons"; was about a real-life friend who played Mozart for lizards
Truman Capote
|
$1,000
[24]
An assistant director in shirt sleeves & tie is seen scaling the walls of Babylon in this D.W. Griffith epic
Intolerance
|
$1,000
[30]
In metric prefixes, kilo- means thousandfold & this means thousandth part
milli
Jack
|
$1,000
[15]
The Portuguese found a lot of this in what is now Ghana, hence the name of its coast
gold
Jack
Gil
|
$1,000
[8]
1st half of proverb that ends "... & God for us all"
every man for himself
|
Only state to contribute a statue of a king for our Capitol's National Statuary Hall
Hawaii