Adam Goldberg — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York
Charlie Hanson — a college professor from Crete, Nebraska
Michael Friel — a playwright from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $1,800 | $2,200 | $7,500 |
$0
3rd place: Sansui 6-CD changer |
$7,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Charlie | $900 | $1,700 | $8,000 |
$999
2nd place: trip to Honolulu, Hawaii |
$8,100
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Adam | $1,200 | $2,200 | $3,600 |
$3,200
New champion: $3,200 |
$3,600
12 R, 3 W |
| ROCK | SISTERS | PAPER | SEPTEMBER | LANGUAGES | 8-LETTER WORDS |
|
$100
[5]
It's claimed that Paul McCartney's dad wanted this song's "Yeah, yeah, yeah" changed to "Yes, yes, yes"
"She Loves You"
Michael
|
$100
[1]
This Christian denomination has the greatest number of orders of nuns
Roman Catholicism
Michael
|
$100
[19]
The fibers in this plant that pandas feed on can be used to make paper
bamboo
Charlie
|
$100
[14]
In Sept. 1807 a circuit court in Richmond, Virginia acquitted this ex-vice president of treason
Aaron Burr
Michael
|
$100
[8]
This language was formed mainly from the Svea dialects spoken in & around Stockholm
Swedish
Adam
|
$100
[25]
The name of this marsupial can precede court or vine
kangaroo
Michael
|
|
$200
[6]
The Commodores' biggest hit, "Three Times A Lady", was written by this member of the group
Lionel Richie
Adam
|
$200
[2]
It's estimated that of the 3,200 of these in the Civil War, 640 were nuns
nurses
Michael
|
$200
[20]
A strict rule in traditional origami is that you can never do this to the piece of paper
cut
Michael
|
$200
[15]
On Sept. 19, 1934 Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested in the Bronx for this kidnapping
the Lindbergh case (the Lindbergh baby)
Charlie
|
$200
[9]
This language is also called Hollands
Dutch
Adam
|
$200
[26]
A musical medley of familiar themes, or a 1940 animated Disney film featuring 8 musical sequences
Fantasia
Adam
|
|
$300
[7]
In 1991 George Michael & this singer reached No. 1 in the U.K. with "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"
Elton John
Charlie
|
$300
[3]
Technically, a woman who takes the simple ones of these is known as a sister; the solemn ones, a nun
vows
Michael
|
$300
[21]
Name for the wood fibers prepared for papermaking
pulp
|
$300
[16]
In 1741 he finished "Messiah" after working on it just 23 days
Handel
Michael
|
$300
[10]
The standard form of this Bantu language is based on the Kiunguja dialect of Tanzania
Swahili
Adam
|
$300
[27]
It's a framework of parallel bars used to broil meat, or a football field
a gridiron
Adam
|
|
$400
[23]
In 1976 Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. sang, "You don't have to be" this "to be in my show"
a star
Charlie
|
$400
[4]
It's from the Latin for "assembly"; nuns may live in a cloistered one
a convent
Adam
|
$400
[22]
The end papers in these items sometimes have a marbled appearance
books
Charlie
|
$400
[17]
In Sept. 1953 Ike named California governor Earl Warren to this post
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (or of the United States)
Charlie
|
$400
[11]
This language spoken chiefly in northeastern Spain also has a few speakers on Sardinia
Catalan (Catalonian)
Charlie
|
$400
[28]
Programs such as WordPerfect used to direct the operation of a computer
software
Michael
|
|
$500
[24]
1962 Crystals hit that begins, "See the way he walks down the street. That's the way he shuffles his feet"
"He's A Rebel"
|
$500
[13]
Born Elizabeth Ann Bayley in 1774 in New York City, she was canonized in 1975
Mother Seton
Michael
|
$500
[30]
In the 1850s the Union Company of Pennsylvania was the first to mass-produce these for merchants
paper bags
Charlie
|
$500
[18]
In 1943 this Generalissimo was named President of the Chinese national government, replacing Lin Sen
Chiang Kai-shek
Adam
|
$500
[12]
Motu is a language spoken along a coastal strip around Port Moresby, capital of this island nation
Papua New Guinea
Michael
|
DD
$600
[29]
This word for an occurrence of widespread destruction comes from the Latin for "star"
disaster
Michael
|
| NATIVE AMERICANS | WORLD CITIES | ART & ARTISTS | LEGENDS & FOLKLORE | GEOLOGY | WOMEN AUTHORS |
|
$200
[8]
Her uncle Opachisco & 2 of her brothers represented her father at her 1614 wedding
Pocahontas
Michael
|
$200
[1]
This, the former capital of New France, is Canada's only walled city
Quebec (City)
Michael
Adam
|
$200
[20]
This artist's devoted brother Theo died just 6 months after his 1890 suicide
Van Gogh
Adam
|
$200
[12]
This musician of German legend is described as "pied" because of his multicolored clothing
the Pied Piper
Michael
|
DD
$100
[29]
During a period of orogeny, these geological formations are built
mountains
Charlie
|
$200
[2]
She introduced Miss Jane Marple in her 1930 novel "Murder at the Vicarage"
Agatha Christie
Charlie
|
|
$400
[17]
His Sioux name, Tashunca-Uitco, may also be translated as "unbroken horse"
Crazy Horse
Charlie
|
$400
[3]
Mentioned in the Bible, "The Street Which Is Called Straight" still exists in this Syrian capital
Damascus
Charlie
Adam
|
$400
[21]
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow but received his training in this Bavarian capital
Munich
Charlie
|
$400
[13]
This term for a voyeur dates back to the tailor who dared to peek at Lady Godiva
Peeping Tom
Charlie
|
$200
[26]
Known for his "burner", this man is also noted for his study of volcanic rocks in Iceland
Bunsen
Charlie
|
$400
[7]
M.M. Kaye, born in this country, set her bestseller "The Far Pavilions" there
India
Charlie
|
|
$600
[18]
Clara Hall Jerome, the maternal grandmother of this British prime minister, was part Iroquois
Churchill
Adam
|
$600
[4]
While banking in this largest Swiss city, you may want to pick up some chocolates or an Army knife
Zurich
Michael
Charlie
|
$600
[23]
The earliest known surviving works of Andrea Pisano are the first bronze doors of this city's baptistery
Florence
Charlie
Adam
|
$600
[14]
In Ireland these sea creatures are called merrows; their appearance forebodes a coming storm
mermaids
Charlie
|
$400
[27]
Term for the minerals from which pure metals can be extracted
ores
Michael
|
$800
[10]
"Fortune's Favorites" is the third volume in this Australian author's Roman epic
Colleen McCullough
|
|
$800
[19]
This Ottawa chief might have captured Fort Detroit if his plan hadn't been betrayed
Chief Pontiac
Adam
|
$800
[5]
The reputed tomb of Eve in Jiddah was destroyed by this country's gov't as a place of idolatry
Saudi Arabia
Charlie
|
$800
[24]
This surrealist is buried at his museum in Figueras, Spain
Salvador Dali
Charlie
|
$800
[15]
To strengthen their own bloodlines, some fairies steal babies & leave these beings in their place
changelings
Michael
|
$600
[28]
Common name of the sulfide mineral FeS2; it looks more valuable than it is
fool's gold (iron pyrite)
Charlie
|
$1,000
[11]
She's the creator of private detective V.I. Warshawski
Sara Paretsky
Adam
|
|
$1,000
[22]
When this Apache chief died in 1874, his warriors carried his body into the Dragoon Mtns; his burial place is unknown
Cochise
Michael
|
$1,000
[6]
The Haboob, a dust-laden wind, can darken the sky in this Sudanese capital between March & October
Khartoum
Michael
|
$1,000
[25]
This Swedish-born pop artist invented "soft" sculpture
Claes Oldenburg
|
$1,000
[16]
He was popular in folklore before becoming the subject of the 1630 play "The Seducer of Seville"
Don Juan
Michael
|
— |
DD
$1,100
[9]
Her "Sense and Sensibility" grew out of an earlier novel, "Elinor and Marianne"
Jane Austen
Michael
|
9-year-old Henry III became king of England when this king, his father, died in 1216
King John