Juliet Wiley game 5.
Katie Clark — a choir accompanist from Gastonia, North Carolina
Michael Plank — a law student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Juliet Wiley — a stay-at-home mom from Plano, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $30,749)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juliet | $700 | $1,700 | $7,300 |
$3,300
2nd place: Trip to "Shipwreck '98" festival on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California |
$8,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $500 | $2,700 | $5,500 |
$0
3rd place: Trip to "Knott's Scary Farm" in Buena Park, California |
$6,100
20 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Katie | $500 | $1,400 | $4,600 |
$7,600
New champion: $7,600 |
$4,600
14 R, 3 W |
| ANNUAL EVENTS | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY | MILITARY UNITS | THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC |
|
$100
[12]
Dating back at least 100 years, "drowning the shamrock", or going drinking, is a tradition on this holiday
St. Patrick's Day
Michael
|
$100
[25]
In 1998 the magazine told of efforts to liquify this "cleanest of fossil fuels" for use in cars
natural gas
Juliet
|
$100
[1]
This film about a flying elephant inspired a ride at Disneyland
Dumbo
Katie
|
$100
[3]
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
Julius Caesar
Michael
|
$100
[19]
Oliver Stone won an Oscar for his story about one of these title units in which he served in Vietnam
a platoon
Katie
|
$100
[2]
It's the casino game in which you'd hear someone say "Hit me"
blackjack
Michael
|
|
$200
[13]
Secretary of State William H. Seward is honored on the last Monday in March in this state
Alaska
Katie
|
$200
[26]
SA's website's "Ask the Experts" column answers key questions like "Why does bruised fruit turn" this color
brown
Michael
|
$200
[17]
Chim-Chim Cheree! This film featuring chimney sweeps swept up 13 Oscar nominations
Mary Poppins
Katie
|
$200
[4]
"Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good-night till it be morrow"
Romeo and Juliet
Michael
|
$200
[22]
From the medieval Latin for "army", it's a large fleet like the one Admiral Howard faced in 1588
an armada
Michael
|
$200
[8]
It's the creature seenherewho's particularly hard on her mate
a black widow spider
Michael
|
|
$300
[14]
Called the greatest 2 minutes in sports, it takes place on the first Saturday in May
the Kentucky Derby
Katie
|
$300
[28]
Magazine contributor Steven Chu won a Nobel Prize for slowing atoms with these light beams
lasers
Michael
|
$300
[18]
This 1961 film was the first to feature a magical substance called Flubber
The Absent-Minded Professor
Michael
|
$300
[5]
"Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog"
Macbeth
Juliet
|
$300
[23]
3 brigades under 1 headquarters, or a math function
a division
Michael
|
$300
[9]
The Green Hornet's car, or Anna Sewell's horse
Black Beauty
Katie
|
|
$400
[15]
An ancient symbol of abundance, the cornucopia is often attached to this American holiday
Thanksgiving
Michael
|
$400
[29]
A steamy 1998 issue reports on sexual attraction in the orange sulphur species of this colorful insect
butterflies
|
$400
[20]
Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet
Sleeping Beauty
Katie
|
$400
[6]
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
Hamlet (Polonius)
Michael
Katie
|
$400
[24]
A group of cavalry, whether A, B, or "F"
a troop
Juliet
|
$400
[10]
Early in his career, Burt Reynolds played Quint Asper, one of these on "Gunsmoke"
Blacksmith
Juliet
|
|
$500
[16]
This city's Mississippi River Art Fair is held in the Mark Twain Historic District
Hannibal, Missouri
Katie
|
$500
[30]
To physicists, SOHO isn't a neighborhood but an observatory orbiting this body
the Sun
|
$500
[21]
Among the babes in "Babes in Toyland" are Ann Jillian as Bo Peep & this Mouseketeer as Mary Contrary
Annette Funicello
Michael
|
DD
$600
[7]
"The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath"
The Merchant of Venice
Michael
|
$500
[27]
Mod or not, it's usually 10 infantrymen headed by a staff sergeant
a squad
Juliet
|
$500
[11]
Yo-ho, yo-ho! His real name was believed to be Edward Teach
Blackbeard
Katie
|
| LET'S VISIT AUSTRIA | CREATION STORIES | TURNING 40 IN '98 | HERBS & SPICES | PIANO KEYS | SPOOKS |
|
$200
[19]
Preferring to go where the rain turns to snow, he wintered in Schruns while writing "The Sun Also Rises"
Ernest Hemingway
Juliet
|
$200
[22]
Scholars link Egyptian creation myths to the sun apparently fertilizing this river's slime
the Nile
Juliet
|
$200
[1]
This pitcher's "Orel" history continued in '98 with a new team, the Giants
Orel Hershiser
Katie
|
$200
[6]
Though derived from the same plant as opium, these seeds are non-narcotic
poppy seeds
Katie
|
$200
[13]
It's the only letter in "piano" that corresponds to a piano key
A
Juliet
|
$200
[3]
This spy came a long way from her origins as the daughter of a Dutch hatter
Mata Hari
Michael
|
|
$400
[27]
Capital of Tyrol, it has hosted 2 Winter Olympics
Innsbruck
Juliet
|
$400
[23]
According to the King James Version, God's first words quoted in the book of Genesis
"Let there be light"
Michael
Katie
|
$400
[2]
In 1998 she turned 40 & played a 40-year-old in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"
Angela Bassett
Michael
|
$400
[7]
The scientific name of this herb is Mentha piperita
peppermint
Katie
|
$400
[14]
Of the 2 types of piano keys in a Paul McCartney-Stevie Wonder hit, it's what G-flat is
ebony
Juliet
|
$400
[4]
Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, CIA man Kermit, kept the Shah of this country on his throne in 1953
Iran
Juliet
|
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
This English king was held prisoner in 1193 in a castle above Durnstein, Austria
Richard the Lionheart (on his way back from one of the Crusades)
Juliet
|
$600
[24]
In some Native American myths, this animal helps a deity create the world, with no help from the Acme Co.
a coyote
Michael
|
DD
$600
[5]
(Hi, I'm Franklin Diaz-Chang, an astronaut on board the Space Shuttle Discovery.) Oct. 1, 1998 is the 40th birthday of this government agency
NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Juliet
|
$600
[8]
This aromatic leaf, used to flavor meat, soups & stews, comes from a laurel tree
a bay leaf
Juliet
|
$600
[15]
A 6-string guitar has 2 strings tuned to this note, each corresponding to a piano key
E
Michael
|
$600
[16]
Cuban refugee Antonio Prohias drew this MAD Magazine comic strip for 29 years
Spy vs. Spy
Michael
|
| — |
$800
[25]
Africa's Fulani people, who are cattle herders, say everything came from a drop of this
milk
Michael
|
$800
[11]
A short called "Frankenweenie" helped launch the career of this "Edward Scissorhands" director
Tim Burton
Juliet
|
$800
[9]
During the Middle Ages, merchants who adulterated this expensive yellow spice were burnt at the stake
saffron
Juliet
|
$800
[20]
They're adjacent on the keyboard as well as in an abbreviation for a popular format of recorded music
C & D
Katie
|
$800
[17]
Spy Richard Sorge warned this Russian leader of Germany's WWII invasion but was ignored
Joseph Stalin
Michael
|
| — |
$1,000
[26]
To the ancient Greeks, it was a void from which Nyx & Erebus emerged; in English it's a disordered mess
chaos
Katie
|
$1,000
[12]
Damon, Marlon & Kim's big brother, he turned 40 on June 8
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Juliet
|
$1,000
[10]
Referring to their shape, these fragrant buds take their name from the Latin word for "nail"
cloves
Juliet
|
$1,000
[21]
It's the key the French call "Le do du milieu du piano"
middle C
Katie
|
$1,000
[18]
In the early '70s East German spy Gunter Guillaume infiltrated the office of this West German chancellor
Willy Brandt
|
(Happy Halloween, I'm Janet Leigh.) In a 1953 film my then husband played this man, who died on Halloween in 1926; I played his wife Bess
Harry Houdini