John Schneider — a landscape lighting designer from Pacific Palisades, California
Susan Brown — a doctoral student originally from Portland, Oregon
Kimberly Kallsen King — a legal clerk originally from Cottonwood, Arizona (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kim | $0 | $1,800 | $3,800 |
$6,801
2-day champion: $9,001 |
$4,800
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Susan | $800 | $1,200 | $3,200 |
$0
3rd place: ProForm step machine + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis |
$3,200
13 R, 5 W |
| John | $200 | $500 | $3,400 |
$6,800
2nd place: trip to New York City |
$3,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| BRITISH NOVELISTS | TV GUIDE SAYS | CANDLES | LOUISIANA | RAIN FOREST CREATURES | "C" FOOD |
|
$100
[1]
The first of his 12 James Bond novels was "Casino Royale" in 1953
Ian Fleming
Susan
|
$100
[11]
"A firm's merger... gives McKenzie food for thought and offers Becker the chance to buy his dream home"
L.A. Law
Kim
|
$100
[20]
Made by insects, it's the tallowlike substance used to make candles
beeswax
Kim
|
$100
[26]
This, the largest reptile in the state, can grow to about 16 feet in length
the alligator
Kim
Susan
|
$100
[16]
They're carnivorous, with big pincerlike jaws, & move in troops along the rain forest floor
army ants
Kim
John
|
$100
[6]
Without its husk, this palm fruit weighs about 1 1/2 pounds
a coconut
Susan
|
|
$200
[2]
He serialized "The Old Curiosity Shop" in his own weekly magazine, "Master Humphrey's Clock"
Charles Dickens
Susan
|
$200
[12]
"Brenda defies her father by continuing to see Dylan"
Beverly Hills, 90210
Kim
|
$200
[21]
When making candles, these parts are covered by dipping, molding or rolling
the wick
Susan
|
$200
[27]
The brown variety of this pouched bird is Louisiana's state bird
the pelican
Kim
|
$200
[17]
It's so damp in the rain forest that this primitive plant can be found growing on sloths
Algae
Kim
Susan
John
|
$200
[7]
About a third of the cheese produced in the U.S. is of this variety
cheddar
Kim
|
|
$300
[3]
This author of "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded as one of the founders of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
John
|
$300
[13]
"When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel"
Family Matters
|
$300
[22]
It's a cylinder-shaped firework that spews out sparks & balls of fire
a Roman candle
Kim
|
$300
[28]
In 1991 Governor Buddy Roemer switched his affiliation to this political party
the Republican Party
Susan
John
|
$300
[18]
Related to the cobra, these snakes can be recognized by their bold bands of black, red & yellow
Coral snakes
Kim
|
$300
[8]
When making this Indian relish at home, green peaches may be substituted for the mangoes
chutney
John
|
|
$400
[4]
He spent the last 4 years of his life at Vailima, his plantation in Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
John
|
$400
[14]
"The major is ill at ease when Camp Hollister is alerted that it may be shut down"
Major Dad
Susan
|
$400
[23]
You'll need 44 candles to make it through this annual Jewish holiday
Hanukkah
Kim
|
$500
[30]
Louisiana became a state in this year in which the U.S. went to war with Great Britain
1812
John
|
$400
[19]
Great Jacamars & Resplendent Quetzals are types of these
birds
Susan
|
$400
[9]
Ambrose Bierce defined it as "a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large & wise as a man's head"
a cabbage
Susan
|
|
$500
[5]
It only took about a year to write the half-million words in his work "The Outline of History"
H.G. Wells
Kim
John
|
$500
[15]
"Sam gets himself into a real beauty: as Miss Sugar Belle in a southern pageant"
Quantum Leap
Kim
|
$500
[24]
It's why Edna St. Vincent Millay's candle "will not last the night"
because she's burning it at both ends
John
|
DD
$700
[29]
In the 1968 presidential election, the state went for this third party candidate
George Wallace
John
|
$500
[25]
These monkeys named for their thick fur can hang by their tails while picking fruit
woolly monkeys
|
$500
[10]
Scallops in a wine & butter sauce make up this dish which is French for "St. James' Shells"
Coquilles St. Jacques
John
|
| WATER | CLASSICAL MUSIC | DONS & DONALDS | LEFTOVERS | CORPORATE AMERICA | CHINESE HISTORY |
|
$200
[7]
For conservation the LADWP gives consumers free low-flow shower heads & water displacement bags for these
Toilets
Susan
|
$200
[2]
Benjamin Britten wrote "Gloriana" for her 1953 coronation
Elizabeth II
Kim
|
$200
[10]
Original Mercury astronaut Donald Kent Slayton is better known by this nickname
Deke
Susan
John
|
$200
[16]
This 1950 film ends with Gloria Swanson saying, "All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up"
Sunset Boulevard
Susan
|
$200
[1]
It's the middle name of Aaron Ward, who started a mail-order business in 1872
Montgomery
Kim
|
$600
[26]
This Chinese was born in the state of Lu in Eastern China about 550 B.C.
Confucius
Kim
|
|
$400
[8]
Term for the large pipes that leave a town's pumping station
a main
John
|
$400
[3]
This six-stringed wooden instrument is used in such pieces as Rossini's "Barber of Seville"
the guitar
Kim
|
$400
[11]
Donald Arthur Glaser received this prize in 1960 for inventing the bubble chamber
the Nobel Prize
John
|
$400
[19]
Kenny Rogers teamed with this female country singer in 1983 to record "Islands in the Stream"
Dolly Parton
Susan
|
$400
[12]
He bought Walter Jacobs' car rental firm in 1923, sold it to GM in 1925 & bought it back in 1953
John Hertz
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
These people who founded Macao were the first Europeans to arrive on China's coast, in 1517
the Portuguese
Kim
|
|
$600
[9]
No time like the present to tell you this device is also called a clepsydra
a water clock
|
$600
[4]
On Wilhelm Furtwangler's death, Herbert von Karajan became chief conductor of this orchestra
the Berlin Philharmonic
Susan
|
$600
[23]
At the 1964 Olympics in this Japanese city, Don Schollander became the 1st swimmer to win 4 gold medals
Tokyo
Kim
|
$600
[18]
The third leg of horse racing's Triple Crown is named for this banker & diplomat
(August) Belmont
John
|
$600
[13]
The top jeans maker in the U.S. is VF Corporation, VF standing for this lingerie line it owns
Vanity Fair
Susan
|
— |
|
$800
[14]
During this part of nature's water cycle, the water is desalinated
evaporation
John
|
$800
[5]
Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Sinfonia Antarctica" contains quotes from this explorer's journal
Robert Scott
John
|
$800
[24]
His 1988 book "For The Record" revealed the influence of astrology on the Reagan White House
Donald Regan
Kim
Susan
|
$800
[17]
All exports from the U.S. to Europe were barred by this 1807 act, but it failed & was rendered inactive in 1809
The Embargo Act
|
$800
[21]
George Bush co-founded Zapata Petroleum, which later merged into this top U.S. motor oil company
Pennzoil
|
— |
|
$1,000
[15]
For centuries people have been taking the waters in this spa town in the NW corner of the Black Forest
Baden-Baden
Kim
|
$1,000
[6]
At age 94 this famous cellist conducted the premiere of one of his compositions at the U.N.
Pablo Casals
Susan
|
$1,000
[25]
Guy Burgess & this British spy disappeared from England in 1951 & surfaced in Moscow 5 years later
Donald MacLean
John
|
$1,000
[20]
A Jewish-sponsored university in Waltham, Massachusetts is named for this Supreme Court justice
Brandeis
John
|
DD
$1,300
[22]
In 1934 a Wooster, Ohio company turned from balloons to dustpans under this brand name
Rubbermaid
John
|
— |
Prior to the completion of the Eiffel Tower, this U.S. structure was the world's tallest
the Washington Monument