Kevin Welber — a lawyer originally from Ramat Gan, Israel
Piper Huguley — a graduate teaching assistant originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Corey Burke — a stage carpenter originally from Goshen, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corey | $1,800 | $2,900 | $8,700 |
$10,200
2-day champion: $18,400 |
$7,300
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Piper | $-100 | $100 | $1,900 |
$900
3rd place: a Motorola StarTac cellular phone |
$2,500
7 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kevin | $100 | $1,200 | $1,100 |
$2,200
2nd place: a trip to Portland, Oregon |
$6,600
16 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| WHO'S ON FIRST? | OPERA HODGEPODGE | PROVERBS | "C" THE U.S.A. | IN YOUR CHEVROLET | DINOSAUR |
|
$100
[12]
In 1927 Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs but this first baseman & Yankee teammate was league MVP
Lou Gehrig
Corey
Kevin
|
$100
[8]
This composer of the opera "Siegfried" named his only son Siegfried
Wagner
Kevin
|
$100
[18]
A variation of this footwear proverb says "If the glove fits, wear it"
If the shoe fits...
Kevin
|
$100
[6]
This state has the most "depressing" place in the U.S., Death Valley
California
Kevin
|
$100
[26]
Introduced in 1953, it's considered America's first sports car
the Corvette
Kevin
|
$100
[1]
Amherst's Pratt Museum has the largest collection of these markings left by dinosaur strolls
fossilized footprints (or tracks)
Corey
|
|
$200
[13]
Known as "Mr. Cub", he made the National League All-Star squad both as a shortstop & a first baseman
Ernie Banks
Corey
|
$200
[17]
"Il Trittico"--"The Triptych"--is a trilogy of one-act operas by this composer of "Tosca"
Giacomo Puccini
Corey
|
$200
[19]
It's been joked that "people who live in" these proverbial structures "should undress in the basement"
glass houses
Corey
|
$200
[7]
An old U.S. Mint building in this city houses the Nevada State Museum
Carson City
Corey
Kevin
|
$200
[27]
Chevy's Camaro was GM's first car aerodynamically designed in one of these chambers
a wind tunnel (a wind chamber accepted)
Kevin
|
$200
[2]
Along with the famous plates that ran down its back, it also had 4 tall, deadly spines on its tail
the Stegosaurus
Corey
|
|
$300
[14]
This Boston first baseman barely won the American League's 1995 MVP award over Cleveland's Albert Belle
Mo Vaughn
Corey
|
$300
[23]
This great Italian tenor made his official debut in 1894, in Naples, his hometown
Enrico Caruso
Kevin
|
$300
[20]
"A closed" one "catches no flies"
a mouth
Corey
|
$300
[9]
Alexander once ruled Egypt, so it's appropriate that this Illinois city is in Alexander county
Cairo
Piper
Kevin
|
$300
[28]
Even the Fresh Prince would want this 1957 tail-finned Chevy model; it's a collector's dream
a Bel Air
Corey
|
$300
[3]
Ash from an asteroid impact on this peninsula in Mexico may have covered the globe & killed off the dinosaurs
the Yucatan
Corey
|
|
$400
[15]
In both 1995 & 1996, this Dodger first baseman hit over 30 home runs & had over 100 runs batted in
Eric Karros
Piper
|
$400
[24]
The witch in this 1893 Humperdinck opera is sometimes played by a man
Hansel & Gretel
Piper
|
$400
[21]
You have to "give" him "his due"
the devil
Piper
|
$400
[10]
Cambridge, England is on the Cam River; Cambridge, Massachusetts is on this river
the Charles River
Kevin
|
$400
[29]
The Metro is from this line Chevrolet introduced in 1989
the Geo
Kevin
|
$400
[4]
In 1922 the first of these to be discovered came from a mommy protoceratops
dinosaur eggs
Corey
Kevin
|
|
$500
[16]
This Hall of Fame first baseman of the 1920s & '30s was known as "Double X" & "The Beast"
Jimmy Foxx
|
DD
$600
[25]
She's the heroine of the Donizetti opera that features the famous sextet heard here:
Lucia di Lammermoor
Piper
|
$500
[22]
"The difficult is done at once"; this "takes a little longer"
the impossible
|
$500
[11]
This historic road is also called "the national road"
the Cumberland Road
|
$500
[30]
Name given Chevy's Carryall station wagon introduced in 1935; it's now the name of a GMC SUV
a Suburban
Corey
|
$500
[5]
This "king" of the carnosaurus wasn't from the Jurassic period, but the late Cretaceous
Tyrannosaurus rex
Kevin
|
| WORLD WAR II | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE POEMS | TV SPIN-OFFS | IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD | "GO" FOR IT | WINE & CHEESE |
|
$200
[12]
This nation in the British isles remained neutral throughout the war
Ireland
Corey
|
$200
[6]
In "Invictus", W.E. Henley is "The master of my fate" & "the captain of" this
my soul
Piper
|
$200
[1]
Halle Berry was one of the models on "Living Dolls", a 1989 spin-off of this Alysssa Milano series
Who's the Boss?
Piper
|
$200
[8]
Term for the zygomatic bone or the prominance it forms, which is more prominent in fashion models
the cheekbone
Corey
|
$200
[26]
If you visit this Mongolian desert, you may see gazelles & sand rats
the Gobi
Corey
|
$1,000
[20]
The brown type of this fortified Spanish wine is darker & sweeter than the manzanilla
sherry
Corey
|
|
$400
[13]
In 1942 this lieutenant colonel's 16 B-25 bombers not only raided Tokyo but Yokohama, Kobe & Nagoya as well
Jimmy Doolittle
|
$400
[7]
William Blake rhymed, "I was angry with" this person. "I told my wrath, my wrath did end"
my friend
Piper
|
$400
[2]
"Facts of Life" came from "Diff'rent Strokes", & "A Different World" came from his series
Bill Cosby
Corey
|
$400
[11]
Membranes called the oval & round windows form the boundary between its middle & inner parts
the ear
Kevin
|
$400
[25]
Audrey Hepburn's Holly
Golightly
Piper
|
— |
|
$600
[14]
Fishing & pleasure boats were part of the flotilla used in the May-June 1940 evacuation from this port
Dunkirk
Kevin
|
$600
[9]
She wrote, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed"
Emily Dickinson
|
$800
[4]
"American Journal" was spun off from this newsmagazine now hosted by Deborah Norville
Inside Edition
Piper
|
$600
[17]
This soft central part of your teeth contains the nerves & blood vessels, & that's no fiction
the pulp
Corey
|
$800
[23]
The kind of intermediary mentioned in the title of a classic Joseph Losey film
a go-between
Kevin
|
— |
|
$800
[15]
In the midst of the Potsdam Conference, this man became England's new prime minister
(Clement) Attlee
Kevin
|
$800
[10]
In "A Refusal To Mourn the Death" of a child, he wrote, "After the first death, there is no other"
Dylan Thomas
Corey
|
$1,000
[5]
Dick Van Dyke's character of Dr. Mark Sloan on this series was introduced on "Jake and the Fatman"
Diagnosis Murder
Piper
|
$800
[18]
As in other electrical systems, the paths of signals in the brain are called these
circuits
Kevin
|
$1,000
[19]
He burned the second volume of his novel "Dead Souls" before dying on the verge of madness in 1852
Gogol
Kevin
|
— |
|
$1,000
[16]
The main 1942 battle of this sea off Australia was the first naval battle waged entirely by air power
the Coral Sea
Corey
|
$1,000
[21]
In "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" this "Manley" poet told Margaret, "It is Margaret you mourn for"
(Gerard Manley) Hopkins
Corey
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
(Hi. I'm Robert Guillaume.) My hit TV series "Benson" was a spin-off of this ground-breaking series that debuted in 1977
Soap
Corey
|
$1,000
[22]
Serotonin & dopamine are these chemicals that help move nerve impulses around the brain
neurotransmitters
Kevin
|
DD
$5,500
[24]
Title shared by a 1953 novel & the song heard here:
"Go Tell It On The Mountain"
Kevin
|
— |
This resort island lent its name to a 1948 Bogart film; the African Queen is now moored there
Key Largo