Al Lin game 2.
Chris Bennington — an insurance coverage attorney from Moorpark, California
Peter Fish — a writer from San Carlos, California
Al Lin — a law student originally from Chesapeake, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,501)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al | $2,800 | $4,400 | $11,900 |
$10,000
2-day champion: $20,501 |
$10,300
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Peter | $-900 | $500 | $4,100 |
$100
3rd place: reference books + Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Sega Genesis |
$6,300
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chris | $200 | $1,600 | $3,600 |
$4,101
2nd place: trip on Delta to the Bahamas & stay at the Bahamas Princess Resort & Casino |
$3,600
16 R, 5 W |
| MYTHOLOGY | CHARLOTTES | TRAVEL TEXAS | 1990 | COOKING | COMPLETES THE PROVERB |
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$100
[8]
Buto, a snake goddess of this ancient civilization, is often shown with papyrus
Egypt
Al
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$100
[25]
The title character in this 1952 children's book is a spider
Charlotte's Web
Chris
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$100
[11]
People in this city call their major downtown freeway interchanges "The Spaghetti Bowl", not the Astrobowl
Houston
Al
|
$100
[4]
In March Capt. Joseph Hazelwood was acquitted of the major charges in the grounding of this ship
the Exxon Valdez
Chris
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$100
[1]
Collective term for the innards of a turkey used to make gravy
giblets
Al
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$100
[17]
"Where there's a will,..."
there's a way
Al
|
|
$200
[9]
Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt & she's the Roman goddess of the hunt
Diana
Al
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$200
[27]
She played Edna Garrett on "Diff'rent Strokes" & "The Facts of Life"
Charlotte Rae
Chris
|
$200
[20]
This First Lady donated the land for the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin
Johnson
Al
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$200
[5]
This TV comedienne caused a flap with her off-key rendition of the national anthem July 25
Roseanne Barr
Al
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$200
[2]
Varieties of these include spritz, refrigerator & snickerdoodles
cookies
Al
|
$200
[18]
"Waste not,..."
want not
Peter
|
|
$300
[10]
Hermes wears winged ones called talaria; their name comes from talus, Latin for "ankle"
shoes (sandals)
Al
Peter
Chris
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$300
[28]
Monticello sits on a hill overlooking this Virginia city
Charlottesville
Al
|
$300
[22]
Fort Worth has a display of 13 life-size wax figures that depict this Leonardo da Vinci painting
The Last Supper
Peter
|
$300
[14]
Over 1,000 Muslim pilgrims died in a stampede in this holy city July 2
Mecca
Al
|
$300
[3]
They can be twice-baked & Italians turn them into gnocchi
potatoes
Peter
Chris
|
$300
[19]
"Promises, like pie-crust, are made to be..."
broken
Chris
|
|
$400
[12]
The Greek sea god Nereus is most closely associated with this sea that's an arm of the Mediterranean
the Aegean
Al
Peter
Chris
|
$400
[29]
Hollis was the last name of the Bette Davis character in this 1965 film
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Peter
|
$400
[23]
This theme park near Arlington, Texas boasts a 200' parachute drop called the Texas Chute-Out
Six Flags
Chris
|
$400
[15]
After 10 days in the Vatican mission in Panama City, he surrendered to U.S. troops Jan. 3
Manuel Noriega
Al
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$400
[6]
"Cooking A to Z" calls it the French equivalent of Chinese stir-frying
sautéing
Al
|
$400
[21]
"The nearer the bone,..."
the sweeter the meat
Chris
|
|
$500
[13]
Collective name of Tisiphone, Alecto & Megaera, who are known for their "rages"
the Furies
Peter
Chris
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$500
[30]
This 19th c. author who once used the pen name Currer Bell married Curate Arthur Bell Nicholls
Charlotte Brontë
Al
|
$500
[24]
This city's Post Office is divided by a state line, so you can stand with 1 foot in Texas & 1 in Arkansas
Texarkana
Peter
|
DD
$1,000
[16]
On March 11 Patricio Aylwin was sworn in as president of this country, replacing Gen. Pinochet
Chile
Al
|
$500
[7]
It's to make clear by removing impurities; you do it to butter & stock
to clarify
Al
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$500
[26]
"Hell hath no fury..."
like a woman scorned
Al
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| MILITARY LEADERS | POETRY | DISASTERS | NICKNAMES | ISLANDS | POP MUSIC |
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$200
[16]
As captain of H.M.S. Director, he was set ashore in a 1797 mutiny, 8 years after the Bounty affair
(Captain) Bligh
Al
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$200
[1]
This Poe heroine "lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me"
Annabel Lee
Al
|
$200
[11]
In adjusted dollars, the 1906 earthquake in this city was America's costliest
San Francisco
Chris
|
$200
[26]
Harriet Tubman's nicknames compared her to this biblical hero who led his people out of slavery
Moses
Al
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$200
[6]
This island 2 miles from the Italian mainland is the most populous in the Mediterranean
Sicily
Al
|
$200
[21]
This Beatle won a 1971 Grammy for arranging "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"
Paul McCartney
Chris
|
|
$400
[17]
In 218 B.C. he left eastern Spain for northern Italy with 102,000 men & about 40 elephants
Hannibal
Chris
|
$400
[2]
On July 8, 1822 he drowned while sailing off Livorno, Italy; his body was cremated on the beach
Shelley
Peter
Chris
|
$400
[12]
This volcano which buried Pompeii destroyed the city of Torre del Greco several times
Vesuvius
Al
|
$400
[27]
Nicknamed "The Smiling Pope", he didn't have much to smile about: he was only pope for 33 days
John Paul I
Chris
|
$400
[7]
The last full-blooded Aborigine on this island state of Australia died in 1876
Tasmania
Peter
|
$400
[22]
The TV soundtrack album "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" was this rock star's last No. 1 LP
Elvis Presley
Peter
|
|
$600
[18]
This Israeli general lost his left eye while fighting with the Allies in Lebanon in World War II
Moshe Dayan
Al
|
$600
[3]
The prologue to this 14th c. work describes the over 2 dozen people who meet at the Tabard Inn
The Canterbury Tales
Peter
|
$600
[13]
In 1918, in the worst epidemic in U.S. history, over 500,000 Americans died from the Spanish form of this
influenza
Peter
|
$600
[28]
World War II GIs called this "Sarong Girl" "The Sweetheart of the Foxholes"
Dorothy Lamour
Chris
|
$600
[8]
Longwood House, a Napoleonic museum, is maintained on this South Atlantic British territory
St. Helena
Peter
|
$600
[23]
Eddie Kendricks left this Motown group in 1971, right after "Just My Imagination"
The Temptations
Chris
|
|
$800
[19]
AEF commander whose "My Experiences in the World War" won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for History
"Black Jack" Pershing
Al
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$800
[4]
Oliver Wendell Holmes called this sea creature "a ship of pearl" that "sails the unshadowed main"
the chambered nautilus
Al
|
$800
[14]
In 1945 a U.S. Army bomber crashed into this skyscraper, leaving 13 dead
the Empire State Building
Chris
|
$800
[30]
"Thespian" nickname of bank robber Willie Sutton, who was known for his disguises
"the Actor"
Chris
|
$1,000
[10]
The Azores & this island group 400 miles off Morocco are districts of Portugal
Madeira
Al
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$800
[24]
This lead singer & his group The Mindbenders topped the charts in 1965 with "Game of Love"
Wayne Fontana
Peter
|
|
$1,000
[20]
This Japanese officer who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor attended Harvard in 1919
Yamamoto
Peter
Chris
|
DD
$2,100
[5]
The 1798 collection "Lyrical Ballads" contained poems by both Coleridge & this "Tintern Abbey" poet
Wordsworth
Al
|
$1,000
[15]
1988 saw one of the worst air disasters when a Pan Am jet exploded over this Scottish village
Lockerbie
Al
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$1,000
[29]
Comparing him to a Visigoth king & a poet, Voltaire dubbed this "Great" Prussian ruler Alaric-Cotin
Frederick the Great
Chris
|
DD
$2,200
[9]
Once known as the Spice Islands, the Moluccas are now part of this country
Indonesia
Peter
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1984 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck & Nile Rodgers formed this group to record "Sea Of Love"
The Honeydrippers
Peter
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The success of this book in 1957 prompted Random House to create its "Beginner Books" series
The Cat in the Hat