Kemp Chester — an Army captain from Columbia, South Carolina
Deborah Danzis — a college professor from High Point, North Carolina
Adriana Bate — an office manager from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $22,810)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana | $800 | $1,700 | $4,500 |
$3,500
3rd place: Olympus DLX Sports Camera |
$5,000
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Deborah | $300 | $1,500 | $6,100 |
$9,201
New champion: $9,201 |
$6,100
14 R, 0 W |
| Kemp | $1,300 | $2,400 | $4,600 |
$9,199
2nd place: Trip & Cruise to Turkey & Greece |
$5,400
15 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| LET'S TALK TURKEY | NAME THE YEAR | COLLEGE FOOTBALL | SMALL U.S. CAPITALS | FOLKLORE | FASHION STATEMENTS |
|
$100
[8]
Be happy, the turkey's breastbone is also known by this more hopeful name
Wishbone
Adriana
|
$100
[9]
The warring was done & it was time for fun in this year (end of WWII)
1945
Kemp
|
$100
[3]
In the 1984 season UCLA's John Lee set a Division 1-A record by kicking 29 of these 3-pointers
Field goals
Adriana
|
$100
[17]
Although its population is only about 50,000, it's Wyoming's largest city
Cheyenne
Deborah
|
$100
[24]
In 1998 the story of this young Chinese lady became Disney's latest animated legend
Mulan
Kemp
|
$100
[1]
When you praise someone highly, you "take" this "off to him"
your hat
Deborah
|
|
$200
[13]
Farmboys know a female turkey is a hen, a baby is a poult & a male is called this
Tom
Adriana
|
$200
[10]
It all began crashing down in this year (the Berlin Wall)
1989
Deborah
|
$200
[4]
Nickname of Alabama coach Paul Bryant, who won 15 bowl games
"Bear"
Kemp
|
$200
[18]
This Delaware capital was laid out as a site for a jail & courthouse on the order of William Penn
Dover
Adriana
|
$200
[25]
The rules of this kids' game, like keeping one knuckle down while shooting, are passed down orally
Marbles
Deborah
|
$200
[2]
When you have a secret agenda, you have "something up" this, like a crafty conjurer
Your sleeve
Kemp
|
|
$300
[14]
Of wiggin, snood or hackle, the one that's the fleshy growth hanging down over a male turkey's beak
Snood
|
$300
[11]
Yitzhak Rabin shook Yasir Arafat's hand at the White House in September of this year
1993
Kemp
|
$300
[5]
Even after Penn State joined it in 1990, this conference retained its numerical name
The Big Ten
Kemp
|
DD
$500
[19]
A U.S. Mint was established in this capital to handle the Comstock Lode's silver output
Carson City, Nevada
Adriana
|
$300
[26]
This liquid appears in many folktales & in the title of a Searchers hit
Love Potion No. 9
|
$300
[21]
Do this "up" & you're putting on your finery; do it "down" & you're scolding someone
Dress
Adriana
|
|
$400
[15]
Pass him a drumstick; this president made Thanksgiving a national holiday in the 1860s
Abraham Lincoln
Adriana
|
$400
[12]
This year's most famous headline, even if it was wrong ("Dewey Defeats Truman")
1948
Kemp
|
$400
[6]
In 1937 future Supreme Court justice Byron "Whizzer" White was runner-up for this best player award
Heisman Trophy
Kemp
|
— |
$400
[27]
A small spirit that torments pilots, or a small car once made by American Motors
Gremlin
Adriana
|
$400
[22]
To be discharged or dismissed is to "get" this piece of footwear
The boot
Deborah
|
|
$500
[16]
Despite their name, turkeys originated on this continent
North America
Kemp
|
$500
[20]
Seen here is a tragedy from this year that few will forget (Challenger explosion)
1986
Deborah
|
$500
[7]
The last major bowl without a corporate sponsor, it struck an agreement with AT&T in 1998
The Rose Bowl
|
— |
$500
[28]
Lesser known than Paul Bunyan, but equally heroic, Gib Morgan was a mighty driller for this
oil
Kemp
|
$500
[23]
"Shirt feature" term for a professional whose job generally doesn't involve manual labor
White collar
Adriana
|
| GIVING THANKS | TENTS IN THE BIBLE | THE WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME | A WHITMAN SAMPLER | PLAYING DOCTOR | OH "MI" |
|
$200
[17]
Emily Post says these must be acknowledged within 3 months--& guests don't have a year to give them, either
wedding presents
Adriana
|
$200
[22]
According to Genesis 13:12, "Lot pitched his tent toward" this city....uh-oh
Sodom
Kemp
|
$200
[13]
She's the first U.S. Secretary of State to be inducted
Madeleine Albright
Deborah
|
$200
[7]
Emerson called this book "The most extra-ordinary piece of wit and wisdom" America has yet contributed
Leaves of Grass
Adriana
|
$200
[1]
He played physician & poet Yuri Zhivago in a 1965 film
Omar Sharif
Deborah
|
$200
[6]
For many birds, it means flying south for the winter
migrating
Adriana
|
|
$400
[18]
A letter expressing thanks for hospitality is named for these 2 foods
bread & butter
|
$400
[23]
His son Ham discovered him drunk & naked in his tent
Noah
Adriana
|
$400
[14]
This member of the New York City Opera from 1955 to 1980 was inducted in 1998
Beverly Sills
|
$400
[8]
This poem says, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then...I contradict myself; I am large...I contain multitudes"
"Song of Myself"
Deborah
|
$400
[2]
This TV character went from medical school to the FBI--she moved to the big screen in 1998
Dana Scully ( The X-Files )
Adriana
Kemp
|
$400
[9]
This region of islands in the Pacific includes Guam, Kiribati & Nauru
micronesia
Deborah
Kemp
|
|
$600
[19]
He exuberantly thanked his wife, God & Tom Cruise in accepting the 1996 Oscar as Best Supporting Actor
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Deborah
|
$600
[24]
This apostle from Tarsus was a tentmaker by trade
Paul
Kemp
|
DD
$500
[28]
This founder of the Special Olympics found herself in the hall in 1998
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Kemp
|
$600
[27]
It's the title of the movie that featuredthe following:"A poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln; now in this class you can either call me 'Mr. Keating', or if you're slightly more daring, 'O Captain! My Captain!'"
Dead Poets Society (Robin Williams)
Kemp
|
DD
$500
[4]
It's the name of the fictional psychiatrist seen here:"A census taker once tried to test me... I ate his liver with some fava beans & a nice Chianti."
Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( The Silence of the Lambs )
Kemp
|
$600
[10]
A sticky situation, or an area of wet, soggy ground
mire
Adriana
|
|
$800
[20]
If you're genuinely thankful to a Frenchman, "The quality" of this word "is not strained"
merci
Adriana
|
$800
[25]
When asked "Where is Sarah thy wife?", he replied, "In the tent"
Abraham
Adriana
|
$600
[15]
To duplicate this late journalist's life, travel around the world, then get inducted into the hall
Nellie Bly
|
— |
$600
[3]
Plastic surgeon Michael J. Fox is sidetracked in a small town on his way to L.A. in this 1991 film comedy
Doc Hollywood
Kemp
|
$800
[11]
It's a ship equipped to detect & destroy enemy explosives
a minesweeper
Adriana
Deborah
|
|
$1,000
[21]
The name of this sacrament instituted at the Last Supper is from Greek for "Thanksgiving"
the Eucharist
|
$1,000
[26]
Numbers 19:14 says if a man dieth in his tent, everything in it & all who enter are unclean for this length of time
7 days
|
$800
[16]
This "hymn her" battled her way in in 1998
Julia Ward Howe
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
Meg Ryan played a heart surgeon touched by the other-worldly Nicolas Cage in this 1998 love story
City of Angels
Deborah
|
$1,000
[12]
This "box" with slotted sides enables a carpenter to make perfect crosscuts
a mitre box
Deborah
|
This children's story begins with a young farm girl saying to her mother, "Where's Papa going with that ax?"
Charlotte's Web