Mike Adams — a chemistry professor from New Orleans, Louisiana
Chris Seybolt — an attorney from Columbia, South Carolina
Giselle Foss — a broadcast librarian from Washington, D.C.
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giselle | $1,400 | $1,900 | $7,500 |
$14,700
New champion: $14,700 |
$6,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chris | $2,000 | $3,500 | $7,600 |
$99
3rd place: a pair of Festina Chrono watches |
$7,500
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Mike | $600 | $1,100 | $2,500 |
$400
2nd place: a Monorail Desktop PC + O'Sullivan office furniture |
$2,500
12 R, 2 W |
| U.S. PRESIDENTS | I SAW IT IN VOGUE | REALLY BIG MOUNTAINS | WHO PLAYED 'EM? | CAR TALK | STARTS WITH "GU" |
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$100
[1]
In a letter to Horace Greeley he wrote, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union"
Abraham Lincoln
Mike
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$100
[22]
A dermatologist warns beach bunnies that these lose effectiveness in 2-4 hours
Sunscreens
Mike
|
$100
[17]
In 1859 gold seekers vowed to reach this peak "or bust"
Pike's Peak
Mike
|
$100
[6]
Lou Grant
Ed Asner
Giselle
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$100
[16]
On a can of this, the "SAE" before the viscosity is from your friends at the Society of Automotive Engineers
Motor oil
Mike
|
$100
[11]
It's any foolish or dull-witted person, not just Forrest
Gump
Giselle
|
|
$200
[2]
In 1890, at age 6, he and his family moved to Independence, MO., his home for most of the rest of his life
Harry S. Truman
Mike
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$200
[23]
Though she's posed in them, Elizabeth Hurley says "I never stand up in" this type of bathing suit
Bikini
Mike
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$200
[18]
This volcano that buried Pompeii erupted again in March, 1944, during the Allied invasion of Italy
Vesuvius
Chris
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$200
[7]
Elaine Benes
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Chris
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$200
[27]
It's the "A" in ABS, which is designed to keep you from hitting the skids
Anti(-lock Brake System)
Giselle
Chris
|
$200
[12]
This edible item seenhereis full of vitamin C
guava
Chris
|
|
$300
[3]
From 1890 to 1902, he served as professor of jurisprudence & political economy at Princeton
Woodrow Wilson
Giselle
|
$300
[24]
This "Working Girl" actress is wearing Revlon "Age Defying Makeup" (Psst! She's 41)
Melanie Griffith
Chris
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$300
[19]
Located in California's High Sierra, it's the highest mountain in the 48 contiguous states
Mount Whitney
Chris
|
$300
[8]
Maude Findlay
Bea Arthur
Chris
|
$400
[29]
Your Porsche 914 should do it at about 900 rpm; your mechanic shouldn't do it at all
idle
Mike
|
$300
[13]
A deep ravine, or the last name of a witchy neighbor in "The Wizard Of Oz"
Gulch
Mike
|
|
$400
[4]
At 8,445 words, his inaugural address was the longest--that's a little more than 263 words per day in office
William Henry Harrison
Chris
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$400
[25]
Peter Fogg designed the "Lace Tuck" found on this part of your Nikes
Tongue
Mike
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$400
[20]
1,644-foot-high Mirador Nacional, about 50 miles east of Montevideo, is this country's tallest peak
Uruguay
Chris
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$400
[9]
Reverend Jim Ignatowski
Christopher Lloyd ("Taxi")
Chris
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$500
[30]
A calculus major could tell you it's the part that uses gears to transfer power to the rear wheels
Differential
Giselle
|
$400
[14]
Flaubert's first name
Gustave
Giselle
|
|
$500
[5]
In 1861 he was appointed a colonel in the 21st Illinois Volunteers
Ulysses S. Grant
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$500
[26]
Vogue's editor was turned off by the reactionary 1998 fall collections in these 2 European cities
Milan & Paris
Giselle
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$500
[21]
This Tanzanian mountain has 3 main peaks: Kibo, Mawenzi & Shira
Mount Kilimanjaro
Chris
|
$500
[10]
Kwai Chang Caine
David Carradine
Chris
|
DD
$700
[28]
(Hi, I'm Jay Leno.) Car buffs like me know in starting some classic cars you pull out the choke to constrict airflow to this part
the carburetor
Giselle
|
$500
[15]
This country's longest river is the Motagua
Guatemala
Giselle
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| AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS | EDUCATION | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS | "EVER"s | CHANCE | TINKERERS |
|
$200
[18]
She was a senior editor at Random House while she was writing the novel "Beloved"
Toni Morrison
Giselle
|
$200
[1]
Usually the first unit of elementary school, its name is German for "children's garden"
kindergarten
Chris
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$200
[2]
During the long filming process of this 1952 movie, Orson Welles went through several different Desdemonas
Othello
Chris
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$200
[7]
Youse is looking at yews, which are this kind of tree
Evergreens
Mike
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$200
[13]
Some of these "one-armed bandits" pay out more often; casinos put those where you'll notice them
Slot machines
Chris
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$400
[26]
In 1897 this one-time patient of John Kellogg introduced his dry breakfast cereal Grape-Nuts
Charles Post
Mike
|
|
$400
[19]
In 1997 this "Fences" playwright debated the state of black theater with critic Robert Brustein
August Wilson
Giselle
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$400
[8]
This "Green Mountain" state leads all other states with a high school graduation rate of 89%
Vermont
Chris
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$400
[3]
1945's patriotic version of "Henry V" was directed by this actor
Sir Laurence Olivier
Chris
|
$400
[9]
"Medical Center" actor Chad, born Raymond Lee Cramton
Chad Everett
Chris
|
DD
$500
[14]
The name of this game rhymes with Nevada's second-largest city
Keno (rhymes with Reno)
Chris
|
$600
[27]
In 1801 in Paris he demonstrated his battery to Napoleon who then made him a count
Alessandro Volta
|
|
$800
[21]
Octavia Butler writes novels like "Clay's Ark" & "Patternmaster" in this genre
Science fiction
|
$600
[23]
On Oct. 30, 1979 this president nominated Shirley Hufstedler to be the first Secretary of Education
Jimmy Carter
Chris
Mike
|
$600
[4]
In a 1995 film starring Ian McKellen, this Shakespearean history is transported to the 1930s
Richard III
|
$600
[10]
Brand name of a spirit that's 95% grain alcohol, or the band that sings "Everything To Everyone"
Everclear
Giselle
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$600
[15]
Grambling coach Eddie Robinson participated in this event before the 1998 Super Bowl kickoff
the coin toss
Mike
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$800
[28]
In 1909 Leo Baekeland patented the first completely synthetic resin under this trademark
Bakelite
Giselle
|
|
$1,000
[22]
It completes the title of Walter Mosley's 1997 short story collection "Always Outnumbered, Always" this
Outgunned
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$800
[24]
On July 5, 1998 this largest teachers union rejected a merger with the American Federation of Teachers
the NEA (National Education Association)
Giselle
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$800
[5]
This Italian director has filmed "The Taming of the Shrew", "Hamlet" & "Romeo and Juliet"
Franco Zeffirelli
Giselle
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$800
[11]
It's the antonym of the most famous word in Poe's "The Raven", & also ends one of the verses
evermore
Giselle
Chris
Mike
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$800
[16]
Stendhal could tell you that they're the 2 main colors on a roulette wheel
Red & black
Giselle
|
$1,000
[29]
The 1820s portrait of Eli Whitney, seen here, was painted by this fellow inventor
Samuel Morse
|
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
She co-wrote the screen adaptation of her 1996 novel "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"
Terry McMillan
Giselle
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1633 this Dutch company established the first school in New Amsterdam
the West India Company
Giselle
|
$1,000
[6]
This 1985 film was Akira Kurosawa's treatment of "King Lear"
Ran
Giselle
|
$1,000
[12]
In a song from "Camelot", this title precedes "It wouldn't be in summer"
If Ever I Would Leave You
Chris
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$1,000
[17]
In 1998 13 Ohio blue-collar workers won the $295.7 million jackpot of this lottery
Powerball
Chris
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Opened on July 1, the museum devoted to her lies near a classical temple dedicated to her memory
Princess Diana