Karmie Johnson — a registered nurse from Birmingham, Alabama
Dan McLeod — a student from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Bob Collins — a restaurant manager from Melbourne, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $2,200 | $10,600 | $13,400 |
$26,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dan | $2,600 | $1,400 | $15,800 |
$26,801
New champion: $26,801 |
$17,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Karmie | $-400 | $-400 | $8,400 |
$9,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,400
7 R, 2 W |
| IT HAPPENED IN MAY | BASEBALL NICKNAMES | BY THE NUMBERS | BRITISH SPELLING BEE | SOUTH DAKOTA | A VISIT TO INTEL CORP. |
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$200
[1]
1707:The Act of Union joins these 2 countries into the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Scotland & England
Dan
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$200
[14]
"Shoeless Joe"
Joe Jackson
Bob
Dan
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$200
[6]
This country, the world's second-leading producer of cars in 2000 with over 10 mil., made only 32,000 of them in 1950
Japan
Bob
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$200
[11]
A book-like listing of a business' goods for sale; Sears & Roebuck used to put out a famous one
C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E
Bob
Dan
Karmie
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$200
[19]
South Dakotans celebrate this October holiday as Native American Day
Columbus Day
Bob
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$200
[24]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) As a semiconductor that can either conduct or resist electricity, this element has become the raw material of computer chips
silicon
Dan
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$400
[2]
1931:This 102-story building is officially dedicated in New York City
the Empire State Building
Dan
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$400
[15]
"The Iron Horse"
Lou Gehrig
Bob
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$400
[7]
Of the 101 medals the U. S. won at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 44 were of this kind
gold
Dan
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$400
[12]
Use this farm implement that breaks up soil to plant your leeks
P-L-O-U-G-H
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$600
[21]
From 1963 to 1981 this Democrat & presidential candidate served South Dakota in the U.S. Senate
McGovern
Bob
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$400
[26]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) The equivalent of wires in a chip's circuitry have been shrunk to 1/1,000th the width of a hair, & are measured in this unit, a millionth of a meter
microns
Dan
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$600
[3]
1869:Ooh la la! These risque follies open on the wicked continent
the Folies Bergères
Bob
Dan
|
$600
[16]
"Stan the Man"
Stan Musial
Bob
|
$600
[8]
Of 4, 7 or 12, the number of nations in the world with a name ending in "stan"
7
Dan
Karmie
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$600
[13]
Go to the famous Globe one to see a play by Shakespeare
T-H-E-A-T-R-E
Bob
|
$800
[22]
The Big Sioux River, which does the falling at Sioux Falls, empties into this river near Sioux City
the Missouri
Bob
|
$600
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) Invented in 1947, this device that replaced the vacuum tube can now be a mere 150 atoms thick on a computer chip
a transistor
Bob
|
|
$800
[4]
1961:Total length in time of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight; he was famous much longer
15 minutes
Bob
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$800
[17]
A '70s Red Sox catcher:"Pudge"
(Carlton) Fisk
Bob
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$800
[9]
The Apollo lunar mission with this number was aborted en route to the Moon in 1970 due to an in-flight explosion
13
Bob
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$800
[25]
At the pub, it's beer from a keg, not a bottle
D-R-A-U-G-H-T
Bob
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$1,000
[23]
The remains of a 3-toed horse & saber-toothed tigers have been found in the fossil beds of this national park
Badlands National Park
|
$800
[28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) To check for defects or design issues on a chip, Intel uses this type of microscope that beams subatomic particles at its subject
an electron microscope
Bob
|
|
$1,000
[5]
1776:Adam Weishaupt forms this "enlightened" Bavarian secret society
the Illuminati
Dan
|
$1,000
[18]
A '90s Rangers, now Tigers, catcher:"Pudge"
Ivan Rodriguez
Bob
|
$1,000
[10]
In this job James K. Hahn made $181,317.79 more a year than his predecessor, Richard Riordan, who took $1
mayor of Los Angeles
Dan
|
$1,000
[30]
Good Britons recycle this metal in their soft-drink cans
A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M
Dan
|
DD
$2,200
[20]
Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane are buried in this city's Mount Moriah Cemetery
Deadwood
Bob
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$1,000
[29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.) This Intel cofounder's law predicted that chips would double computing power every 1 or 2 years; Intel made that a reality with million-fold jumps in performance
Gordon Moore
|
| CAT | O' | NEIN! | TALES | HIT ME | "OUCH"! |
|
$400
[6]
Now endangered, these fast felines were once common in India where a Mogal emperor kept a thousand of them as hunting cats
cheetah
Dan
|
$400
[11]
She "lit a lantern... her cow kicked it over, then winked... & said, 'There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight'"
(Mrs.) O'Leary
Dan
|
$400
[26]
General Von Choltitz, military commander of this European capital, wouldn't follow Hitler's orders to burn it
Paris
Dan
|
$400
[16]
Pilgrims in this 14th century work are heading to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket
Canterbury Tales
Bob
|
$400
[21]
The first song listed in the "Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits" is this "rockin'" Bill Haley song from July 1955
"Rock Around The Clock"
Bob
|
$400
[1]
Opossum pocket
a pouch
Bob
|
|
$800
[7]
Proverbially, to stir up trouble is to put "the cat in among" these urban birds
the pigeons
Karmie
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$800
[12]
Hero of a Robert Burns poem, or a Scottish woolen cap
Tam O'Shanter
Dan
|
$800
[27]
The despotic Walter Ulbricht blocked de-Stalinization as leader of this country
East Germany
Dan
|
$800
[17]
A Winston Groom sequel sees this title man involved in the Iran-Contra affair & the fall of the Berlin Wall
Forrest Gump
Karmie
|
$800
[22]
In July 1965 the No. 1 hit in the U.S. was this Rolling Stones classic
"Satisfaction"
Bob
|
$800
[2]
There's a finishing one and a Midas one
a touch
Bob
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Slender Asian variety of feline seen here
a Siamese cat
Dan
|
$1,200
[13]
A misleading illusion; specifically, a bright light over marshy ground
a will o' (the) wisp
Dan
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1806, when a patron suggested he tickle the ivories for visiting French officers, he stormed out
Beethoven
|
$1,200
[18]
Her novel "The Kitchen God's Wife" recounts a mother's struggles to survive in China
Amy Tan
Dan
|
$1,200
[23]
In July of 1975, the musical act seenheretopped the U.S. charts
The Captain & Tennille
Dan
|
$1,200
[3]
A certificate exchangeable for cash or merchandise
a voucher
Karmie
|
|
$1,600
[9]
America's only natural breed of domestic feline is the large "coon cat" from this New England state
Maine
Dan
|
$2,000
[15]
This flower, seen here, gets its name due to its afternoon bloom
four o'clocks
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1891, a year after losing power, this statesman was elected to the Reichstag but refused to serve
Otto Von Bismarck
Dan
|
$1,600
[19]
The title character of this Sir Walter Scott novel appears for a joust as a disinherited knight
Ivanhoe
Dan
|
$1,600
[24]
In a No. 1 hit from July 1985, he was "findin' it hard to believe we're in heaven"
Bryan Adams
Karmie
|
$1,600
[4]
Boastful buffoon stock character from commedia dell'arte; will you do the fandango?
Scaramouch
Dan
|
|
$2,000
[10]
The tiger is Panthera tigris; the lion is Panthera this
leo
|
DD
$4,000
[14]
Britannica says that in his time, after Shaw & Shakespeare, this dramatist was the most translated & produced
(Eugene) O'Neill
Dan
|
DD
$4,000
[29]
In the 1980s, as Vatican Doctrinal Enforcer, the German born with this surname said no to "liberation theology"
Ratzinger
Dan
|
$2,000
[20]
In this Hesse work, Harry Haller meets a Doppelganger of himself named Hermine
Steppenwolf
Karmie
|
$2,000
[25]
"Waterfalls" by this female hip-hop trio had the fans flooding into stores in July 1995
TLC
Karmie
|
$2,000
[5]
In Ancient Egyptian inscription, this oval figure held the names of royal personages
cartouche
Karmie
|
Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus
Ulysses S. Grant