Linda St. Clair-James — a registered nurse from Lake Charles, Louisiana
Ron Mahla — a casino supervisor from Las Vegas, Nevada
Will Thompson — a French professor from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will | $700 | $2,100 | $7,900 |
$14,100
2-day champion: $18,300 |
$7,900
18 R, 1 W |
| Ron | $2,400 | $3,600 | $7,000 |
$500
2nd place: Trip to Stonefield Estate, St. Lucia |
$5,700
19 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Linda | $800 | $1,800 | $200 |
$200
3rd place: Trip to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada |
$3,200
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| BEVERLY HILLS | WHICH CAME FIRST? | HITS OF THE '40s | BLASTS FROM THE PAST | ETYMOLOGY | KWANZAA |
|
$100
[20]
Gucci, Louis Vuitton & Giorgio Armani are always in fashion on this chic shopping street
Rodeo Drive
Linda
|
$100
[10]
Paul Newman, Paul Anka, Paul Gauguin, Paul McCartney
Paul Gauguin
Linda
|
$100
[5]
Glenn Miller could have opened a jewelry store in 1942 with his "String of" these
"Pearls"
Ron
|
$100
[15]
Praise the gods! It's the city where you'll find the majestic ruins seen here (The Parthenon)
Athens
Will
|
$100
[1]
This veggie's name is from the Italian for sprout, "brocco"
broccoli
Will
|
$100
[26]
The 1965 riots in this Los Angeles neighborhood inspired Prof. Maulana Karenga to create Kwanzaa in 1966
Watts
Will
|
|
$200
[21]
This famous ZIP code reportedly has the largest number of bathrooms per household in the U.S.
90210
Will
Ron
|
$200
[11]
The Rolling Stones, The Ink Spots, The Who, The The
The Ink Spots
Ron
|
$200
[6]
Completes the title "Beat Me Daddy..."
"Eight To The Bar"
Ron
|
$200
[16]
A product of about 20,000 B.C., you'll find the art seen here in this country (cave drawings)
France
Ron
|
$200
[2]
Roman numerals at first represented human fingers, hence this word for numbers 1-9
digits
Will
|
$200
[27]
Kwanzaa's kinara holds 7 of these; a menorah holds 8
candles
Will
Linda
|
|
$300
[23]
When it comes to fine dining, this chef has 2 Beverly Hills restaurants to choose from
Wolfgang Puck
Ron
|
$400
[13]
Seattle Seahawks, Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, Baltimore Ravens
Chicago Bears
Linda
|
$300
[7]
The Beatles' "Anthology" includes a version of this '40s tune whose title is Spanish for "Kiss me much"
"Besame Mucho"
Ron
|
$300
[17]
Many treasures have been excavated from this royal valley (in Egypt)
Valley of the Kings
Will
|
$300
[3]
A Chinese farmer named Bing developed his own species of these in Oregon in 1875
cherries
Linda
|
$300
[28]
Kwanzaa derives its name from a phrase meaning "first fruits" in this African language
Swahili
Linda
|
|
$400
[24]
Nicknamed the "Pink Palace", it's home to the world famous Polo Lounge--check in & check it out
Beverly Hills Hotel
Will
|
$500
[14]
Castro, Stalin, Lenin, Tito
Lenin
Ron
|
$400
[8]
"You're nobody 'til somebody loves you" so do this
find yourself somebody to love
|
$400
[18]
They're the ancient South American people who built the lost city seen here (Machu Picchu)
Incas
Linda
|
$400
[4]
Jeremy Bentham coined the terms maximize & minimize as well as this 13-letter word meaning "of many countries"
international
Will
|
$400
[29]
The Kwanzaa feast table is decorated with one ear of corn for each of these in the household
children
Ron
|
|
$500
[25]
All kidding aside, this humorist was Beverly Hills' first honorary mayor in the 1920s
Will Rogers
|
DD
$600
[12]
The Vulgate, The Koran, The Upanishads, The Book of Mormon
The Upanishads
Ron
|
$500
[9]
Duke Ellington took "The A-Train" in 1941 & Frankie Laine rode out the decade on this train in 1949
"Mule Train"
Ron
|
$500
[19]
Remants of this historic British fortification are seen here:
Hadrian's Wall
Ron
|
$500
[22]
H.L. Mencken went to the Greek for "molting" to come up with this term for a stripteaser
ecdysiast
|
$500
[30]
Gifts are given on the last day of Kwanzaa, which falls on this public holiday
New Year's Day
Will
|
| NORTH BY NORTHWEST | REBECCA | NOTORIOUS | THE BIRDS | SPELLBOUND | ALFRED HITCHCOCK |
|
$200
[11]
Arthur St. Clair, known for his evacuation of Ticonderoga, was the first gov. of this area established in 1787
Northwest Territory
Linda
|
$200
[13]
The Biblical Rebecca bore twin sons: Jacob & this pottage-crazy hunter
Esau
Ron
|
$200
[23]
This mystic whose name means "debauched one" tried to keep Russia out of World War I
Rasputin
Ron
|
$200
[2]
It's the bird seenherestretching its legs:
flamingo
Ron
|
$200
[6]
It's what the "B" in FBI stands for
B-U-R-E-A-U
Will
|
$200
[14]
In Hitchcock's third movie, "The Lodger", a landlady suspects that her tenant is this London killer
Jack the Ripper
Will
|
|
$400
[12]
Janin is the northernmost major settlement in this formerly Jordanian area Israel occupied in 1967
West Bank
Ron
|
$400
[18]
This fictional rural girl charms a businessman into buying 300 cakes of soap
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Ron
|
$400
[24]
In 44 B.C. he was made a praetor of Rome & joined Cassius in a little plot
Brutus
Linda
|
$400
[3]
The screech type of this bird is the only common small species with ear tufts
owl
Linda
|
$400
[7]
An executive of this brewery came up with the idea for the "Book of World Records"
G-U-I-N-N-E-S-S
Will
Linda
|
$600
[20]
This Swede who starred in 3 of Hitchcock's films called him "A gentleman farmer who raised goose flesh"
Ingrid Bergman
Will
|
|
$600
[15]
This "grand" island popular with tourists is found in the extreme north of the West Indies
Grand Bahama Island
Ron
|
— |
$600
[25]
The U.S. supplied the weapons that killed this country's dictator Raphael Trujillo in 1961
Dominican Republic
Ron
|
$600
[1]
Monkeys contributed to the demise of these "silly" birds by eating their eggs
dodos
Will
|
$600
[8]
It's the fifth book of the Old Testament
D-E-U-T-E-R-O-N-O-M-Y
|
$800
[21]
Hitchcock's daughter was in this 1951 film in which Robert Walker wanted to swap murders with Farley Granger
Strangers on a Train
Ron
|
|
$800
[16]
Mafikeng, formerly Mafeking, is the capital of this country's province of North-West
South Africa
|
— |
$800
[26]
Divers recently found cannons off North Carolina that they believe are from his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge
Blackbeard
Linda
|
$800
[4]
Named by the natives, moas were ostrichlike birds that once inhabited this country
New Zealand
Linda
|
$800
[9]
In a 1991 movie, a group of working-class Dubliners form a band that plays '60s soul music & take this name
C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T-S
Will
Linda
|
$1,000
[22]
Hitchcock's name for a plot device; he said it "is actually nothing at all"
McGuffin
Ron
|
|
$1,000
[17]
Eighty Mile Beach, on the Indian Ocean, is part of this continent's northwest coast
Australia
Will
|
— |
DD
$3,000
[27]
When he fled from Nicaragua to Miami in 1979, he didn't go empty handed, he took about $100 million
Anastasio Somoza
Linda
|
$1,000
[5]
It's the traveling bird seen here:
albatross
Will
|
$1,000
[10]
It's the adjective for a 150th anniversary celebration
S-E-S-Q-U-I-C-E-N-T-E-N-N-I-A-L
Will
|
DD
$1,400
[19]
Hitch's movie that contains the line "No one ever comes here unless they've gotten off the main highway"
Psycho
Ron
|
Zhongdian & Deqin, China both claim to be the inspiration for this imaginary place
Shangri-La