Mike Nassir — a physics and astronomy instructor from Honolulu, Hawaii
Diane Rohan — an event planner and full-time mom from New York, New York
Rod Sanders — a master control operator from Corpus Christi, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rod | $2,500 | $3,000 | $12,200 |
$12,200
2-day champion: $17,200 |
$11,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Diane | $1,800 | $1,500 | $2,900 |
$0
3rd place: Trip to Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa, Hot Springs, Arkansas |
$2,900
13 R, 4 W |
| Mike | $200 | $500 | $5,900 |
$5,999
2nd place: Trip to El Cid Resort, Mazatlan, Mexico |
$6,900
15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| HEAVY METAL | NEW YORK POSTHEADLINES | CLASSIC ADS & JINGLES | DIALECTS | FIRST LADY FIRSTS | WHEEL OF JEOPARDY! |
|
$100
[6]
The greatest metal heroes aren't singers but these, like Randy Rhoads & Eddie Van Halen
guitarists
Diane
|
$100
[16]
About his entry into the "Monday Night Football" booth in 2000, the Post asked, "Are You Ready for Some Goofball?"
Dennis Miller
Diane
|
$100
[1]
"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is"
Alka-Seltzer
Rod
|
$100
[17]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew gives the clue in a tongue foreign to us but familiar to her.) The standard written form of the language I'm speaking is closely related to the dialects of Uppsala & other nearby towns
Swedish
Rod
Diane
|
$100
[24]
In 1945 she became the first former first lady to serve as a delegate to the U.N.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mike
|
$100
[7]
A group of outdoor bargain stalls_ L E __ _ R _ E T
flea market
Diane
|
|
$200
[12]
This band, a member of which is seen here, attracted an "Army" of fans
Kiss
Rod
|
$200
[18]
In 1999 a possible strike by this group, baseball's "men in blue", led to "Go Ahead and Walk, You Porky Chumps"
the umpires
Rod
Diane
|
$200
[2]
"The best part of waking up is" this "in your cup"
Folgers
Diane
|
$200
[20]
Of all this language's dialects, Tuscan is the closest to classical Latin
Italian
Diane
|
$300
[26]
The consummate hostess, in 1809 she was first to host an official inaugural ball
Dolley Madison
Rod
|
$200
[8]
Nasty, low & viciousD _ _ N_ N _D _ _ _ Y
down and dirty
Mike
|
|
$300
[13]
(Hi, I'm Geoff Tate of Queensryche.) A good heavy metal band spells its name with this mark over a vowel--my band has one over the "Y"
an umlaut
Diane
|
$300
[19]
After a refusal to help NYC in a 1975 fiscal crisis, a Post banner trumpeted, this president "To City: Drop Dead"
Gerald Ford
Mike
|
$300
[3]
"Have it your way"
Burger King
Diane
|
$300
[21]
This dialect of Chinese is widely spoken in Hong Kong
Cantonese
Rod
Diane
|
$400
[27]
Taking up residence in the White House in 1921, she was the first divorcee to become first lady
Florence Harding
|
$300
[9]
A final irritationT _ E_ _ S TS T _ _ W
the last straw
Rod
|
|
$400
[14]
This band's drummer Lars Ulrich has crusaded against song-sharing websites
Metallica
Rod
|
— |
$400
[4]
"...Tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox love" these
Armour hot dogs
Diane
|
$400
[22]
Dialects of this language include Biscayan & Navarrese in Spain & Labourdin & Navarrais in France
Basque
Mike
|
$500
[28]
The first first lady to live past the age of 90, she was 97 when she died in 1982
Bess Truman
|
$400
[10]
To perform a superfluous action_ _ L _T _ EL _ L Y
gild the lily
Diane
|
|
$500
[15]
(Hi, I'm C.C. DeVille.) My band Samantha 7 debuted on the "Behind the Music" episode of this old band of mine
Poison
Rod
|
— |
$500
[5]
"Something special in the air"
American Airlines
Rod
|
$500
[23]
This Baltic country has 2 main dialects: Tallinn, spoken in the north, & Tartu, spoken in the south
Estonia
Mike
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
She was the first first lady to live in the White House
Abigail Adams
Mike
|
$500
[11]
Backup players to relieve the startersS _ _ O N _S _ _ _ N _
second string
Rod
|
| HEAVY METALLURGY | MOVIE SEQUELS | THE LAND OF OZ | MORE OF "DE" BEST PEOPLE | LITERATURE | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS |
|
$200
[1]
Symbolized Pb, it's been mined & smelted for 8,000 years
lead
Mike
|
$200
[4]
"Hannibal"(2001)
The Silence of the Lambs
Diane
|
$200
[12]
(Hi, I'm Elisabeth Filarski from Survivor.) If you watched "Survivor", you know that this sparsely settled interior is known by this 7-letter word
the Outback
Mike
|
$200
[11]
On the 2001 Oscar telecast Steve Martin gave this former "Taxi" star some dip for his veggies
Danny DeVito
Rod
|
$200
[17]
The Bermoothes, where Prospero's brother was shipwrecked in this play, might have been named for Bermuda
The Tempest
Mike
|
$200
[26]
Singer-songwriter Carole & Freddie Mercury's band
King & Queen
Mike
|
|
$400
[2]
This type of furnace used to smelt iron ore is named for the stream of air it sends through the fuel
blast furnace
|
$400
[5]
"The Lost World"(1997)
Jurassic Park
Mike
|
$400
[20]
This island state is sometimes called the "Apple Isle" because it once produced most of Australia's apples
Tasmania
Rod
|
$400
[13]
While visiting Expo '67 this French president advocated liberation for Quebec
Charles de Gaulle
Rod
|
$400
[18]
This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford & a lodger
House of the Seven Gables
Diane
|
$400
[27]
Squeaky-clean actress Doris & singer Gladys
Day & Knight
Mike
|
|
$600
[3]
Physical metallurgy generally deals with these, defined as metals made of several elements
alloys
Rod
|
$600
[6]
"The Color of Money"(1986)
The Hustler
Rod
|
$600
[21]
This constellation is depicted on Australia's flag
Southern Cross
Rod
|
$600
[14]
This existential pal of Jean-Paul Sartre wrote "The Second Sex"
Simone de Beauvoir
|
$600
[19]
A dog named Jip chews up the cookbook belonging to this Dickens title character's wife Dora
David Copperfield
Rod
|
$600
[28]
Country legend Johnny & film legend Grant
Cash & Cary
Diane
|
|
$800
[9]
Metal can be recovered from a solution by this process, also the name of a hair-removal method
electrolysis
Diane
|
$800
[7]
"Staying Alive"(1983)
Saturday Night Fever
Rod
|
$800
[22]
In the second verse of this Australian song, a jumbuck, or sheep, comes to drink at a water hole
Waltzing Matilda
Mike
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
In 1537 he was told that to keep his job as governor of Cuba and Florida, he'd have to conquer & colonize Florida
Hernando de Soto
Rod
|
$800
[24]
The wife of this Sinclair Lewis research scientist dies during an epidemic in the West Indies
Arrowsmith
Rod
|
$800
[29]
Former Democratic Colorado senator Gary & the largest city in South Korea
Hart & Seoul
Rod
|
|
$1,000
[10]
A heap of this metallurgical waste is seen here
slag
Mike
|
DD
$1,400
[8]
"The Jewel of the Nile"(1985)
Romancing the Stone
Rod
|
$1,000
[23]
(Hi, I'm Colby Donaldson from Survivor2.) It's a 1971 movie, or a return to Australian Aboriginal life, including survival in the bush
Walkabout
Mike
|
$1,000
[16]
Among the films he's produced are "Conan the Barbarian" & the 1976 version of "King Kong"
Dino De Laurentiis
Mike
|
$1,000
[25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a water theme park.) Hey, we can be this title duo from a Lewis Carroll poem
the Walrus and the Carpenter
Rod
|
$1,000
[30]
Boxer Liston & your part of the loot
Sonny & share
Diane
|
In February 1962 he said, "The sunset was beautiful. It went down very rapidly"
John Glenn