Champion's winnings matched to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund ($10,000 minimum).
Timothy Mahoney — a development officer originally from Detroit, Michigan
Denese Edsall — an equal opportunity manager from Hollywood, Florida
Dana Greenblatt — a graduate student originally from Toledo, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $36,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dana | $1,400 | $4,000 | $7,000 |
$3,500
2nd place: trip to Ireland + a subscription to The New York Times |
$7,800
15 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Denese | $1,400 | $2,000 | $5,200 |
$0
3rd place: trip to Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas + a subscription to The New York Times |
$4,400
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Timothy | $1,600 | $6,800 | $10,000 |
$15,000
New champion: $15,000 |
$10,000
20 R, 5 W |
| FIRST THINGS FIRST | U.S. CITIES | THAT'S WHAT MAKES HORSE RACES | TAKING THE BAR EXAM | "B" ON THE LOOKOUT | CHRISTMAS RAPPINGS |
|
$200
[18]
In 1982 Bertha Wilson became this western hemisphere nation's first female supreme court justice
Canada
Timothy
|
$200
[1]
In 1700 its population of 4,500 consisted of a large number of Quakers professing "brotherly love"
Philadelphia
Dana
|
$200
[26]
A maiden is a horse that has never done this (no not that)
won a race
Timothy
|
$200
[12]
Skyy, Wolfschmitt, Smirnoff
vodka
Dana
|
$200
[11]
It's the stellar grouping seen here
Big Dipper
Timothy
|
$200
[6]
A No. 1 hit in '52/ M.C. Trebek is tellin' you/ I don't remember dissin' him/ But "I saw mommy kissing" him
Santa Claus
Dana
|
|
$400
[19]
Elton John's first U.S. No. 1 hit was this "reptilian" song rom 1972
"Crocodile Rock"
Timothy
|
$400
[2]
About 1/4 of the 540,000 people of this city work for the state of Texas
Austin
Timothy
|
$400
[27]
This type of short whip used by jockeys has a cameo in the movie "9 1/2 Weeks"
crop
Dana
|
$400
[14]
Beaujolais, Liebfraumilch, Zinfandel
wine
Dana
|
$400
[13]
Edible flower heads of this vegetable may be purple or white as well
broccoli
Denese
|
$400
[7]
I'm the reindeer kids adore/ Burl Ives told my tale in '64/ Got a nose that you can't miss/ Call it out, my name is this
Rudolph
Denese
|
|
$600
[20]
In 1961 Soviet space officials held the first radio talks with a man in space, this cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
Timothy
|
$600
[3]
Between 1990 & 1996, the population of this seat of Clark county grew 46% & "odds are" it's still growing
Las Vegas
Denese
|
$600
[28]
The name of this distance measurement comes from Old English for "furrow"
furlong
Denese
|
$600
[15]
Bengal, Fleischmann's, Gordon's
gin
Timothy
|
$600
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a card.) Get in touch with this writing system seen here
Braille
Timothy
|
$600
[8]
He's green, he's mean/ A Christmas-stealing machine/ & that's not even worst of all/ It's that his heart's "2 sizes too small"
the Grinch
Dana
|
|
$800
[21]
As the site of the world's first hydrogen bomb blasts, scientists treasure this "swimsuit" isle
Bikini
Timothy
|
DD
$600
[5]
It was laid out in 1847 in a grid pattern based on the 4 streets around Temple Square
Salt Lake City, Utah
Dana
|
— |
$800
[16]
Mickey's, Olde English "800", Colt 45
malt liquor
Dana
|
$800
[24]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew climbs a rock-climbing wall.) As a noun, it's a large rock; as a rock-climbing verb, it means to take an easy route close to the ground
boulder
Timothy
|
$800
[9]
Someone had to be his voice/ Jackie Vernon was the choice/ Jackie really nailed the role/ Of this "jolly happy soul"
Frosty the Snowman
Timothy
|
|
$1,000
[22]
(Hey, it's Gary Dell'Abate from The Howard Stern Show.) Before producing Howard's show I attended Adelphi University, which in 1896 became the first co-educational college in this state
New York
Dana
Timothy
|
$800
[4]
General Cornwallis called this city a "hornet's nest", hence the name of its NBA team
Charlotte
Dana
Timothy
|
— |
$1,000
[17]
Masuizumi, Narimasa, Wakatsuru
sake
Timothy
|
$1,000
[25]
Born in Russia, this statesman seenheresigned an important Middle East treaty in 1979
Menachem Begin
Timothy
|
$1,000
[10]
He sang "Fame" but here's the thing/ He "pa rum pum pum pum"ed with (M.C.) Bing
David Bowie
Timothy
|
| BIBLICAL PEOPLE | THAT ZANY SCREWBALL COMEDY | FAMOUS HOMES | 17th CENTURY AMERICA | "OLD" SCHOOL |
|
$400
[1]
She asked Samson, "Tell me, I pray there, wherein thy great strength lieth"
Delilah
Denese
|
$400
[6]
Heiress was a common job for screwball-comedy women like this actress in "It Happened One Night"
Claudette Colbert
Dana
|
$400
[16]
The house that inspired this Grant Wood painting still stands in Eldon, Iowa
American Gothic
Dana
|
DD
$200
[23]
In January 1636 this clergyman fled Massachusetts & settled in the Narragansett Bay area
Roger Williams
Dana
|
$400
[11]
Proverbially, these "never die, they just fade away"
old soldiers
Timothy
|
|
$800
[2]
This second child of David & Bathsheba was appointed by David as "ruler over Israel and over Judah"
Solomon
Denese
|
$800
[7]
This 1972 O'Neal-Streisand film was an attempt to revive the screwball genre
What's Up Doc?
Timothy
|
$800
[17]
In 1942 Fiorello LaGuardia became the first New York City mayor to live in this official residence
Gracie Mansion
Timothy
|
$400
[21]
On May 13, 1607 it was founded by more than 100 colonists on the "River of Powhatan"
Jamestown
Denese
|
$800
[12]
General Patton's sanguine nickname
Old Blood & Guts
Dana
|
|
$1,600
[4]
This man from Arimathea wrapped Jesus' body in linen & laid him in his tomb
Joseph
Denese
|
$1,200
[8]
This actor seenheredidn't get the girl in several classic comedies
Ralph Bellamy
Dana
|
$1,200
[18]
This baseball player's childhood home on Emory Street in Baltimore serves as the Orioles' official museum
Babe Ruth
Timothy
|
$800
[22]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew holds a plastic jack-o-lantern.) Prithee, tell a maiden this name for the religion of the pilgrims from their wish to cleanse the church
Puritan
Dana
|
$1,200
[13]
Dickens' title "Shop"
The Old Curiosity Shop
Timothy
|
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
Fittingly, this disciple was born in the town of Bethsaida-Julias, whose name means "house of the fisherman"
Simon Peter
Denese
|
$1,600
[9]
"His Girl Friday" was a whirlwind version of this Hecht-MacArthur newspaper play
(The) Front Page
Dana
Timothy
|
$1,600
[19]
Built by her grandparents around 1813, her home was probably the first brick house in Amherst, Mass.
Dickinson
Timothy
|
$1,600
[24]
In 1675 he was admitted to Harvard at the age of 12 while his father Increase was a fellow there
Cotton Mather
Dana
Timothy
|
$1,600
[14]
The original title of "Swanee River"
"Old Folks at Home"
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Although other women were prophets, she was the only known woman to ever judge Israel
Deborah
Dana
|
$2,000
[10]
He directed comedy classics like "Twentieth Century" as well as "Red River", "The Big Sleep", etc.
Howard Hawks
Denese
|
$2,000
[20]
In 1942 this residence across the street from the White House became the property of the U.S. government
Blair House
Timothy
|
$2,000
[25]
After arriving in America, the Pilgrims signed a mutual peace treaty with this chief of the Wampanoag tribe
Massasoit
|
$2,000
[15]
Period of ancient Egyptian history when Memphis was the capital
The Old Kingdom
|
The Dutch traded New York to the British for a tiny island producing this, now mainly used at Christmastime
nutmeg