Allison Standish — a law student from Austin, Texas
Chris Stallings — a science teacher from Carmel, California
Ron White — a network engineer from Cary, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron | $4,600 | $7,000 | $10,600 |
$0
3rd place: 6-night stay at Renaissance Hotel in Beverly Hills |
$10,600
16 R, 2 W |
| Chris | $2,000 | $8,100 | $14,100 |
$6,900
New champion: $6,900 |
$14,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Allison | $1,000 | $-400 | $2,000 |
$1,500
2nd place: trip to Mazatlan, Mexico & stay at El Cid Resorts |
$2,800
8 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| STATE CAPITALS | MOVEMENTS | DISNEY MOVIES | THE QUOTABLE REAGAN | TRILOBITES | "OUCH"! |
|
$200
[6]
With 100 inches of snowfall each winter this Alaskan capital is a really cool place to visit
Juneau
Allison
|
$200
[14]
Picasso & Braque seemed to lose all perspective when they began this movement after 1906
Cubism
Chris
|
$200
[11]
This pachyderm classic was supposed to make the cover of Time in December 1941, but Pearl Harbor changed all that
Dumbo
Allison
|
$200
[21]
After being shot in 1981, Ronald Reagan quoted Jack Dempsey's "I forgot to" to this
duck
Ron
|
$200
[26]
Of 2 inches, 12 inches or 24 inches, the one closest to the size of the largest trilobite fossil ever found
24 inches
Chris
|
$200
[1]
To stoop with the knees bent
crouch
Ron
|
|
$400
[7]
Everything's coming up roses at the famous Reinisch Rose Garden in this Kansas capital
Topeka
Ron
|
$400
[15]
The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese student demonstration that took place in this square May 4, 1919; yes, 1919!
Tiananmen
Chris
|
$400
[12]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) This 1989 film that took us under the sea was based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid
Chris
|
$400
[22]
Reagan quoted this character when he warned Congress "Go ahead, make my day"
Dirty Harry
Ron
|
$600
[27]
Covered by a tropical ocean 445 million years ago, this state's official fossil is the trilobite, not John Glenn
Ohio
Chris
|
$400
[2]
A habitually irritable person
grouch
Chris
|
|
$600
[8]
St. John's Church in this capital city is where Patrick Henry gave his famous "Liberty or Death" speech
Richmond
Ron
|
$600
[16]
Begun after the Civil War, the Granger Movement tried to improve conditions for people in this job
farming
Chris
|
$600
[13]
"The Fairest of Them All" was a 1983 television special honoring the re-release of this classic
Snow White
Allison
|
$600
[23]
"There is nothing wrong with" this "that we (Americans) can't fix"
America
Allison
|
$800
[28]
As they aged, trilobites got rid of their old exoskeletons through this process, from the Latin for "change"
molting
Chris
Allison
|
$600
[3]
To give personal assurances or in writing
vouch
Ron
|
|
$800
[9]
It's home to Red Earth Inc. & the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Oklahoma City
|
$800
[17]
Members of this "movement" have occupied Alcatraz, Wounded Knee & a replica of the Mayflower
American Indian
Ron
|
$800
[19]
Jiminy Cricket! A ride based on this film opened in Tokyo Disneyland a month before one opened in Disneyland
Pinocchio
Chris
|
$800
[24]
It's the year Reagan asked the famous question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
1980
Chris
|
$1,000
[29]
Cambrian trilobites were among the first of these "jointed foot" creatures to appear
arthropods
Chris
|
$800
[4]
To stand with an excessively relaxed posture
slouch
Ron
|
|
$1,000
[10]
It lies at the confluence of the Mississippi & Minnesota rivers
St. Paul
Ron
|
$1,000
[18]
This religious movement praised the spiritual effects of marijuana & inspired Bob Marley
Rastafarianism
Ron
Chris
|
$1,000
[20]
"The Shaggy Dog" was the first Disney film to star this actor famous for playing a TV dad
Fred MacMurray
Ron
|
$1,000
[25]
Reagan said this "presidential" band of Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War was "on the wrong side"
Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Battalion)
Ron
|
DD
$2,500
[30]
Of a trilobite's 3 main body parts, the cephalon corresponds to this human part
head
Chris
|
$1,000
[5]
To word something in certain terms
couch
Ron
|
| BACK TO THE 1940s | 11 O'CLOCK LITERARY NEWS | DAYS OF THE YEAR | "A" PLUS | SCUM OF THE EARTH | ENTERTAINING IOWANS |
|
$400
[14]
It's the year of the famous newspaperheadlineseen here
1948
Ron
Chris
|
$400
[2]
All the king's horses & men were stumped today as to how to rebuild this egg-shaped man injured in a fall
Humpty-Dumpty
Chris
|
$400
[10]
"Paint the Town Day" was part of Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez' campaign against this
graffiti
Allison
|
$400
[1]
An imaginary straight line around which an object rotates
axis
Chris
|
$800
[11]
Water softeners replace this bone-enriching element, which forms scum in water, with sodium
calcium
Chris
|
$2,000
[25]
Before his early death, this man from Davenport seenherecomposed the "Davenport Blues"
Bix Beiderbecke
|
|
$800
[15]
Rita Hayworth was married to this man for much of the 1940s & starred in his film "The Lady from Shanghai"
Orson Welles
|
$800
[3]
Up next, this title Coleridge man kills a giant bird & his South Pole shipmates pay the price
Ancient Mariner
Allison
|
$800
[21]
Camels parade through New York City on the day named for this trio: Melchior, Gaspar & Balthazar
Three Kings Day
Allison
|
$800
[4]
A basketball pass received by a player over the basket
alley-oop
Ron
Allison
|
$1,200
[13]
Scum in some types of this salad dressing liquid consists of bacteria that help ferment the alcohol
vinegar
Ron
Chris
Allison
|
— |
|
$1,200
[16]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from UN headquarters.) In 1949, this Norwegian laid the cornerstone for the current UN Headquarters
Trygve Lie
Chris
|
$1,200
[8]
Transsexual ex-NFLer Roberta Muldoon, from this "World"ly John Irving novel, was found dead after a jog
The World According to Garp
Chris
|
DD
$800
[22]
The day after this holiday is sometimes known as "Green Friday"
Thanksgiving
Allison
|
$1,200
[5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew does a smart 180 in a military uniform.) It's the name of this military maneuver
about face
Ron
|
$1,600
[19]
Latin for "seaweed", they're believed to be the most immediate relatives of the green land plants
algae
|
— |
|
$1,600
[17]
War was just around the corner when this nation sank the U.S. destroyer Reuben James near Iceland in Oct. 1941
Germany
Chris
|
$1,600
[9]
Abroad, Londoner Bill Sikes hanged himself after killing his girlfriend Nancy, who had helped this title tot
Oliver (Twist)
Allison
|
$1,600
[23]
In 1871 the fifth Hawaiian king of this name set aside June 11 to honor the first
Kamehameha
Ron
|
$1,600
[6]
"It's all" this, if it's all this word meaning connected with education
academic
|
$2,000
[20]
Unlike the pop jazz band that borrowed its name, this scum can reproduce asexually
spyro gyra
Chris
|
— |
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
In 1947 this 5-star general was Time Magazine's Man of the Year
George C. Marshall
Chris
|
$2,000
[12]
Jonathan Swift joins us with this 1729 "editorial" favoring the rich devouring poor Irish kids; oh, the letters we'll get
A Modest Proposal
Chris
|
$2,000
[24]
To James Joyce fans, June 16 is this day, named for "Ulysses" character Leopold
Bloomsday
Chris
|
$2,000
[7]
It's not a baby eagle, it's the plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace
aglet
Chris
|
— | — |
Events using this item include maximum time aloft & William Tell, where you knock an apple off your own head
boomerang