Brenda Buchanan — a traffic director from Columbia Station, Ohio
Brett Hart — an attorney from Lincoln, Nebraska
Eric Barela — an educational researcher from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric | $5,200 | $6,400 | $12,800 |
$15,201
2-day champion: $36,002 |
$12,800
19 R, 1 W |
| Brett | $3,200 | $-400 | $7,600 |
$12,801
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brenda | $0 | $1,800 | $5,600 |
$11,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| GOSPEL TRUTH | NHL TEAMS IN OTHER WORDS | HIPPO-POURRI | HAIL TO THE CHIEF | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT | "SS" THE SITUATION |
|
$200
[26]
Mark 10 says a man shall "cleave to" this person "...so they are no more twain, but one flesh"
his wife
Brenda
|
$200
[1]
The Monarchs
the Kings
Eric
|
$200
[6]
If you played the Hungry Hungry Hippos board game you'd know that the hippos were trying to eat these objects
marbles
Eric
|
$200
[16]
Many people claim to have seen a ghost in the White House bedroom named for this president
Lincoln
Brett
|
$200
[21]
The minneola is the best-known variety of the tangelo; Minnehaha is his best gal in a Longfellow poem
Hiawatha
Eric
|
$200
[10]
The ADA says to do this gently, once a day; it "helps keep your gums healthy"
floss
Eric
|
|
$400
[27]
While eating at the Pharisee's house, Jesus had these washed, wiped with hair, then anointed with ointment
His feet
Brett
|
$400
[2]
The Great Whites
the (San Jose) Sharks
Brett
|
$400
[7]
Hippopotami eat grass, leaves & fruit, meaning they're this, from the Latin for "plant eater"
herbivores
Eric
|
$400
[17]
One of 3 to do so, he was the first president to die on July 4
Jefferson
Eric
Brett
|
$400
[22]
Marmaduke is a comic-strip dog; this is a preserve usually made from Seville oranges
marmalade
Brenda
|
$400
[12]
Did you know I could bench-press 250 lbs.? But I do this, a 7-letter term meaning to deviate from the main topic
digress
Brett
|
|
$600
[28]
He'd been dead 4 days before Jesus raised him back to life
Lazarus
Eric
|
$600
[3]
Electrical Discharge
the (Tampa Bay) Lightning
Eric
|
$600
[8]
In this 1940 Disney flick, prima donna Hyacinth Hippo cavorts with Ben Ali Gator to the "Dance Of The Hours"
Fantasia
Brett
|
$600
[18]
So far, he's the only president sworn into office by a woman
LBJ
Brett
Brenda
|
$600
[23]
Cirrhosis is a liver disease; the name of this chronic skin disorder is from the Greek for "to have the itch"
psoriasis
Brett
|
$600
[13]
From the Greek for "bottomless", it's a vast chasm
abyss
|
|
$800
[29]
Call Greenpeace! In Matthew 4 Peter & Andrew left these in the sea when Jesus called them
their nets
Brett
|
$800
[4]
Tropical Storms
the Hurricanes
Eric
|
$800
[9]
Back in the day, if you were the Bishop of Hippo, you were based in what's now this North African country
Algeria
Brett
|
$800
[19]
While he was president, his residence was a house on Cherry Street in New York City
George Washington
Brenda
|
$1,000
[25]
Ernesto Miranda's case gave us the rights read to a suspect; Carmen Miranda sang the aptly titled "The Lady In" this "Hat"
The Tutti-Frutti
Brett
|
$800
[14]
Yuck! It can often be found before national product, ton or anatomy
gross
Eric
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In Mark 1 Jesus "healed many that were sick... and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to" do this
speak
|
$1,000
[5]
The Cavalry Swords
the (Buffalo) Sabres
Eric
|
$1,000
[11]
Is it any wonder that this Flemish artist, whose early 17th century work isseen here, painted hippopotami?
Rubens
Eric
|
$1,000
[20]
He was the first vice president to become president upon the death of a president
John Tyler
Brenda
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Carlsberg is a Danish brewery; this Swiss-style cheese from Norway has a similar name
Jarlsberg
Brett
|
$1,000
[15]
Hemingway wrote anything was "better than Ezra learning to play" this low-range woodwind instrument
bassoon
Brett
|
| THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE | TRANSPORTATION IN SONG | NAMES YOU SHOULD KNOW | ANCIENT TALK | PLAY BOY | OF THE WESTERN WORLD |
|
$400
[24]
Botanist John Ray made Linnaeus' work possible by establishing this unit of taxonomy, from the Latin for "form"
species
|
$400
[11]
In "Dead Man's Curve" the driver of a Jaguar XK-E challenged the driver of this Chevy sports car to a drag race
a (Stingray) Corvette
Eric
Brett
|
$400
[6]
In 1916 this Nobel winner became a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen
Niels Bohr
|
$400
[13]
In Hebrew this book of the Bible is Bereshith, the "resh" related to "rosh", meaning "beginning"
Genesis
Brenda
|
$400
[17]
"Sweet Bird of Youth"&"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
(Tennessee) Williams
Brett
|
$400
[1]
Members of the Somoza family ruled this Central American country for 38 of the 42 years between 1937 & 1979
Nicaragua
Brett
|
|
$800
[25]
The father of this "father of antiseptic surgery" was one of the first to describe red blood cells
(Joseph) Lister
Brett
|
$800
[12]
In "The Letter" the Box Tops didn't have "time to make the fast train", so they got a ticket on this
an airplane
Brett
|
$800
[7]
The glasses & beret were classy, but this somewhat suicidal fish mascot was never good enough for StarKist
Charlie (the) Tuna
Eric
|
$800
[22]
It's Latin for "from", as when it precedes "cathedra" or "nihilo"; I get along pretty well with mine
ex
Brett
|
$800
[18]
"After the Fall"&"The Crucible"
(Arthur) Miller
Brett
|
$800
[2]
In the 1840s fur trader Robert Campbell of this company became the first white person to explore the Yukon region
the Hudson's Bay Company
Brett
|
|
$1,200
[26]
In 1990 IBM scientists created the first structure made by moving individual ones of these on a surface
atoms
|
$1,200
[14]
The Hollies' first Top 10 hit, it told of the romance that developed under a shared umbrella
"Bus Stop"
Brenda
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
Let's "Z" about this German-born publisher of the N.Y. Weekly Journal, acquitted of libel in 1735
(John Peter) Zenger
Brenda
|
$1,200
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew finds a clue engraved in hieroglyphs in Abu Simbel, Egypt.)This Egyptian word for "good" or "beautiful" came before "titi" & "tari" in the name of Egyptian women
nefer
Eric
|
$1,200
[19]
"Hedda Gabler"&"An Enemy of the People"
Ibsen
Eric
|
$1,600
[4]
Of the Western Hemisphere countries with both an Atlantic & a Pacific coast, it's the smallest in area
Costa Rica
Eric
|
|
$1,600
[29]
In the 1780s Gaspard Monge was the first to do this to a substance that's normally a gas, sulfur dioxide
liquefy it
Brett
|
$1,600
[15]
Completes the Gary Numan lyric "Nothing seems right in..."
cars
Eric
|
$1,200
[8]
Sharing her first name with Robin Hood's sweetie, this African-Amer. contralto earned the 1963 Pres. Medal of Freedom
Marian Anderson
Eric
|
$1,600
[27]
Now a 5-letter suffix, it was the Greek term for the type of community we call a city-state
polis
Eric
|
$1,600
[20]
"California Suite"&"Plaza Suite"
Neil Simon
Brenda
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
This city of 20 million is the westernmost capital city in the Americas
Mexico City
Brett
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a treatise on this scientific instrument later replaced by the sextant
the astrolabe
|
$2,000
[16]
In Kathy Mattea's song these "And A Dozen Roses", a trucker is retiring "after 30 years of drivin' up & down the interstate"
"Eighteen Wheels"
Brenda
|
$1,600
[9]
Ambrose by any other name... He wrote "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" & "The Devil's Dictionary"
(Ambrose) Bierce
Brenda
|
$2,000
[28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points out circles animated on a plot on the monitor.) On acurve, thecirclesthatbestapproximatethe curvature at each point are called "osculating circles", from the Latin "osculare", to do this
kiss
|
$2,000
[21]
"Major Barbara"&"Arms and the Man"
(George Bernard) Shaw
Brett
Brenda
|
$2,000
[5]
This former name of Suriname reflected its status as a colony of the Netherlands
Dutch Guiana
Brett
|
A silent film of this Russian tale was released in 2 versions: in one, Garbo commits suicide; in the other, Garbo lives
Anna Karenina (by Leo Tolstoy)