Liddy Gerchman Barlow — a seminarian originally from Keene, New Hampshire
Jim McMurtry — a letter carrier from Tallahassee, Florida
Ruth Dammel — a customer service supervisor from Perry, Iowa (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth | $1,000 | $600 | $7,400 |
$400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,400
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jim | $1,600 | $2,800 | $12,000 |
$21,601
New champion: $21,601 |
$14,000
17 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Liddy | $6,400 | $8,800 | $10,800 |
$5,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
22 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| 1945 | ROCKIN' T-SHIRTS | WHAT'S FALLING? | CRAGS LIST | POLITICAL CARICATURES | ASK "Y" |
|
$200
[1]
In August this country was divided in two at the 38th parallel
Korea
Jim
|
$200
[6]
Wow, mon, you must have been jammin' at this man's concert to walk away with a T-shirt likethat
Bob Marley
Ruth
|
$200
[16]
As Charles Lindbergh rode down Broadway June 13, 1927
ticker tape (confetti accepted)
Jim
|
$200
[26]
You'll find Sacramento River swimming & great mountain views in this state's Castle Crags Park
California
Jim
|
$200
[21]
Hewrote, "I do not believe that anyone else has enjoyed the White House as much as I have"
Theodore Roosevelt
Liddy
|
$200
[7]
In the U.S. this street sign is in the form of an equilateral triangle
yield
Liddy
|
|
$400
[2]
Tragically 14 people were killed when a B-25 crashed into this building, between the 78th & 79th floors
the Empire State Building
Liddy
|
$400
[12]
No way, dude, you saw this genius in concert & bought a shirt? I remember when he gigged with Beefheart
Frank Zappa
Ruth
|
$400
[17]
As the Seventh Plague of Egypt
hail
|
$400
[27]
Mount Snowdon, the highest point in this UK country, has several peaks connected by ridges
Wales
Liddy
|
$400
[22]
Raul'sbig brother
Fidel Castro
Ruth
|
$400
[8]
4-letter name of the subcompact automobile produced by Serbian manufacturer Zastava
Yugo
Ruth
|
|
$600
[3]
He married a young actress named Eva Duarte
Juan Perón
Jim
|
$600
[13]
I can't believe it's been 12 years since we last saw this guy live in concert
Kurt Cobain
Liddy
|
$600
[18]
In the form of dust or sand after a volcanic eruption
ash
Jim
|
$600
[28]
The Faraglioni are towering rock formations off this much-visited Bay of Naples island
Capri
Ruth
|
$600
[23]
He's the athlete-turned-governor caricatured here
Jesse Ventura
Ruth
|
$600
[9]
This American university celebrated its tercentennial in 2001
Yale
Liddy
|
|
$800
[4]
Still on NBC-TV today, it began as a radio show hosted by Lawrence Spivak in 1945
Meet the Press
Jim
|
$800
[14]
Excuse me while I kiss this guy we saw at Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix
Liddy
|
$800
[19]
By design, from a Tupolev Tu-26 "Backfire" or Petlyakov PE-2
a bomb
Jim
|
$1,000
[30]
Osama bin Laden took refuge in this rugged, rhyming mountain region on the Afghan-Pakistani border
Tora Bora
Jim
|
$800
[24]
Her July 1, 2005 career decision sent shock waves across the country
Sandra Day O'Connor
Liddy
|
$800
[10]
In 1986 Sarah Ferguson became the Duchess of it
York
Liddy
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Sir Alexander Fleming was one of 3 men awarded the Nobel Prize for their work with this substance
penicillin
Liddy
|
$1,000
[15]
It was like watching royalty perform whenever we saw this lead singer performing with his band
Freddie Mercury
Liddy
|
$1,000
[20]
Beneath a Frank Lloyd Wright house built for a Pittsburgh family
water (a waterfall accepted)
Liddy
|
DD
$3,000
[29]
La Cruz del this bird is a high point in Colca Canyon in the Peruvian Andes
the condor
Ruth
|
$1,000
[25]
We raise a toast to this guy who in 1993 dissolved his country's parliament
Boris Yeltsin
Ruth
|
$1,000
[11]
As head of this Internet company, Terry Semel has made more than $230 million in only 4 years
Yahoo!
Liddy
|
| COMPOSERS | SPORTS STARS | DEM BONES | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME | WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA? | WOLF |
|
$400
[26]
He died at 35 in 1791 & was buried in a multiple grave--standard at the time in Vienna for a person of his standing
Mozart
Jim
|
$400
[1]
In 1976 Hungary's Miklos Nemeth won Olympic gold by throwing this over 300 feet, a feat not equaled in the games since
the javelin
Ruth
Jim
Liddy
|
$400
[21]
In a 6-foot-tall person, this bone, the body's longest, is about 20 inches
the femur
Liddy
|
$400
[11]
George Bernard's cutting tools
Shaw's saws
Liddy
|
$400
[16]
This first U.S. civilian airport designed specifically for commercial jets opened in Virginia in 1962
Dulles
Liddy
|
$400
[4]
The timber & the tundra are 2 main types of this "colorful" wolf
the gray wolf
Jim
|
|
$800
[27]
A novel by Prosper Merimee inspired his 1875 opera "Carmen"
Bizet
Liddy
|
$800
[2]
Indiana State's career scoring leader, he was the 1997-98 NBA Coach of the Year while with the Pacers
Larry Bird
Ruth
|
$800
[22]
It's the longer of the 2 bones of the forearm
the ulna
Jim
Liddy
|
$800
[12]
Rice's skillets
Anne's pans
Liddy
|
$800
[17]
In 1826 James Madison succeeded this other former U.S. president as rector of the University of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
Ruth
|
$800
[5]
The dominant male & female wolves in a pack are designated with this Greek letter
alpha
Jim
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Though called "Papa", he had no children with his wife, who used his sheet music for pastry pan linings
Joseph Haydn
|
$1,200
[3]
On July 21, 2006 this Yankee became the youngest player to reach 450 career home runs
(Alex) Rodriguez
Jim
Liddy
|
$1,200
[23]
If I had a malleus, & I do, in my middle ear, I'd call it this, because of its shape
the hammer
Liddy
|
$1,600
[14]
"Da Vinci" Dan's circus comics
Brown's clowns
Liddy
|
$1,200
[18]
It's the Virginia landmark being guarded here
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Liddy
|
$1,200
[6]
Wolf, Bear & Webelos are ranks of this
Cub Scout
Jim
|
|
$1,600
[29]
He composed his "Well-tempered Clavier" while working for Prince Leopold of Anhald-Kothen
Bach
Jim
|
$1,600
[9]
This American won at least one Women's Grand Slam tennis title a record 13 straight years, 1974-1986
Chris Evert-Lloyd
Ruth
|
$1,600
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a skeleton & reads the clue.) The heart & lungs are protected by the thoracic cage, which is made up of 12 vertabrae in the back, the ribs &this breastbone
the sternum
Jim
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
"Third Man" Graham's Levis
Greene's jeans
Liddy
|
$1,600
[19]
This coastal city on the Atlantic Ocean near the border with North Carolina is the state's most populous
Virginia Beach
Jim
|
$1,600
[7]
At the end of time in Norse mythology, a giant wolf named Fenris will square off against this top god & eat him
Odin
Jim
|
|
$2,000
[30]
This German Romantic composer dedicated his "Scottish Symphony" to Queen Victoria
Felix Mendelssohn
Liddy
|
$2,000
[10]
In 1979 Kurt Thomas became the first gymnast to win this trophy as the USA's best amateur athlete
the Sullivan Award
|
$2,000
[25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew educates us, standing next to the skeleton this time.) Collectively, the bones in your digits, in both yourfingers& your toes, are called these
phalanges
Jim
|
$2,000
[15]
Raymond's agents & publicists
Chandler's handlers
Ruth
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
The Keydets are the sports teams that play for this school that first admitted women in 1997
V.M.I. (the Virginia Military Institute)
Jim
|
$2,000
[8]
In this 1904 Jack London tale, Wolf Larsen captains a ship called the Ghost
The Sea Wolf
Ruth
|
The name of this airline established in 1948 means "skyward"
El Al