Ehren Schwiebert — a computer consultant from Phoenix, Arizona
Suzanne Ennis — a homemaker from Gorham, Maine
Ryan Friedman — a GIS planner from Londonderry, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $4,000 | $7,600 | $20,500 |
$20,500
2-day champion: $32,099 |
$24,000
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Suzanne | $0 | $400 | $1,600 |
$1,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,600
10 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ehren | $2,000 | $3,000 | $10,200 |
$17,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
13 R, 1 W |
| BEN FRANKLIN | IN MEMORIAM 2006 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" | GILT COMPLEX | GONE FISHIN' | THEY TOOK DEBATE |
|
$200
[16]
On Ben's 1st walk though this city, he carried "three great puffy rolls" making a "most ridiculous appearance"
Philadelphia
Ryan
Suzanne
|
$200
[26]
A host of "Hee Haw" for 17 years, he pioneered the Bakersfield sound of country music
Buck Owens
|
$200
[21]
To annoy, perhaps with an insect(3)
bug
Ryan
|
$200
[6]
Check out the gilt oniondomesat the palace near St. Petersburg named for the first empress named this
Catherine
Suzanne
|
$200
[1]
Thisscary South American critter could even give adentistnightmares
a piranha
Ryan
|
$200
[11]
This "League" has sponsored many political debates, including the Mondale/Reagan faceoffs in 1984
the League of Women Voters
Suzanne
|
|
$400
[17]
At 16 Ben read a book by Thomas Tryon & accordingly adopted this type of diet
vegetarian
Ehren
|
$400
[27]
Grandpa on "The Munsters", he once ran for governor of New York as a Green Party candidate
Al Lewis
Suzanne
|
$400
[22]
Witches' concoction, or a beer(4)
brew
Suzanne
|
$400
[7]
18 million pieces of gold & glass cover the walls of the Golden Hall in this city's Stadshus, home to the Nobel Banquet
Stockholm (Sweden)
Suzanne
Ehren
|
$400
[2]
The world-record catch for the largemouth type of this freshwater fish logs in at 22 lbs., 4 oz.
a bass
Ehren
|
$400
[12]
In 1858 Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas had a series of debates over who should be senator from this state
Illinois
Ryan
|
|
$600
[18]
Franklin noted that the complaint called "dry-gripes" resulted from exposure to this toxic metal
lead
Ehren
|
$600
[28]
"The Midnight Hour" came calling for this R&B legend in January 2006
Wilson Pickett
Ryan
|
$600
[23]
A nice word for "cowlike"(6)
bovine
Ryan
|
$600
[8]
In 1994 the roof of this Jerusalem shrine was regilded with 24 carat gold
the Dome of the Rock
Ryan
|
$600
[3]
Holy this important food fish seen here
a mackerel
Ehren
|
$600
[13]
In 1993 Vice President Al Gore & Ross Perot appeared on Larry King to debate this trade pact
NAFTA
Ehren
|
|
$800
[19]
1751's "Experiments and Observations on" this helped make Ben's name; the book was translated into French in 1752
electricity
Suzanne
|
$800
[29]
Long before "The X-Files", he stalked the night as Carl Kolchak, a savvy reporter of the weird & the horrific
Darren McGavin
Suzanne
|
$800
[24]
Oleo is its understudy(6)
butter
Suzanne
|
$800
[9]
This Venetian basilica is known as the "Chiesa d'Oro"
St. Mark's
Suzanne
|
$800
[4]
The name of this fierce ocean fish may come from the Spanish word barraco, meaning "overlapping teeth"
a barracuda
Ryan
|
$800
[14]
In the late 1970s conservative columnist James Kilpatrick debated liberal journalist Shana Alexander on this TV show
60 Minutes
Suzanne
|
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
Ben appropriately described his youthful mistakes as "errata", a term from this profession
printing
Suzanne
|
$1,000
[30]
The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, this low-key TV sportscaster was a true "American Sportsman"
Curt Gowdy
Ryan
|
$1,000
[25]
Beau, Jeff, or Brooklyn & Mackinac(7)
Bridges
Ryan
|
$1,000
[10]
Harimandir is the name of the center of Sikh faith seen here; it's called this in English
the Golden Temple
|
$1,000
[5]
Thisfish takes its name from its unique defensive behavior
a puffer fish
Ryan
|
$1,000
[15]
"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was a quip from the famous 1988 debate between these two men
Quayle & Bentsen
Ryan
|
| LITERARY EUROPE | LEGENDS OF SPORT | WORLD HERSTORY | MATH | THE POLITICS OF BEFORE & AFTER | RHYME SPR"EE" |
|
$400
[1]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a museum in Dublin, Ireland.) I'm holding this novelist's cane in an Irish museum dedicated to him; he wrote passionately of Dublin but died in exile
(James) Joyce
Ryan
|
$400
[2]
In 1968, while still in the army, this future hall of fame tennis player became the first black male to win the U.S. Open
(Arthur) Ashe
Ryan
|
$400
[10]
This famous water bearer fired cannon during the Battle of Monmouth
Molly Pitcher
Ehren
|
$400
[7]
It's a statement that can be proved; there are binomial & exponential ones
a theorem
Ryan
Suzanne
Ehren
|
$400
[12]
Johnny Cash song lyric that gives the power to nix individual items in tax bills
walk the line item veto
Ryan
|
$400
[18]
A larch
tree
Ryan
|
|
$800
[17]
Soren Kierkegaard is buried in the Assistens Kirkegard, or cemetery, in this city
Copenhagen
Ryan
|
$800
[3]
Older than his classmates, Cornell football player & future coach Glenn Warner got this nickname
Pop
Ehren
|
DD
$500
[27]
On June 16, 1963 she became the first person to achieve Earth orbit who had never been a test pilot
(Valentina) Tereshkova
Ryan
|
$800
[8]
Pierre de Fermat invented the differential type of this branch of math
calculus
Suzanne
|
$800
[13]
Any Western New York NFL player who's actually the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
a Buffalo Bill of Rights
Ryan
|
$800
[19]
Gloatingly jubilant joy
glee
Ehren
|
|
$1,600
[28]
You can visit the Moscow house where this author & some of his 13--"count" 'em--kids spent time from 1882 to 1901
Count Leo Tolstoy
|
$1,200
[4]
In 1922 this future movie Tarzan became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under 60 seconds
Johnny Weissmuller
Ehren
|
$800
[11]
In 1429 she led Charles VII & his military escort through enemy territory so that he could be crowned at Reims
Joan of Arc
Ryan
|
$1,200
[9]
This trigonometric function is abbreviated sec
secant
Ryan
|
$1,200
[14]
Walt Whitman lobbied hard for this 1855 work that he hoped would inspire people to action at a local level
Leaves of Grassroots
Ryan
|
$1,200
[20]
The side of a ship away from the wind
lee
Ehren
|
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
If John Keats had sent a postcard from hislast home, it would have been postmarked this city
Rome
Ryan
|
$1,600
[5]
Having overcome childhood polio that crippled a leg, she won 3 sprint gold medals in the 1960 Olympics
(Wilma) Rudolph
Ryan
|
$1,200
[26]
In 1983 she returned to Manila to arrange her husband's funeral; 3 years later, she was president
(Corazon) Aquino
Ryan
|
$1,600
[23]
In the expression 5x, the constant 5 is this, meaning a multiplying factor
a numerical coefficient
|
$1,600
[15]
Spending for a congressman's local interests, like say a Hasbro simian container game
a pork barrel of monkeys
Ehren
|
$1,600
[21]
An archaic form of "you", as used in "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
thee
Ehren
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Stood up at the bar of Paris' Hotel de Crillon? Oh well, so was Jake Barnes in this Hemingway novel
The Sun Also Rises
Suzanne
|
$2,000
[6]
In 1962 this shortstop broke the single-season record by stealing 104 bases; it's still the Dodger record
(Maury) Wills
Ryan
|
$1,600
[25]
She was twice widowed prior to marrying Henry VIII & was then widowed again when Henry died in 1547
(Catherine) Parr
Ryan
|
$2,000
[24]
This adjective that can mean exaggerated is also found in the name of a branch of non-Euclidean geometry
hyperbolic
|
$2,000
[16]
Media consultant ensuring that speeches by Pasternak's physician get the best possible play in the press
Spin Doctor Zhivago
Suzanne
|
$2,000
[22]
The largest Indian tribe of Canada
Cree
Ryan
|
Along with Communist China & North Korea, one of the 2 formerly Communist nations bordering Asian Russia
(1 of) Kazakhstan & Mongolia