Christian Haines game 3.
Rebecca Bizonet — an archivist from Macon Township, Michigan
Gilbert Mercado — a facility director from Irvine, California
Christian Haines — a Congressional special assistant from Newport News, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian | $7,300 | $9,300 | $27,100 |
$25,200
3-day champion: $66,200 |
$24,600
31 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Gilbert | $1,400 | $3,600 | $8,600 |
$10,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Rebecca | $800 | $3,400 | $2,200 |
$4,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,200
7 R, 2 W |
| GEMSTONES | CELEBRITY RHYME TIME | FOOD STUFF? | SOUNDS | IT'S A DISASTER | "OOP"S! |
|
$200
[30]
The name of this gemstone is from the Latin for "red"
ruby
Rebecca
|
$200
[1]
Nicolas' salaries
Cage's wages
Christian
|
$200
[6]
Proverbially, you can be a "smart" one or a "tough" one
a cookie
Gilbert
|
$200
[16]
Leviticus 25 says every 50th year is to be celebrated as a jubilee, with these instruments sounded
trumpets
Christian
Gilbert
Rebecca
|
$200
[18]
Near the end of WWI, an outbreak of the "Spanish" type of this disease killed 500,000 Americans
the flu
Christian
|
$200
[11]
"Hawaiian" exercise ring introduced by Wham-O in the 1950s
a hula hoop
Christian
|
|
$400
[29]
Star sapphires contain needles of the mineral rutile that reflect light in starlike rays, usually this many
6
Christian
Gilbert
|
$400
[2]
Kravitz' cents
Lenny's pennies
Christian
|
$400
[7]
On May 8, 2006 this computer co. won a dismissal of a trademark infringement lawsuit by this "Corps"
Apple
Christian
|
$400
[17]
Twain wrote that a James Fenimore Cooper character who needs absolute silence "is sure to step on a dry" this
a twig
Gilbert
|
$400
[19]
1937 disaster captured here
the Hindenburg explosion
Gilbert
|
$400
[12]
Deck at the back of a ship
the poop deck
Christian
|
|
$600
[27]
The only known source of a gemstone called tanzanite was discovered in 1967 on this continent
Africa
Christian
|
$600
[3]
Winslet's wooden boxes
Kate's crates
Christian
|
$600
[8]
You can play this by having a strategy of challenging a foe to risk a clash or yield; who'll be the first to duck?
chicken
Christian
|
$600
[23]
A 5-letter verb meaning to edit a bad word from a broadcast, it originally meant the sound used in the edit
to bleep
Rebecca
|
$600
[20]
When one of these hit Galveston, Texas in September 1900, causing a flood, as many as 8,000 people perished
a hurricane
Gilbert
|
$600
[13]
A basketball pass received high in the air & slam-dunked
an alley oop
Christian
|
|
$800
[26]
Native Americans believed this blue-green hydrous phosphate of aluminum & copper protected them
turquoise
Rebecca
|
$800
[4]
Brad's small roles
Pitt's bits
Christian
|
$1,000
[10]
I've tossed these 2 Supreme Courters on the grill: one appointed in 1939 & the other, our 15th Chief Justice
(Felix) Frankfurter and (Warren) Burger
Christian
|
$800
[24]
2-word term for a long, sustained siren sound heard after an air raid or other danger is over
an all clear
Christian
|
$800
[21]
As many as 3,000 may have perished as a result of the earthquake & fire that ravaged San Francisco in April of this year
1906
Christian
|
$800
[14]
Originally meaning a small opening, it's used figuratively to mean a way around a rule or regulation
a loophole
Christian
|
|
$1,000
[28]
The finest quality of this "Chinese" gem is not found in China but in the Mogaung District in Burma
jade
Gilbert
|
$1,000
[5]
Ledger's door decorations
Heath's wreaths
Rebecca
|
DD
$1,500
[9]
John McCain was said to be "such an opponent of" this type of political spending "he's almost kosher"
pork barrel spending
Christian
|
$1,000
[25]
This alliterative compound word is a sound perhaps made by a tabby, or by a disappointed fan in the stands
a catcall
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[22]
The collapse of the South Fork Dam in May 1889 led to the deaths of more than 2,200 in this Pennsylvania city
Johnstown
Gilbert
|
$1,000
[15]
A small warship of the American Revolutionary period, or a British escort vessel of WWII
a sloop
Gilbert
|
| IOWA | LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS | PLANT LIFE | QUID PRO QUO-POURRI | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES | ANTONYMS |
|
$400
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a carnival attraction holding corn.) The Iowa State Fair features plenty of corn products--fitting for a state that in 2004 produced 2.2 billion of these units of corn
bushels
Christian
Gilbert
|
$400
[1]
Famous for its murder scenes, this 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film featured a mild-mannered mama's boy killer
Psycho
Christian
|
$400
[26]
Brown Bent, a type of this, is a favorite of golf groundskeepers because it can be cut very short
grass
Rebecca
|
$400
[6]
Give me this name of Paris Hilton's sister & I'll tell you that it was also a "diminutive" Adam Sandler role
Nicky
Rebecca
|
$400
[10]
It was the relationship of Teddy to Eleanor Roosevelt
uncle
Christian
|
$400
[7]
Someone who puts you down in public may make you feel this, the opposite of a certain Great Lake
inferior
Christian
Gilbert
|
|
$800
[16]
The quad cities comprise Bettendorf & Davenport, Iowa & Rock Island & Moline in this state
Illinois
Gilbert
|
$800
[2]
As Regan in this film, Linda Blair evinced evil trapped in the body of a 12-year-old girl
The Exorcist
Christian
|
$800
[29]
Cycads bear their seeds in these structures
cones
Christian
Gilbert
|
$800
[22]
Give me this name of Chicago's 2nd busiest airport & I'll give you a famed WWII battle named for some Pacific islands
Midway
Christian
|
$800
[11]
In the 1960s, when she was in her 60s, she joined the Peace Corps & served 2 years in India
Lillian Carter
|
$1,200
[9]
Done with his dictionary, Samuel Johnson had "little to fear or to hope from censure or from" this
praise
Christian
|
|
$1,200
[17]
(Jimmy stands in front of a wrestling match.) The men's wrestling team, with the 20 NCAA Division I titles since 1975, is part of a great tradition for the University of Iowa athletes known by this nickname
the Hawkeyes
Gilbert
|
$1,200
[3]
In "2001: A Space Odyssey", this computer is pleasant, logical, calm & deadly!
HAL
Christian
|
$1,600
[27]
Cacti are stem succulents; aloes are this part's type of succulents
leaf succulents
Christian
|
$1,200
[23]
Give me this Northwest African mountain range & I'll give you a book of the same name where you might see it
the Atlas Mountains
Christian
|
$1,200
[12]
He was a bank president at 25, a millionaire at 30, & when he retired in 1929 at 40, he had enough capital to raise 9 children
Joseph Kennedy
Gilbert
|
$1,600
[20]
Mathematical adjective for the opposite of the quality illustrated here
finite
Christian
|
|
$1,600
[18]
Before primary season, Iowa gets in early on the pres. nominating process with these party gatherings
caucuses
Christian
|
$1,600
[4]
Their portrayal of the title romantic bank robbers in "Bonnie And Clyde" changed Hollywood forever
Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway
Gilbert
|
$2,000
[28]
The acacia, also called this type of spiny bush, is one of the few plants that thrive in the Kalahari
a thorn
|
$1,600
[24]
Give me this 1st name of a veep under Lincoln & I'll tell you of a Carthaginian general with the same name
Hannibal
Christian
|
$2,000
[14]
His great-grandfather, Benjamin, signed the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Harrison
|
$2,000
[21]
For Aero Mexico, they're salidas y llegadas
arrivals & departures
Christian
|
|
$2,000
[19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a smithy.) Born in 1874, this U.S. president & famed humanitarian was the son of an Iowa blacksmith, whose shop is replicated here
Herbert Hoover
|
$2,000
[5]
Through 8 films, Robert Englund has played this sadistic resurrected child killer
Freddy (Krueger)
Christian
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
Give me this Roman Earth goddess & I'll tell you it's also the name of our solar system's largest asteroid
Ceres
Christian
Gilbert
Rebecca
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
His great-grandfather George Washington Baynes Sr was a president of Baylor University
Lyndon Johnson
Gilbert
|
DD
$2,600
[8]
This military rank can also mean the opposite of communal
private
Christian
|
This work says, "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven"
Paradise Lost