Peg Pruitt — a retired teacher from Swansea, Massachusetts
Jeff Schwartz — a professor and tutor from New York, New York
Jared Thompson — an actuarial analyst originally from Eureka, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $56,501)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared | $2,600 | $4,000 | $4,000 |
$4,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jeff | $4,000 | $7,600 | $11,600 |
$799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Peg | $2,200 | $3,200 | $11,200 |
$8,100
New champion: $8,100 |
$8,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| HAPPY NEW YEAR | RECORD LABELS | YOU'RE THE DOG NOW, MAN! | GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR FEMININE SIDE | IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! | "MEA" CULPA |
|
$200
[1]
Ellis Island opened Jan. 1, 1892 & the first immigrant was from County Cork on this island
Ireland
Jeff
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$200
[26]
Between July 1954 & August 1955 this Memphis label released 5 Elvis Presley singles
Sun Records
|
$200
[16]
Go this breed, which originated more than 5,000 years ago in Egypt to hunt deer, & leave the driving to us
the greyhound
Peg
|
$200
[18]
The females of these insects suck the blood of humans & animals, transmitting diseases like yellow fever
a mosquito
Jeff
|
$200
[11]
Speculators were blamed for the 1929 stock market crash that marked the beginning of this decade-long calamity
the Great Depression
Peg
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$200
[6]
Congressional committee responsible for raising the money to fund the government
Ways and Means
Peg
|
|
$400
[2]
In 1919 this auto company got a new president, son succeeding father, & raised its minimum wage to $6 a day
Ford
Jared
|
$400
[27]
In 1990 Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss sold this label to Polygram for a sum said to be more than $500 million
A&M Records
Peg
|
$400
[17]
In 1998 a canine of this breed, the world's smallest, became spokesdog for Taco Bell
a Chihuahua
Jeff
|
$400
[19]
New Mexico's Acoma people have this form of social organization with the mother as the head of the family
matriarchy
Jeff
Peg
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$400
[12]
Napoleon's cannons usually get blamed, but the head of this huge statue near Giza was damaged long before him
the Sphinx
Jared
|
$400
[7]
The industry exposed by Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
meatpacking
Jeff
|
|
$600
[3]
The Post Office began this service Jan. 1, 1913 & it was soon sending such objects as eggs, bricks & a 4-year-old girl
parcel post
|
$600
[28]
In 1980 this DreamWorks SKG partner founded his own record label
David Geffen
Jeff
|
$600
[20]
The malamute is sometimes confused with this breed, seen here
the Siberian husky
Jared
|
$600
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew strikes a pose.) I feel like Sarasvati or Lakshmiwhen I'm in the pose named for this type of being
a (Hindu) goddess
|
$600
[13]
This song from the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" garnered a 2000 Oscar nomination
"Blame Canada"
Jeff
|
$600
[8]
To blur by rubbing or to vilify by negative depiction
smear
Jeff
|
|
$800
[4]
This new Czech president began the 1990s with an amnesty for 3/4 of his country's prison inmates
Havel
Jared
|
$800
[29]
While in India, George Harrison got the idea for this record label's mystical logo from a small tin box
Dark Horse Records
|
$800
[21]
Both Yale's & the Univ. of Georgia's mascot, it's the large-headed Brit dog that's often born by caesarian section
a bulldog
Jared
|
$800
[24]
An odalisque is a female slave or concubine in this women's residence whose name is Arabic for "forbidden"
a harem
Jeff
|
$1,000
[15]
A January 1942 report faulted Gen. Walter Short & Admiral Husband Kimmel for the disastrousness of this event
Pearl Harbor
Jared
|
$800
[9]
Union general in charge of the Army of the Potomac at the end of the U.S. Civil War
Meade
Peg
|
|
$1,000
[5]
On Jan. 1, 1959, suddenly out of power, he fled Cuba for the Dominican Republic
(Fulgencio) Batista
Peg
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1973 Kiss became the first group to sign with this new label founded by Neil (not Humphrey) Bogart
Casablanca Records
|
$1,000
[22]
Insert 2 letters into the name of a cute '70s movie pooch to know this breed seen here
a basenji
Jeff
|
$1,000
[25]
This term for a female cabaret singer comes from the French for "to sing"
a chanteuse
Jeff
|
DD
$1,200
[14]
In 1990 a flaw in this $1.5 billion piece of hardware was blamed on a spherical aberration in one of its mirrors
the Hubble Telescope
Jeff
|
$1,000
[10]
Capable of allowing fluids to pass through it
permeable
Jeff
|
| UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE | MOVIE PEOPLE | SAY CHEESE | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS | NAME THE CENTURY | BALLET |
|
$400
[1]
A brutal 1959 mass murder was the basis of this Truman Capote nonfiction novel
In Cold Blood
Jeff
|
$400
[7]
His first animated cartoons were shown in Kansas City under the title "Laugh-O-Grams"; Mickey came later
Walt Disney
Jeff
|
$400
[2]
Called the world's most famous grating cheese, it was first made in the area of Parma
Parmesan
Peg
|
$400
[16]
It's a complete or partial loss of memory caused by... caused by... I forget
amnesia
Jared
|
$800
[28]
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
the 18th century (1793)
Jared
Jeff
|
$800
[27]
The last act of this ballet is sometimes presented independently in one act as "Aurora's Wedding"
Sleeping Beauty
Jared
|
|
$800
[3]
A battle to keep a girl from the clutches of Satan takes place in this William Peter Blatty novel that turned heads in '71
The Exorcist
Peg
|
$800
[8]
His professional directorial debut was the 24-minute short "Amblin'", shown at the Atlanta Film Festival in 1969
Steven Spielberg
Jared
|
$800
[12]
Tillamook is an American variety of this British cheese
cheddar
Peg
|
$800
[17]
Wham-O introduced this in 1957 as the Pluto Platter
a Frisbee
Jeff
|
$1,600
[24]
Martin Luther is excommunicated
the 16th century (1521)
Jared
|
$1,600
[22]
This Nijinsky-choreographed ballet has 2 scenes: "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrified"
The Rite of Spring
Jared
Peg
|
|
$1,200
[4]
In this Tom Robbins novel, Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs & hitchhikes across America
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Jeff
|
$1,200
[9]
This great 1930s choreographer ended his career in 1962 with a circus flick, "Billy Rose's Jumbo"
Busby Berkeley
|
$1,200
[13]
This blue cheese comes from a village near the vineyards of Sauternes, its classic companion
Roquefort
|
$1,200
[18]
Harlem's famed Apollo Theater originally featured this bawdy type of entertainment
burlesque
Jeff
|
$2,000
[25]
The English defeat a vastly superior French force at Agincourt
the 15th century (1415)
Jeff
Peg
|
$2,000
[23]
This alliterative Jerome Robbins ballet focuses on 3 sailors on shore leave in New York
Fancy Free
|
|
$1,600
[5]
One of the 2 Erskine Caldwell novels of the 1930s that were censored for their portrayals of poor whites
Tobacco Road (or God's Little Acre )
Jeff
|
$1,600
[10]
Her many costume designs include the sarong worn by Dorothy Lamour & Redford & Newman's suits in "The Sting"
Edith Head
Jeff
|
$1,600
[14]
It's the only British blue cheese that has a certification trademark
Stilton
Peg
|
$1,600
[19]
These primitive plants are usually grouped according to color: brown, red, blue-green, golden...
algae
Jared
|
DD
$4,000
[26]
The King James version of the Bible is first published
the 17th century (1611)
Peg
|
DD
$6,000
[21]
Pat Garrett is one of the roles in this American ballet
Billy the Kid
Jared
|
|
$2,000
[6]
This American's stories like "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" are in a style some have called K-Mart Realism
Raymond Carver
|
$2,000
[11]
Alfred Uhry is the only person to win an Oscar for an adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play--this one
Driving Miss Daisy
Jeff
|
$2,000
[15]
This semi-hard cheese from Italy's Aosta Valley is traditionally dressed in a reddish-brown wax coat
Fontina
|
$2,000
[20]
From the Latin for "messenger", the highest-ranking diplomatic representative of the pope is a "papal" this
nuncio
|
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A memorial window near his grave at Winchester Cathedral was a gift from the fishermen of England & America
Izaak Walton (author of The Compleat Angler )