Eric Floyd game 3.
Peter Paniccia — a bartender from Columbus, Ohio
Maria Harrigan — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois
Eric Floyd — a college student from Calhoun, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $55,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric | $4,000 | $10,200 | $19,400 |
$15,000
3-day champion: $70,200 |
$18,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Maria | $0 | $-1,200 | $1,600 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$1,600
5 R, 4 W |
| Peter | $800 | $3,400 | $1,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,400
18 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| HISTORIC NICKNAMES | HAIL TO THE K.C. CHIEF | GIVE 'EM A HAND | GERMAN CITIES | DISASTER DIGEST | GARDEN TALK |
|
$200
[2]
Learning her craft from Tessie the Tassel-Twirler, this burlesque artist was "The Best Undressed Woman in America"
Gypsy Rose Lee
|
$200
[1]
This hall of fame ex-Chief QB is actually much better known as a 49er QB
Joe Montana
Peter
|
$200
[17]
On Feb. 1, 1964 this song replaced Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again" at No. 1 & stayed there 7 weeks
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Eric
|
$200
[10]
This capital's oldest church, older than the city itself, is the 800-year-old St. Nicholas Church
Berlin
Eric
|
$200
[15]
A shaking of the earth's surface caused by the rapid movement of the earth's outer layer
earthquake
Maria
|
$200
[26]
To protect yourself from losing, you may do this to "a bet"
hedge
Maria
|
|
$400
[3]
Born in 1642, this great British scientist was known as "The Priest of Nature"
Isaac Newton
Peter
|
$400
[6]
This hall of fame ex-Chief QB now hosts "Inside the NFL" for HBO
Len Dawson
Eric
|
$400
[18]
Nickname of the aces & eights held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder in Deadwood, S.D.
dead man's hand
Eric
|
$400
[11]
In 1923 Hitler staged his Beer Hall Putsch in this capital of Bavaria
Munich
Peter
|
$400
[16]
It's the up to 300-mile-per-hour phenomenon seen here
tornado
Eric
|
$400
[27]
In "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" it's what you do, do, do for the home team
root
Peter
|
|
$600
[4]
Nicknamed "Beau", he brought moderation to men's apparel by replacing breeches with trousers
Beau Brummell
Peter
|
$600
[7]
When he retired, this running back, a former Raider, was second to Jerry Rice in career TDs with 145
Marcus Allen
Eric
|
$600
[19]
In this 1967 film Paul Newman is sent to a prison chain gang for destroying parking meters
Cool Hand Luke
Peter
|
$600
[12]
In German, it's Koln; in English, this
Cologne
Eric
|
$600
[22]
Rain in the form of balls or lumps of clear ice more than 1/5 of an inch in diameter
hail
Peter
|
$600
[28]
To conceal a bugging device
plant
Eric
Maria
|
|
$800
[5]
Imprisoned by the Polish government in the early 1980s, he became known as "The Man of Iron"
Lech Walesa
Eric
|
$800
[8]
During Super Bowl IV, this head coach, actually said, "Let's matriculate the ball down the field!"
Hank Stram
Eric
|
$800
[20]
In Matthew 27:24, he "took water, and washed his hands" of the responsibility for Christ's crucifixion
Pontius Pilate
Eric
|
$1,000
[14]
Europe's second-busiest port, it's said to have more bridges than Venice & Amsterdam combined
Hamburg
Eric
|
$800
[23]
It's any swift movement of snow or ice down a mountainside or slope, or a Colorado hockey team
avalanche
Maria
|
$800
[29]
It's a thinner-than-foil sheet of gold
leaf
Eric
Maria
|
|
$1,000
[25]
After the brutal suppression of a 1956 uprising, this Soviet premier became "The Butcher of Budapest"
Khrushchev
Eric
Maria
|
$1,000
[9]
When teams tried to run at this 6'7", 274-pound defensive lineman, the buck stopped there
Buck Buchanan
|
$1,000
[21]
In this book Adam Smith created the economic principle of the invisible hand
The Wealth of Nations
Eric
|
DD
$1,600
[13]
A British royal house that ruled from 1714 to 1901 originated in this city from which it got its name
Hanover
Eric
|
$1,000
[24]
They're hurricane-type cyclones in the western Pacific
typhoon
Eric
|
$1,000
[30]
When your eyes are smiling, these contractible diaphragms may be changing their sizes
iris
Peter
|
| THE OLD TESTAMENT | GROUPS | GENETICS | BITS & PIECES | MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS | THE "CRU" CLUE |
|
$400
[7]
Psalm 37 says that after this group inherits the earth, they shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace
meek
Eric
|
$400
[1]
It can be a packed-together group or a teen's puppy love
crush
Peter
|
$400
[13]
Men get their X chromosome from this parent
mother
Peter
|
$400
[5]
The stone or piece of lumber that lies under a door, it's usually beneath a carried bride
threshold
Peter
|
$400
[26]
This show which opened on Broadway in 1993 originated as a 1969 rock opera album
Tommy
Eric
|
$400
[18]
Unrefined petroleum
crude
Eric
|
|
$800
[8]
Want to cure your boil? Try Isaiah's remedy of a lump of this fruit, whose leaves were used to make clothing
fig
Eric
|
$800
[2]
Carrying on the whole "lamb of God" motif, this is the term for a church's congregation
flock
Maria
Peter
|
$800
[14]
Trisomy 21, a condition where a person has an extra copy of chromosome 21, is also called this syndrome
Down Syndrome
Eric
|
$800
[6]
The jabby bit on the end of a fork; you can call them prongs or these
tines
Eric
|
$800
[27]
"Raisin" is the musical version of this Lorraine Hansberry play with a longer title
A Raisin in the Sun
Eric
|
$800
[19]
Hamlet said, "I must be" this "only to be kind"
cruel
Peter
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Bani the Gadite & Elhanan, son of Dodo, were part of the personal guard of this second king of Israel
David
Peter
|
$1,200
[3]
The innate desire in you to be part of a group especially of cattle, is known as this "instinct"
herd mentality (instinct)
Eric
|
$1,200
[15]
These controversial cells are obtained from human embryos at the blastocyst stage
stem cells
Peter
|
$1,200
[23]
What the cop yelled when he saw this part of a Greek temple between cornice & architrave running away
frieze
Peter
|
$1,200
[28]
"Rent", which features a drug-addicted dancer named Mimi, is loosely based on this opera
La Bohème
Peter
|
$1,200
[20]
Chrysler's PT isn't a boat, it's this
Cruiser
Peter
|
|
$1,600
[10]
He sent 10 of his kids to Egypt to buy corn from his other son Joseph
Jacob
Eric
|
$1,600
[4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew writes on a chalkboard.) If A represents all people & B represents men, then B is this of A
a subset
Maria
|
$2,000
[17]
The genesis of this, abbreviated HGP, was a 1984 conference in Alta, Utah
Human Genome Project
Eric
|
$1,600
[24]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew holds a camera.) It's the term for the flash holder on a camera
a shoe
Peter
|
$1,600
[29]
Anne Baxter, who played the title role in this 1950 film, also starred in "Applause", the musical based on it
All About Eve
|
$1,600
[21]
This processor from Transmeta is supposed to make your laptop run longer on every battery charge
Crusoe
|
|
$2,000
[11]
"The Open Bible" calls this fifth book Moses' "Upper Desert Discourse"
Deuteronomy
Peter
|
$2,000
[12]
From the Turkic word ordu comes this term for a group of Asian nomads, once "golden"
horde
Peter
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
It wasn't until 1956 that it was established that human cells contain this diploid number of chromosomes
46
Peter
|
$2,000
[25]
Between the pulp & the enamel in a tooth is this
dentin
Maria
|
DD
$9,000
[30]
This 1985 Tony winner was based on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Big River
Peter
|
$2,000
[22]
They're hors d'oeuvres of crunchy celery or carrot pieces served with a dip
crudités
Peter
|
Though a legal requirement in 49 states, it failed in the '90s as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Balanced Budget Amendment