Leah Buswell — a substitute teacher originally from Toledo, Washington
Dawn Alsvary — a cost accountant from Richardson, Texas
Linda Schildkraut — an art historian from Bayside, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $57,802)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linda | $-2,400 | $0 | $3,200 |
$5,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,200
11 R, 5 W |
| Dawn | $1,600 | $1,400 | $600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
10 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Leah | $7,200 | $9,200 | $18,800 |
$16,600
New champion: $16,600 |
$19,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER WHO SAID... | HOT TUNES | IT'S CAPITALIZED | STATELY ARENAS | A FEW GOOD MEN | MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS |
|
$200
[2]
"My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"
Juliet
Linda
|
$200
[10]
In 1972 he was "a hunk, a hunk of burning love"; thank you, thank you very much
Elvis Presley
Dawn
|
$200
[1]
This pronoun, always (unless you're e.e. cummings)
I
Leah
|
$200
[17]
Pete Maravich Assembly Center, Rapides Parish Coliseum
Louisiana
Dawn
|
$200
[16]
In May 1883 this showman put on his first "Wild West Show"
Buffalo Bill Cody
Linda
|
$200
[30]
In March 1983 this "Magnum P.I." star became the first male centerfold in McCall's history; he kept his clothes on
Tom Selleck
Leah
|
|
$400
[5]
"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"
Mark Antony
Dawn
|
$400
[11]
In 1957 this man hit the charts with "Great Balls of Fire"
Jerry Lee Lewis
Leah
|
$400
[3]
These 2 paired words when they're used as part of a name, like before artist Moses & musician Jones
grandma and grandpa
Dawn
|
$400
[22]
Crisler Arena, Kellogg Arena
Michigan
Leah
|
$400
[18]
He became the oldest man ever to fly in space when he returned there in October 1998 at the age of 77
John Glenn
Leah
|
$400
[29]
Newspaper in Tampa, Salt Lake City & Chicago share this name
"Tribune"
Linda
|
|
$600
[7]
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee"
Macbeth
Linda
Dawn
|
$600
[12]
He's recorded "Burn Down the Mission", "Flames of Paradise" & a big hit about a candle
Elton John
Leah
|
$600
[4]
Yes when it refers to the language, but not always when it refers to spin put on a ball
english
Leah
|
$600
[23]
HP Pavilion, Arrowhead Pond
California
Dawn
|
$600
[19]
In 2004 this Fijian set a record for pro golf winnings in one year, $10,905,166
(Vijay) Singh
Dawn
|
$600
[28]
This hunting & fishing publication calls itself "the world's leading outdoor magazine"
Field & Stream
|
|
$800
[8]
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead"
Henry V
Leah
|
$800
[13]
"Fire and Rain" was the first Top 40 hit for this singer/songwriter
James Taylor
Leah
|
$800
[6]
Days of the week, like these 2 consecutive ones named for heavenly bodies that aren't planets
Sunday and Monday
Leah
|
$1,000
[25]
Midwest Wireless Civic Center, Mayo Civic Center
Minnesota
Leah
|
$800
[20]
This man who partnered with Charlie McCarthy was the first president of the TV Academy
(Edgar) Bergen
Dawn
|
$800
[26]
Missouri's top newspaper in circulation is this one in St. Louis
"Post-Dispatch"
Linda
|
|
$1,000
[9]
"Beware, my Lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster"
Iago
Linda
Leah
|
$1,000
[14]
"Wheel of Fortune', Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide" is a line from this hot Billy Joel tune
"We Didn't Start the Fire"
Leah
|
$1,000
[15]
In standard style, number of capitalized words in the title of Hemingway's tale about a fisherman battling a marlin
four
Linda
Leah
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
TD Banknorth Garden, Paul E. Tsongas Arena
Massachusetts
Dawn
|
$1,000
[21]
Many of Geoffrey Chaucer's works were first printed around 1477 by this man, England's first printer
William Caxton
|
$1,000
[27]
This paper on Long Island was founded in 1940 by Alicia Patterson, who held a contest to name it
"Newsday"
Linda
|
| GEOLOGY | AN ACTOR'S LIFE FOR ME | EUROPE | I FIND THAT HAILE SELASSIE | SAINTS | THE HEEBEE "G.B."s |
|
$400
[6]
To find gas and oil, geologists may set off an explosion & measure the waves using this instrument
a seismograph
Linda
Leah
|
$400
[1]
He received Oscar nominations for acting in & directing "Million Dollar Baby"
Clint Eastwood
Leah
|
$400
[8]
Lisboa is what residents of this nation call their capital
Portugal
Leah
|
$400
[23]
"Haile Selassie" means "the might of" this, the threefold personality of the one divine being
the trinity
Leah
|
$400
[16]
The first person in the Americas to be canonized was Rose of this South American capital
Lima
|
$400
[18]
U.S. military base on the southeast coast of Cuba
Guantanamo Bay
Linda
|
|
$800
[7]
Lying just below the crust, this largest of the earth's layers is about 1,800 miles thick
the mantle
Linda
|
$800
[2]
The dad of this "Sideways" star was President of Yale & Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Paul Giamatti
Linda
|
$800
[12]
On the French revolutionary calendar, the month of Nivose, "snowy", was followed by Pluviose, or this
rainy
Linda
|
$800
[27]
In 1936 Selassie went into Exile in this country, which in 1941 helped Ethiopian forces recapture their home capital
England
Leah
|
DD
$400
[24]
"Castillo Interior" is a classic spiritual work by this 16th century female saint
St. Teresa (of Avila)
Leah
|
$800
[19]
Internal digestive organ connected to the liver
the gall bladder
Leah
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Andalusite, an aluminum silicate mineral, was named for the region in this country where it was discovered
Spain
Leah
|
$1,200
[3]
James Caan played a character based on this playwright in the film "Chapter Two"
Neil Simon
Linda
|
$1,200
[13]
An obscenity case against "I Am Curious (Yellow)" a 1960's film from this country, went to the U.S. Supreme Court
Sweden
Leah
|
— |
$800
[17]
He's the early martyr whose distinctive manner of death isshown here. Note theguy with the big rock
St. Stephen
|
$1,200
[20]
At about 1,250 miles long, it's the largest coral reef on earth
the Great Barrier Reef
Linda
|
|
$1,600
[10]
This geologic epoch that ended about 11,000 years ago included numerous ice ages
the Pleistocene
|
$1,600
[4]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Girls and Boys Town.) He sent his "Boys Town" Oscar to Father Flanagan, saying his "great human qualities were strong enough to shine through my humble efforts"
(Spencer) Tracy
Dawn
|
$1,600
[14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew digs in in Estonia) I'm in Estonia snacking onkeele sült, an appetizer of this organ meat, sometimes known as gossip's fate
tongue
Leah
|
— |
$1,600
[25]
The crosshereis named for this saint, thought to have met his death on a similar looking item
St. Peter
Linda
Leah
|
$1,600
[21]
Entomological title of a Poe Story
The Gold Bug
Dawn
|
|
$2,000
[11]
A large area of land lying at the "foot of a mountain", it shares its name with a region in northwest Italy
a piedmont
Dawn
|
$2,000
[5]
Last name of this Iowa-born "Superman Returns" star is pronounced like "South"
Brandon Routh
Leah
|
$2,000
[15]
If writing to a friend in Berlin in 1500, you could put these 3 words on the envelope as the country
Holy Roman Empire
|
— |
$2,000
[26]
Anselm of Canterbury is famous for his "ontological argument" for this
the existence of God
|
DD
$6,000
[22]
19th century French opera composer of "The Pearl Fishers" & "The Fair Maid of Perth", among others
Georges Bizet
Dawn
|
"American Vertigo" by philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy retraced a trip 175 years before by this man, his countryman
Alexis de Tocqueville