Katie McArthur — a hazardous waste compliance inspector from Yakima, Washington
Nate Metcalf — an actor and playwright from Cokato, Minnesota
Cindi Winstead — a homemaker and student from Villa Rica, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cindi | $-200 | $-200 | $1,400 |
$2,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,000
6 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Nate | $4,200 | $7,000 | $22,438 |
$22,438
New champion: $22,438 |
$19,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Katie | $1,600 | $3,200 | $6,700 |
$10,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| CRITICISM WITH STYLE | ERIC IS SO TALENTED | DRAFT PICKS | INVENTIVE MINDS | A KIND OF "USH" | ALL OVER THE WORLD |
|
$200
[16]
This 19th c. humorist:"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it"
Mark Twain
Nate
|
$200
[11]
This guitarist won a Grammy for his 1994 blues album "From the Cradle"
Eric Clapton
Nate
|
$200
[26]
Its name tells you that it's "Genuine Draft beer"
Miller
Nate
|
$200
[1]
Frank Seiberling named his tire & rubber company after this inventor
(Charles) Goodyear
Cindi
Nate
|
$200
[6]
Even or level with something, such as the margin of a page
flush
Katie
|
$200
[20]
The royal house of Braganza supplied kings & emperors to Portugal & this other country 100 times its size
Brazil
Katie
|
|
$400
[17]
This comic "brother":"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it"
Groucho Marx
Cindi
|
$400
[12]
He was "Will" to Debra Messing's "Grace"
Eric McCormack
Nate
|
$400
[27]
2 brothers launched this lager in 1887; it's Australian for beer, mate
Foster's
Cindi
|
$400
[2]
Walter Alcock perforated this bathroom product in the 1870s
toilet paper
Nate
|
$400
[7]
Descriptive 6-letter term for a free-flowing oil well that doesn't have to be pumped
gusher
Nate
|
$400
[21]
Home to a famous zoo, the Schonbrunn Palace in this city is also home to an annual Mozart festival
Vienna
Nate
|
|
$600
[18]
This scandalous Irish wit:"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"
Oscar Wilde
Cindi
|
$600
[13]
He sang lead vocals on the No. 1 hit "The House of the Rising Sun"
Eric Burdon
|
$800
[29]
This pale ale that's brewed in the Northern California city of Chico is named for a nearby mountain range
Sierra Nevada
Cindi
|
$600
[3]
A lot of rain fell on Robert Kearns' parade after he invented the intermittent type of these for cars
windshield wipers
Katie
|
$600
[8]
An atomizer that uses compressed air to spray paint on a surface
an airbrush
Nate
|
$600
[22]
Located on the Jhelum River, Srinagar is the summer capital of this disputed region of northwest India
Kashmir
Cindi
Katie
|
|
$800
[19]
This Algonquin lady: "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to"
(Dorothy) Parker
Katie
|
$800
[14]
Though his name sounds like he doesn't work much, this man has been in more than 50 films & TV shows
Eric Idle
Nate
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
The founder of this stout wasbrilliant, getting a 9,000-year lease to a brewery at St. James' Gate in Dublin
Guinness
Cindi
|
$800
[4]
The differential analyzer Vannevar Bush invented at MIT is a forerunner of the modern one of these
computer
|
$800
[9]
After 9 years as Soviet premier, he was deposed for failing to establish missiles in Cuba
Khrushchev
Katie
|
$800
[23]
The southern part of Thailand occupies the northern part of this peninsula named for another country
the Malay Peninsula
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This 1920s lawyer:"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure"
Clarence Darrow
Nate
|
$1,000
[15]
"All By Myself" was featured on this man's self-titled album
Eric Carmen
Nate
|
$1,000
[30]
A Belgian brewery created this beer for Christmas 1926 but started it year-round when it proved popular
Stella Artois
Cindi
|
$1,000
[5]
H.A. Largelamb was an anagrammatic pen name used by this inventor for his articles in National Geographic
Alexander Graham Bell
|
$1,000
[10]
"Midnight's Children" & "The Moor's Last Sigh" are 2 of this author's works that did not result in a fatwa
Salman Rushdie
Nate
|
$1,000
[24]
With about 500,000 souls, this city is the most populous in Slovakia
Bratislava
Nate
|
| EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS | A NICOLE KIDMAN FILM FESTIVAL | PRESIDENTIAL HITCHING POSTS | A STUDY IN SOUND | MINNESOTANS | 2 FOR T |
|
$400
[23]
Sir Edwin Landseer was lionized for the lions he created for Nelson's Column in this square
Trafalgar
Nate
|
$400
[21]
Nicole sings & dances at a famous Paris nightspot
Moulin Rouge!
Nate
|
$400
[16]
George & Martha Washington, on Jan. 6, 1759
Virginia
Nate
|
$400
[11]
Stereo recordings have the vocals on one of these & instruments on the other, so you can "surf" between them
channels
Nate
|
$400
[2]
In May 2005 the city of Hibbing honored him with a street sign named in his honor--how does it feel...
Bob Dylan
Nate
|
$400
[1]
A famous one of these embroidered wall hangings bears the name of the French town of Bayeux
a tapestry
Nate
|
|
$800
[30]
Canaletto used a camera obscura to help him get those sweeping views of this, his hometown
Venice
Cindi
|
$800
[22]
Nicole waits for her Confederate soldier boy to return from the war
Cold Mountain
Cindi
|
$800
[17]
Harry & Bess Truman, on June 28, 1919
Missouri
Nate
|
$800
[12]
We're attuned to midrange sounds; bass sounds or those with this other clef name sound softer than they really are
treble
Nate
|
$800
[3]
Reportedly the richest man in the world when he died in 1976, he was born in Minneapolis in 1892
Jean Paul Getty
|
$800
[7]
One form of this event sticks to dry land & features only the 200-meter dash, high jump & shot put
the triathlon
Katie
|
|
$1,200
[29]
Thisbeautifulpaintingby Gustav Klimt has the same name as a famous sculpture by Rodin
The Kiss
Katie
|
$1,200
[24]
Nicole moves to an exclusive Connecticut town where the women are rather robotic
The Stepford Wives
Katie
|
$1,200
[18]
Calvin & Grace Coolidge, on Oct. 4, 1905
Vermont
Katie
|
$1,200
[13]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew tests out her pipes.) The difference between the softest andloudestsounds is called "dynamic" this; in speech, it can be about 40 decibels
range
Nate
|
$1,200
[4]
He's the familiar National Public Radio personality heard here"That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average..."
Garrison Keillor
Nate
|
$1,600
[9]
This philosophy emphasizing the intuitive & spiritual above the empirical is associated with Emerson
transcendentalism
Cindi
|
|
$1,600
[28]
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne is famed for his busts of Montesquieu, Mme. de Pompadour & this "Candide" author
Voltaire
Nate
|
$1,600
[25]
TV weatherperson Nicole recruits 3 teenagers to kill her husband
To Die For
Nate
|
$2,000
[20]
Martin & Hannah Van Buren, on Feb. 21, 1807
New York
|
$1,600
[14]
Vibrations at certain frequencies are called harmonics or these "tones"
overtones
|
$1,600
[5]
Every July on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, a pageant is presented honoring this children's author
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nate
|
$2,000
[10]
Silent, saying nothing; this adjective can often be found before "approval"
tacit
Nate
|
|
$2,000
[27]
The Rokeby Venusis the only surviving example of a female nude by this 17th century Spanish portrait artist
Velázquez
Katie
|
$2,000
[26]
Nicole leaves Ireland & seeks a new life in 1890s America
Far and Away
Katie
|
DD
$4,238
[19]
William H. & Helen Taft, on June 19, 1886
Ohio
Nate
|
$2,000
[15]
(Jon of the Clue Crew blows across the top of an empty glass beverage bottle.) The air inside the bottle vibrates like a spring in the Helmholtz's type of this; it's the intensification of sound by vibration
resonance
Nate
|
$2,000
[6]
Oh, this man from Maine, Minnesota, with the middle initial "O", was the longest-serving Supreme Court justice
William O. Douglas
|
DD
$2,500
[8]
Any Boy Scout could tell you it's a 10-letter word for "novice"
tenderfoot
Katie
|
Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486
Arthur