Claire Williams — a grants coordinator from Oakton, Virginia
Mary Mansfield — a stay-at-home mom from Odell, Illinois
Hanley Baxter — a research analyst from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,202)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanley | $800 | $2,400 | $5,600 |
$4,300
3rd place: trip for 2 to Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
$5,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Mary | $3,000 | $5,000 | $15,400 |
$8,399
New champion: $8,399 |
$15,400
22 R, 2 W |
| Claire | $2,000 | $5,200 | $11,200 |
$5,600
2nd place: trip for 2 to Aruba |
$8,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| UTENSILS | ATHLETES | ANAGRAMS | BRIDGES | OF MADISON | COUNTY |
|
$200
[3]
A restaurant may have a special shallow spoon for this, like bearnaise, rather than have you sop it up with bread
a sauce
Mary
|
$200
[1]
On Nov. 3 1996 this Laker became the youngest player to appear in an NBA game at age 18 years, 2 months, 11 days
Kobe Bryant
Hanley
|
$200
[17]
Maybe she used a Swiss Army Knife to shear her little lamb's snow-white fleece
Mary (ARMY/MARY)
Hanley
Claire
|
$200
[12]
It's the "presidential" bridge that connects Manhattan & New Jersey
the G.W. (George Washington)
Hanley
|
$200
[4]
James Madison was known as the "Father of" this document & was also it's last surviving signer
the Constitution
Hanley
|
$200
[26]
Humboldt, Shasta, Napa
California
Mary
|
|
$400
[6]
Types of this include boning & paring
knives
Mary
|
$400
[2]
She's won several tennis doubles titles with her sister & recorded the fastest women's serve in history--127 mph
Venus WIlliams
Mary
|
$400
[22]
Deer & antelope who make their home on it don't need anger management
the range (ANGER/RANGE)
Mary
|
$400
[13]
Bridges over the Bosporus in this city connect Asia & Europe
Istanbul
Hanley
Mary
|
$400
[18]
The James Madison Building is the largest of the 3 Capitol Hill buildings that make up this library
the Library of Congress
Mary
|
$400
[29]
Lincoln, Luna, Los Alamos
New Mexico
Hanley
|
|
$600
[7]
To make angels on horseback, you customarily wrap bacon around oysters & secure with these
a toothpick
Hanley
|
$600
[5]
This Packers quarterback was the NFL's MVP in 1995, '96 & '97
Brett Favre
Claire
|
$600
[23]
In 1980 this group dove onto the charts with its hit "Whip It"
Devo (DOVE/DEVO)
Claire
|
$600
[14]
Found in Cologne, Germany, the Zoo Bridge spans this river
the Rhine
Mary
Claire
|
$600
[19]
This family estate of James Madison shares its name with a Vermont city
Montpelier
Claire
|
$800
[28]
Onondaga, Oneida, Oswego
New York
Claire
|
|
$800
[10]
The device seenhereis labelled a curler for this (no, not hair)
butter
|
$800
[8]
A 7-time batting champion in Japan, he took the American League by storm with Seattle in 2001
Ichiro (Suzuki)
Hanley
|
$800
[24]
Ring the doorbell to get into this house of ill repute
a bordello (DOORBELL/BORDELLO)
|
$800
[15]
19th C. artist William Morris called this U.K. country's Forth Bridge "supremest specimen of all ugliness"
Scotland
Hanley
|
$1,000
[21]
Madison made a lousy cabinet choice in John Armstrong, who didn't think D.C. needed defending in thi war
the War of 1812
Mary
|
$1,000
[27]
Brevard, Suwannee, Seminole
Florida
Hanley
|
|
$1,000
[11]
Vraiment, a French restaurant uses the special fork seenhereto serve this gastropod
escargot
Mary
|
$1,000
[9]
At the 2001 Goodwill Games, this U.S. figure skater came in 2nd to Russia's Irina Slutskaya, who won the gold
Michelle Kwan
Claire
|
$1,000
[25]
In 2001 the Pope donned his raiment to visit a mosque topped by this kind of structure
a minaret (RAIMENT/MINARET)
Claire
|
$1,000
[16]
This famous bridge in Venice was first planned in 1524 & finally opened in 1591
the Rialto
Claire
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
James Madison succeeded Thomas Jefferson as President of the U.S. & as rector of this university
the University of Virginia
Claire
|
— |
| LIQUID | POTENT QUOTABLES | THE "A" TEAM | WHO'S THE MRS.? | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL | FRENCH LITERATURE |
|
$400
[21]
The "elaborated" type of this descends from a tree's leaves full of sugar & amino acids
sap
Hanley
|
$400
[1]
Through his comic strip character Linus, he revealed, "I love mankind, it's people I can't stand"
Charles Schulz
Mary
|
$400
[10]
It's an enclosure or large cage where birds are kept
an aviary
Claire
|
$400
[26]
Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Maria Shriver
Claire
|
$400
[12]
In a French restaurant if you ask for a coq you'll be served on of these animals
a chicken (or rooster)
Mary
|
$1,200
[20]
In the early 1970s this existentialist wrote a 3-volume biography of Gustave Flaubert
Sartre
Hanley
|
|
$800
[4]
Ancient Egypt's 2 most important crops were wheat to make bread & barley to make this
beer
Claire
|
$800
[2]
This Everest conqueror opined, "It's not the mountain we conquer but ourselves"
Edmund Hillary
Mary
|
$800
[16]
It's an extendable canvas roof in front of a building
an awning
Mary
|
$800
[25]
Mrs. Danny DeVito
Rhea Perlman
Mary
|
$800
[11]
(Sarah gives the clue from L.A.'s Page Museum.) You think some strange things roam L.A.'s streets today? Well, in the last ice age there were these"ships of the desert"
camels
Mary
|
$1,600
[28]
Under this title Balzac linked about 90 of his works that explored society's influence on the individual
The Human Comedy ( La Comédie humaine
|
|
$1,200
[5]
(Jimmy demonstrates the clue.) The liquid left after churning, it's often used to make pancakes
buttermilk
Mary
|
$1,200
[3]
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind", said this proponent of nonviolence
Gandhi
Claire
|
$1,200
[17]
(Sofia gives the clue.) They're the popular blue-jeans additions seen here
appliqués
Claire
|
$1,200
[24]
Mrs. Phil Donahue
Marlo Thomas
Mary
|
$1,200
[13]
The name of this speedy African feline comes from the Sanskrit for "spotted"
a cheetah
Hanley
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
During his 15-year exile on the island of Guernsey, Victor Hugo completed this, the longest of his novels
Les Misérables
Claire
|
|
$1,600
[7]
Abbreviated ATF, you check it using a dipstick with the engine running
automatic transmission fluid
Hanley
Mary
|
$1,600
[6]
He's the Chinese leader who warned, "In waking a tiger, use a long stick"
Mao Zedong
Mary
Claire
|
$1,600
[18]
More than 400 light years from Earth, it's the brightest star in the constellation Scorpio
Antares
Mary
Claire
|
$1,600
[23]
Mrs. Bruce Boxleitner
Melissa GIlbert
Mary
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
The only species of bear found in Sri Lanka is this long-tongued, slow-moving (but not three-toed) variety
a sloth (bear)
Hanley
|
$2,000
[27]
His prolific production included almost 300 short stories, including "The Necklace" & "Ball-of-Fat"
Guy de Maupassant
|
|
$2,000
[9]
Merbromin, a mercury-bromine compound, has been marketed as an antiseptic under this name
Mercurochrome
|
$2,000
[8]
This German-born African missionary once remarked, "Happiness is nothing more than good health & a bad memory"
Albert Schweitzer
|
$2,000
[19]
It's the radio"act"ive element with the atomic number 89
actinium
|
$2,000
[22]
Mrs. Mike Nichols
Diane Sawyer
Mary
|
$2,000
[15]
Change one letter in the name of a striped mammal to get this type of lizard seen here
a skink
Mary
|
— |
The name of this character means "fear" in Yiddish
Shrek