Becky Powell — a graduate student from Knoxville, Tennessee
Rich Clarey — a film student originally from Petaluma, California
Ben Bass — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $1,800 | $4,400 | $15,400 |
$19,601
3-day champion: $54,801 |
$17,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Rich | $200 | $3,800 | $9,800 |
$18,800
2nd place: trip to Mazatlan, Mexico |
$9,800
12 R, 1 W |
| Becky | $2,200 | $4,000 | $3,600 |
$7,199
3rd place: trip to Desert Springs Villas in Palm Desert, California |
$3,600
8 R, 3 W |
| NURSERY RHYME WOMEN | TV MOVIES | FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD | VISIBLE BODY PARTS | "OO" 7-LETTER WORDS | BONDS, COMMON BONDS |
|
$200
[26]
This nursery rhyme maiden tumbled down a hill
Jill
Ben
|
$200
[10]
In 2000's "Possessed", Timothy Dalton plays a priest attempting this procedure
an exorcism
Ben
|
$200
[8]
If you have a root cellar, you can store this root vegetable in it for several weeks
beets
Ben
Becky
|
$200
[21]
The name of this tree or car part also refers to your body minus the head & limbs
trunk
Becky
|
$200
[1]
Who needs an alarm clock when one of these lives in your neighborhood; listen
a rooster
Rich
|
$200
[6]
Vallee, Giuliani, Tomjanovich
Rudy
Ben
|
|
$400
[27]
She "lost her sheep, and can't tell where to find them"
Little Bo-Peep
Rich
|
$400
[17]
(Hi, I'm Jeffrey Nordling.) It was a giant leap for me when I played this man in the movie "Apollo 11"
Neil Armstrong
Rich
|
$400
[9]
You need to shuck some of these for a Hangtown fry
oysters
Rich
Becky
|
$400
[22]
On a man whose shirt size is 16-34, this part of his body is 16 inches around
the neck
Ben
|
$400
[2]
It's a whaler's weapon of choice
a harpoon
Rich
|
$400
[7]
Frogs, years, Christmas lords
things that leap
Becky
|
|
$600
[28]
She "put the kettle on" so we'll have tea
Polly
Becky
|
$600
[18]
This sitcom bartender played a dad accused of incest in the controversial "Something about Amelia"
Ted Danson
Ben
|
$600
[14]
(Sarah is cooking up the clue.) Our spicy dinner is this shrimp dish, Spanish for "devil". Whooooo!
shrimp diablo
Ben
|
DD
$800
[23]
If you can move the muscles called auriculares, you can move these
your ears
Ben
|
$600
[3]
This legendary creature of the Pacific Northwest is said to stand from 7 to 10 feet tall
Bigfoot
|
$600
[11]
Fireplace logs, sundae bananas.infinitives
things that are split
Becky
|
|
$800
[29]
She & her husband "lick'd the platter clean"
(Mrs.) Sprat
Ben
|
$800
[19]
The title of a 2001 movie about Roger Maris' home run record chase was the number 61 followed by this
the famous asterisk
Ben
|
$800
[15]
Devonshire clotted cream is a traditional topping for these biscuit-like treats
scones
Becky
|
$800
[24]
Medically speaking, the thumb is the pollex & this big digit is the hallux
the big toe
Rich
|
$800
[4]
It can describe moonshine whiskey, or be a deceptive play in football
bootleg
|
$800
[12]
Newspaper pages, the Parthenon, Chinese menus
things that have columns
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Container in which Peter, Peter kept his wife; "he kept her very well"
a pumpkin shell
Ben
Rich
|
$1,000
[20]
In the TV movie "Ruby Ridge", Randy Quaid played this man also named Randy
Randy Weaver
|
$1,000
[16]
With a mottled green & yellow skin & salmon-colored flesh, a crenshaw is a type of this
a melon
Rich
|
$1,000
[25]
This outer layer of skin is anchored to the inner layer by tissue called the basement membrane
the epidermis
Becky
|
$1,000
[5]
A seasonal storm of the Indian Ocean, it blows from the SW in summer & NE in winter
a monsoon
Becky
|
$1,000
[13]
Golfers, decks of cards, cliche cavemen
things with clubs
Ben
|
| SPEAKERS BUREAU | DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE | 1930-SOMETHING | FRANKS & BEENS | -OLOGIES | AGAINST THE "WALL" |
|
$400
[16]
This popular speaker seenhereis a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers & Wedgwood china
Princess Fergie
Rich
|
$400
[1]
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Becky
|
$400
[26]
In 1934 the man convicted of the Reichstag fire was executed in Germany with this French device
la guillotine
Ben
|
$400
[21]
He has been called the "Father of the Dime Store" (The F. stands for Frank)
(F.W.) Woolworth
Ben
|
$400
[2]
From the Greek for "to shake", it's the scientific study of earthquakes
seismology
Ben
|
$400
[11]
After 28 years, it came down on November 9, 1989
the Berlin Wall
Ben
|
|
$800
[17]
This 1990s Speaker of the House from Georgia will be a speaker at your event for big bucks
Gingrich
Ben
|
$800
[3]
"Diary of a Young Girl"
The Diary of Anne Frank
Rich
Becky
|
$800
[27]
In 1937 the FCC rebuked NBC for a program starring this lusty blonde
Mae West
Ben
|
$800
[22]
He has been forever linked with Joseph Tinker & John Evers
Frank Chance of the Cubs
Ben
|
$800
[7]
Viniculture or oenology is the science of making this
wine
Ben
|
$800
[12]
It can be a plant with fragrant colorful flowers or a shy person unnoticed at a social event
a wallflower
Ben
|
|
$1,200
[18]
"Meet" this speaker on current events, seen here
(Tim) Russert
Ben
|
$1,200
[4]
"My Posse Don't Do Homework"
Dangerous Minds
Rich
|
$1,200
[28]
There's no trial like this kind of phony trial, held for Grigory Zinovyev in the USSR in 1936
show trial
|
DD
$1,200
[23]
This Limerick-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning author has been called "a haunted man"
Frank McCourt
Ben
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
These 2 similar words are for the study of insects & the study of words
entomology & etymology
Ben
|
$1,200
[13]
Based in Budapest, this Swedish diplomat worked to protect Hungarian Jews during World War II
Raoul Wallenberg
Ben
|
|
$1,600
[19]
Former world leaders on the speaking circuit include this man, Mexico's president from 1994 to 2000
Ernesto Zedillo
|
$1,600
[5]
"The 7 Pillars of Wisdom"
Lawrence of Arabia
|
— |
$1,600
[24]
This Massachusetts congressman has been after the press for their "Gotcha" stories
Barney Frank
|
$1,200
[8]
Mycology is the branch of botany that studies these, which include mold, mildew & mushrooms
fungi
Ben
|
$1,600
[14]
In the 1980s this band was on "Mexican Radio"
Wall of Voodoo
Rich
|
|
$2,000
[20]
This man who speaks on "A Political Insider's View" learned to play "Hardball" as Tip O'Neill's right-hand man
(Chris) Matthews
Ben
|
$2,000
[6]
"The Death and Life of Dith Pran"
The Killing Fields
Rich
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
Since the '70s this gold medal-winning runner has been a driving force in the long-distance running boom
Frank Shorter
|
$1,600
[9]
This branch of zoology studies amphibians & reptiles
herpetology
|
$2,000
[15]
He wrote & performed the jazz classic "Ain't Misbehavin'"
(Fats) Waller
Ben
|
This state capital is farthest away from any other state capital
Honolulu