Amanda Froning — an elections and voter registration clerk from Wilmington, Delaware
Rob Faunce — a professor from New York, New York
Wayne Cherry — a graduate student from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne | $2,000 | $2,400 | $9,200 |
$9,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
13 R, 1 W |
| Rob | $400 | $2,200 | $11,000 |
$3,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,000
13 R, 2 W |
| Amanda | $3,200 | $7,400 | $28,700 |
$34,700
New champion: $34,700 |
$25,600
29 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| BOTANY | I PLAY THE DRUMS! | FLY COUNTRIES | FUN WITH BALLET | LETTER MEN | ONE-WORD RHYMES |
|
$200
[11]
The flowers of this lawn weed, Taraxacum oficinale, are sometimes used to make wine
dandelions
Amanda
|
$200
[1]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the drummer's throne.) A common rock & roll pattern is this one which stresses the 2nd & 4th beat; it's also the title of a movie about The Beatles
backbeat
Amanda
|
$200
[6]
Iberia Airlines
Spain
Rob
|
$200
[14]
In "La Boutique Fantasque", dolls come to life & perform this high-kicking, skirt-swooshing dance
Can-can
Rob
|
$200
[23]
At his death in 1971, there were more than 1,600 department stores bearing his name
J.C. Penney
Rob
|
$200
[18]
An important person, perhaps with an elaborate toupee
bigwig
Rob
|
|
$400
[12]
The common species of this prairie flower, Helianthus annuus, can reach a height of 15 feet
sunflower
Amanda
|
$400
[2]
(Jon of the Clue Crew peers down between the cymbals.) Playing triplets--three strokes for every two notes--was a trademark of this late Led Zeppellin drummer
John Bonham
Amanda
|
$400
[7]
Aer Lingus
Ireland
Amanda
|
$400
[15]
Every "Psycho" knows that Matthew Bourne's ballet "Deadly Serious" is an homage to this film director
Alfred Hitchcock
Wayne
|
$400
[24]
He's the taller of the two gentlemen in the photo seen here
P.T. Barnum
Wayne
|
$400
[19]
I've come to the ashram so this person can show me the unreality of material things--oops, I scratched his Mercedes
guru
Amanda
|
|
$600
[13]
About 3/4 of U.S. plantings of this palm fruit are of the Deglet Noor, a semidry variety
dates
Amanda
|
$600
[3]
(Jon of the Clue Crew sticks with his drums--& drums with his sticks.) Playing this gives me an explosive sound on the snare drum; to help out a comedian's lame jokecombine it with a cymbal crash
a rimshot
Amanda
|
$600
[8]
Olympic Airlines
Greece
Wayne
|
$600
[28]
The Roanoke Ballet's dancers raced around with logos on their unitards in a ballet named for this auto assoc.
NASCAR
Amanda
|
$600
[25]
In 1930 he directed his first talkie, "Abraham Lincoln", starring Walter Huston
D.W. Griffith
Rob
|
$600
[20]
Nicole Kidman is one; so was Lucille Ball & Vincent Van Gogh
redhead
Amanda
|
|
$800
[16]
Reproducing by means of spores, the only tree with no flowers, fruits or seeds is called the tree type of this
fern
|
$800
[4]
(Jon of the Clue Crew subs on the drum set.) After you get into a groove, now & again throw in this; as the name suggests, it's for when there's an empty space in the music
a fill
Amanda
|
$800
[9]
Belavia (Its first terminal was in Minsk)
Belarus
Amanda
|
$800
[29]
The music of film composer Alex North drives the ballet based on this play about Stanley Kowalski
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Rob
|
$800
[26]
He designed the building for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
I.M. Pei
Amanda
|
$800
[21]
In Manhattan, going from Central Park to Chelsea is heading this way
downtown
Amanda
|
|
$1,000
[17]
Prized for its oil, this evergreen shrub of the American southwest is also known as the goat nut
Jojoba
|
$1,000
[5]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the final clue of the category.) It's the rhyming phrase for a steady rhythm that hits the bass drum oneach quarter note
four-on-the-floor
|
$1,000
[10]
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatshappij(you might know it by its abbreviation)
The Netherlands (KLM)
Wayne
|
$1,000
[30]
Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him
Charlie Parker
Amanda
|
$1,000
[27]
A visit to the Marabar Caves is a turning point in his novel "A Passage to India"
E.M. Forster
Amanda
|
DD
$1,000
[22]
This term for empty words or nonsense was originally a trick to gain applause
claptrap
Amanda
|
| BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY | WHO'S YOUR MOMMY? | AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C. | NAME THE POET | GRAPES | OF "RATH" |
|
$400
[8]
Genesis calls it "the salt sea" perhaps because its salinity reaches 4 times that of ocean water
the Dead Sea
Amanda
|
$400
[6]
Liza Minnelli
Judy Garland
Amanda
|
$400
[20]
You might see Bob Woodward during your walking tour of this publication's building on 15th Street N.W.
the Washington Post
Wayne
|
$400
[22]
"His pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels"
Milton
Wayne
|
$400
[16]
Ths underwear maker's logo contains fig leaves, an apple & different types of grapes
Fruit of the Loom
Rob
|
$400
[1]
It's an adjective meaning really, really angry
wrathful
Wayne
|
|
$1,200
[12]
Lying at the foot of the Mount of Olives, this garden was the site where Jesus was betrayed & arrested
Gethsemane
Rob
|
$800
[7]
Kate Hudson
Goldie Hawn
Wayne
|
$800
[25]
The Peacock room at the Freer Gallery shows the fun-loving side of this artist known for that dour depiction of mama
Whistler
Wayne
|
$800
[23]
"Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day"
Dylan Thomas
Wayne
|
$800
[17]
A wine known as Lacrima Christi, or "tears of Christ" is made from grapes grown on the slopes of this Italian volcano
Vesuvius
Rob
Amanda
|
$800
[2]
On election night 2000, this newsman spouted lines like "Bush will be madder than a rained-on rooster"
Dan Rather
Amanda
|
|
$1,600
[15]
In Ezekiel this capital of Egypt is called Noph, & the Lord promises to "destroy the idols" there (he didn't mean Elvis)
Memphis
Amanda
|
$1,200
[9]
Gwyneth Paltrow
Blythe Danner
Rob
|
$1,200
[27]
The museum that's now the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries Bldg. was the site of this man's 1881 inaugural ball
Garfield
Wayne
Amanda
|
$1,200
[24]
"I hear American singing, the varied carols I hear"
Walt Whitman
Amanda
|
$1,200
[18]
In an Aesop fable, this animal decides the grapes he can't reach must therefore be sour
a fox
Amanda
|
$1,200
[3]
For many, this Johannesburg-born actor will forever be the definitive Sherlock Holmes
Basil Rathbone
Wayne
Rob
|
|
$2,000
[21]
In the Song of Solomon, a bride refers to herself as "the rose of" this plain between Joppa & Mount Carmel
Sharon
Amanda
|
$1,600
[10]
Melanie Griffith
Tippi Hedren
Amanda
|
$2,000
[30]
This Frenchman who planned D.C. had such a "terrible" temperament that he was dismissed in 1792
Pierre L'Enfant
Rob
|
$1,600
[14]
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee"
Shakespeare
Wayne
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1962 this man organized migrant grape pickers into what became known as the United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
Amanda
|
$1,600
[4]
Persian religious leader AKA Zoroaster
Zarathustra
Wayne
|
|
DD
$4,000
[11]
This mount "as altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire"
Sinai
Amanda
|
$2,000
[13]
Mariska Hargitay
Jayne Mansfield
Rob
|
DD
$2,500
[28]
It was once known as "Presidents Park" but perhaps this name for it looks better on a "Marquis"
Lafayette Park
Amanda
|
$2,000
[26]
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words"
Emily Dickinson
Amanda
|
$2,000
[29]
A popular grape used in making raisins is this variety that shares its name with the capital of Oman
Muscat
Rob
|
$2,000
[5]
Basement beerhall in Bavaria
rathskeller
Rob
|
The C.A.P., or Common Agricultural Policy, accounts for almost half the budget of this 25-nation organization
the European Union