Brad Haag — an MBA student from Santa Monica, California
Sarah Bruce — a freelance editor from Milford, New Hampshire
Amanda Froning — an elections and voter registration clerk from Wilmington, Delaware (whose 1-day cash winnings total $34,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda | $2,000 | $3,000 | $11,000 |
$1,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $1,800 | $3,000 | $9,000 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
12 R, 1 W |
| Brad | $2,000 | $5,600 | $19,100 |
$16,199
New champion: $16,199 |
$18,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE BIRD IS THE WORD | UNSEEN TV FACES | IT'S "D" LISH! | BEFORE THE EURO | ALASKA | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME |
|
$200
[17]
A Beatles tune talks about this bird seenheresingin' in the dead of night
blackbird
Brad
|
$200
[1]
This game show's mysterious banker, who is seen only in shadow, has his own blog on the NBC website
Deal or No Deal
Amanda
|
$200
[3]
Vernon Rudolph used a secret recipe from a New Orleans chef to begin selling the Krispy Kreme brand of these
doughnuts
Brad
|
$200
[18]
The lira
Italy
Amanda
|
$200
[8]
Juneau is the capital & this city is the most populous
Anchorage
Amanda
|
$200
[10]
Lemony's fence parts
Snicket's pickets
Amanda
|
|
$400
[21]
In myth, this real bird was believed to have access to the waters of creation, the source of all fertility
the stork
Brad
|
$400
[2]
On this sitcom, Tim Taylor's neighbor Wilson dispensed advice from behind a fence with his face partially obscured
Home Improvement
Brad
|
$400
[4]
It's a tasty breakfast pastry usually filled with fruit, almond paste, or cheese
a danish
Sarah
|
$400
[19]
The drachma
Greece
Amanda
|
$600
[26]
Of Canada's 13 provinces & territories, one of the 2 that border Alaska
the Yukon
Brad
|
$400
[11]
Ayn's rock groups
Rand's bands
Amanda
|
|
$600
[22]
The name of this bird seenherecan also mean an unscrupulous person who preys greedily
a vulture
Brad
|
$600
[13]
He was the unseen boss of detectives Jill, Sabrina & Kelly (& later replacements Kris, Tiffany & Julie)
Charlie
Brad
|
$600
[5]
In the classic French dish Canard à l'orange, this is served in an orange sauce
duck
Sarah
|
$600
[20]
The Schilling
Austria
Amanda
Sarah
|
DD
$800
[9]
Alaska's state motto is "North to" this
the Future
Amanda
|
$600
[12]
The termites & ants in Nathanael's home
West's pests
|
|
$800
[23]
The name of this game bird is also a verb that means "to shrink with fear"
quail
Amanda
|
$800
[15]
We never saw the face of this Yankees owner on "Seinfeld"; it was really Larry David voicing the part
Steinbrenner
Sarah
|
$800
[6]
It's a fluffy white fudge made with sugar, corn syrup, beaten egg whites & often nuts; tastes heavenly!
divinity
Brad
|
$800
[27]
The franc(2 of 3 countries)
France and Belgium
Amanda
Sarah
|
$800
[29]
Alaska's Malaspina one of these ice formations, covers an area larger than Rhode Island
a glacier
Brad
|
$800
[14]
Ms. Ephron's soft felt hats
Nora's fedoras
Amanda
|
|
$1,000
[24]
The house variety of this common songbird was introduced to North America in the 1850s
sparrow
Sarah
|
$1,000
[16]
Producer Lorenzo Music played this unseen doorman whose voice was heard via the intercom on "Rhoda"
Carlton
Amanda
|
$1,000
[7]
In the mood for a steak? Try this one named for a famous New York restaurant where it was once the house cut
Delmonico
Amanda
|
$1,000
[28]
The punt
Ireland
|
$1,000
[30]
This spot on the Arctic Ocean is the northernmost "point" of Alaska
Point Barrow
|
$1,000
[25]
Benchley's furnaces
Peter's heaters
Brad
|
| QUOTATIONS | COLLEGE SPORTS TEAM NICKNAMES | "F"EMALES | EXPLORATION | OH MY GODS! | A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[1]
Nabokov's Humbert Humbert called his nymphet "light of my life, fire of my loins"
Lolita
Amanda
|
$400
[8]
Wisely tell us this avian team name for both Rice University & Temple University
The Owl
Brad
|
$400
[2]
Lena Horne called this woman who died in 1996 "the world's golden songbird"
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah
|
$400
[10]
Peary found that the Inuit on Greenland's west coast got iron for their knives from 3 of these heavenly objects
meteorites
Sarah
|
$400
[13]
A minor god, Aeolus was the keeper of these North, South, East & West
the winds
Sarah
|
$400
[19]
The handle of a sword, you can play this term to the ...
a hilt
Sarah
|
|
$800
[7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Freud Museum in Vienna.) Despite all the research that's been done on Freud, no one can definitely say if, or when, he made the attributed remark "sometimes a" this "is just a" this
a cigar
Brad
|
$800
[9]
This Indian tribe lends its name to Florida State University's sports teams
Seminole
Amanda
|
$800
[3]
She's the nationally prominent Californian seen here
Dianne Feinstein
Amanda
|
$800
[11]
William Bligh served as master of the HMS Resolution during this captain's third voyage to the Pacific
Captain Cook
Amanda
|
$800
[24]
In Hindu myth, Kama, armed with a bow of sugarcane & flower-tipped arrows, is the god of this
love
Brad
|
$800
[20]
It's the highest point or peak, or the notoriously unreliable company of choice for Wile E. Coyote
acme
Brad
|
|
$1,200
[14]
O. Henry gave us "busy as" this type of "man ... pasting on wall-paper"
a one-armed man
Amanda
|
$1,200
[16]
We hope these colorful birds don't leave their University of Delaware fans feeling "blue"
Blue Hens
Brad
|
$1,200
[4]
In 1966 she & Nureyev danced in a movie version of the ballet "Romeo and Juliet"
Margot Fonteyn
|
$1,200
[12]
In 1861, 3 years after reaching the shores of Lake Tanganyika, he became the first to ascend Mount Cameroon
Sir Richard Burton
|
DD
$1,300
[25]
For the Norse god Balder, this plant was the "kiss" of death; a piece of it pierced and killed him
mistletoe
Brad
|
$1,200
[21]
Often accompanied by a drum, it's the instrument heard here
a fife
Sarah
|
|
$1,600
[15]
"More light" were the 1832 last words of this great German writer
Goethe
Brad
|
$2,000
[18]
This Georgetown University sports team nickname may come from a Greek & Latin term meaning "what rocks"
A Hoya
Brad
|
$1,600
[5]
In art, she's the traditional figure shown spinning the wheel that brings us the highs & lows of life
Fortuna
Sarah
|
$1,600
[26]
In 1880 he founded a French colony on the Congo; a "ville" in the Republic of the Congo is named for him
Brazza
Brad
|
$1,600
[27]
Appropriately, 2 sons of this Greek god were named Phobos (Fear) & Deimos (Terror)
Ares
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1916 this movement was founded by a group of artists & poets in Zurich; come to ...
Dada
Sarah
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Nixon's Secretary of State, he once quipped, "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full"
Kissinger
Amanda
|
DD
$3,600
[17]
They set sail for Vanderbilt University
The Commodores
Brad
|
$2,000
[6]
Known for her aggressive interviews, this Italian journalist turned to writing against radical Islam
Oriana Fallaci
|
$2,000
[29]
In 1488 this Portuguese navigator rescued Duarte Pacheco & several companions on the island of Principe
Bartolomeu Dias
|
$2,000
[28]
He's the jackal-headed god of the dead seenhereon an ancient Egyptian fresco
Anubis
Brad
|
$2,000
[23]
Formally surrender your territory & give us this word from the Latin for "yield"
cede
Amanda
|
In 2006 Albert II of Monaco attended the Newport Jazz Festival's 50th anniv. celebration of this film that's set during the festival
High Society