Jim Sherman — a librarian from Los Angeles, California
Dorothy Cassetta — a teacher from Orlando, Florida
Sri Narayanan — a pediatric resident from Cleveland Heights, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sri | $3,600 | $5,000 | $15,600 |
$30,000
2-day champion: $60,000 |
$10,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Dorothy | $1,000 | $2,600 | $11,400 |
$12,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,400
13 R, 2 W |
| Jim | $3,400 | $9,400 | $14,200 |
$14,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,000
28 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| U.S. CITIES | SUPERSTITIONS | YOU'RE A BEAST! | "OVER" & "OUT" | BILLs & TEDs | EXCELLENT ADVENTURE |
|
$200
[6]
Perhaps to sound more macho, the town of Juliet, Illinois "explored" new names & came up with this one in 1845
Joliet
Jim
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$200
[12]
A superstition says pull out one of these from your head & you will soon find several new ones growing
a gray hair
Jim
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$200
[1]
As you can probably guess, this is the featured color of the fins of the flame tetra
red
Dorothy
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$200
[11]
To prevent a check from bouncing due to insufficient funds, banks offer this type of protection
overdraft
Jim
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$200
[24]
He's Massachusetts' senior senator
Ted Kennedy
Jim
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$200
[18]
At the end of this novel, Jim has "the voice of Captain Flint still ringing in" his "ears: 'Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!'"
Treasure Island
Dorothy
Jim
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$400
[7]
With a name from the Chippewa for "on the summit", Ishpeming is a top ski center on the upper peninsula of this state
Michigan
Jim
|
$400
[13]
In Oxford's "Dict. of Superstitions", trimming nails is among the many things not to do on this day of the week
Friday (Sunday also accepted)
Jim
|
$400
[2]
This hooded snake of India is the longest of the venomous snakes
the king cobra
Sri
|
$400
[15]
This restaurant chain with an Aussie atmosphere says, "No rules, just right"
Outback Steakhouse
Jim
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$400
[25]
In 2005, after 25 years as its anchor, he said goodnight to "Nightline"
Ted Koppel
Jim
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$400
[19]
Thor Heyerdahl recounted his real-life sea adventure, 4,300 miles across the Pacific on a raft, in this 1948 classic
Kon-Tiki
Jim
|
|
$600
[8]
This New England town's famous "cottages" are actually lavish mansions such as Belcourt Castle & Marble House
Newport
Jim
|
$600
[14]
When birthday cake is served, it's what the birthday girl can do to make her wish come true
blow out the candles
Sri
|
$600
[3]
One popular breed of cat bears the name of these mountains, the world's highest
the Himalayas
Sri
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$600
[22]
It's the problem with the photo seen here
overexposure
Sri
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$600
[26]
A decade after "Politically Incorrect", he launched "Real Time" on HBO
Bill Maher
Jim
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$600
[20]
It was originally published under the title "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours"
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jim
|
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
This state capital has trolleys & buses called 'Dillos that take folks to attractions & music clubs
Austin
Jim
|
$800
[16]
After popping off one of these at a wedding, bring the couple luck by slitting it & putting a coin in it
a champagne cork
Jim
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$800
[4]
Not Rommel's but Ruppell's sand fox lives in this desert
the Sahara
Dorothy
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$800
[23]
Among the more famous ones were Belle Starr, Butch Cassidy & Billy the Kid
outlaws
Dorothy
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$800
[27]
With some 2 million acres, much of it for his bison, he's America's largest private landowner
Ted Turner
Jim
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$800
[21]
In his final adventure, Gulliver meets these filthy & despicable brutes; do a web search if you're not sure
the Yahoos
Sri
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|
$1,000
[10]
In 2006 rival cities got crabby when Men's Fitness magazine named it the fittest city in America
Baltimore
Sri
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$1,000
[17]
Cast in a play with Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti enraged the superstitious star by whistling & by naming this Shakespeare play
Macbeth
Jim
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$1,000
[5]
3-letter name of the mythical bird of Arabian legend that was so huge it could carry off an elephant
the roc
Sri
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$1,000
[29]
S.E. Hinton was just a freshman in college when she published this classic tale about rival teen gangs
The Outsiders
Dorothy
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$1,000
[28]
Sadly, in 1991 this concert promoter died when his helicopter crashed en route from a Huey Lewis concert
Bill Graham
|
$1,000
[30]
In this classic, an adventurous scientist finds himself in a world divided between the Eloi & the Morlocks
The Time Machine
Jim
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| HISTORICALLAW & ORDERPLEAS | '70s ALBUM COVERS | TOUGH SCIENCE | NOT A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT | A WORK OF PHILOSOPHY | IT'S COMPLICATED |
|
$400
[12]
(Hi, I'm Sam Waterston.) Some say the victim called your name on March 15, 44 B.C. as you & others stabbed him, Governor; 25 to life, no parole
Brutus
Dorothy
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$400
[6]
David Alexander photographed the Beverly Hills Hotel before a pretty sunset for this 1976 album
Hotel California
Sri
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$400
[7]
Astronomers classify these clusters of stars as elliptical, lenticular, irregular or spiral
galaxies
Jim
|
$400
[1]
Tympanic membrane
the eardrum
Jim
|
$400
[14]
The title of this Plato work refers to Socrates' defense of his actions, not to being sorry
Apologia
Jim
|
$400
[29]
Sir Walter Scott wrote of this type of "web we weave when first we practice to deceive"
tangled
Sri
|
|
$800
[22]
(Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: SVU.) I've got literally millions of witnesses who saw you kill a man with a single .38 shot on November 24, 1963; it's a slam dunk
Jack Ruby
Sri
|
$800
[9]
The frontman, guitar in hand, leans on Clarence Clemons in this "mobile" 1975 work
Born to Run
Dorothy
Jim
|
$800
[8]
This element, symbol Mg, occurs naturally in such minerals as dolomite & brucite
magnesium
Dorothy
|
$800
[2]
A Navy FAQ on this area says its generally accepted apexes are Miami, Bermuda & San Juan, Puerto Rico
the Bermuda Triangle
Dorothy
|
$800
[15]
John Locke influenced future democracies with "Two Treatises of" this
Government
Jim
|
$800
[26]
A fisherman might get bait out of this; it's a common term for a complicated problem
a can of worms
Sri
Jim
|
|
$1,200
[23]
(Sam Waterston reads the clue.) After the murder, you shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!"... Ballistics says it's your derringer, we've got Surratt--it's over
John Wilkes Booth
Dorothy
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$1,200
[10]
The children on this venerated Led Zeppelin album seenhereare posing on a rock formation in Northern Ireland
Houses of the Holy
Dorothy
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$1,200
[18]
This virus, named for an African geographical feature, came to the U.S. in 1999
the West Nile Virus
Jim
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$1,200
[3]
Thomas Jefferson's home
Monticello
Jim
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$1,200
[16]
Fury at religion led Nietzsche to title a book this, the enemy of the savior
The Antichrist
|
$1,200
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a chemical diagram on a monitor.) In looking at part of the structure of cellulose, we can see that of the two basic adjectives for carbohydrates & nutrition, it's this type
a complex carbohydrate
Sri
|
|
$1,600
[24]
(Hi, I'm Kathryn Erbe of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.) As you're under age 20, Sarajevo law says you get 20 years max for killing Archduke Ferdinand; I strongly urge you to take it
Gavrilo Princip
Jim
|
$1,600
[11]
Andy Warhol suggested putting the zipper on this Rolling Stones album
Sticky Fingers
Jim
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
The first director of the radiation lab at Berkeley, his name will live forevermore on an element
(Ernest Orlando) Lawrence
Jim
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$1,600
[4]
A tall, narrow champagne glass
a flute
Dorothy
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$1,600
[17]
It's sensible to bet that God exists, says the Pascal work "Pensees", whose title means these
thoughts
Sri
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$2,000
[30]
These 2 words, one "R" different, may be confused; 1 means twisting or complicated, 1 means causing pain
tortuous & torturous
|
|
$2,000
[25]
(Sam Waterston gives the clue.) You shot the victim in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881, said "I am a Stalwart" & then gave yourself up; not many options on the table here
Charles Guiteau
Dorothy
Jim
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$2,000
[13]
That's Paul Simonon whose bass guitar is about to take a thrashing on this Clash album
London Calling
Jim
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$2,000
[21]
Most weather occurs in this lowest level of the atmosphere, which extends to an altitude of 6 to 10 miles
the troposphere
Dorothy
Jim
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$2,000
[5]
Bears executive Ed McCaskey asked Gale Sayers & this man to be the NFL's first interracial roommates
Brian Piccolo
Dorothy
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$2,000
[19]
Karl Marx was heavily influenced by this German's "Phenomenology of Mind"
Hegel
Jim
|
DD
$7,000
[28]
12-letter adjective that means "resembling a mythical Greek maze"
labyrinthine
Sri
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This 1877 novel was written "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses"
Black Beauty