Eileen Loechel — an operations manager from River Forest, Illinois
David Wlody — a physician from New York, New York
Margaret Tennison — a retired paralegal from Vienna, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret | $800 | $1,600 | $5,400 |
$2,798
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
12 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| David | $1,600 | $4,200 | $9,400 |
$7,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,400
17 R, 4 W |
| Eileen | $-400 | $5,000 | $20,000 |
$19,800
New champion: $19,800 |
$21,400
25 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| POLITICS | PUPPET-POURRI | THE WEATHER REPORT | GLOBAL | "WARM"ING | FACT OR FICTION? |
|
$200
[1]
The Nov. 2006 elections made this person the highest of Italian ethnicity in the order of U.S. pres. succession
Nancy Pelosi
Margaret
|
$200
[4]
Every Who down in Who-ville knows puppets around in this 2006 Dr. Seuss Broadway musical
How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
Eileen
|
$200
[22]
In a marine push, when ocean air replaces the existing air mass, this happens to the temperature
it goes down (or gets colder)
Margaret
Eileen
|
$200
[7]
In 1979 this country's Pahlavi Dynasty was deposed & had to flee into exile
Iran
David
|
$200
[13]
A party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new residence
a housewarming
Margaret
|
$200
[12]
John Humphreys said he created the bodies seen in "Alien Autopsy", a video showing beings that "died" near this N.M. city
Roswell
Eileen
|
|
$400
[2]
In Congress, this person who keeps members in line has the highest leadership job after Majority & Minority Leader
the Whip
Margaret
|
$400
[25]
In the musical "Baker Street", this queen's Diamond Jubilee Parade was brought to life by marionettes
Victoria
Margaret
David
|
DD
$400
[23]
The first documented successful forecast of this was by 2 Air Force officers in 1948 in Oklahoma
a tornado
Margaret
|
$400
[8]
Of Dutch Guiana, French Guiana or British Guiana, the one that is still known by that name today
French Guiana
Margaret
David
Eileen
|
$400
[14]
Proverbially, if you have cold hands, you also have this
warm heart
David
|
$400
[18]
Tiger Woods, move over; this Asian leader claims to have shot 11 holes-in-one the first time he played golf
Kim Jong-il
David
|
|
$600
[3]
In 2000 this party nominated Ralph Nader for president; in 2004 its standard-bearer was David Cobb
the Green Party
David
|
$600
[26]
In Erik Sanko's puppet play "The Fortune Teller", Marionettes represent the 7 these, including wrath & gluttony
the Deadly Sins
Eileen
|
$600
[24]
It's officially called dense when it reduces visibility to 1/8 mile
fog
Eileen
|
$600
[9]
Found inside another country, this "Most Serene Republic" is also the most small republic in Europe
San Marino
Margaret
|
$600
[15]
Slang for a baseball player who rarely gets to play
a benchwarmer
Eileen
|
$600
[19]
Der Stern called its $3.8 million purchase of these "diaries" in 1983 "the biggest flop of German press history"
the Hitler Diaries
Margaret
|
|
$800
[5]
"Free" political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery
the Free Soil Party
Margaret
David
|
$800
[27]
A puppet show called "Percy, the Poor Little Penguin" premiered at this store's Herald Square location in 2001
Macy's
Eileen
|
$800
[29]
This post-shower delight is always in the opposite side of the sky from the sun
a rainbow
Eileen
|
$800
[10]
Under 1,000 square miles in area, it borders France & has German as an official language
Luxembourg
David
|
$800
[16]
Adjective for a tepid temperature or a halfhearted conviction
lukewarm
Eileen
|
$800
[20]
This holy relic turned up at a church in Lirey, France in 1355; radiocarbon tests in 1988 raised questions
the Shroud of Turin
David
|
|
$1,000
[6]
In 2002 this Mississippian quit his post as Senate Republican Leader
Trent Lott
David
|
$1,000
[28]
This late, great "Law & Order" star played the puppeteer who falls in love with Lili in the 1961 musical "Carnival"
Jerry Orbach
Eileen
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
The history of this European country, whose flag is seen here, goes back 4,000 years
Greece
Margaret
David
Eileen
|
$1,000
[17]
FDR died in the Little White House in this Georgia city
Warm Springs
Eileen
|
$1,000
[21]
Anna Anderson's preserved tissue was DNA tested in 1994 to prove that she wasn't this Grand Duchess
Anastasia
David
|
| FRENCH HISTORY | POP GOES THE CULTURE | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" | A DROP OF IRISH WHISKEY | STATUE-ESQUE | IN THE DICTIONARY |
|
$400
[1]
Provence got its name from being this empire's first province beyond the Alps
the Roman Empire
Eileen
|
$400
[2]
Some wondered if she'd be known as "J.Ant." after a surprise marriage, her third, to singer Marc Anthony
Jennifer Lopez
Eileen
|
$400
[11]
Precipitation "of Kilimanjaro"(5)
snows
Eileen
|
$400
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Old Jameson Distillery in Dublin, Ireland.) Jameson Irish whiskey is unique in that the malted type of this ingredient is dried in a closed oven so that smoke doesn't interfere
barley
Eileen
|
$400
[21]
A statue of a WWII flag-raising dedicated to this military service stands near Arlington's entrance
the Marine Corps
David
|
$400
[16]
An interjection meaning "nonsense", it was often used by Ebenezer Scrooge
(Bah) humbug
Eileen
|
|
$800
[7]
On June 28, 1940 the British recognized this man as the leader of Free France
Charles de Gaulle
Eileen
|
$800
[3]
Jack Handey:"I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula and" him "away"
Superman
David
|
$800
[12]
Utensil for a "River Anthology"(5)
spoon
Margaret
David
|
$800
[27]
Poteen, a term for illegally made whiskey, is the Irish equivalent of this "lunar" U.S. word
moonshine
Margaret
|
$800
[23]
The statue seenherefought & won by decision the right to be displayed in front of the museum inthisU.S. city
Philadelphia
David
|
$800
[17]
The word mustache comes from the Greek mustax, meaning "upper" this
lip
Eileen
|
|
$1,200
[8]
18th century kings ran up debts of hundreds of millions of these--not as in books, but as in units of silver currency
livres
David
|
$1,200
[4]
"Little skirts & stuff aside, I quite enjoyed the costumes (in 'Gladiator')", he said in 2001
(Russell) Crowe
Eileen
|
$1,200
[13]
"Choice" heroine of a Styron novel(6)
Sophie
David
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of large tanks containing whiskey in Dublin, Ireland.) The whiskey goes 3 times through this purifying process, the evaporation & collection of a liquid via condensation
distillation
Margaret
|
$1,200
[24]
This Renaissance nude became Florence's first freestanding sculpture on a plinth since classical times
David
Margaret
|
$1,200
[18]
It can follow bubble, mud or sponge
bath
Eileen
|
|
DD
$1,400
[10]
Henri Petain was a hero for the victory at this fortress in 1916, at a cost of over 500,000 French casualties
Verdun
Eileen
|
$1,600
[5]
This late comic was first cast as Sheriff Bart in "Blazing Saddles" but the studio balked due to his volatile reputation
Richard Pryor
David
|
$1,600
[14]
Laurence Sterne's Tristram(6)
Shandy
Eileen
|
— |
$1,600
[22]
A statue in Hampshire of this "Great" king honors his 9th c. rule when he defended against a Viking invasion
Alfred (the Great)
Eileen
|
$1,600
[19]
In poetry, a closed one is, "A perfect judge will read each work of wit / with the same spirit that its author writ"
a couplet (rhyme later judged acceptable)
Eileen
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Beginning in the 1600s, the colony called New France was based around this river explored by Jacques Cartier
St. Lawrence
Eileen
|
$2,000
[6]
In 2006 at Penn commencement, Yakov Smirnoff got his Masters in positive psych & this "Nell" actress gave a speech
Jodie Foster
Eileen
|
$2,000
[15]
Novelist Terry, who fed us "Candy"(8)
Southern
David
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
After it became popular, the statueseenherehad to be moved from the cemetery to this city's Telfair Museum
Savannah
Eileen
|
$2,000
[20]
A skeptic denies that anything can be known while a radical one of these denies that anything exists
nihilist
David
|
Located in the Central Time Zone, it's the largest city by population to have no MLB, NFL, NBA or NHL team
Austin, Texas