Scott Weiss — a computer science professor from Walkersville, Maryland
Sheryl Page — a sales representative from Lansing, Michigan
Jennifer Gotcher — a homemaker from Costa Mesa, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $68,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer | $2,600 | $4,000 | $10,400 |
$10,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sheryl | $3,600 | $4,800 | $4,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
9 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Scott | $2,000 | $6,800 | $24,800 |
$24,600
New champion: $24,600 |
$24,800
30 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| MYTHOLOGY | WHO'S THE MRS.? | IT HAPPENED IN TEXAS | BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE! | A DATE WITH DENSITY | "TIME" FOR A CHANGE |
|
$200
[6]
In Greek myth Hypnos was the god of sleep; his brother Thanatos was the god of this more permanent state
death
Jennifer
|
$200
[1]
Mrs. Warren Beatty
Annette Bening
Scott
|
$200
[17]
Founded as a Franciscan mission in 1718, Mission San Antonio de Valero became better-known in history under this name
the Alamo
Sheryl
|
$200
[11]
From 1927 to 1931 dynamite blasts removed 450,000 tons of rock from this mountain & national memorial
Mount Rushmore
Scott
|
$200
[26]
This planet has a greater mean density than any of the others in our solar system
Earth
|
$200
[16]
In England, it's often betwen 3 & 5 p.m. & includes finger sandwiches & scones
teatime
Scott
|
|
$400
[7]
Not a bad gig: Omacatl was the god of joy, festvity & happiness in the pantheon of these people
the Aztecs
Scott
|
$400
[2]
Mrs. Keith Urban
Nicole Kidman
Jennifer
|
$400
[20]
On Nov. 25, 1981, she gave birth to twins in Dallas
Laura Bush
Sheryl
|
$400
[12]
In 1884 farmers whose alfalfa fields had been flooded dynamited one of these on the Humboldt River
a dam
Scott
|
$400
[27]
With more than 1,000 people per square mile, this East Coast state has the highest population density in the U.S.
New Jersey
Scott
|
$400
[18]
Scott Joplin is a famous performer & composer of this musical style
ragtime
Jennifer
|
|
$600
[8]
In the title of an Ayn Rand novel, this mythological figure "Shrugged"
Atlas
Sheryl
|
$600
[3]
Mrs. David Arquette
Courteney Cox
Sheryl
|
$600
[21]
He was deposed as Governor of Texas in 1861 because he wouldn't swear allegiance to the Confederacy
(Sam) Houston
Jennifer
|
$600
[13]
In 2000, 5800 separate explosions brought down the Kingdomein this city
Seattle
Sheryl
|
$600
[28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew demonstrates a scientific instrument.)Thisdevice\ for measuring the density of liquids takes its name from the Greek for "water measure"
hydrometer
Jennifer
Sheryl
|
$600
[19]
A pleasant means of amusement, like a game of cards or a backyard sport; we have a "national" one
a pastime
Scott
|
|
$800
[9]
Sleipnir was this Norse god's 8-legged stallion
Odin
Sheryl
Scott
|
$800
[4]
Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Maria Shriver
Scott
|
$800
[22]
In March 1929 this pilot inaugurated the airmail service between Brownsville, Texas & Mexico
Charles Lindbergh
Scott
|
$800
[14]
In 1867 this Swedish inventor found kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, absorbed a lot of nitroglycerine
(Alfred) Nobel
Scott
|
$800
[29]
It's what the M & the V stand for in the equation to calculate density, d = m / v
mass & volume
Scott
|
$800
[24]
This adjective means "connected to the sea", like some Canadian provinces
maritime
Scott
|
|
$1,000
[10]
As a constellation, this mythological princess is chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster
Andromeda
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[5]
Mrs. Mike Nichols
Diane Sawyer
Sheryl
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
Uh-oh! In 1878 outlaw Sam Bass was betrayed by one of his own men to this group
the Texas Rangers
Scott
|
$1,000
[15]
City Hall in this Magic Kingdom City (East) is seenheregoing down in 1991
Orlando
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[30]
HDLs, considered a good form of cholesterol, are short for high-density these
lipoproteins
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[25]
For world clock-watchers, it's abbreviated GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
Scott
|
| DESERTS | TV OF THE FUTURE | LITERARY QUOTES | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL | AMERICAN PAINTERS | EL "CID" |
|
$400
[3]
The Karakum Desert, which means "black sand" in the Turkmen language, covers about 70% of this country
Turkmenistan
Scott
|
$400
[26]
The 1987 miniseries "Amerika" was set in 1997 with the U.S. taken over by this foe--didn't work out that way
the Soviet Union
Scott
|
$400
[21]
In this 1847 work, Cathy Earnshaw says, "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath"
Wuthering Heights
Scott
|
$400
[16]
The kestrel
a bird
Scott
|
$400
[9]
The Feb. 13, 1960 Saturday Evening Post contained his cover story "My Adventures as an Illustrator"
Norman Rockwell
Scott
|
$400
[1]
Whack someone pulseless with a frying pan & you've committed this crime
homicide
Jennifer
|
|
$800
[4]
The Ordos Desert occupies an area inside the Great Northern Bend of this river in North Central China
the Yellow River (or Hwang-ho)
|
$800
[27]
Moonbase Alpha was the lunar colony on the 1970s Martin Landau show "Space:" this year
1999
Scott
|
$800
[22]
Pope wrote of those who "damn with faint" this, "assent with civil leer"
praise
Jennifer
|
$800
[17]
The serval
a mammal
Scott
|
$800
[10]
In 1905 she & her husband bought a farm at Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where she stayed until her death in 1961
Grandma Moses
Jennifer
|
$800
[2]
Unexpected or unplanned, like Tyler's title "Tourist"
accidental
Scott
|
|
$1,200
[5]
The highest temperature ever recorded was 136 degrees F. in 1922 at El Azizia near this Libyan capital in the Sahara
Tripoli
Scott
|
$1,200
[28]
In a series title, the name of this submarine was followed by "DSV", then by "2032"
seaQuest
Scott
|
$1,200
[23]
In "The Tempest", Shakespeare wrote, "On" this mammal's "back I do fly after summer merrily"
a bat
Scott
|
$1,200
[18]
The rail
a bird
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[11]
Ben Shahn came to prominence in the early 1930s with his paintings of the murder trial of these 2 Italian anarchists
Sacco & Vanzetti
Sheryl
|
$1,200
[8]
You happened to study "cid" words like this, defined as 2 events occuring at once by chance; that's a funny...
a coincidence
Scott
|
|
$1,600
[6]
The Chihuahuan Desert stretches from this river's valley in Southern New Mexico to just north of Mexico City
the Rio Grande
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[29]
(Star Trek) Deep Space 9 guarded one of these subspace bridges, or "tunnels in the sky"
a wormhole
Scott
|
$1,600
[24]
She wrote, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"
Virginia Woolf
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[19]
The mudskipper
a fish
Scott
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
He spent much of his later years doing seascaping in Prouts Neck, Maine
Winslow Homer
Sheryl
|
$1,600
[14]
George W. Bush:"I hear the voices & I read the front page and I know the speculation, but I'm the" this
decider
Scott
|
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
The Empty Quarter, most of which is in this country, is the largest continuous body of sand in the world
Saudi Arabia
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[30]
(Hi, I'm Dana Delany, and) I'm glad 2007 hasn't turned out the way it looked in this 1993 miniseries I starred in, with a title out of Faulkner
Wild Palms
|
$2,000
[25]
In an epic poem, he wrote, "Long is the way And hard that out of hell leads up to light"
(John) Milton
Scott
|
$2,000
[20]
The wanderoo
a mammal
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[13]
John Sloane's "Women's Work" is an example of this "School" of down-to-earth art originally called "The Eight"
the Ashcan School
|
$2,000
[15]
Let's see if knowing this is what "RNA" is short for is in your RNA
ribonucleic acid
Scott
|
The last 2 U.S. presidents to have only one child; both served in the 20th century
Clinton & Truman