Anders Martinson — a quality assurance engineer from Union City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,000)
Jamey Kirby — a humanities teacher originally from Live Oak, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,000)
Scott Weiss — a computer science professor from Walkersville, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $61,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $4,200 | $6,200 | $22,600 |
$21,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$21,400
24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Jamey | $1,400 | $3,800 | $11,900 |
$22,677
2-day champion: $38,677 |
$11,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Anders | $400 | $2,800 | $10,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,000
12 R, 1 W |
| NATURE STUDY | MEDIA RE-TOOLED | LOOK OUT BELOW! | A ROYAL SUM-UP | NURSERY RHYME ER | I-I-I! |
|
$200
[26]
Skippers, moths & these insects make up the order Lepidoptera
butterflies
Scott
|
$200
[3]
Old:Tom Wopat & Catherine Bach; New:Johnny Knoxville & Jessica Simpson
The Dukes of Hazzard
Scott
|
$200
[21]
It's the state directly below Oklahoma
Texas
Scott
|
$200
[1]
Her 1469 marriage would unite her Castile with Aragon; without her, no Columbus Day
Isabella
Scott
|
$200
[10]
Got this title guy & girl... guy has massive head trauma... girl has contusions from "tumbling after"
Jack & Jill
Jamey
|
$200
[15]
Keen insight; "women's" seems to be especially potent
intuition
Anders
|
|
$400
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a honeycomb tray at the University of Nebraska's Dept. of Entomology.) Carpenter & mason bees are classified as solitary types; honeybees, which live in colonies of tens of thousands, are this opposite kind
social
|
$400
[5]
Old:John Astin & Jackie Coogan; New:Raul Julia & Christopher Lloyd
The Addams Family
Scott
|
$400
[22]
In a fraction, it's the part that's below the line
the denominator
Anders
|
$400
[2]
Reigned during Opium, Crimean & Boer Wars; survived husband by a mere 40 years
Victoria
Anders
|
$400
[11]
Had so many kids "she didn't know what to do... she whipped them all soundly"?! Call child services on this title babe!
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Jamey
|
$400
[16]
Try this "Itsy Bitsy" Marshall Islands atoll on for size; it was the bomb in swimwear
Bikini
Jamey
|
|
$600
[28]
Despite its name, this fuzzy-leafed "African" plant, Saintpaulia ionantha, can have pink or white flowers
an African violet
Scott
|
$600
[6]
Old:Kristy Swanson; New:Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Scott
|
$600
[23]
In vocal music, it's the range directly below mezzo-soprano
contralto
|
$800
[9]
King of Judah from 873 to 849 B.C.; succeeded by son Jehoram; name now generally found after "jumpin'"
Jehoshaphat
Jamey
|
$600
[12]
Multiple traumas! The wife of a rural man had a carving knife... were these title rodents' tails packed in ice?!
the Three Blind Mice
Jamey
|
$600
[18]
A law or decree that forbids; it sums up the 18th Amendment
prohibition
Jamey
|
|
$800
[29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Besh-ba-gowah Pueblo in Phoenix, AZ.) Arizona's Native American Salado people were expert weavers & madesandals from this succulent of the same genus as the Joshua tree
the yucca
|
$800
[7]
Old:Burt Ward & Burgess Meredith; New:Chris O'Donnell & Danny DeVito
Batman
Scott
|
$800
[24]
It's the part of a horse's leg that's directly below the fetlock & the pastern
the hoof
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
King from about 1347 to 1339 B.C.; got famous (again) in 1922; got a CAT scan in 2005 (to see how he died)
King Tut
Scott
|
$800
[13]
Got a knave here... stole this royal woman's tarts... the king "beat the knave full sore"; the knave's crashing! Clear!
The Queen of Hearts
Jamey
|
$800
[19]
Made by human skill; it's often applied to turf in a stadium
artificial
Anders
|
|
$1,000
[30]
The Congo eel isn't an eel but a type of this tailed amphibian
salamander
|
$1,000
[8]
Old:Lorne Greene & Dirk Benedict; New:Edward James Olmos & Katee Sackhoff
Battlestar Galactica
Scott
|
$1,000
[25]
In the biological taxonomy of animals, it's the 6-letter classification directly below kingdom
phylum
Scott
|
$1,000
[17]
Last ruler of House of York; Wars of the Roses didn't smell sweet for him
Richard III
Anders
|
$1,000
[14]
Ah geez, the man's "all tattered and torn"... got a dog "that worried the cat that killed the rat... that lay" in this title place
The House that Jack Built
Scott
|
$1,000
[20]
Philosophical attitude associated with Kierkegaard, Heidegger & Jaspers
existentialism
Scott
|
| WORLD CAPITALS | J.C. | WRITERS AT REST | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE | ORIGINAL PRANKSTA | WHAT UP, "G"? |
|
$400
[3]
Juan Peron died in this city in 1974
Buenos Aires
Anders
|
$400
[21]
(Jerry Seinfeld delivers the clue.) In the "Seinfeld" finale we were defended by Jackie Chiles, who reminded some people of this famous trial attorney
Johnnie Cochran
Scott
|
$400
[16]
Writers resting at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. include Emerson & this Walden Pond ponderer
Thoreau
Scott
|
$400
[1]
One of the two African Americans to win the prize, one in 1950, the other in 1964
Martin Luther King, Jr. (& Ralph Bunche)
Jamey
|
$400
[13]
On April 1, 1992 NPR reported that this disgraced U.S. president was running again for the job, prompting a flood of calls
Nixon
Jamey
|
$400
[26]
Once a term for a carnival performer who bit the heads off chickens, it now usually refers to a tech nerd
a geek
Jamey
|
|
$800
[5]
It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1353
Bern
Jamey
|
$800
[22]
He had more than 100 songs reach the Billboard Country Singles chart
Johnny Cash
Jamey
|
$800
[15]
Simone de Beauvoir & this boyfriend share a grave at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris
Sartre
Anders
|
$800
[4]
It's the number of U.S. presidents who've won the award
three
Scott
Jamey
Anders
|
$800
[17]
In the 1790s a sensation gripped England when William Ireland revealed a "new" play by this man titled "Vortigern"
Shakespeare
Scott
|
$800
[28]
As a verb, it means to order your child to his room & take away his privileges
ground
Anders
|
|
$1,200
[6]
The name of this Malaysian capital means "muddy confluence"
Kuala Lumpur
Anders
|
$1,200
[23]
Seen here, she knows more about Hollywood wives & husbands than they'd care to admit
Jackie Collins
Scott
|
$1,200
[14]
The most-visited grave site at St. Mary's cemetery in Rockville Maryland is that of this author & his wife Zelda
(Scott) Fitzgerald
Jamey
|
$1,600
[10]
Though he never won, he was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 & again in 1948 a few days before his assassination
(Mahatma) Gandhi
Jamey
|
$1,200
[18]
While at this Ithaca university, Hugh Troy used a rhinoceros foot to leave tracks in the snow around the school
Cornell
Anders
|
$1,200
[30]
Follow these double-talk dancers to your local discotheque
go-go dancers
Scott
|
|
$1,600
[7]
Belize City, a port, was Belize's capital until a 1961 hurricane; then the capital moved to this inland city
Belmopan
Scott
|
$1,600
[24]
"Mr. P.C." is a classic composition from Mr. J.C. of '50s & '60s jazz
John Coltrane
Jamey
|
$2,000
[11]
Her epitaph "Excuse My Dust" is famous; fewer know that it's on a plaque at NAACP HQ, where her ashes are buried
Dorothy Parker
Scott
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
This international organization won in 1917, 1944 & 1963
the Red Cross
Scott
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1957 the British TV show "Panorama" reported on a bumper crop of this pasta grown in trees
spaghetti
Anders
|
$1,600
[29]
Also known as chickpeas, these beans are the main ingredient in hummus
garbanzo beans
Jamey
|
|
$2,000
[8]
It's home to King Rama IX Royal Park
Bangkok
|
$2,000
[25]
Seen here, he's played a wide range of roles; check out "Babe" vs. "L.A. Confidential"
James Cromwell
Scott
|
DD
$2,100
[2]
After his death in 1968, some of his ashes were scattered along the California coast, the rest were buried in Salinas
(John) Steinbeck
Jamey
|
$2,000
[12]
In 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi won the Peace Prize while living under house arrest in this nation
Burma
Anders
|
$2,000
[20]
Unearthed in 1869, this 10-foot "giant" wasn't a prehistoric man but a hoax buried & "discovered" by George Hull
the Cardiff Giant
Scott
Jamey
|
$2,000
[27]
The place on deck where passengers enter the vessel, it's also a cry to "get out of my path!"
gangway
Scott
|
On May 5, 1961 he famously exclaimed, "What a beautiful view!"
Alan Shepard