David Haglund — a freelance writer originally from Belmont, Massachusetts
Kate Zimmermann — a prosecutor from Bakersfield, California
Susan Herder — a science teacher from St. Paul, Minnesota (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,202)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan | $1,400 | $3,400 | $6,000 |
$3,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,400
13 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Kate | $400 | $2,200 | $9,100 |
$4,100
New champion: $4,100 |
$8,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| David | $3,000 | $6,600 | $10,600 |
$3,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
20 R, 4 W |
| THE 3rd CENTURY B.C. | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN | FANTASTIC SCAMS | BRITISH AUTHORS | MSSNG VWLS | ROMANIA |
|
$200
[24]
Arcesilaus founds the "Second Academy" of this city
Athens
Kate
David
|
$200
[1]
James Bradley & Ron Powers' book was the basis for this 2006 film about the 6 men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
David
|
$200
[16]
"Pump & dump" scams target these, increasing their value for a short time before the bottom falls out
stocks
David
|
$200
[10]
Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists
Beatrix Potter
Kate
|
$200
[4]
One of the planets:"RNS"
Uranus
Kate
|
$200
[11]
Romania has a 100-mile coastline on this "dark" body of water
the Black Sea
Susan
|
|
$400
[26]
This ancient wonder depicted here, is completed
the Colossus of Rhodes
David
|
$400
[2]
(Hi, I'm Scott Turow.) This man starred as Rusty Sabich, a lawyer accused of murder, when my novel "Presumed Innocent" was made into a film
Harrison Ford
David
|
$400
[17]
Shirley Jackson could tell you that many people in 2006 were duped by e-mails claiming they'd won millions in these
lotteries
David
|
$400
[12]
In "The Doors of Perception", he described the "Brave New World" of drug experimentation
(Aldous) Huxley
David
|
$400
[5]
A U.S. state:"TH"
Utah
David
|
$400
[19]
Once a part of the Warsaw Pact, Romania joined this military alliance in 2004
NATO
David
|
|
$600
[27]
The Pharos Lighthouse is built in this Egyptian city
Alexandria
Kate
|
$600
[3]
She starred as Augusten Burroughs' unstable mom in "Running With Scissors"
Annette Bening
Susan
|
$600
[18]
In 2004 the FTC filed suit against a Co. offering a magnetic device that purportedly increased this in cars by 27%
gas mileage
Kate
|
$600
[13]
This 19th C. novelist's name gave us an adjective that's used to mean squalid or impoverished
Charles Dickens
Susan
|
$600
[8]
It's a gas!(& an element):"NN"
neon
Susan
|
$600
[20]
The spine of the country is formed by these mountains, the eastward continuation of the Alps
the Carpathians
Kate
|
|
$800
[28]
Greek mathematician Eratosthenes famously calculates the circumference of this
the Earth
David
|
$800
[6]
In 2005 he starred in "Jarhead", based on a memoir, & co-starred in "Brokeback Mountain", based on a short story
Jake Gyllenhaal
Susan
|
$800
[21]
Chicagoans were advised by Illinois' attorney general to beware of phony invitations to tapings of this woman's TV show
Oprah
David
|
$800
[14]
The home in Haworth, seen here, is where these three sisters wrote novels
the Brontës
David
|
$800
[9]
A Native American people:"PCH"
Apache
David
|
$800
[25]
The capital city of Bucharest is on the Dimbovita River, a tributary of this larger, more fabled river
the Danube
David
|
|
$1,000
[29]
Beginning more than 4 centuries of rule, this 3-letter dynasty is founded in China
Han
|
DD
$1,400
[7]
2 flims with this title got Oscar nominations, one based on a Dreiser novel, the other on a Stephen King book
Carrie
Susan
|
$1,000
[22]
In 2004 this "Long Island Lothario" got a year in jail for running an L.A. car insurance scam
Joey Buttafuoco
Susan
|
$1,000
[15]
From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" & "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic
H.G. Wells
|
$1,000
[23]
A country in Africa:"THP"
Ethiopia
Susan
|
$1,000
[30]
Stick your neck out in this mountainous region of Romania whose name means "beyond the forest"
Transylvania
Kate
|
| WELCOME TO OLE MISS | WOMEN IN SONG | VICE PRESIDENTS | STATELY MUSEUMS | EPONYMOUS SCIENCE | "RO"MANIA |
|
$400
[19]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Mississippi) Perhaps because it was used as a hospital, in 1862 the campus's one original building was spared destruction by this man, who was at the start of his Vicksburg campaign
Ulysses Grant
David
|
$400
[6]
In "West Side Story", Tony's smitten because "I've just met a girl named" this
Maria
Susan
|
$400
[20]
In 1959 this vice-president participated in an impromptu "kitchen debate" at a U.S. exhibit in Moscow
Nixon
David
|
$400
[11]
The Flag House & Star-Spangled Banner Museum, the National Cryptologic Museum
Maryland
Kate
|
$400
[14]
This Scottish engineer coined the term "horsepower", & a unit of power is named for him
(James) Watt
David
|
$400
[1]
Trademarked Minoxidil product for the follically challenged
Rogaine
David
|
|
$1,600
[28]
The Center for the Study of Southern Culture puts out a magazine on this form of American music
the blues
Susan
Kate
|
$800
[7]
Harold Hill sings, "I love you madly, madly, madam librarian..." her
Marian
|
$800
[21]
In 1958 he was elected Governor of New York; he was reelected 3 times
Nelson Rockefeller
|
$800
[12]
The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, the Oz Museum
Kansas
David
|
$800
[15]
Leave the driving to this German scientist who lent his name to a unit of frequency equal to 1 cycle per second
(Heinrich) Hertz
Susan
|
$800
[2]
This French cheese that's exposed to a mold is called the "king of cheeses"
roquefort
Kate
|
|
$2,000
[27]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Rowan Oak) The university owns & maintains Rowan Oak, home of this Nobel Prize-winning author including the typewriter on which he wrote several novels
Faulkner
David
|
$1,200
[8]
Her "last dance" was the subject of a Tom Petty hit
Mary Jane
David
|
$1,200
[22]
He's the only vice-president who was born in Minnesota; nope...Humphrey was born in South Dakota
(Walter) Mondale
Susan
|
$1,200
[13]
The Liberace Museum, the Atomic Testing Museum
Nevada
Susan
David
|
$1,600
[17]
An electric current measuring device developed by Andre Ampere was named this after an Italian anatomist
galvanometer
|
$1,200
[3]
The name of this order of mammals comes from the Latin for "gnawing"
rodent
Kate
|
| — |
$1,600
[9]
Elvis sadly sang that this was "the name of his latest flame"
Marie
|
$1,600
[23]
In 1864, while serving as vice-president, he spent 2 months in the Maine Coast Guard as a cook
Hannibal Hamlin
David
|
$1,600
[25]
The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, the Experience Music Project
Washington
Susan
|
$2,000
[18]
The unit of magnetic flux abbreviated Mx was named for this physicist
James Clerk Maxwell
|
$1,600
[4]
Engine type with cylinders spinning around a fixed shaft at high speed
rotary
Kate
|
| — |
$2,000
[10]
A 1961 Ricky Nelson hit went, "Hello" her, "Goodbye Heart"
Mary Lou
Kate
|
$2,000
[24]
In 1812 this future VP lost reelection as Mass. governor after supporting an inequitable redistricting bill; how appropriate!
Elbridge Gerry
David
|
$2,000
[26]
Housatonic Museum of Art, Mystic Seaport
Connecticut
Susan
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
Nobel, Lise Meitner & this man are the 3 non-Nobel Prize-winning scientists who have chemical elements named for them
Dmitri Mendeleev
Susan
|
DD
$2,500
[5]
Jean-Francois Champollion deciphered it in the 19th century
the Rosetta Stone
Kate
|
The fervent patriotism of this man who died in 1919 earned him the nickname "The Star-Spangled Scotchman"
Andrew Carnegie