Tricia McKinney — a TV news writer from Secaucus, New Jersey
Ryan Hall — a physics teacher from State College, Pennsylvania
Gin Peck — a computer consultant from Phelps, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gin | $1,400 | $2,800 | $11,200 |
$16,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ryan | $2,000 | $4,400 | $5,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
15 R, 4 W |
| Tricia | $4,600 | $8,900 | $16,300 |
$21,499
New champion: $21,499 |
$18,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| AMERICAN GOVERNMENT | BROADWAY ROLES | BORN FIRST | TODAY'S HOROSCOPE | TUNNEL | OF "LOVE" |
|
$200
[6]
Kansas' 10-member Board of this has made news for its doubts about Darwin
Education
Gin
|
$200
[1]
In 1951 he was "The King"; Gertrude Lawrence was "I"
Yul Brynner
Tricia
|
$200
[26]
Dr. Jonas Salk, Dr. Louis Pasteur, Dr. Benjamin Spock
Dr. Louis Pasteur
Ryan
|
$200
[11]
This "chaste" sixth sign of the Zodiac gets bold today! You're feminine, but you can play with the big boys!
Virgo
Tricia
|
$200
[16]
The Severomuyskiy Tunnel stretches 9 1/2 miles in this nation
Russia
Gin
|
$200
[21]
Fred Grandy popped up as Gopher on this cruisin' TV show
The Love Boat
Ryan
|
|
$400
[7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR.) The Bill Clinton Library's Cabinet meeting room shows that the President has the Defense Secretary on his left & this Cabinet officer on his right
Secretary of State
Ryan
|
$400
[2]
In 2002 this "Notes on a Scandal" dame went "Into the Woods" as Giant (well, her recorded voice did, anyway)
Judi Dench
|
$400
[27]
Tiberius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Sid Caesar
Augustus Caesar
Ryan
|
$400
[12]
Today people will feel the "sting" of this fixed water sign, the Zodiac's eighth! You have the answer! Say it!
Scorpio
Gin
|
$400
[17]
Traveling under the Alps, the Great St. Bernard Tunnel connects Italy to this country
Switzerland
Tricia
|
$400
[22]
It's not a vixen's mitten, it's a traditional herb used in medicines & also known as figwort
foxglove
Gin
|
|
$600
[8]
This type of joint committee settles differences between Senate & House versions of a bill
Conference Committee
|
$600
[3]
In 1968, before the force was with him, he landed the lead in "The Great White Hope"
James Earl Jones
Tricia
|
$600
[28]
Ulysses Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Ryan
|
$600
[13]
This sign has carried the water for "ages"! You're positive! Make things happen today!
Aquarius
Tricia
|
$800
[19]
What's officially the Lucius J. Kellam, Jr. Bridge-Tunnel travels more than a mile under this east Virginia bay
the Chesapeake Bay
Ryan
|
$600
[23]
Adjective for the hoof of a goat or a devil
cloven
Tricia
|
|
$800
[9]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the State Capitol building in Lincoln, NE.) As in Washington, the vice president presides over the Senate, in Nebraska, this official presides over the unicameral legislature
the lieutenant governor
Ryan
|
$800
[4]
(Hi. I'm Bebe Neuwirth.) In 1997 I won my 2nd Tony Award for playing Velma Kelly in "Chicago"; in 2007 I appeared in a revival of the production playing this dancer, Velma's rival
Roxie
Gin
|
$800
[29]
John Irving, James Michener, Arthur Miller
James Michener
Gin
Ryan
|
$800
[14]
This masculine, mutable air sign is ruled by Mercury & knows there are 2 sides to everything, so think twice today!
Gemini
Ryan
|
$1,000
[20]
The 11 1/2-mile tunnel between Bologna & Florence, Italy bears the name of this Italian mountain chain
the Apennines
Ryan
|
$800
[24]
The title of this 1985 Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel should put you at disease
Love in the Time of Cholera
Tricia
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Judicially, the U.S. is divided regionally into 12 of these, each with a Court of Appeals
circuits
Tricia
|
$1,000
[5]
In 1948 he was drafted to play "Mister Roberts"
Henry Fonda
Tricia
|
$1,000
[30]
Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Judy Chicago
Jackson Pollock
|
$1,000
[15]
This December-January sign is negative & can be stubborn, but not today; relax & you'll respond
Capricorn
Tricia
|
DD
$1,500
[18]
Dating from the time of Hezekiah, the Siloam Tunnel diverts water under this city to a pool inside the city walls
Jerusalem
Tricia
|
$1,000
[25]
The capital of this former Yugoslav Republic & now independent nation is Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tricia
|
| ARCHITECTURE | MUSICAL NOBILITY | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS | ALPHABETICALLY LAST | CHICKS RULE! | NOT QUITE BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[1]
Berthold Lubetkin's designs for the London Zoo include a gorilla house & a pool for these flightless birds
penguins
Gin
|
$400
[17]
Born in 1935, he became, simply, "The King"
Elvis Presley
Ryan
|
$400
[6]
Many have said that Margaret Mitchell based this character on her first husband, Red Upshaw
Rhett Butler
Gin
|
$400
[8]
...of the U.S. states that border an ocean
Washington
Gin
|
$400
[10]
Wu Hao was Empress of this nation for 50 years in the 7th & 8th centuries
China
Ryan
|
$400
[26]
Indiana Jones works hard to recover a Biblical artifact misplaced somewhere in Little Rock
Raiders of the Lost Arkansas
Ryan
Tricia
|
|
$800
[2]
Carlo Maderno is famed for his baroque facade for the Church of Santa Susanna in this world capital
Rome
Ryan
Tricia
|
$800
[18]
God save the rapper, singer & actress Dana Owens, who goes by this moniker
Queen Latifah
Ryan
|
$800
[7]
A trip to Spain inspired this "Silas Marner" novelist to write the poem "The Spanish Gypsy"
George Eliot
Ryan
|
$800
[9]
...of writers buried in Paris' Pantheon
(Emile) Zola
Tricia
|
$800
[22]
In the 1990s this Down Under island country has back-to-back female P.M.'s, Jenny Shipley & Helen Clark
New Zealand
Ryan
Tricia
|
$800
[27]
Vodka-based morning cocktail enjoyed with TV's Bundy family
Bloody Married... with Children
|
|
$1,200
[3]
This architect of L.A.'s Disney Concert Hall called it "a strange kind of sailing ship sitting in a box"
Frank Gehry
Tricia
|
$1,200
[19]
He was born in Minneapolis in 1958, the son of jazz musician John Nelson
Prince
Tricia
|
$1,200
[14]
Thomas Carlyle's wife is the woman who inspired Leigh Hunt's poem "Jenny" did this to "Me"
Kissed
|
$1,200
[11]
...of groups in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
ZZ Top
Gin
|
$1,200
[23]
For more than a century, this European country has had 3 queens & no kings: Wilhelmina, Juliana & Beatrix
the Netherlands
Gin
|
$1,200
[28]
French WWII defensive fortifications put in an album to provide info on a band
Maginot liner notes
Gin
|
|
$1,600
[4]
In the 1950s this Finnish-born architect designed the U.S. Embassy in Oslo
(Eero) Saarinen
Ryan
|
$1,600
[20]
The revue "Sophisticated Ladies" is based on the music of this "noble" composer & bandleader
Duke Ellington
Tricia
|
$1,600
[15]
A fascination with Goethe led this "Magic Mountain" author to write the novel "Lotte in Weimar"
(Thomas) Mann
Gin
|
$1,600
[12]
...of Alfred Hitchcock movies starring Jimmy Stewart
Vertigo
Tricia
|
$2,000
[25]
Gro Harlem Bruntland has been prime minister of this Scandinavian country 3 different times
Norway
Gin
Ryan
|
$1,600
[29]
Israeli prime minister (1977-1983) who's a Cole Porter song that "brings back a memory ever green"
Menachim Begin the Beguine
Tricia
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Philip Johnson's Glass House may have been inspired by this German-born less-is-more man's Farnsworth House
Mies van der Rohe
Tricia
|
$2,000
[21]
Dinah Washington was "The Queen of the Blues" & this singer was "The Empress of the Blues"
Bessie Smith
|
$2,000
[16]
Hemingway's novel "The Torrents of Spring" parodies the style of this "Winesburg, Ohio" author, an early supporter of his
Sherwood Anderson
|
$2,000
[13]
...of current U.S. cabinet departments
Veterans Affairs
|
DD
$4,000
[24]
The Philippines has had 2 female presidents, current leader Gloria Arroyo & this woman from 1986 to 1992
(Corazon) Aquino
Gin
|
DD
$3,000
[30]
Descartes' famous Latin axiom that's a screwball comedy with Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon (in drag)
Cogito Ergo Sum Like It Hot
Tricia
|
Following "Gone with the Wind", it would be another 12 years before a color film won again: this foreign-set musical
An American in Paris