Maggi McKenzie — a business analyst from Mount Juliet, Tennessee
Michael O'Hara — a director of customer service from West Hollywood, California
Laura Wimberley — a college teaching assistant originally from Wilmington, Delaware (whose 2-day cash winnings total $7,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura | $1,600 | $3,600 | $10,000 |
$16,800
3-day champion: $23,999 |
$11,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michael | $4,600 | $9,600 | $18,400 |
$16,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,400
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Maggi | $1,800 | $3,200 | $2,800 |
$5,599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,800
12 R, 3 W |
| LET'S COMMUNICATE | TV JAILBIRDS | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" | OGDEN | NASH-ING | YOUR TEETH |
|
$200
[1]
The 2000 Census found it to be the principal foreign language in the U.S., with more than 28 million speakers
Spanish
Maggi
|
$200
[8]
Barney locks himself in jail after Gomer makes a "citizen's arrest!" on a classic episode of this series
The Andy Griffith Show
Maggi
|
$200
[3]
An epicure, or his magazine (7)
gourmet
Michael
|
$200
[16]
Ogden, Utah was laid out in 1850 by this religious leader
Brigham Young
Maggi
|
$200
[21]
"The cow is of the boving ilk; one end is moo, the other, ____"
milk
Laura
|
$200
[26]
In the dentist's office, Procaine & Lidocaine are types of this
anesthetics
Maggi
|
|
$400
[2]
Karl von Frisch figured out that these insects point in a given direction while dancing, to show where food is
bees
Michael
|
$400
[9]
November 21, 1980: Sue Ellen's fingerprints are on the gun, so she's mistakenly arrested for shooting this man
J.R.
Laura
|
$400
[4]
Alaskan bay, or one of its features (7)
glacier
Michael
|
$400
[17]
Ogden is very close to this, the largest U.S. body of water between the Great Lakes and the Pacific
the Great Salt Lake
Laura
|
$400
[22]
"There is something about a martini...& to tell you the truth, it is not the ____--I think that perhaps it's the gin"
vermouth
Laura
|
$400
[27]
Number of teeth typically found in the fully developed adult upper jaw
16
Michael
Maggi
|
|
$600
[10]
Well into WWI, it was the animal alternative to Marconi's system for sending wireless long-distance messages
pigeons
Laura
|
$600
[13]
November 26, 2006: Mike the plumber is arrested for murder; Edie visits him in jail & tells him she's dumping him on this series
Desperate Housewives
Maggi
|
$600
[5]
The Good Witch of the North (6)
Glinda
Laura
|
$600
[18]
At Ogden's Pioneer Days Rodeo, a "tough enough to wear" this color campaign was begun to fight breast cancer
pink
Laura
|
$600
[23]
"The one-l lama, he's a ____. The two-l llama, he's a beast"
priest
Laura
Michael
|
$600
[28]
It's no fiction, it's the sensitive tissue at the center of a tooth consisting of nerves & blood vessels
the pulp
Maggi
|
|
$800
[11]
First developed in France in 1794, this system of communication's name is from the Greek for "sign bearing"
semaphore
Maggi
|
$800
[14]
(Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: SVU.) I've been on both sides of the law--I played devious serial killer Chris Keller on this HBO prison drama
Oz
Michael
|
$800
[6]
Adjective for the 1890s (3)
gay
Michael
|
$800
[19]
Peter Skene Ogden made his name as a trapper for this company named for an eastern body of water
the Hudson Bay Company
Maggi
|
$800
[24]
"Oh what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are ____"
naive
Michael
|
$800
[29]
These canines are so-named for their position under a body part
eye teeth
Michael
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Founded in 1952, this U.S. agency's primary function is to encode & decode communications intelligence
the National Security Agency
|
$1,000
[15]
The inmates on this Fox series escaped from a jail called Fox River
Prison Break
Michael
|
$1,000
[7]
A policeman, in Paris (8)
gendarme
Michael
|
$1,000
[20]
Ogden was transformed to a bustling city after the "Golden Spike" ceremony of 1869 joined these 2 railways
the Union Pacific & the Central Pacific
Michael
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
"He without benefit of ____, his fun and income soon quadruples"
scruples
Michael
|
$1,000
[30]
If you wear this type of metal bling, remove it before eating & brush & floss so bacteria don't build up
a grill
Laura
|
| THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES | NCAA TEAM NAME'S THE SAME | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT | ART STYLE ETYMOLOGY | THE MANSION FAMILY | HOUSE OF METAPHORS |
|
$400
[18]
A November 2006 issue reported a higher risk of recurrent strep throat in kids who haven't had this operation
a tonsillectomy
Michael
|
$400
[1]
Troy University, University of Southern California
the Trojans
Laura
|
$400
[2]
As this state goes so goes Olympia Snowe, who has been a senator from the state since 1995
Maine
Laura
|
$400
[7]
This name came from the "rebirth" of classical learning after years of intellectual & cultural decline
renaissance
Maggi
|
$400
[27]
In Norse mythology, this god lives in a giant mansion called Bilskirnir, or "lightning"
Thor
Laura
Michael
|
$400
[13]
Jesus said the temple has been turned into one of these "of thieves"
a den
Maggi
|
|
$800
[19]
A 2004 conference on ways to detect when a country is making these included ideas like robot spy butterflies
nuclear weapons
Laura
|
$800
[9]
Clemson, University of Missouri
the Tigers
Michael
|
$800
[3]
She was the longest-serving Attorney General in the 20th century
(Janet) Reno
Laura
|
$800
[8]
Initially a perjorative term, this 18th century art period name comes from the French rocaille, "rock-work"
rococo
Michael
|
$800
[28]
Arlington House was this man's family mansion until confiscated by the U.S. government in 1864
(Robert E.) Lee
Maggi
|
$800
[14]
Proverbially, "they threw everything at us but" this basin
the kitchen sink
Laura
|
|
$1,600
[21]
At age 100, the internal organs of these shelled reptiles look just like those of teenage ones
turtles
Michael
|
$1,200
[10]
University of Connecticut, University of Washington
the Huskies
Michael
|
$1,200
[4]
Hattie Caraway, the first elected female senator, represented this state, long the "Land of Opportunity"
Arkansas
|
$1,600
[24]
The name is this art style that emerged in the late 1950s comes from its use of a certain type of "culture"
pop art
Laura
|
$1,200
[29]
This author spent the last years of his life at Vailima, his mansion & plantation in Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
$1,200
[15]
Look in the basement for a last-place sports team, known by this rhyming term
cellar dweller
Michael
|
|
$2,000
[22]
This second fiddle among nucleic acids may be linked to types of leukemia & mental retardation
ribonucleic acid (RNA)
Laura
|
$1,600
[11]
BYU, University of Houston
the Cougars
|
$1,600
[5]
In 2002 this Kennedy family member ran for governor of Maryland; before that, she was Lt. Governor
Kathleen Kennedy (Townsend)
Maggi
|
$2,000
[25]
Apollinaire described a work by Erik Satie as above ordinary reality, using the word that became this art style
surrealism
|
$2,000
[26]
This adventurous author built Wolf House, a Calif. mansion that burned down shortly before he was to move in
(Jack) London
Michael
|
$1,600
[16]
In March 2006 Congress raised this metaphorical limit to around $9 trillion
the debt ceiling
Michael
Maggi
|
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
Scholars can't read a 10-word column found in Guatemala but know it means these people had writing in 2300 B.C.
the Mayans
Laura
|
$2,000
[12]
University of Wyoming, Oklahoma State University
the Cowboys
Michael
|
$2,000
[6]
Appointed by President Carter to 2 different posts, she was the first African-American woman in the Cabinet
Patricia Harris
Maggi
|
DD
$3,000
[23]
In a satirical 1874 review, critic Louis Leroy used this term to describe the loose, inexact manner of painting in a gallery show
impressionism
Laura
|
— |
$2,000
[17]
To get a breeze indoors, I'll do this 4-word phrase, meaning be receptive to the possibility of changing my mind
leave the door open
|
He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..."
Thoreau