Zelda Nash — a civil engineering business owner from Pahoa, Hawaii
Misha Dashevsky — a grocery clerk from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Laura Wimberley — a college teaching assistant originally from Wilmington, Delaware (whose 3-day cash winnings total $23,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura | $2,600 | $3,400 | $12,200 |
$12,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
14 R, 1 W |
| Misha | $2,700 | $3,500 | $12,200 |
$24,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Zelda | $3,000 | $4,400 | $15,800 |
$28,100
New champion: $28,100 |
$16,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| BACK IN THE USSR | TV ROLES | EARS TO YOU! | ELEMENTAL, MY DEAR | FOOD PHRASES | THE NEW YORK TIMESBUSINESS |
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$200
[2]
"USSR" is short for this
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Misha
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$200
[11]
On "Two and a Half Men" he plays bachelor & ladies' man Charlie Harper
Charlie Sheen
Misha
|
$200
[21]
Surely you remember that of all the mammals, it has the largest ears
an elephant
Misha
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$200
[16]
Atomic number 28; if you don't know 1 lb. of pure this can be drawn into a wire 80 mi. long, you're not worth a plugged one
nickel
Laura
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$200
[1]
An old cliche describes a difficult situation as a "fine kettle of" these
fish
Misha
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$200
[26]
Inspired by this "30-Minute" chef, compaines are now using cooking classes as a management team building exercise
Rachael Ray
Laura
|
|
$400
[3]
The return to Earth for this 1st man in space was jeopardized when his capsule was sent spinning by its braking rocket
(Yuri) Gagarin
Misha
|
$400
[12]
(I'm Susan Lucci.) In 1999 I finally won that Emmy for playing this role on "All My Children"
Erica Kane
Zelda
|
$400
[22]
Cervantes & Tennyson both warned that these "have ears"
the walls
Zelda
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$400
[17]
Listen, this reddish-orange metal first used about 5000 B.C., you'll never take me alive, see?!
copper
Misha
|
$400
[5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Hoover Museum.) The Hoover Museum celebrates the man who fed millions worldwide; however, it was the G.O.P., not Hoover, who promised one of these in every pot
a chicken
Zelda
|
$400
[27]
U.S. Airways is now selling advertising space on these "bags"; let's hope there are no cutout coupons
barf bags (or airsickness bags)
Misha
Zelda
|
|
$600
[4]
In 1971 the other shoe dropped on this ex-leader, a year after the publication of his memoirs
Khrushchev
Laura
|
$600
[13]
This veteran actress played the opinionated Maxine Gray on "Judging Amy"
Tyne Daly
Misha
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$600
[23]
As a friend of Walt Disney, Roy Williams was the first to put these on a hat
(Mickey) Mouse ears
Laura
|
$600
[18]
Fly high with this colorless, odorless & tasteless gas, atomic no. 2
helium
Zelda
|
$600
[6]
The theme song to "The Jeffersons" ends, "we finally got a" this 4-word treat
a "piece of the pie"
Zelda
|
$600
[28]
Recycled paper became billions of dollars for "The Queen of Trash", Zhang Yin, from this country
China
Laura
|
|
$800
[9]
Gorbachev promoted both perestroika, "restructuring", & "openness", this Russian term
glasnost
Misha
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$800
[14]
In 1969 Robert Young came out of a 7-year retirement to play this TV doctor
Marcus Welby
Zelda
|
$800
[24]
He threatened Gauguin with a razor the same night he cut off part of his own ear
Van Gogh
Misha
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$800
[19]
Albertus Magnus is often credited with isolating this element around 1250; it's since been used as a poison
arsenic
Laura
Zelda
|
$800
[7]
Told the people had no bread, Marie Antoinette allegedly said this (didn't really happen)
"Let them eat cake"
Zelda
|
$800
[29]
This auto company will be the first foreign brand to compete in stock car racing's top series since Jaguar in the '50s
Toyota
|
|
DD
$1,500
[10]
Once Lenin's heir apparent, in 1925 he was removed as Commissar of War; by 1929 he was banished from the country
(Leon) Trotsky
Misha
|
$1,000
[15]
It's the hilarious title role played by America Ferrera, as pictured here
"Ugly Betty" Suarez
Laura
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1731 this man's ear was cut off, later sparking a war between Spain & England
Captain Jenkins
|
$1,000
[20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Princeton University.) The hull thruster, a plasma-based propulsion system for space, burns this element that glows in some luxury cars' headlights
xenon
Misha
Zelda
|
$1,000
[8]
Exodus 3:8 mentions "a land flowing with" these 2 things
milk and honey
Laura
|
$1,000
[30]
Her book imprint is being closed after the debacle & cancellation of O.J.'s "If I Did It" book
Judith Regan
Zelda
|
| THE HIGH PRIESTESS | THE DEVIL | THE FOOL | THE HERMIT | WHEEL OF FORTUNE | TOURING THE TAROT DECK |
|
$400
[18]
Appropriately, Leander's beloved lass, Hero, was a high priestess for this Greek goddess of love
Aphrodite
Zelda
|
$400
[2]
Guns N' Roses aptly covered this Rolling Stones tune for "Interview with the Vampire"
"Sympathy for the Devil"
Misha
|
$400
[7]
Rumor had it that he started Rome's 64 A.D. fire so he could build his Golden House palace in the ruins
Nero
Zelda
|
$400
[13]
Spending days all alone might help you learn that "hermit" comes from a Greek word for one of these arid regions
a desert
Laura
|
$400
[25]
It's tops in cardsR _ _ _ L_ L _ S _
a royal flush
Laura
|
$400
[1]
Heavenly bodies are the Star, the Sun & this, card XVIII
the Moon
Misha
|
|
DD
$500
[24]
These priestesses vowed 30 years of service, & if they broke the chastity vow, they were buried alive
Vestal virgins
Misha
|
$800
[3]
Not only did William Peter Blatty write the second sequel to this film, he directed it as well
The Exorcist
Zelda
|
$800
[8]
In the Battle of Germantown in this war, drunk U.S. General Adam Stephen had his men fire on Anthony Wayne's
the Revolutionary War
Misha
Zelda
|
$800
[14]
Take pride in your hermitting choice; St. Celestine left this high-powered job to return to being a hermit & never looked back
Pope
|
$800
[26]
Bivalve concretions prefacing hogsP E _ _ L S_ E _ O _ ES _ _ _ E
Pearls Before Swine
Laura
|
$800
[9]
Card XVI, this tall building can signal ruin, like the bankruptcy of a record store
the Tower
Zelda
|
|
$800
[19]
Priestesses in this Haitian religion are called "mambos" & can lead ceremonies invoking the dead
Voodoo
Misha
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
After making a deal with the Devil in this 1968 film, John Cassavetes gets a Broadway role
Rosemary's Baby
Zelda
|
$1,200
[20]
One of the 2 wives of Henry VIII who married the man thinking (mistakenly) he'd never execute me for adultery!
(One of) Anne Boleyn or Catherine Howard
Misha
|
$1,200
[15]
You might want to plant trees, in imitation of this hermit-like 19th c. planter & wanderer born John Chapman
Johnny Appleseed
Misha
|
$1,200
[27]
Fred Hoyle's spaced-out name for how we all ended up hereB _ _B _ _ __ H _ O R _
the Big Bang Theory
Misha
|
$1,200
[10]
This card showing an execution foretells a sacrifice
the Hanged Man
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Kagura, one of the oldest forms of Japanese theater, had priestesses dancing at this religion's shrines
Shintoism
Misha
|
$1,600
[5]
As Satanic lawyer John Milton, Al Pacino tries to corrupt Keanu Reeves in this movie
Devil's Advocate
Misha
|
$1,600
[21]
In 1519 this Aztec welcomed Cortes with gold, perhaps thinking the explorer was a god; he died in 1520
Montezuma
Zelda
|
$1,600
[16]
Considered by some the first Christian hermit, this saint shares his name with a saintly finder of lost items
St. Anthony
Laura
|
$1,600
[28]
Elgar's exaltationP _ _ P_ N _C _ _ C U _ _ _ _ N C _
Pomp And Circumstance
Zelda
|
$1,600
[11]
Card VI, it features a pair who stand for attraction or concord
the Lovers
Laura
|
|
$2,000
[30]
The priestess Rhea Silvia had these male twins & set them adrift on the Tiber
Romulus & Remus
Zelda
|
$2,000
[6]
Robert De Niro chews the scenery & some eggs as Louis Cyphre (get it?) in this New Orleans-set film
Angel Heart
|
$2,000
[22]
Around 1911 Tsar Nicholas II had this "mystic" expelled, but Alexandra soon had him returned; worked out well
Rasputin
Misha
|
$2,000
[17]
Part of each day as a hermit might include this act of penance whose name is from the Latin for "whipping"
flagellation
Zelda
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$2,000
[29]
Robert Penn Warren knows they helped with HumptyA _ __ H _K _ N _ ' __ _ N
All The King's Men
Laura
|
$2,000
[12]
The suits in the Minor Arcana are Pentacles, Wands, Swords & this
Cups (or Chalices)
Laura
|
Starting in 1948 at Cornell, he lectured on books written in his native language, like "Dead Souls" & "Anna Karenina"
Vladimir Nabokov