Mehrun Etebari game 6.
Mike Donner — a construction worker from Norfolk, Virginia
Renee Paradis — a civil rights lawyer originally from Sebastapol, California
Mehrun Etebari — a grad student from Durham, New Hampshire (whose 5-day cash winnings total $128,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehrun | $4,800 | $8,000 | $13,200 |
$6,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
23 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Renee | $2,600 | $4,000 | $3,200 |
$3,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,200
13 R, 4 W |
| Mike | $1,400 | $600 | $17,200 |
$7,999
New champion: $7,999 |
$11,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| AMERICANA | RHYME WAVE | PUDDING | DESCARTES | BEFORE | THE HORSE |
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$200
[6]
The price of this iconic American item hasn't had a low rise; the low-rise type are $88 at Victoria's Secret
jeans
Renee
Mike
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$200
[11]
The social status of an oar puller on an ancient Roman galley
slave
Mike
|
$200
[23]
Nursery rhyme guy who precedes "pudding & pie"
Georgie Porgie
Mehrun
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$200
[1]
It's the English translation on Descartes' most famous axiom, "Cogito, ergo sum"
I think, therefore I am
Mehrun
|
$200
[16]
Before moving to late night, this man hosted the game show "Earn Your Vacation"
Johnny Carson
Mehrun
|
$200
[21]
These are defined as horses that stand less than 14.2 hands at the with ers
ponies
Mehrun
|
|
$400
[7]
Company whose symbol is seen here
American Airlines
Renee
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$400
[12]
A boisterous dance party with psychedelic lights & loud music
rave
Renee
|
$400
[26]
This tragedy started in a baker's shop on Pudding Lane on Sept. 2, 1666
the Great Fire of London
Renee
|
$400
[2]
In 1618 Descartes was in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the ruler of what's now this Low Country
the Netherlands
Mehrun
|
$400
[17]
Before Kenny G & Wynton Marsalis there was this swinging guy seen here
Benny Goodman
Mehrun
|
$400
[22]
Under racing rules, every thoroughbred in the Northern Hemisphere has this birthday
January 1
Renee
|
|
$600
[8]
As in the title of a movie & a TV series, it's game night for U.S. high school football
Friday night
Renee
|
$600
[13]
To desire eagerly
crave
Mike
|
$600
[27]
Adjective in front of "pudding" in the name of a Harvard theatrical troupe
hasty
Renee
|
$600
[3]
After the arrest & trial of this "sun-loving" Italian, Descartes suppressed his own work on similar ideas
Galileo
Mehrun
|
$600
[18]
Before Raquel Welch and Marilyn Monroe there was this platinum star of classics like "Dinner at Eight" & "Bombshell"
Jean Harlow
|
$600
[24]
This type of horse takes its name from the length of racetracks in early America
a quarterhorse
Mehrun
|
|
$800
[9]
(I'm master carpenter Norm Abram.) The 1st old house we renovated was a run-down Victorian in the Dorchester section of this city
Boston
Mehrun
|
$800
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an architectural plan on the monitor.) Leading from the entry to the altar, it's this section of a church that's flanked by the aisles
nave
Mike
|
$800
[28]
In this poet's 1786 "Address to a Haggis", he addresses the "Great Chieftain o' the Pudding Race"
(Rabbie) Burns
Mehrun
|
$800
[4]
Descartes invented the analytic or coordinate type of this, from the Greek for "earth measure"
geometry
Mehrun
|
$800
[19]
Before Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant, there was this handsome lord of the ring
Gorgeous George
Mehrun
Renee
|
$800
[25]
This horse breed seenhereshares its name from the peninsula from which it hails
Arabian
Renee
Mike
|
|
$1,000
[10]
These creatures usually contributed the materials that early scrimshanders carved
whales
Renee
|
$1,000
[15]
To incise letters on a hard surface
engrave
Mehrun
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
When sausages are thrown into the batter of this English treat, it's known as toad-in-the-hole
Yorkshire pudding
Mehrun
|
$1,000
[5]
Though born in France, Descartes died in this country where he had gone to teach Queen Christina
Sweden
Mehrun
|
$1,000
[20]
Long before Olivier & Brando there was this man, brother to an assassin
Edwin Booth
Mehrun
|
$1,000
[29]
From the Spanish, it's the term for a horse with a golden coat & a white or silver mane & tail
palomino
|
| CANADIAN CITIES | REMEMBER THAT SONG? | PRESIDENTIAL POLITICAL PARTIES | CULINARY BEFORE & AFTER | AUDIO BOOKS | GIVE ME AN "A" |
|
$400
[6]
It's been called the "Gibraltar of America" because of the Citadel, a fort overlooking the St. Lawrence River
Quebec City
Mehrun
|
$400
[23]
We hope nobody takes literally the subtitle of the Mercer-Arlen song "One For My Baby (And One More For" this)
"The Road"
Renee
|
$400
[11]
Warren G. Harding,1920
the Republican Party
Mike
|
$400
[16]
Finest olive oil grade whose British capital is Road Town & whose American capital is Charlotte-Amalie
extra Virgin Islands
Mike
|
$400
[21]
If Julia Roberts has help with her kids, she knows the world of these "Diaries" she narrated
The Nanny Diaries
Mike
|
$400
[1]
Saturn was the ancient Roman god of this land-loving discipline
agriculture
Mike
|
|
$800
[7]
It was capital of the Northwest Territories from 1882 to 1905, when it became the provincial capital of Saskatchewan
Regina
Mehrun
Renee
|
$800
[24]
His "In The Air Tonight" plays while Tom Cruise & Rebecca de Mornay ride the train in "Risky Business"--O Lord
Phil Collins
Mehrun
|
$800
[12]
Franklin Pierce,1852
the Democratic Party
Mehrun
|
$800
[17]
Round Southern fried cornmeal cake that's the object of a youthful crush
hush puppy love
Mehrun
|
$800
[22]
She read her own "Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing", but Annabeth Gish read her adult novel "Summer Sisters"
Judy Blume
Renee
|
$800
[2]
This strict Mennonite sect that rose out of the Anabaptists is found mostly in Pennsylvania & Ohio
the Amish
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In 1934 gold was discovered in this capital of the Northwest Territories; in 1991 diamonds were discovered there
Yellowknife
Mehrun
|
$1,200
[25]
It precedes "All Nite" in a Kiss title & "Is Here To Stay" in a Danny & the Juniors title
"Rock & Roll"
Renee
|
$1,200
[13]
William Henry Harrison,1840
the Whigs
Mike
|
$1,200
[18]
Chili's rib cut that stars in a Robert Zemeckis time-traveling comedy
Baby Back to the Future
Mike
|
$1,200
[28]
Who better than Leo McKern to read John Mortimer's this man of the Bailey "For the Prosecution"
Rumpole
Renee
|
$1,200
[3]
Richard Rhodes wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about "The Making of" this, which is powered by fission
the atomic bomb
Mike
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Named for a queen, this capital of Prince Edward Island is the seat of Queens County
Charlottetown
Mike
|
$1,600
[26]
This James Blunt farewell song goes, "You have been the one, you have been the one for me"
"Goodbye My Lover"
Mehrun
|
$1,600
[14]
Zachary Taylor,1848
Whig
Mehrun
Renee
|
$1,600
[19]
Bite-size French language dessert cake that wreaks havoc in the Book of Revelation
petit Four Horsemen of the Apocalyse
|
$1,600
[29]
This book by David Sedaris about attempting to speak French may be best experienced in the author's reading
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Mehrun
|
$2,000
[5]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a triangle on the monitor.) In a triangle, a line extending from the vertex to the opposite side or base, creating a right angle, is called this
the altitude
Mehrun
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Known for great skiing, this Alberta resort is "Canada's Highest Town" at 4,537 feet
Banff
Renee
|
$2,000
[27]
Chelsea Clinton is named after this song written by Joni Mitchell
"Chelsea Morning"
|
DD
$6,000
[15]
James Madison,1808(this hyphenated party)
the Democratic-Republicans
Mike
|
$2,000
[20]
French dish of chicken, onion, wine, mushrooms & pork blindly stewing onscreen as space opera anti-hero Riddick
coq au Vin Diesel
|
$2,000
[30]
George Guidall has recorded more than 850 books, from "Abel's Island" to Philip Roth's this man "Unbound"
Zuckerman
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
Pro cyclists are forbidden from using this class of synthetic steroids that help increase strength
anabolic
Mike
|
This actress, who won a 1976 Oscar, later earned acclaim for playing an actress who won a 1945 Oscar
Faye Dunaway