Ssezi Mukasa — a software engineer from Salem, Massachusetts
Heidi Sanchez — a college library director from Bethpage, New York
John Walsh — a writer from Santa Monica, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $3,000 | $6,200 | $7,800 |
$15,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
12 R, 1 W |
| Heidi | $3,700 | $7,700 | $20,800 |
$21,000
New champion: $21,000 |
$21,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ssezi | $1,000 | $2,800 | $10,000 |
$4,300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| POPULAR SCIENCEBEST OF 2006 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS | YOU'VE BEEN CONVERTED | KIDDY LIT | TIME FOR "UNCH" | LET'S EAT |
|
$200
[1]
Science "disproved the obvious" & showed that not all kids love Santa, & actually you can "teach an old dog" these
new tricks
Heidi
|
$200
[26]
One of 4 musicals that won for Best Picture in the 1960s, it was based on a Charles Dickens novel
Oliver!
Heidi
|
$200
[15]
In cooking, a stick of butter converts to this many ounces
four
John
Ssezi
|
$200
[2]
In "Little Women", the March girls' father is an army chaplain serving during this war
the Civil War
Heidi
|
$200
[11]
Accountants do it to numbers
crunch
Heidi
|
$200
[17]
3 of the Dead Sea Scrolls tell of the preparation of a sacred meal of bread & this potent potable
wine
Ssezi
|
|
$400
[7]
Vision's of TV's Steve Austin & Jaime Sommers: the first brain-controlled hand of this type was unveiled
bionic
Ssezi
|
$400
[27]
It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar
The Departed
Ssezi
|
$400
[18]
To convert from miles into these units, multiply by 1.6
kilometers
Heidi
|
$400
[3]
In the children's classic titled "The Wonderful" this, a character named Henry says, "There's a cyclone coming, Em"
The Wizard of Oz
John
|
$400
[12]
Collection of coconuts in a 1950 novelty song
a lovely bunch
Heidi
|
$400
[19]
Put on your goggles at breakfast when eating Citrus paradisi, this fruit that grows in clusters
grapefruit
Heidi
|
|
$600
[8]
Scientists in Australia hope to resurrect the extinct Tasmanian tiger by using genetic fragments & this method
cloning
John
|
$600
[28]
In this film, Clint Eastwood says, "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Ya take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have"
Unforgiven
Ssezi
|
$600
[23]
To convert from miles to these units, multiply by 1,760
yards
Ssezi
|
DD
$500
[5]
James Henry Trotter meets the silkworm, the ladybug & 5 other insects in a very large one of these
a peach
Heidi
|
$600
[13]
It should ring a bell that Quasimodo was one
a hunchback
Heidi
|
$600
[20]
A food staple on any camping trip is gorp, "good old raisins &" these
peanuts
John
|
|
$800
[9]
(Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates near a computer.) With gesture recognition software & a webcam, you can play one of these & actuallyhearyourself jam
an air guitar
John
|
$800
[29]
Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing & directing this 1995 Best Picture
Braveheart
|
$800
[24]
The year 2007 becomes this in Roman numerals
MMVII
John
|
$600
[4]
"And Mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long" one of these
winter's nap
Heidi
|
$800
[14]
In a 1961 song it's what Ray Charles wanted done with his heart
unchain
Ssezi
|
$800
[21]
Some soldiers might say it stands for "yuck!", but "MRE" stands for this in the army
a meal ready to eat
John
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Want a safe & long-lasting tan? It may be possible with an implant that triggers production of this skin pigment
melanin
Heidi
|
$1,000
[30]
Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Heidi
|
$1,000
[25]
(Jon of the Clue Crew points out a partial formula.) To convert from degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply the Celsius temperature by 1.8, then add this amount
32
Heidi
|
$1,000
[6]
E.H. Shepard's illustrations of this imaginary creature in the Winnie-the-Pooh books resemble an elephant
a heffalump
John
|
$1,000
[16]
Elastic band used to fasten hair
a scrunchie
Heidi
|
$1,000
[22]
Actress Suzette Reichenberg may have lent her name to this dish that is served on fire
Crêpe Suzette
John
|
| EUROPEAN HISTORY | 1970s ROCK | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH 'EM | NOTABLE WOMEN | MYTHOLOGY | "I.M." ING |
|
$400
[8]
Under the 1815 Congress of Vienna, Sweden was given this neighbor that was taken from Denmark
Norway
Ssezi
|
$400
[21]
Rod Stewart told her to "Wake up... I think I've got something to say to you"
Maggie May
Heidi
|
DD
$100
[30]
Toledo & Lisbon
the Tagus
Heidi
|
$400
[3]
Dateline Argonia, Kan., 1887--Susanna Salter is elected the USA's first female one of these
mayor
Ssezi
|
$400
[1]
This Greek god of wine gave Midas his "golden touch"
Dionysus
Ssezi
|
$400
[16]
H.G. Wells & Ralph Ellison both wrote about characters called this
the invisible man
Heidi
|
|
$800
[10]
In 1588 a storm from this bay scattered the Spanish Armada's wooden ships as they prepared to attack England
the Bay of Biscay
Ssezi
|
$800
[22]
Janis Joplin's second Top 10 album, this gem contained the hit "Me And Bobby McGee"
Pearl
|
$400
[26]
Cologne & Bonn
the Rhine
John
|
$800
[4]
This Indian prime minister was the daughter of a prime minister & the mother of a prime minister
Indira Gandhi
Heidi
|
$800
[2]
As you would expect, Morpheus, the god of these, is the son of Hypnos, the god of sleep
dreams
Heidi
|
$800
[17]
This specialty deals with the diagnosis & nonsurgical treatment of organ systems
internal medicine
Heidi
|
|
$1,200
[13]
The Soviets chose June 1940 to take over the Baltics; world attention was elsewhere, as this country fell the same week
France
Ssezi
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1971 Three Dog Night sang this, "comin' down in 3-part harmony"
"Just An Old Fashioned Love Song"
Heidi
|
$800
[27]
Vienna & Belgrade
the Danube
Heidi
|
$1,200
[5]
In the 1960s she made the first recorded observations of chimpanzees eating meat & making & using tools
Jane Goodall
Heidi
|
$1,200
[9]
A bribe to a politician or other formidable person can also be called a "sop to" this watchdog of Hades
Cerberus
Heidi
|
$1,200
[18]
This superhero is one of the few who informed the world of his alter ego, Tony Stark
Iron Man
John
|
|
$1,600
[14]
On Easter 1478, the Archbishop of Pisa & others tried to kill this "magnificent" Florentine
Lorenzo (de Medici)
John
|
$1,600
[24]
This trio had their first top 20 hit in 1967 but didn't have their first gold record until 1970 with "Lonely Days"
The Bee Gees
|
$1,200
[28]
Avignon & Valence
the Rhône
|
$1,600
[6]
In the mid-'60s she starred in Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" & gave birth to his daughter Linn
Liv Ullmann
Heidi
|
$1,600
[11]
These heavenly twins were said to have helped the Romans defeat warring Latin tribes at Lake Regillus in 496 B.C.
Castor & Pollux
John
Ssezi
|
$1,600
[19]
This administrative region in northeast China was once ruled by Kublai Khan
Inner Mongolia
Ssezi
|
|
$2,000
[15]
This Dutch city was best known for ruined castles until the 1991 European Union Treaty was signed there
Maastricht
|
$2,000
[25]
Their 1973 hit about "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" landed them on the March 29th cover of Rolling Stone
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
|
$1,600
[29]
Ciudad Bolivar & Ciudad Guyana
the Orinoco
|
$2,000
[7]
Virginia Gildersleeve, named dean of this school in 1911 by the president of Columbia U., served 36 years
Barnard
Heidi
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
The venomous blood of this serpent was used to make Hercules' poison arrows
the Hydra
Ssezi
|
$2,000
[20]
After the death of a friend, Tennyson wrote poems on death, faith & immortality that he linked in this elegy
In Memoriam
Heidi
|
Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include "A Tale", "The Inland Sea" & "The First War-Path"
Leatherstocking Tales