Sarah Martin — a humanitarian advocate originally from Sumter, South Carolina
Toho Soma — a public health analyst from Portland, Maine
Heidi Sanchez — a college library director from Bethpage, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heidi | $2,000 | $3,800 | $11,000 |
$21,300
2-day champion: $42,300 |
$11,000
13 R, 1 W |
| Toho | $1,400 | $2,400 | $21,200 |
$20,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$20,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sarah | $400 | $300 | $2,300 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| LOOK WHO'S TOLKIEN | POP LYRICS | FAMOUS FLOPS | NAME THAT YEAR | MAGAZINES | ONLY ONE VOWEL |
|
DD
$100
[28]
"A nice pickle we have landed ourselves in, Mr. Frodo!"
Sam
Sarah
|
$200
[7]
This Eagles classic begins, "On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair"
"Hotel California"
Heidi
|
$200
[1]
McDonald's hope for meatless Friday was the Hula Burger, this fruit topped with cheese & grilled
a pineapple
Heidi
|
$200
[8]
U.S. elects 46-year-old Bill Clinton president
1992
Toho
|
$200
[23]
The 1974 premiere issue of this celebrity magazine featured Mia Farrow in a pose from "The Great Gatsby"
People
Heidi
|
$200
[18]
2.54 centimeters
an inch
Sarah
|
|
$200
[5]
"What has it got in its pocketses? Tell us that"
the Gollum
Sarah
|
$400
[14]
This classic by The Righteous Brothers ends with the line "God speed your love to me"
"Unchained Melody"
Toho
|
$400
[2]
In 1959 only 2,846 of this oversized & overpriced car's 1960 line were made before it was discontinued
the Edsel
Toho
|
$400
[10]
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1963
Toho
|
$400
[24]
Its Oct. 17-23, 2005 issue featured an "Extreme Makeover" with a larger format & Ty Pennington on the cover
TV Guide
Toho
|
$400
[19]
Proverbially, you can be "flying" this or be this "& dry"
high
Toho
|
|
$400
[6]
"I'm a Took, Peregrin Took, but I'm generally called..."
Pippin
|
$600
[15]
This '60s classic mentions "A time to plant, a time to reap; a time to kill, a time to heal"
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
Heidi
|
$600
[3]
Businesses stuck with carbon paper because this company's 1949 Model A was slow, messy & hard to use
the Xerox
Toho
|
$600
[11]
Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee
1977
Toho
Sarah
|
$600
[25]
Yachting magazine celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2007; the first issue featured an article by this tea merchant
(Sir Thomas) Lipton
Heidi
|
$600
[20]
To utter a deep, guttural sound of anger, like a dog; a stomach's is a lot less threatening
growl
Toho
Sarah
|
|
$800
[29]
"Don't shudder! If you will meddle in the affairs of wizards, you must be prepared to think of such things"
Gandalf
|
$800
[16]
It's the song in which Sarah McLachlan sings, "Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories"
"I Will Remember You"
Toho
|
$800
[4]
Consumers didn't warm up to the nonrefrigerated milk in this company's 1998 cereal-&-milk combo product
Kellogg's
Sarah
|
$800
[12]
Napoleon meets his Waterloo, literally
1815
|
$800
[26]
In 1949 this auto magazine's first "Car of the Year" award went to Cadillac
Motor Trend
Heidi
|
$800
[21]
A style of handwriting, or something actors would be lost without
script
Heidi
|
|
$1,000
[30]
"I would have the ring-bearer bring the crown to me, and let Mithrandir set it upon my head"
Aragorn
|
$1,000
[17]
In a hit song inspired by "E.T.", Neil Diamond sang, "Turn on your" this, "let it shine wherever you go"
heartlight
Heidi
Sarah
|
$1,000
[9]
This company's 1983 Lisa died because it was slow & pricey, but the graphical user interface lived on in other products
Apple
Heidi
|
$1,000
[13]
Pakistan becomes independent of Great Britain
1947
|
$1,000
[27]
In 1945 John H. Johnson began publishing Ebony; this weekly news magazine of his debuted 6 years later
Jet
Sarah
|
$1,000
[22]
"Come on baby, let's do" this, wind strands together
twist
Sarah
|
| BASIC SCIENCE | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES | CAPITAL PUNISHMENT | "Z" ME | FOR RICHARD | FOR POURER |
|
$400
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with beakers.) In a force-&-movement experiment, the reason the water doesn't fall out of the cup is because this forcepushing up against the card is greater than the weight of the water
air pressure
|
$400
[11]
Daniel Radcliffe's role as this bespectacled wizard made him an international star
Harry Potter
Toho
|
$400
[1]
In Southeastern Europe:Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Toho
|
$400
[6]
Appearing in voodoo cultures, these creatures were featured in "Night of the Living Dead"
a zombie
Sarah
|
$400
[16]
"There's a small hotel" is a tune from "Pal Joey" by him & Lorenz Hart
Richard Rodgers
Toho
|
$400
[21]
Bombay Sapphire, with Queen Victoria on the label, is a British brand of this liquor
gin
Toho
|
|
$800
[24]
In old science, it's a type of "generation" of life from nonliving matter; it's also a type of "combustion"
spontaneous
Toho
|
$800
[12]
(Hi, I'm James Denton.) After I appeared with this actor in "Face/Off", he helped me get a role in "Primary Colors"
John Travolta
Toho
|
$800
[2]
A former Soviet republic:Yerevan
Armenia
Toho
|
$800
[7]
In Greek myth, he was the father of Heracles
Zeus
Sarah
|
$1,200
[18]
A "Native Son" of Mississippi, this African-American author died in 1960 & is buried in Paris
Richard Wright
Heidi
|
$800
[22]
If you're making a classic Southern drink, remember to bruise these leaves before mixing them with bourbon
mint
Heidi
|
|
$1,200
[28]
(Jon of the Clue Crew plays with his own beaker.) The cold of the ice causes the air in the balloon to do this, from the Latin for "to draw in"
contract
Sarah
|
$1,200
[13]
In the '80s, he starred in movies like "Can't Buy Me Love" & "Loverboy"; now he's TV's Dr. McDreamy
Patrick Dempsey
Toho
|
$1,200
[3]
On the Persian Gulf:Doha
Qatar
Toho
|
$1,200
[8]
The atomic weight of this chemical element is 65.409
zinc
Toho
|
$1,600
[19]
In a 1930 article, this aviator & explorer wondered of Antarctica, "Is it a continent?"
(Richard) Byrd
Heidi
Toho
Sarah
|
$1,200
[25]
This word can be part of an order of Scotch (as opposed to single malt) or of a margarita (as opposed to rocks)
blended
Toho
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Heavily promoted by Wal-Mart, they work by electrifying a mix of argon gas & mercury vapor
fluorescent lights
|
$1,600
[14]
Richard Gere jazzed things up in Harlem as cornet player Dixie Dwyer in this 1984 drama
The Cotton Club
Heidi
|
$1,600
[4]
In Africa:Harare
Zimbabwe
Toho
|
$1,600
[9]
This 1940s fashion favorite featured baggy trousers & an oversized, padded sport jacket
a zoot suit
Sarah
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
This businessman wrote "Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made A Fortune Doing Business My Way"
Richard Branson
Toho
|
$1,600
[26]
Each day, bartenders should wash the bottle pourers; these substances in most spirits can gum them up
sugar
Sarah
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Look! Gold!Ha!--Fooled you, it's really this mineral
pyrite
Toho
|
$2,000
[15]
This versatile Aussie's roles include pianist David Helfgott, a pirate captain & the Marquis de Sade
Geoffrey Rush
Toho
|
$2,000
[5]
In Central America:Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Toho
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
They holed up in the fortress of Masada & were besieged by the Romans
the Zealots
Sarah
|
$2,000
[20]
This American physicist won a 1965 Nobel Prize for his work on the interaction of light & matter
Richard Feynman
Heidi
|
$2,000
[27]
Cocktail cherries are maraschino; cocktail olives are this Spanish type that also start with "MA"
manzanilla
Toho
|
This sea hundreds of miles east of Florida has no land boundaries
the Sargasso Sea