Jesse Berry — a tax analyst from Little Rock, Arkansas
Susan Otto — a teacher from Waukesha, Wisconsin
Kai-Ning Jan — a pediatrician from Culver City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kai-Ning | $1,000 | $1,600 | $-4,400 |
$-4,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-2,400
8 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Susan | $2,200 | $3,400 | $9,800 |
$9,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
14 R, 2 W |
| Jesse | $3,600 | $5,200 | $20,000 |
$20,000
New champion: $20,000 |
$20,200
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| LITERARY MOUNTAINS | HEATHERS | WHERE YA FROM, CONGRESSMAN? | PLANE CRAZY | AGES AGO | "HO" POURRI |
|
$200
[4]
In one of his fables, a bee of Mt. Hymettus asks Jupiter for its sting to be fatal
Aesop
Susan
|
$200
[16]
Her marriage to Paul McCartney was less than fab, as the 2 split in 2006
Heather Mills
Kai-Ning
|
$200
[20]
Erstwhile presidential candidate Al Gore
Tennessee
Susan
|
$200
[22]
He began mass-producing business jets in 1964 &, later, 8-track stereo tape players for cars
(Bill or William) Lear
|
$200
[9]
When Sumerians used these in war, they had 4 wheels & were drawn by big-eared equines called onagers
chariots
Jesse
|
$200
[1]
This goodhearted pachyderm did a favor for a bird by sitting on her egg in a nest in a tree for 51 days
Horton
Kai-Ning
|
|
$400
[5]
The action of this novel concerns a quest to defeat the dragon Smaug in his lair in Erebor, the lonely mountain
The Hobbit
Jesse
|
$400
[17]
Wed to members of Bon Jovi & Motley Crue, she could always say she was with the band
Heather Locklear
Kai-Ning
|
$400
[27]
John Quincy Adams after the presidency
Massachusetts
Susan
|
$400
[23]
In 1958 this firm introduced the 1st commercial U.S. jet, the 707; in the '60s, it built the 1st stage of the Saturn V rocket
Boeing
Jesse
|
$400
[10]
From 1275 to 1292, Marco Polo worked for the Yuan Dynasty under this emperor
Kublai Khan
Kai-Ning
|
$400
[2]
Formed in 2001, it's a presidential cabinet department
Homeland Security
Kai-Ning
|
|
$600
[6]
In German, this title peak of a Thomas Mann work is known as "Der Zauberberg"
The Magic Mountain
Jesse
|
$600
[18]
Heather O'Rourke memorably announced, "They're here" in this 1982 thriller
Poltergeist
Jesse
|
$600
[28]
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
Georgia
Jesse
|
$600
[24]
On August 6, 1945 this B-29 airplane became the first to drop an atomic bomb in warfare
the Enola Gay
Susan
|
$600
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Luxor, Egypt.) Ramses the Great lived to be 96, had 200 wives & concubines, & one tomb held at least 20 of these, including Mery-Atum
sons
Jesse
|
$600
[3]
Air & heir, for example
homonyms
Jesse
|
|
DD
$600
[7]
In a Hemingway tale, Harry gets gangrene; before he dies, has a vision of flying in a plane toward this mountain
Kilimanjaro
Jesse
|
$800
[19]
Heather Tom (not Heather Thomas) played Victoria Newman on this long-running CBS soap opera
The Young and the Restless
|
$800
[29]
Dick Cheney
Wyoming
Jesse
|
$800
[25]
In 1912 this Dutch plane builder set up a plant near Berlin; later, his fighter planes were flown by the Red Baron
Fokker
Jesse
|
$800
[12]
The 1571 Battle of Lepanto was the last major naval battle between ships powered by these
oars(men)
Susan
Jesse
|
$800
[14]
Medical adjective for an alternative kind of treatment that covers the body, mind & spirit of the patient
holistic
Susan
|
|
$1,000
[8]
In his "Five Weeks in a Balloon", the title conveyance anchors itself to Mount Longwek, the trembling mountain
(Jules) Verne
Jesse
|
$1,000
[21]
Heather Thomas (not Heather Tom) buddied up with stunt man/bounty hunter Lee Majors on this "80s series
The Fall Guy
|
$1,000
[30]
2006 House Majority Leader John Boehner
Ohio
|
$1,000
[26]
This B-17 flying fortress of WWII was named for a southern city & Margaret Polk, the girlfriend of the pilot
the Memphis Belle
|
$1,000
[13]
In 538 B.C. Cyrus the Great put an end to the "captivity" of the Jews in this realm
Babylon
Susan
|
$1,000
[15]
Errol Flynn was born in this Tasmanian capital in 1909
Hobart
Susan
|
| MODERN SCIENTISTS | AFI'S 100 YEARS 100 MOVIES | FASHION HISTORY | SHORT PAPAL | OH, CANADA | 13-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[12]
Using a blender & radioactive "tags", Alfred Hershey found that this, not protein, was the genetic material of life
DNA
Kai-Ning
|
$400
[4]
This actor is in an impressive 9 films on the ballot; his daughter is in 3
Henry Fonda
Susan
|
$400
[1]
Now a piece of fabric covering a tear, in the 1700s it was a piece of fabric stuck on a lady's face as an adornment
a patch
|
$400
[7]
The first pope with this name lasted 4 years; No. II, only one; we're presently on XVI & wish him well
Benedict
Jesse
|
$400
[3]
Canada's first full-scale one of these controversial power plants opened on Lake Huron in 1967
a nuclear power plant
Susan
|
$400
[18]
The female offspring of one of your own children
a granddaughter
Kai-Ning
|
|
$1,200
[14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.) Princeton experimented with a tokamak, the first promising fusion reactor technology, conceived by this Soviet scientist who fought for disarmament
Sakharov
Kai-Ning
|
$800
[5]
One of the 2 years, both more than 5 decades ago, represented on the AFI ballot with 11 films each
1939 (or 1942)
Susan
|
$800
[2]
Yes, "deer", in the '50s Pat Boone was famous for wearing these pale oxfords
white bucks
|
$800
[8]
Severinus waited 18 months for consecration by Heraclius, this emperor in Constantinople, then died in 3 mo.
the Byzantine Emperor
|
$800
[24]
Toronto's CN Tower opened in this year in which Canada also hosted the Summer Olympics
1976
Jesse
|
$800
[19]
The dietary practice of not eating meat or meat products
vegetarianism
Kai-Ning
Susan
|
|
$1,600
[15]
After WWII, scientist Samuel Goudsmit & team located this German atomic weapons project leader
Heisenberg
Susan
|
$1,200
[6]
This 1958 film named for an affliction is the only movie on the ballot that starts with the letter "V"
Vertigo
Jesse
|
— |
$1,200
[9]
V wasn't a lucky number for this pope of 685 (a few months' run), but XXIII lasted from 1958 to 1963
John
Jesse
|
DD
$1,200
[25]
"Scarlet Riders" is a collection of pulp tales about this Canadian group
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Jesse
|
$1,200
[21]
Adjective describing any organism that eats its own kind
cannibalistic
Jesse
|
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
On March 16, 1961 NASA dedicated its space flight center to this man on the 35th anniversary of a major feat of his
Robert Goddard
Kai-Ning
|
$1,600
[16]
This Lew Wallace "tale of the Christ" is the only title on the ballot twice; Charlton Heston was in one
Ben-Hur
Jesse
|
— |
$1,600
[10]
Yo, this pope III had a "Rocky" one-year reign from 884 to 885
Adrian
Kai-Ning
Susan
|
$1,600
[26]
Most of the province of British Columbia is in this time zone
Pacific time zone
Jesse
|
$1,600
[22]
A doctor who specializes in the elderly
gerontologist
Kai-Ning
Jesse
|
|
$2,000
[17]
After a 1980s legal battle, Robert Gallo & Luc Montagnier agreed to share credit for the isolation of this virus
HIV
Jesse
|
$2,000
[20]
Big news--besides Tom Hanks' "Big", these are 2 of the 3 movies on the ballot with "big" in the title
(2 of) The Big Chill , The Big Sleep & The Big Parade
Kai-Ning
|
— |
$2,000
[11]
The V pope of this name came in like a lion in 903 (but went out like a lamb by 904)
Leo
Jesse
|
$2,000
[27]
Martin, not Brian, is the real first name of this man who was Canada's PM from 1984 to 1993
Mulroney
Susan
|
$2,000
[23]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of a board with numbers.) The string of values seen here is increasing this way, from the Latin for "to declare"
exponentially
Susan
|
This man's return to the U.S. in 1824, 47 years after his first trip here, added splendor to James Monroe's presidential term
Marquis de Lafayette