Megan Bygness — a Ph.D. student and literature instructor from Iowa City, Iowa
Rick Kent — a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
Keli Jackson — a software testing manager originally from Fort Washington, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keli | $2,000 | $1,600 | $5,200 |
$1,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
9 R, 1 W |
| Rick | $1,600 | $4,500 | $11,300 |
$14,001
New champion: $14,001 |
$9,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Megan | $1,400 | $5,400 | $7,000 |
$11,301
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
19 R (including 1 DD), 9 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[1]
This steel man who gave away $350 million gave away his daughter Margaret at her 1919 wedding
Andrew Carnegie
Megan
|
$200
[16]
This New York City place is commonly called a station. It's actually a terminal as train lines begin and end there
Grand Central Station
Rick
|
$200
[26]
With some smarts, you'll know this popular name for the third molars
the wisdom teeth
Megan
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$200
[21]
This woman with a reputation as a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed ruffian claims she married Wild Bill Hickok
Calamity Jane
Rick
|
$200
[11]
Sam the Eagle was created by the Disney Co. for this event that occurred in L.A. in 1984
the Olympics
Rick
|
$200
[6]
Steve Martin, Martin Short & Chevy Chase were the title characters of this 1986 comedy
Three Amigos
Rick
|
|
$400
[2]
On Nov. 14, 1973 his daughter Anne got married at Westminster Abbey with 500 million watching on TV
Prince Philip
Keli
|
$400
[17]
You can support train travel in Monopoly when you chance to "take a ride on" this railroad
Reading Railroad
Megan
|
$400
[27]
The body's growth & development are controlled by these substances secreted by the endocrine glands
hormones
Megan
|
$400
[22]
This company helped track down Black Bart, who'd robbed its stagecoaches about 27 times
Wells Fargo
Rick
|
$400
[12]
This school is the oldest private university in California & the largest private employer in Los Angeles
U.S.C.
Keli
Rick
|
$400
[7]
In "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", Steve Martin told him, "Those aren't pillows!!!"
John Candy
Rick
|
|
$600
[3]
In 2002 Ralph Steadman, who took a wild trip to this city with Hunter Thompson, went back to see his daughter wed
Las Vegas
Keli
|
$600
[18]
This car, seen here, shares its name with a seaport
Plymouth
|
$600
[28]
Scoliosis affects the spine; scleritis affects the sclera, found in this body part
the eye
Keli
Megan
|
$600
[23]
Some say Arizona Donnie Clark was just an overprotective mother, but she's infamously known by this name
Ma Barker
Rick
|
$600
[13]
They're 2 of the 5 emblems symbolizing a star's category of endeavor on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
a microphone & the masks of comedy & tragedy (a TV set, a movie camera & a phonograph)
Rick
Megan
|
$600
[8]
Steve Martin & Bonnie Hunt are the parents of an extremely large brood in this 2003 remake
Cheaper by the Dozen
Keli
|
|
$800
[4]
9 weeks before he died, this Broadway lyricist got his daughter to the church on time
(Alan Jay) Lerner
Rick
|
$800
[19]
Put your head in the clouds with up to 330 people & sleep easy on the new 787 from Boeing, known by this peaceful name
the Dreamliner
Megan
|
$800
[29]
Stick out your tongue & say "ah" & this fleshy bit hanging from the soft palate should move upwards
the uvula
Megan
|
$1,000
[25]
Harry Longbaugh got this nickname after serving time in a Wyoming prison for horse theft
the Sundance Kid
Rick
Megan
|
$800
[14]
An observatory & a park in L.A. are named not for a"Birth of a Nation" but rather a colonel with this surname
Griffith
Megan
|
$800
[9]
This 1987 comedy in which Steve played fire chief C.D. Bales was based on "Cyrano de Bergerac"
Roxanne
Rick
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Days before the 1992 election, this candidate accused the GOP of trying to disrupt his daughter's wedding
Ross Perot
Rick
Megan
|
$1,000
[20]
This Carroll Shelby design "snaked" along as the only American car to win the FIA Grand Touring Championship
the Cobra
Megan
|
$1,000
[30]
These proteins found in blood plasma are classified as alpha, beta or gamma
globulins
Keli
|
DD
$2,500
[24]
A ballad ends, "They'll bury them side by side, to few it'll be grief, to the law a relief, but it's death for" them
Bonnie and Clyde
Rick
|
$1,000
[15]
Docents at L.A.'s Page Museum are in a sticky situation--"La Brea" means this substance in Spanish
tar
Megan
|
$1,000
[10]
Queen Latifah wreaks havoc on the life of strait-laced lawyer Steve Martin in this 2003 comedy
Bringing Down the House
Megan
|
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$400
[6]
Hemingway got the title for this 1926 novel from Ecclesiastes
The Sun Also Rises
Megan
|
$400
[1]
Baseball: 4,192 hits
Pete Rose
Keli
|
$400
[25]
JFK took his oath of office on a Bible that these people, his mother's family, had brought with them from Ireland
The Fitzgeralds
Keli
|
$400
[14]
The 735-acre campus of this Baptist school is on the banks of the Brazos River in Waco, Texas
Baylor
Rick
|
$400
[7]
Nancy Spungen's punk rocker
Sid Vicious
Megan
|
$400
[19]
A conspiracy led by this former V.P. aimed to set up an independent nation in the Mississippi Valley
Aaron Burr
Megan
|
|
$800
[10]
Dickens: Let's see..."Martin Sweetledew"? No. "Martin Sweetleback"? No. I've got it... "Martin" this!
Chuzzlewit
Megan
|
$800
[2]
Hockey: 92 goals
Wayne Gretzky
Rick
|
$800
[26]
He was the only member of Washington's cabinet who went on to become President
Thomas Jefferson
Megan
|
$800
[15]
One of the most popular organizations at this state univ. in Louisiana is the Tiger Marching Band, founded 1926
Grambling
Keli
Megan
|
$800
[8]
The Old West's Big Nose Kate's "medical" maniac
Doc Holliday
Megan
|
$800
[22]
This Scandinavian auto company started out in 1937 as a national aircraft manufacturer
Saab
Rick
|
|
$1,600
[12]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Rowan Oak Home) Faulkner was using "Dark House" as a novel title but on this porch, his wife said there was something about the light in this month
August
Megan
|
$1,200
[3]
Baseball: 2,131 consecutive games
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Rick
|
DD
$3,000
[27]
As a teenager in the 1880s, he played the helicon in the Marion People's Band in Marion, Ohio
Warren Harding
Megan
|
$1,200
[16]
This college was intended to be the first college within the University of Dublin, but it's still the only one
Trinity College
Megan
|
$1,200
[9]
Virginia Hill's gunned-down gangster
Bugsy Siegel
Rick
Megan
|
$1,200
[23]
Also called the Taal, this language developed from the 17th century Dutch
Afrikaans
Rick
|
|
$2,000
[13]
James Jones considered "Old Soldiers Never Die" as a title for his WWII novel but settled on this, from a Kipling line
From Here to Eternity
|
$1,600
[4]
Track & field: 29 feet 2 1/2 inches
Bob Beamon
Rick
Megan
|
— |
$1,600
[17]
Charles, not Sonny, was the benefactor of this Medford, Massachusetts university
Tufts
Megan
|
$1,600
[20]
Lady Hamilton's nautical loverboy
Horatio Nelson
|
$1,600
[24]
Arabic for "renaissance", this political party carries a lot of water in the Middle East
the Baath Party
|
|
DD
$4,200
[11]
Shakespeare's Sonnet 30 says, "I summon up" this, which became the title of a Proust work
remembrance of things past
Megan
|
$2,000
[5]
Football: 63 yards
Tom Dempsey
Rick
|
— |
$2,000
[18]
Beloit College in this state was founded in 1846, while that state was still a territory
Wisconsin
Keli
|
$2,000
[21]
Beatrice Portinari's pining poet
Dante
|
$2,000
[28]
This carnivorous jackal-like animal of South Africa eats mostly insects
the aardwolf
|
Africa's most populous city not on a navigable body of water; its settlers didn't need water when they had gold
Johannesburg