Kate Walton — a stay-at-home mom from Henniker, New Hampshire
Jamie Meyers — a systems administrator from Toledo, Ohio
Joseph Crippen — a Lutheran pastor from Northfield, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph | $1,000 | $2,300 | $6,000 |
$5,399
3rd place: VTech cordless phones |
$4,300
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Jamie | $1,000 | $3,700 | $14,400 |
$12,800
New champion: $12,800 |
$12,700
31 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Kate | $300 | $2,300 | $3,300 |
$6,300
2nd place: a trip to Outrigger Hotel, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii |
$3,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| PROTOZOA | AKA | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN | FUN WITH ZIP CODES | CALORIE COUNTING | IN OTHER WORDS... |
|
$100
[26]
The ciliata are considered the most highly evolved organisms consisting of just 1 of these
cells
Joseph
|
$100
[11]
He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
Muhammad Ali
Kate
|
$100
[8]
This novel about a mouse-like boy became a 1999 movie
Stuart Little
Joseph
|
$100
[7]
This California city also includes 90211 & 90212
Beverly Hills
Jamie
|
$100
[3]
The "sweet" type of this has about 120 calories per 4 baked ounces, no more than the regular type
a potato
Joseph
|
$100
[1]
Release kitty from confinement in a sack
let the cat out of the bag
Jamie
|
|
$200
[27]
To draw food in, vorticella create one of these, also called a vortex
a whirlpool
Jamie
|
$200
[12]
This coin is 2 bits
a quarter
Joseph
|
$200
[10]
In the 1999 movie version of this Shakespeare play, Rupert Everett & Michelle Pfeiffer are the king & queen of fairies
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jamie
|
$200
[9]
ZIP codes starting with 999 are in this state, in places like Ketchikan & Metlakatla
Alaska
Kate
|
$200
[22]
This sweet substance has about 145 calories per ounce & each American consumes about 11 pounds of it a year
chocolate
Jamie
|
$200
[2]
Resembling H2O dripping down from one mallard's dorsal region
like water off a duck's back
Jamie
|
|
$300
[28]
This organism seenherealways has pseudopods & sometimes an "O" in its name:
an amoeba
Jamie
|
$300
[13]
Bird that's the "bushman's clock" in Australia
a kookaburra
Kate
|
$300
[16]
Winston Groom's novel was the basis for this 1994 film about a man with an IQ of 75
Forrest Gump
Jamie
Kate
|
$300
[19]
This Virginia suburb where famous dead are remembered has the easily remembered code 22222
Arlington
Jamie
|
$300
[23]
If you can afford the calories as well as the price, a tablespoon of this sturgeon product has about 40
caviar
Jamie
|
$300
[4]
Participating with one cent, participating with 100 p.
in for a penny, in for a pound
Joseph
|
|
$400
[29]
Radiolarians have tiny versions of these supporting structures, made of silica rather than bone
skeletons
Jamie
|
$400
[14]
It's also called catmint
catnip
Jamie
|
DD
$500
[17]
John Irving adapted his own novel into this 1999 film in which orphan Tobey Maguire works in an apple orchard
The Cider House Rules
Kate
|
$400
[20]
50010 is found in the heartland, Ames in this state
Iowa
Jamie
|
$400
[24]
A large one has about 80 calories, so that was 4,000 calories for Cool Hand Luke
a hard-boiled egg
Kate
|
$400
[5]
Having sufficient volume to rouse corpses from their slumbers
loud enough to wake the dead
Jamie
|
|
$500
[30]
One nasty flagellate causes African trypanosomiasis, this disease marked by lethargy
sleeping sickness
Jamie
|
$500
[15]
Also known as Wild Bill, Mr. Hickok's real first name was this, not William
James (Butler Hickok)
|
$500
[18]
David Guterson's book about racism in the Pacific Northwest became this 1999 film that stars a brooding Ethan Hawke
Snow Falling on Cedars
Joseph
|
$500
[21]
In the '90s the Spiegel Catalog warehouse moved to Groveport, Ohio 43125 from this city 60609
Chicago
Joseph
|
$500
[25]
This McDonald's item "weighs" in at 430 calories--with cheese, 530
a quarter pounder
Kate
|
$500
[6]
Relate stories while not within a learning establishment
tell tales out of school
Joseph
|
| 20th CENTURY RUSSIA | GETTING JAZZED | THE FRANZ LIST | STATE FACTS | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES | "PHIL" IN THE ____ |
|
$200
[6]
President Reagan's alliterative description of the USSR; he softened it at a 1988 summit meaning
"Evil Empire"
Jamie
|
$200
[11]
Introduced in 1948, these items let jazz become more complex by allowing longer performances on a single side
LPs
Joseph
Kate
|
$200
[21]
Before "NYPD Blue", Dennis Franz played detective Sal Benedetto & Lt. Norman Buntz on this cop drama
Hill Street Blues
Jamie
|
$200
[12]
If this insect were to "fly away home", it might fly to Massachusetts, where it's the state insect
a ladybug
Jamie
|
$200
[27]
She's 1 of 2 Clinton appointees
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jamie
|
$200
[1]
"Magandang Gabi" means "Good Evening" in Tagalog, a major language spoken in ____
the Philippines
Joseph
|
|
$400
[7]
Future leader Yuri Andropov was the double-dealing envoy to this country before the 1956 uprising
Hungary
Joseph
Jamie
|
$400
[17]
Look away, look away, look away, it's a revivalist style of New Orleans jazz
Dixieland
Kate
|
$400
[22]
Franz Gruber wrote the music & Joseph Mohr the lyrics to this "quiet" Christmas carol
"Silent Night"
Kate
|
$400
[13]
West Virginia shares this "sweet" state tree with 3 other states, including Vermont
the sugar maple
Jamie
|
$400
[28]
This great-grandson of a slave served as an associate justice from 1967 to 1991
Thurgood Marshall
Joseph
|
$400
[2]
The person seenhereis an avid ____:
philatelist
Jamie
|
|
$600
[8]
In 1978 & 1981 Soviet defector Viktor Korchnoi lost championship chess matches to this Russian "K"
Anatoly Karpov
Jamie
|
$600
[18]
Billy Strayhorn composed classics like "Take The 'A' Train" during his collaboration with this bandleader
Duke Ellington
Jamie
|
$600
[23]
Max Brod befriended this budding writer while in college in Prague
Franz Kafka
Jamie
|
$600
[14]
It's the state gem of Arkansas
a diamond
|
$600
[26]
Hot dog! This justice appointed by FDR was born in Vienna
Felix Frankfurter
Jamie
|
$600
[3]
According to Hamlet, "There are more things in heaven and Earth... than are dreamt of in your ____"
philosophy
Jamie
|
|
$800
[9]
Before Leningrad, St. Petersburg was given this Russian-sounding name at the start of WWI
Petrograd
Joseph
Jamie
|
$800
[19]
In 1998 Ellis, patriarch of this jazz family, released his own trio album, "Twelve's It"
Marsalis
Joseph
|
$800
[24]
In 1925 Prof. Franz Boas sent this author & anthropologist on her first field study in American Samoa
Margaret Mead
Jamie
|
$800
[15]
It's the "Granite State"
New Hampshire
Joseph
Jamie
|
$1,000
[30]
Before becoming chief justice in 1864, he'd been Secretary of the Treasury & governor of Ohio
Salmon P. Chase
|
$1,000
[5]
Dennis Rodman's father, who reportedly has 27 children, has the first name ____, which means "to womanize"
Philander
Jamie
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Stalin suppressed nationalities in Russia, though he came from this region that's now its own country
Georgia
Jamie
|
$1,000
[20]
In the '70s Weather Report had "nuclear" results with this style that combined jazz & rock
fusion
Joseph
|
$1,000
[25]
Franz Schubert wrote over 600 musical pieces known by this German word for songs
Lieder
Joseph
|
$1,000
[16]
Contrary to popular opinion, this yellowish state flower of Nebraska & Kentucky doesn't cause hay fever
goldenrod
|
DD
$2,500
[29]
A famous 1794 treaty resolving disputes between the U.S. & Britain is named for this chief justice who negotiated it
John Jay (the Jay Treaty or the Treaty of London)
Joseph
|
DD
$2,500
[4]
By nationality, the guy in the foreground in the Biblical illustration seenhereis a ____:
Philistine
Jamie
|
Article of clothing named for an old character who dressed in loose trousers in Commedia Dell'arte
Pantaloons (named for Pantalone)