Adrian Higgins — a journalist from Alexandria, Virginia
Margot Wiegele — an airline salesperson from Anchorage, Alaska
Kevin Holbert — a linguistics student from Buffalo, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,424)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin | $5,600 | $8,400 | $15,200 |
$18,399
2-day champion: $39,823 |
$13,400
22 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Margot | $-1,200 | $-400 | $4,800 |
$9,599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Adrian | $400 | $3,200 | $6,000 |
$12,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
14 R, 7 W |
| WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY | TOP 40 HITMAKERS | YO, JIMMY! | MISSING LINKS | IS THIS HEAVEN? | NO, IT'S IOWA |
|
$200
[11]
Laszlo Biro was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007 for developing this type of pen in the 20th century
a ballpoint pen
Kevin
|
$200
[17]
"Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)" & "California Dreamin'"
The Mamas & The Papas
Margot
Adrian
|
$200
[23]
In the comics, Jimmy Olsen was this hero's cub reporter pal
Superman
Margot
|
$200
[1]
Right up your ___ Oop
alley
Adrian
|
$200
[16]
Mmm... a big plate featuring this sea-dweller, prepared Newburg or Thermidor... pass me the bib
lobster
Margot
|
$200
[6]
In 1942 the first training base for the WAAC, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, opened in this capital
Des Moines
Kevin
|
|
$400
[12]
Smile! In 1888 this American introduced the first simple consumer camera to use roll film
(George) Eastman
Kevin
Margot
|
$400
[18]
"Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" &"Sweet Caroline"
Neil Diamond
Margot
|
$400
[24]
The Jimmy was a popular SUV from this American automaker
GMC (or General Motors)
Margot
Adrian
|
$400
[2]
Hi-yo ___ wedding anniversary
Silver
Kevin
|
$400
[22]
Short answer--yes; seenhereis Hanauma Bay in this state
Hawaii
Margot
|
$400
[7]
The Mississippi forms all of Iowa's eastern boundary, & this river, with a tributary, bounds the west
the Missouri
Kevin
|
|
$600
[13]
Patented in 1965, this stadium ground covering was first used commercially on a large scale in Texas
AstroTurf
Adrian
|
$600
[19]
"What Would You Say" &"Crash Into Me"
The Dave Matthews Band
Kevin
|
$600
[25]
From 1957 to 1971, Jimmy Hoffa was the president of this labor union; today, his son is
the Teamsters
Adrian
|
$600
[3]
Break the ___ of America
bank
Adrian
|
$600
[28]
The name of this Japanese massage technique that uses acupressure sounds a bit like a Tibetan toy dog breed
shiatsu
Kevin
|
$800
[9]
You've hit a Bumppo in the road: it's the name of the University of Iowa's sports teams
the Hawkeyes
Kevin
|
|
$800
[14]
Setting 5 on the 1935 model of this Sunbeam appliance was "Whipping Potatoes"; setting 6 was "Cream"
Mixmaster
Kevin
Margot
Adrian
|
$800
[20]
"Saturday Night Special" &(Woohoo!) "Free Bird"
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Kevin
|
$800
[26]
A book by former president Jimmy Carter compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians to this policy of white South Africa
apartheid
Kevin
|
$800
[4]
Fall by the ___ Inn
Wayside
Adrian
|
$800
[29]
Motor Trend said this car company's 380-hp Testarossa could hit 60 mph in 5.29 seconds; a test drive could be fun
Ferrari
Adrian
|
$1,000
[10]
Named for a Native American tribe, this city of 85,000 lies near where Iowa, Nebraska & South Dakota meet
Sioux City
Adrian
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Named after its inventor, a large one of these coils can wirelessly power lights 50 feet away
a Tesla coil
Kevin
|
$1,000
[21]
"Harry Truman" &"25 Or 6 To 4"
Chicago
Kevin
|
$1,000
[27]
He's Jerry Lee Lewis' famous evangelist cousin
Jimmy Swaggart
Kevin
Margot
Adrian
|
$1,000
[5]
News ___ photography
flash
Kevin
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1935 Frank Lloyd Wright designed this house seen here
Fallingwater
Adrian
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
The largest of the "Quad Cities", this city shares its name with a type of large sofa
Davenport
Kevin
|
| LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES | SOVIET BLOC HEADS | ARCHITECTURE | DEATH SENTENCES | TESTING YOUR "IQ" |
|
$400
[1]
"Song to" this liberator was a famous patriotic poem written by Ecuador's Jose Joaquin Olmedo in 1825
Bolivar
Kevin
|
$400
[6]
He was in as Danny Ocean in a 2001 film & its 2 sequels
George Clooney
Kevin
|
$400
[19]
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski was military dictator of Poland when Lech Walesa headed this organization
Solidarity
Margot
|
$400
[13]
A projecting ornament where the ribs of a vault ceiling meet, or a nickname for Bruce Springsteen
the boss
Margot
|
$400
[2]
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive" is attributed to this movie mogul
Samuel Goldwyn
|
$400
[3]
Poetically, "Candy is dandy but" this "is quicker"
liquor
Adrian
|
|
$800
[14]
In the 19th century, literature about these Argentine cowboys was popular, with Jose Hernandez' "Martin Fierro" a classic
gauchos
Kevin
|
$800
[7]
He got an Oscar nomination for playing Danny Archer, a smuggler interested in a "Blood Diamond"
DiCaprio
Margot
|
$800
[20]
The Russians replaced Alexander Dubcek as leader of this country when it tried to go democratic in 1968
Czechoslovakia
Adrian
|
$800
[15]
A stupa, like the Great Stupa of Sanchi, India, is a hemispherical mound enshrining relics of this religion
Buddhism
Kevin
Adrian
|
$800
[17]
She began a famous poem, "Because I could not stop for death--he kindly stopped for me"
(Emily) Dickinson
Margot
|
$800
[4]
A small shop, or a specialty department within a larger store
a boutique
Kevin
|
| — |
DD
$1,600
[8]
He was detective Scottie Ferguson, whose vertigo caused him to leave the police force
Jimmy Stewart
Margot
|
$1,200
[21]
For 35 years, Todor Zhivkov ruled this eastern Balkan nation that borders the Black Sea
Bulgaria
|
$1,200
[16]
Robert Mills, a Greek Revivalist architect, designed the U.S. Treasury building & this 555-foot-tall structure
the Washington Monument
Kevin
|
$1,200
[18]
Joseph Stalin reportedly said, "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is" this type of number
a statistic
|
$1,200
[5]
A narrow, exclusive group that shares an interest, perhaps like knocking their heels together
a clique
Margot
|
| — |
$1,600
[9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a gym in Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) I'm at the spot where in a 1938 movie this actor, as Whitey Marsh, is elected mayor of Boys Town
Mickey Rooney
Margot
Adrian
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
Leader Volodymyr Shcherbytsky suppressed press coverage of a 1986 disaster in this Soviet republic
Ukraine
Kevin
|
$1,600
[22]
This city's state capitol, built in 1788, is considered the USA's 1st building of the classical revival style
Richmond, Virginia
Kevin
Adrian
|
$1,600
[24]
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun", he wrote in "The Prophet"
Gibran
Kevin
|
$1,600
[11]
Adjective meaning neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface
oblique
Margot
|
| — |
$2,000
[10]
This 3-named actor gave a gritty performance as Sandman in "Spider-Man 3"
Thomas Haden Church
Kevin
|
$2,000
[26]
Before becoming foreign minister of the Soviet Union, Eduard Shevardnadze led this Soviet republic
Georgia
Adrian
|
$2,000
[23]
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known by this name, called his houses "machines for living in"
Le Corbusier
Adrian
|
$2,000
[27]
In his "Holy Sonnets", he wrote, "Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful"
(John) Donne
Adrian
|
$2,000
[12]
Agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor
piquant
Adrian
|
For an historic February 1972 trip, Richard Nixon & Henry Kissinger each learned to use these; Nixon was better at it
chopsticks