Eddie White — a computer programmer from Greensboro, North Carolina
Anna Rodriguez — a critical care nurse from Denver, Colorado
Kristen Welsh — a college professor from Geneva, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristen | $2,800 | $6,600 | $13,400 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,400
24 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Anna | $800 | $2,200 | $13,800 |
$799
New champion: $799 |
$15,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eddie | $800 | $2,200 | $5,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
9 R, 2 W |
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY | NBA RETIRED JERSEYS | BOARD GAME HISTORY | HOW I LOOK DURING MY SUMMER VACATIONS | "L"ITERATURE | POTPOURRI |
|
$200
[4]
Melbourne is in the Australian state named for this woman, a friend of Viscount Melbourne
Queen Victoria
Kristen
|
$200
[16]
Los Angeles Lakers No. 32
Magic Johnson
Kristen
|
$200
[21]
In the 1950s Parker Brothers took a French game called "Conquest of the World" & turned it into this
Risk
Eddie
|
$200
[1]
Hey mon! That's me last summersporting this hairstyle seen here, I'm jammin'!
dreadlocks
Eddie
|
$200
[9]
The ban on this D.H. Lawrence book was lifted in 1959 in the U.S.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Kristen
|
$200
[14]
Wahine, a magazine devoted to women in this sport, wiped out in 2001
surfing
Kristen
|
|
$400
[5]
Paulistas live in a large city in this large South American country
Brazil
Anna
|
$400
[17]
Philadelphia 76ers No. 6
Julius Erving
Eddie
|
$400
[22]
While out of work, Alfred Butts created this word game by mixing anagrams with crossword puzzles
Scrabble
Kristen
|
$400
[2]
Any insect remarks about this 'do I'm wearing hereand I might say "Kiss my grits!"
beehive
Kristen
|
$400
[10]
Federico Garcia Lorca wrote a famous one of these "For The Death Of A Bullfighter"
lament
Kristen
|
$400
[15]
Raul Rodriguez is a famed designer of these, & he's often seen riding on one on January 1st with his pet macaw
float
Kristen
|
|
$800
[7]
It's Africa's highest mount that shares its name with a country
Kenya
Anna
|
$600
[18]
Boston Celtics No. 33
Larry Bird
Kristen
|
$600
[23]
Invented by a wealthy couple while aboard their large boat, this game sounds like a type of boat
Yahtzee
Anna
|
$600
[3]
One year I let my mustache grow & went with this rhyming look seen here
fu manchu
Anna
|
$600
[11]
Whitman's "When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd" was an elegy to him
Abraham Lincoln
Eddie
|
$600
[24]
This ancient Hebrew measure equal to about 2 quarts sounds like a synonym for "taxi"
cab
Kristen
|
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
You can enter this European city via the Puerta de Bisagra & its U.S. namesake via Exit 64 on the Ohio Turnpike
Toledo
Anna
|
$800
[19]
New York Knicks No. 33
Patrick Ewing
|
$800
[27]
Charles Darrow created this game in the Depression while dreaming of fame, fortune & his summers at the Jersey shore
Monopoly
Anna
|
$800
[29]
Back in 1979 I put Ms. Derek to shame with this hairstyle seen here
cornrows
Kristen
|
$800
[12]
Polonius tells this character, "This above all: to thine own self be true"
Laertes
Kristen
|
$800
[25]
In Britain, it's a pullover sweater; in America, it's a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse
jumper
Kristen
Eddie
|
|
$1,000
[8]
This Chinese canal begins at Beijing & ends 1,100 miles later at the port of Hangzhou
the Grand Canal
|
$1,000
[20]
Indiana Pacers No. 31
Reggie Miller
Eddie
|
$1,000
[28]
Imported from India, this game had you climbing to God by landing on a virtue, but a serpent ate you on a vice
Snakes & Ladders
Eddie
|
$1,000
[30]
Oh yeah! The summer I sang in that barbershop quartet I had the9-letter 'stache seen here
handlebar
Kristen
|
$1,000
[13]
This woman was the subject of Petrarch's "Canzoniere"
Laura
Kristen
|
$1,000
[26]
Toronto's coat of arms boasts an artist's depiction of 3 rivers flowing into this body of water
Lake Ontario
Kristen
|
| SCIENCE | THE FABULOUS FIFTIES | AN ART "C" CATEGORY | FORWARDS & BACKWARDS | MEAT ME | IN ST. LOUIS |
|
$400
[7]
You have "receptors" in your ears for this fundamental force, & they get upset when you're weightless
gravity
Anna
|
$400
[1]
This future U.S. First Lady went to England to cover Queen Elizabeth II's coronation for The Washington Times-Herald
Jackie Kennedy
Kristen
|
$400
[6]
Thomas Rowlandson, whose work in seen here, was a master of this form, from Italian for "to load"
caricature
Anna
|
$400
[16]
A buddy & to lick up water like a dog
pal and lap
Anna
|
$400
[21]
This BBQ favorite is a selection of small tender meat & vegetable pieces threaded onto a skewer & grilled
shish kebab
Anna
|
$400
[26]
Completed in 1965, it towers 630 feet over St. Louis
the (Gateway) Arch
Anna
|
|
$800
[8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Jeopardy!science lab.) Iodine reacts with this carbohydrate in food; if it's present, the iodine turns abluish-black color
starch
Kristen
|
$800
[2]
A series of nightmares that C.S. Lewis had about lions inspired him to write this first Narnia book
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Kristen
|
$800
[9]
When it uses photographs, this method of sticking various images on one surface is called "photomontage"
collage
Kristen
|
$800
[17]
To daze someone & cashews & filberts
stun and nuts
Anna
|
$800
[22]
Favorite traditional dishes of the Greeks include moussaka & souvlaki, both made with this ovine meat
lamb
Kristen
|
$800
[27]
In July 1904 St. Louis became the first U.S. city to host this competition
the Olympic Games
Anna
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Darwin defined it as "preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations"
natural selection
Kristen
Eddie
|
$1,200
[3]
Elementary, my dear Watson; Leslie Howard's son Ronald played him on a 1954 TV series
Sherlock Holmes
Kristen
|
$1,200
[10]
You can see why Barnett Newman, whose work is shownherewas part of the style known as "this" field
the color field
|
$1,200
[18]
Survived & a creature like Satan
lived and devil
Kristen
|
$1,200
[23]
They can be Swedish or porcupine
meatballs
Eddie
|
$1,200
[28]
St. Louis became part of the United States as a result of this transaction
the Louisiana Purchase
Anna
|
|
$1,600
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew rubs a balloon on her hair in the Jeopardy!science lab.) Rubbing a balloon builds up electrons that then attract this type of particle in ametal can, from the Greek for "first"
protons
Kristen
|
$1,600
[4]
This actor hit the top 40 with the song "Moon-Light Swim"; a few years later, he went "Psycho"
Anthony Perkins
Eddie
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
This north central Italian city has a biennial sculpture exhibit, which we presume features works in marble
Carrara
Kristen
|
$1,600
[19]
Dull & colorless & an old Celtic poet
drab and bard
Kristen
|
$1,600
[24]
Native Americans hunted bison & preserved the meat with berries & fat as this treat
pemmican
Anna
|
DD
$1,200
[30]
The St. Louis Zoo's 228-foot-long free-flight one has been there since the 1904 World's Fair
an aviary
Anna
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Below the atmosphere is this "sphere", from the Greek for "stone"
the lithosphere
Anna
|
$2,000
[5]
Cary Grant's wife Betsy Drake survived the 1956 sinking of this Italian ocean liner
the Andrea Doria
Kristen
|
$2,000
[12]
Herewe see mastery of this technique from the Italian for "bright and dark", used to create a 3-D effect
chiaroscuro
Eddie
|
$2,000
[20]
A type of beer & something suitable for a king
lager and regal
Anna
|
$2,000
[25]
Hot sauce, mustard & garlic powder can all go into this, the 3-letter term for the sauce used while the meat grills
the mop (BBQ accepted)
Kristen
|
$1,600
[29]
This massive St. Louis landmark was once the USA's largest railroad terminal
Union Station
|
2 movies whose 1-word titles are cities; they won the Oscar for Best Picture, 59 years apart
Casablanca & Chicago