Chad Belyeu — a film student from Groves, Texas
Nick Rolader — a student and caterer from Lilburn, Georgia
Susan Forman — a homemaker and former attorney from Waccabuc, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan | $1,200 | $2,800 | $14,800 |
$26,600
2-day champion: $45,800 |
$12,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Nick | $2,600 | $3,400 | $13,000 |
$25,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,000
14 R, 0 W |
| Chad | $3,000 | $5,600 | $17,800 |
$5,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$16,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| MUSIC | EXCESS HOLLYWOOD | NICE TO MEET YOU! | ANAGRAMMED PAPAL NAMES | OFFICIAL STATE CRITTERS | "ODE" TO JOY |
|
$200
[1]
(Jon of the Clue Crew is playing bass.) I'm playing an Fdown here, then going up this interval, the basis of our scale system, to play an F here
an octave
Susan
|
$200
[5]
Her $2 million wedding to David Gest, with an 80-piece orchestra, was delayed because Liz Taylor forgot her shoes
Liza Minnelli
Chad
|
$200
[19]
These 2 Shakespearean lovers meet at a feast & extemporize a sonnet together
Romeo and Juliet
Susan
|
$200
[3]
OLE
Leo
Chad
|
$200
[13]
The mask doesn't fool me; I recognize this as Tennessee's state wild animal
the raccoon
Nick
|
$200
[24]
It's our lucky 13th state
Rhode Island
|
|
$400
[2]
A score may say "M.D." for "mano destra" where it's suggested tha a pianist use this, even on low notes
right hand
Nick
|
$400
[6]
Promisesin Malibu is one of these facilities providing celebrities luxury along with recovery
a rehab facility
Susan
|
$400
[20]
Meeting in Tehran in 1942, the "big three" were Roosevelt, Churchill & this leader
Stalin
Susan
|
$400
[9]
BENT DICE
Benedict
Chad
|
$400
[14]
Grrr! This bear is Montana's state animal
a grizzly
Nick
|
$400
[25]
7-letter word meaning to wear or eat away by the action of a chemical
corrode
Susan
Chad
|
|
$800
[17]
"Lento" is slow; this is even slower, the slowest conventional tempo
largo
Susan
|
$600
[7]
Punning on her name, she was known as "gimme more" for demands like a bigger private jet for all her bags
Demi Moore
Chad
|
$600
[21]
The show's host since 1991, he's pretty much "the press" that politicians "meet" on Sundays
Tim Russert
Chad
|
$600
[10]
A DRAIN
Adrian
Chad
|
$600
[15]
Kansas fancied the fancy shell of the ornate box type of this & made it the state reptile
the turtle
Susan
|
$600
[26]
The 14 species of marmots are types of these
rodents
Chad
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
(Jon of the Clue Crew is playing bass.) You'll get an "A" for effort if you name this Italian musical term; here's an example of one
arpeggio
Chad
|
$800
[8]
On Oscar night 2006, winners Three 6 Mafia sported these in gold & diamonds--on their teeth, not their cars
grills
Nick
|
$800
[22]
This convention of delegates met for the second time in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775
the (Second) Continental Congress
Chad
|
$800
[11]
A BURN
Urban
Nick
|
$800
[29]
I howled when I heard that this canine critter was the state animal of South Dakota
the coyote
Susan
Nick
|
$800
[27]
NASA was one of the first to use this product I.D. system to keep track of millions of spacecraft parts
bar code
Chad
|
|
$1,000
[18]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents some musical notation.) Ledger lines are for notes that don't fit on the 5-line staff, like this note that's one line below the treble staff, or one line above the bass staff
middle C
Susan
|
$1,000
[16]
The premiere of "The Reaping" was truly "the affair of" this for Hilary Swank, who wore a million-dollar diamond one
necklace
Chad
|
$1,000
[23]
In 2007 this annual summit of the world's leading industrialized nations met in Heilegendamm, Germany
G8 (the Group of Eight)
Susan
|
$1,000
[12]
ELM CENT
Clement
|
$1,000
[30]
A group of 3rd graders got a bill passed to make the Pacific chorus type of this Washington's state amphibian
frog
|
$1,000
[28]
This company created fine bone china & perfected the underglaze blue printing seen here
Spode
Susan
|
| "GREEN" GEOGRAPHY | SINGING THE BLUES | BLACK HOLES | REDHEADS | PURPLE PROSE | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES |
|
$400
[11]
In the native Inuit language, this place is known as Kalaallit Nunaat
Greenland
Susan
|
$400
[16]
She didn't just sing the blues, she called her autobiography "Lady Sings The Blues"
Billie Holiday
Susan
|
$400
[6]
In black holes this force is so strong that not even light can escape
gravity
Nick
|
$400
[21]
Youngest of the 8 sons of Jesse, this supposedly redheaded King of Israel reigned from 1000 to 962 B.C.
David
|
$400
[1]
This southern "Vampire" author continued her purple prose with the bewitching novel "Lasher"
Anne Rice
Chad
|
$400
[26]
Popular term for a baggage porter at a railway station
redcap
Susan
|
|
$800
[12]
Ceded to the U.S. in 1783, it's the oldest city in Wisconsin
Green Bay
Nick
|
$800
[17]
His early billing as the "Beale Street Blues Boy" was way shortened
B.B. King
Chad
|
$800
[7]
Micro black holes are believed to have been formed by this primordial event at the beginning of the universe
Big Bang
Nick
|
$800
[22]
He's the red-headed & lab-challenged Muppetseen here
Beaker
|
$800
[2]
Sister of actress Joan, this author of "The Stud" was dubbed "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair
Jackie Collins
Chad
|
$800
[27]
In 1982 these 2 organizations merged to become America's largest single provider of managed health-care coverage
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Susan
|
|
$1,200
[13]
They extend from Canada through Vermont into western Massachusetts
Green Mountains
Chad
|
$1,200
[18]
The first & last names of this legendary Chicago Blues guitarist can both be slang for "man"
Buddy Guy
Chad
|
$1,200
[8]
Black holes are thought to emit a weak form of radiation named for this physicist
Stephen Hawking
Nick
Chad
|
$1,200
[23]
Totally cosmic, dude--this redhead orbited the earth in 1962 & again in 1998
John Glenn
Nick
|
$1,200
[3]
This author of "The Carpetbaggers" & "The Betsy" has been called "papa of the purple prose paperback"
Harold Robbins
Susan
|
$1,200
[28]
A real-life mutiny aboard a soviet frigate inspired this 1984 Tom Clancy bestseller
The Hunt for Red October
Susan
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Bob Jones University is located in this South Carolina city
Greenville
Nick
|
$2,000
[20]
Credited with writing "Sweet Home Chicago", this "King of the Delta Blues" said the Devil taught him to play guitar
Robert Johnson
Chad
|
$1,600
[9]
In science fiction stories, black holes are often gateways to these vermiform travel tubes
wormholes
Nick
|
$1,600
[24]
A toast to this redheaded 18th c. Scottish outlaw, pardoned after his 1725 capture for his part in the Jacobite rebellion
Rob Roy
|
$1,600
[4]
Fittingly, his "Riders of the Purple Sage" has been accused of having purple prose
Zane Grey
Susan
|
$2,000
[30]
Porphyrogenitus, a royal epithet given to Byzantine emperors, translates to this phrase
Born to the purple
|
|
$2,000
[15]
26 miles east of Winston-Salem, this North Carolina city is a leading textile-producing center
Greensboro
Susan
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
McKinley Morganfield got this nickname from his habit of playing in a creek as a child
Muddy Waters
Chad
|
$2,000
[10]
This "horizon" is the gravitational point of no return in a black hole
event horizon
Chad
|
$2,000
[25]
This Dublin-born redhead, called the most important British dramatist since Shakespeare, won a 1925 Nobel Prize
George Bernard Shaw
Chad
|
$2,000
[5]
Purple prose is exemplified by this hyphenated author's "It was a dark and stormy night..."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Nick
|
DD
$4,000
[29]
In "Othello", Iago warns, "O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy", it is this creature
a green-eyed monster
Susan
|
Britannica said the court's ruling in his case "seemed a mortal blow to the newly created Republican Party"
Dred Scott