Babatope Ogunmola — a sample specialist originally from Buffalo, New York
Adrienne Horrigan — a librarian from Chicago, Illinois
Jennah Durant — a public affairs specialist from Dallas, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $38,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennah | $4,200 | $7,800 | $14,200 |
$8,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Adrienne | $2,600 | $2,600 | $3,000 |
$1,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Babatope | $-1,200 | $800 | $9,200 |
$8,400
New champion: $8,400 |
$9,200
14 R, 4 W |
| NONFICTION PEOPLE | WHAT A WEEK | THE SILVER SCREEN | ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES | THE TITANIC | "TOO" MUCH |
|
$200
[16]
Stephen Ambrose looked at this president's "Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990"
Richard Nixon
Adrienne
|
$200
[21]
In 1958 the theme of the first national week for these places was "Wake up & read!"
libraries
Jennah
|
$200
[1]
1960 film that says "Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all", especially for "the son who commits it"
Psycho
Jennah
|
$200
[26]
The largest in area of the 3
England
Jennah
|
$200
[6]
Milvina Dean, who had this distinction among the 2,200 people on board, lived to see the 95th anniv. in 2007
the youngest person
Adrienne
|
$200
[11]
Fighting ferociously, you go at it this "& nail"
tooth
Adrienne
|
|
$400
[17]
A biography of him is subtitled "Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist"
George Washington Carver
Jennah
|
$400
[22]
This is a rough week for pledges, but if they can make it through, they can be fraternity members
hell week
Babatope
|
$400
[2]
Her 6-minute role as Queen Elizabeth in "Shakespeare in Love" was the shortest Oscar-winning role
Judi Dench
Babatope
|
$400
[27]
Tony Blair was born there
Scotland
Adrienne
Babatope
|
$400
[7]
The U.S. Senate inquiry noted that the 16 compartments in the Titanic's hull that supposedly were this, weren't
watertight
Jennah
|
$400
[12]
It's a signal at night for soldiers to go to their quarters, or an indelible pattern drawn on the skin
a tattoo
Adrienne
|
|
$800
[19]
He's called a "Rough Stone Rolling" in a 2005 "Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder"
Joseph Smith
Jennah
|
$600
[23]
Each year, World Space Week is at the start of October, commemorating this 1957 event
the Sputnik launch
Jennah
|
$600
[3]
Chris O'Donnell was originally cast as her son in "Prince of Tides", but she chose her real son instead
Barbra Streisand
Jennah
|
$600
[28]
The one that is technically a principality
Wales
Jennah
|
$600
[8]
The Titanic carried plenty of these, 3,560, but many passengers died wearing them in the 28-degree water
lifejackets
Jennah
|
$600
[13]
It's a small porch on the front of the house
a stoop
Jennah
Babatope
|
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
"The Apotheosis of" this English navigator explores "European Mythmaking in the Pacific"
(James) Cook
Adrienne
|
$800
[24]
In 1999 this country began 3 "golden weeks" of vacation for its vast populace, including one around May Day
China
Jennah
|
$800
[4]
Anthony Hopkins said his voice for this movie role was "a combination of Truman Capote and Katharine Hepburn"
Hannibal Lecter
Adrienne
|
$800
[29]
It has the westernmost territory
Scotland
Jennah
Adrienne
Babatope
|
$800
[9]
You can still see the crane to lower these; the starboard & port ones weighed 9 tons, the center one, 17 tons
anchors
Jennah
|
$800
[14]
As seen here, seaplanes have these, or they'd be at the bottom of the sea
pontoons
Jennah
|
|
$1,000
[20]
"The Corsican" is a diary of his life "In His Own Words"
Napoleon
Babatope
|
$1,000
[25]
Carrie on "Sex and the City" really enjoyed this event that brings ships & thousands of sailors to NYC
Fleet Week
Jennah
|
$1,000
[5]
Schwarzenegger is a Soviet cop teamed with James Belushi's Chicago cop in this action movie
Red Heat
Babatope
|
$1,000
[30]
The Cambrian Mountains cover most of it
Wales
Jennah
Babatope
|
$1,000
[10]
The ship was so big, communication was by telegraph from this navigating area to the engine room
the bridge
Jennah
|
$1,000
[15]
It's a string or garland of flowers hung in a curve, or to decorate with them
festoon
Adrienne
|
| HISPANIC HISTORY | THE LAST POPE OF THIS NAME | "IBLE"S & BITS | SCIENCE GUYS | FUNNY FOR NOTHIN' | CHICKENS FOR FREE |
|
$400
[16]
As president of this country, Antonio Guzman Blanco had a new capital built in Caracas
Venezuela
Jennah
|
$400
[19]
There have been more popes of this name than any other, but the last, number XXIII, was more than 40 years ago
John
Jennah
|
$400
[6]
Adjective for handwriting that can actually be read, unlike my doctor's
legible
Adrienne
Babatope
|
$400
[11]
His grandfather Erasmus argued in favor of evolution 60 years before he took up the cause himself
(Charles) Darwin
Jennah
|
$400
[22]
On his first night taking over "The Daily Show", he informed us, "Craig Kilborn is on assignment in Kuala Lumpur"
Jon Stewart
Jennah
|
$400
[1]
He celebrated his 86th birthday at "21" by having his own famous fried chicken delivered to his table in section 21
Colonel Sanders
Babatope
|
|
$800
[17]
The USA's second "drug czar", Bob Martinez had been governor of this state
Florida
|
$800
[20]
The VI & last pope to have this name reigned from 1963 to 1978
Paul
Jennah
|
$800
[7]
Easily duped or conned, perhaps like a seabird
gullible
Babatope
|
$800
[12]
This astronomer was born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564
Galileo
Babatope
|
$800
[23]
A writer, on the U.S. soccer team's 4 total shots in 3 games: "Four shots?" This Laker "takes that many during a timeout"
Kobe Bryant
Babatope
|
$800
[2]
In doro wat, Ethiopian chicken stew, these go in at the end of cooking, so the chicken stew comes first
the eggs
Babatope
|
|
$1,200
[18]
To supply Coronado's party, Hernando de Alarcon sailed 3 ships up this river in 1540 to where Yuma, Ariz. is now
the Colorado
Jennah
|
$1,200
[21]
1878 to 1903 was the tenure of the XIII & last pope with this name that's also a sign of the Zodiac
Leo
Adrienne
|
$1,200
[8]
You chew with it
mandible
Babatope
|
$1,200
[13]
In 1920, he was named director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen
(Niels) Bohr
Adrienne
Babatope
|
$1,200
[24]
This Fox-TV cartoon boy: "Just so you don't hear any wild rumors, I'm being indicted for fraud in Australia"
Bart Simpson
Babatope
|
$1,200
[3]
Chicken this "royal" way is served in a rich cream sauce with mushrooms, pimentos, green peppers & sherry
a la king
Jennah
|
|
$1,600
[30]
The dictator of Paraguay from 1816 to 1840 wasn't called just "El Bueno" but this superlative
El Supremo
|
$2,000
[28]
He wasn't the calendar dude, but when he died in 1846, he was the XVI & last pope with this name
Gregory
Jennah
|
$1,600
[9]
14-letter adjective for something that can't be wiped out
indestructible
Adrienne
|
$1,600
[14]
Until his death in 1907, this chemist headed the Weights & Measures Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia
Mendeleev
Jennah
|
$1,600
[25]
This deadpan comic said, "I installed a skylight in my apartment... The people who live above me are furious"
Steven Wright
Babatope
|
$1,600
[4]
Da, comrade--a fork pierces the bird, launching a jet of fragrant melted butter in chicken this
chicken Kiev
Adrienne
|
|
$2,000
[29]
Around 1829 this Mexican began calling himself the "Napoleon of the West"
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Jennah
|
DD
$3,000
[27]
The XII & last pope of this name that sounds like a synonym for "devout" ended his 19-year reign in 1958
Pius
Jennah
|
$2,000
[10]
Miller's witch-hunting play
The Crucible
Jennah
|
DD
$3,000
[15]
In 1855 Napoleon III "swung" a deal arranging for his appointment as physicist at the Paris Observatory
Jean Foucault
Jennah
|
$2,000
[26]
This Brit comic cross-dresser: "Guns don't kill people, people do... but monkeys do too, if they've got a gun"
Eddie Izzard
Jennah
|
$2,000
[5]
A rich dish combines chicken strips, spaghetti & a sherry-parmesan cheese cream sauce in chicken this opera star
chicken Tetrazzini
|
As Territories Committee chair, this Midwest senator helped draw the borders of 7 territories, including Kansas & Nebraska
Stephen Douglas