Janet O'Keefe — a librarian from Flint, Michigan
Kyung Ro — an operations manager from Gaithersburg, Maryland
Kristina Caffrey — a college student from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristina | $3,600 | $3,600 | $14,600 |
$21,600
2-day champion: $44,600 |
$13,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Kyung | $2,200 | $6,200 | $15,000 |
$799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$17,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Janet | $1,200 | $1,000 | $7,000 |
$10,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
12 R, 3 W |
| NATIVE AMERICANS | TV MOVIE BIOS | GRAB BAG | RUSSIAN FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | A LITTLE FOOD & DRINK | FROM A TO Y |
|
$200
[21]
Algonquian for "to trade", this Native American tribe shares its name with Canada's capital
Ottawa
Kyung
|
$200
[12]
She played her own mother in a 1982 TV movie about the Osmonds, & her niece Amy played her
Marie Osmond
Kyung
|
$200
[25]
Chemist Patsy Sherman was working for 3M when she created this stain protector with a "national" name
Scotchgard
Janet
|
$200
[1]
Putin &Lenin
Vladimir
Janet
|
$200
[11]
Though it triggered an E. coli scare in 2006, this leafy vegetable is generally safe to eat; ask Popeye
spinach
Kyung
|
$200
[3]
The 10 Commandments include "Thou shalt not commit" this
adultery
Kyung
|
|
$400
[22]
The Pomo of California were particularly known for this art, an easy elective for college students
basket weaving
Kristina
|
$400
[13]
Hinton Battle was tapped to play Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the TV movie about this ultimate child star
Shirley Temple
Janet
|
$400
[26]
Michael Folle & Alexander Kaleri left this in 2004, the first time it was without a crew inside
the International Space Station
Kristina
|
$400
[2]
Pasternak &Spassky
Boris
Kyung
|
$400
[17]
This "city" sandwich consists of thin slices of beef, slices of American, & often sauteed onions on a roll
a Philadelphia cheesesteak
Kyung
|
$400
[4]
A monk may turn down your job offer due to a prior commitment in this type of monastery
an abbey
Kyung
|
|
$600
[23]
This tribe's name was first on a bay, then a colony, then a state (which put 2 Ts in it)
Massachusetts
Kyung
|
$600
[14]
It was a battle of the sexes when Holly Hunter & Ron Silver played these opponents in "When Billie Beat Bobby"
Billie Jean King & Bobby Riggs
Janet
|
$600
[27]
Hawaiian residents are sometimes plagued by "vog" in the air, with the "V" referring to this
volcanic ash
Janet
|
$600
[8]
Gromyko &Sakharov
Andrei
Janet
|
$600
[18]
Though often referred to as a wine, this Japanese alcohol is actually brewed more like a beer
sake
Kyung
|
$600
[5]
"Ecstasy" partner in an Irving Stone book title
Agony
Janet
|
|
$1,000
[30]
This athlete's Indian name was Wa-Tho-Huck, "Bright Path"; & boy, could he run quickly down it
Jim Thorpe
Kyung
Janet
|
$800
[15]
A TV movie about this "fair lady" featured Eric McCormack of "Will & Grace" as her first husband, Mel Ferrer
Audrey Hepburn
Kyung
|
$800
[28]
This 2-word phrase comes from a Greek belief that a bird sacred to Apollo broke its silence before dying
swan song
|
$800
[9]
Pavlov &Turgenev
Ivan
Kristina
|
$800
[19]
This candy bar of chocolate, nougat, peanuts & caramel was named for a horse
Snickers
Kristina
Kyung
|
$800
[6]
Back in the Middle Ages, the aim of this practice was to change base metals into gold
alchemy
Kristina
|
|
DD
$1,600
[24]
From the dark color they died their moccasins, the Siksika are also known as this
the Northern Blackfoot Indians
Kyung
|
$1,000
[16]
A TV movie about this blonde singer featured Tony Orlando as her first husband, Jose Ferrer
Rosemary Clooney
Kristina
|
$1,000
[29]
This state flower of Maryland includes a woman's name
a Black-eyed Susan
Kyung
|
$1,000
[10]
Eisenstein &Rachmaninoff
Sergei
Kristina
|
$1,000
[20]
This cereal once had a longer name; "oats" became "os"
Cheerios
Kyung
|
$1,000
[7]
A foe orarchenemy
adversary
|
| ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA | MISSISSIPPI MISSES | THE RISE OF THE MACHINES | THE LOVELY BONES | THERE'S "AU" | IN THEM THAR HILLS |
|
$400
[1]
Judges were chosen by lot for the drama competition known as the Dionysia in this city
Athens
Kristina
|
$400
[21]
She's the richest woman in entertainment & Forbes' top power player for 2007; not bad for a kid from Kosciusko
Oprah Winfrey
Kyung
|
$400
[13]
A website about these machines suggests that the flipper should be thought of & used like a tennis racket
pinball machines
Kyung
|
$400
[9]
The lacrimal bones contain sacs that collect excess these from the surface of the eyes
tears
Kristina
|
$400
[4]
The leading accidental cause of death in the U.S. involves these
automobiles
Kyung
|
$400
[22]
This English river flows from the Cotswold hills to its mouth on the North Sea
the Thames
Kristina
|
|
$800
[2]
According to a play about her by Euripides, this woman did not spend the Trojan war at Troy but in Egypt
Helen
Kristina
|
$800
[27]
Raised in Star, Mississippi, this singer, Mrs. Tim McGraw, was destined to become a star
Faith Hill
Kyung
|
$800
[14]
The 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley were the first to use this brand of ice-resurfacing machine
a Zamboni
Janet
|
$800
[12]
These bones are classified as true, false, & floating
ribs
|
$800
[5]
It usually begins around September 22nd
autumn
Kristina
|
$800
[23]
Better-known name of the Washington, D.C. hill once known as Jenkins' Hill
Capitol Hill
Janet
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In "The Clouds" by Aristophanes, a man desires to send his son to study with this Greek philosopher
Socrates
Kyung
Janet
|
$1,200
[28]
"Stand By Your Man" and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" were big hits for this Mississippian who was married 5 times
Tammy Wynette
Janet
|
$1,200
[18]
During bypass surgery, the patient is hooked up to a machine that's named for these 2 different internal organs
the heart & lungs
Kristina
|
$1,200
[15]
The stapes, the smallest bone in the human body, is found in this organ
the ear
Kyung
|
$1,200
[6]
City that's home to the Masters Golf Tournament
Augusta
Janet
|
$1,200
[24]
Shatrunjaya Hill in this country is home to more than 800 Jainist temples
India
Kyung
|
|
$1,600
[10]
This title angry wife plots revenge against Jason by killing his new flame with a poisoned garment
Medea
Kyung
|
$1,600
[29]
This actress from Meridien is a cousin of Tennessee Williams & mom to Laura Dern
Diane Ladd
Kyung
|
$2,000
[20]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from atop a large, moving piece of equipment at Texas A&M University's Coastal Engineering Lab.) Texas A&M's Coastal Engineering Lab has a sediment pit, testing this type of equipment that removes earth from the sea floor
a dredger (or dredging equipment)
Kristina
|
$1,600
[16]
(Jon of the Clue Crew points to a model of a human skeleton.) The spinal column ends with this bone, named because it's said to resemble a certain bird's beak
the coccyx
Janet
|
$1,600
[7]
At a papal one of these, don't forget to kneel
an audience
Janet
|
$1,600
[25]
It's the skull-shaped hill where Jesus was crucified
Golgotha
Kyung
|
|
$2,000
[11]
The 3 parts of this Greek dramatic trilogy are "Agamemnon", "Choephori", & "Eumenides"
the Oresteia
|
$2,000
[30]
A Spingarn Medal & a Pres. Medal of Freedom are among the laurels of this celebrated soprano from Laurel, Miss.
Leontyne Price
Kyung
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
This machine was invented in 1793 to speed up the removal of seeds from a certain raw fiber
the cotton gin
Kristina
|
$2,000
[17]
This long slender bone is parallel and lateral to the tibia
the fibula
Kristina
|
$2,000
[8]
The puffin is a member of this "great" family of penguin-like birds
auks
Kyung
|
DD
$1,600
[26]
According to legend, a cave on this hill was where Romulus & Remus were suckled by a wolf
the Palatine Hill
Kyung
|
James I said of this plotter, "The gentler tortures are to be first used... and so proceed by steps to the worst"
Guy Fawkes