Brett Kirwan — a naval officer originally from Avon Lake, Ohio
Rosalind Jaffe — a bank manager from Onekama, Michigan
Gabriel Schechter — a researcher from Cooperstown, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabriel | $2,600 | $2,600 | $14,600 |
$1,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rosalind | $3,400 | $4,400 | $14,000 |
$11,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,000
18 R, 2 W |
| Brett | $1,800 | $5,600 | $8,400 |
$16,799
New champion: $16,799 |
$8,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| TRAVEL EUROPE | I "LIKE" THIS SONG | PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES | RHYME QUEST | WHO'S FOR DESSERT? | TIME FOR LEFTOVERS |
|
$200
[3]
"Wax" nostalgic (or is that nostalgique?) at Musee Grevin, this capital's answer to Madame Tussaud's
Paris
Rosalind
|
$200
[16]
This Bob Seger song was used in ads for Chevy trucks
"Like A Rock"
Brett
|
$200
[8]
He spent time at his California ranch where he could ride horses, chop wood & play the part of a cowboy
Reagan
Gabriel
|
$200
[13]
A final, as in a final exam
a test
Brett
|
$200
[1]
In the South, the lemony cake named for this Civil War general is the perfect treat for his birthday, Jan. 19
Robert E. Lee
Brett
|
$200
[24]
In the nursery rhyme, they're made up of "snips & snails & puppy dog tails"
little boys
Rosalind
|
|
$400
[4]
The Barengraben, or bear pits, in this Swiss capital have entertained visitors for centuries
Bern
Rosalind
|
$400
[20]
Duran Duran made its Top 40 debut with this song
"Hungry Like The Wolf"
Brett
|
$400
[9]
Warren Harding often had a full house drinking & playing this card game into the wee hours
poker
Gabriel
|
$400
[14]
Better than better
best
Gabriel
|
$400
[2]
Let's make the chocolate candies named for this First Lady who was born in Virginia in 1731
Martha Washington
Rosalind
|
$400
[25]
John Harrington was flush with success in the 1590s with his invention of one of these that flushed
a toilet
Gabriel
|
|
$600
[5]
Gripsholm Castle, on an island in Lake Malaren, was built by this country's King Gustav Vasa
Sweden
Gabriel
|
$600
[21]
This 1965 song begins, "Once upon a time you dressed so fine"
"Like A Rolling Stone"
Rosalind
|
$600
[10]
As seen in thepicture, Franklin Roosevelt enjoyed stamp collecting, this nine-letter hobby
philately
Brett
|
$600
[15]
Repose
rest
Rosalind
|
$600
[17]
Feeling dramatic? Try the rich chocolate cake named for this very dramatic French actress of the 1800s
Sarah Bernhardt
Gabriel
|
$600
[26]
It's the term for a group of grapes, perhaps a "wild" one
a bunch
Brett
|
|
$800
[6]
Some believe the best Greek sweet wine is mavrodaphne, a specialty of this peninsula in Greece
the Peloponnesian peninsula
Brett
|
$800
[22]
The 2 Madonna No. 1 hits that fit the category
"Like A Virgin" & "Like A Prayer"
Brett
|
$800
[11]
He liked to box, wrestle & hunt & loved to play tennis; in fact, his group of advisers was known as the Tennis Cabinet
Teddy Roosevelt
Rosalind
|
$800
[18]
A soiree invitee (if he shows up)
a guest
Brett
|
DD
$800
[29]
Pass the dessert that the French call Reine de Saba; we know it in English as this Biblical woman's cake
the Queen of Sheba
Brett
|
$800
[27]
Fights broke out in U.S. stores in 1998 between shoppers trying to buy these talking, fuzzy Hasbro toys
Furbies
Rosalind
|
|
$1,000
[7]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The Imperial Chapel is home to the Wiener Sangerknaben, this world-famous group that was formed in 1498
the Vienna Boys' Choir
Gabriel
|
$1,000
[23]
This entertainment industry anthem was written for the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
Brett
|
$1,000
[12]
For exercise, this president seenhereliked to swing Indian clubs
Calvin Coolidge
Rosalind
|
$1,000
[19]
Gusto
zest
Brett
|
$1,000
[30]
(Emeril Lagasse whips something up.) I'm beating egg whites to make a Down Under meringue dessert; Aussies so named the dessert because they were impressed with the floating grace of this early 20th century dancer
Pavlova
Rosalind
|
$1,000
[28]
A quindecennial happens every this many years
15
Gabriel
Brett
|
| PHYSICS | THEATRE | TEXAS | BUSINESS TALK | MARINE LIFE | CROSSWORD CLUES "N" |
|
$400
[16]
This one of the 3 main states of matter has no fixed shape or volume
gas
Gabriel
|
$400
[7]
Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" takes place in a tenement house in this capital city
Dublin
Rosalind
|
$400
[1]
This major league baseball team plays its home games in Arlington, Texas
the Rangers
Brett
|
$400
[20]
Stockholm or Madrid, or the investment money put up to start a business
capital
Brett
|
$400
[25]
The green type of this reptile gained protection in the 20th century because of its popular use in soup
a turtle
Rosalind
|
$400
[6]
One is hit on the head(4)
a nail
Rosalind
|
|
$800
[17]
I shot an arrow into the air; if not for friction, it would have formed this plane curve, from the Greek for "to compare"
a parabola
Rosalind
|
$800
[8]
"Kremlin Chimes" is the second play in Nikolai Pogodin's trilogy about this leader of the Russian Revolution
Lenin
Gabriel
|
$800
[2]
Texas' only natural lake is Caddo Lake, shared with this state to the east
Louisiana
Gabriel
|
$800
[21]
From the Latin for "holy", they're economic measures taken against a nation for violating international law
sanctions
Brett
|
$800
[27]
The black type of this fish with a woman's name is a striking addition to any aquarium
a molly
Rosalind
|
$800
[12]
About his jacket, critics pandit(5)
Nehru
Gabriel
|
|
$1,600
[19]
The special theory of this says that the speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant
relativity
Brett
|
$1,200
[9]
This "Electra"fying playwright gets the credit for adding a third actor to Greek tragedies
Sophocles
Rosalind
|
$1,600
[4]
Anson Jones was the last president of this entity, serving until 1845, when it joined the U.S.
the Republic of Texas
Brett
|
$1,200
[22]
It's the 3-word scam in which a customer is pressured to buy more expensive items than the ones advertised
bait and switch
|
$1,200
[28]
Newly hatched octopi live among this group of microscopic plants & animals that float on the ocean's surface
plankton
|
$1,200
[13]
Nada(7)
nothing
Gabriel
|
|
$2,000
[26]
The 1963 Nobel Physics Prize went to the folks who found these have shells, with the outermost being the densest
atomic nuclei
|
$1,600
[10]
In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson"
August Wilson
Rosalind
Brett
|
$2,000
[5]
In 1976 this Texas congresswoman became the first black keynote speaker at a Dem. National Convention
Barbara Jordan
Gabriel
Brett
|
$1,600
[23]
From the Latin for "to roll together", it's a corporation of several companies involved in a variety of businesses
conglomerate
Rosalind
|
$1,600
[29]
The savory silver salmon with its bright red flesh is also known by this 4-letter name
coho
Gabriel
|
$1,600
[14]
Country music city(9)
Nashville
Brett
|
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows himself on the monitor, swiveling around in a chair with dumbbells in his hands, extending and contracting his arms.) When I draw my arms inward, my angular velocity increases because my angular mass decreases; the product of those two quantities is called angular this
momentum
Gabriel
|
$2,000
[11]
This "diminuitive" Edward Albee play was first produced on Broadway in 1964
Tiny Alice
Gabriel
|
DD
$3,400
[3]
Several states including Texas have this cooking-utensil feature: Oklahoma, Florida & Nebraska, for example
a panhandle
Gabriel
|
$2,000
[24]
Abbreviated "MFN", it's the clause in an international trade agreement that grants signatory countries the same tariff rate
most favoured nation
Rosalind
|
$2,000
[30]
Less than half an inch long, this tiny fish is found in the Indian Ocean, not in an Asian desert
the gobi
Rosalind
|
$2,000
[15]
It falls daily(5)
night
Gabriel
|
In a 1944 speech, he said, "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge"
George Patton