Alison Becker — a researcher from Los Angeles, California
Steve Frappier — a high school college counselor from Miami, Florida
Pat Roche — a trainer from East Greenbush, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pat | $600 | $3,600 | $8,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
19 R, 4 W |
| Steve | $0 | $3,400 | $7,400 |
$4,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,000
8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Alison | $5,200 | $8,700 | $17,500 |
$17,000
New champion: $17,000 |
$17,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE 20th CENTURY | I DO | FABRICS | LITERARY LOCALES | NUMBERS | FAMILIAR PHRASES |
|
$200
[1]
Nickname shared by baseball great Jay Dean & jazz great John Gillespie
Dizzy
Alison
|
$200
[11]
2 weeks after a symbolic union in Bora Bora, this "Shrek" jackass called it quits before having the legal ceremony
Eddie Murphy
Alison
|
$200
[26]
Open mesh fabric style used in stockings & on trawlers
fishnet
Pat
|
$200
[2]
A barbecue takes place at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes family plantation, in Chapter VI of this novel
Gone With the Wind
Steve
Alison
|
$200
[21]
States in present-day New England
6
Pat
|
$200
[16]
It's said that this implement "is mightier than the sword"
the pen
Pat
|
|
$400
[7]
In 1967, this Cuban revolutionary leader was captured in Bolivia and executed
"Che" Guevara
Alison
|
$400
[12]
Secretly married in 2007, the wife of this "Diff'rent Strokes" star now handles his memorabilia sales on eBay
Gary Coleman
Pat
Steve
|
$400
[27]
It's a fluffy type of pie, or a sheer, fluffy silk fabric for blouses
chiffon
Alison
|
$400
[3]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) This J.D. Salinger hero reminisces about seeing the Haida canoe on childhood field trips to the American Museum of Natural History
Holden Caulfield
Pat
|
$400
[22]
Total number of royal flushes that can be dealt out of one deck of 52 cards
4
Pat
|
$400
[17]
It's what you're actually doing if you're just out of school & "pounding the pavement"
looking for work
Pat
|
|
$600
[8]
This name given to the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 reflects 2 others before it
the Third Reich
Alison
|
$600
[13]
After marrying musician Josh Kelley, she went from wedding dress in 2007 to "27 Dresses" in 2008
(Katherine) Heigl
Alison
|
$800
[29]
Panne, cut & crushed are types of this thick pile fabric
velvet
Alison
|
$600
[4]
In an Erich Maria Remarque novel, "the army report confined itself to a single sentence"--this, the book's title
All Quiet on the Western Front
Steve
|
$600
[23]
In the U.S., the difference between a million & a billion is this many zeros
3
Steve
|
$600
[18]
In "A Psalm of Life", Longfellow tells of leaving these behind "on the sands of time"
footprints
Pat
|
|
$800
[9]
Ngo Dinh Diem's P.R. people coined this term for the band of guerillas that fought South Vietnam
the Viet Cong
Pat
|
$800
[14]
After releasing her self-titled debut album, this idol wed her producer Nick Cokas in February 2008
Katharine McPhee
Steve
|
$1,000
[30]
Pashmina is a fashionable type of this luxurious fabric made from the hair of a wild goat native to India & Tibet
cashmere
Steve
|
$800
[5]
African-American writer Chester Himes exploded with "A Rage in" this section of Manhattan
Harlem
Pat
|
$800
[24]
JFK was this number in presidential sequence, also the minimum age to become president
35
Steve
|
$800
[19]
Meaning "in trouble", the expression "in" this presumably refers to the briny liquid it's made in
a pickle
Alison
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Charter 77 was smuggled out of this country in 1977 & published in Western newspapers
Czechoslovakia
Alison
|
$1,000
[15]
Third time's a charm for this French president who recently married supermodel Carla Bruni
(Nicolas) Sarkozy
Pat
Alison
|
DD
$2,500
[28]
Gregory Peck's title gray suit was made of this
flannel
Alison
|
$1,000
[6]
John Steinbeck describes this title fish-processing area in Monterey, Ca. as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise"
Cannery Row
Alison
|
$1,000
[25]
Syllables in a line of standard iambic pentameter
10
Steve
Alison
|
$1,000
[20]
Meaning "a greater return for your investment", it reportedly came from military expenditures in the 1950s
more bang for your buck
Pat
|
| WHAT "A" COUNTRY! | BROADWAY BEFORE & AFTER | ARCHITECTURE | WE'RE IN BUSINESS | HORSE & BUGGY | "IS" THAT SO? |
|
$400
[3]
It's nearly 4 times the size of Texas, & 85% of it is made up of the Sahara Desert
Algeria
Pat
|
$400
[2]
Anna goes to the royal palace in Bangkok & helps a Chinese-American architect build the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The King and I.M. Pei
Pat
|
$400
[1]
To us it's the space at the top of a house; in Ancient Greece it was an architectural order named for Athens' region
an attic
Alison
|
$400
[13]
In 2008 Bank of America announced plans to buy this, the nation's largest mortgage lender
Countrywide
Pat
|
$400
[19]
Made of keratin, it's the equine equivalent of a claw
a hoof
Alison
|
$400
[5]
This Egyptian goddess learned the secret name of Ra & thus acquired his power
Isis
Pat
Alison
|
|
$800
[4]
Barbuda's buddy
Antigua
Alison
|
$800
[11]
Eliza Doolittle adds a saucy new tune to her repertoire: "Gitchie, gitchie ya ya, da da"
My Fair Lady Marmalade
Alison
|
$800
[9]
The simple 18th century British style named for this queen features red brick, not her lace
Anne
Pat
Alison
|
$800
[14]
Not far apart on the Fortune 500 are these 2 cos., one in Internet services & one in food; the names are homophones
Cisco & Sysco
|
$800
[20]
On the housefly, these are composed of up to 4,000 individual lenses
eyes
Pat
|
$800
[15]
This heroine of a Keats poem is a maiden of Florence, not a lady of Spain
Isabella
Pat
|
|
$1,200
[6]
It's located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea at the southeast extremity of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains
Azerbaijan
Steve
|
$1,200
[12]
17 dancers are cut down to 8, then form this to divide offense from defense on the gridiron
A Chorus Line of scrimmage
|
$1,200
[10]
The "glass skyscraper" architect Ludwig Mies added this, his mother's surname, to his own
van der Rohe
Alison
|
$1,200
[24]
One in 9 Americans has this type of insurance through Well Point
health insurance
Steve
Alison
|
$1,200
[21]
The cells bees make for workers, males & queens are different in size, but all are this shape
hexagon
Pat
|
$1,200
[16]
In the "Epic of Gilgamesh", this goddess was spurned (like the Warren Beatty movie that flopped)
Ishtar
Pat
|
|
$2,000
[8]
This mountainous Balkan country tops out at 9,000-foot Mount Korab
Albania
Pat
|
$1,600
[26]
"How are things in Glocca Morra?"Well, Og the leprechaun wants his gold & some "multi-colored" fish for a start
Finian's Rainbow trout
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[25]
What was once the Anglo-Persian & Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. later took this name, still reflecting its English roots
BP or British Petroleum
Alison
|
$1,600
[22]
A bean with mottled markings shares its name with this equine
a pinto
Pat
|
$1,600
[17]
The Beykoz Woods on the Asian side of this city are famous for their tea gardens
Istanbul
Alison
|
|
DD
$4,000
[7]
It has an Atlantic coastline of about 1,000 miles, & Bantu is its largest language group
Angola
Steve
|
$2,000
[27]
Pointillist Seurat sings, dances & writes "Animal Farm"
Sunday in the Park with George Orwell
Alison
|
— |
$2,000
[28]
Here's some energy info: this company serves almost 9 million residents of NYC & Westchester County
Con Ed
|
$2,000
[23]
"Health, history, horses" is the motto of this city in upstate New York
Saratoga Springs
Alison
|
$2,000
[18]
Sophocles didn't name a play for her, so she's less famous than her sister Antigone
Ismene
|
With an estimated sellout crowd of 267,925 people, it claims to be the best-attended single-day sporting event in the U.S.
the Indy 500