Susan Keller — an English teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Winter Mead — a high school drama teacher from Oakland, California
Alison Becker — a researcher from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alison | $1,800 | $6,000 | $11,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,600
21 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Winter | $1,600 | $2,400 | $13,300 |
$3,300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Susan | $1,800 | $3,800 | $5,800 |
$8,000
New champion: $8,000 |
$6,800
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| HISTORIC NICKNAMES | HOW TOUCHING! | 3-LETTER ABBREV. | ROCK | PAPERS | SOUSA'S |
|
$200
[12]
The actions he took on November 24, 1963 earned him the nickname "The Assassin's Assassin"
Jack Ruby
Susan
|
$200
[10]
It's the usual name for the kind of zoo where you can stroke--& sometimes even feed--young animals
a petting zoo
Winter
|
$200
[1]
"Show your card & save" when you belong to this organization that provides maps & roadside service
AAA
Alison
|
$200
[4]
After he bit the head off a bat during a 1982 concert, a series of rabies shots followed
Ozzy Osbourne
Alison
Winter
|
$200
[24]
Woodward & Bernstein were working for this newspaper in August 1972
the Washington Post
Alison
|
$200
[17]
Sousa was instrumental in the design of the sousaphone, a bass one of these with an upright bell
a tuba
Alison
|
|
$400
[19]
During this decades-long war, Sweden's King Gustavus Adolphus became known as the "Lion of the North"
the 30-Year War
Winter
|
$400
[11]
Literally French for "touched", this expression indicates a hit in fencing
touché
Winter
|
$400
[2]
Elwood Edwards says, "You've got mail!" for the company known by these 3 letters
AOL
Alison
|
$400
[5]
The concert theatrics of this band included Pete Townshend smashing his guitar to bits
The Who
Winter
|
$400
[25]
In 1889 Charles Dow & Edward Jones founded this business daily
The Wall Street Journal
Susan
|
$400
[18]
In 1987 the U.S. flagged this Sousa tune as its official march
"Stars & Stripes Forever"
Winter
|
|
$600
[20]
A children's book pachyderm, or the nickname of Indian Mogul Emperor Zahir Un-Din Muhammad
Babar
Alison
|
$600
[13]
When Sir Walter Scott wrote, "Have I not licked the black stone of that ancient castle?" he meant this fabled object
the Blarney Stone
Alison
|
$600
[3]
(Jon of he Clue Crew delivers the clue from White Sands NASA Test Facility in New Mexico.) Used to test propellants & explosives, NASA's White Sands High Energy Blast Facility can withstand blasts of 500 pounds of trinitrotoluene, also known by this 3-letter term
TNT
Winter
|
$600
[6]
In 2007 she won an Oscar for "I Need To Wake Up", a song she wrote for "An Inconvenient Truth"
Melissa Etheridge
Winter
|
$600
[26]
Look into it & you'll see this Philly paper's name is spelled with an "I", the one in Cincinnati, with an "E"
the Inquirer (Enquirer)
Alison
|
$600
[21]
In 1880 John Philip Sousa became the leader of this military band
the Marine Band
Alison
|
|
$800
[22]
The 7th Century's Constantine V Copronymus, monarch of this Eastern empire, was known as "The Ill-Odored"
the Byzantine Empire
Winter
Susan
|
$800
[14]
It's been reported that the Elle Macpherson figure in this London museum was attracting gropers
Madame Tussauds
Susan
|
$800
[8]
Readouts on digital watches & calculators use this 3-letter technology invented by James Fergason
LCD
Winter
Susan
|
$800
[7]
This Canadian rocker wrote for Loverboy before making hits on his own like "Cuts Like A Knife"
Bryan Adams
Alison
|
$800
[27]
Legend says Strom Thurmond outlived the reporters who wrote his obit for The State, a paper in this state
South Carolina
Susan
|
$800
[29]
Sousa's great-grandniece, soprano Renee, appeared atthisL.A. landmarkin "The Magic Of Sousa"
the Hollywood Bowl
Winter
|
|
$1,000
[23]
"Juana the Mad" was the queen of these 2 united Spanish kingdoms
Aragon & Castile
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
It's good luck to touch a bronze statue of a turtle named Testudo at this East Coast school
University of Maryland
Susan
|
$1,000
[16]
"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" & "Masterpiece Theater" are found here
PBS
Alison
|
$1,000
[9]
This Grateful Dead leader was named after "Show Boat" composer Jerome Kern
Jerry Garcia
Susan
|
$1,000
[28]
This city's newspapers include The Globe & The Christian Science Monitor
Boston
Alison
|
$1,000
[30]
This Sousa march was used as the theme to "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"The Liberty Bell"
|
| 19th CENTURY LIT | NAME THAT ACTOR | CHEMISTRY | CAPTURE THE FLAG | "P" COUNTRY | THE HOMOPHONICS GAME |
|
$400
[3]
In Chapter 1 of this sequel, a mirror "becomes all soft like gauze", allowing entrance to another world
Through the Looking-Glass
Winter
|
$400
[2]
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."Aren't you?"
Dustin Hoffman
Susan
|
$400
[18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Jeopardy!lab.) The juice from blackberries can make ordinary construction paper into this"testing" type of scientific paper
litmus paper
Winter
|
$400
[16]
In 1984 Egypt replaced the hawk on its flag with this other bird of prey
the eagle
Winter
|
$400
[11]
In the late 18th century it was divided among Prussia, Russia & Austria
Poland
Winter
|
$400
[20]
A howitzer that fires a list of all the saints acknowledged by the Church
a canon cannon
Alison
|
|
$800
[7]
This Bronte sister published her novel "Agnes Grey" under the pseudonym Acton Bell
Anne Brontë
Alison
Winter
|
$800
[4]
"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
Roy Scheider
Alison
|
$800
[25]
Good news! Ilya Prigogine showed that the second law of this doesn't doom the universe to a slow "heat death"
thermodynamics
Winter
|
$800
[17]
Afghanistan's flag has a mosque in a wreath made of stalks of this grain
wheat
Alison
|
$800
[12]
King Afonso I's 57-year reign from 1128-85 was an important factor in this country's independence from a larger neighbor
Portugal
Winter
|
$800
[21]
This bench-mounted clamp holds a bad habit
a vise vice
Winter
|
|
$1,200
[8]
His "Ode to the West Wind" was "chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence"
Shelley
Alison
Winter
Susan
|
$1,200
[1]
"Fasten your seatbelts.It's going to be a bumpy night"
Bette Davis
Alison
|
$1,200
[28]
A free radical is an atom or molecule that has an unpaired one of these
an electron
Alison
Winter
|
$1,200
[19]
A tapering flag that ends in 2 points is named for its resemblance to this bird's "tail"
a swallow
Susan
|
$1,200
[13]
It's the 3-word name for the eastern half of the island of New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Alison
|
$1,200
[22]
Donkey noises while cooking meat in liquid in a covered pot
brays braise
Alison
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Appropriately, this Russian playwright wrote an 1892 story called "After the Theater"
Chekhov
Alison
|
$1,600
[5]
"Cinderella story.Outta no where. A former groundskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion..."
Bill Murray
Winter
|
$1,600
[29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Jeopardy!lab.) Putting dry ice in water shows a solid transforming directly into a gas, aprocesscalled this
sublimation
|
$1,600
[26]
A flagpole is also called a staff or this nautical term
a mast
Winter
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
Its national unit of currency is the balboa
Panama
Alison
|
$1,600
[23]
A Siamese dead heat
a Thai tie
Susan
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Bored Lady Constantine finds passion with an astronomer in--where else?--Wessex in his "Two on a Tower"
Thomas Hardy
Winter
|
$2,000
[6]
"I'm the ghost with the most, babe"
Michael Keaton
Winter
|
$2,000
[30]
Bromine & chlorine are in a group of elements better known by this name, from the Greek for "salt-forming"
halogens
Alison
|
DD
$2,500
[27]
This word for the upper-left part of a flag is a place name on maps of China & Ohio
a canton
Winter
|
$2,000
[15]
This nation has a city named for one of its first presidents, Manuel Luis Quezon
the Philippines
Alison
|
$2,000
[24]
To elevate mantas
to raise rays
Alison
Winter
|
FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him
Camp David