Jay Chaffin — a doctoral student from Chester, Pennsylvania
Ilana Rembelinsky — a teacher from Portland, Oregon
Debbie Barnes — an administrative assistant from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $41,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie | $1,600 | $4,300 | $2,300 |
$4
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ilana | $600 | $3,600 | $18,800 |
$20,401
New champion: $20,401 |
$17,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Jay | $3,600 | $4,600 | $10,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
17 R, 3 W |
| THE BIBLE | TIME FOR A ROUND OF GOLF | EDUCATION | BODILY FLUIDS | TRAVEL FUN | "FE", "FI", "FO" OR "FUM" |
|
$200
[6]
Jeremiah compared the false prophets he'd seen to the sinners of these 2 cities
Sodom & Gomorrah
Debbie
|
$200
[26]
First awarded in 1958, an amateur golf trophy is named for this U.S. president
Eisenhower
Debbie
|
$200
[11]
Between 1931 & 1970, millions learned to read using books featuring this brother & sister & their dog, Spot
Dick & Jane
Ilana
|
$200
[21]
Literally meaning "a breathing through", it's the polite word for fluid produced to keep the body cool
perspiration
Ilana
|
$200
[1]
For some chic shopping & great beaches, visit Mykonos, an island of this country
Greece
Jay
|
$200
[16]
Iron
Fe
Ilana
|
|
$400
[7]
The births of John & Jesus were heralded by this archangel
Gabriel
Jay
|
$400
[27]
"Rocky" California golf course for the 2000 U.S. Open
Pebble Beach
Ilana
|
$400
[12]
In this method of teaching reading, letters or combinations of letters are associated with speech sounds
phonics
Jay
|
$400
[22]
Ptyalin is an enzyme in this bodily fluid that helps break down starches
saliva
Debbie
Ilana
|
$400
[2]
You'll want to munch on petha & gazak, signature sweets of this Taj Mahal city
Agra
Ilana
|
$400
[17]
It's a homophone for an antagonist
fo
Ilana
|
|
$600
[8]
This many friends of Daniel were thrown into the fiery furnace but saved by God
3
Jay
|
$600
[28]
This South African golfer known as "The Big Easy" won the U.S. Open in 1994, the year he joined the PGA
Ernie Els
Ilana
|
$600
[13]
This N.H. teacher once wrote, "I would like to humanize the space age by giving the perspective from a non-astronaut"
Christa McAuliffe
Ilana
|
$600
[23]
The pale liquid portion of your blood, it's about 90% water
plasma
Ilana
|
$600
[3]
You won't want to miss the ancestral chateau of the counts of Egmont in Gaasbeek in this Low Country
Belgium
Debbie
Ilana
|
$600
[18]
Possibly echoing the strum of an instrument, it's sing 3 times as part of a traditional Christmas carol
fum
Debbie
|
|
$800
[9]
This Tarsan was converted on the road to Damascus
Saul (or Paul)
Jay
|
$800
[29]
Golf's Ryder Cup & Solheim Cup are competitions between these 2 teams
the U.S. & Europe
Jay
|
$800
[14]
From the Latin for "doorkeeper", it's sometimes used as the title of the chief administrator of a univ. or college
the chancellor
Jay
|
$800
[24]
When a woman's "water breaks", the sac that contains this fluid has ruptured
amniotic fluid
Debbie
|
$800
[4]
Let opera wash over you at these Roman baths named for the emperor who ruled from 211 to 217
Caracalla
Debbie
|
$800
[19]
"Always Faithful", the U.S.Marine Corps motto is sometimes shortened to "Semper" this
Fi
Jay
|
|
$1,000
[10]
The NRSV is short for this, published in 1989
New Revised Standard Version
Jay
|
$1,000
[30]
As of early 2008, this golf great from Fiji is 2nd on the all-time PGA Tour money list with more than $55 million
(Vijay) Singh
Ilana
|
$1,000
[15]
(I'm U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.) The Education Department awards these college grants that don't have to be paid back & are named for a Rhode Island senator
Pell grants
Jay
|
DD
$1,500
[25]
The condition kerato conjunctivitis sicca is associated with reduction in the flow of these
teardrops
Debbie
|
$1,000
[5]
Observe wild animals from this hotel where Princess Elizabeth became Queen of England
Treetops
|
$1,000
[20]
Part of a Southwestern capital city name, it means "faith" in Spanish
Fe
Jay
|
| SPACE SCIENCE | YOU DON'T KNOW JACK NICHOLSON | MILITARY MATTERS | I WAS HIS VEEP | THE 50 STATES | BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[14]
(Jon of the Clue Crew peeks out of a spacecraft.) In the '60s, this machine was used to simulate the liftoff of the Apollo LM; "LM" being short for this
lunar module
Jay
|
$400
[11]
In the 1960s, Jack appeared on this TV show twice, including the "Opie Finds a Baby" episode
Andy of Mayberry (or The Andy Griffith Show )
Ilana
|
$400
[26]
"M" is for military in the name of this rifle, whose A2 version is a Marine's basic weapon
M16
Ilana
Jay
|
$400
[17]
Hubert Humphrey
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
Debbie
Ilana
|
$400
[1]
The capital of this state is named for General Francis Nash
Tennessee
Ilana
|
$400
[5]
Belle dumps her hirsute suitor for a cargo-carrying camel in this Disney tale
Beauty and the Beast of Burden
Jay
|
|
$800
[22]
There are billions & billions of ways to know this "Contact" man was a professor of astronomy & space science at Cornell
Carl Sagan
Debbie
|
$800
[12]
In "The Shining", Jack appropriated this 2-word line from Ed McMahon
"Heeere's Johnny!"
Debbie
|
$800
[27]
Many Marines attend Infantry Training School at Camp Lejeune in this state
North Carolina
Debbie
|
$800
[18]
Andrew Johnson
Lincoln
Ilana
|
$1,200
[3]
The Courant in this state's capital has been published since 1764
Connecticut
Jay
|
$800
[6]
He wrote "Bennie and the Jets" & the 2005 Supreme Court decision Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp.
Elton John Roberts
Jay
|
|
$1,200
[23]
(Jon indicates a piece of machinery.) NASA's Forward Reaction Control System tests the engines used for this process that joins the shuttle with the space station
docking
Ilana
|
$1,200
[13]
Are you from Joisey? Jack's from Joisey & was raised in this "Park" on the Atlantic
Asbury Park
Jay
|
$1,600
[29]
Study guide from the 4th century B.C. by Sun-Tzu
The Art of War
Debbie
|
$1,200
[19]
Hannibal Hamlin
Lincoln
Ilana
|
$1,600
[4]
It's "The Yellowhammer State"
Alabama
Debbie
Jay
|
$1,200
[7]
John Newton wrote this inspiring hymn about the extra weeks you get to pay your credit card bill
"Amazing Grace Period"
Jay
|
|
$1,600
[24]
The Space Age began in 1957 when Russia launched this satellite
Sputnik
Jay
|
$1,600
[15]
Jack went hot tubbing with Kathy Bates in the movie "About" this retiree
Schmidt
Ilana
|
$2,000
[30]
Abbreviated RDF, it's a group prepared to fight at a moment's notce
a rapid deployment force
Ilana
|
$1,600
[20]
Thomas Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
These mountains rise in the background of Nebraska's state seal
the Rockies
Ilana
|
$1,600
[8]
Haley Joel Osment sees Jane Austen spin in her grave as Kate Winslet & Emma Thompson chew scenery in this period piece
Sixth Sense and Sensibility
Ilana
|
|
$2,000
[25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some punctured metal tiles.) To evaluate materials likeshuttle shielding, projectiles are fired at speeds up to 16,000 miles per hour using this simple gas, compressed
hydrogen
Ilana
|
$2,000
[16]
Jack's filmography in this capacity includes "Goin' South", "Drive, He Said" & uncredited work on "The Terror"
director
Debbie
Ilana
|
DD
$6,000
[28]
Under these 1949 agreements, taking prisoners is okay, taking hostages is not
the Geneva Conventions
Debbie
|
$2,000
[21]
Charles Fairbanks
Teddy Roosevelt
|
$2,000
[10]
New Hampshire's state seal depicts the Revolutionary War frigate Raleigh, which was built in this port
Portsmouth
Ilana
|
$2,000
[9]
Colorful Stendhal-Sewell novel told from the first person point of view of a horse
The Red and the Black Beauty
Ilana
|
It's the only whole number that when spelled out has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order
one