Peter Winkler — an editor from Washington, D.C.
Randall Eng — a composer from New York, New York
Carolyn D'Aquila — a graduate student originally from Derry, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carolyn | $5,000 | $8,400 | $14,000 |
$23,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,000
21 R, 1 W |
| Randall | $4,000 | $8,400 | $23,800 |
$28,001
New champion: $28,001 |
$18,400
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Peter | $0 | $1,400 | $2,400 |
$4,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| POPULAR SCIENCEBEST OF 2007 | CANADIAN SONGBIRDS | GAME TIME | "HOLY" CATEGORY! | JAPAN'S NEXT TOP MODEL | HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FJORD LATELY? |
|
$200
[16]
One day soon we may go even greener with fuel made from these green goopy simple aquatic organisms
algae
Peter
|
$200
[21]
In December 2007 this chanteuse gave her last performance of the Vegas spectacular "A New Day"
Celine Dion
Carolyn
|
$200
[6]
The weapons in this board game are a rope, a lead pipe, a knife, a wrench, a candlestick & a revolver
Clue
Randall
|
$200
[1]
This element of Christianity's Trinity is also called the Paraclete
the Holy Spirit
Carolyn
|
$200
[11]
The MX-5
Mazda
Carolyn
|
$200
[25]
Have some fjun at the Roskilde Fjord, about 20 miles west of this Danish capital
Copenhagen
Randall
|
|
$400
[17]
NASA is studying the possibility of a manned mission to one of these hurtling objects; it could help with deflection plans
asteroids
Peter
|
$400
[22]
This singer from Halifax, Nova Scotia had hits with "Adia" & "Sweet Surrender"
Sarah McLachlan
Carolyn
|
$400
[7]
If you're cornered in Kamchatka, end this board game by bumping your opponent's armies off the board
Risk
Carolyn
|
$400
[2]
This object, of course, is what all the endlessly silly questing in "Spamalot" is about
the Holy Grail
Randall
|
$400
[12]
The Sienna
Toyota
Carolyn
|
$400
[27]
The name says it all--Fiordland is this Kiwi country's largest national park
New Zealand
Carolyn
|
|
$600
[18]
Inventions of the Year included a special glove to help a person perform this life-saving procedure correctly
CPR
Carolyn
|
$600
[23]
She must be a Keith Jackson fan, as she titled one of her albums "Whoa, Nelly!"
Nelly Furtado
Randall
|
$600
[8]
If your opponent asks for the "3s" that you don't have in your hand, tell him this, the name of the game
Go Fish
Randall
|
$600
[3]
Hebdomada Major in Latin, it runs from Palm Sunday to Easter
Holy Week
Carolyn
|
$600
[13]
The Ridgeline
Honda
Carolyn
|
$600
[28]
Kenai Fjords, which became a national park in 1980, lies in the south-central part of this U.S. state
Alaska
Randall
|
|
$800
[19]
Some neurological disorders are being treated with elec. impulses in a procedure called DBS, or deep brain this
stimulation
Carolyn
|
$800
[24]
She put her initials on duets of "Crying" with Roy Orbison & "What A Wonderful World" with Tony Bennett
k.d. lang
Peter
|
$800
[9]
It's also called "table soccer" & "that game in bars where you spin the rods"
foosball
Randall
|
$800
[4]
The stoup in a Catholic church contains this liquid
holy water
Carolyn
|
$800
[14]
The Murano
Nissan
Carolyn
|
$800
[29]
Fjords have high walls; the walls of these, a term used mostly in Scotland, can be low
firths
|
|
$1,000
[20]
No. 1 on the bottom-10 list of the worst jobs in science was this type of diver who swims in sewage & toxic waste
a HAZMAT diver
|
$1,000
[26]
Leslie is the first name of this "1234" singer who was a dancer at the 1988 Calgary Olympics
Feist
Carolyn
|
$1,000
[10]
Used to foretell the future, this game gets its name from the French & German words for "yes"
Ouija
Randall
|
$1,000
[5]
In 1756 Voltaire opined that this political entity did not reflect the 3 parts of its name
the Holy Roman Empire
Randall
|
$1,000
[15]
The Grand Vitara
Suzuki
Carolyn
|
DD
$3,000
[30]
Between this country's Snaefells & Reykja Peninsulas, Faxa Bay has 2 eastern arms: the Hval & Borgar Fjords
Iceland
Randall
|
| LITERARY CHARACTERS | HURRELL'S HOLLYWOOD | HISTORIC VIRGINIA | MILITARY MATTERS | LIFE'S A BEACH | AND THEN YOU "DY" |
|
$400
[7]
Christian has a wife named Christiana in this John Bunyan allegory
Pilgrim's Progress
Randall
|
$400
[2]
The daughter of a doctor and a suffragette, she's been called "the First Lady of Cinema"
Katharine Hepburn
Randall
|
$400
[21]
After this pirate aka Edward Teach died in 1718, his head was taken to Virginia & displayed on a pole
Blackbeard
Peter
|
$400
[26]
This service branch's annual marathon starts & ends at a memorial depicting the Iwo Jima flag raising
the Marines
Peter
|
$400
[16]
Check out the International Speedway at this Florida beach city on the Atlantic Ocean & Halifax River
Daytona
Randall
|
$400
[1]
Used underwater, ammonia gelatin is a waterproof type of this explosive
dynamite
Carolyn
|
|
$800
[8]
Hester Prynne named her infant this, "as being of great price"
Pearl
Randall
|
$800
[3]
Joseph was the real first name of this deadpan daddy-o of the early silver screen
Buster Keaton
Randall
|
$800
[25]
A 2007 commemorative coin honors the 400th anniversary of the founding of this settlement
Jamestown
Carolyn
|
$800
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Atsugi NAF in Japan.) The Navy Seahawk has many roles, including anti-submarine warfare using sonar buoys to find the subs & these tubular weapons to destroy them
a torpedo
Randall
|
$800
[17]
Gold, Sword, Juno, Utah & Omaha were the 5 code-named beaches in this endeavor
the Normandy invasion
Randall
|
$800
[13]
Around 1892 Nikola Tesla invented one that used alternating current
a dynamo
Peter
|
|
$1,200
[9]
A fascist named Berzelius Windrip becomes president of the U.S. in this "Dodsworth" author's novel "It Can't Happen Here"
Sinclair Lewis
Randall
|
$1,200
[4]
Meetthis Oscar-winning star of "Meet John Doe"
Gary Cooper
Carolyn
Randall
|
$1,200
[24]
This Civil War general's left arm is buried at Ellwood Plantation; the rest of him is interred at VMI
"Stonewall" Jackson
Randall
|
$1,200
[28]
In WWII the Germans mounted redesigned 88mm anti-aircraft guns on the Tiger 1 version of this weapon
tanks
|
$1,200
[18]
A wrong turn at Albuquerquehad Bugs Bunny miss this Calif. beach city, home of the Monarch Butterfly Grove
Pismo Beach
|
$1,200
[14]
Michael Fokine created this avian ballet in 1905 for ballerina Anna Pavlova
The Dying Swan
Randall
|
|
$1,600
[10]
Homer Simpson is "an exact model for the kind of person who comes to California to die" in this novel by Nathanael West
Day of the Locust
Carolyn
|
$1,600
[5]
He's the jr. actor seenherewho swashbuckled his way to cinematic fame & fortune
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Randall
|
$2,000
[22]
This "house" found in a National Cemetery in Virginia is a memorial to & once was the home of Robert E. Lee
Arlington House
Carolyn
Peter
|
$1,600
[29]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, NV.) One of the Thunderbirds' standing engagements is anair showfor the commencement of this Colorado Springs location
the Air Force Academy
Carolyn
|
$1,600
[19]
Print ads for this muscleman had "Mac" get bullied on the beach & lose his girl--until Mac bulks up & kicks some tush
Charles Atlas
Peter
|
$2,000
[12]
2 individuals or units regarded as a pair
a dyad
Carolyn
|
|
$2,000
[11]
"Good heavens! That must be a bad woman!" says Scarlett O'Hara at her first glimpse of this scarlet woman
Belle Watling
Peter
|
$2,000
[6]
Come with me to the Casbah & name this French star of flims like "Gaslight" & "Algiers"
Charles Boyer
|
DD
$8,200
[23]
Archaeologists visit Hopewell to dig at Kippax, once the home of Jane Rolfe Bolling, this historic woman's granddaughter
Pocahontas
Peter
|
$2,000
[30]
An Army corps that provides legal assistance, "JAG" stands for this
Judge Advocate General
Peter
|
$2,000
[20]
"The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair" in this 1867 Matthew Arnold Poem
"Dover Beach"
Randall
|
DD
$5,000
[15]
Tang or Bourbon, for example
a dynasty
Randall
|
Seen here with 2 other troubled mythic figures, he's theman on the leftwho can never quite reach the fruit
Tantalus