Tim Mueting — a religion teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
Caitlin Dudek — an environmental consultant from Arlington, Virginia
Gail Sneyers — an administrative assistant from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gail | $-200 | $1,000 | $1,000 |
$1,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$1,000
9 R, 6 W |
| Caitlin | $3,400 | $5,900 | $13,700 |
$27,399
New champion: $27,399 |
$15,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tim | $-600 | $800 | $13,800 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| GEMS & JEWELS | TELEVISION | THE NEW YORK TIMESTRAVEL | IN THE CABINET | POTPOURRI | PUN-ISHMENT |
|
$200
[16]
"Ring" in if you know that this gem is the hardest substance found in nature
a diamond
Caitlin
|
$200
[1]
Kyle Chandler is the coach of a small-town high school football team on this critically acclaimed TV show
Friday Night Lights
Caitlin
|
$200
[6]
Tony boutiques in Buckhead are hoping to change the dowdy "Crown Jewel of the South" moniker of this city
Atlanta
Gail
|
$200
[23]
A Northern Virginia airport was named in honor of this Secretary of State
Dulles
Caitlin
|
$200
[11]
There are only 12 letters in the alphabet of these American islands
Hawaii
Gail
|
$200
[21]
The reason it's futile to write with a broken-tipped pencil
it's pointless (there's no point accepted)
Caitlin
|
|
$400
[17]
This gem is most prized when its color is pigeon's blood red
a ruby
Gail
|
$400
[2]
Just when Wentworth Miller thought he was out, they pull him back--into jail--on this Fox drama
Prison Break
Gail
|
$400
[7]
While the natural wonders clear your mind, this "least affordable" state will clear your wallet
Hawaii
Gail
Caitlin
|
$600
[27]
In 2005 Alberto Gonzalez succeeded him as Attorney General
Ashcroft
Gail
|
$400
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew tries to sell you a cell from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) The W44S multimedia phone combines Sony's multimedia, like digital TV, with the phone technology of Ericsson, based in this country
Sweden
Tim
|
$400
[22]
Punning on a Men at Work song, it's what the computer geek called a local area network he built in Melbourne
the LAN Down Under
Gail
|
|
$600
[18]
Folklore affirms that spheres made from this precious stone, ojo de tigre, help in attaining business success
tiger's eye
Tim
|
$600
[3]
Starbuck is a woman on the Sci-Fi Channel's version of this series
Battlestar Galactica
Gail
|
$600
[8]
nytimes.com says the Belle Epoque architecture & late-night cafes of this capital lure expat artists & tango lovers
Buenos Aires
Caitlin
|
$800
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.) The museum has a replica of the Cabinet room; Ford's advisors included Secretary of State Kissinger&this Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Gail
|
$600
[13]
This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford, & a lodger
the House of the Seven Gables
Caitlin
|
$600
[25]
4-word bulletin put out by the police department after the tiny psychic escaped from custody
small medium at large
Caitlin
|
|
$800
[19]
This 2-word gemstone was once ground to produce ultramarine, a deep blue paint pigment
lapis lazuli
Caitlin
|
$800
[4]
This perky actress plays Olive Snook, a waitress at the Pie Hole on "Pushing Daisies"
Kristin Chenoweth
Caitlin
|
$800
[9]
Anyone born on this southern U.S. island is called a conch, also a delicacy there, like stone crab claws
Key West
Caitlin
|
DD
$1,500
[24]
In 1795 Oliver Wolcott succeeded him as Treasury Secretary
Alexander Hamilton
Caitlin
|
$800
[14]
This developer of the first practical helicopter built & flew the first 4-engine aircraft in 1913
Sikorsky
Tim
|
$800
[26]
It's what Dr. Jekyll's asst. said to him after his formula turned him into a sprinter & not his old evil self
You can run, but you can't Hyde
Gail
Caitlin
|
|
$1,000
[20]
Citrine, a translucent yellow quartz, is often sold as this gem
a topaz
|
$1,000
[5]
Mick St. John is a P.I. who sucks--blood, that is--on this vampirific CBS show
Moonlight
|
$1,000
[10]
Because it's hidden, the hitou is the most prized type of natural hot spring in the mountains of this country
Japan
Tim
|
— |
$1,000
[15]
Chitin is the main component in this supportive outer covering of lobsters & insects
the exoskeleton
Gail
Caitlin
|
— |
| NEW MEXICO | A BIT OF LIT | WORLD O' FACTS | THIS IS YOUR LIFE, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | A "FAIR" DEAL | HE PLAYED IT ON THE BIG SCREEN |
|
$400
[16]
Fort Union is an old military post on this trail that shares its name with the state capital
Santa Fe
Caitlin
Tim
|
$400
[5]
Shelley "penned" that this alpine peak "gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights"
Mont Blanc
|
$400
[1]
Mesopotamia was part of the region nicknamed this "Crescent"
the Fertile Crescent
Caitlin
|
$400
[21]
In 1830 John Quincy Adams became the first ex-president elected to serve in this body
the House of Representatives
Tim
|
$400
[11]
City of 30,000 on Alaska's Chena River
Fairbanks
Tim
|
$800
[25]
Danny Ocean,2001, 2004, 2007
George Clooney
Gail
|
|
$800
[17]
On July 16, 1945 the Nuclear Age began when this govt. project exploded the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo
the Manhattan Project
Tim
|
$800
[6]
"God bless Captain Vere!" are the last words this Melville foretopman speaks before being hanged
Billy Budd
Gail
Tim
|
$1,200
[3]
A 1937 general strike in Trinidad is commemorated every June 19, celebrated as this day
Labor Day
|
$800
[22]
John Quincy Adams' wife's first name; she shared it with a Miss Alcott
Louisa
Tim
|
$800
[12]
Area set aside by a city or state for annual farming exhibitions
a fairgrounds
Caitlin
|
$1,200
[26]
Danny Ocean,1960
Frank Sinatra
Caitlin
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Among the state's nicknames are "Land of Enchantment" & this one that it shares with Florida
the "Sunshine State"
Tim
|
$1,200
[7]
Later a movie, it's subtitled "a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances and home remedies"
Like Water for Chocolate
|
$1,600
[4]
A symbolic fortress of Scotland overlooking Edinburgh, or a Rob Reiner movie company
Castle Rock
|
$1,200
[23]
In the presidential election of 1820, this man got 231 electoral votes & Adams got one
James Monroe
|
$1,200
[13]
Virginia city home to George Mason University
Fairfax
Caitlin
|
$1,600
[27]
Batman,1989
Michael Keaton
Gail
|
|
$2,000
[20]
"For a greatness of beauty I have never experienced anything like New Mexico", wrote this Brit. author & Taos resident
(D.H.) Lawrence
Caitlin
|
$1,600
[8]
In this Tennyson work, Sir Bedivere is told to "take Excalibur, and fling him far into the middle mere"
Idylls of the King
Tim
|
$2,000
[10]
Found at 30° N. & S., these regions are thought to be so named because becalmed ships had to lose animal weight
the horse latitudes
Caitlin
|
$1,600
[24]
In 1843 John was a "star", laying the cornerstone for the first professional one of these in the U.S., on Mt. Adams
an observatory
Gail
|
$1,600
[14]
They take their name from the old French for "enchantment"
fairies
Caitlin
|
$2,000
[28]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,1923
Lon Chaney
Tim
|
|
DD
$4,200
[19]
Running the length of the state, this river is New Mexico's longest
the Rio Grande
Tim
|
$2,000
[9]
Before he waited for Godot, this Irish author wrote a critical study of Proust
(Samuel) Beckett
Caitlin
|
DD
$3,000
[2]
In 2006, Warner Bros. pledged to help these Australian animals stricken by a cancer epidemic
the Tasmanian devil
Caitlin
|
$2,000
[29]
In 1767, when John Quincy Adams was born there, Quincy, Massachusetts was known by this name
Braintree
Tim
|
$2,000
[15]
In broadcasting, this regulation required radio & TV stations to air contrasting views
the Fairness Doctrine
|
— |
In 1986 & again in 2001, people power protests in this nation pushed out male presidents & replaced them with females
the Philippines