(Jimmy:Torpedoesare locked on--you'd better be watchingJeopardy!, coming up next!)
Doug Yasso — an electronic publishing consultant from Garden City, New York
Tanya Tyler — a writer and editor from Lexington, Kentucky
Cindy Reilly — a network administrator from Oakton, Virginia
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cindy | $200 | $1,400 | $6,600 |
$600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
13 R, 2 W |
| Tanya | $4,000 | $11,000 | $24,600 |
$20,000
New champion: $20,000 |
$24,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Doug | $200 | $800 | $9,100 |
$18,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| POETRY | AUTO RACING | CERTIFICATES | ARACHNIDS | GOOD FOR A DAY OFF | CELEBRITY RHYME TIME |
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$200
[5]
Joyce Kilmer's big book of 1914 was this "and Other Poems"
"Trees"
Tanya
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$200
[26]
Designating you as the winner, it's the flag each driver wants to see first at the end of an auto race
checkered flag
Tanya
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$200
[10]
From 1950 to 1999 the most popular name on these certificates for newborn boys in the U.S. was Michael
birth certificates
Cindy
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$200
[20]
Insects have compound ones; arachnids have simple ones
eyes
Doug
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$200
[15]
On the Friday before this holiday, soldiers in the 3rd U.S. Infantry place flags on graves at Arlington
Memorial Day
Tanya
|
$200
[1]
Gibson's infernos
Mel's hells
Doug
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|
$400
[6]
To Edward Arlington Robinson this president was "The Master" & a "Titan"
Abraham Lincoln
Tanya
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$400
[27]
It's the "aquatic" term for the rapid side to side movement a car's rear end can make while racing
fishing
Doug
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$400
[11]
When Billie Jean King won her first Wimbledon singles title in 1966, the prize was one of these for tennis wear
gift certificate
Cindy
|
$400
[21]
This arachnid with a "paternal" name emits a bad odor when disturbed
daddy long-legs
Cindy
|
$400
[16]
It began in America in 1621 as an adaptation of the British Lammas, or "Loaf Mass" Day
Thanksgiving
|
$400
[2]
Wahlberg's electric discharges
Mark's sparks
Doug
|
|
$600
[7]
William Blake asked, "Little" this "who made thee?" & "gave the clothing of delight...wooly, bright"
lamb
Doug
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$600
[28]
As the lead qualifier for an auto racing event, you'll occupy this "position" in the front row at the start of the race
pole position
Tanya
|
$600
[12]
It is often signed by the last physician who attended the deceased
death certificate
Tanya
|
$600
[22]
As a group, spiders have 7 different types of glands to produce this fiber
silk
Tanya
|
$800
[18]
It's happy 27th of February as the Dominican Republic marks its independence from this neighbor
Haiti
Tanya
|
$600
[3]
Goldblum's NBA officials
Jeff's refs
Cindy
|
|
$800
[8]
In the 14th century he wrote, "A good wyf was there of bisyde bathe, but she was som-del deef, and that was scathe"
Geoffrey Chaucer
Tanya
|
$800
[29]
This type of auto racing start bears the name of a French town famous for a 24-hour race
Le Mans
Cindy
|
$800
[13]
The ones Playboy Enterprises issued in 1971 included a nude image of Miss February Willi Rey
stock certificates
|
$800
[23]
This stinging arachnid has 6 pairs of jointed appendages: 1 pair of pincers, 1 pair of large claws & 4 pairs of legs
scorpion
Tanya
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
Pilgrimage participants plan to arrive in this city before the sixth day of Dhul-Hijjah
Mecca
Tanya
|
$800
[4]
Crowe's swindles
Russell's hustles
Tanya
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" isn't divided into stanzas or verses, but these (also favored by Ezra Pound)
cantos
Tanya
|
$1,000
[30]
Also a term for architectural drawing, it's the fuel-saving practice of one car closely following another
drafting
Cindy
|
$1,000
[14]
As part of a 1930s act it was illegal for individuals to hold these from the Treasury; the restrictions were lifted in 1964
gold certificates
Cindy
Doug
|
$1,000
[24]
This parasite is a major transmitter of rabbit fever & some forms of encephalitis
tick
Cindy
Tanya
|
$1,000
[19]
You don't need to have an epiphany to know the Feast of the Epiphany falls in this month
January
Tanya
|
$1,000
[25]
Willis' railroad cars
Bruce's cabooses
Tanya
|
| SUBMARINE LIFE | KIDNAPPINGS | SURPRISING SINGERS | THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MET HERE | YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY | CATCHING SOME "Z"s |
|
$400
[1]
This country's submarine fleet, partly based at Severomorsk, suffers from underfunding & deterioration
Russia
Cindy
|
$400
[17]
This hero who died in 1974 was pestered by disturbed men claiming to be his kidnapped son
Charles Lindbergh
Cindy
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$400
[12]
It's no rumor: this gossip maven sang "Over the Rainbow" on her album "Miss Rona Sings Hollywood's Greatest Hits"
Rona Barrett
Cindy
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$400
[28]
The first meeting occurred September 5, 1774 in this city, one that they'd return to over & over again
Philadelphia
Tanya
|
$400
[7]
Term for a prolonged state of deep unconsciousness; it comes from the Greek for "deep sleep"
coma
Cindy
|
$400
[2]
Associated with Caribbean voodoo cults, these entranced folks are also known as the walking dead
zombies
Doug
|
|
$800
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reporting in a submarine) Submarines detect enemy vessels with this system that uses devices called hydrophones
sonar
Cindy
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$800
[18]
Barry Keenan, convicted of the 1963 kidnapping of this "junior" singer, sold the story of the crime to the movies
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Doug
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$800
[13]
This 3-named star of TV's "Doogie Howser" grew up to play Mark in a touring company of "Rent"
Neil Patrick Harris
Tanya
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$800
[29]
On Dec. 20, 1776 the Congress said hello to this city, home of Poe
Baltimore
Doug
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$800
[8]
This piece of camping gear can be mummy, tapered or rectangular
sleeping bag
Tanya
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$800
[3]
According to mythology, he was Hercules' dad
Zeus
Doug
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Subs navigate with the help of this satellite system controlled at a Colorado Air Force base
GPS (Global Positioning System)
Doug
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$1,200
[19]
Charles Glass, kidnapped in this Mideast country in 1987, escaped--maybe because his captors let him
Lebanon
Doug
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$1,200
[14]
This "Thorn Birds" actor made a charming prince in the Cinderella movie musical "The Slipper and the Rose"
Richard Chamberlain
Tanya
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$1,600
[27]
For less than 2 months in 1784 this New Jersey city, named for a businessman, was our capital
Trenton
Tanya
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$1,200
[9]
He's the Shakespearean character who muses, "...in that sleep of death what dreams may come..."
Hamlet
Tanya
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$1,200
[4]
It's the river that runs though Victoria Falls
Zambezi
Cindy
|
|
$1,600
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reporting in a submarine) Moving the periscope is also called this activity "with a one-eyed lady"
dancing
Doug
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$1,600
[21]
In 1981 ETA, a separatist organization of this ethnic group in Spain, kidnapped Julio Iglesias' father
Basques
Tanya
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$1,600
[15]
Before starring on film as "An Unmarried Woman", she sang on Broadway in "Pippin"
Jill Clayburgh
Doug
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$2,000
[30]
On March 2, 1789 that old gang of the Continental Congress met for its last time ever in this city
New York City
|
$1,600
[10]
These brain waves produced during deep sleep are named for the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet
delta waves
Cindy
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$1,600
[5]
There'd be no "Jeopardy!" on TV without this Russian-American's invention of the kinescope in the 1920s
Vladimir Zworykin
|
|
DD
$2,500
[25]
A type of U.S. attack submarine, or a 1904 Jack London novel
Sea Wolf
Doug
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$2,000
[22]
9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, whose dad was big in this business, got snatched in 1935
paper/lumber/timber
Doug
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$2,000
[16]
This Utah senator seen here is a prolific singer-songwriter; you can buy his album from his website
Orrin Hatch
Tanya
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DD
$3,000
[26]
In 1783 the Congress met in this New Jersey college town's Nassau Hall
Princeton
Doug
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$2,000
[11]
It was Petula Clark's last U.S. Top 10 hit
"Don't Sleep in the Subway"
Tanya
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$2,000
[6]
One of the 2 Old Testament minor prophets who fit the category
Zechariah & Zephaniah
Tanya
Doug
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In 2002 H&R Block used a version of this 1966 song in its TV commercials
"Taxman"