Matt Snow — a sound engineer from Los Angeles, California
Henry Quillen — a teacher from Atlanta, Georgia
Tanya Tyler — a writer and editor from Lexington, Kentucky (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanya | $1,200 | $1,600 | $7,200 |
$5,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Henry | $2,600 | $6,800 | $6,800 |
$12,601
New champion: $12,601 |
$8,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matt | $1,400 | $3,400 | $12,600 |
$10,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
14 R, 1 W |
| THE ROCKIES | DIAMONDBACKS | MARINERS | PADRES | BREWERS | "MET"s |
|
$200
[4]
If you're in the Rocky Mountains taking a peek at Pikes Peak you're in this state
Colorado
Henry
|
$200
[9]
The method of telling a diamondback snake's age by counting segments of this is not always reliable
rattles
Tanya
|
$200
[22]
Knowledge of this colonizer of Greenland comes from 2 accounts: "Eric's Saga" & "The Greenlanders' Saga"
Eric the Red
Henry
|
$200
[21]
Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie & Father de Bricassart
The Thorn Birds
Matt
|
$200
[14]
Introduced in 1986, this Miller brand is something of a misnomer, since it comes in bottles & cans
Miller Genuine Draft
Matt
|
$200
[1]
All passengers on U.S. airline flights are required to pass through one of these machines
metal detector
Matt
|
|
$400
[5]
The Rockies' northernmost point is in Alaska; their southernmost point, in this state
New Mexico
Henry
|
$400
[10]
Of 8, 16 or 28, the length in feet of the longest diamondback ever recorded (not counting Randy Johnson)
8 feet
|
$400
[23]
William Bligh was the master of the Resolution during this captain's third Pacific expedition
Captain James Cook
Tanya
|
$400
[24]
He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for 1944 & 1945 for playing the same role: Father Chuck O'Malley
Bing Crosby
Tanya
|
$400
[15]
The Spoetzl brewery uses krausening, a secondary version of this sugar-converting process
fermentation
Henry
|
$400
[2]
One of the 3 main types of rock
metamorphic
Tanya
Henry
|
|
$600
[6]
You give me fever & if it's Rocky Mountain spotted fever, you're one of these critters
tick
Henry
|
$600
[11]
Slither on over to Sweetwater in this large state for its annual roundup of diamondbacks
Texas
Henry
|
$600
[27]
8 years after his circumnavigation of the globe, 1577 to 1580, he helped England defeat the Spanish Armada
Sir Francis Drake
Tanya
Henry
|
$600
[25]
This "Happy Days" father later played a crime-solving priest in the "Father Dowling Mysteries"
Tom Bosley
Henry
|
$600
[16]
Naval name of the San Francisco brand that's the USA's best-known steam beer
Anchor Steam
Henry
|
$600
[3]
The life-sustaining chemical activity in living organisms
metabolism
Tanya
|
|
$800
[7]
One of these large Rocky Mountain residents is seen here
bighorn sheep
Tanya
|
$800
[12]
Like most boas, diamondback snakes are viviparous, which means this
they give birth to live young
Henry
|
$800
[28]
The largest island on North America's Pacific coast was named for this British naval officer
George Vancouver (Vancouver Island)
|
$800
[26]
On film, Henry II muses, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?", referring to him
Thomas Becket
|
$800
[17]
Although most of the ingredients come from old England, Tremont Ale is brewed in this New England city
Boston
|
$800
[19]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew using a globe) This system is based on the idea that there are 10 million of its most basic units from here to here
metric system
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[8]
In the U.S. this imaginary geographical division generally follows the crests of the Rocky Mountains
Continental Divide
Matt
|
$1,000
[13]
The diamondback belongs to this subfamily marked by sensitive receptors between each eye & nostril
pit vipers
|
DD
$1,200
[29]
In July 1741 this Dane sighted the North American continent near Mount St. Elias, Alaska
Vitus Bering
Henry
|
$1,000
[30]
Gene Hackman's Rev. Frank Scott leads a band of survivors to safety aboard a capsized ship in this 1972 film
The Poseidon Adventure
Tanya
|
$1,000
[18]
Budweiser's label says it's brewed "using the choicest" these, "rice and best barley malt"
hops
Matt
|
$1,000
[20]
A figure of speech such as "He was a real snake"
metaphor
Henry
|
| LINES FROM LONGFELLOW | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES | "M"USIC | WE HAVE QUESTIONS | RHYME TIME | THIS CATEGORY DOESN'T STINK |
|
$400
[1]
"It was one by the village clock, when" this man "galloped into Lexington"
Paul Revere
Matt
|
$400
[13]
In 1949 Gussie Moran shocked this sport with a short dress & ruffled panties
tennis
Tanya
|
$400
[2]
This rocker was never exactly asked whether he wanted to be renamed John Cougar
John Cougar Mellencamp
Tanya
|
$400
[24]
A Shakespeare villain:"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
Shylock
Henry
|
$400
[8]
The room in a writer's house for his ballpoints
pen den
Tanya
Henry
Matt
|
$400
[21]
2 odorless ingredients in your Pepsi are caffeine & this gas that gives it bubbles
carbon dioxide
Matt
|
|
$800
[3]
"I shot" this "into the air, it fell to Earth, I knew not where"
an arrow
Henry
|
$800
[14]
Alejandro Rodriguez led a Spanish regency council after this man died & before Juan Carlos became king
Francisco Franco
Henry
|
$800
[4]
"Mechanical Animals" is a 1998 album from this man who named himself for an actress & a criminal
Marilyn Manson
Matt
|
$800
[25]
A rock group:"How Deep is Your Love?"
the Bee Gees
Tanya
|
$800
[9]
A hitchhiker on the back of a black widow
spider rider
Tanya
|
$800
[22]
Mimi makes artificial ones in "La boheme"
flowers
Tanya
|
|
$1,600
[19]
About him Longfellow wrote, "the muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands"
"The Village Smithy"
Henry
|
$1,200
[15]
As this queen's chief adviser, Lord Burghley fought Catholics, the Armada & Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen Elizabeth I
Tanya
|
$1,200
[5]
Last name of Louise & her sister Barbara, who "was country when country wasn't cool"
Mandrell
Tanya
|
$1,600
[27]
A mythological creature:"What goes on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at dusk?"
the Sphinx
Matt
|
$1,200
[10]
Someone who hunts down people who break into computer networks
hacker tracker
Matt
|
$1,200
[23]
Obtained from crude petroleum, this white, tasteless & odorless substance is used to make candles
paraffin
Henry
|
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
This poem is set "in the Acadian land, on the shores of the basin of Minas"
Evangeline
Henry
|
$1,600
[16]
The name of St. Homobonus, a charitable layman, means this
good man
Henry
|
$1,600
[6]
In a Marvin Gaye song, this title precedes "things ain't what they used to be"
"Mercy Mercy Me"
Tanya
Henry
Matt
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
An American patriot:"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"
Patrick Henry
Tanya
|
$1,600
[11]
An insignificant M-16 problem
rifle trifle
|
$1,600
[29]
It's generally odorless, so an odorant is added to let you know if there's a leak or if you left the oven on
natural gas
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[20]
"Like a sheeted ghost" this schooner "swept tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe"
the Hesperus
Tanya
|
$2,000
[17]
Education chief 1917-1929, Anatoly Lunacharsky was one of the first holders of this Soviet title for a department head
commissar
|
$2,000
[7]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Buddy Guy's Legends Blues Club in Chicago) It was what Junior Wells had "Working" in a song he recorded at Buddy Guy's Legends
mojo
Henry
|
$2,000
[28]
A poet:"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
Percy Shelley
Henry
|
$2,000
[12]
The church elder who lives in a lighthouse
beacon deacon
Tanya
|
$2,000
[30]
Odorless & tasteless in its purified form, it's used to set aspics
gelatin
Matt
|
His Rococo-style summer house in Prague is nicknamed "America"
Antonin Dvorak