(Sofia: Today the Clue Crew is taking a field trip--a Field Museum trip!)
Rob Kobman — a bartender and recent college graduate from Spotsylvania, Virginia
Heather Townsend — a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
Tom McDermott — a municipal court magistrate from Bowling Green, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $800 | $1,800 | $21,000 |
$5,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
12 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Heather | $1,400 | $4,800 | $18,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$18,000
23 R, 3 W |
| Rob | $4,000 | $11,400 | $15,800 |
$12,800
New champion: $12,800 |
$11,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| THE ARABIAN NIGHTS | POLITICIANS | LANGUAGES | WHATCHAMACALLIT | MISHEARD LYRICS | PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE |
|
$200
[16]
He picked up the transparent fruit of different colors on the way back from getting the wonderful lamp
Aladdin
Rob
|
$200
[21]
She was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988
Dianne Feinstein
Heather
|
$200
[7]
This country's official language, Tajik, is an Iranian language
Tajikistan
Heather
|
$200
[1]
Term for the Revolutionary War militia members who were ready to fight at a moment's notice
Minutemen
Rob
|
$200
[2]
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles:"I suck on that emotion"
"I Second That Emotion"
Rob
|
$200
[26]
In 1943 a young JFK was given command of the PT this
109
Heather
|
|
$400
[17]
After a horrible first voyage he had planned to stay in Baghdad, but wound up making 6 more
Sinbad
Heather
|
$400
[22]
Both Nixon & Ford employed his services as Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger
Tom
|
$400
[8]
This language's main dialect, Castilian, developed from the area of Burgos
Spanish
Tom
Rob
|
$400
[12]
As it's Russian for "big", that makes it just a big ballet company
Bolshoi
Rob
|
$400
[3]
The Four Tops:"Ain't no woman like a one-eyed goat"
'Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)"
Tom
|
$400
[27]
This Marla Gibbs sitcom ran from 1985 to 1990
227
Rob
|
|
$600
[18]
The mounted men Ali Baba saw & figured were thieves, numbered this many
40
Heather
|
$600
[23]
He's the U.S. representative from Massachusetts seen here
Barney Frank
Tom
Rob
|
$600
[9]
Words in the English language taken directly from this language include flak, hinterland & kindergarten
German
Rob
|
$600
[13]
A rowel is the spiked wheel at the back of this cowboy accessory
spurs
Rob
|
$600
[4]
Pat Benatar:"Hit me with your pet shark"
"Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
Rob
|
$800
[29]
Clorox' all-purpose cleaner is Formula this
409
Rob
|
|
$800
[19]
"The Arabian Nights Entertainments" is also known by this numerical name
"One Thousand and One Nights"
Heather
|
$800
[24]
In 2000 Donald Trump challenged Pat Buchanan for this party's presidential nomination
Reform Party
Heather
Rob
|
$800
[10]
Important literary works in the Eastern variety of this language of India are written in Awadhi
Hindi
Rob
|
$800
[14]
The Paraclete is this part of the Trinity
Holy Spirit
Heather
Rob
|
$800
[5]
Aerosmith:"Loving an alligator"
"Love in an Elevator"
Rob
|
$1,000
[30]
If you start with 99 bottles of beer on the wall, it's the first prime number you'll be left with after some fall
97
Rob
|
|
$1,000
[20]
The genie that the fisherman released had been bottled up by this king, the son of David
Solomon
Heather
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1989 David Dinkins defeated this man in NYC's Democratic mayoral primary
Ed Koch
Heather
|
$1,000
[11]
Although Wolof is Senegal's most widely spoken language, this is its official language
French
Rob
|
$1,000
[15]
It's the tallest type of tree named for a Cherokee
Sequoia
Heather
|
$1,000
[6]
Bachman-Turner Overdrive:"Tape it to a biscuit"
"Takin' Care of Business"
Heather
|
DD
$4,800
[28]
Of V, X, L, D or C, the prime number
V (5)
Rob
|
| TOUGH GEOGRAPHY | INVASIONS | UNDERGROUND | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR | AUTO LOGOS | "D" CATEGORY |
|
$400
[16]
This desert makes up half of the area of Israel
Negev
Tom
|
$400
[21]
Within hours of an August 1990 invasion, this country had complete control of one of its neighbors
Iraq
Heather
|
$400
[26]
In New York City the top of a coffin only has to be this far underground, half the proverbial depth
3 feet under
Rob
|
$400
[1]
"The Lodger","Strangers on a Train","The Birds"
Alfred Hitchcock
Heather
|
$400
[6]
This company's bow tie logo appeared for the first time in 1914
Chevrolet
Heather
|
$400
[11]
The ancient Olympic games were believed to have included the throwing of a bronze one
discus
Rob
|
|
$800
[17]
Seoul's chief seaport is this nearby city where MacArthur's troops landed in September 1950
Inchon
Rob
|
$800
[22]
The United States launched a multiple invasion of this country to start the War of 1812
Canada
Tom
|
$800
[27]
Among Burchell's army ants, the queen can see but these underground laborers are blind
workers
Tom
Heather
Rob
|
$800
[2]
"The Elephant Man","Eraserhead","Mulholland Dr."
David Lynch
Rob
|
$800
[7]
The three-pointed star on this company's logo represents land, sea & air
Mercedes-Benz
Heather
|
$800
[12]
Playful plant eater pictured here
dugong
Heather
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Only the narrow Isthmus of Chignecto joins Nova Scotia to this mainland province
New Brunswick
Heather
|
$1,600
[24]
After the 1940 Nazi invasion of this country, Vidkun Quisling took power there
Norway
Heather
|
$1,200
[28]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Field Museum in Chicago.) Earthworms, like birds, have this portion of the digestive system; they use it to grind up the earth they swallow
a gizzard
Rob
|
$1,200
[3]
"The Hard Case","Snatch","Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"
Guy Ritchie
Heather
|
$1,200
[8]
Although its symbol looks like a cowboy in a big hat, it's actually three ellipses
Toyota
Rob
|
$1,200
[13]
Its border with Haiti is about 195 miles long
Dominican Republic
Tom
|
|
$1,600
[19]
The Paraguana Peninsula is not in Paraguay but in this other South American country which borders the Caribbean
Venezuela
Heather
|
$2,000
[25]
One of the last European conquests on the African continent began with Italy's 1935 invasion of this country
Ethiopia
Heather
|
$1,600
[29]
The USA's first mine for this opened in Virginia around 1750
coal
Tom
Heather
Rob
|
$1,600
[4]
"The Wedding Banquet","Sense and Sensibility","Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
Ang Lee
Rob
|
$1,600
[9]
Its prancing horse logo was originally the emblem of WWI flying ace Francesco Barraca
Ferrari
Heather
Rob
|
$2,000
[15]
It's a megalithic stone slab marking a prehistoric tomb
dolmen
|
|
$2,000
[20]
The north part of this Pacific sea off Australia's Queensland state is known as the Solomon Sea
Coral Sea
Tom
|
DD
$7,000
[23]
Ski boots were needed in quantity when Russia invaded this neighbor in 1939
Finland
Tom
|
$2,000
[30]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Field Museum in Chicago.) From the Latin for "little knot", these are formed on roots to help in nitrogen fixation
nodules
Heather
|
$2,000
[5]
"Medicine Man","Die Hard","The Last Action Hero"
John McTiernan
Tom
|
$2,000
[10]
In the 1960s this 200 MPH muscle car designed by Carroll Shelby was "poison" to its racing competition
Cobra
Rob
|
DD
$5,000
[14]
Aye, matey, it's naval navigation by geographic means, not astronomical observation
dead reckoning
Tom
|
At the Knights of the Garter's Chapel, the heraldic crest representing this man depicts a kiwi with an axe
Sir Edmund Hillary