(Sarah: Hey, I think I see gorillas in the mist, coming up next onJeopardy!)
Todd Powers — a marketing and design associate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rebecca Goldman — a theatre teacher from Clearwater, Florida
Phillip Steele — a security officer from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,798)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phillip | $3,000 | $5,800 | $11,400 |
$10,800
3-day champion: $26,598 |
$11,400
19 R, 1 W |
| Rebecca | $200 | $800 | $5,400 |
$800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
13 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Todd | $800 | $2,800 | $4,400 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
9 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| THE ANIMALS | PETER, PAUL & MARY | THE ROLLING STONES | EARTH, WIND & FIRE | THE COMMODORES | THE "B.G."s |
|
$200
[1]
Resembling a small lobster, it's Louisiana's state crustacean
crawfish/crayfish
Rebecca
|
$200
[3]
Before penning "Beast" & "The Deep", he was a speechwriter for LBJ
Peter Benchley
Phillip
|
$200
[11]
I can't get none, but with this song the Rolling Stones had their first U.S. No. 1 hit
"Satisfaction"
Phillip
|
$200
[21]
On the Beaufort scale, winds range from 0 for calm to 12 to 17 for these powerful storms
hurricanes
Phillip
|
$200
[26]
The first American naval victory in the Revolution came under Commodore Esek Hopkins in these islands off Fla.
Bahamas
Phillip
Rebecca
|
$200
[16]
A small piano about 5 feet long
baby grand
Rebecca
|
|
$400
[2]
Thought to resemble lions associated with Buddha, this Chinese dog breed was protected by royal decree
the Pekingese
Rebecca
Todd
|
$400
[4]
The author of a "monstrous" 1818 classic, she later wrote the autobiographical "Lodore" in 1835
Mary Shelley
Rebecca
|
$400
[12]
The Stones played a cleaned-up version of "Let's Spend The Night Together" on this U.S. TV variety show in 1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
Phillip
|
$400
[22]
In the '90s home fires caused by these nearly doubled, with almost half of them starting in the bedroom
candles
Rebecca
|
$400
[27]
"The Commodore" is one of the tales of this C.S. Forester hero
Horatio Hornblower
|
$400
[17]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) It's a visual method for comparing numbers
bar graph
Phillip
|
|
DD
$400
[10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew at Zoo Atlanta) There are 3 types of gorilla: mountain & the eastern & western type of these lesser-altitude gorillas
lowland gorillas
Todd
|
$600
[5]
Bestsellers from this master of horror include "Koko" & "Ghost Story"
Peter Straub
|
$600
[13]
It was the number of the Rolling Stones' 1966 "Nervous Breakdown"
19th
Phillip
|
$600
[23]
A devastating forest fire swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin on the very same day in 1871 as this city's "Great" fire
Chicago
Phillip
|
$600
[28]
Commodore Isaac Hull commanded this ship to victory over Britain's Guerriere in the War of 1812
U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides")
Todd
|
$600
[18]
2-word term for large animals hunted for sport
big game
Phillip
|
|
$600
[8]
Tuna are members of Scombridae, known commonly as this "holy" family of fishes
mackerels
|
$800
[6]
This American silversmith & patriot was noted for his courier service
Paul Revere
Phillip
|
$800
[14]
Footage from a deadly 1969 Stones concert at this speedway was released in 1970 as the documentary "Gimme Shelter"
Altamont
Phillip
|
$800
[24]
Oh, "Boy"! This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years
El Nino
Todd
|
$800
[29]
Negotiated by Matthew Perry, 1854's Treaty of Kanagawa opened up this country to commercial trade with the U.S.
Japan
Phillip
|
$800
[19]
Swingin' virtuoso heard here
Benny Goodman
Todd
|
|
$800
[9]
Extinct before the dinosaurs ever walked, trilobites are key signature creatures of this "old animal" era
Paleozoic
Todd
|
$1,000
[7]
His world travels helped him write "The Great Railway Bazaar", "The Mosquito Coast" & "Riding the Iron Rooster"
Paul Theroux
|
$1,000
[15]
The Rolling Stones took their name from a song by this legendary blues musician
Muddy Waters
|
$1,000
[25]
Scientists believe the continents were once part of a single land mass called this, from the Greek for "all earth"
Pangaea
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[30]
He's the naval hero & commodore famous for his declaration "Our country, right or wrong!"
Stephen Decatur
|
$1,000
[20]
A naval force made up of an aircraft carrier & support vessels
battle group
Todd
|
| AMERICAN LITERATURE | EDUCATION JARGON | STATE GOVERNMENT | HERE'S LUCY | CAPITAL PUNISHMENT | BEFORE & AFTER |
|
$400
[1]
This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi
Huckleberry Finn
Rebecca
Todd
|
$400
[11]
65 out of 100 students did the same as or worse than you if your grade is in the 65th of these
percentile
Rebecca
|
$400
[21]
Maine's only publicly elected executive officer; if he dies the state senate president succeeds him
governor
Rebecca
|
$400
[6]
Before playing Xena, she co-hosted the travel show "Air New Zealand Holiday"
Lucy Lawless
Rebecca
|
$400
[16]
Site of a 1977 6.5 earthquake:Bucharest
Romania
Phillip
|
$400
[24]
Carolyn Keene's fictional teenage detective who stars in a sitcom set in Cleveland
Nancy Drew Carey
Phillip
|
|
$800
[2]
In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley
A Farewell to Arms
Rebecca
|
$800
[12]
IDEA is the Individuals with these Education Act, formerly the Education For All Handicapped Children Act
Disabilities
Phillip
|
$800
[22]
In the Mississippi House of Representatives, this official calls members to order & signs acts
speaker of the house
Todd
|
$800
[7]
In 2000 she became the first Asian-American woman to host "Saturday Night Live"
Lucy Liu
Rebecca
|
$800
[17]
Co-capitals:La Paz & Sucre
Bolivia
Phillip
|
$800
[25]
Otis Redding's No. 1 hit that's performed by a Scottish band on S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Night
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay City Rollers
Rebecca
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey
Cannery Row
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[13]
It's the rhyming term for the technique of teaching with only a blackboard to help you
chalk talk/chalk and talk
|
$1,200
[23]
In this post, Jim Ryan is Illinois' chief law enforcement & consumer protection official
attorney general
Rebecca
|
DD
$1,200
[8]
Lucy Hobbs Taylor must have aced her orals because in 1866 she became the first woman to receive a degree in this
dentistry
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[18]
In southern Asia:Dhaka
Bangladesh
Todd
|
$1,200
[26]
Novel in which Rhett Butler tells Toad, Rat & Mole, "My dear, I don't give a damn"
Gone With the Wind in the Willows
Phillip
|
|
$1,600
[4]
It's the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell
"Studs"
|
$1,600
[14]
From the Latin for "to heal", it's the type of education that brings deficient students up to standard levels
remedial
Phillip
|
$1,600
[29]
The counties of Iowa & Arizona are headed by boards of these
supervisors
|
$1,600
[9]
Lucy Simon, the sister of this pop singer, wrote the music for Broadway's "The Secret Garden"
Carly Simon
Phillip
Todd
|
$1,600
[19]
How peachy:Tbilisi
Georgia
Todd
|
$1,600
[27]
The Beatles' 1967 album that was a 2001 WWII miniseries on HBO
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band of Brothers
Rebecca
|
|
$2,000
[5]
This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck
Wolf Larsen
|
$2,000
[15]
These 2 words, denoting socioeconomically challenged, followed "A Nation" in a 1983 report's title
At Risk
|
$2,000
[30]
Many states have these for state lawmakers, but in 1995 the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional for Congress
term limits
|
$2,000
[10]
She was the first wife of a president to be called first lady on a regular basis
"Lemonade Lucy" Hayes
|
$2,000
[20]
In west Africa:Luanda
Angola
Todd
|
$2,000
[28]
Van Gogh's 1889 painting of director George Romero's 1968 zombie film classic
Starry Night of the Living Dead
Phillip
Todd
|
His last direct descendant was a granddaughter, Elizabeth Hall, born to John & Susanna Hall in 1608
William Shakespeare