(Cheryl: Today onJeopardy!we celebrate theRenaissance.)(Jimmy: I don't have to wear tights, do I?)
Laura Johnson — a homemaker from Columbia, Maryland
John Savage — a voiceover artist and actor from Redondo Beach, California
Sandra Alboum — a translator from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandra | $200 | $2,400 | $11,900 |
$11,800
2-day champion: $31,200 |
$11,200
14 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| John | $-1,000 | $1,800 | $5,800 |
$1
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,800
14 R, 4 W |
| Laura | $3,200 | $3,000 | $5,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| GOLD & SILVER | CITIZEN KANE | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES | PRESIDENTIAL PETS | I AM A CROOK | SURELY YOU JOUST |
|
$200
[1]
Sulfur compounds in polluted air cause silver to do this
tarnish
John
Laura
|
$200
[11]
At the Oscars, he lost out as actor & director for "Kane" but shared Best Original Screenplay
Orson Welles
Laura
|
$200
[26]
A vote in the affirmative
aye (I)
Sandra
|
$200
[6]
Jeff Davis, a horse he acquired during the Civil War, later accompanied him to the White House
Ulysses S. Grant
Laura
|
$200
[13]
Ralph, nicknamed "Bottles", was the brother of this gangster, nicknamed "Scarface"
Al Capone
Laura
|
$200
[21]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew attends a jousting tourney.) King Arthur set up the Diamond Jousts, a series of 9 annual tournaments, all won by this knight
Sir Lancelot
|
|
$400
[2]
It sounds like a thousand million, but it's an overall term for gold considered in mass rather than in value
bullion
Sandra
|
$400
[12]
This actress whose career is caricatured in "Kane" was played by Kirsten Dunst in 2002's "The Cat's Meow"
Marion Davies
|
$400
[27]
A lunar mare, Tranquility is one
sea (C)
Sandra
|
$400
[7]
The Lincolns' menagerie included rabbits, horses & 2 of these named Nanko & Nanny
goats
John
|
$400
[14]
Sheriff Pat Garrett said this crook's "face always wore a smile"
Billy the Kid
John
|
$400
[22]
This synonym for jousting that sounds like a pinball term refers to the barrier between the opponents
tilting
John
|
|
$800
[4]
Some newborns' eyes are treated with a mild solution of this chemical to prevent blindness
silver nitrate
|
$600
[18]
The film opens at this vast, gloomy Kane estate
Xanadu
|
$600
[28]
A football is placed on it in preparation for the kickoff
tee (T)
Sandra
|
$600
[8]
Barney, George W. Bush's Scottish terrier, was a gift from this New Jersey governor, now head of the EPA
Christine Todd Whitman
Sandra
|
$600
[15]
In 1868 the Reno Brothers robbed one of these in Indiana, years before the James Gang did it out west
train
John
Laura
|
$600
[23]
In this 2001 film Heath Ledger is a peasant who vows to become a knight by jousting his way to the top
A Knight's Tale
John
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
The world's largest gold field is in the Witwatersrand region of this country
South Africa
Laura
|
$800
[19]
Not Hearst but this MGM mogul offered to pay $800,000, the cost of the film, to have it destroyed
Louis B. Mayer
John
|
$800
[30]
At this social gathering people combine amusement & competition while making such things as quilts
bee (B)
Laura
|
$800
[9]
Charlie, one of the Kennedys' dogs, was a distant offspring of the dog that played this role in "The Thin Man"
Asta
Laura
|
$800
[16]
The Queen Anne's Revenge was a ship of this pirate, whose whole known career lasted from 1716 to 1718
Blackbeard
|
$800
[24]
Today, joust fans, a bloody treat! Sir Harry has challenged Sir Gary to battle "a outrance", which means this
to the death
|
|
$1,000
[5]
On August 17, 1896 gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of this Yukon Territory river
the Klondike
John
|
$1,000
[20]
It's Kane's full name
Charles Foster Kane
|
$1,000
[29]
In the names of birds, it follows Steller's, pinyon, gray & blue
jay (J)
Sandra
|
$1,000
[10]
He kept some of his favorite racing fillies at the White House, including Emily & Lady Nashville
Andrew Jackson
|
$1,000
[17]
2 months after Bonnie & Clyde were shot down in Louisiana, he got it outside the Biograph in Chicago
John Dillinger
John
|
$1,000
[25]
Most jousting was unregulated & illegal until given official sanction for the first time by this English king in 1194 A.D.
Richard I
Laura
|
| BRITISH POETS & POETRY | COUNTRY MUSIC | BIBLICAL PEOPLE | BEVERAGES | PERUSING PERU | THE "INCA"s |
|
$400
[11]
In 1823 Lord Byron penned, "And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but" this "in masquerade"
the truth
John
|
$400
[6]
Before she struck out on her own in 1992, she had 14 No. 1 hits with her mother Naomi
Wynonna Judd
Sandra
John
|
$400
[25]
In one of this apostle's epistles, he uses the additional name Simon
Peter
John
|
$400
[1]
This major soft drink brand was created in Waco, Texas in 1885 & named for a Virginia physician
Dr. Pepper
John
|
$400
[15]
Mountain streams in Peru are the source of this river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean
Amazon
John
|
$400
[20]
To imprison
incarcerate
Sandra
|
|
$800
[12]
In a Tennyson poem, "Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode" this number
600
John
|
$800
[7]
In 1985 he won the CMA's first Music Video of the Year Award for "All My Rowdy Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight"
Hank Williams, Jr.
|
$800
[26]
Ephron the Hittite sold this patriarch the field where he buried his wife Sarah
Abraham
Laura
|
$800
[2]
The bunny who advertises this chocolate milk mix from Nestle "can't drink it slow"
Quik
Sandra
|
$800
[16]
After considerable slaughter, this conquistador founded the city of Lima, Peru in January 1535
Francisco Pizarro
Sandra
|
$800
[21]
A spoken magic spell
incantation
Sandra
|
|
$1,200
[13]
This "Faerie Queene" poet is also famous for his 1595 work "Amoretti", a series of 89 love sonnets
Edmund Spenser
|
$1,200
[8]
It's the country-rock "railroad" that gave us "Queen of Memphis" in 1992
Confederate Railroad
|
$1,200
[28]
In Luke 8, Jesus is followed by Joanna, Susanna & this devoted woman out of whom devils were cast
Mary Magdalene
|
DD
$1,500
[3]
Lars Olson Smith's "Purified Tenfold" distilling system produced a vodka named this for its complete purity
Absolut
Sandra
|
$1,200
[17]
Puno, Peru & La Paz, Bolivia are at opposite ends of this 3,200-square-mile lake
Lake Titicaca
Sandra
|
$1,200
[22]
Too great to measure
incalculable
Sandra
|
|
$1,600
[14]
In his "Ode on" this Keats wrote, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"
a Grecian Urn
Sandra
|
$1,600
[9]
Named for a steamboat captain, this "Mother Church of Country Music" was home to the Opry for 31 years
Ryman Auditorium
|
$1,600
[29]
"The Prayer of" this obscure Biblical person topped bestseller lists in 2001
Jabez
John
|
$1,600
[4]
San Francisco's Buena Vista Cafe is credited with inventing this hot drink popular on St. Patrick's Day
Irish coffee
John
|
$1,600
[18]
This fast creature seenherecan be widely found in the grasslands of southern Peru
rhea
Laura
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
Glowing brightly
incandescent (or incandescence)
Sandra
|
|
$2,000
[27]
He knew a lot about "Stone Walls": he was imprisoned in 1642 & 1648 & wrote famous poems both times
Richard Lovelace
|
$2,000
[10]
During his career, this "Tennessee Plowboy" spent a record 145 weeks at the No. 1 position on the country charts
Eddy Arnold
John
|
— |
$2,000
[5]
Nebraskan Edwin Perkins created a fruit drink he named this, a nod to its summertime appeal
Kool-Aid
|
$2,000
[19]
In the 19th century Peru fought a war with Bolivia against Chile over this mineral-rich desert
Atacama Desert
|
$2,000
[24]
To deprive of effectiveness
incapacitate
Sandra
|
Phrase associated with very dissimilar events of April 19, 1775 & October 3, 1951
the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"