Hope Weinman — an administrative assistant from Marshfield, Massachusetts
Joal Hetherington — a freelance editor and writer from Kittery, Maine
Bronson Messer — an astrophysicist from Knoxville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $1,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronson | $1,400 | $6,400 | $15,600 |
$18,801
2-day champion: $20,800 |
$15,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Joal | $4,400 | $8,200 | $9,400 |
$15,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Hope | $1,200 | $1,400 | $5,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
8 R, 1 W |
| HAWAII | BRANDED | LET'S HAVE A CONFERENCE | ASTRONOMY'S GREATEST HITS | DIVINE COMEDIES | STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH |
|
$200
[30]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew on the island of Oahu) These are the two times it's most customary to place a lei around a mainlander's neck
when they leave & when they arrive
Bronson
|
$200
[21]
"I Am Stuck On" this brand & it's "Stuck On Me"
Band-Aid
Hope
|
$200
[14]
The Hampton Roads Conference was an unsuccessful attempt to end this in 1865
Civil War
Joal
|
$200
[1]
In 1995, 2 Swiss astronomers announced the first known one of these to orbit a star other than the sun
planet
Bronson
|
$200
[8]
Lounge singer Whoopi Goldberg got a new habit in this feel-good comedy from 1992
Sister Act
Bronson
|
$200
[3]
A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work
theme
Joal
|
|
$400
[29]
Hawaii got this official nickname with statehood in 1959
"The Aloha State"
Joal
|
$400
[22]
"Ladies, Please Don't Squeeze" this!
the Charmin
Bronson
|
$400
[15]
On Nov. 7, 1962 he famously declared, "Gentlemen, this is my last press conference"
Richard M. Nixon
Joal
|
$400
[2]
In 1979 Voyager 1 discovered that this large body has rings, just like Saturn & Uranus
Jupiter
Joal
|
$400
[10]
Beings from up above helped Danny Glover's baseball team in this 1994 Disney comedy
Angels in the Outfield
Joal
|
$400
[4]
A simile is defined as a comparison usually containing either of these 2 words
as or like
Joal
|
|
$600
[26]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in downtown Honolulu) Appropriately, a statue of this great Hawaiian is located on King Street
King Kamehameha
Bronson
|
$600
[23]
"You're In Good Hands With" them
Allstate
Bronson
|
$600
[16]
(I'm NFL wide receiver Jimmy Smith) I played for Jackson State University in this conference, abbreviated the SWAC
Southwestern Athletic Conference
Bronson
|
$600
[9]
Around 240 B.C. Chinese astronomers observed this, later named for a British astronomer
Halley's Comet
Hope
|
$600
[11]
This 1978 Warren Beatty film was a remake of the comic fantasy "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"
Heaven Can Wait
Hope
|
$600
[5]
Also a measure, it's the "measure" of stress patterns in a line of poetry
meter
Joal
|
|
$800
[27]
Hearing this original European name for the Hawaiian Islands might make you hungry
Sandwich Islands
Joal
|
$800
[24]
It's "The Quicker Picker-Upper"
Bounty
Joal
|
$800
[17]
In 1968 Ralph Abernathy succeeded Martin Luther King as leader of this conference, abbreviated SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bronson
|
$800
[18]
In 585 B.C. Thales of Miletus accurately predicted one of these astronomical events
solar eclipse
Joal
|
$800
[12]
In this sequel, George Burns made a third trip to Earth, playing dual roles, good & bad
Oh, God! You Devil
Joal
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
This faulty type of sentence is classified as either a comma splice or a fused sentence
run-on sentence
Joal
|
|
$1,000
[28]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew on the island of Kauai) Hawaiian agriculture was transformed when this man took his 1899 Harvard degree & headed for the islands
James Dole
Bronson
|
$1,000
[25]
It's "The Helpful Hardware Place"
Ace
Bronson
|
$1,000
[19]
1944's Bretton Woods Conference resulted in the creation of the World Bank & this fund
IMF (International Monetary Fund)
Bronson
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1801 Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first known one of these heavenly objects & dubbed it Ceres
asteroid
Joal
|
$1,000
[13]
Fleeing from the mob, Robbie Coltrane & Eric Idle went incognito in a convent in this 1990 farce
Nuns on the Run
|
$1,000
[7]
"Dark" term for hints in a story that suggest what's going to happen later
foreshadowing
Bronson
|
| WORLD CAPITALS | NEW DELI | DOUBLIN' | STOCK HOME | SOUL | TYPE "A" |
|
$400
[1]
Population 7 million & lends its name to a type of bean
Lima
Joal
|
$400
[6]
The name of this deli meat that's found in a Reuben doesn't refer to maize; it means cured in brine
corned beef
Bronson
|
$400
[11]
Mary Campbell is the only person to win this title twice, in 1922 & 1923 in Atlantic City
Miss America
Joal
|
$400
[16]
Microsoft & Starbucks are listed on this exchange that has more companies than the NYSE
NASDAQ
Hope
|
$400
[21]
This "Hardest Working Man in Show Business" hit the Top 10 in 1965 with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Part 1"
James Brown
Bronson
|
$400
[30]
The ancient patriarch of both Islam & Judaism, this man is an ancestor of Muhammad through Ishmael
Abraham
Bronson
|
|
$800
[2]
Population 17 million & built on the ruins of Montezuma's capital
Mexico City
Joal
|
$800
[7]
For the soup course, you may try the kreplach or this beet soup
borscht
Joal
|
$800
[12]
Who knew? Ne Win deposed U Nu in a coup & did 2 stints as the leader of this Asian country
Myanmar (Burma)
Joal
|
$800
[17]
On the Australian exchange, KLA symbolizes a hotel corporation named for this creature
koala
Bronson
|
$800
[22]
Aretha Franklin's "title", it's also the title of her 1992 anthology album
"Queen of Soul"
Hope
|
$800
[29]
In the 1940s Selman Waksman coined this term to describe substances that kill harmful bacteria
antibiotic
Bronson
Hope
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Population 11 million & home to the "Gate of Heavenly Peace"
Beijing (Peking)
Bronson
|
$1,200
[8]
This fancy word for food cut into matchstick strips, like the cheeses & meats in a chef's salad, sounds like a woman's name
julienne
Bronson
|
$1,200
[13]
George & Jeb Bush were the first two brothers to become governors simultaneously since 2 with this last name in 1971
Rockefeller
|
$1,200
[18]
It's AC on the TSE (Toronto Stock Exchange)
Air Canada
Bronson
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1972 this legendary soulman won an Oscar for his theme from the movie "Shaft"
Isaac Hayes
Bronson
|
$1,200
[28]
This term for a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction is also a pedal in a car
accelerator
Bronson
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Population 1.7 million & host of the world-famous Chopin piano competition
Warsaw
Bronson
|
$1,600
[9]
Since 1869, this soda brand, with flavors including cream soda & Cel-Ray, is just what the doctor ordered
Dr. Brown's
Bronson
Hope
|
$1,600
[14]
The only U.S. president to marry the same woman twice, once in 1791 & once in 1794
Andrew Jackson
Bronson
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
The London Stock Exchange's FTSE 100 Index includes RR, this company
Rolls-Royce
Bronson
|
$1,600
[24]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at Studio A of the Motown Museum in Detroit) Motown's first million-seller was this group's song that says, "My mama told me you'd better shop around"
The Miracles
|
$1,600
[27]
Pennyworth is the last name of this loyal servant of Batman
Alfred
Bronson
|
|
DD
$4,000
[4]
Population 1.4 million & occupied by Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989
Kabul
Joal
|
$2,000
[10]
This deli name for cold-smoked salmon refers to a Canadian province
nova (Nova Scotia)
Bronson
Joal
|
$2,000
[15]
This founder of the Jesuits was imprisoned on 2 occasions during the Spanish Inquisition
St. Ignatius Loyola
Bronson
|
$2,000
[20]
This man seen here founded the financial company listed on the Big Board as SCH
Charles Schwab
Bronson
|
$2,000
[25]
It was all in the family when this soulful act took the song "Family Affair" to No. 1
Sly and the Family Stone
Hope
|
$2,000
[26]
From the Greek for "air", this type of exercise, like jogging, makes the heart & lungs work to oxygenate muscles
aerobic
Hope
|
"A Bird's Eye View of Paris" & "The Bells" are chapters in this 1831 novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame