Carlo Uchello — an IT director from Alexandria, Virginia
Joe Nardella — a teacher from Redlands, California
Greg Lindsay — a freelance journalist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg | $-600 | $3,600 | $18,800 |
$20,000
2-day champion: $40,200 |
$16,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Joe | $200 | $2,200 | $6,800 |
$10,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Carlo | $1,800 | $1,600 | $5,200 |
$7,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
12 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| 1908 | FROM LETTERMAN'S TOP 10 LISTS | U.S. COINS | HOLD IT | FOOD & DRINK PHRASES | BRING THE PAIN |
|
$200
[1]
A ball signifying the new year drops at this NYC location for the first time
Times Square
Joe
|
$200
[16]
"Signs You're Watching A Bad" this guy "Movie":"The Aston Martin won't start, so (he) drives a '95 Ford Focus"
(James) Bond
Greg
Carlo
|
$200
[11]
In 2009 some collectors' editions of this coin will contain 95% copper, as it did in 1909
the penny
Greg
|
$200
[26]
A barrette
hair
Carlo
|
$200
[6]
The proverb "Don't cry over" this has been around since at least 1659
spilled milk
Greg
|
$200
[21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew receives an electric shock at the Stanford University Pain Mgmt Ctr in Menlo Park, CA.) Pain tolerance is how much you canstand; this architectural term refers to your first sense of discomfort
threshold
Greg
|
|
$400
[2]
The first of these is placed in a hotel room in Montana (no, not a pillow mint, you heathen)
a Gideon Bible
Greg
|
$400
[17]
"Things Overheard During" his "Hunting Trip":"Has everyone updated their will?" & "Duck!"
Dick Cheney
Greg
|
$400
[12]
As with a sculpture, this term refers to a portrait on a coin that shows the head, neck & upper shoulders
a bust
Carlo
|
$400
[27]
A fob, as on the White Rabbit
a watch
Greg
|
$400
[7]
"You can catch more flies with" this "than with vinegar"
honey
Greg
|
$400
[22]
This drug known for wrinkle removal has also been found to relieve effects of cerebral palsy & migraines
Botox
Greg
|
|
$600
[3]
He pummels Tommy Burns to become the first black heavyweight champ
(Jack) Johnson
Carlo
|
$600
[18]
Least popular candies for this annual event:"Malted Meat Balls", "Good N' Clammy" & "Bit-O-Monkey"
Halloween
Joe
|
$600
[13]
The Columbian quarter was issued in 1893 & featured this 15th century queen on the obverse
Isabella
Carlo
|
$600
[28]
A silo--but for this, only since the mid-20th century
nuclear missiles
Greg
|
$600
[8]
The theater area nicknamed this often held the cheapest seats, usually those in the rear of the balcony
the peanut gallery
Carlo
|
$600
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Stanford University Pain Mgmt Ctr in Menlo Park, CA.) Dr. Martin Angst's lab at Stanford discovered a biological indicator of this condition--an agonizing pain from the longest nerve in the body
the sciatic
Joe
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
This orator runs for president for a third & last time & loses again
William Jennings Bryan
Carlo
|
$800
[19]
"Programs On" her "New Television Network" include "Two and a Half Stedmans"
Oprah Winfrey
Joe
|
$800
[14]
It should be easy to "home" in on this longest of the 10 words on the back of a current nickel
Monticello
Greg
|
$800
[29]
A metal scuttle
coal
|
$800
[9]
"A book of verses underneath the bough," these 2 things--"and thou"
a loaf of bread & a jug of wine
Carlo
|
$800
[24]
This type of injection associated with women giving birth can also deliver steroids for back & neck pain
an epidural
Carlo
|
|
$1,000
[5]
A powerful earthquake destroys 90% of this Sicilian city opposite the Italian mainland
Messina
Greg
Carlo
|
$1,000
[20]
Among "Reasons" this world leader "Is Retiring":"He has accepted the role of Dr. Ramon Vazquez on 'General Hospital"'
(Fidel) Castro
Greg
|
$1,000
[15]
The Mint's 2 types of coin products are circulating & this type that includes proof sets, from the Latin for "coin"
numismatic
|
$1,000
[30]
A jerrycan in WWII Britain (danger: flammable)
gasoline (or petrol)
Greg
|
$1,000
[10]
A pig product gave us this term meaning "clumsy" or "inept"
ham-handed
|
$1,000
[25]
(Sarah undergoes a test at the Stanford University Pain Mgmt Ctr in Menlo Park, CA.) Tests with electrodeshelp evaluate this type of drug from the Greek for "painlessness"; the Human Pain Laboratory needs volunteers if you're interested
analgesic
Carlo
|
| SHAKESPEARE ON LOVE | MOVIE ACTORS BY ROLE | LANGUAGES | INTERESTING ANAGRAMS | THAT J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER | WHAT A CARD! |
|
$400
[12]
Ophelia says, "'Tis brief, my lord"; he responds, "As women's love"
Hamlet
Carlo
|
$400
[1]
Det. Mike Lowrey, Captain James West, Hancock
Will Smith
Greg
|
$400
[11]
Nahuatl & Zapotec are Indian languages spoken mainly in this country
Mexico
Greg
|
$400
[26]
Copernicus changed the views in this scientific profession:MOON STARER
astronomer
Joe
|
$400
[6]
Oppie helped draft 1946's Acheson-Lilienthal Plan, which offered to have this body oversee world atomic research
United Nations
Greg
|
$400
[17]
Ken Jennings used these briefly displayed items to get ready to play "Jeopardy!"
flashcards
Carlo
|
|
$800
[22]
"Love is too young to know what conscience is" begins No. 151 of these
his sonnets
Greg
|
$800
[2]
Teddy Roosevelt, Jack Moniker, Euphegenia Doubtfire
Robin Williams
Greg
|
$800
[13]
In 1939 a language based on Tagalog became this country's official language
the Philippines
Carlo
|
$800
[28]
For 1,000 years it was an Asian capital:TOKYO
Kyoto
Joe
|
$800
[7]
The fourth Indiana Jones movie quotes J.R.O. quoting this religion's scriptures' "I am become death"
Hinduism
Greg
|
$800
[18]
Hollerith cards, also called punch cards, helped operate these, such as the ENIAC, in the mid-20th century
a computer
Joe
|
|
$1,600
[24]
"To be in love--where scorn is bought with groans" protests Valentine, one of this title pair
the gentlemen of Verona
Greg
|
$1,200
[3]
Kitty Pryde, Hayley Stark, Juno MacGuff
Ellen Page
Joe
|
$1,200
[14]
More than 90% of Turks speak Turkish; about 6% speak this language of southern Turkey & northern Iraq
Kurdish
Joe
|
$1,200
[27]
Henny Youngman quipped, "I just got back from a pleasure trip--I drove" her "to the airport":WOMAN HITLER
mother-in-law
Greg
|
$1,200
[8]
The 6-foot Oppenheimer weighed 115 lbs. as director of this New Mexico lab in the early 1940s
Los Alamos
Greg
|
$1,200
[19]
Al Capone's reportedly said "used furniture dealer"
his business card
Joe
|
|
$2,000
[25]
These 4 words complete the line "The course of true love..."
never did run smooth
Greg
Joe
|
$1,600
[4]
Royal Tenenbaum, Coach Norman Dale, Lex Luthor
Gene Hackman
Joe
|
$2,000
[16]
The official languages of this large island nation are French, English & Malagasy
Madagascar
Joe
|
$1,600
[29]
Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for this film:"THE CON BITES MALE FLESH"
The Silence of the Lambs
Joe
Carlo
|
$1,600
[9]
In 1947 J.R. got another job supervising brainiacs, heading the Institute for Advanced Study in this city
Princeton, New Jersey
Greg
|
$1,600
[20]
In a common deck of playing cards, he's known as the suicide king, for the way his sword is positioned
the king of hearts
Carlo
|
|
DD
$4,000
[23]
Told that his name is a problem, he says, "Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized"
Romeo
Greg
|
$2,000
[5]
Doomed poet Reynaldo Arenas, implacable killer Anton Chigurh
Javier Bardem
Greg
|
DD
$3,000
[15]
Formally known as Euskara, this language spoken in the Pyrenees is not clearly related to any known language
Basque
Joe
|
$2,000
[30]
Iran said it would no longer enforce the fatwa against him:SLUR, A MAN HIDES
Salman Rushdie
Joe
|
$2,000
[10]
By 1929, the year he turned 25, J-Op had published 15 papers in this new field of subatomic physics
quantum mechanics
Carlo
|
$2,000
[21]
Founded in 1938, this company developed Bazooka Bubble Gum & paired it with baseball trading cards
Topps
Greg
|
Charting her 18th No. 1 single in April 2008, she now has more Billboard No. 1 pop hits than any other solo artist
Mariah Carey