Erik Nelson game 3.
Laura Wallace — a remittance processing clerk from Portland, Oregon
Sean Doyle — a corporate trainer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Erik Nelson — a graduate student from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,002)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erik | $4,800 | $11,800 | $20,600 |
$19,201
3-day champion: $70,203 |
$20,200
30 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Sean | $400 | $1,800 | $9,600 |
$7,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laura | $600 | $2,200 | $6,800 |
$13,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
11 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| WORLD RELIGION | SPORTS NICKNAMES | MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES OF 2007 | HARK, WHO SAID THAT? | "G" WHIZ | BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
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$200
[2]
Sunnis say he named no successor; Shi'ites say he picked his son-in-law
Muhammad
Erik
Sean
|
$200
[10]
The Baseball Hall of Fame's Iron Horse
(Lou) Gehrig
Erik
|
$200
[13]
Girls' No. 1:Like a Dickinson, a Post ora Litella
Emily
Erik
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$200
[1]
"Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, the gods themselves throw incense"
King Lear
Sean
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$200
[7]
Proverbially, to work hard is to "keep your nose to" this
grindstone
Laura
|
$200
[24]
Edsel II has been a director of this, his family company, since 1988
Ford
Erik
|
|
$400
[3]
Though Kali, a goddess of this religion, is fearsome & fierce, she's worshipped in Bengal as the Supreme Mother
Hinduism
Erik
|
$400
[11]
The NFL's Pacman
(Adam) Jones
Erik
|
$400
[22]
Boys' No. 2:Collins, Kidd,"Row The Boat Ashore"
Michael
Laura
|
$400
[8]
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Juliet
Laura
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$400
[18]
According to the nursery rhyme, if you were born on a Tuesday, you're full of it
grace
Laura
|
$400
[27]
Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn is on the board of this soda company
Coca-Cola
Erik
|
|
$600
[4]
The Druze, who permit no conversion or intermarriage, live mainly in Syria & this neighboring Mideast country
Lebanon
Erik
|
$600
[12]
Retired NBAer The Glide
(Clyde "The Glide") Drexler
Erik
Sean
|
$600
[23]
Girls' No. 7:de Havilland, Newton-John(I really can't think of another Newton-John, can you?)
Olivia
Sean
|
$600
[9]
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"
Brutus
Sean
|
$600
[19]
One of the 7 deadly sins, it's from the Latin for "to swallow"
gluttony
Erik
|
$800
[28]
Drinking & driving do mix: Andrew Taylor, CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, is a director of this hyphenated beer company
Anheuser-Busch
Sean
|
|
$800
[5]
From the Spanish for "way of the saints", it came with the Yoruba to Cuba
Santeria
Erik
Sean
|
$800
[14]
The Ice Manof 1970s tennis
(Bjorn) Borg
Erik
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$800
[25]
Boys' No. 4:Reynolds, Logan, Tree National Park
Joshua
Laura
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$800
[16]
"The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"
Hamlet
Erik
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$800
[20]
A period of pregnancy, or a time for the development of an idea
gestation
Erik
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
It sounds odd that James Firestone joined this Ohio company's board in 2007
Goodyear
Erik
|
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$1,000
[6]
As you might expect, this influential Christian mystical thinker was born in Sweden, in 1688
(Emanuel) Swedenborg
Erik
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$1,000
[15]
The NBA's Agent Zero, aka Hibachi, aka The Black President
Gilbert Arenas
|
$1,000
[26]
Boys' No. 7:Burgess, Eden, Wayne(he of the "Mad" variety)
Anthony
Erik
|
$1,000
[17]
"The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"
Lady Macbeth
Erik
|
$1,000
[21]
It's the London borough famous for a royal observatory
Greenwich
Erik
|
$1,000
[29]
The chief of medicine at Mass. General is on this company's board, so he can keep an eye on the Lipitor & Xanax
Pfizer
Erik
|
| EUROPEAN HISTORY | IT'S A BIT CHILE TODAY | CHANGE ONE LETTER | THEY CALL THE WIND... | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS |
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$400
[1]
Beginning around 697 A.D., it was the title of the leader of the Venetian Republic
doge
Erik
Sean
|
$400
[6]
Chile shares its longest land border with this country
Argentina
Erik
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$400
[12]
Why so this, sullenly dejected? Did you forget to bring this, an Elmer's specailty, to art class?
glue & glum
Erik
|
$400
[7]
From April to October, this southwesterly seasonal wind brings heavy rains to Southeastern Asia
the monsoon
Sean
|
$400
[26]
Joseph Pulitzer endowed a school of journalism at this NYC school
Columbia
Erik
|
$400
[21]
This director can't bore "Lord of the Rings" fans, even with the 4-hr. 10-min. DVD version of "The Return of the King"
Peter Jackson
Laura
|
|
$800
[2]
1397's Union of Kalmar united Sweden with these 2 other countries
Denmark & Norway
Erik
|
$800
[8]
La Moneda, alliteratively called the "Presidential" this building, was bombed by Chile's own jets 9/11/1973
a palace
Erik
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$800
[13]
You'll make the this, perhaps an A+, if you can dig deep & name this somber earth excavation
grade & grave
Sean
|
$800
[17]
The King James Bible says that Elijah went up into heaven by one of these, also called a dust devil
a whirlwind
Laura
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$800
[27]
Albert Einstein gave a series of lectures on the theory of relativity at this N.J. school's McCosh Hall in 1921
Princeton
Sean
|
$800
[22]
We didn't tire of this director's Westerns even by 1964's "Cheyenne Autumn"
John Ford
Erik
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Charlotte Corday was executed for taking the life of this French Revolutionary leader in his bathtub
Marat
Sean
|
$1,200
[9]
Chile stretches more than 2,000 miles between the Pacific Ocean on one side & this mountain range on the other
the Andes
Erik
|
$1,200
[14]
Use your head to think of this body part & you'll get to this word, a girl's woven locks
braid & brain
Erik
|
$1,200
[18]
From the Greek for "circle", it's a low-pressure area, with spiraling winds, that may be half the size of the U.S.
a cyclone
Laura
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1701 Increase Mather saw a decrease in his workload: he was removed as president of this college
Harvard
Erik
|
$1,200
[23]
His films fascinate, from "Mean Streets" to the mean streets in "Gangs of New York"
(Martin) Scorsese
Erik
|
|
$2,000
[5]
2 of the 3 member nations of the Triple Alliance at the beginning of World War I
Austria-Hungary & Germany (also Italy)
Sean
|
$1,600
[10]
(Jon of the Clue Crew points out Chile on a map.) Outside of its main land area, Chile also owns several islands, including this one way out in the South Pacific about 2300 miles away
Easter Island
Sean
|
$1,600
[15]
Change direction quickly with this 4-letter word into this one that precedes "sucker" in fashion
veer & seer
Laura
|
$1,600
[19]
There are 3 types of this in the upper troposphere: polar-front, subtropical & tropical
the jet stream
|
$1,600
[29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds the first computer mouse at SRI International.) The first computer mouse was developed &demonstrated here at SRI back when SRI was affiliated with this university as its research institute
Stanford
|
$1,600
[24]
We weren't bored by his 1997 film "Lost Highway"--confused, sure, but not bored
David Lynch
Laura
|
|
DD
$2,600
[4]
This major league was a political & commercial confederacy of European towns from the 13th to the 17th century
the Hanseatic League
Sean
|
$2,000
[11]
Chile's Corporacion Nacional del Cobre is the world's biggest producer of this metal
copper
Sean
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
"Begin" with this word; end with this one, meaning harsh or desolate, as a landscape
start & stark
Laura
|
$2,000
[20]
Warm, dry winds called foehns include the Santa Ana of California & this one that descends the Eastern Rockies
a Chinook
Sean
|
$2,000
[30]
Richard Nixon graduated from this North Carolina university's law school in 1937
Duke
Laura
|
$2,000
[25]
Audiences weren't bored by William Wyler's 5th Oscar nomination, for this Greer Garson film; good thing, as he got 7 more
Mrs. Miniver
|
The state building that houses Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection is named in her honor
Rachel Carson