(Sarah: And they're off!Jeopardy!'s at Churchill Downs, next.)
Jim Cairl — a stay-at-home dad from New York, New York
Sara Austin — a paralegal and stay-at-home mom from Middletown, New Jersey
Leonard Stoehr — a truck driver from Norcross, Georgia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $37,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leonard | $4,200 | $7,400 | $12,600 |
$8,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
18 R, 2 W |
| Sara | $1,000 | $600 | $1,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,000
6 R, 2 W |
| Jim | $3,000 | $6,000 | $16,400 |
$23,400
New champion: $23,400 |
$18,600
28 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| AFRICA | THE KENTUCKY DERBY | 1867 | STOCK SYMBOLS | YOU HAVE THE RITE | TO REMAIN "SILENT" |
|
$200
[1]
In the early '90s poet Kofi Awoonor was Ghana's ambassador to this
United Nations
Leonard
|
$200
[26]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew at a bar in Louisville) In 2 days around the Derby, 80,000 of these are served, requiring 60 tons of crushed ice
mint juleps
Jim
|
$200
[5]
In 1867 Charles Weller created the phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party" to test this
typewriter
Leonard
|
$200
[7]
A fast-food chain:JBX
Jack in the Box
Sara
|
$200
[13]
Pass the poi! It's Hawaiian for "feast"
luau
Jim
|
$200
[18]
Franz Gruber wrote the music & Joseph Mohr the lyrics to this Christmas carol
"Silent Night"
Jim
|
|
$400
[2]
(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst) Found mainly in Africa, this fastest land mammal is not prospering
cheetah
Leonard
|
$400
[27]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville) On May 10, 1919, Sir Barton won the Kentucky Derby; a month & a day later, he became the first winner of this
Triple Crown
Jim
|
$400
[6]
On March 1, 1867 it was admitted to the Union as the 37th state with Omaha as its capital
Nebraska
Jim
|
$400
[9]
Remember them on April 15:HRB
H&R Block
Sara
|
$400
[14]
This drink is used in the traditional Japanese ceremony of Chanoyu
tea
Sara
Jim
|
$400
[19]
A nonexecutive provider of business funds
silent partner
Jim
|
|
$600
[3]
Millions of active ones of these hidden in the landscape of Angola make it a dangerous place to stroll
land mines
Leonard
|
$600
[28]
The winner is presented with a garland of these
roses
Leonard
|
$600
[23]
On October 18 ownership of this territory was transferred from Russia to the United States
Alaska
Sara
|
$600
[10]
A footwear company:RBK
Reebok
Jim
|
$600
[15]
In 1904 the U.S. government banned this Plains Indian ceremony, also the name of a Utah film festival
Sundance
Jim
|
$800
[21]
In a Nov. 3, 1969 speech, Richard Nixon referred to this large group that usually withholds its opinions
silent majority
Leonard
|
|
$800
[4]
The famous remains known as "Lucy" are in a museum in this capital of Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Jim
|
$800
[29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Churchill Downs in Louisville) The Derby uses American Teletimer to sort out this, like Cavonnier & Grindstone in 1996
photo finish
Leonard
|
$800
[24]
In 1867 the first of this author's more than 100 rags-to-riches tales, "Ragged Dick", was published
Horatio Alger
Jim
|
$800
[11]
A healthcare provider:AET
Aetna
Jim
|
$800
[16]
In the 1920s rabbi Mordecai Kaplan brought this ceremony for 12-year-old girls into the synagogue
Bat Mitzvah
Leonard
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
Influential 1962 work containing the line "The chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life"
"Silent Spring"
Jim
|
|
$1,000
[8]
The metro area of this city in South Africa includes over 400 suburbs, including Soweto
Johannesburg
Leonard
|
$1,000
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville) I'm at the Kentucky Derby Museum, with the saddle of this 3-time Derby-winning rider with a "heavenly" first name
Angel Cordero
Leonard
|
$1,000
[25]
Minnesota farmer Oliver Kelley established this organization of American farmers as a social & educational group
The Grange
Sara
|
$1,000
[12]
Maker of Kleenex:KMB
Kimberly-Clark
Leonard
|
$1,000
[17]
This ceremony at which school or college degrees are conferred is from the Latin for "beginning"
commencement
Jim
|
$1,000
[22]
Quiet alliterative nickname of the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet
the Silent Service
Jim
|
| POETS & POULTRY | COUNTRY COVERS | ALL IN THE FAMILY | AIR FARE | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE | FROM WHAT LANGUAGE? |
|
$400
[1]
Poet laureate Robert Southey wrote that "Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to" do this
roost
Jim
|
$400
[16]
In 2003 Tim McGraw covered this man's "Tiny Dancer" & performed it with him on the American Music Awards
Elton John
Jim
|
$400
[21]
This was Indira Gandhi's maiden name (her father was India's first P.M.)
Nehru
Leonard
|
$400
[26]
In 1909 in a 25-HP plane, Louis Bleriot flew over 23 miles to cross this in 37 minutes
English Channel
Jim
|
$400
[6]
Rather than a single disease, it's a general term for lung diseases involving inflammation
pneumonia
Jim
|
$400
[11]
Brogue
Gaelic
Leonard
|
|
$800
[2]
In "Eugene Onegin", Pushkin wrote, "Now southward swept the caravan of the wild" these, "a noisy clan"
geese
Leonard
|
$800
[17]
This group is heard here covering a song written by Stevie Nicks
The Dixie Chicks
Jim
|
$800
[22]
Last name of the sisters whose 1846 book of poetry, published under male pseudonyms, sold 2 copies
Bronte
|
$800
[27]
In 2001 NASA's Helios, a plane powered by this, flew to a record altitude of 96,500 feet
solar power
Jim
|
$800
[7]
This extinct flying reptile's name is from the Greek for "finger wing"
pterodactyl
Sara
|
$800
[12]
Fakir
Arabic
Jim
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Pistol calls his wife "my duck" as he kisses her & goes off to war in France in this Shakespeare history play
Henry V
Jim
|
$1,200
[18]
For "Common Thread", a tribute album to this group, Clint Black contributed "Desperado"
The Eagles
Jim
|
$1,200
[23]
After the death of his younger brother George, he supplied lyrics to Kurt Weill & Jerome Kern
Ira Gershwin
Leonard
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1943 Jacqueline Cochran took charge of the Air Force program known by this insect acronym
WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
|
$1,200
[8]
It's any type of severe mental illness characterized by hallucinations & delusions
psychosis
Jim
|
$1,200
[13]
Intelligentsia
Russian
Leonard
Jim
|
|
$1,600
[4]
"We will eat our mullets, soused in wines" & "sup pheasants' eggs", this Elizabethan dramatist wrote in "The Alchemist"
Ben Jonson
Leonard
|
$1,600
[19]
If you need a friend, Buck Owens was sailing right behind in his hit cover of this Simon & Garfunkel song
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Sara
|
$1,600
[24]
On March 17, 1905 Theodore Roosevelt walked this niece, who was marrying her cousin, down the aisle
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jim
|
$1,600
[29]
The Kremer Prize was awarded to Paul MacCready in 1977 for the first plane successfully powered by this
human power
Jim
|
DD
$1,600
[9]
In the 2nd century B.C., this Egyptian astronomer thought that stars were fixed points of light in a rotating sphere
Ptolemy
Jim
|
DD
$1,200
[14]
Trek
Afrikaans
Jim
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Last name of William Carlos, who wrote, "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow beside the white chickens"
Williams
Jim
|
$2,000
[20]
(Hi, I'm Ricky Skaggs) On my 1995 "Solid Ground" album, I covered this famous story song by Harry Chapin
"Cats in the Cradle"
Leonard
|
$2,000
[25]
In 1551 this explorer's son Sebastian founded the Merchant Adventurers of London
John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)
|
$2,000
[30]
Company name on the record-setting XP-59 & the Jet Ranger III helicopter
Bell
|
$2,000
[10]
This subatomic particle, which has no electric charge, consists of a quark & an antiquark
psi particle
Leonard
Jim
|
$2,000
[15]
Om
Sanskrit
Leonard
Sara
Jim
|
The opening credits of this 2003 action movie are depicted in Braille
Daredevil