Eli Edwards — a law student from Newark, California
Mike Maheu — a high school teacher from San Diego, California
Meredith Robbins — a library media specialist from New York, New York (whose 4-day cash winnings total $48,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meredith | $3,600 | $5,000 | $17,000 |
$21,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,000
16 R, 1 W |
| Mike | $2,600 | $6,400 | $15,200 |
$30,393
New champion: $30,393 |
$15,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eli | $2,000 | $5,800 | $10,000 |
$1,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,000
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| IN MEMORIAM 2008 | GET THE POINT | BORN TO BE MILD | LIGHTNING YOUR LOAD | THERE WILL BE "UD" | AND THEN THERE'S BEA ARTHUR |
|
$200
[21]
This ABC sportscaster long associated with the Olympics didn't get to see the Beijing games, as he died in June
Jim McKay
Eli
|
$200
[26]
Thissenator
John Kerry
Eli
|
$200
[11]
On July 6, 1935 he was born in Tibet for either the 1st or 14th time
the Dalai Lama
Mike
|
$200
[6]
The safest place to be during a thunderstorm is in a building equipped with one of these, invented by Ben Franklin
a lightning rod
Eli
|
$200
[1]
11 gents conferring on a plan of attack on a football field
a huddle
Eli
|
$200
[16]
Bea Arthur played this signature role on the small screen from 1972 to 1978
Maude
Mike
|
|
$400
[22]
He became the world's most famous beekeeper when he conquered Everest in 1953
Sir Edmund Hillary
Eli
|
$400
[27]
This Supreme Court justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mike
|
$400
[12]
Missionary? Not impossible for him, born in Assisi in 1181 or 1182
St. Francis
Eli
|
$400
[7]
Of 1 in 500, in 5,000 or in 5 million, the odds of being struck in one's lifetime, according to the NOAA
1 in 5,000
Mike
Eli
|
$400
[2]
What's that, Mr. Kane? Someone said you wanted this?
a rosebud
Meredith
|
$400
[17]
Bea turned out to be Larry David's real mother on a 2005 episode of this series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Eli
|
|
$600
[23]
Sadly, we'll never again hear this comedian do his "7 words you can never say on TV" routine
George Carlin
Mike
|
$600
[28]
Thisedifice
the Chrysler Building
Meredith
|
$600
[13]
This writer began communing with nature on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau
Eli
|
$600
[8]
This lord of Olympus punished wayward mortals & lesser gods by hurling lightning bolts at them
Zeus
Mike
|
$600
[3]
A person who does distasteful work; it's also in the name of an online "Report"
a drudge
Meredith
Mike
|
$600
[18]
In 1964 Bea shot to fame as Yente the matchmaker in the original Broadway production of this musical
Fiddler on the Roof
Mike
|
|
$800
[24]
A nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, he also hosted the TV show "Firing Line" 1966-1999
William F. Buckley (Jr.)
Eli
|
$800
[29]
Thisassassin
John Wilkes Booth
Eli
|
$800
[14]
His Oct. 2, 1869 birth in Porbandar, India would change the world
(Mohandas) Gandhi
Meredith
|
$800
[9]
Roy Sullivan, who had this outdoorsy job, holds the Guinness record for being hit by lightning: 7 times
a park ranger
Mike
|
$800
[4]
10-letter term for a difficult, cantankerous person
a curmudgeon
Meredith
|
$800
[19]
Bea won her second Emmy for playing Dorothy Zbornak on this sitcom
The Golden Girls
Meredith
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This Oscar-winning director's very literary output included "Cold Mountain" & "The English Patient"
Anthony Minghella
Eli
|
$1,000
[30]
Thisship's memorial
the Arizona
Mike
|
$1,000
[15]
No "blockhead", this cartoonist drew his first breath in Minneapolis on Nov. 26, 1922
Charles Schulz
Eli
|
DD
$1,200
[10]
The leading cause of indoor lightning injuries involves the use of this everyday device
the telephone
Mike
|
$1,000
[5]
This Bible book covers the period between Joshua's death & Saul's accession to the throne
Judges
Meredith
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1979 Bea hosted this late night comedy show & The Roches were the musical guest
Saturday Night Live
Mike
|
| THE HUMAN BODY | HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS | "M": A NATION | THE MISSING DRINK | I HAVE A QUESTION | WHAT'VE YOU GOT THERE? |
|
$400
[11]
The name of the hypoglossal nerve tells you it's situated under this
the tongue
Mike
|
$400
[1]
Romijn or De Mornay
Rebecca
Eli
|
DD
$?
[4]
This nation comprises more than 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean
Micronesia
Mike
|
$400
[21]
Harvey____of magnesia
milk
Mike
|
$400
[16]
Macbeth asks, "Is this" this "which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?"
a dagger
Eli
|
$400
[26]
Oh, it's the golden dollar coin, featuring this woman, that was released into circulation on January 27, 2000
Sacagawea
Mike
|
|
$800
[12]
(Jon of the Clue Crew plays with a skeleton.) The knee is the joint where thefemur, the body's longest bone, meets this large shin bone
the tibia
Mike
|
$800
[2]
Members of the class Aves
The Birds
Mike
|
$400
[3]
A tiny, hilly wedge, it lies 9 miles east of Nice, France
Monaco
Mike
|
$800
[22]
Heavy____skier
water
Meredith
Mike
|
$800
[17]
Act IV of this writer's 1904 play has the line"Do you believe in fairies?" (He didn't add "Yes!")
J.M. Barrie
Meredith
|
$800
[27]
The cutterhereis used to remove the end of one of these before its use
a cigar
Meredith
|
|
$1,200
[13]
The name of this gland found only in men is from the Greek for "standing before"
the prostate gland
Eli
|
$1,200
[8]
Held, as if by some magical charm
Spellbound
Meredith
|
$1,200
[5]
Greece is possessive about this name, so the U.N. has a member nation called the Former Yugoslav Republic of this
Macedonia
Mike
|
$1,200
[23]
High____rose
tea
Mike
|
$1,200
[18]
"'What's to-day?' cried" this Dickens guy, "calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes"
Ebenezer Scrooge
Meredith
|
$1,200
[28]
So you're not neutral on having the Ranger type of this knife with a wood saw, can opener &, of course, toothpick
a Swiss Army knife
Mike
|
|
$1,600
[14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a diagram of the heart on the monitor.) Deoxygenated blood is carried back to the heart via the body's two largest veins, the superior & inferior this
the vena cava
Mike
|
$1,600
[9]
Duran Duran tune that means "unfavorably famous"
Notorious
Meredith
|
$1,600
[6]
It's slightly larger than Alaska; Siberia borders it to the north
Mongolia
Meredith
|
$1,600
[24]
Gastric____box
juice
Meredith
|
$1,600
[19]
This 1957 novel opens with the query"Who is John Galt?"
Atlas Shrugged
Eli
|
$1,600
[29]
Hey, it's this game system that's recently gotten "fit"--can I come over?
the Wii
Eli
|
|
$2,000
[15]
The 3 segments of the brainstem are the midbrain, pons & this, which regulates coughing & sneezing
the medulla oblongata
|
$2,000
[10]
Chemically, it's Al2SiO4(F, OH)2& it looks like yellow quartz
Topaz
Eli
|
$2,000
[7]
Armando Guebuza is the president of this African republic & former Portuguese colony
Mozambique
Meredith
|
$2,000
[25]
Parallel____Moresby
port
Mike
|
DD
$3,000
[20]
In 1821 he wrote mournfully,"Where was lorn Urania when Adonais died?"
Shelley
Eli
|
$2,000
[30]
Nice one, eh?It's a bottle of this Canadian beer founded in 1786, North America's oldest beer brand still being made
Molson
Meredith
|
The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders
Wilson