Margaret Seiler — a freelance copy editor and movie theater manager from Portland, Oregon
Alex Harriger — a security officer from Kansas City, Missouri
Mike Maheu — a high school teacher from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,393)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | $4,000 | $6,400 | $16,463 |
$15,849
2-day champion: $46,242 |
$16,400
25 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Alex | $3,800 | $2,400 | $6,000 |
$11,899
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
19 R, 8 W |
| Margaret | $800 | $2,800 | $4,200 |
$2,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| CHURCHILLIAN PONDERINGS | ANIMAL COMMON BONDS | PUT 'EM IN ORDER | "P"s TIME | MOTORIN' | WHAT'S YOUR PRICE FOR FLIGHT? |
|
$200
[1]
This letter of the alphabet is "a symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories"
V
Mike
|
$200
[12]
Angora, Flemish giant, cottontail
rabbits
Mike
|
$200
[21]
Statehood:Florida, Virginia, Nebraska
Virginia, Florida, Nebraska
Margaret
|
$200
[6]
This boy "picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Peter Piper
Mike
|
$200
[11]
This Super Mario raced from 1959 to 2000, winning 4 Champ Car titles
Mario Andretti
Margaret
|
$200
[26]
In 2008 you could fly this company's "friendly skies" from Chicago to Beijing & back for $868
United
Alex
|
|
$400
[2]
"I cannot forecast to you the action of" this country. "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
the Soviet Union (Russia)
Mike
Alex
|
$400
[13]
Spider, squirrel, howler
monkeys
Alex
|
$400
[22]
Religious leaders:Buddha, Jesus, Moses
Moses, Buddha, Jesus
Alex
|
$400
[7]
To put off to a later day or time
procrastinate (or postpone)
Alex
|
$400
[14]
In 1923 Andre Lagache & Rene Leonard won the first "24 Hours of" here, averaging 57.21 mph
Le Mans
Alex
|
$400
[27]
The price was too much for this Hawaiian company, which said "goodbye" to its passenger flights in 2008
Aloha
Mike
|
|
$600
[3]
In his 1st statement as P.M., Winston said he had nothing to offer but toil & these 3 things; cool name for a band!
blood, sweat & tears
Alex
|
$600
[18]
Spider, sand, horseshoe
crab
Mike
|
$600
[23]
Inventions:Air conditioning, barbed wire, chewing gum
chewing gum, barbed wire, air conditioning
Mike
Margaret
|
$600
[8]
Ball Park franks do this "when you cook 'em"
plump
Margaret
|
$600
[15]
Though his last name means "of little importance", he's "The King" of NASCAR, the all-time leader in races won at 200
Richard Petty
Alex
|
$600
[28]
Look for the missing "U" in this airline when you spend 2,352 Aussie bucks (as of June '08) to fly from Sydney to Seattle
Qantas
Margaret
|
|
$800
[4]
In WWII Churchill called this fascist "the bullfrog of the Pontine marshes"
Mussolini
Mike
|
$800
[19]
Brown, fruit, vampire
bats
Alex
|
$800
[24]
By founding:London, Paris, New York City
Paris, London, New York City
Mike
Alex
|
$800
[9]
Upon this offspring's return in Luke 15, the fatted calf is killed
the prodigal son
Alex
|
$800
[16]
He won back-to-back Indy 500s in 2001 & '02 but perhaps you know him better for his "Dancing with the Stars" triumph
(Helio) Castroneves
Mike
|
$800
[29]
This airline's July '08 NYC-to-London upper class fare was $10,436; owner Richard Branson does throw in chauffeur service
Virgin
Margaret
|
|
DD
$1,400
[5]
In a speech on this town in northern France: "We shall fight on the beaches... we shall never surrender"
Dunkirk
Mike
|
$1,000
[20]
Black, brown, spectacled
bears
Mike
|
$1,000
[25]
Novels:"The Great Gatsby","East of Eden","Gone with the Wind"
The Great Gatsby , Gone with the Wind , East of Eden
Mike
Alex
Margaret
|
$1,000
[10]
These numbered steps taken by duelists determined the agreed-upon distance between them
paces
Alex
|
$1,000
[17]
Boogity boogity boogity! Let's go racin', boys! & when he did, he took NASCAR's checkered flag 84 times
Darrell Waltrip
Mike
Alex
|
$1,000
[30]
Go Dutch (& back) by flying from Amsterdam to L.A. on this 3-letter airline; in 2008, it cost 861 euros
KLM
Mike
|
| GERMAN COMPOSERS | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE | LET'S THAI ONE ON | VOWEL HAPPY | OYSTERS |
|
$400
[1]
The opening 4-note theme of his fifth symphony has been likened to fate knocking at the door
Beethoven
Alex
|
$400
[3]
It all adds up; he paired with Paul Simon for a while & also got a masters in math from Columbia
Art Garfunkel
Alex
|
$400
[8]
Tom Stoppard:"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern ____ ____"
are Dead
Mike
|
$400
[18]
Thonburi was once Thailand's second-largest city but now makes up part of this city's metropolitan area
Bangkok
Margaret
|
$400
[13]
Usually built in a high, inaccessible place, it's the nest of an eagle
aerie
Mike
|
$400
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Only high-quality oysters are served in this simple way, also in the popular name of a Botticelli painting
on the half shell
Alex
|
|
$800
[2]
In 1718 he worked for the Duke of Chandos, directing music at the Duke's palace near London
Handel
Mike
|
$800
[4]
John Astin studied math at Johns Hopkins before becoming a creepy & kooky patriarch on this '60s sitcom
The Addams Family
Mike
|
$800
[9]
Not Beckett but Clifford Odets:"Waiting for ____"
Lefty
Mike
Alex
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
According to a 1921 Thai law, all albino ones of this mammal, an emblem of the monarchy, belong to the king
white elephant
Margaret
|
$800
[14]
As a verb it can mean "to sustain or encourage"; as a noun, it's a float moored in water
buoy
Alex
|
$800
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Originally made with snails, this dish from Antoine's of New Orleans got its name because it looked so rich
Oysters Rockefeller
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[23]
He developed the idea of the Flying Dutchman while sailing from Riga to London
(Richard) Wagner
Mike
|
$1,200
[5]
"Radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud" won an astrophysics Ph.D. for Brian May (not Mr. Mercury) of this band
Queen
Alex
|
$1,200
[10]
William Inge:"The Dark at the Top of the ____"
Stairs
Mike
|
$1,200
[20]
Thailand was never ruled by a Western power & its name means "land of" this, also a Francis Scott Key phrase
the land of the free
Mike
|
$1,200
[15]
Murmur is this type of imitative word that will cost some cash if you have to buy vowels on "Wheel of Fortune"
onomatopoeia
Mike
|
$1,200
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew has a dish at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Modern refrigeration has eliminated the old warning about only eating oysters in these months, but some still say that's when they taste best
months with R's in them
Mike
|
|
$1,600
[24]
His 1739 volume of chorale arrangements, the third part of "Clavier-Ubung", is aka "German Organ Mass"
Johann Sebastian Bach
|
$1,600
[6]
Here's "The News": The "Power of Love" singer was an engineering major at Cornell
Huey Lewis
Alex
|
$1,600
[11]
David Mamet:"American ____"
Buffalo
Mike
Alex
|
$1,600
[21]
Southern Thailand extends down this long peninsula & consists mainly of mountains & jungles
the Malay Peninsula
Alex
|
DD
$1,263
[16]
There are only 2 consonants in this 7-letter word meaning "watery"
aqueous
Mike
|
$1,600
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew downs a shot at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Theoyster shooter, reputedly invented by a West Coast miner who wanted his oyster fast & raw, is made with this cocktail mix
Bloody Mary mix
Alex
|
|
$2,000
[25]
In 1940 he was commissioned to write a composition honoring Japan's 2,600th anniversary
Richard Strauss
|
$2,000
[7]
In 2008 he hitched a ride on "The Pineapple Express" as Saul Silver & brushed up on his English lit as a UCLA grad
James Franco
Alex
Margaret
|
$2,000
[12]
Eugene O'Neill:"Ah, ____!"
Wilderness
Alex
|
$2,000
[22]
Each Thai village has one of these temples, a 3-letter term from Sanskrit for "enclosure"
wat
Alex
|
$2,000
[17]
The 3 I's are the only vowels in this word meaning "to make seem smaller or less important"
diminish
Mike
|
$2,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a mollusk at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Oysters from this colorful location on Long Island's Great South Bay were so popular, the name is used for several East Coast oysters
Blue Point
|
A former Screen Actors Guild president, he's the only actor to win both comedy & drama Emmys for playing the same character
Ed Asner