Neil Alsip — a writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Carolyn Goolsby — a writer from Columbia, South Carolina
Jeff Thompson — a high school teacher from Lake Forest, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff | $0 | $1,400 | $1,700 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,400
7 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Carolyn | $7,000 | $10,400 | $14,000 |
$13,599
New champion: $13,599 |
$12,600
29 R (including 1 DD), 8 W |
| Neil | $1,200 | $1,000 | $7,200 |
$300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| ALL ABOUT AMSTERDAM | HAIR | SAMUEL JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY | ORGANIZATIONS | TV SERIES EPISODES | LETTER PERFECT |
|
$200
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew) In 1582, even before Amsterdam built its most famous canals, an Italian traveler called it this city "of the North"
Venice
Carolyn
|
$200
[11]
Rapunzel's hair color, it might have opened her up to some jokes
blonde
Carolyn
|
$200
[6]
To us, it's one who runs to keep fit; to Johnson it was "one who moves heavily and dully"
jogger
Carolyn
|
$200
[21]
This over 100-year-old group sells the "From My Cold Dead Hands" bumper sticker
NRA (National Rifle Association)
Carolyn
|
$200
[1]
"McGarrett is Missing"
Hawaii Five-O
Neil
|
$200
[16]
It's Duracell's largest general-purpose battery
D cell
Carolyn
|
|
$400
[27]
In summer, this seafood is sold at stands fresh & whole; at other times, it's eaten pickled
herring
Jeff
|
$400
[12]
We hear a brush with death on a rabbit farm may be described as this type of experience
hair/hare-raising
Carolyn
|
$400
[7]
"A Chinese plant, of which the infusion has lately been much drunk in Europe"
tea
Carolyn
|
$400
[22]
Founded in 1980, it has helped more than 90,000 ailing kids fulfill desires like meeting a favorite celebrity
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Neil
|
$400
[2]
"A Bionic Christmas Carol"
The Six Million Dollar Man
Carolyn
Neil
|
$400
[17]
In the '60s & '70s when Disneyland used alphabet-coded tickets, this was the most desirable one
E ticket
Carolyn
|
|
$600
[28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew) Altitude measurements throughout Europe are based on this, as established in Amsterdam
sea level
Carolyn
|
$600
[13]
Letchemanah Ramasamy is in Guinness for doing this to a double-decker bus with his hair
pulling it
Carolyn
|
$800
[9]
4-letter performer defined as "a buffoon who practices gesticulations"
mime
|
$600
[23]
Founded in 1933, the alliance of these Chinese businesses became a major NYC civil rights group
laundries
|
$600
[3]
"The Ghost of General Lee"
The Dukes of Hazzard
Neil
|
$600
[18]
In the word seen here in 17th-century-style printing, the first letter isn't an F, but this
S
Neil
|
|
$800
[29]
One of Amsterdam's most famous buildings is the Oude Kerk, whose name means this
old church
Carolyn
|
$800
[14]
The tresses of "Dark Angel" Jessica Alba are featured in ads for this company's Feria
L'Oreal
Carolyn
|
$1,000
[10]
In part, it's "The art which teaches the relations of words to each other"
grammar
|
$800
[24]
(I'm Kevin Carter of the NFL) The FCA stands for this ministry originally supported by Branch Rickey
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Carolyn
|
$800
[4]
"The Gamesters of Triskelion"
Star Trek
Carolyn
|
$800
[19]
This letter, 1 away from being in the musical scale in the English-speaking world, is used by Germans for B natural
H
Carolyn
Neil
|
|
$1,000
[30]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew) Amsterdam's famous Skinny Bridge spans this river, for which Amsterdam was partly named
Amstel River
Jeff
|
$1,000
[15]
The wirehaired breed of this hunting dog was developed in England
fox terrier
Carolyn
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
"An animal...amphibious and remarkable for his art in building his habitation"
beaver
Carolyn
|
$1,000
[25]
The Association of American Medical Colleges administers this, on which would-be doctors need to score high
MCAT (Medical College Admission Test)
Carolyn
Neil
|
$1,000
[5]
"Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"
The X-Files
Carolyn
|
$1,000
[20]
Feng shui experts don't care for rooms shaped like this letter, like the one featured in a 1962 Leslie Caron movie
L
Neil
|
| THE 19th CENTURY | TRANSPORTATION | SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE | WATCH YOUR TONGUE | SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS | "Z"-ING IS BELIEVING |
|
$400
[23]
It's the title of the famous verses written by Francis Scott Key in September 1814
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Carolyn
|
$400
[7]
To shield them from impact, the flight recorders nicknamed these are installed in the back of the plane
black boxes
Carolyn
|
$400
[6]
Pioneering computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper coined this term for a mysterious computer problem
bug
Carolyn
Neil
|
$400
[12]
Local dialects of Turkish & Greek are spoken on this Mediterranean island 40 miles south of Turkey
Cyprus
Carolyn
|
$400
[1]
He's married to the former Blondie Boopadoop
Dagwood Bumstead
Neil
|
$400
[17]
This camera accessory comes with built-in adjustable focal lengths
zoom lens
Carolyn
|
|
$800
[24]
This man finished his first effort, seen here, in 1896
Henry Ford
Neil
|
$800
[8]
It's the equipment Tony Hawk uses doing tricks like the Popshuvit Nosegrind
skateboard
Carolyn
|
$800
[22]
Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion helped develop drugs to treat herpes, gout & this, cancer of the bone marrow
leukemia
Jeff
|
$800
[13]
Of the world's 168 million speakers of Portuguese, more than 90% live in this country
Brazil
Jeff
|
$800
[2]
Jill St. John & Brooke Shields have both "Starred" as this comic strip reporter
Brenda Starr
Neil
|
$800
[18]
The Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" album featured a working one of these on the cover
zipper
Jeff
|
|
$1,200
[25]
The fourth child of Klara & Alois, this dictator was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria in 1889
Adolf Hitler
Jeff
|
$1,200
[9]
According to a classic 1892 song, it's what I couldn't afford that caused me to get a bicycle built for 2
carriage
Carolyn
|
$1,200
[30]
In 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer received a Nobel Prize in Physics for her "shell model" of this part of an atom
Nucleus
Jeff
Carolyn
|
$1,200
[14]
It's the native language spoken in almost all of Kosovo
Albanian
Carolyn
Neil
|
$1,600
[4]
This panel is still in the papers, though creator Jim Unger officially retired in 1992
Herman
Carolyn
|
$1,200
[19]
This African nation's president is Frederick Chiluba & its capital is Lusaka
Zambia
Carolyn
Neil
|
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1851 Queen Victoria opened this "Great" showcase of British art & industry
The Great Exhibition
Neil
|
$1,600
[10]
Going into production in 2003, this German automaker's SLR will feature gullwing doors
Mercedes-Benz
Neil
|
$1,600
[28]
Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her work on this vitamin, whose deficiency causes pernicious anemia
Vitamin B12
Carolyn
Neil
|
$1,600
[15]
This Chinese dialect, widely spoken in Hong Kong, is also known as Yue
Cantonese
Jeff
|
$2,000
[5]
Last name of wilderness lover Mark, whose strip was launched in 1946
Trail
Carolyn
|
$1,600
[20]
2 main sects of this philosophical school were introduced to Japan in the 12th & 13th centuries
Zen
Carolyn
|
|
$2,000
[26]
It's the 4-word title of the famous 1830 Eugene Delacroix work seen here
"Liberty Leading the People"
Carolyn
|
$2,000
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew) It's the "monetary" name for this turn-of -the-century wheel transport
penny-farthing
Carolyn
|
$2,000
[27]
Called the first female M.D. in modern times, she helped found the London School of Medicine for Women in 1875
Elizabeth Blackwell
|
DD
$3,700
[16]
Following the U.S. & the U.K., this Southeast Asian island nation has the largest number of English speakers
the Philippines
Jeff
|
DD
$2,200
[3]
Title of Mell Lazarus' strip about Mrs. Hobbs & her efforts to stay part of her children's lives
Momma
Neil
|
$2,000
[21]
This city was the capital of the Axis puppet state of Croatia from 1941 to 1945
Zagreb
Carolyn
|
In 1951 Elizabeth II attended one of these in Canada; she attended her next one, also in Canada, on October 6, 2002
hockey game