Guil Prickette — a licensed professional counselor from Anchorage, Alaska
Jillian Rebmann — a librarian from Peoria, Illinois
Nathaniel Barnes — a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel | $3,200 | $4,400 | $9,600 |
$7,600
2-day champion: $31,500 |
$9,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jillian | $0 | $0 | $1,400 |
$2,742
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,400
11 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Guil | $1,400 | $1,800 | $1,600 |
$3,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,600
14 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| QUOTATIONS | BIOPIC SUBJECTS | 75 YEARS OFESQUIRE | MAKE NO MYTHTAKE | THE SPECIFIC PALM READER | Z BOYS |
|
$200
[6]
In 2003, the 50th anniversary of his climb, he said, "I'm not very happy about the future of Mount Everest"
Sir Edmund Hillary
Jillian
|
$200
[11]
2005:"Walk the Line"
Johnny Cash
Guil
|
$200
[26]
On a 1990 cover Esquire went old school with this Windy City hoops star & asked, "Is he our new DiMaggio?"
Michael Jordan
Jillian
|
$200
[1]
He blinded the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus
Odysseus
Nathaniel
|
$200
[19]
The break in your heart line shows you had one of these, the voiding of a marriage that was never valid
an annulment
Jillian
|
$200
[15]
This "Lumpy Gravy" musician howled on the Barking Pumpkin record label
Frank Zappa
Guil
|
|
$400
[7]
Asked if he had anything to declare on his first visit to the U.S. in 1882, this wit said, "Nothing but my genius"
Oscar Wilde
Nathaniel
|
$400
[12]
1988:"Bird"
Charlie Parker
Guil
|
$400
[27]
In Oct. 1994 this director's Esquire cover read "Look Who's Talking"; one of his talking points--"Soon-Yi's charms"
Woody Allen
Nathaniel
|
$400
[2]
This resinous gemstone was said to be the solidified tears of Apollo's daughters
amber
Guil
|
$400
[20]
Your line of fate is quite deep, indicating success investing with tech stocks, like Adobe & Oracle, on this exchange
NASDAQ
Guil
|
$400
[16]
This career soldier who never voted served as president for fewer than 500 days
Zachary Taylor
Jillian
|
|
$600
[8]
In "Notes on the State of Virginia", he wrote, "Those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God"
Thomas Jefferson
Guil
|
$600
[13]
1994:"Immortal Beloved"
Beethoven
Guil
|
$600
[28]
For Esquire's 75th, the electronic cover was created; the hard part was finding a small enough one of these
battery
Jillian
Guil
|
$600
[3]
This guy had double the trouble battling the Hydra; every time he cut off a head, 2 grew in its place
Hercules
Nathaniel
|
$600
[21]
Based on your life line, I wouldn't visit Tampico, located on this gulf, in hurricane season. I just wouldn't
Gulf of Mexico
Guil
|
$600
[17]
After buying the Tribune Company, he promised to sell the Chicago Cubs
Sam Zell
|
|
$800
[9]
When this Carthaginian left the foe recover, a friend said, "You know how to win a victory...but not how to use it"
Hannibal
Nathaniel
|
$800
[14]
1956:"Lust for Life"
Vincent van Gogh
Nathaniel
Jillian
|
$800
[29]
Why is Tricky Dick laughing? Perhaps it's because he was part of the first of these awards begun by Esquire in 1962
Dubious Achievement Awards
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
It's the only day of the week named for a Roman god
Saturday
Nathaniel
|
$800
[22]
The creativity in your mount of Apollo means you should try out for this operetta, as Pooh-Bah
The Mikado
Jillian
|
$800
[24]
This Italian director is famous for his 1968 film of "Romeo and Juliet"
Franco Zeffirelli
Nathaniel
|
|
$1,000
[10]
In McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819, this Chief Justice wrote, "The power to tax involves to destroy"
John Marshall
Nathaniel
|
$1,000
[18]
1962:"The Birdman of Alcatraz"
Robert Stroud
|
$1,000
[30]
Created by George Petty for Esquire in 1941, the beauty seenherewas painted onto the fuselage of this famed World War II bomber
Memphis Belle
Jillian
|
$1,000
[5]
The Sphinx riddled & munched on travelers on the high road to this ancient city
Thebes
Jillian
Guil
|
$1,000
[23]
Your health line tells me that in 2 years you'll develop this, an inflammation of a fluid-filled sac, around the elbow
bursitis
Guil
|
$1,000
[25]
He served as an adviser for Jimmy Carter & as director of the Trilateral Commission
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Guil
|
| CAVES | WHAT A DELICIOUS DISH | NOODLING AROUND | BIOLOGY | "HEE" HAW | JUNIOR SAMPLES |
|
$400
[5]
Australia's Jenolan Caves were first known as Binoomea, this type of "places", but in 1887 got electric lighting
dark places
Nathaniel
|
$400
[1]
In Christopher Ciccone's "Life With My Sister" her, it turns out she's a bit of a control freak
Madonna
Jillian
|
$400
[21]
Great with chunky sauces, the pasta called ruote resemble these with spokes
wheels
Nathaniel
|
$400
[10]
In reptiles these choppers are conical & uniform; in mammals they have various shapes & sizes
teeth
Jillian
|
$400
[12]
Based on an ancient game of India, this board game is played on a cross-shaped board
Parcheesi
Guil
|
$800
[22]
He wrote the bestsellers "Slaughterhouse-Five" & "Breakfast of Champions"
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Nathaniel
|
|
$800
[4]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.) Carlsbad Caverns is rich in columns; a column forms when these two calcite structures grow together, one from the top & one from the bottom
stalagmites and stalactites
Guil
|
$800
[2]
"7" is a fictionalized memoir of this carousing Yankee center fielder
Mickey Mantle
Guil
|
$800
[17]
Nissin makes a product called "Top" this Japanese soup noodle
Ramen
Jillian
|
$800
[7]
3 billion base pairs of DNA, incorporating the code to make a person, is called the human this
genome
Nathaniel
|
$800
[13]
National critter seen here
Old English sheepdog
|
$1,200
[23]
This philanthropist donated the land on which the U.N. headquarters was built in New York City
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Guil
|
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
Africa's Sterkfontein Caves yielded Mrs. Plesianthropus of this extinct genus, whose name means "southern ape"
Australopithecus
Jillian
|
$1,200
[3]
If you doubt you could be shocked by a tell-all book about this man, check out "Mr. Playboy"
Hugh Hefner
Nathaniel
|
$1,200
[18]
A noodle made from this grain is an ingredient in the traditional Thai dish mee krob
rice
Nathaniel
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Not just something in a car, it's a type of neuron that sends signals to an effector, like a muscle
a motor
Guil
|
$1,200
[14]
13-letter name for a type of classic steamboat on the Mississippi
a paddlewheeler
Guil
|
$1,600
[24]
Edmund Jr. is the real name of this California pol known to some as "Governor Moonbeam"
Jerry Brown
Guil
|
|
$1,200
[6]
Nevada's formation-rich Lehman Caves are made of low-grade marble, better known as this
limestone
Jillian
|
$1,600
[26]
An unauthorized bio of her claims she'd prolong interviews to steal airtime from Matt Lauer
Katie Couric
Jillian
|
$1,600
[19]
Short tubes of macaroni, ditali is Italian for this sewing accessory
a thimble
Jillian
Guil
|
$1,200
[8]
Arginine, one of these acids, is made in the body but not enough for growth--so it's an "essential" one only in kids
an amino acid
Nathaniel
Guil
|
$1,600
[15]
A format that allows the user to lay out data in multiple fields on a computer screen
a spreadsheet
Nathaniel
|
$2,000
[25]
In 1979 he resigned as ambassador to the U.N. because of an unauthorized meeting with a PLO representative
Andrew Young, Jr.
|
|
$1,600
[28]
Near Chiscau, Romania there's a cave named for its many fossils of the extinct cave type of this carnivore
a bear
|
$2,000
[27]
This movie star's "The Million Dollar Mermaid" discusses Jeff Chandler's off-the-set fashion choices
Esther Williams
|
$2,000
[20]
Made from mung beans, glass noodles are also called this, after another transparent product
cellophane noodles
|
$2,000
[11]
Part of biology, this -ology studies hosted organisms like tapeworms
parasitology
Jillian
|
$2,000
[16]
To coax someone with flattery or artful persuasion
wheedle
|
— |
Her final testament, read in public after her death, asked for protection of the poor workers she called grasitas
Eva Peron