Layla Anson — an administrative coordinator from Redmond, Washington
Amanda Potocky — a senior clinical data coordinator from Cary, North Carolina
Amir Marouni — a pre-med student from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amir | $1,600 | $3,800 | $14,700 |
$11,300
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
16 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Amanda | $600 | $5,400 | $14,600 |
$18,001
New champion: $18,001 |
$14,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Layla | $3,200 | $3,400 | $9,000 |
$9,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
13 R, 3 W |
| "SA" | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT | CUSTOMS & TRADITIONS | QUIPS | PORGY-POURRI | MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH... |
|
$200
[6]
This "castle"-making material is loosely defined as rock or mineral particles between 1/400 & 1/12 inch
sand
Layla
|
$200
[11]
Vienna & Bratislava
Danube
Amanda
|
$200
[21]
Until 1840 brides just wore their best dresses; then this young queen got married all in white
Victoria
Layla
|
$200
[16]
After being named host of the 2001 Oscar broadcast, this "Roxanne" star cracked, "If you can't win 'em, join 'em"
Steve Martin
Amir
|
$200
[26]
Sadly, "Porgy and Bess" was the only full-length opera this composer wrote; he passed away in 1937, at age 38
George Gershwin
Amanda
|
$200
[1]
Luke Floorwalker was the hero of my script "Store Wars", a better tale than this director's "Star Wars" movie
George Lucas
Amanda
|
|
$400
[7]
A synonym for shatterproof glass, or what shatterproof glass gives you
safety
Layla
|
$400
[12]
Troy & Albany
Hudson
Amanda
Layla
|
$400
[22]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew) The custom of mounting a horse from the left may have arisen when men wore one of these along their left legs
sword
Amanda
|
$400
[17]
This oft-married Hungarian opined, "You never really know a man until you have divorced him"
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Amir
|
$400
[27]
Now a famous poet, she played Ruby in the acclaimed European tour of "Porgy and Bess" in the mid-'50s
Maya Angelou
Amir
|
$400
[2]
My small tool trading game Minipulley didn't do as well as this property trading game by Charles Darrow
Monopoly
Amir
|
|
$600
[8]
It describes a sickly, yellowish complexion
sallow
Layla
|
$600
[13]
Bingen & Bonn
Rhine
Amir
Amanda
|
$600
[23]
Pro tennis abandoned the custom of the winner of a match doing this--maybe someone got hurt
jumping over the net
Amir
|
$600
[18]
This N.Y. film director said he wasn't afraid of dying but "I don't want to be here when it happens"
Woody Allen
Amir
|
$600
[28]
In 1936 this city's National Theatre was briefly desegregated so African-Americans could see "Porgy and Bess" there
Washington, D.C.
Amanda
|
$600
[3]
I invented the Fig Leibniz; James Henry Mitchell came up with this better seller
Fig Newton
Layla
|
|
$800
[9]
Sadly for this small, dark marten, it's prized for its fur
sable
Layla
|
$800
[14]
Killaloe & Limerick
Shannon
Amanda
|
$800
[24]
These dogs are firehouse mascots because they had been bred to work with horses, which pulled firewagons
dalmatians
Amanda
|
$800
[19]
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", said this Ms. founder who married David Bale in 2000
Gloria Steinem
Amanda
|
$800
[29]
Bobby McFerrin's father dubbed the singing voice of Porgy when this leading man played him on film in 1959
Sidney Poitier
|
$800
[4]
My 1947 TV show "Read the Proust" bombed against this NBC show that's still running
Meet the Press
Amir
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Suggestive or downright indecent, like some writings & pictures
salacious
Layla
|
$1,000
[15]
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges & Rouen
Seine
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
To preserve succession in case of disaster, one cabinet secretary does not attend this televised January event
State of the Union Address
Amanda
|
$1,000
[20]
Truman Capote reviewed this man's book "On the Road" by saying, "That's not writing. It's just typing"
Jack Kerouac
Amanda
|
$1,000
[30]
The opera is based on a novel inspired by a real crime of passion committed in this Southern city
Charleston, South Carolina
|
$1,000
[5]
My camera could only take shots of bald people, so I called it Kojak, but it didn't do as well as his Kodak
George Eastman
Amir
|
| ESSAY | MUSICAL NICKNAMES | ARTISTS IN FRANCE | INTERIOR DESIGN | THE 13th CENTURY | "F" TROOP |
|
$400
[11]
He was 16 & hadn't yet moved to Philadelphia when he wrote essays called "The Dogood Papers" in 1722
Benjamin Franklin
|
$400
[6]
William Basie
Count
Amir
|
$400
[21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Paris) This great Spanish artist was one of the most famous regulars at Les Deux Magots; some say he created Cubism here
Pablo Picasso
Amir
|
$400
[16]
From the French, it's the hanging-from-the-ceiling version of a candelabra
chandelier
Amanda
|
$400
[23]
Pope Innocent III issued a bull to annul this document agreed to by King John in 1215--didn't work
Magna Carta
Amanda
|
$400
[1]
He wears No. 4 for the Green Bay Packers
Brett Favre
Layla
|
|
$1,200
[13]
In a 1756 essay this sarcastic Frenchman denounced religion, but still showed his own belief in God
Voltaire
|
$800
[7]
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Duke
Amanda
|
$800
[22]
In 1909 one of his nude statues of Victor Hugo was installed at the Gallery of the Palais-Royal
Auguste Rodin
Layla
|
$800
[17]
Name shared by a serving table from the 18th century & an elevator that brings meals up from the basement kitchen
dumbwaiter
Layla
|
$800
[24]
In 1252 this city, in a show of its independence, began to issue gold florins
Florence
Amanda
Layla
|
$800
[2]
2-word term for a mass descent of sharks on prey, or of news reporters on a story
feeding frenzy
Amanda
|
|
DD
$1,500
[12]
In 2002 subjects of his Newsweek essays included baseball statistics & judicial elections
George Will
Amir
|
$1,200
[8]
Hoagland Howard Carmichael
Hoagy
Amanda
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
Visitors walk through an underground passage to get to this artist's beloved water garden at Giverny
Claude Monet
Amir
|
$1,200
[18]
A butterfly table is also known as a drop- this table
leaf
Layla
|
$1,200
[25]
Before 1250 this country's Bela IV replaced Pest, a city destroyed by the Mongols in 1241, with the new city of Buda
Hungary
Amanda
|
$1,200
[3]
George Clinton is known for this pop music style characterized by syncopated rhythm & a heavy bass line
Funk
Layla
|
|
$1,600
[14]
The 2 main types of essays are personal & this stuffier type developed by Sir Francis Bacon
formal
|
$1,600
[9]
Julian Edwin Adderley
Cannonball
|
$1,600
[29]
He was living in Auvers-sur-Oise when, despairing & lonely, he shot himself in 1890
Vincent Van Gogh
Amir
|
$1,600
[19]
Queen whose style lent itself to cabriole legs with club feet; she ruled between William & Mary & George I
Anne
Amanda
|
$1,600
[26]
After traveling for 17 years Marco Polo returned home to this city in 1295
Venice
|
$1,600
[4]
Viti Levu is the largest of the many islands that make up this nation 3,100 miles southwest of Hawaii
Fiji
Layla
|
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1919's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", this American-British poet said poets must learn the work of the past
T.S. Eliot
|
$2,000
[10]
Charlie Parker
Bird
Amir
Amanda
|
— |
$2,000
[20]
From the French for "to pout", it's a nicely decorated room where women went to "be alone"
boudoir
Layla
|
$2,000
[27]
Trading towns involved in this Baltic league included Cologne & Danzig
Hanseatic League
Amir
|
$2,000
[5]
According to Emerson, this kind of consistency "is the hobgoblin of little minds"
foolish
Amir
|
The DVD of this 1961 film includes "picture-in-picture commentary on how to make the trick shots"
The Hustler