Jim Stevens game 2.
Chet Perry — a bar owner from Oakland, California
Sam Johnston — a Ph.D. student from Brooklyn, New York
Jim Stevens — a math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim | $2,600 | $6,600 | $16,400 |
$20,401
2-day champion: $49,002 |
$17,400
23 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sam | $1,600 | $5,200 | $10,200 |
$16,401
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
12 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Chet | $3,200 | $4,800 | $6,400 |
$299
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
12 R, 4 W |
| JAMAICA, JORDAN OR JAPAN | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME | AMERICA'S GOT TALENT | POLITICAL PARTIES | FOOD & DRINK | "P"ICK THIS CATEGORY! |
|
$200
[5]
It was a Spanish possession until 1655
Jamaica
Jim
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$200
[26]
On this school's home football weekends, the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend stays open longer
Notre Dame
Jim
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$200
[1]
Rhode Island's Matt "The Knife" escaped from a cop's pair of these in 5 seconds flat
handcuffs
Jim
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$200
[16]
Of the major U.S. political parties, this one that started around 1830 has been around the longest
the Democratic Party
Jim
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$200
[10]
It's simply Spanish for "sauce"
salsa
Chet
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$200
[21]
A jury is made up of a group of these of yours
peers
Sam
|
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$400
[7]
Officially, it's a kingdom
Jordan
Jim
|
$400
[27]
A museum & hall of fame for this sport in Huntington Beach, Calif. includes a shrine to Duke Kahanamoku
surfing
Jim
|
$400
[2]
New York's Mike Cuzzacrea has run 26 marathons in just over 3 hours each--oh, while flipping one of these foods
a pancake
Chet
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$400
[17]
Margaret Thatcher & John Major were both members of this political party
the Conservative Party
Jim
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$400
[11]
A tradition at Vienna's Demel Coffeehouse, founded 1786, is a cup of this warm sweet beverage on New Year's Day
hot chocolate
Jim
|
$400
[22]
The flippers keep the sphere in play in this type of arcade game
pinball
Jim
|
|
$600
[8]
Its first contact with Europeans came around 1542
Japan
Jim
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$600
[28]
The original of this trophy, a silver bowl, is on permanent display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto
the Stanley Cup
Sam
|
$600
[3]
In 1999 Illinois' Scott Jeckel shot a marshmallow from his nose & Ray Perisin caught it--16 feet later--in... eww... this
his mouth
Jim
|
$600
[18]
In 1926 Benito Mussolini abolished all political parties except this one
the Fascist Party
Jim
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$600
[12]
Valmeuse & St. Benoit are nice soft runny these
cheese
Chet
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$600
[23]
From the Greek for "chief father", he's the head of a family or clan
patriarch
Chet
|
|
$800
[9]
It was once populated by a people known as the Nabataeans
Jordan
Sam
|
$1,000
[30]
Start your engines please & head to this Alabama city to visit the Motorsports Hall of Fame
Talladega
|
$800
[4]
In 1999 Florida's Gordon Cates kissed 11 of these deadly snakes in a row--& Rikki-Tikki-Tavi wasn't even there for backup
a cobra
Sam
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$800
[19]
In Benin this party is called "les Verts du Benin"; in Belgium it's called "Ecolo"
the Green Party
Jim
|
$800
[13]
Thisitem is popular in salads, but some object because harvesting it can destroy the tree
heart of palm
Chet
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$800
[24]
From Latin for "plunderer" & "spoils", they're the 2 food chain roles of a hawk & a mouse, for example
predator & prey
Sam
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Its leading exports are bauxite & aluminum
Jamaica
Chet
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
The museum & hall of fame for this sport in St. Louis has a display of zany team shirts from the 1950s
bowling
Sam
|
$1,000
[6]
New Jersey's Dave Meenan covered more than 28 miles this way in 1997--beat that, Bojangles!
tap dancing
Chet
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$1,000
[20]
As president, Georges Pompidou was a member of the political party named for this man who served before him
de Gaulle
Jim
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$1,000
[14]
This old-timey soda fountain drink got its name from one ingredient--a little phosphoric acid
a phosphate
Jim
|
$1,000
[25]
7-letter adjective meaning multicolored, like some horses or birds
piebald
Chet
|
| BEDTIME STORIES | IN-FLIGHT MOVIES | HEAVY EQUIPMENT | HYBRIDS | THE LONDON STAGE | ELEMENTARY SPELLING |
|
$400
[3]
(Adam Sandler, whose latest movie is the holiday release Bedtime Stories, reads the clue.) In an 1887 version of the bedtime story about the 3 these, it's an old woman who eats their porridge, & after she leaves the house she's arrested as a vagrant
bears
Jim
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$400
[16]
In the 1980 film "Airplane!", Leslie Nielsen memorably says, "I am serious... and don't call me" this
Shirley
Chet
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$400
[21]
At the end of its arm, a hydraulic shovel has one of these, bigger than one a kid would take to a beach
a bucket
Jim
Chet
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$400
[24]
Daedalus built the labyrinth in which this half-man, half-bull monster was kept
the Minotaur
Sam
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$400
[1]
We wonder how this witty playwright would have liked "Avenue Q", the first show at the theatre renamed for him
Noel Coward
|
$400
[9]
Lithium, argon
liar
Jim
|
|
$800
[4]
2 yellow creatures are yawning, just look at the cover of this children's author's "Sleep Book"
Dr. Seuss
Chet
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$800
[17]
Gary Oldman leads the terrorists who hijack the President's plane in this 1997 action film
Air Force One
Sam
|
$800
[22]
Used in this industry, an excavator made by Krupp is the largest land vehicle ever created
(strip) mining
Chet
|
$800
[25]
These lascivious woodland deities, a goat-man hybrid, were followers of both Pan & Dionysus
satyrs
Sam
|
$800
[2]
The efforts of American actor Sam Wannamaker built this theatre where you can watch Shakespeare today
the Globe
Sam
|
$800
[10]
Beryllium, gold
beau
Chet
|
|
$1,200
[5]
(Adam Sandler delivers the clue again.) This classic about a bunny at bedtime begins, "In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon"
"Goodnight Moon"
|
$1,200
[18]
It's drama at Dulles International in this second John McClane adventure
Die Hard 2
Jim
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$1,200
[23]
A park in Morrowville, Kansas has a replica of the first of these pushy machines, patented in 1925
a bulldozer
Jim
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
These monsters with birds' bodies & women's faces got a nasty rep for snatching children & souls
harpies
Sam
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
The National Theatre, launched in 1963, was housed for its first 12 years at this "venerable" venue
the Old Vic
Jim
|
$1,200
[11]
Sodium, sodium, sodiumsodium etc. (a child's taunt)
na na nana nana
Jim
|
|
$1,600
[6]
A boy in bed enters a fantastic dream world in this author-illustrator's "In the Night Kitchen"
Maurice Sendak
Jim
|
$1,600
[19]
Samuel L. Jackson has worse problems than airplane food in this 2006 thriller
Snakes on a Plane
Jim
|
$1,600
[29]
It's a toothed implement for breaking up plowed soil; it's also a British boarding school
a harrow
|
$1,200
[26]
This monster with a woman's body, like Medusa, has claws & serpents for hair, making a day at the salon a real trial
a Gorgon
Sam
|
$1,600
[14]
(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map of London on the monitor.) Getting its name from its position in relation to the olderareacalled "the City", on a map this theatre district is actually in the middle of London
the West End
Chet
|
$1,600
[12]
Bromine, silver
brag
Jim
|
|
$2,000
[7]
(Adam Sandler shills for his Christmas release.) To show kids the world of Ancient Rome the way I do in my new movie "Bedtime Stories", try the children's version of this author's "Parallel Lives"
Plutarch
|
$2,000
[20]
John Lithgow was the terrified passenger in the "Twilight Zone" movie's remake of this classic episode
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
Chet
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$2,000
[30]
It's the type of place where you'd most likely put your feller buncher through its paces
a forest (in logging)
Chet
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$2,000
[28]
The name of this fire-breathing, lion-headed, goat-bodied monster has come to mean any idle fancy
the Chimera
|
$2,000
[15]
In 2007 these studious "Boys" were back in town in Alan Bennett's play at Wyndham's Theatre
The History Boys
|
$2,000
[13]
Neon, carbon, potassium
neck
Jim
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Numbering about 25 million, they're the largest ethnic group in the world with no home nation
the Kurds