Edith Roberts — an attorney and part-time traffic court judge from Washington, D.C.
Michael Portnoy — a teacher from Miami, Florida
Shyra Latiolais — a legal secretary from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shyra | $2,400 | $2,800 | $8,000 |
$1,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
11 R, 2 W |
| Michael | $5,600 | $6,000 | $9,600 |
$19,000
New champion: $19,000 |
$11,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Edith | $0 | $6,200 | $13,400 |
$7,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| AMERICAN GRADUATORS | VERY ANIMATED ACTORS | OCCUPATIONAL WEAR | DAM THAT RIVER | WRONG ACCENTS FOR LITERARY CHARACTERS | A LITTLE "B" BOP |
|
$200
[16]
Application: $65Tuition: $32,557Dropping this Cambridge, Mass. school's name for the rest of your life: priceless
Harvard
Edith
|
$200
[1]
This actress provided the inspiration & voice for Stone Age sexpot Ann-Margrock on "The Flintstones"
Ann-Margret
Michael
|
$200
[22]
Occupational adjective for a western shirt or western boots
cowboy
Edith
|
$200
[17]
The Aswan High Dam
the Nile
Edith
|
$200
[6]
"I won't think of it now... I'll go home to Tara tomorrow"
Scarlett O'Hara
Michael
|
$200
[11]
"When" this large branch "breaks, the cradle will fall"
bough
Michael
|
|
$400
[27]
This Poughkeepsie, N.Y. graduator was the first of the "7 Sisters" to go co-ed--in 1969, too late for me, darn it!
Vassar
Michael
|
$400
[2]
Pinto Colvig was the original voice of Goofy, but in this 1937 classic he got to be Sleepy & Grumpy
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Michael
|
$400
[23]
This Ray-Ban style was designed for military pilots in the 1930s
aviators
Shyra
Edith
|
DD
$400
[18]
The Glen Canyon Dam & a certain presidential one
the Colorado River
Edith
|
$400
[7]
"We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways"
Count Dracula
Shyra
|
$400
[12]
It was founded in Seattle in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products Company
Boeing
Shyra
|
|
$600
[28]
Look out!This Big 10 school unleashes about 6,000 new Wolverines on the Upper Midwest each spring
Michigan
Edith
|
$600
[3]
Rip Torn ripped into the role of this supreme Greek god in the Disney film "Hercules"
Zeus
Michael
|
$600
[24]
The strap-happy sandals named for these ancient combatants were hot in 2008
gladiators
Edith
|
$600
[19]
The 3 Gorges(Qutang, Wu & Xilang)
the Yangtze
Edith
|
$600
[8]
"Tom... that Injun devil wouldn't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats"
Huckleberry Finn
Michael
|
$600
[13]
On a bottle of champagne, this word indicates that it's very dry; how savage!
brut
Shyra
|
|
$800
[29]
Size doesn't matter--this Calif. school has just 200 grads a year, but its alumni & staff have nabbed 32 Nobel Prizes
the California Institute of Technology
Edith
|
$800
[4]
Steve Carrell was elected to be the voice of the Mayor of Whoville in this 2008 flick
Horton Hears A Who
Michael
|
$800
[25]
A type of bulky knit sweater originated in Ireland with men in this line of work
fishermen
Shyra
|
$800
[20]
The Grand Coulee Dam
the Columbia
Edith
|
$800
[9]
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying bu unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee"
Captain Ahab
Michael
|
$800
[14]
A small Montana city is named for one of these small, steep flat-topped hills
Butte
Michael
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Tipper Gore & Dinah Shore got degrees from this prestigious university in Nashville
Vanderbilt
Edith
|
$1,000
[5]
Sebastian Cabot of "A Family Affair" bagged the role of Bagheera the panther in this 1967 film
The Jungle Book
Shyra
|
$1,000
[26]
Though Ashton Kutcher sported this hat, basically a mesh-back ball cap, it did not have a long haul of trendiness
a trucker's hat
Edith
|
$1,000
[21]
Gabcikovo(To be Gabcikovo-Nagymaros when the Hungarians build their half)
the Danube
Edith
|
$1,000
[10]
"Thou must know Pearl! Our little Pearl! Thou hast seen her,--Yes, I know it!--but thou wilt see her now with other eyes"
Hester Prynne
|
$1,000
[15]
Established in Alberta in 1885, it's Canada's oldest national park
Banff
Michael
|
| HAPPY NEW YEAR | MUSICAL STATES | AN ELEMENT-AL CATEGORY | POTENT POTABLES IN OTHER WORDS | GET SOME CULTURE | NATIONAL PARKS |
|
$400
[16]
This liberating document took effect Jan. 1, 1863
the Emancipation Proclamation
Michael
|
$400
[1]
"The coyotes wail, along the trail, deep in the heart of" this state
Texas
Michael
|
$400
[26]
In combination with chlorine, this element makes up about 80% of the dissolved constituents of seawater
sodium
Michael
Edith
|
$400
[6]
Phillips head or flat blade
a screwdriver
Michael
|
$400
[11]
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena has this type of garden where you can see 3-dimensional works
a sculpture garden
Edith
|
$400
[21]
This 18-mile-wide national park in Arizona is considered one of the world's finest examples of arid-land erosion
the Grand Canyon
Shyra
|
|
$800
[17]
On Jan. 1, 1502 Portuguese sailors arrived at this present-day city & thought the bay was a river
Rio de Janeiro
|
$800
[2]
This group's Kerry Livgren wrote "Dust in the Wind" after reading a book of Native American poetry
Kansas
Michael
|
$800
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a bedside.) Here at the sleep center at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, one of the 32 devices attached to a subject measures the levels of this element in the blood, which can be an indicator of sleep apnea
oxygen
Michael
|
$800
[7]
NYC borough that has the Murray Hill neighborhood
a Manhattan
Michael
|
$800
[12]
Tacoma & Durham are 2 cities that have regular events named this in which you stretch your legs & see paintings
art walks
Shyra
Edith
|
$800
[22]
The National Park Service has a webcam on this feature in Yellowstone's Upper Geyser Basin
Old Faithful
Michael
|
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
Crowds in Romania & Bulgaria celebrated as their nations became the 26th & 27th in this org. Jan 1, 2007
the European Union
Michael
|
$1,200
[3]
This state precedes "Rain" in an Elvis song title & "Woman" in the title of a Neil Diamond hit
Kentucky
Shyra
Michael
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
Clap your hands for Martin Klaproth, who discovered uranium & this alphabetically last element
zirconium
Michael
|
$1,200
[8]
Any wan Muscovite
a White Russian
Edith
|
$1,200
[13]
Cinephiles seek out the work of this late Swedish director, like "Smiles of a Summer Night"
Ingmar Bergman
Shyra
|
$1,200
[23]
This national park in Wyoming has a big hole in it--Jackson Hole
Grand Teton
Edith
|
|
$1,200
[18]
One of the 4 of all the president's men convicted by a federal court Jan. 1, 1975
(1 of) John Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, or Robert Mardian
Edith
|
$1,600
[4]
This group had 26 No. 1 country hits in the '80s, including "Feels So Right"
Alabama
Shyra
|
$1,200
[28]
Ba is the symbol for this whitish metal whose compounds are used in radiology
barium
Michael
|
$1,600
[9]
A collegiatemascot from West Lafayette, Indiana
a Boilermaker
Michael
|
$1,600
[14]
Catch a recital by Emanuel Ax, who despite his last name doesn't play guitar but this
piano
Edith
|
$1,600
[24]
This national park in Southwest Texas is named for a feature of the Rio Grande's course
Big Bend
Edith
|
|
$2,000
[20]
Registering the symbol seen here Jan. 1, 1876 gave this beverage brand England's first trademark
Bass Ale
Shyra
|
$2,000
[5]
Bruce Springsteen recorded this 1982 album in his New Jersey bedroom using a 4-track cassette recorder
Nebraska
Edith
|
$2,000
[30]
(Jimmy reports from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) To track global warming, scientists use Antarctic ice cores & measure relative amounts of different forms of elements known as these
isotopes
Shyra
Edith
|
$2,000
[10]
Paired with "The Master" in a Bulgakov novel
Margarita
|
$2,000
[15]
When I saw "Les Noces", "Everything was beautiful at" this, as they say in "A Chorus Line"
the ballet
Michael
Edith
|
$2,000
[25]
You have to take a boat or a seaplane to reach this national park that's in Lake Superior
Isle Royale
|
In German, this chess piece is "der Springer"
the knight