Erik Townsend — a college student from Dover, New Hampshire
Kori Tyler — a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
Ranjan Ramchandani — a management consultant from Houston, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $37,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranjan | $0 | $3,800 | $14,600 |
$9,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
28 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kori | $2,400 | $2,400 | $10,000 |
$20,000
New champion: $20,000 |
$11,200
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Erik | $-800 | $2,400 | $-2,400 |
$-2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,200
9 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| THIS JUST IN | CENTRAL PARK ENTERTAINMENT | 19th CENTURY AMERICA | BUTTON IT! | LET'S REMOVE YOUR GALLBLADDER | ALSO A PLANET |
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$200
[1]
Amal Salha was working in a restaurant in Lebanon when she found 26 of these in a single oyster
pearls
Ranjan
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$200
[16]
Carrie & Mr. Big took a romantic carriage ride in Central Park in the "I Heart NY" episode of this show
Sex and the City
Ranjan
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$200
[11]
Formed in 1848, the Free Soil Party, which opposed extending slavery, was transplanted into this party in 1854
the Republican Party
Ranjan
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$200
[21]
Yours may be an innie or an outie
a belly button
Ranjan
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$200
[26]
As usual today, it's laparoscopic surgery, so this will be much smaller, though there will be 4 of them
an incision
Ranjan
|
$200
[6]
Soil
Earth
Ranjan
|
|
$400
[2]
Calling all stargazers: 2009 is the International Year of this science
Astronomy
Ranjan
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$400
[17]
Not far from the park's public theater is another public theater--for these string puppets, in the Swedish Cottage
marionettes
Ranjan
|
$400
[12]
Francis Scott Key penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" after watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry in this year
1814
Ranjan
Kori
|
$400
[22]
In "Goldfinger" James Bond had 1 of these seats in his car to get rid of any pesky passengers at the push of a button
an ejection seat
Erik
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$400
[27]
I'll sever & seal off the duct that takes this fluid from its storage in the gallbladder to the small intestine
bile
Ranjan
|
$400
[7]
A carmaker known for its Astra & Aura
Saturn
Ranjan
Kori
|
|
$600
[3]
Election news! the town of Rabbit Hash in this "Bluegrass State" elected Lucy Lou, a border Collie, as its new mayor
Kentucky
Ranjan
|
$600
[18]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) Central Park's official web site notes that this NBC drama series & its spin-offs have featured an alarming number of murders in Central Park
Law & Order
Erik
|
$600
[13]
A strike started by workers of this railroad co. paralyzed the U.S. economy in 1894 until broken up by government action
the Pullman Company
Erik
|
$600
[23]
President Ford introduced a new economic program in Oct. 1974 with "win" buttons, standing for "whip" this "now"
inflation
Erik
|
$600
[28]
I'll make sure this instrument, the surgical version of pincers or tongs, is my lucky pair
forceps
Erik
|
$600
[8]
A line of ladies' razors
Venus
Erik
|
|
$800
[4]
There's still time to sign up for 18th century dance lessons at Gadsby's Tavern Museum in this northern Va. city
Alexandria
Ranjan
Erik
|
$800
[19]
This animated 1995 Disney film is set in Virginia, but it premiered in Manhattan, on the Great Lawn of Central Park
Pocahontas
Ranjan
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$800
[14]
Henry Wirz, the commandant of this infamous prison, was executed for war crimes in 1865
Andersonville
Kori
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$800
[24]
On this animated TV show, George & Jane got "button finger" from pushing too many futuristic devices
The Jetsons
Ranjan
|
$800
[29]
Risks? bleeding from the cystic one of these carriers of oxygenated blood, I guess,-almost never happens...
arteries
Ranjan
|
$800
[9]
Florida town with a park named for Burt Reynolds
Jupiter
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Immerse yourself in the life of the Aztecs in "The Aztec World" exhibit at this city's Field Museum
Chicago
Kori
|
$1,000
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) Central Park is dangerous & menacing in this film, when Jack Lemmon & Sandy Dennis are attacked by softball players
The Out-of-Towners
Ranjan
|
DD
$1,200
[15]
In 1822 he opened the western branch of his American Fur Company in St. Louis
John Jacob Astor
Kori
|
$1,000
[25]
A type of shirt that symbolizes conformity, as in a 1960 Bob Newhart album title
a button-down shirt
Erik
|
$1,000
[30]
The problem is cholecystitis; as the name tells you, it's caused by masses of this, in the form of gallstones
cholesterol
Ranjan
|
$1,000
[10]
Defaces
Mars
Kori
|
| THIS JUSTIN | LITERARY CHARACTERS | GEORGES THE BELGIAN WAFFLER | ABSTRACT ART | IT'S A FACT | SOUNDS LIKE PIG LATIN |
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$400
[1]
The core of Justin Long's career is playing the Mac in this company's computer commercials
Apple
Ranjan
|
$400
[7]
"Pride and Prejudice" follows 5 sisters: Jane, Mary, Lydia, Kitty & her
Elizabeth
Kori
|
$400
[21]
Georges can't decide whether to visit Mons or this Belgian capital, site of the 1958 World's Fair
Brussels
Ranjan
|
$400
[16]
A Stuart Davisseriesis named for this handheld utensil used to prepare omelets
an eggbeater
Erik
|
$400
[6]
It's the capital of Montana
Helena
Ranjan
|
$400
[30]
No loud noises around this baked dish whose name comes from the French for "to puff up"
a souffle
Ranjan
|
|
$800
[2]
Justin Jeffre teamed up with Jeff Timmons & Nick & Drew Lachey to form this temperature
98 degrees
Kori
|
$800
[8]
First name of the Longfellow character Ms. Bellefontaine
Evangeline
Ranjan
|
$800
[22]
Georges reels--which official Belgian region to visit? Wallonia, or this northern one whose people are called Flemings
Flanders
Ranjan
|
$800
[17]
To see landmark abstract works like O'Keeffe's "Abstraction Blue" head for this NYC museum
the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
Ranjan
Erik
|
$800
[12]
In 1959 he gave up his title as Chairman of the People's Republic of China (officially)
Mao
Kori
|
$1,200
[26]
Completes the 2000 Jude Law film title "Love, Honour and..."
Obey
Kori
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Justin Berfield is actually younger than Frankie Muniz, but he played his older brother Reese on this sitcom
Malcolm in the Middle
Erik
|
$1,200
[9]
This late author created Navajo detective Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn
(Tony) Hillerman
Kori
Erik
|
$1,200
[23]
Georges likes the great wall & this man's 200-mile "line" from the Swiss border to a point near the Belgian Frontier
Maginot
Ranjan
|
$1,200
[18]
When Mondrian worked in this style, he kept his lines straight to go even more geometric than its inventors
Cubist
|
$1,200
[13]
You can take an 8,208-foot cable car climb up Collada D'enradort in this Pyrenees nation
Andorra
Ranjan
Erik
|
$1,600
[27]
This type of diplomatic official assigned to an embassy has a briefcase named for the position
an attache
Ranjan
|
|
$1,600
[4]
He played a younger version of Elton John in Elton's music video "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore"
Justin Timberlake
|
$1,600
[10]
Last name of the Saul Bellow title character Augie
March
Kori
|
$1,600
[24]
For Georges, when it comes to Belgian detectives of literature, it's this Agatha Christie guy or... that's kinda it
(Hercule) Poirot
Ranjan
|
$1,600
[19]
Wassily Kandinsky, a founder of abstract art, left this country when it turned toward socialist realism
the Soviet Union
Kori
|
$1,600
[14]
This agricultural scientist also created more than 75 products from pecans
(George Washington) Carver
Ranjan
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Due to the type of wine it produces, Silver Oak's punning motto is "Life is a" this, old chum
cabernet
Ranjan
|
|
DD
$3,600
[5]
Justin I was a swineherd before becoming emperor of this empire--and paving the way for his nephew Justinian
the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern Rome Empire)
Erik
|
$2,000
[11]
This Sinclair Lewis preacher's final words are "We shall yet make these United States a moral nation!"
Elmer Gantry
Ranjan
Kori
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$2,000
[25]
Georges loves the Jay Treaty, but also is into the treaty of this Belgian city that was ratified on Feb. 16, 1815
Ghent
Ranjan
|
$2,000
[20]
Don't adjust your set--"abstract painting", the work seen here, is by Ad Reinhardt of the movement called abstract this
Abstract Expressionism
Ranjan
Erik
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1979 he got an Oscar nomination for playing Buddy Holly
Gary Busey
Kori
|
$2,000
[29]
10-leti'er French word for an official report or dispatch, usually delivered in haste
a communique
Ranjan
|
It opens with a widow & her son arriving by boat from Singapore to accept a job that pays 20 pounds a month
The King and I