Phil Chapman — a law student and former Navy SEAL from Williamsburg, Virginia
Maggie Linzer — a postal clerk from Milford, New Jersey
Sarah Mauldin — a librarian from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $2,200 | $5,400 | $13,000 |
$25,000
2-day champion: $36,400 |
$13,000
17 R, 1 W |
| Maggie | $1,600 | $2,000 | $0 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$0
8 R, 4 W |
| Phil | $4,400 | $8,000 | $24,000 |
$21,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$23,200
27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| TEXAS TECH | NORTHWESTERN | RICE | HOLY CROSS | OLE "MISS" | COLLEGE MOVIES |
|
$200
[1]
One of Texas' first railroads, the BBB&C, became the GH&SA, for Galveston, Harrisburg & this
San Antonio
Sarah
|
$200
[7]
It's the most northwestern state in the contiguous U.S.
Washington
Phil
|
$200
[3]
2 of these are mirin & sake
rice wines
Sarah
|
$200
[5]
In 2002 the Pope added 5 meditations to this prayer aid that has a crucifix
rosary
Maggie
|
$200
[18]
Someone who does church work abroad
missionary
Sarah
|
$200
[23]
The Delta fraternity gets in deep trouble on the campus of Faber College in this 1978 classic
Animal House
Maggie
|
|
$400
[2]
A museum of the history of looking for this stuff is a tourist attraction in Kilgore, Texas
oil
Phil
|
$400
[8]
This capital lies at the mouth of the Liwung River, on the northwest coast of Java
Jakarta
Phil
|
$400
[4]
If the bran & germ are still attached, you've got this type of rice (sometimes of a different color than its name)
brown rice
Maggie
|
$400
[6]
In the Bible, Luke writes that this many others were crucified with Jesus
2
Phil
|
$400
[19]
It's bordered by Tennessee, Arkansas & Oklahoma
Missouri
Sarah
Phil
|
$400
[24]
As Thornton Melon, this comedian goes "Back to School" in a 1986 film to earn respect for himself & his son
Rodney Dangerfield
Sarah
|
|
$600
[28]
Founded by Ross Perot in 1962, Electronic Data Systems got its first computer in 1965, this company's 1401
IBM
Maggie
|
$800
[10]
You'll find this bay at the northwestern-most point of the Pyrenees
Bay of Biscay
Phil
|
$600
[12]
This Italian dish is made by constantly stirring stock into rice until all the liquid is absorbed
risotto
Phil
|
$600
[15]
Shaped like a skull, this hill where Jesus was crucified takes its name from an ancient word for "skull"
Golgotha/Calvary
Phil
|
$600
[20]
Theoretical transitional evolutionary stage between apes & humans
the Missing Link
Sarah
|
$600
[25]
Windsor College students drop like flies in this 1997 scary sequel co-starring Courteney Cox
Scream 2
Maggie
|
|
$800
[29]
Staley McBrayer of Fort Worth moved newspaper printing from the "hot" to the "cold" variety of this
typesetting
Maggie
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Attempts to find the ill-fated 1840s expedition of Sir John Franklin proved the existence of this sea route
Northwest Passage
Phil
|
$800
[13]
This saffron-flavored rice dish originated in the Valencia region of Spain
paella
Sarah
|
$800
[16]
According to tradition, this apostle was crucified on an X-shaped cross, hence the X on the Scottish flag
Saint Andrew
Sarah
|
$800
[21]
This musical takes place in part during the last days of the Vietnam War
Miss Saigon
Sarah
|
$800
[26]
This Laker (then with Orlando) played a recruit in the 1994 college basketball film "Blue Chips"
Shaquille O'Neal
Maggie
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Texas is a leading state in mining this element, atomic number 16 & in manufacturing its acid
sulphur
Phil
|
$1,000
[11]
Tenerife is the chief island in this Spanish island group off the northwest coast of Africa
Canary Islands
Maggie
|
$1,000
[14]
The name of this fragrant rice of India means "queen of fragrance"
Basmati rice
Sarah
|
$1,000
[17]
In an 1896 speech while running for president, William Jennings Bryan said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon" this
a cross of gold
Maggie
Phil
|
$1,000
[22]
City that's home to the University of Montana
Missoula
Phil
|
$1,000
[27]
Anthony Edwards is one of the geeky freshmen who fight back against the jocks in this 1984 comedy
Revenge of the Nerds
Phil
|
| 17th CENTURY DUTCHMEN | SHADES OF BLUE | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM | FUN WITH GEOMETRY | WORDS ABOUT WORDS |
|
$400
[21]
Willem Janszoon made the first European sighting of this continent, but thought it was part of New Guinea
Australia
Phil
|
$400
[1]
An infant
baby blue
Sarah
|
$400
[13]
A professional killer plots to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in this thriller by Frederick Forsyth
"The Day of the Jackal"
Phil
|
$400
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.) These cars were hung as stage props during this group's "Zoo TV" tour in 1992 & 1993
U2
|
$400
[3]
If the Sea Dragon theme park ride moves in a semicircle, it describes an arc of this many degrees
180
Phil
|
$400
[8]
So many people are using this type of trendy term that they sound like bees
buzzword
Sarah
|
|
$800
[22]
Philips Wouwerman painted about 1,000 pictures & most included a white one of these animals
horse
|
$800
[2]
12 o'clock
midnight blue
Phil
|
$800
[14]
This '88 bestseller begins, "Behavioral science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is...at Quantico"
"Silence of the Lambs"
Phil
|
$800
[27]
On my honor, you can see a Cub Scout uniform worn by this singer long before he was the "Lizard King"
Jim Morrison
Phil
|
$800
[4]
The line along which a bishop in chess moves, it cuts a square into 2 triangles
diagonal
Phil
|
$800
[9]
Also called bubbly, it's an example of a toponym, a word derived from a place name
champagne
Phil
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Leeuwenhoek made the first drawings of these microorganisms, which he scraped off teeth
bacteria
Sarah
Phil
|
$1,200
[18]
A branch of the U.S. Armed Forces
Navy
Sarah
|
$1,200
[15]
One critic wrote that this memoir by Maya Angelou is "A Biblical study of life in the midst of death"
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Sarah
|
$1,200
[28]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.) These puppies here were worn by this "Master of Funk" on his 1983 "Atomic Dog" tour
George Clinton
Phil
|
$1,200
[5]
This term meaning "having 2 equal sides" usually refers to triangles but can also be used of trapezoids
isosceles
Phil
|
$1,200
[10]
A polite term for a bad word, it comes from the Greek for "good speech"
euphemism
|
|
$2,000
[25]
After buying Manhattan for the Dutch, he bought what's now Wilmington, Delaware for the Swedes
Peter Minuit
Maggie
|
$1,600
[19]
The element symbolized Co
cobalt
Phil
|
$1,600
[16]
Clarissa Pinkola Estes wrote this nonfiction work subtitled "Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype"
Women Who Run with the Wolves
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
In 2002 the ashes of this legendary DJ were enshrined at the Hall of Fame
Alan Freed
Phil
|
$1,600
[6]
Some of the dimensions of the Parthenon resemble the "golden" type of this quadrangle
rectangle
Sarah
|
$1,600
[11]
Rich Hall has published several books of these words that don't appear in the dictionary but should
sniglets
Phil
|
|
DD
$4,000
[24]
Hugo Grotius helped found international law with "De Jure Belli ac Pacis", "On the Law of" these 2 things
War and Peace
Phil
|
$2,000
[20]
A male bird of the family Phasianidae
peacock
Maggie
|
$2,000
[17]
It's Scott O'Dell's Newbery Medal-winning tale of a 12-year-old Native American girl named Karana
"Island of the Blue Dolphins"
Sarah
|
$2,000
[30]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cleveland.) The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum was designed by this renowned architect who admitted he knew nothing about rock & roll
I.M. Pei
Sarah
|
$2,000
[7]
A spheroid might say, you can call me prolate or this, like the Earth--just don't call me late for dinner
oblate
Maggie
|
$2,000
[12]
These 2 words meaning "a line of objects" & "an argument", are homographs, spelled alike but said differently
row & row
Phil
|
In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: "Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began"
Ragtime