Andrew Woolsey — a production assistant from Los Angeles, California
Ayesha Black — a student from Los Angeles, California
Todd Hellman — an attorney from Lakeland, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,602)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Todd | $-800 | $1,400 | $10,500 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Ayesha | $5,200 | $6,400 | $17,200 |
$12,200
New champion: $12,200 |
$17,800
26 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Andrew | $-200 | $1,000 | $3,800 |
$6,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,800
8 R, 3 W |
| '40s FICTION | FINANCIAL MATTERS | THE AFI'S 100 GREATEST LOVE STORIES | I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM | OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE OR HARVARD | OLD SCHOOL THAI |
|
$200
[3]
He wrote 1948's "The Naked and the Dead" while studying at the Sorbonne
Norman Mailer
Andrew
|
$200
[1]
A killer bee is an investment banker helping thwart a hostile one of these
takeover
Ayesha
|
$200
[9]
"Here's looking at you, kid" & at this 1942 classic which tops the list
Casablanca
Ayesha
|
$200
[14]
You can "learn by heart" or as they used to say, "commit to" this
memory
Todd
|
$200
[19]
It's the oldest
Oxford
Ayesha
|
$200
[21]
Until 1939 Thailand was known by this name
Siam
Todd
|
|
$400
[4]
His "The Last Tycoon" was published posthumously in 1941
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ayesha
|
$400
[2]
Appropriately, investing in housing can be one of these, letting you pay less to the IRS
tax shelter
Todd
Ayesha
Andrew
|
$400
[10]
"Beauty and the Beast" & this 1955 Disney film about puppy love both made the list
Lady and the Tramp
Todd
Andrew
|
$400
[15]
When you're fully prepared for action, you're like a hunter with a heavy charge of ammo who's "loaded for" this
bear
Ayesha
|
$400
[20]
One of its clubs gives out the Hasty Pudding Award
Harvard
Andrew
|
$400
[30]
Known as the "Venice of the East", this Thai city was modernized by King Mongkut in the 1800s
Bangkok
Andrew
|
|
$600
[5]
To research this 1943 novel, Ayn Rand worked in an architect's office
"The Fountainhead"
Ayesha
|
DD
$800
[8]
This alphanumeric clause of the 1978 Tax Reform Act now enrolls over 40 million Americans
401(k)
Ayesha
|
$600
[11]
He starred in 6 of the films, including "Notorious", "An Affair to Remember" & "To Catch a Thief"
Cary Grant
Ayesha
|
$600
[16]
You can "beat" this 1987 Bond title "out of" someone
The Living Daylights
Todd
|
$600
[22]
The current Prince of Wales earned his bachelor's degree there
Cambridge
Todd
Ayesha
|
$600
[29]
Thailand is an important source of these blue September birthstones
sapphires
Andrew
|
|
$800
[6]
This novel about a politician's rise & fall earned Robert Penn Warren a Pulitzer Prize in 1947
"All the King's Men"
|
$800
[25]
Term for the interest rate on a bond, as well as a piece of paper that lowers your grocery bill
coupon
Ayesha
|
$800
[12]
Warren Beatty made his screen debut opposite Natalie Wood in this film, No. 47
Splendor in the Grass
Ayesha
|
$800
[17]
You can do this "through the ranks", "to the bait" or "to the occasion"
rise
Todd
|
$800
[23]
Its main library is the Bodleian
Oxford
|
$800
[28]
About 95% of Thais practice the Theravada form of this religion
Buddhism
Andrew
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Carson McCullers was only 23 when she published this 1940 novel about a deaf-mute
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
Ayesha
|
$1,000
[26]
This 6-letter word can mean frugality, or a savings & loan association
thrift
|
$1,000
[13]
Burning up the list at No. 94 is this Kathleen Turner-William Hurt film
Body Heat
Ayesha
|
$1,000
[18]
This tactic in basketball is used as an idiom for "an all-out effort to exert pressure"
full-court press
Ayesha
|
$1,000
[24]
Its department of physics is the Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge
Todd
Ayesha
Andrew
|
$1,000
[27]
(Hi, I'm Jeff Probst [in Thailand]) Tarutao means "old, mysterious & primitive" in this language, also the name of a nearby peninsula
Malay
|
| MILLENNIUM MOMENTS | TELESCOPES | BANG THE DRUM | AUCTION PACKED | "ANN" IN OTHER NEWS... | FINE & ANDY |
|
$400
[1]
In 1543 Copernicus added that while it's the center of the universe, it's not the true center of all space
the sun
Todd
|
$400
[6]
In 1663 James Gregory figured a reflecting telescope was possible; this Brit made it a reality in 1668
Sir Isaac Newton
Ayesha
|
$400
[24]
Whether "floor" or "mounted", these drums bear a man's name
tom-toms
|
$400
[22]
In 2000, shoes she wore in a 1939 film were auctioned off for $666,000
Judy Garland
Ayesha
|
$400
[13]
To incorporate territory, Karvina did it to Frystat in 1949
annex it
Ayesha
|
$400
[8]
D'ja ever notice this "60 Minutes" commentator quit CBS in 1971 when it refused to air his "Essay on War" about Vietnam
Andy Rooney
Ayesha
|
|
$800
[2]
In 1397 the Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden & this country
Norway
Ayesha
|
$800
[7]
The Very Large Array in New Mexico is a group of 27 of these (not optical) telescopes
radio telescopes
Andrew
|
$800
[27]
Scour the barnyards to find one of these percussion instruments that can be part of a drum set
cowbell
Ayesha
|
$800
[18]
At a 1990 Sotheby's auction in New York, a bronze version of this Rodin sculpture sold for $1.2 million
"The Thinker"
Ayesha
|
$800
[14]
From the Latin for "to nothing", it's the mutual destruction of matter & antimatter after the Big Bang
annihilation
Andrew
|
$800
[9]
His 1960-68 sitcom was about a small-town sheriff who played by his own rules while raising his oddly-named boy
Andy Griffith
Ayesha
|
|
$1,200
[3]
England's James I denounced this product in 1604; the pope banned it in Seville churches in 1642
tobacco
Todd
|
$2,000
[28]
Florence's Museo Storia Della Scienza has 2 of his telescopes & the lens of the one that found 4 moons of Jupiter
Galileo
Todd
|
$1,200
[25]
Varieties of cymbals include ride, splash & this "loud" one
crash
Andrew
|
$1,200
[19]
Gary Busey paid over $240,000 for a guitar once owned by this man he played on film
Buddy Holly
Ayesha
|
$1,200
[15]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Field Museum in Chicago) This name for the phylum to which earthworms belong comes from the Latin for "little ring"
Annelida
|
DD
$800
[11]
This actor was born in Havana on April 12, 1956
Andy Garcia
Ayesha
|
|
DD
$1,500
[4]
In 1764 Catherine II of Russia ordered further exploration of this future U.S. state
Alaska
Todd
|
— |
$1,600
[26]
This large drum shares its name with another instrument in a standard rock band
bass drum
Ayesha
|
$1,600
[20]
In 1949 a copy of this speech by Abraham Lincoln sold at auction for $54,000
the Gettysburg Address
Ayesha
|
$1,600
[16]
No looking in your wallet--on the reverse of a $1 bill, this precedes "coeptis" on the Great Seal of the U.S.
annuit
Ayesha
|
$1,200
[10]
His first 3 forays into the Top 10 went to No. 1, including "Shadow Dancing" in 1978
Andy Gibb
Ayesha
|
|
$2,000
[5]
In 1827 this Edinburgher came out & said, "That hugely popular 'Waverley' novel, I wrote it"
Sir Walter Scott
|
— |
$2,000
[23]
This drum used for military marching shares its name with a device to catch animals
snare drum
Todd
|
$2,000
[21]
This American-born duchess' jewels were sold at auction in 1987 for $50 million
Wallis Simpson
Ayesha
|
$2,000
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports) In glassblowing, this word means "to heat the finished vessel", & then allow it to cool uniformly
anneal
|
$2,000
[12]
Popular in '80s new wave, he's the guitarist seen here
Andy Summers (of the Police)
Todd
|
This work written in 1931 consists of 5 movements including "On the Trail" & "Painted Desert"
"Grand Canyon Suite" (by Ferde Grofe)