Kenneth Burns — a newspaper editor from Madison, Wisconsin
Jerome Socolof — a graduate student originally from Ilion, New York
Jeanie Welch — a retired librarian from Charlotte, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeanie | $600 | $2,600 | $10,800 |
$21,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jerome | $1,400 | $4,200 | $10,200 |
$5,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
13 R, 0 W |
| Kenneth | $3,400 | $6,800 | $21,600 |
$21,600
New champion: $21,600 |
$20,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| SHADES OF BLUE | TOP 10 YAHOO! SEARCHES | TYPING TEST | POISONING | PIGEONS | IN THE PARK |
|
$200
[6]
In 2003 Crayola retired teal blue & added a color named wild blue this
yonder
Jeanie
|
$200
[11]
No. 1: "Womanizer" from her "Circus" album scored this pop goddess her first chart topper in nearly a decade
(Britney) Spears
Kenneth
|
$200
[16]
Of the letters in the bottom row, the last alphabetically
Z
Kenneth
|
$200
[21]
She may have tried out different poisons on prisoners before deciding on an asp for herself in 30 B.C.
Cleopatra
Jerome
|
$200
[26]
4-letter alternate name for a small pigeon
dove
|
$200
[1]
In Massachusetts a national park honors these "men" who famously fought on April 19, 1775
minutemen
Jerome
|
|
DD
$200
[9]
Saint Tropez & Cannes are on a coast named for this color
the azure coast
Jeanie
|
$400
[12]
No. 9: She voiced Tigress in "Kung Fu Panda" & reportedly got $14 million from People magazine for baby pics
Angelina Jolie
Jerome
|
$400
[17]
Of the letters in the bottom row, the second-to-last alphabetically
X
Jerome
|
$400
[22]
Sentenced to death by poison for corrupting the youth of Athens, he took the fatal swig in 399 B.C.
Socrates
Kenneth
|
$400
[27]
Rock pigeons were domesticated in this kingdom around 3000 B.C.
Egypt
Jeanie
|
$400
[2]
This national park extends from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay
the Everglades National Park
Jeanie
|
|
$400
[7]
Made from lapis lazuli, this deep blue pigment sounds like a super gung-ho member of the USMC
ultramarine
|
$600
[13]
No. 4: This 15-year-old's apology for her Vanity Fair shoot probably boosted Yahoo! searches
Miley Cyrus
Kenneth
|
$600
[18]
In the top row, the pronoun formed by the letters between "Q" & "R"
we
Jeanie
Jerome
|
$600
[23]
When this randy U.S. president died suddenly in Frisco after a trip to Alaska, rumors swirled his wife had poisoned him
Warren G. Harding
Jeanie
|
$600
[28]
The Palmetto pigeon plant in Sumter, S.C. is the USA's largest farm for these young pigeons
squabs
Jeanie
|
$600
[3]
A state park in Burnet County, Texas appropriately bears the name of this breed of cattle
longhorn
Kenneth
|
|
$600
[8]
Now largely synthetic, this plant dye traditionally put the blue in blue jeans
indigo
Jeanie
|
$800
[14]
No. 2: Drama cravers turned to Yahoo! after an "explosion" hurt this company's chairman, Vince McMahon
World Wrestling Entertainment
Jeanie
|
$800
[19]
In the top row, the third & fourth letters from the left spell this part of a hospital
ER
Jerome
|
$800
[24]
Her son, the potential Louis XVII, died in prison amid rumors that he was poisoned
Marie Antoinette
Kenneth
|
$800
[29]
Homing pigeons used to send messages are called these
carrier pigeons
Jerome
|
$800
[4]
A state park named for this Native American woman is just 20 miles from downtown Richmond, Virginia
Pocahontas
Jerome
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Containing the name of a defunct kingdom, this iron blue tint was discovered by a color-maker in 18th century Berlin
Prussian
Kenneth
|
$1,000
[15]
No. 7: Last name Uzumaki, this manga graduate of the Ninja Academy has games, comics & legions of fans
Naruto
|
$1,000
[20]
Of the letters in the home row, it's the only vowel
A
Kenneth
|
$1,000
[25]
This Mongol conqueror became the leader of his people after his father, Yesugei, was poisoned by Tatars
Genghis Khan
Kenneth
|
$1,000
[30]
This type of once-abundant pigeon was hunted to extinction in the U.S. in the early 1900s
the passenger pigeon
Jeanie
|
$1,000
[5]
Enjoy the many treasures of this state on a visit to Jean Lafitte National Historic Park & Preserve
Louisiana
Kenneth
|
| SCULPTURE | SPRINGSTEEN SONGS IN OTHER WORDS | LIVIN' LIBIDO LOCA | "S"-ENTIAL KNOWLEDGE | LITERARY OPENING LINES | GREEN LIVING |
|
$400
[11]
This painter of ballerinas began sculpting them around 1880; "Little Dancer of Fourteen" was his most famous
(Edgar) Degas
Kenneth
|
$400
[6]
"Hatched for Sprinting"
"Born to Run"
Jerome
|
$400
[21]
In 1764 this Russian empress made Stanislaw Poniatowski, an ex-lover devoted to her, King of Poland
Catherine the Great
Kenneth
|
$400
[16]
2-word term for a weapon, like a pistol or sword, worn at the waist
side arm
Kenneth
|
$400
[1]
Jules Verne:"Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens"
Around the World in Eighty Days
Kenneth
|
$400
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a piece of rough fuzz.) Levi Strauss would be proud of the use of this recycled, chemical-free cotton material used in the insulation in the walls to reduce energy costs
denim
Jerome
|
|
$800
[12]
An Ogdensburg, New York museum devoted to this sculptor includes his 1895 work "The Bronco Buster"
Remington
Kenneth
|
$800
[7]
"Famished Cardiac Organ"
"Hungry Heart"
Kenneth
|
$800
[22]
In 1836 this 27-year-old U.S. poet married Virginia Clemm, his underage cousin; every bit of that just ain't right
(Edgar Allan) Poe
Jeanie
|
$800
[17]
Radio reception & transmission with waves 10 to 200 meters long
shortwave
Kenneth
|
$800
[2]
Lee:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"
To Kill A Mockingbird
Kenneth
|
$800
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside on the porch and the camera pans up.) Thephotovoltaic systemon the roof provides shade & produces 75% of the home's power all from waves toward the violet end of this
the light spectrum
Kenneth
|
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
On June 23, 1923 he began carving on Stone Mountain, completing Robert E. Lee's head within 7 months
Gutzon Borglum
Jeanie
|
$1,200
[8]
"Me, Ablaze"
"I Am On Fire"
Kenneth
|
$1,200
[23]
This writer's relationship with Alfred Douglas was fine with him, but it drove Al's dad, Marquess of Queensberry, nuts
Oscar Wilde
Jeanie
|
$1,200
[18]
In the NFL, a team that scores in the 61st minute of play wins in this type of overtime
sudden-death
Kenneth
|
$1,600
[4]
Kafka: "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for...without having done anything wrong, he was arrested"
The Trial
Kenneth
|
$1,200
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in the kitchen.) Garbage goes in, & out comesfertilizerfor your garden with a device that holds this decaying organic matter not normally found in the kitchen
a composter
Jerome
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Giovanni Bernini sculpted "Apollo and" this nymph for Cardinal Borghese in the 1620s
Daphne
|
$1,600
[9]
"Splendorous 24-Hour Periods"
"Glory Days"
Kenneth
|
$1,600
[24]
Wife No. 5, she wed Henry VIII in 1540; she must've lost her head fooling around on him; oh wait, she did
Catherine Howard
Jeanie
|
$1,600
[19]
The hyphenated economic theory that cutting taxes can actually boost revenue
supply-side
Kenneth
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
Bradbury:"It was a pleasure to burn"
Fahrenheit 451
Kenneth
|
$1,600
[29]
(Sara of the Clue Crew stands in a stairwell.) Providing almost twice the insulation of treated glass, thepanesare glazed polycarbonate, this type of material
a plastic
|
|
$1,600
[14]
"The Dinner Party" by this sculptor who shares her name with an Ill. city has 39 place settings for 39 historical women
Judy Chicago
Jeanie
|
$2,000
[10]
"Loud, Booming Street"
"Thunder Road"
|
$2,000
[25]
In 1974 Rep. Wilbur Mills' affair with this alliterative stripper was the talk of the Potomac River Tidal Basin
Fanne Foxe
Jeanie
|
$2,000
[20]
Also called a varying hare, this North American rabbit is named for the size of its feet
a snowshoe hare
Jeanie
|
$2,000
[5]
Rushdie:"'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'First you have to die"'
The Satanic Verses
Jerome
|
$2,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew looks up at the lights.) Thebulbsabove generate less heat, can last ten years & use 1/10 the power of incandescent bulbs; they're known as LEDs, short for this
light-emitting diodes
Jerome
|
With 4, more national capitals are located on this river than any other river in the world
the Danube