James Holst — a researcher from Ida Grove, Iowa
Louisa Kreider — a research assistant from Northfield Center, Ohio
Priscilla Ball — a government contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $45,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priscilla | $1,200 | $6,600 | $12,400 |
$24,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,400
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Louisa | $-800 | $800 | $6,800 |
$13,592
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
12 R, 1 W |
| James | $2,200 | $5,000 | $14,800 |
$24,801
New champion: $24,801 |
$11,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| THE NOVEL LIST | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE | A PRIEST, AN ELEPHANT & EVEL KNIEVEL... | WALK INTO A "BAR" | THE BARTENDER SAYS... | WHAT IS THIS, SOME KIND OF JOKE? |
|
$200
[6]
"The Three Musketeers","Joseph Balsamo"
(Alexandre) Dumas
James
|
$200
[1]
The Times said of these thin young twins, "It isn't the cover of Vogue they seem to seek as much as the cover of Fortune"
the Olsen Twins
Louisa
|
$200
[16]
On elephants this prehensile body part has an estimated 150,000 muscles
a trunk
James
|
$200
[11]
A villainous type of mustache, a la Snidely Whiplash
a handlebar
Priscilla
|
$200
[21]
Alone again at Christmas? Time for a big mug of this milk, cream, eggs & rum favorite with a nutmeg garnish
eggnog
Louisa
|
$200
[26]
From this sitcom:"How's life treating you, Norm?""Like it caught me in bed with his wife"
Cheers
Louisa
|
|
$400
[7]
"Tom Jones","Joseph Andrews"
(Henry) Fielding
Priscilla
|
$400
[2]
nytimes.com's "Find a Show" section tells how to get tickets to "Avenue Q" or this masked man musical
The Phantom of the Opera
James
|
$400
[17]
Catholic priests administer 7 of these acts, like penance & holy orders
sacraments
Priscilla
|
$400
[12]
A style of singing in 4-part harmony; you know, as a "quartet"
barbershop
James
|
$400
[22]
Running a fever, eh? Try a "black balsam" of herbs & this liquor, reputed to have cured Catherine the Great
vodka
James
|
$400
[27]
From this '70s radio station sitcom:"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
WKRP in Cincinnati
Priscilla
|
|
$600
[8]
"The Winter of Our Discontent","The Moon is Down"
John Steinbeck
|
$600
[3]
From an artsbeat blog: The Vivian Girls, rockers from this NYC borough, are "really, really, really cute"
Brooklyn
James
|
$600
[18]
On his "Sky-Cycle" Evel tried to jump a canyon above this river in Idaho in 1974; too bad the parachute opened early
the Snake River
Louisa
|
$600
[13]
An 11-letter acid derivative used in medicine as a sedative
a barbiturate
Priscilla
|
$600
[23]
Caught in the rain, Mac? How about one of these, the subject of a 1979 No. 1 song by Rupert Holmes
a piña colada
James
|
$600
[28]
Shatner, on this show:"dennycranelaw.com. Pictures, bios, hobbies. I once captained my own spaceship. Multi-talented"
Boston Legal
Louisa
|
|
$800
[9]
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress","Stranger in a Strange Land"
Heinlein
James
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
The times headlined its 2007 review of this series' first episode "smoking, drinking, cheating and selling"
Mad Men
James
|
$800
[19]
On New Year's Eve in 1967 Evel jumped 151 feet over the fountains at this Las Vegas casino; never mind the landing...
Caesars Palace
James
|
$800
[14]
A conference between the judge & lawyers out of the hearing of the jury
a sidebar
Priscilla
|
$800
[24]
I can just tell you're sweating for a Lynchburg lemonade, the Lynchburg referring to this brand of whiskey
Jack Daniel's
James
|
$800
[29]
Chandler, to Ross on this show:"3 failed marriages, 2 illegitimate children... the personal ad writes itself"
Friends
Priscilla
|
|
$1,000
[10]
"The Joke","The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
Milan Kundera
|
$1,000
[5]
nytimes.com has up-to-date info on this NYC museum of American art, like its exhibition on "artists making photographs"
the Whitney
Louisa
|
$1,000
[20]
This priestly class is the highest class in Hinduism
the Brahmans
Priscilla
|
$1,000
[15]
It's a verb meaning to get off a plane or ship
debark (or disembark)
Priscilla
|
$1,000
[25]
Bad day, huh? You might need shots of these 2 alcohols made from the agave plant
tequila & mezcal
|
$1,000
[30]
Steven Culp on this show (after being called Dr. Van de Kamp):"Please, you're dating my wife. Call me Rex"
Desperate Housewives
Priscilla
|
| BORN IN 1909 | WHAT THE '90s MOVIE TITLE MEANS | SCIENTISTS | WHERE AM I? | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WORDS |
|
$400
[17]
Barry Goldwater, in Arizona, which still had this status
a territory
Louisa
|
$400
[6]
It's what the tail does if things are backwards
Wag the Dog
James
|
$400
[1]
The first known design of a self-propelled vehicle was made by this artist & scientist around 1478
Da Vinci
Louisa
|
$400
[8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands at a monument.) I'm at this country's Monument to the Discoveries, looking at national hero Vasco da Gama
Portugal
James
|
$400
[18]
Pairs of these slightly dished metal circular plates have clashed together since Assyrian times
cymbals
James
|
$400
[10]
A standard or pennant
a flag
Priscilla
|
|
$800
[27]
U Thant, in this current country
Myanmar (or Burma)
Priscilla
|
$800
[7]
Who can forget Mena Suvari on a bed of petals in this film? (The title is a type of rose)
American Beauty
Louisa
|
$800
[2]
Some scientists predict this "seasonal" period of cold & dark weather would be the result of atomic warfare
nuclear winter
Louisa
|
$800
[9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands at a windmill.) I'm at a windmill in the city of Woerden in this country
the Netherlands
Louisa
|
$800
[19]
There's a Great Highland type of this musical instrument
bagpipes
Priscilla
|
$800
[23]
Temperance leader Carry
nation
Louisa
|
|
$1,200
[28]
This "Streetcar Named Desire" director, in Constantinople
Elia Kazan
Priscilla
|
$1,200
[14]
Americans say "the whole enchilada"; Brits say this, a Best Picture Oscar nominee from 1997
The Full Monty
James
|
$1,200
[3]
Astronomer Michael Brown discovered the object classified as UB313 in 2003 & named it for this TV princess
Xena
Priscilla
|
$1,200
[11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in a Spanish city.) I'm in this Spanish city, the home of the world-famous Running of the Bulls
Pamplona
James
|
$1,200
[20]
In "The Music Man", "Seventy-six trombones led the big parade with a hundred and ten" of these "close at hand"
cornets
Priscilla
|
$1,200
[24]
Permission granted to a sailor to go ashore
liberty
Priscilla
|
|
$1,600
[29]
This film critic & "A Death in the Family" novelist
(James) Agee
Priscilla
|
$1,600
[15]
This 1996 Geena Davis action title can be a euphemism for death (Hint: In the film, she puts her past life to bed)
The Long Kiss Goodnight
James
|
$1,600
[4]
These radiation belts named for an American physicist are found in the earth's magnetosphere
the Van Allen Belts
James
|
$1,600
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands at a shrine.) I'm near Kyoto at the famed Fushimi Inari Shrine, so I'm in the southwestern part of this island
Honshu
James
|
$1,600
[21]
As a verb, this musical instrument means "to dwell upon persistently & tediously"
harp
Priscilla
James
|
$1,600
[25]
Declares
States
Priscilla
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Andrei Gromyko, the face of the USSR as this minister from 1957 to 1985
Foreign Minister
Priscilla
|
$2,000
[16]
Of the 10 targets one bowls at, it's designated No. 5; it also can refer to a person of chief importance
Kingpin
James
|
$2,000
[5]
Darwin's younger contemporary, this 3-named scientist evolved a similar 1850s theory of natural selection
Alfred Russel Wallace
|
DD
$5,000
[13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on a verdant mountain peak.) I'm at this legendary South American site whose name means "old peak"; over there is "new peak"
Machu Picchu
James
|
$2,000
[22]
Comrade, enjoy this 3-stringed Russian instrument with a triangular body & a thin neck
a balalaika
Louisa
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
The meaning of the Greek word "atomos" which gives us "atom"
indivisible
Priscilla
|
In 1912, midway through one of his works, he wrote, "I have penetrated the secret of the rhythm of spring"
Igor Stravinsky