John Blanton — a newspaper editor from Brooklyn, New York
Monica Butler — a costumer and mom from Madison, Wisconsin
Kevin Joyce — a customer service representative from Leominster, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $49,699)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin | $3,400 | $6,200 | $25,800 |
$26,600
2-day champion: $76,299 |
$17,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Monica | $2,400 | $4,800 | $9,600 |
$9,950
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
17 R, 4 W |
| John | $800 | $2,400 | $9,200 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
12 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| THE COLD WAR | UNWRITTEN DINING-OUT RULES | COMMON BONDS | POPCORN COLONELS | THE NATURE OF THE BEAST | BODY ENGLISH |
|
$200
[1]
The Cold War between the U.S. & the Soviet Union is said to have begun in this year a major hot war ended
1945
Kevin
|
$200
[20]
This utensil serves a dual purpose--butter the bread & get the ketchup out of the bottle
a knife
Kevin
|
$200
[13]
Fruit, measuring, loving
cup
Kevin
|
$200
[16]
He says, "You either surf or you fight" as Lt. Col. Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now"
Robert Duvall
Monica
|
$200
[6]
Chewing & sucking are the 2 main types of these insects that cement their eggs onto feathers or hair
lice
Kevin
Monica
|
$200
[11]
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your" these
ears
Monica
|
|
$400
[2]
The USA's long involvement in this country included an effort to prop up President Diem in 1961
Vietnam
John
|
$400
[21]
Since the syrup is on the restaurant's dime, be sure to fill up every square in the grid of this breakfast item
waffle
Kevin
|
$400
[14]
End, roulette, periodic
a table
Monica
|
$400
[24]
It was Martin Mull's role in the 1985 movie "Clue"
Colonel Mustard
Kevin
|
$400
[7]
From its main diet of rodents & birds, you might guess a serval is a type of this animal
a (wild) cat
Kevin
|
$400
[12]
If you make your feelings known to all, you wear this "on your sleeve"
your heart
Kevin
|
|
DD
$400
[3]
In a speech in Missouri in 1946, Winston Churchill declared that this division had fallen between East & West
an Iron Curtain
John
|
$600
[28]
Tell Grandma you will buy her some packets of Equal (they're mainly this color); there's no need to pocket them
blue
Monica
|
$600
[15]
Bay, rose, dormer
a window
Kevin
|
$600
[25]
Anthony Quayle as Col. Brighton gives orders to this Peter O'Toole title character, who ignores them
Lawrence of Arabia
John
|
$600
[8]
This "hopping" desert rodent is one of the few animals that never drink water directly
a kangaroo rat
Monica
|
$600
[17]
Proverbially, if you take a firm stand, you've put this body part "down"
your foot
Monica
|
|
$800
[4]
Declaring it permanently neutral, Western & Soviet forces withdrew in 1955 from this German-speaking nation
Austria
Kevin
|
$800
[29]
If a pal offers to pay (like with this Tina Fey-endorsed charge card), say, "You don't have to do that" & secretly rejoice
American Express
Monica
|
$800
[22]
Staple, Tommy, hot glue
a gun
Monica
|
$800
[26]
Al Pacino played blind ex-army colonel Frank Slade in this movie
Scent of a Woman
Kevin
|
$800
[9]
The Lamona & the Holland are popular American breeds of this bird
chickens
|
$800
[18]
In games slang, dominoes & dice are known as these
bones
Monica
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Tool nickname for the Soviet flag, lowered for the last time over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991
hammer & sickle
Kevin
|
$1,000
[30]
Use your own spoon if the whole table splits 1 dessert, like spumoni, a type of this treat
ice cream
Kevin
|
$1,000
[23]
Sand, salad, candy
bars
Monica
|
$1,000
[27]
Nick Nolte plays a colonel based on heroic Canadian Romeo Dallaire in this Africa-set 2004 film
Hotel Rwanda
|
$1,000
[10]
A large game fish is nicknamed the muskie, which is short for this
a muskellunge
Monica
|
$1,000
[19]
6-letter slang term meaning to identify someone to the authorities
finger
John
|
| THE "COLD" WAR | BAND OF BROTHERS | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS | I LED THAT CABINET DEPARTMENT | A COUNTRY OF CENTRAL AMERICA | GIVE ME SOME DIRECTION |
|
$400
[12]
Ponds is a popular brand of this product for softening & cleaning the skin
cold cream
Kevin
|
$400
[2]
This band of brothers was featured in Disney Channel's 2008 movie "Camp Rock"
the Jonas Brothers
Monica
|
$400
[5]
This gluttonous guy shows up in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" & both parts of "Henry IV"
Falstaff
Kevin
|
$400
[26]
Robert McNamara, Donald Rumsfeld, Donald Rumsfeld (again)
Defense
John
|
$400
[1]
On Jan. 7, 1914 the first ocean vessel passed completely through this country
Panama
Monica
|
$400
[17]
It's another name for the Aurora Borealis
the Northern lights
Kevin
|
|
$800
[22]
Boundary between air masses characterized by changes in precipitation & temperature
cold front
Kevin
|
$800
[3]
Identical twins Joel & Benji Madden formed this "Good" group in 1996
Good Charlotte
Monica
|
$800
[6]
This magic man is Miranda's dad
Prospero
Kevin
|
$800
[27]
John Foster Dulles, Martin Van Buren, George Shultz
Secretary of State
Monica
|
$800
[13]
Its national bird is the quetzal & so is its currency
Guatemala
Kevin
Monica
|
$1,200
[19]
In Austin, Texas its boundaries are Martin Luther King Blvd., IH-35, Town Lake & Lamar Blvd.
downtown
John
|
|
$1,200
[23]
The senseless, brutal murder of the Clutter family is at the heart of this work
In Cold Blood
John
|
$1,200
[4]
You might want to put a "Wonderwall" between this group's Liam & Noel Gallagher, who always fight
Oasis
Kevin
|
$1,200
[7]
Thinking this man is the king, Hamlet kills him in Act III, Scene iv
Polonius
Monica
|
$1,200
[28]
Alexander Hamilton, Lloyd Bentsen, George Shultz
Treasury
John
|
$1,200
[14]
Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias Sanchez is its president
Costa Rica
John
|
$1,600
[20]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a helicopter airfield at Marine Base Quantico.) The aircraft of marine Helicopter Squadron 1 take off from here at Quantico to pick up the president at this area outside the White House
the South Lawn
Monica
|
|
$1,600
[24]
The hypothetical mixing of atomic nuclei at a low pressure & near room temperature
cold fusion
Kevin
|
$1,600
[10]
An Australian band called the Farriss Brothers got this new name & hit the Top 40 with songs like "Devil Inside"
INXS
Monica
|
$1,600
[8]
This friend of Romeo's declares, "A plague on both your houses"
Mercutio
John
|
$1,600
[29]
Elizabeth Dole, Robert Reich, George Shultz
Labor
John
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
It's the only Central American country with English as an official language
Belize
John
|
$2,000
[21]
Directional name for about 220 million Christians, many in Greece & Russia
Eastern Orthodox
Kevin
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Pro wrestler Steve Austin's nickname
Stone Cold
Monica
|
$2,000
[11]
Don of these "Bye Bye Love" bros is 2 years older than Phil
The Everly Brothers
John
|
$2,000
[9]
Later Richard III, the Duke of this refers to "the winter of our discontent"
Gloucester
|
$2,000
[30]
Harold Ickes, Albert Fall, James Watt
the Department of the Interior
John
|
$2,000
[16]
In the 1980s its government fought a rebel group abbreviated FMLN
El Salvador
Kevin
John
|
DD
$9,200
[18]
Birds use these, also called thermal columns, to soar higher in a circular pattern
updrafts
Kevin
|
On Sept. 29, 2008 every stock in the S&P 500 dropped except this maker of comforting food, founded in 1869
Campbell's