Sue Romberg — a homemaker and volunteer from Grapevine, Texas
Alex Hooper — a lawyer originally from Cedar Key, Florida
Stefanie Tomko — a software project manager from Bellevue, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefanie | $3,000 | $5,800 | $14,600 |
$20,600
2-day champion: $41,400 |
$14,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Alex | $600 | $3,200 | $8,000 |
$7,112
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Sue | $2,000 | $5,600 | $15,700 |
$19,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| WONDERS OF THE MIDWEST | TV'S GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN | THE BUTLER DID IT | TEXAS HOLD'EM HANDS | BIRTHSTONES... MEET THE BIRTHSTONES | YABBA DABBA "DOO"! |
|
$200
[1]
Spring Grove, Illinois claims the world's largest corn this, seen here
a corn maze
Stefanie
|
$200
[10]
He impersonated moody psychic Carnac the Magnificent
Johnny Carson
Stefanie
|
$200
[19]
Franz the butler is initially comedic but takes a dark turn as a Nazi sympathizer in this '60s film musical
The Sound of Music
Stefanie
|
$200
[24]
You've been dealt a "speed limit" if you hold a pair of these
fives
Stefanie
|
$200
[5]
May is green (but not with envy) with this birthstone
emerald
Sue
|
$200
[13]
It means to go away, or get out; it's famously paired with "23"
skidoo
Stefanie
|
|
$400
[2]
You can see a replica of a hunk of this Soviet craft; it crashed into Manitowoc, Wisc. in 1962
Sputnik
Stefanie
|
$400
[11]
He played wacky bachelor Jack Tripper
John Ritter
Alex
|
$400
[20]
Butler Thomas Rogers, as well as his wife, are murdered in her novel "And Then There Were None"
Agatha Christie
Stefanie
|
$400
[27]
There are "snowmen" in your mitts when holding a pair of these
eights
Stefanie
|
$400
[6]
In song this July birthstone precedes "Tuesday"
ruby
Sue
|
$400
[14]
8-letter term for the end of the world as we know it (& I feel fine)
doomsday
Stefanie
|
|
$600
[3]
Springfield, Missouri has America's only tram ride through a real one of these
a cavern
Stefanie
|
$600
[12]
He starred as recent immigrant Chico Rodriguez
Freddie Prinze
|
$600
[21]
Barrymore the butler is a red herring, as it's really Stapleton who's the killer in this Holmes mystery
The Hound of the Baskervilles
|
$600
[28]
A pair of these face cards is referred to as "fishhooks"
jacks
Stefanie
|
$600
[7]
Jim Brady was born on August 12, 1856 but April would have been more appropriate, with this as its stone
diamond
Sue
|
$600
[16]
Now go do this polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians that you do so well!
voodoo
Alex
|
|
$800
[4]
In northern Michigan you can see a plate of this type of pie 14 feet across--but with only 1 slice
cherry
Stefanie
Alex
Sue
|
$800
[25]
He was private investigator Dan Tanna
Robert Urich
|
DD
$1,000
[22]
Mr. Poole the butler is concerned for the good doctor & breaks into the lab with Utterson in this novel
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stefanie
|
$800
[29]
A hand consisting of a 5 & 10 is nicknamed this, like a famous chain of stores
Woolworth
Sue
|
$800
[8]
Mother-of-this! It's June's stone, along with moonstone & alexandrite
pearl
Stefanie
|
$800
[17]
The folks in this musical village are awake for 24 hours, once every 100 years
Brigadoon
Sue
|
|
$1,000
[15]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a giant apple basket.) Attractions in this midwest state include a giant rubber stamp, a giant cuckoo clock, & the almost-30-ft-high Longaberger apple basket
Ohio
Stefanie
|
$1,000
[26]
He played out of this world chief engineer Montgomery Scott
James Doohan
Sue
|
$1,000
[23]
At the end of this Kazuo Ishiguro novel, the butler Stevens regrets not being intimate & cultivating his own experiences
The Remains of the Day
Alex
|
$1,000
[30]
If you're holding a "magnum", you've got a pocket pair of these
fours
Sue
|
$1,000
[9]
Thailand & Montana are important sources of this blue September gem
sapphire
Alex
|
$1,000
[18]
It's the musical instrument being played here
didgeridoo
Alex
|
| OTHER FAMOUS CANADIANS | GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS | ACRONYM EYE CHART | MUSIC APPRECIATION | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" |
|
$400
[11]
From work using hypothermia for heart surgery, Wilfred Bigelow helped develop this implanted stimulator
pacemaker
Stefanie
|
$400
[16]
"Carry On Wayward Son","Dust In The Wind"
Kansas
Stefanie
Sue
|
$400
[21]
A 1993 award cited John F. Burns' "courageous", coverage of the destruction of" this Bosnian capital
Sarajevo
Stefanie
|
$400
[1]
Do get this organization founded in 1980 & get even
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Sue
|
$400
[30]
You could call Ronald Lo Presti's "suite for 8" of these instruments a "toot suite"
french horns
|
$400
[2]
Turkey talk(6)
gobble
Sue
|
|
$800
[12]
The Smithsonian has the alkaline battery Lewis Urry created for Eveready, which named it this
the Energizer
Alex
|
$800
[17]
"You're The Inspiration","Saturday In The Park"
Chicago
Sue
|
$800
[22]
(I'm Nicholas Kristof.) In 2006 I won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that raised public awareness of the genocide in this region of Sudan
Darfur
Alex
|
$800
[7]
This1994 pact, better now, or now?
North American Free Trade Agreement
Stefanie
Alex
|
$800
[28]
This country's national anthem, heard here, was written by cousins Rikard Nordraak & Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Norway
Stefanie
Alex
Sue
|
$800
[3]
Thumbs up or thumbs down(7)
gesture
Stefanie
|
|
$1,600
[14]
To find out who was the better game player, Chris Haney & Scott Abbot created this '80s phenomenon
Trivial Pursuit
Sue
|
$1,200
[18]
"More Than A Feeling","Amanda"
Boston
Stefanie
|
$1,200
[23]
Andrea Elliot won in 2007 for articles on a Brooklyn Muslim leader with this title, Arabic for "leader"
Imam
Alex
|
$1,200
[8]
Thisgovernment agency to the rescue
the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Stefanie
Alex
|
$1,200
[26]
A narrative song of folk origin, from an old Provencal word for "dancing-song"
ballad
|
$1,200
[4]
Begin to sprout(9)
germinate
Sue
|
|
$2,000
[15]
This 2000 Medal of Freedom-winning economist & adviser to JFK wrote "The Affluent Society"
Galbraith
Sue
|
$1,600
[19]
"Ventura Highway","A Horse With No Name"
America
Stefanie
|
$1,600
[24]
(I'm Maureen Dowd.) In my Pulitzer-winning commentary on the Clinton scandals, I wrote that this prosecutor was playing Captains Ahab & Queeg in pursuit of the president
(Kenneth) Starr
Alex
|
$1,600
[9]
In 1960, Iraq co-founded this association
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Alex
|
$1,600
[27]
This Romanian has so mastered the pan flute that he's been called "the reincarnation of the god Pan"
Zamfir
Sue
|
$2,000
[6]
Little by little(9)
gradually
Alex
|
|
DD
$3,600
[13]
It was only in the spring that Izzy Sharp created this luxury chain by opening his first hotel in Toronto in 1961
The Four Seasons
Alex
|
$2,000
[20]
"The Final Countdown","Carrie"
Europe
Stefanie
|
$2,000
[25]
Anthony Lewis won in 1963 for supreme court coverage & wrote this book about the Clarence Gideon case
Gideon's Trumpet
Alex
|
$2,000
[10]
Thislabor organization should be coming into focus
the Service Employees International Union
Alex
|
$2,000
[29]
This baroque composer must have been in a fugue state when he wrote his "giant fugue" in 1739
Johann Sebastian Bach
|
DD
$2,500
[5]
The science of good eating(10)
gastronomy
Sue
|
Stefan Kanfer's 2008 biography of this star is titled "Somebody", a nod to one of his most famous lines
Marlon Brando