Ana Catalina Posada — a graduate student from Hanover, New Hampshire
Harris Cohen — a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
Sara Doran — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $38,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sara | $-800 | $1,000 | $3,000 |
$500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
10 R, 4 W |
| Harris | $2,400 | $4,200 | $9,700 |
$9,400
New champion: $9,400 |
$12,200
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ana | $600 | $4,400 | $13,600 |
$7,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| SILENT PARTNERS | THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED | IT'S CHINATOWN, JAKE | 15 MINUTES OF FAME | ANGRY MOMS OF FUTURE PRESIDENTS | SIMILES |
|
$200
[8]
"Silent Partner", about Mabel Bell, this inventor's wife, reveals that she was one of his deaf students before they wed
Alexander Graham Bell
Harris
|
$200
[6]
April 5, 1994 in Seattle
Kurt Cobain
Harris
|
$200
[19]
New York City has 3 Chinatowns: one in Brooklyn, one in Queens & one centered on Canal Street in this borough
Manhattan
Harris
|
$200
[1]
Rick Dyer & Matt Whitton claimed to have killed one of these creatures & showed its body in a freezer
Bigfoot
Ana
|
$200
[15]
Thisboy runs when angry Mom uses this full name & threatens, "Do you want me to get Cousin Teddy's big stick?"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sara
|
$200
[2]
According to an old saying , this beverage should be black as hell, strong as death & sweet as love
coffee
Sara
|
|
$400
[11]
CNN called Gen. Tommy Franks a silent partner in Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S. war mainly in this country
Afghanistan
Sara
|
$400
[7]
February 3, 1959, one of 3, in a cornfield in Iowa
(Ritchie) Valens (or Buddy Holly or the Big Bopper)
Ana
|
$400
[25]
You can enter North America's oldest Chinatown at the Dragon Gateat Grant & Bush in this city
San Francisco
Harris
|
$400
[21]
After his wife left him, Ian Usher put his entire life up for sale on this website
eBay
Sara
|
$400
[16]
Thisfuture 1950s president is scared when Mom uses these three names, especially when followed by "Come here this instant"
Dwight David Eisenhower
Harris
|
$400
[3]
Amazement is often said to make these "wide as saucers"
eyes
Ana
|
|
$600
[13]
This late night talk show host has been a silent partner with Bobby Rahal on auto racing circuits
David Letterman
Harris
Ana
|
$600
[9]
July 3, 1971 in a bathtub in Paris
Jim Morrison
Sara
Harris
|
$600
[26]
This city's original Chinatown in the Limehouse District was destroyed by the Luftwaffe in WWII; a new one sprang up in Soho
London
Ana
|
$600
[22]
After giving birth to 8 babies in 2009, Nadya Suleman got this 7-letter nickname
"Octomom"
Harris
|
$600
[17]
The southern lad seenheremight not grin when Mom calls him this & says, "Get your hands off that horse"
James Earl Carter
Sara
|
DD
$600
[4]
This rhyming simile seems to have been a reference to movie star Errol
in like Flynn
Ana
|
|
$800
[29]
In 1972 Leo Fender, known primarily for making these, became a silent partner in a company called Music Man
guitars
Ana
|
$800
[10]
September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas after a shooting
Tupac Shakur
Ana
|
$800
[27]
The Dr. Sun Yat-sen Gardenis one of the highlights of this city's Chinatown, Canada's largest
Vancouver
Ana
|
$800
[23]
"America's Most Hated" is a rap song by this man, once the husband of Britney Spears
Kevin Federline
Ana
|
$800
[18]
The 1960spresidentshudders when Mom uses this full name, followed by, "Turn that chair around right now"
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Harris
Ana
|
$800
[5]
A speedy person may "run like" this; Patrick Swayze sang, "She's like" this
the wind
Harris
|
| — |
$1,000
[12]
October 4, 1970 at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood
Janis Joplin
|
$1,000
[28]
Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown requires business signs to include Chinese names; this chain's says "Owl Restaurant"
Hooters
Sara
|
$1,000
[24]
Ashley Dupre briefly made headlines as the high-priced companion of this governor
Spitzer
Harris
|
$1,000
[20]
Later caught with his hand figuratively in the cookie jar, hejumps when Mom says, "Get out of there"
Richard Milhous Nixon
Sara
|
$1,000
[14]
In "South Pacific" Nellie, unashamed of her cliched feelings, sings, "I'm as" this "as Kansas in August"
corny
Sara
|
| IN THE YEAR 2000 | ACTUAL ITEMS | TRIUMPH | IF THEY MATED | RICHTER (NOT ANDY) | CONAN O'BRIEN |
|
$400
[3]
Illinois' governor put a moratorium on these in his state due to questions of justice
the death penalty (executions)
Ana
|
$400
[16]
Seen here, a Brannock device measures you for these
shoes
Sara
|
$400
[1]
In 2009 Stump the 10-year-old Sussex spaniel became the oldest winner of this Westminster Kennel Club top honor
Best in Show
Sara
|
$400
[9]
The zorse, seen here, is the result of a hookup between a horse & one of these
a zebra
Harris
|
$400
[21]
Fittingly, seismologist Charles Richter spent almost all his working life in this state
California
Ana
|
$400
[8]
In 1993 Conan began taping "Late Night" at this New York center popular at Christmas
Rockefeller
Ana
|
|
$800
[4]
The Kuomintang lost the presidency of this country for the first time in 50 years
Taiwan
|
$800
[17]
In making pencils the ferrule is the metal ring into which this is inserted
the eraser
Harris
Ana
|
$800
[2]
In 1991 the Pulitzer Prize got "Lost in Yonkers" with this writer
(Neil) Simon
Harris
|
$800
[10]
The geep, seen here, is a hybrid of these two species
goat & sheep
Harris
|
$800
[22]
The Richter scale ranks quakes based on how much the ground shakes 60 miles from this
the epicenter
Harris
|
$800
[14]
Conan becomes the fifth host of "The Tonight Show" after Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen & him
(Jack) Paar
Harris
|
|
$1,200
[5]
Willie Fulgear was at the Shrine Auditorium on March 26 in recognition of his finding 52 of these in a dumpster
Oscar statues
Sara
|
$1,200
[18]
These "tools" strike piano strings
hammers
Harris
|
$1,200
[28]
Before hosting "Good Morning America", she triumphed as America's Junior Miss of '63
Diane Sawyer
Sara
|
$1,200
[11]
Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal, this crossbetween a male lion & a female tiger is the world's largest cat
a liger
Ana
|
$1,200
[23]
For bigger quakes, the Richter scale has given way to the more accurate one alliteratively called "moment" this
magnitude
|
$1,200
[15]
Seen here, he produced Conan's talk show after Conan wrote for him on "Saturday Night Live"
Lorne Michaels
Sara
Harris
|
|
$1,600
[6]
In France a strike by drivers of these 2-word vehicles left many ATMs empty
armored cars
Ana
|
$1,600
[19]
Bottoms up! A muselet is the wire cage holding this in place
the champagne cork
|
— |
$1,600
[12]
Thecamais a cross of these parent animals, done artificially--the size difference is a bit much for nature
camel & llama
Harris
|
$2,000
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) In seismic data, the maximum displacement of a seismic wave during one oscillation--here, 23 millimeters--is referred to by this term
amplitude
Ana
|
$1,600
[24]
Conan's bandleader, he's also the drummer for Bruuuuce
Max Weinberg
|
|
$2,000
[7]
On September 6 the pope, like Father Merrin, performed this rite, on a 19-year-old girl
an exorcism
Harris
|
$2,000
[20]
Impress friends in the rec room; this game's throwing line is called an oche
darts
Ana
|
— |
$2,000
[13]
Seen here is the first known wild example of a grolar bear, a cross of these species
grizzlies & polar bears
Ana
|
DD
$2,500
[26]
earthquake.usgs.gov has a handy primer on the Richter scale: USGS is short for this
United States Geological Survey
Harris
|
$2,000
[25]
On Conan's last "Late Night", this "Barney Miller" co-star was released into the wild to be with his own kind
Abe Vigoda
|
The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba"
Islands in the Stream