Mark Winslett — a school psychologist from Fort Worth, Texas
Ingrid Nelson — a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
Marianne Fichtel — an investor relations manager from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,888)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marianne | $2,400 | $5,400 | $9,900 |
$13,499
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ingrid | $4,200 | $4,600 | $13,400 |
$17,601
New champion: $17,601 |
$13,400
20 R, 2 W |
| Mark | $1,600 | $3,600 | $8,800 |
$7,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,800
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| U.S. CITIES | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOSBALL | COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV. | WEIRD SCENTS | NAME CALLING | "J" MART |
|
$200
[17]
New York State's second-largest city, it's the seat of Erie County
Buffalo
Marianne
Mark
|
$200
[26]
The 2007 this of foosball was held in Lexington, Ky. in January; the NFL held its in Miami a few weeks later
the Super Bowl
Ingrid
|
$200
[16]
Windows is one:OS
operating system
Mark
|
$200
[1]
Tony Sirico, who played Paulie Walnuts on this HBO show, unveiled his cologne, Paolo per Uomo, in 2008
The Sopranos
Ingrid
|
$200
[2]
I hate to call you a dumb this, like the extinct bird from Mauritius, but what were you thinking?
a dodo
Marianne
|
$200
[3]
This term for a holy war against nonbelievers comes from the Arabic word for "struggle"
jihad
Ingrid
|
|
$600
[21]
The roadside attraction called the Cadillac Ranch is in this Texas city whose name is Spanish for "yellow"
Amarillo
Marianne
|
$400
[27]
In 1975 this leading U.S. sports magazine called foosball "a real first-class professional sport"
Sports Illustrated
Ingrid
|
$400
[18]
Hello:IM
instant message
Marianne
|
$400
[9]
For its 50th anniversary, this sculptable hyphenated compound got its own fragrance
Play-Doh
Marianne
|
$400
[8]
Maybe it was all the brandy & brown sugar, but you're "nuttier than" this Christmas treat
a fruitcake
Marianne
|
$400
[4]
The Spanish word for "water" is found within this sleek feline's name
the jaguar
Ingrid
|
|
$800
[22]
This city near San Francisco grew when it became the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad
Oakland
Ingrid
|
$600
[28]
Like an NBA player who camps in the key, a foosballer who takes longer than this to get ready for a serve gets penalized
3 seconds
Mark
|
$600
[19]
It's the brains of the operation:CPU
central processing unit
Mark
|
$600
[10]
If you want to smell like a blue one of these, spritz on Eau de Stilton
cheese
Marianne
|
$600
[13]
You just don't get it, do you? You're a big this; now go sit in the corner & put on the cap of the same name
a dunce
Marianne
|
$600
[5]
Pass the jelly to Boy Scouts around the world at one of these camping rallies
a jamboree
Ingrid
|
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
Jestine's Kitchen is a soulful stop for catfish in this city, home of Catfish Row in story & opera
Charleston
Mark
|
$800
[29]
It's illegal to rotate the rods more than this many degrees, so forget about spinning off a "slap" shot
360
Mark
|
$800
[24]
It's a measure of speed:BPS
bytes per second
Marianne
|
$800
[11]
A buccal swab is the first step to get "Your Fragrance in the Bottle", based on this
DNA
Ingrid
|
$800
[14]
You keep dropping things! Oy, you're such a this, Yiddish for "wooden block"
a klutz
Mark
|
$800
[6]
He succeeded a daughter of Henry VIII in 1603
James I
Marianne
Mark
|
|
$1,000
[23]
It's the biggest city in eastern Washington
Spokane
|
$1,000
[30]
Foosball's governing body is the ITSF, which stands for this (the "TS" is for foosball's more formal name)
International Table Soccer Federation
Marianne
Ingrid
|
$1,000
[25]
A regional computer linker:LAN
local area network
Mark
|
$1,000
[12]
This eatery has created "Flame", combining a "scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat"
Burger King
Ingrid
|
$1,000
[15]
Watch yourself you big this, (& did you know it comes from the word "elf"?)
an oaf
Marianne
|
$1,000
[7]
Carved from the living rock, the pink stone city of Petra is found in this Middle Eastern kingdom
Jordan
Ingrid
|
| HISTORICAL PAINTINGS | ROCK STARS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS | THIRD IN SEQUENCE | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES | WILLA CATHER | O PIONEERS! |
|
$400
[26]
A Remington painting shows the "Coming and Going of" this delivery service that came & went in less than 2 years' time
the Pony Express
Ingrid
|
$400
[1]
This "Purple Rain" guy had a simple request: "Don't hate me because I'm fabulous"
Prince
Marianne
|
$400
[11]
In a Stevie Wonder song:"Signed, Sealed,_____"
Delivered
Ingrid
|
$400
[6]
In Dutch this holiday greeting is "Vrolijk Kerstfeest"
Merry Christmas
Ingrid
|
$400
[15]
Willa Cather was born in this "Old Dominion" state, not in Nebraska
Virginia
Mark
|
$400
[21]
In the 1840s this religious sect left Nauvoo, Illinois & headed west
the Mormons
Marianne
|
|
$800
[27]
Paolo Uccello's "The Battle of San Romano" was commissioned by a member of this family in the 1450s
the Medici
Marianne
|
$800
[2]
"I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK--the bat had to get" this singer "shots"
Ozzy Osbourne
Ingrid
|
$800
[12]
In George Bush's "Axis Of Evil":Iran, Iraq,_____
North Korea
Ingrid
|
$800
[7]
A clever saying or witticism, it literally means "good word" in French
bon mot
Marianne
|
$800
[17]
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Cather that the similarity of passages in this 1925 book & her "A Lost Lady" was just a coincidence
The Great Gatsby
Marianne
|
$800
[22]
1849's "The Emigrants' Guide to California" says the biggest travel expense was 8 of these--yoke not included
oxen
Ingrid
|
|
$1,200
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out a famous painting on the monitor.) In Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington crossing the Delaware, them anholding the anachronistic flag is said to be this future fifth president
Monroe
Marianne
|
$1,200
[3]
This "Ziggy Stardust" singer:"I think I was always a closet heterosexual"
David Bowie
Marianne
|
$1,200
[13]
3 main types of rocks:igneous, metamorphic,_____
sedimentary
Marianne
|
$1,200
[8]
Italian for "the sweet life", it served as the title for a 1960 Federico Fellini film
La Dolce Vita
Marianne
|
$1,200
[18]
Cather took the title "O Pioneers!" from a poem by Walt Whitman that appeared in this collection
Leaves of Grass
Marianne
|
$1,200
[23]
In treeless areas, pioneers built houses of this 3-letter material, filling cracks with mud; hey, it was dirt cheap!
sod
Ingrid
|
|
$1,600
[29]
An 1830s painting by Karl Briullov depicts "The Last Day of" this city, before it was obliterated by a volcano
Pompeii
Marianne
Mark
|
$1,600
[4]
This "Maggie May" guy: "Instead of... (marrying) again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house"
Rod Stewart
Marianne
Mark
|
$1,600
[14]
Noah's sons:Ham, Shem,_____
Japheth
|
$2,000
[10]
"Auto-da-fe" is associated with the Spanish Inquisition, but the phrase, which means this, is Portuguese
act of faith
Marianne
Ingrid
|
$2,000
[20]
This Nebraska town where Cather spent her youth was named for a "colorful" Sioux chief
Red Cloud
Ingrid
|
$1,600
[24]
Families traveling west lived in these covered wagons, so-named because their white tops looked like ships' sails
prairie schooners
Mark
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Seen here, the portrait of Napoleonin his study was done by this favorite painter of his in 1812
Jacques-Louis David
|
$2,000
[5]
This Van Halen singer:"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht... to pull up alongside it"
David Lee Roth
Ingrid
|
$2,000
[16]
Rome's Second Triumvirate:Octavian, Lepidus,_____
Marc Antony
|
DD
$2,500
[9]
"Negus, from the Amharic for "king", was once used as a title for the emperors of this African nation
Ethiopia
Marianne
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
Cather chose to put an accent over the first letter of this character's name so as to stress the first syllable
Ántonia
Marianne
|
$2,000
[25]
Textbooks used by pioneer children included Webster's spelling books & this man's "Eclectic Readers"
(William) McGuffey
Ingrid
|
Also found before "pack" & "team", it's defined as increase in volume resulting from increase in temperature
expansion