Mike Bartlett — a financial aid officer and student from Tallahassee, Florida
Jennifer Klein — a business risk manager from Jacksonville, Florida
Ingrid Nelson — a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingrid | $1,800 | $5,400 | $11,800 |
$10,201
2-day champion: $27,802 |
$11,800
17 R, 0 W |
| Jennifer | $4,600 | $6,600 | $10,200 |
$7,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Mike | $1,400 | $800 | $3,600 |
$50
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
12 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| LIGHTEN UP | ANN(E)-TASTIC! | SCHOOL MOTTOES | COUNTRY NAME ETYMOLOGY | AS QUICK AS YOU CAN SAY... | JACKIE ROBINSON |
|
$200
[1]
Rhyming name of the dim bedtime illuminant in your child's room, possibly to ward off monsters
a night light
Ingrid
|
$200
[6]
She announced that 2003's "Blood Canticle" will be her final vampire novel
Anne Rice
Ingrid
|
$200
[11]
Many schools use this motto from Genesis 1:3, God's first spoken command
"Let there be light"
Jennifer
|
$200
[25]
From an explorer, Mr. Vespucci
America
Mike
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$200
[18]
This word is paired with "lickety" to mean "quickly"
split
Ingrid
|
$200
[14]
Jackie broke pro baseball's color barrier & joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in this decade
the 1940s
Ingrid
|
|
$400
[2]
Unit of power equal to 1 ampere flowing across a 1-volt potential difference (big definition, little word)
a watt
|
$400
[7]
Her 16th c. cottage in Shottery, England is kept as a memorial (she never danced at the Oscars with Hugh Jackman)
Anne Hathaway
Jennifer
|
$400
[12]
Harvard University's motto is simply Veritas, meaning this
truth
Jennifer
|
$400
[27]
After seeing stilt houses on Lake Maracaibo, explorers named this country after Venice
Venezuela
Jennifer
|
$400
[19]
Speedy plural term for a quickly-moving section of a river
rapids
Jennifer
|
$400
[16]
Jackie lettered in 4 sports at this Southern California university, the only athlete ever to do so
UCLA
Mike
|
|
$600
[3]
It's the "E" in laser
emission
Ingrid
|
$600
[8]
This advice columnist said "Truth is Stranger"; at least she did when she wrote that book in 1968
Ann Landers
Ingrid
|
$600
[13]
Amor omnia vincit, or this "conquers all", is on the seal of William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri
love
Mike
|
$800
[29]
This African country is named from the Portuguese for "lion mountains"
Sierra Leone
Ingrid
Jennifer
Mike
|
$600
[20]
In a TV cartoon Spritle & Chim Chim often stowed away in the trunk of this title thrill-seeker's car, the Mach 5
Speed Racer
Mike
|
$600
[17]
Jackie won the major leagues' first of these awards for first-year players
Rookie of the Year
Ingrid
|
|
$800
[4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew manipulates a pro light fixture.) Used to manipulate light, the shutters on a stage lamp go by this farm name; don't let them hit you on the way out
a barn door
Jennifer
|
$800
[9]
This college town is the seat of Michigan's Washtenaw County
Ann Arbor
Jennifer
|
$800
[15]
Montclair State College in New Jersey uses the motto Carpe diem, which means this
seize the day
Mike
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
This Central American country is named for "The Savior", Jesus Christ
El Salvador
Jennifer
|
$800
[23]
From the Latin for "prompt", it's the Spanish word for "soon"
pronto
|
$800
[21]
Jackie played first base his first season, but switched to this position for the next 5 years
2nd base
|
|
$1,000
[5]
"Unlock" this 3-letter term for the principal light illuminating an actor's face
key (light)
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[10]
She delivered a sparkling keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
Ann Richards
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[26]
The University of Guam shares this motto with the State of New York; it means "higher"
Excelsior
|
$1,000
[30]
This new Balkan nation is named for the appearance of Mt. Lovcen or perhaps the dark forests around it
Montenegro
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[24]
In Newton's equation F=ma, it's what "a" stands for
acceleration
Ingrid
|
$1,000
[22]
In 1956 Jackie was traded to this team, but retired rather than play for his old NYC rival
the Giants
Ingrid
Mike
|
| NAME THAT BOOK | POPULAR DOG NAMES | IMPRISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON | "S" WONDERFUL | CZECH MATE | FROM THE GERMAN |
|
$400
[6]
"It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room"
A Room with a View
|
$400
[9]
If you're "Driving Miss" this, be sure to let her stick her head out the window
Daisy
Ingrid
|
$400
[19]
Henry Laurens, the only American imprisoned in the Tower, was exchanged for this Yorktown loser in 1781
Cornwallis
Jennifer
|
$400
[1]
It's the ultimate high spiked heel
a stiletto
Ingrid
|
$400
[24]
This former Czech president's "Letters to Olga" is a volume of correspondence he wrote to his wife while in jail
Vaclav Havel
|
$400
[16]
Teens are sometimes susceptible to this, a feeling of dread or anguish
angst
Ingrid
|
|
$800
[7]
"If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to"
Catch-22
Jennifer
|
$800
[12]
Like a William Styron title character, a dog with this name may have to make a "Choice"
Sophie
Ingrid
|
$800
[20]
At his July 6, 1535 beheading at the Tower, he said, "The King's good servant, but God's first"
Thomas More
Mike
|
$800
[2]
A principal religion of Japan, it has no official sacred scriptures
Shinto
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[28]
This Czech director & wife Martina named their twin sons Andy & Jim for Andy Kaufman & Jim Carrey
Milos Forman
|
$800
[17]
From the German for "double walker" comes this term for a ghostly counterpart
doppelganger
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[8]
"They roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes"
Where the Wild Things Are
Ingrid
|
$1,200
[13]
When followed by "Rich", this moniker becomes a legendary drummer
Buddy
Ingrid
|
$1,200
[21]
On Nov. 4, 1605 he was caught trying to blow up Parliament; 3 days later he signed a confession in the Tower
Guy Fawkes
Mike
|
$1,200
[3]
This instrument of the lute family is popular in northern India
the sitar
Mike
|
$1,600
[29]
This composer wrote "Cypress Trees" for Josefina Cermakova, yet later married her sister
Dvorak
Mike
|
$1,200
[18]
This 6-letter word refers to a replacement or substitute that is inferior
ersatz
|
|
$1,600
[10]
"I met with a gentleman so soon as I had got over the slough of despond"
Pilgrim's Progress
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[14]
It's the last name of the character who said, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings"
Bailey
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1305 this Scottish patriot was captured & imprisoned in the Tower; he was savagely executed a few days later
William Wallace
Mike
|
$1,600
[4]
A fungus & an alga in lichen is a classic example of this type of mutualism
symbiosis
Mike
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
This writer's dad, Hermann, married Julie Lowy in 1882 & named their son after the Austro-Hungarian emperor
Franz Kafka
Mike
|
$1,600
[26]
Atomic number 27, this silvery metallic element is named for a cave-goblin
cobalt
Mike
|
|
$2,000
[11]
"I was in no position to criticize the Emperor Augustus, who was my maternal grand-uncle"
I, Claudius
|
$2,000
[15]
Name of the canine character seen here
Max
Ingrid
|
DD
$4,000
[23]
These two cousins, both of whom married Henry VIII, were imprisoned & executed at the Tower of London
Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard
Mike
|
$2,000
[5]
eBay owns this VoIP provider that's based in Luxembourg
Skype
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1975 this "Unbearable Lightness of Being" author & his wife Vera left oppression in Czechoslovakia
Milan Kundera
|
$2,000
[27]
Wagner is often associated with this 9-letter type of dominant & recurring theme
leitmotif
|
Filmed signing a bill into law, in 1895 he became the first U.S. president to appear on moving film
Grover Cleveland