Sean Ryan game 3.
Melanie Cruanes — a clerk from El Dorado, Arkansas
Steve Altes — a writer from Burbank, California
Sean Ryan — a taxi driver, bartender, and student from State College, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,998)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean | $2,000 | $5,000 | $26,800 |
$26,800
3-day champion: $44,798 |
$23,000
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Steve | $1,000 | $4,200 | $12,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Melanie | $1,200 | $1,000 | $1,400 |
$400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$1,400
6 R, 3 W |
| SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES | WOMEN IN MUSIC | WELL EQUIPPED | ARTISTS | STUPID ANSWERS | I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM! |
|
$200
[4]
A new industry in Europe began in 1747 when Andreas Marggraf discovered this in beets
sugar
Sean
|
$200
[14]
Barbra Streisand sings "Some Day My Prince Will Come" on the 2001 deluxe DVD edition of this Disney classic
Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs)
Sean
|
$200
[10]
Cars come with standard equipment, but you can add on these, from the Latin for "choice"
options
Steve
|
$200
[24]
This Spanish surrealist once broke the window of a 5th Avenue gallery after it had rearranged a display of his art
Salvador Dali
Steve
|
$200
[1]
The scientific name of this Andean animal is Lama glama
llama
Steve
|
$200
[7]
Meaning "to quiet down", it derives from the practice of stuffing a stocking into a gramophone to control volume
put a sock in it
Steve
|
|
$400
[13]
In 1835 Jan Purkinje noted animal tissues, like plant tissues, are made from these
cells
Melanie
|
$400
[15]
This superstar who was raised in Hawaii was named for the star of "Now, Voyager" & "All About Eve"
Bette Midler
Sean
|
$400
[16]
This piece of equipment was first worn by a future admiral playing in the 1893 Army-Navy Game
football helmet
Melanie
|
$400
[27]
While living in Parma, Italy, this American impressionist began painting babies, later her trademark
Mary Cassatt
Steve
|
$400
[2]
It's the third-largest city in Kansas
Kansas City
Sean
|
$400
[8]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) It's the 2-word term for this "arboreal" representation
family tree
Melanie
|
|
$600
[18]
In 1834 one of the projects this German had on the back burner was finding an antidote for arsenic poisoning
(Robert) Bunsen
Sean
|
$600
[21]
Injured in a 1990 bus accident, in 1997 she donated $250,000 to the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Gloria Estefan
Sean
|
$600
[17]
Corers, ballers, griddles & mousse rings are equipment used by these professionals
chefs
Steve
|
$600
[28]
His painting "View of Toledo" is also called "Toledo in a Storm"
El Greco
Sean
Melanie
|
$600
[3]
This rockabilly trio had a 1983 hit with "Stray Cat Strut"
the Stray Cats
Steve
|
$600
[9]
On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth must have taken literally this 3-word actors' phrase meaning "good luck"
break a leg
Melanie
|
|
$800
[19]
Elso Barghoorn found the remains of these acids in 3-billion-year-old rocks, exhibiting proof of very early life
amino acids
Sean
|
$800
[22]
In 1995 she & country star George Jones reunited for an album called "One"
Tammy Wynette
Sean
|
$800
[25]
Among the equipment in a well-stocked lab is this piece you grow your mold in
petri dish
Sean
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
In July 1954 her coffin was draped with a hammer & sickle flag while lying in state in Mexico's Palace of Fine Arts
Frida Kahlo
Steve
|
$800
[5]
Composer Benjamin Britten was born November 22, 1913 at Lowestoft on this island
Great Britain
Sean
|
$800
[11]
An enthusiastic hard worker is often described as one of these zealous rodents
eager beaver (or busy beaver)
Steve
Melanie
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1986 Williams & Dubner, with too much time on their hands, found that a number formed by 1,031 ones in a row was this
prime
Steve
|
$1,000
[23]
She's the songwriter extraordinaire of the hits "How Do I Live" & "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
Diane Warren
|
$1,000
[26]
Hidden cameras, bugs & PC taps are classified as this type of equipment, from the French for "to watch over"
surveillance
Sean
|
$1,000
[30]
A Lord Byron poem inspired this great French Romantic painter's "The Death of Sardanapalus"
Eugene Delacroix
Sean
|
$1,000
[6]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from up in the Goodyear Blimp.) It's a majestic sight as the water breaks over this barrier located below us
the breakwater
Melanie
|
$1,000
[12]
To "machine gun the zephyr" is a literal way of saying this phrase meaning to chat aimlessly
shoot the breeze
Steve
|
| U.S. GEOGRAPHY | REEL LIFE QUOTES | INTERIORS | HEY, VERNE! | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS | BAG "DAD" |
|
$400
[6]
The West Point Military Reservation includes Constitution Island, which lies in this river
the Hudson River
Sean
|
$400
[9]
1977:"I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Wookie win"
Star Wars
Steve
Melanie
|
$400
[26]
Real-Fyre, a brand of these for your faux fireplace, features realistic knotholes & peeled bark
logs
Sean
|
$400
[16]
Phileas Fogg's journey in this Jules Verne novel begins & ends at the Reform, a real club still going on Pall Mall
Around the World in Eighty Days
Sean
|
$400
[21]
Article 25 of the League covenant called for the establishment of chapters of this relief group by all members
the Red Cross
Sean
|
$400
[1]
This candy that comes in a yellow wrapper is a milk caramel pop
Sugar Daddy
Steve
|
|
$800
[7]
The dome of the capitol building in this city 100 miles west of Philadelphia is a copy of St. Peter's in Rome
Harrisburg
Sean
|
$800
[10]
1974:"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart"
The Godfather Part II
Steve
|
$800
[27]
(Hi, I'm Paige Davis, host of TLC's Trading Spaces.) Use a kind of map called a bagua to get your space in balance according to this system
feng shui
Sean
|
$800
[17]
A giant sea monster turns out to be a submarine in this 1870 Verne tale
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Steve
|
$800
[22]
One of this man's "14 Points" led to the establishment of the League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Sean
|
$800
[2]
You can also call 'em crayfish
crawdads
Melanie
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Virginia's longest river, it provides abundant waterpower for the state's industries
the James River
Steve
|
$1,200
[11]
2000:"I may die tonight in this cell or in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave"
Gladiator
Sean
|
$1,200
[28]
This suite at the Regent Beverly Wilshire boasts 3 sitting rooms, a dining room & sunken marble tubs
the Presidential Suite
Steve
|
$1,200
[18]
A German professor of geology makes a subterranean expedition in this 1864 classic by Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Sean
|
$1,200
[23]
For attacking Finland in 1939, this country was expelled from the League in December of that year
the USSR
Sean
|
$1,200
[3]
A thingamabob or trinket
doodad
Sean
|
|
$1,600
[14]
This state's highest point is Mount Frissell; its lowest point is at sea level on Long Island Sound
Connecticut
Sean
Steve
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
1974:"Pardon me, boy. Is this the Transylvania station?"
Young Frankenstein
Sean
|
$1,600
[29]
"Ornithological" term for the item seen here
gooseneck lamp
Sean
Steve
|
$1,600
[19]
The title place of this 1874 novel is an unchartered locale in the south Pacific
The Mysterious Island
Steve
|
$2,000
[25]
From 1919 to 1939 this Polish port was a free city under the supervision of the League of Nations
Gdansk (Danzig)
Sean
|
$1,600
[4]
"To run away hurriedly", Random House says it's from the Scots for "to scatter"
skedaddle
|
|
$2,000
[15]
A statue of Hiawatha & this wife stands atop the waterfall named for her
Minnehaha
Sean
|
$2,000
[13]
1970:"There's only 1 proper way for a professional soldier to die: the last bullet of the last battle of the last war"
Patton
Sean
|
$2,000
[30]
A knot or lump on a tree, or the wood cut from it, used as veneer in Jaguar interiors
burled wood
|
$2,000
[20]
This 1865 novel is about some U.S. Civil War vets who decide to create a cannon to shoot a "space-bullet" from Florida
From the Earth to the Moon
Steve
|
DD
$5,000
[24]
This emperor pleaded for help but the League did nothing to stop Italy's 1935 invasion of his country
Haile Selassie
Sean
|
$2,000
[5]
This island off Venezuela is famous for its Pitch Lake
Trinidad
|
The spear that killed him in 1779 sold at auction in 2003 for over $400,000
Captain James Cook