Claxton Graham — a business analyst from Charlotte, North Carolina
Jillian Hinchliffe — a librarian and mechanical puzzles curator from Bloomington, Indiana
Gary Bechtold — a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary | $800 | $400 | $7,600 |
$8,401
2-day champion: $22,001 |
$9,600
18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jillian | $2,000 | $2,600 | $4,200 |
$598
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,200
8 R, 1 W |
| Claxton | $2,800 | $6,200 | $7,800 |
$5,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| 26 | YEARS | EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? | THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT | BETTER KNOWN AS | YOU'RE "DEAD" ON |
|
$200
[26]
Besides 1 & 26, they're the other 2 factors of the number 26
2 & 13
Jillian
|
$200
[21]
Rudolph Giuliani was Time magazine's Person of the Year for this troubled year
2001
Gary
|
$200
[12]
This advertising drama was 2008's Outstanding Drama Series & we'll raise our martini glass if it wins again
Mad Men
Gary
|
$200
[8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) The Newport 28 is the model Alan Winslow & Douglas Campbell were flying in 1918 when they became the first Americans to shoot down enemy planes in combat over this country
France
Gary
Jillian
|
$200
[1]
His original name was Malcolm Little & his Muslim name was El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz
Malcolm X
Gary
|
$200
[6]
Comedy style in which the face shows no expression
deadpan
Gary
|
|
$400
[27]
It's the closest track & field event to 26 miles
the marathon
Jillian
|
$400
[22]
This World's Fair dubbed the Centennial Exposition was held in Philadelphia in this year
1876
Gary
|
$400
[13]
This network won big in 2008 with projects like "Recount" & has 99 primetime nominations for 2009
HBO
Claxton
|
$400
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) The museum has a Soviet duplicateof Sputnik; on October 4, 1957, the original was launched from one of these 4-letter missiles, better known as a nuclear deterrent
an ICBM
Gary
|
$400
[2]
When he began writing songs in 1907, singing waiter Israel Baline became him
Irving Berlin
Jillian
|
$400
[7]
A person who is almost identical to another
a dead ringer
Claxton
|
| — |
$600
[23]
Adlai Stevenson lost to Eisenhower in the presidential elections held in these 2 years
1952 & 1956
Claxton
|
$600
[14]
Heleft the sitcom world to earn the 2008 Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series & is nominated again in 2009
Bryan Cranston
Claxton
|
DD
$800
[18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) This British company that only existed from 1912 to 1920 produced planes called the Baby, Strutter, Pup&, most famously, the Camel
Sopwith
Claxton
|
$600
[3]
Infamous Dallas nightclub owner Jacob Rubenstein was better known by this name
Jack Ruby
Claxton
|
$600
[9]
A period of silence during a radio broadcast
dead air
Jillian
|
| — |
$800
[24]
Jesse Owens struck multiple Olympic gold in Berlin in this year
1936
Gary
|
$800
[15]
How sweet the sound of Best Reality-Competition Program for this show in 2008; let's see about 2009
The Amazing Race
|
$800
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.)Thisis one of four surviving examples of the USSR's Yak-9, which entered World War II in time to help turn this crucial battle & siege of July 1942 to February 1943
the Battle of Stalingrad
Gary
|
$800
[4]
Designer Ralph Lifschitz found his name unfashionable, so he changed it to this
Ralph Lauren
Jillian
|
$800
[10]
Slang for paper currency
dead presidents
Claxton
|
| — |
$1,000
[25]
Viet Cong & North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon in this year
1975
Claxton
|
$1,000
[16]
We'll see if Glenn Closecan repeat her 2008 Emmy for her work on this program
Damages
Gary
Claxton
|
$1,000
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) Piloting Corsairs over the Solomon Islands, this Marine squadron led by "Pappy" Boyington shot down about 100 Japanese aircraft
the Black Sheep
Claxton
|
$1,000
[5]
Robert Parker took this outlaw alias from his mentor; his partner took his from a city where he was jailed
Butch Cassidy
|
$1,000
[17]
Rhyming term for something directly in front
dead ahead
Claxton
|
| FATHER TIME | MOTHER NATURE | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? | THE GODFATHER OF SOUL | COUSIN "IT" | THE SEVEN SISTERS |
|
$400
[13]
On Dec. 13, 1961 Father Time caught up with this 101-year-old artist with a relative in her nickname
"Grandma Moses"
Gary
|
$400
[8]
This beetle of the family Coccinellidae lays her eggs on a leaf before flying away home, fire or no fire
the ladybug
|
$400
[18]
Thou wishest to party in this South American city & climb its 1,325-foot Sugar Loaf Mountain, verily
Rio
Claxton
|
$400
[5]
Besides "The Godfather of Soul", another nickname described James Brown as this "in Show Business"
"The Hardest Working Man in Show Business"
Claxton
|
$400
[1]
A person serving in place of another, perhaps as a teacher
a substitute
Gary
|
$1,200
[26]
Katharine Hepburn majored in history & philosophy at this Seven Sisters school that's just outside Philadelphia
Bryn Mawr
Jillian
|
|
$1,200
[15]
After 144 years of good times & hard time, this Illinois prison where Jake Blues did time closed in 2002
Joliet
Gary
|
$800
[9]
In 1996 a cat named this dashed into a burning NYC building 5 times to pull her kittens out, & frankly, we do give a damn
Scarlett
Gary
|
$800
[19]
Huzzah! Thou hast undertaken a tour of Iqaluit & Yellowknife, territorial capitals in this country
Canada
Claxton
|
$800
[6]
In 1974 James went to Zaire to perform before this boxer's "Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman
Ali
Gary
|
$800
[2]
A group of 3, with or without a Holy Ghost
a trinity
Gary
|
— |
|
$1,600
[16]
After 12,000 years staring out over New Hampshire, this senior citizensuccumbed in 2003
the Old Man of the Mountain
Jillian
Claxton
|
$1,200
[10]
In mammals, a mother gestates a zygote, which becomes an embryo & then this, from the Latin for "offspring"
a fetus
|
$1,200
[20]
Thy travels have taken thee to Wels, Graz & Innsbruck in this country
Austria
Gary
|
$1,200
[24]
In 1989 "The Godfather of Soul" duetted with this "Queen of Soul" on "Gimme Your Love"
Aretha Franklin
Gary
|
$1,200
[3]
The state of living alone, even for 100 years... in a fortress
solitude
Gary
|
— |
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
White hair was not a sign of age for Debby, who died in a Winnipeg zoo in 2008 as the oldest living one of these animals
a polar bear
Gary
|
$1,600
[11]
In relative terms, this so-called bear has the smallest babies of any placental mammal--just 1/800 of Mama's weight
a panda
Gary
|
$1,600
[21]
Zoinks! Thou findest thyself at this South American country's border with Panama
Colombia
|
$1,600
[23]
On Oct. 24, 1962 Brown's legendary stage act was taped for a live album at this iconic venue in Harlem
the Apollo Theater
Gary
|
$1,600
[4]
A coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz & feldspar
granite
Claxton
|
— |
|
$2,000
[17]
In 1989 Father Time went to Switzerland to get Franz Josef II, prince of this small neighbor since 1938
Liechtenstein
|
$2,000
[12]
These royal mothers, aka hamadryads, lay 20-40 eggs in a mound of leaves; they'll strike if you get too close
king cobras
Gary
|
$2,000
[22]
Thou art landlocked in this Southeast Asian country, yet may still enjoy its cities of Xam Nua & Muang Xon
Laos
|
$2,000
[25]
James sang, "When you kiss me, when you mess me, hold my hand, make me understand, I break out--in" this
a cold sweat
|
$2,000
[7]
Reparation made by giving compensation for loss or damage
restitution
Jillian
|
— |
Though known for writing nonsense verse, he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons & Tennyson wrote a poem to him
Edward Lear