Margaret Meehan — a medical records supervisor from Brick, New Jersey
Barry McKnight — a sportscaster from Auburn, Alabama
Clinton Reese — a student from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $39,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton | $1,200 | $3,400 | $9,000 |
$6,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
12 R, 2 W |
| Barry | $2,400 | $5,000 | $3,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 8 W |
| Margaret | $4,000 | $6,800 | $19,900 |
$20,800
New champion: $20,800 |
$19,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| WRITERS ON CAPE COD | CELEBRITY RELATIVES | THEY NAMED IT FOR ME | TAKE IN ORDER | '60s STUFF | GIVE "P"s A CHANCE |
|
$200
[26]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) In the years after leaving Walden Pond, he made four walking trips to Cape Cod, wishing to get a better view of the ocean
(Henry David) Thoreau
Clinton
|
$200
[16]
His father Shirley Povich was one of the greatest sportswriters of the 20th century
Maury Povich
Barry
|
$200
[11]
His big wheel built for the 1893 expo in Chicago & used at the 1904 expo in St. Louis was then sold for scrap
George Ferris
Barry
|
$200
[21]
By definition, crudites are veggies served this way
raw
Margaret
|
$200
[6]
In 1967 this company bought Burger King for a lot of dough, boy
Pillsbury
Barry
|
$200
[1]
On his last of 3 live appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show", he was only shown from the waist up
Elvis Presley
Margaret
|
|
$400
[27]
This "Breakfast of Champions" author once put breakfast on the table by selling Saabs on Cape Cod
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Margaret
|
$400
[17]
The family tree of actress Leelee Sobieski includes Jan Sobieski, a 17th century king of this country
Poland
Margaret
|
$400
[12]
She left her mark on Louis XV & her name on a big hair style
Madame de Pompadour
Barry
|
$400
[22]
Egypt's hawk-headed sun god
Ra
Barry
|
$400
[7]
Photographer Linda Eastman hooked up with this rock star in 1967 & married him 2 years later
Paul McCartney
Barry
|
$400
[2]
You might need "jacks or better" to open when playing this game
poker
Clinton
|
|
$600
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew) Though part of it was written in one of these Cape Cod dune shacks, his 1957 work "On the Road" begins & ends in New York City
Jack Kerouac
Barry
|
$600
[18]
This actor from "Twin Peaks" & "Sex and the City" claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach
Kyle MacLachlan
|
$600
[13]
A territory in Africa & a scholarship in Oxford have borne this businessman's name
Cecil Rhodes
Margaret
|
$600
[23]
Speaking familially, the opposite of bro
sis
Barry
|
$600
[8]
A soup can Andy Warhol exhibited in 1960 was Campbell's this, of the genus Lycopersicon, & rice
tomato
Barry
Margaret
|
$600
[3]
Since 1954, the Blue Angels' home base has been this Florida naval air station known as the "Annapolis of the Air"
Pensacola
Margaret
|
|
$800
[29]
This 4-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright launched his career with the Provincetown Players
Eugene O'Neill
Barry
Margaret
|
$800
[19]
She got her first big break playing Connie in "The Godfather", directed by her brother Francis Ford Coppola
Talia Shire
Barry
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
Last name of John & Henry, who leased the land for a Louisville racetrack to their nephew
Churchill
Margaret
|
$800
[24]
Oops, "I fall down, go" this
boom
Barry
|
$800
[9]
Popular fashions in 1967 included the Sgt. Pepper satin uniform look & jackets named for this ex-Indian prime minister
Nehru
Barry
|
$800
[4]
Ceramic name for the type of enamel used in bathroom fixtures
porcelain
Clinton
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In January 2003 Provincetown proclaimed this "Naked and the Dead" author's day, in honor of his 80th birthday
Norman Mailer
Clinton
|
$1,000
[20]
Dancer Martha Graham was a descendant of this colonist whose "Courtship" was the subject of a famous poem
Miles Standish
Clinton
|
$1,000
[15]
Though famous for his red-shirted followers, he has an orange fish named for him
Giuseppe Garibaldi
|
$1,000
[25]
In 2003 Playtex introduced 1/2 sizes to this product
bras
Margaret
|
$1,000
[10]
Comic artist who created the famous "Keep on Trucking" cartoon
Robert Crumb
Margaret
|
$1,000
[5]
A verb & the words modifying it make up this syntactic unit that's part of a complete sentence
predicate
Barry
|
| THE HIMALAYAS | SPORTS NUMBERS | BOTANY | WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK WAS IT? | PEOPLE IN SONG | FROM THE GREEK |
|
$400
[16]
In 1951 British explorer Eric Shipton took photos of what were reported to be the footprints of this creature
the Yeti/the Abominable Snowman
Barry
|
$400
[6]
Number in the name of a Florida auto race first run on February 22, 1959
(Daytona) 500
Barry
|
DD
$100
[29]
Also known as ling, this low evergreen shrub grows in the moors of Britain & is found in peat bogs
heather
Margaret
|
$400
[11]
March 31, 2002, seen here
Sunday
Margaret
|
$400
[1]
Pam Tillis asked us to "Call Me" this woman, "'cause I'm the queen of denial"
Cleopatra
Margaret
|
$400
[17]
Before you ask for mine, you should know it's from the Greek for "self written"
autograph
Margaret
|
|
$800
[22]
This pack animal is also called the grunting ox because of its grunts of protest when it is overloaded
yak
Barry
|
$800
[7]
A period of regulation play in the National Hockey League lasts this many minutes
20
Margaret
|
$400
[26]
This green plant pigment was first produced in the laboratory by Robert Woodward in 1960
chlorophyll
Clinton
|
$800
[12]
November 3, 1992, November 5, 1996 & November 7, 2000
Tuesday
Margaret
|
$800
[2]
Eminem compared himself & his daughter to this gangster duo of the 1930s
Bonnie and Clyde
Margaret
|
$800
[18]
In church, & on a chess board, it's from the Greek for "overseer"
bishop
Barry
|
|
$1,200
[23]
This peak in the Karakoram Range is the second-highest in the Himalayas
K2 (Godwin-Austen)
Barry
|
$1,200
[8]
(I'm NFL wide receiver Troy Brown) I'm happy to say that a defensive back can only bump me until I'm this far from the line of scrimmage
5 yards
Clinton
|
$800
[27]
Of tulips, carnations or dahlias, the one not grown from bulbs
carnations
Clinton
Barry
|
$1,200
[13]
October 27, 2001 & another sea of red, seen here
Saturday
Clinton
|
$1,200
[3]
A big band number said this man "sailed the sea without a compass, when his men began a rumpus"
Christopher Columbus
|
$1,200
[19]
This liquid part of the blood derives its name from the Greek for something molded or formed
plasma
Margaret
|
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Pilgrims from all parts of central Asia journey to Tibet to Mount Kailas, which is sacred to these 2 religions
Buddhism & Hinduism
Barry
|
$1,600
[9]
If you strike out & double in 2 major league at bats, your batting average is .500 & your slugging average is this
1.000
Clinton
|
$1,200
[28]
The "L" attached to the names of numerous plants refers to this 18th century botanist
(Carl) Linnaeus
Margaret
|
$1,600
[14]
April 14, 1865
Friday
Barry
Margaret
|
$1,600
[4]
Don McLean's musical tribute to this man begins, "Starry starry night"
Vincent van Gogh
Margaret
|
$1,600
[20]
From Greek for "color", it means pertaining to color, or to a musical scale that's been modified
chromatic
Clinton
Barry
|
|
$2,000
[25]
This river, Pakistan's longest, rises in Tibet & then flows through the Himalayas on its way to the sea
the Indus
|
$2,000
[10]
Minimum number of points you must win to win a set in tennis
24
Clinton
|
$2,000
[30]
It's the carbohydrate found in fruits used to jell various foods
pectin
Barry
|
$2,000
[15]
October 19, 1987, a "Black" day for Wall Street
Monday
Clinton
Barry
Margaret
|
$2,000
[5]
The Beatles' "I'm So Tired" says, "I'll have another cigarette and curse" this man who died in 1618
Sir Walter Raleigh
Margaret
|
$2,000
[21]
A battery of tests will tell you this element's name is from the Greek for "stony"
lithium
Clinton
Barry
|
In 1923 the Zeiss unit seen here was placed under a dome to create the first modern one of these
a planetarium