Diane Haltigan — a software engineer from Norfolk, Virginia
Andrew Fechner — a television programmer from Montclair, New Jersey
Gila Stadler — a molecular epidemiologist from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gila | $2,600 | $6,000 | $7,600 |
$12,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Andrew | $2,800 | $6,000 | $15,200 |
$26,001
New champion: $26,001 |
$17,200
25 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Diane | $1,400 | $3,400 | $13,000 |
$9,700
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| COUNTRIES IN SPACE | U.S. FIRSTS | WORD-BY-WORD BOOK SUMMARIES | IT IS WHAT IT "IS" | MY GIRLFRIEND | SUCH A SWEETIE |
|
$200
[1]
Using a launch site in the Gobi desert, this country became the third to send a human into orbit
China
Diane
|
$200
[13]
2006 research shows the first ships bringing us this shameful cargo were the Treasurer & White Lion, in 1619
slaves
Gila
|
$200
[11]
1726:English.Shipwreck.Giant.Tiny.Airborne.Horses
Gulliver's Travels
Andrew
|
$200
[6]
A single magazine put forth & circulated
an issue
Andrew
|
$200
[26]
Donald Duck started dating this gal pal in the 1940 cartoon "Mr. Duck Steps Out"
Daisy Duck
Andrew
|
$200
[21]
It's "The Great American Chocolate Bar"
Hershey's
Andrew
|
|
$400
[2]
This country named its Sina-1 satellite after a Persian philosopher
Iran
Gila
|
$400
[14]
In 1845 a Boston hotel became the first U.S. building to be warmed by this, also a "Pajama Game" song
steam heat
Gila
|
$400
[12]
1831:Paris.Mega-scoliosis.Ding-dong.Gypsy.Death.Fin
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Andrew
|
$400
[7]
Asian capital city just northeast of Rawalpindi
Islamabad
Andrew
|
$400
[27]
Superman met this love interest working at the Daily Planet
Lois Lane
Gila
|
$400
[22]
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't" when purchasing these 2 candy bars
Almond Joy and Mounds
Andrew
|
|
$600
[3]
To launch satellites, this country's Shavit rockets take the Mediterranean route to avoid hostile neighbors
Israel
Andrew
|
$600
[15]
Some El Pasoans say America's real first Thanksgiving was the one Juan de Onate held on arrival at this river in 1598
the Rio Grande
Diane
|
$600
[16]
1878:Heroine.Russia.Affair.Exile.Paranoia.Train!
Anna Karenina
Gila
|
$600
[8]
Ms. Duncan of dance (& unfortunately long scarves)
Isadora
Diane
|
$600
[28]
Shiver me timbers! She's Popeye's beanpole babe
Olive Oyl
Diane
|
$600
[23]
People have been puckering up with these candies since the '60s
Lemon Heads
Gila
Diane
|
|
$800
[4]
This country successfully launched its VSB-30 rocket just south of the equator at Alcantara
Brazil
Gila
|
$800
[19]
Our country's first of these was held in a crystal palace in NYC's Bryant Park in 1853 & lost $300,000
a World's Fair
Gila
|
$800
[17]
1902:Congo.Upriver.Jungle.Godlike.Horror.Horror
Heart of Darkness
Andrew
|
$800
[9]
Half of a pair of doomed lovers, she marries King Mark, but not before falling for the guy who came to get her
Isolde
Gila
|
$800
[29]
She's Porky Pig's "flowery" main squeeze
Petunia
Andrew
|
$800
[24]
"Nobody better lay a finger on" this candy I left in my dressing room
a Butterfinger
Andrew
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This north African country once ruled by France launched its ALSAT-1 satellite from a Russian cosmodrome
Algeria
Andrew
|
DD
$1,000
[20]
The USA's first housing projects were built in Austin in 1939 with the help of this Congressman on the rise
LBJ
Gila
|
$1,000
[18]
1922:Dublin.June.Writer.Bloom.Intersection.Yes
Ulysses
Diane
|
$1,000
[10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of an illustration of blood vessels.) In a frequent cause of heart disease, blood flow to tissues is decreased by obstructed arteries, a condition called this
cardiac ischemia
|
$1,000
[30]
In comic books, she's been Spider-Man's girlfriend & his wife
Mary Jane Parker (or Mary Jane Watson)
Andrew
|
$1,000
[25]
They're the movie theater favorites seen here
Junior Mints
Andrew
Diane
|
| 19th CENTURY SENATORS BY STATE | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES | BREAKING THE ICE WITH ICEBREAKERS | MATHLETES | SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME |
|
$400
[25]
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts
Andrew
|
$400
[1]
"We're after the same rainbow's end--waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend"
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Diane
|
$400
[21]
The Experience Music Projectin this city has been called "blobitecture"
Seattle
Andrew
|
$400
[14]
Your friend looks like Lenin--reminds me that in 1957 the icebreaker Lenin was the first surface ship powered by this
nuclear energy
Andrew
|
$400
[9]
In the 1730s Leonhard Euler made this delicious Greek letter the standard symbol for a familiar ratio
pi
Andrew
|
$400
[6]
Cordelia's dad's lagers
Lear's beers
Diane
|
|
$800
[26]
Howell Jackson, Andrew Jackson
Tennessee
Andrew
|
$800
[2]
" 'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin', because I'm free, nothin's worryin' me"
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Andrew
|
$800
[22]
Brutalism influenced the design ofthisD.C. building, named for a long-serving law-enforcement official
the J. Edgar Hoover Building
Diane
|
$800
[15]
I'm just "aboot" sure you come from this country that has the icebreakers Terry Fox & Louis S. St-Laurent
Canada
Andrew
|
$1,200
[11]
To simplify multiplication and division, Scotsman John Napier published a book outlining these in 1614
logarithms
|
$800
[7]
Robin Goodfellow's formal wear
Puck's tux
Diane
|
|
$1,200
[27]
Newton Booth, Leland Stanford
California
Andrew
|
$1,200
[3]
"When you get caught between the moon and New York City"
Arthur
Diane
|
$1,200
[23]
This city's Our Lady of the Angels Cathedralis said to be a postmodern interpretation of Spanish missions
Los Angeles
|
$1,200
[16]
I enjoy this red Italian spirit, which has its own "club", over ice; some icebreakers can ram through ice 23 feet thick
Campari
|
$1,600
[12]
John Nash has a beautiful mind that contributed to this "theory" of strategic decision making
game theory
Andrew
|
$1,200
[8]
"Et tu Brute" speaker's playground antagonizers
Caesar's teasers
Andrew
|
|
$1,600
[28]
John Slidell, C.D.J. Bouligny
Louisiana
Andrew
|
$1,600
[4]
"When I was just a little girl I asked my mother what will I be"
The Man Who Knew Too Much
|
$1,600
[24]
High-tech architecture is on view with this Paris landmark
the Centre Pompidou
Andrew
|
$1,600
[17]
You were born in '69? That's the year the oil tanker/icebreaker S.S. Manhattan went through this passage
the Northwest Passage
Gila
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
He thought, in math the last letters should stand for unknowns & the first letters for known quantities--therefore it was
René Descartes
Andrew
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
Prospero's daughter's large Southern porches
Miranda's verandas
Diane
|
| — |
$2,000
[5]
"Far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow"
An Officer and a Gentleman
|
— |
$2,000
[18]
Aren't penguins cute? Think about boarding an icebreaker on a cruise to see these 2 largest species
the King and the Emperor
Diane
|
$2,000
[13]
In 1995, 330 years after his death, proof was found for his last theorem
Fermat
Diane
|
$2,000
[20]
Cressida's lover, after happiness has vanished
joyless Troilus
|
It's the only city whose teams won the Super Bowl & the Stanley Cup in the same calendar year
Pittsburgh