Sam Ott game 3.
Matt McWha — a consultant from Arlington, Virginia
Mary Laferriere — an administrative assistant from West Warwick, Rhode Island
Sam Ott — a graduate student from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | $2,600 | $6,800 | $14,500 |
$18,001
3-day champion: $44,002 |
$13,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Mary | $200 | $1,000 | $5,000 |
$9,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
11 R, 4 W |
| Matt | $1,200 | $1,800 | $9,000 |
$11,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| NAME GAME | THE OLD TESTAMENT | ROAD MOVIES | HEADLINE NEWS 1899 | LOVE, HONOR OR OBEY | 10-LETTER WORDS |
|
$200
[6]
Based on the 1990 census, this color is also the fifth most common last name in the U.S.
Brown
Sam
Mary
Matt
|
$200
[26]
He "was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights"
Jonah
Mary
|
$200
[1]
Freddy Krueger was introduced in this 1984 scarefest
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Sam
|
$200
[21]
This man forms Detroit automobile company
(Henry) Ford
Sam
|
$200
[11]
The one that doesn't appear in the Boy Scout oath
love
Sam
|
$200
[16]
It's the good book's last book
Revelation
Sam
|
|
$400
[7]
Around the time of this war, Kimberley was a popular name for British boys
the Boer War
Matt
|
$400
[27]
This city was the site of Solomon's temple
Jerusalem
Sam
|
$400
[2]
Classic 1950 film that includes the line "All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up"
Sunset Boulevard
Mary
|
$400
[22]
Defeating English challenger Shamrock, U.S. continues its dominance of this sailing race
the America's Cup
Matt
|
$400
[12]
The Daleks of "Dr. Who" have a limited vocabulary; basically it's this or "You will be exterminated!"
obey
Sam
|
$400
[17]
It's a 3-flavored ice cream usually consisting of chocolate, strawberry & vanilla
Neapolitan
Mary
|
|
$600
[8]
It's fair to say that this first name of an 'N Sync member is from the Latin for "fair & righteous"
Justin (Timberlake)
Sam
|
$600
[28]
Exodus 3:8 describes the Promised Land as "flowing with" these 2 items
milk and honey
Sam
|
$600
[3]
Michael Douglas won an Oscar for assuring us that "Greed... is good" in this 1987 film
Wall Street
Mary
|
$600
[23]
This girl seenheresets fashion trends for women
the Gibson Girl
Matt
|
$600
[13]
Those darn Brits add a "U' to it
honor (honour)
Sam
|
$600
[18]
In an orchestra, it's the section where you'll find the timpani
percussion
Sam
|
|
$800
[9]
This presidential first name was originally used as a given name to honor Protestant reformer John
Calvin
|
$800
[29]
Evil men at Lot's house were smitten with this affliction "so that they wearied themselves to find the door"
blindness
Sam
|
$800
[4]
Naomi Watts & Laura Elena Harring starred in this 2001 Hollywood noir film directed by David Lynch
Mulholland Drive
Sam
|
$800
[24]
Led by this man, "Wild Bunch" gang robs Wyoming train of $30,000
Butch Cassidy
Mary
|
$800
[14]
It's repeated 9 times at the start of the following
love
Matt
|
$800
[19]
Presented by a grand jury, it's a formal written accusation charging a party with a crime
indictment
Sam
|
|
$1,000
[10]
As a child Queen Elizabeth II went by this 3-syllable pet form of her name
Lilibet
Mary
Matt
|
$1,000
[30]
57 of the 150 of these were meant to be accompanied by a stringed instrument
the Psalms
Sam
|
$1,000
[5]
College professor Jeff Bridges begins to suspect that his neighbor Tim Robbins is a terrorist in this 1999 thriller
Arlington Road
Matt
|
DD
$800
[25]
General Arthur MacArthur battles rebels in this Asian country
the Philippines
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
This type of guard accompanies a casket at a military funeral
honor guard
Matt
|
$1,000
[20]
It's the medical branch that deals with antigens & antibodies & the body's ability to fight off disease
immunology
Mary
|
| GAME NAME | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | ISLANDS OF THE WEST INDIES | GRAPHICS | MOVED TO FRANCE | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES |
|
$400
[13]
For a piece of the pie... this game full of factoids came out with a 20th anniversary edition in 2002
Trivial Pursuit
Sam
|
$400
[18]
In 1885 one of these explosions, the brightest to appear for the next century, appeared in the Andromeda galaxy
a supernova
Mary
|
$400
[26]
This largest West Indian country's Isle of Youth was formerly called the Isle of Pines
Cuba
|
$400
[6]
The font seenhereis named for this machine famously used by Mark Twain
a typewriter
Sam
|
$400
[8]
By 1903 this American had settled in France where she was joined by Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
Matt
|
$400
[1]
To be indebted
to owe (o)
Sam
|
|
$800
[14]
This classic board game was once known as Criss-Cross Words
Scrabble
Sam
|
$800
[19]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.) Nomad became the first robot to find extraterrestrial objects when it snagged these in Antarctica
meteorites
Sam
|
$800
[27]
1 of 2 Caribbean overseas departments of France
Martinique or Guadeloupe
Mary
|
$800
[7]
The Pantone formula guide shows 1,114 of these with their corresponding ink formulas
colors
Sam
|
$800
[9]
This "Waiting for Godot" author moved to France where he worked with fellow Irishman James Joyce
Samuel Beckett
Matt
|
$800
[2]
The first word of "The Rainbow Connection"
Why (y)
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[15]
"Fiend Folio" & "Monster Manual" are 2 of the books used in conjunction with this game
Dungeons and Dragons
Sam
|
$1,200
[20]
AKA Zidovudine, the drug AZT was approved in 1987 to fight this virus
HIV/AIDS
Sam
|
$1,200
[28]
This capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands is the largest cruise-ship port in the Caribbean
Charlotte Amalie
Mary
Matt
|
$1,200
[23]
Named for their large storage tray, these proofs with a nautical name are checked before pages are made up
galleys
Matt
|
DD
$1,200
[10]
This Pennsylvania-born woman was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1904 for her art
Mary Cassatt
Matt
|
$1,200
[3]
The sugar one is also called the Mennonite one (Mennonites like it)
pea (p)
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[17]
It's all there in black & white; this strategy game is named for a Shakespeare play
Othello
Mary
|
$1,600
[21]
In 1919 this rocket pioneer published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"
(Robert) Goddard
Mary
|
$1,600
[29]
1 of the 2 nations formed when the Grenadines chain split in the 1970s
Grenada or St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Mary
|
$1,600
[24]
The resolution of printers is measured in DPI, dots per inch; on a screen, in PPI, this
pixels per inch
Matt
|
$1,600
[11]
The story of this dancer who became a French citizen in 1937 was made into a telepic starring Lynn Whitfield
Josephine Baker
Matt
|
$1,600
[4]
A pigtail once mandatory in the British army
queue (q)
Sam
|
|
DD
$2,500
[16]
Known as Jumpman when introduced in Donkey Kong, this video game character has since appeared in over 70 games
Mario
Sam
|
$2,000
[22]
In 1885, 14 years after a more famous find, this German archaeologist excavated Tiryns in Greece
Heinrich Schliemann
Matt
|
$2,000
[30]
This country has been independent since 1804, making it the 2nd-oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere
Haiti
|
$2,000
[25]
One paragraph seenhereis right ragged, the other is right this, also called aligned & flush
justified
Mary
|
$2,000
[12]
Look up in the Paris opera & you'll see a ceiling by this Russian-born artist who moved to France in 1923
Marc Chagall
|
$2,000
[5]
"Haw" tells an animal to turn left & this means turn right
gee (g)
|
When this program shows its address to write for audience tickets, its graphic has used one of the stamps seen here
The Price Is Right