Amanda Baber — a project assistant originally from Edmond, Oklahoma
Jayson Johnson — a systems analyst from Charlotte, North Carolina
Rachel Pildis — a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel | $2,600 | $2,400 | $11,800 |
$16,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,800
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jayson | $3,000 | $6,800 | $12,600 |
$1,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Amanda | $3,000 | $6,900 | $15,300 |
$25,200
New champion: $25,200 |
$14,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA | FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS | WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE | THE SHARED LOUISIANA PARISH NAME | FOOTWEAR | BROKE-DOWN WORDS |
|
$200
[6]
It was all coming apart. The VP from Maryland had resigned. Congress was coming after him. Pray with me, Henry, he said
Nixon
Amanda
|
$200
[16]
In Romania, this Nicole Kidman film was called "What New Magic Tricks My Wife Did"
Bewitched
Rachel
Amanda
|
$200
[1]
In prehistoric times 10 foot tall "terror birds" ranged over much of this continent, including Patagonia
South America
Jayson
|
$200
[21]
Benjamin, Sir John, Aretha
Franklin
Jayson
|
$200
[11]
An infant's knitted or crocheted sock worn as an indoor shoe
bootie
Jayson
|
$200
[26]
My 1-2-3 letter is the stone of a fruit & my 4-5-6-7 is a season
pitfall
Amanda
|
|
$400
[7]
Things were good. Economy, strong. His country, at peace. But now Ken Starr was asking Reno for more power...
(Bill) Clinton
Jayson
|
$400
[17]
Michael J. Fox voiced this "Smart Little Mouse" in China & " "Naughty Mouse" in Egypt
Stuart Little
Jayson
|
$400
[2]
The shamainu or Honshu type of this canine, died out early in the 20th century
wolf
|
$400
[22]
Marbury v., Oscar, Square Garden
Madison
Jayson
|
$400
[12]
Also called zoris, they're backless rubber sandals with a thong between the first 2 toes
a flip-flop
Rachel
|
$400
[27]
My 1-2-3 is a basenji or borzoi and my 4-5-6-7-8-9-10 was Mike Piazza's position
dogcatcher
Jayson
|
|
$600
[8]
7 of the 15 slave states had seceded, but he simply let them go. & would he ever find the right gal to marry? (Nope)
Buchanan
Jayson
|
$600
[18]
This Adam Sandler football film was "Crazy Match in Prison" in Hong Kong; in Sweden, "Bonesquashing Mob--Crush 'Em"
The Longest Yard
Jayson
|
$600
[3]
Though specimens still exist in zoos, the Barbary lion, native to the north of this continent, is extinct in the wild
Africa
Rachel
|
$600
[23]
Jesse, Robert H., Stonewall
Jackson
Amanda
|
$600
[13]
Used in fishing and hunting, they're named for the activity of walking into water
waders
Jayson
|
$600
[28]
My 1-2-3-4-5 was British host David & my 6-7-8-9 means "to wound with the teeth"
frostbite
Amanda
|
|
$800
[9]
First Teapot Dome, & now Daugherty, his A.G., was on trial for shady dealings; he kept feeling that the end was near
Warren Harding
Rachel
|
$800
[19]
Switzerland messed with this Adam Sandler title, calling it "For Your Hair Only"; Spain had a "License to Comb"
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
|
$800
[4]
The Xerces Blue of this insect, native to sand dunes in San Francisco's Sunset District, became extinct in the 1940s
butterflies
Rachel
|
$800
[24]
Ethan, Paul, Woody
Allen
Jayson
|
$800
[14]
A wooden shoe traditionally worn in Holland
clog
Amanda
|
$800
[29]
My 1-2-3-4 is what a bad golfer yells & my 5-6-7-8-9-10 follows him on a sunny day
foreshadow
Amanda
|
|
$1,000
[10]
The President was dead. He was top dog now. & he had a Nobel Peace Prize to win, & a canal to build in Central America
Teddy Roosevelt
Jayson
|
$1,000
[20]
Folks in Greece know this Eddie Murphy film as "Daddies as Nannies"
Daddy Day Care
|
$1,000
[5]
The bulldog rat disappeared around 1900 from this Aussie-owned island named for a holiday
Christmas Island
Amanda
|
$1,000
[25]
Ex-Senator Chafee, Senator Blanche, Tunnel
Lincoln
Jayson
|
$1,000
[15]
Casual slip-on shoes with flaps on the front of the tongues sometimes used to hold a coin
a penny loafer
Amanda
|
DD
$1,500
[30]
My 1-2-3 is active hostility between nations & my 4-5-6-7 is a gated chamber in a canal or dam
warlock
Amanda
|
| OUR GEOMETRIC WORLD | BARTENDING | PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS | PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS | WATCHING THE DETECTIVES | "MON"-OTONY |
|
$400
[11]
Each point on this line is 1,624 miles from the North Pole
the Arctic Circle
Rachel
Jayson
|
$400
[16]
Use the kosher type of this, not iodized, to rim glasses
salt
Jayson
|
$400
[1]
"The Very Hungry ____"
Caterpillar
Jayson
Amanda
|
$400
[4]
It's the direct apprehension of knowledge without the application of reason; a woman's is said to be pretty good
intuition
Rachel
|
$400
[9]
From 1974 to 1980 we watched this title guy drive his sweet Firebird to his even sweeter Malibu trailer (& catch bad guys)
Rockford
Amanda
|
$400
[22]
Display device for a computer
a monitor
Amanda
|
|
$800
[12]
Mike Tyson & U2 have both done their thing at this arena in Memphis, Tennessee
Pyramid Arena
|
$800
[17]
To create a rainbow with different colored cordials, pour each one slowly over this utensil, rounded side up
spoon
Rachel
|
$800
[2]
"If You Give a ____ a Cookie"
Mouse
|
$800
[5]
The belief that we cannot know whether or not God exists
agnosticism
Rachel
|
$800
[10]
From 1980 to 1988 we watched this title guy drive his sweet Ferrari to his even sweeter Hawaiian pad (& catch bad guys)
Magnum
Rachel
|
$800
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a script and declaims.) In the name of all the gods & the power of all that is in me, I declare it's another name for a soliloquy
a monologue
Rachel
|
|
$1,200
[13]
The Jan. 1, 1996 surrender of drug lord Khun Sa was a blow to the Asian trafficking area named the Golden This
Triangle
Rachel
|
$1,200
[18]
At a meal, a wine glass should only be filled halfway so the wine can be swirled to appreciate this 7-letter quality
bouquet
Amanda
|
$1,200
[3]
"Make Way for ____"
Ducklings
Rachel
|
$1,200
[6]
In ancient times, the 4 basic constituent elements of the physical world
wind, earth, fire and water
Jayson
|
$1,200
[19]
From 1963 to 1967, America watched Detective Gerard chase his quarry on this series (& rooted against him the whole time)
The Fugitive
Amanda
|
$1,200
[24]
It's a sequence of overlapping film clips edited for effect
a montage
Jayson
|
|
$1,600
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In a 1986 confrontation, Libyan leader Khaddafi said no U.S. ships would be allowed past the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra, drawing what he called this 3-word phrase
the Line of Death
|
$2,000
[28]
Thistype of beer glass is named for a style of beer
pilsner
Rachel
|
$1,600
[29]
"Harry the Dirty ____"
Dog
Jayson
|
$2,000
[8]
David Hume held this view, that sense & experience are the sole foundation of knowledge
empiricism
Amanda
|
$1,600
[20]
In 2009 we watched this tall guy replace Chris Noth on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"
Jeff Goldblum
Amanda
|
$1,600
[25]
It's another term for a nickname, Shorty
moniker
Jayson
|
|
$2,000
[15]
"Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell" this, between the Haymarket & Charing Cross Road
Leicester Square
Rachel
|
DD
$3,000
[27]
Unlike liqueurs, this type of spirit flavored with herbs & roots is unsweetened, as you can gather from the name
bitters
Rachel
|
$2,000
[30]
"Is Your Momma a ____?"
Llama
|
DD
$3,000
[7]
Look! It's this advanced ideal being described in the works of Nietzsche
superman
Jayson
|
$2,000
[21]
Got HBO? You can watch Jason Schwartzman play a Brooklyn writer turned P.I. on this show
Bored to Death
Amanda
|
$2,000
[26]
The only members of this group of mammals are the echidnas & the platypus
the monotremes
Rachel
|
About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."
Charles Lindbergh