Rick Reed — an electrical engineer from Charlottesville, Virginia
Amy Wilson — a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
Ken Starnes — a telecommunications consultant from Little Rock, Arkansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $3,200 | $7,000 | $19,100 |
$16,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$21,800
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amy | $400 | $3,200 | $10,000 |
$19,999
New champion: $19,999 |
$10,000
13 R, 1 W |
| Rick | $2,800 | $1,000 | $6,200 |
$10,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,200
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| NATIVE AMERICANS | 2009 MLB RECAP | DUMB CRIMINALS | LITERARY AWARDS | BAKING BRANDS | A LONE PRIVATE "I" |
|
$200
[1]
Jumping Bull was the father of this more sedentary Native American chief
Sitting Bull
Ken
|
$200
[13]
They had the best regular-season record, 103-59
the New York Yankees
|
$200
[6]
While robbing a West Virginia home, a man logged into this social network site but did not log out
Facebook
Ken
|
$200
[15]
For Civil War works, winners of an award from Gettysburg College receive $50,000 & a bust of him
Lincoln
Amy
|
$200
[11]
The first cake mix from "her" brand was ginger cake
Betty Crocker
Amy
|
$200
[23]
First name of P.I.-portraying actor Powell, or slang for a detective
Dick
Rick
|
|
$400
[2]
Originally called Curly, this "mad" guy was the battlefield leader during the Sioux Wars of resistance in the 1870s
Crazy Horse
Ken
|
$400
[14]
Shortly after coming back from a 50-game suspension, this Dodger hit a pinch-hit grand slam to beat the Reds
Manny Ramirez
Rick
|
$400
[7]
An Indiana man made a 2009 run for the county border, leading a 90-mph chase only to stop at this fast food place for a burrito
Taco Bell
Rick
|
$400
[16]
In 1901, French poet Sully Prudhomme became the first recipient of this
the Nobel Prize for Literature
Rick
|
$400
[12]
The logo of this brand of baking soda was created (or should we say forged?) in 1867
Arm & Hammer
Ken
|
$400
[24]
A detective looking back in regret on leads he should have followed up knows the cliche this "is 20/20"
hindsight
Rick
|
|
$600
[3]
Florida's Big Cypress Indian reservation is home to this tribe
the Seminoles
Ken
|
$600
[18]
This Angels skipper didn't have a so-so year; he led the team to the postseason & was Manager of the Year
Mike Scioscia
Ken
|
$600
[8]
A Tennessee man saw his stolen furnace for sale on this .org; the criminal even helped the cops load it on a truck before getting busted
Craigslist
Ken
|
$1,000
[27]
Winners of this award include Scott O'Dell for "Island of the Blue Dolphins" & Lois Lowry for "Number the Stars"
the Newbery
Rick
|
$600
[17]
"Home is calling" with this brand that has sponsored a bake-off contest for over 40 years
Pillsbury
Ken
|
$800
[25]
That smooth-talking attorney practices this type of law regulating ordinary private matters, rather than criminal
civil
Amy
|
|
$800
[4]
You auto know this chief of the Ottawa who fought against the British settlements in the 1760s
Pontiac
|
$800
[19]
On August 23, Philadelphia 2B Eric Bruntlett became the 15th major leaguer to pull off an unassisted one of these
a triple play
Ken
|
$800
[9]
Criminals, don't call this "You can do it. We can help" store & ask "How do you get a large quantity of blood out of a carpet?"
Home Depot
Ken
|
DD
$3,000
[28]
The Poetry Book Society of the U.K. & the Truman State University Press of Missouri both give an award named for him
Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot)
Rick
|
$800
[21]
Flour from Washburn Crosby Company won this in 1880 & was renamed for it, still the name of the brand
Gold Medal
Ken
Rick
|
$1,000
[26]
Shamus, I hear you're doing sidework for this security firm founded in 1859 that uses big armored cars
Brink's
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[5]
In the late 1800s the prophet Wovoka, a Paiute Indian, founded a religion based on this spectral "dance"
a ghost dance
Rick
|
$1,000
[20]
This team came from 7 games behind to catch the Tigers & beat them in a one-game playoff for the AL Central title
the Minnesota Twins
Ken
|
$1,000
[10]
A man in Gwinnett County in this Southern state hijacked a car to get to his court date on time; had a stolen gun, too
Georgia
Rick
|
— |
$1,000
[22]
This Nestle brand calls its story "semi-sweet"; its chocolate morsels were first sold in packages in 1939
Toll House
Amy
|
— |
| BIBLICAL IMPERSONATORS | SHAKESPEARE RETOOLED | LIKE A HURRICANE | NEWSPAPER NAMES | THE LIFE & REIGN OF CHARLES I | "CHOP!" |
|
$400
[1]
According to Paul in the New Testament, this personage masquerades as an angel of light
the devil (Satan)
Ken
Amy
|
$400
[20]
Kurosawa's "Ran", an adaptation of this play, is set in 16th c. Japan & deals with 2 treacherous sons & one good one
King Lear
Amy
|
$400
[11]
Hurricanes are bad enough, but they also spin off these other hazards; Hurricane Beulah generated 141 when it hit Texas in 1967
tornadoes
Ken
|
$400
[5]
New York & Washington both have papers called this, another name for the mail
the Post
Ken
|
$400
[4]
At his baptism Charles was made the Duke of this, also the name of New York's capital city
Albany
Rick
|
$400
[9]
Asian eating utilsils
chopsticks
Ken
|
|
$800
[2]
By pretending to be ambassadors from a distant country, the Gibeonites fooled this successor to Moses
Joshua
Amy
|
$800
[21]
Peter Greenaway's "Prospero's Books" is a take on this bard play
The Tempest
Amy
|
$800
[12]
The most severe hurricanes, with winds exceeding 155 mph, are ranked in this category, the top number on the rating scale
five
Ken
|
$800
[16]
One Boston newspaper is called this, meaning "to give news or tidings of"
Herald
Ken
|
$800
[6]
During part of the English Civil War, Charles' main residence was Christ Church College at this university
Oxford
Ken
|
$800
[25]
In football, an illegal hit below the knees
a chop-block
Ken
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Later to kill their champion, he pretends to be a madman in order to take refuge with the Philistines of Gath
David
Ken
|
$1,200
[22]
"10 Things I Hate About You" based on this Shakespeare comedy, stars Julia Stiles as the misanthropic Kat
The Taming of the Shrew
Amy
|
$1,200
[13]
A hurricane's center typically has lower measurements of AP, short for this
atmospheric pressure
Rick
|
$1,600
[18]
Way back in 1880, Samuel Morss & William Rockhill Nelson founded this Kansas City newspaper
the Star
Ken
|
$1,200
[7]
As a teen in 1616, Charles was invested with this princely title
Prince of Wales
Ken
|
$1,200
[26]
Licensed endocrinologist seen here
Deepak Chopra
Amy
|
|
$2,000
[29]
She fooled Jacob by posing as her sister Rachel on his wedding night
Leah
Amy
|
$1,600
[23]
One of the two feature films written or co-written by Tom Stoppard that deal with Shakespeare works
Shakespeare in Love (or Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead )
Amy
|
$1,600
[14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a meterological animation on the monitor.) Rotating cloud bands in a hurricane's center make its path wobble, making it hard to predict the exact point where the storm's center crosses a coastline, the location called this
the landfall
Ken
|
$2,000
[19]
Columnist Scott Maxwell stands guard for this Orlando paper
the Sentinel
Rick
|
$1,600
[8]
Charles offended his Protestant subjects in 1625 when he wed the very Catholic sister of the king of this country
France
Amy
Rick
|
$1,600
[27]
Hiiiiiiiiii ya! It's a slang term for martial arts movies
chop-socky
|
| — |
$2,000
[24]
In an attempt to come to grips with Shakespeare's "Richard III", this actor directed "Looking for Richard"
Al Pacino
Ken
|
DD
$4,000
[15]
This inertial force causes the air at a hurricane's top to circulate in the opposite direction of its surface air
the Coriolis force (or Coriolis effect)
Ken
|
DD
$2,500
[17]
Cincinnati's daily paper has this name, like the national tabloid, but with much different content
the Enquirer
Ken
|
$2,000
[10]
After numerous defeats in the civil war, Charles was beheaded in 1649 at the palace called this 'hall"
Whitehall
Ken
|
$2,000
[28]
This "Philosopher of Pessimism" was born in Danzig in 1788
Schopenhauer
|
Joining such pop culture icons as Dorothy's ruby slippers, this was donated to the museum by Jerry Seinfeld in 2004
the puffy shirt