Chris Dungan — a minister from West Linn, Oregon
Victoria Rduch — a substitute Spanish teacher from San Antonio, Texas
Van Lane — an ATM support technician from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Van | $1,400 | $2,200 | $11,400 |
$22,511
2-day champion: $45,011 |
$10,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Victoria | $1,400 | $5,800 | $13,000 |
$18,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Chris | $4,200 | $4,400 | $5,200 |
$10,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
8 R, 0 W |
| ANNUAL EVENTS | RAD PSEUDONYMS | JACK | THE QUEEN | KING KONG | "ACE" |
|
$200
[1]
Every year since 1992, the World Invitational Hula Festival has been held in this state capital
Honolulu
Van
|
$200
[11]
In the 1950s Ernesto Guevara de la Serna began going by this name
Che
Victoria
|
$200
[16]
He was twice jailed in the 1990s for assisting the suicides of terminally ill patients
Kevorkian
Victoria
|
$200
[17]
Queen Elizabeth II has this many children
4
Victoria
|
$200
[19]
At the end of the original version, King Kong's dreams come crashing down to earth at this NYC landmark
the Empire State Building
Chris
|
$200
[6]
The final frontier for Kirk & the crew
space
Chris
|
|
$400
[2]
This city's 4th of July celebration includes fireworks & music on the Charles, near the Longfellow Bridge
Boston
Victoria
|
$400
[12]
During WWII a Vietnamese leader born Nguyen Sinh Cung began using this name meaning "bringer of light"
Ho Chi Minh
Victoria
|
$400
[20]
This Jack & his 3 brothers founded one of the "Big Five" Hollywood studios in 1923
(Jack) Warner
Victoria
|
$400
[18]
After Elizabeth became queen, her first regional tours included a controversial visit to this smallest U.K. country
Northern Ireland
Van
|
$400
[22]
The next feature he directed after "The Return of the King" was a new version of "King Kong"
Peter Jackson
Van
|
$400
[7]
Home hearth
fireplace
Van
|
|
$600
[3]
This city's annual Three Rivers Regatta features live concerts & the National Dragon Boat Championships
Pittsburgh
Chris
|
$600
[13]
Have a cocktail & tell us this pseudonym adopted by Russian revolutionary Vyacheslev Skryabin
Molotov
Victoria
|
$600
[28]
It's a mild, smooth cow's-milk cheese named for a town on California's central coast
Monterey Jack
Victoria
|
$600
[21]
During WWII, Elizabeth & her sister were evacuated to this castle where their grandfather George V is buried
Windsor Castle
Van
Victoria
|
$600
[23]
Until he was ape-napped, King Kong was the undisputed king of this "bony" isle
Skull Island
Van
|
$600
[8]
It can mean to hug or to take up a cause eagerly
embrace
Chris
|
|
$800
[4]
An annual Michigan event is the Labor Day walk over this bridge between the Upper & Lower Peninsulas
the Mackinac Bridge
Chris
|
$800
[14]
Pseudonym of labor activist & magazine namesake Mary Harris Jones
Mother Jones
Van
|
$800
[29]
Fox-hunting dog breed named for a 19th century British clergyman
Jack Russell
Victoria
|
$800
[26]
When Elizabeth was born, her parents were the Duke & Duchess of this Northern English city
York
Van
|
$800
[24]
In its last line the 1933 film stressed that "it wasn't the airplanes, it was" this that "killed the beast"
beauty
Victoria
|
$800
[9]
A runner's rate, or a popular brand of salsa
pace
Victoria
|
|
$1,000
[5]
An annual festival in Caraquet, New Brunswick celebrates the culture of these French settlers
the Acadians
Victoria
Chris
|
$1,000
[15]
Lev Bronshtein is thought to have taken this pseudonym from one of his jailers, probably without axing
(Leon) Trotsky
Chris
|
$1,000
[30]
This raspy-voiced DJ & "Midnight Special" host was a fixture of American radio in the 1960s & '70s
Wolfman Jack
Victoria
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
To marry Elizabeth, Prince Philip had to renounce claims to this southern European country's crown
Greece
Van
|
$1,000
[25]
In the 1976 version she spoke the lines "Oh, come on, Kong, forget about me. This thing's just never going to work"
Jessica Lange
Victoria
|
$1,000
[10]
A porch adjoining a building, like where Mummy often served tea
terrace
|
| TV SIDEKICKS | TEX-ARCANA | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS | NUMBER WORD PLAY | ASTRONOMICAL! |
|
$400
[20]
Barney Fife
Andy Taylor
Van
Victoria
|
$400
[2]
Big Bend National Park is on a Big Bend of this river in western Texas
the Rio Grande
Van
Victoria
|
$400
[12]
In 1912 this folk music legend had his 1st chance to say "This land is your land" (which he did not do, as he was a newborn)
(Woody) Guthrie
Victoria
|
$400
[7]
About Sgt. Croft's platoon:"The ____ and the Dead"
Naked
Victoria
|
$400
[1]
Carl Sagan knew that this number is the first to contain a "B" when spelled out
billion
Victoria
|
$1,200
[17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) In January, the red star appears to be in front of a group of stars, while in July, it appears to be in front of a different group; the term for that apparent shift caused by change in the observer's position is this
the parallax view
|
|
$800
[21]
Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman
Lenny
Victoria
|
$800
[3]
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is in this Texas city
Houston
Victoria
|
$800
[13]
Last name of Ferdinand II, born in 1610 & the 5th Grand Duke of Tuscany, where his family name carried a lot of weight
Medici
Van
|
$800
[8]
An autobiographical 1913 novel:"____ and Lovers"
Sons
Chris
|
$1,200
[26]
This multiple of 10 is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order
forty
|
$1,600
[18]
This is a star with a sudden increase in brightness; the super this can be 100 times as luminous as the regular one
nova
Van
|
|
$1,200
[22]
Kato
the Green Hornet
Van
|
$1,600
[5]
Cattleman C.W. Merchant apparently named this Texas city after a Kansas cattle town
Abilene
Victoria
|
$1,200
[14]
We're sure there were plenty of "Cries and Whispers" when this Swedish film director was born in 1918
Ingmar Bergman
Van
|
$1,200
[9]
A Dickens tale:"____ and Son"
Dombey
Van
Victoria
|
$1,600
[25]
When spelled out this number has as many letters as its value
four
Van
|
$2,000
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) The perigee is the point of the Moon's orbit at which it's nearest to the Earth; similarly, this term is the point at which the orbiting object is closest to the Sun
the perihelion
Van
|
|
$1,600
[23]
Chester Goode
Marshall Matt Dillon
|
$2,000
[6]
First called Isla Blanca, it was later renamed for a priest
Padre Island
Van
Victoria
|
$1,600
[15]
On July 14, 1938 Abbie Hoffman was in short pants when this future "Chicago 7" leader made the scene as the "Cincinnati 1"
Jerry Rubin
|
$1,600
[10]
Made into a Ralph Fiennes/Cate Blanchett film:"____ and Lucinda"
Oscar
|
$2,000
[28]
This number, one of the first 20, uses only one vowel (4 times!)
seventeen
Victoria
|
— |
|
$2,000
[24]
Ken Hutchinson
Starsky
Van
|
DD
$4,000
[4]
This Texas port was named for a Roman Catholic feast day celebrating the body of the Savior
Corpus Christi
Victoria
|
$2,000
[16]
"Rock-solid" writer of fictionalized biographies who had a "Lust for Life" on July 14, 1903
Irving Stone
|
$2,000
[11]
A struggle to write:"The ____ ____ & the Butterfly"
Diving Bell
Van
|
DD
$4,000
[27]
Alphabetically, it's the first Roman numeral
C
Van
|
— |
In the "thanks a lot, fellas" department, Mongolia was the last country to join this group--August 9, 1945
the Allies