Rich Baker — a game designer and writer from Pacific, Washington
Joe Gallagher — an anthropology and botany student from Orlando, Florida
Alison Stone Roberg — an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alison | $5,500 | $9,300 | $27,300 |
$28,300
2-day champion: $55,101 |
$23,600
26 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Joe | $3,000 | $4,200 | $12,200 |
$6,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Rich | $200 | $1,400 | $3,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
9 R, 3 W |
| IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY | THE LATE NIGHT CROWD | BREAKFAST BRANDS | GETTING COZY WITH SARKOZY | TOBACCO | LETTER & WORD |
|
$200
[15]
First, get yourself to New York, Chicago or Boston & hop on this Irish airline that first flew on May 27, 1936
Aer Lingus
Rich
|
$200
[25]
Despite being No. 1 in late night for over a decade, NBC moved him to prime time & then moved him back to late night again
(Jay) Leno
Alison
|
$200
[1]
Patrick J. Towle named this brand of maple syrup in honor of Abe Lincoln's boyhood home
Log Cabin
Rich
|
$200
[20]
French president Nicolas Sarkozy was born Jan. 28, 1955 in this city's 17th arrondissement
Paris
Joe
|
$200
[9]
This ceremonial Native American smoking device is also known as a calumet
a peace pipe
Joe
|
$200
[6]
June 6, 1944
D-Day
Alison
|
|
$400
[16]
You'll be landing at this airport in the west of Ireland; it shares its name with a river
Shannon Airport
|
$400
[27]
He expected to take over "The Tonight Show" from Johnny Carson, but moved to CBS instead
David Letterman
Joe
|
$400
[2]
Milton the Toaster was featured in early ads for these Kellogg's toaster pastries
Pop-Tarts
Alison
|
$400
[22]
Nicolas' father is Pal Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was born in this country before eventually heading to France
Hungary
Alison
|
$400
[10]
This Caribbean capital city's name is shorthand for a fine cigar
Havana
Alison
|
$400
[7]
An airplane reservation made on the Internet & that you print out yourself
an e-ticket
Rich
|
|
$600
[17]
From the airport, get in your Dooley rental car & head toward this "poetic" city 15 miles east
Limerick
Alison
|
$600
[28]
Ted Koppel anchored this late night show for 25 years
Nightline
Rich
|
$600
[3]
The familiar round canister of this brand of oats goes all the way back to 1915
Quaker Oats
Joe
|
$600
[23]
Sarkozy backed PM Balladur for president in 1995, causing a fallout with this French leader who won that election
(Jacques) Chirac
Joe
|
$600
[13]
It's a flexible wire coated with cotton & inserted into smoking devices to remove tar
a pipe cleaner
Alison
Joe
|
$600
[8]
In a 1954 experiment John Stapp accelerated to 632 mph in 5 seconds, surviving 46 of these units
g-forces
Joe
Rich
|
|
$800
[18]
Feast your eyes (& nose) on the rich pastureland called not this "of Tears" but the "Golden" this
Vale
Alison
|
$800
[29]
Before his late-night gig, he co-hosted "The Man Show" & "Win Ben Stein's Money"
Jimmy Kimmel
Alison
|
$800
[4]
This brand, whose logo is seen here, dates back to 1893
Cream of Wheat
Alison
|
$800
[24]
In 2009 Sarkozy called to eliminate this garment worn by some Muslim women, saying it was a symbol of enslavement
burqa
Rich
|
$800
[14]
4-letter "electrical" word for a flat, compressed wad of chewing tobacco
a plug
Alison
|
$1,000
[12]
During World War II, these soldier meals included a stick of gum, toilet paper & 4 cigarettes
K-rations
Joe
|
|
$1,000
[19]
In Tipperary, you'll have to choose between historic St. Mary's Church & historic Corny's, one of these founded in 1742
a pub
|
$1,000
[30]
Back in 1993 this "SNL" vet's foray into late night on Fox lasted only 29 episodes
Chevy Chase
|
$1,000
[5]
This syrupy married lady made her debut in TV commercials in 1961
Mrs. Butterworth
Alison
|
$1,000
[26]
Ooh la la! In February 2008 Sarkozy married wife No. 3, this former model
Carla Bruni
Alison
|
$1,000
[21]
It's the process of treating & aging raw tobacco to improve its burn & flavor
curing
Rich
|
DD
$2,500
[11]
The most common human blood type (make sure to include whether it's positive or negative)
O-positive
Alison
|
| HEALTH & MEDICINE | GET THE L OUT | THEIR GREEK EQUIVALENT | THEY'RE LOOKING OUT FOR US | MAX FACTOR | COVER GIRLS |
|
$400
[2]
Norovirus is associated with gastroenteritis, sometimes called this type of "flu"
stomach flu
Joe
|
$400
[8]
...of a word for a snow particle to get a word meaning "forgery"
flake & fake
Alison
|
$400
[13]
Juno
Hera
Joe
|
$400
[20]
This LAPD unit was created in response to sniper incidents in the 1960s
SWAT
Rich
|
$400
[26]
He studied physics at the Univ. of Munich with Prof. Von Jolly & got his doctoral degree in 1879 (the year of Einstein's birth)
Max Planck
Joe
|
$400
[18]
This American skier was on the cover of Sports Illustrated's 2010 Winter Olympics Preview Issue
Lindsey Vonn
Alison
Rich
|
|
$800
[3]
In ordinary English it means "better"; to a doctor, it means "located higher up on the body"
superior
Joe
|
$800
[9]
...of a word for something that's put on a donut to get a word meaning to stare at
glaze & gaze
Rich
|
$800
[14]
Mars
Ares
Alison
|
$800
[1]
The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is known alliteratively as these "hunters"
hurricane hunters
Joe
|
$800
[27]
Maxwell Perkins persuaded Scribner's to publish his first novel, "This Side of Paradise"
Fitzgerald
Alison
|
$800
[22]
Oprah shared the April 2009 cover of O Magazine with this powerful woman
Michelle Obama
Alison
|
|
$1,200
[4]
A technique called the relaxation response opens up blood vessels, easing a systolic type of this 1-word condition
hypertension
Alison
|
$1,200
[10]
...of a word for a dish to get an old-fashioned word for "head"
plate & pate
Alison
|
$1,200
[15]
Mercury
Hermes
Joe
|
$1,200
[6]
Pasadena, Texas, population 140,000, has the USA's largest municipal fire department of this type
volunteer
Alison
|
$1,200
[28]
Max Ernst was a founding member of this art movement in which the images grew out of the subconscious
surrealism
Alison
|
$1,200
[23]
This singer was fierce on the cover of Vogue's 2009 Shape Issue, which said "Real women have curves"
Beyoncé
Alison
|
|
$1,600
[5]
21 million Americans have this disease of the endocrine system & 6 million of them don't know it
diabetes
Rich
|
$1,600
[11]
...of an ingratiating word to get an old-fashioned word for porridge
please & pease
|
$2,000
[17]
Faunus
Pan
Alison
|
$1,600
[19]
The NCIRD (I is for Immunization) is part of this 3-letter Atlanta-based organization
CDC
Rich
|
$1,600
[29]
He's the Jacobin leader seen here
Maximilien Robespierre
|
$1,600
[24]
Elle magazine's 2009 Body Issue "transformed" this actress into a cover girl
Megan Fox
Alison
|
|
$2,000
[7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a patient undergoing a PET scan at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.) Brookhaven studies the human brain usingPET scanning; as in CAT scanning, the "T" is for this method of 3-D imaging
tomography
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
...of a word meaning to quench a thirst to get a Japanese potent potable
slake & sake
Alison
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
Victoria
Nike
Joe
|
$2,000
[21]
NERC keeps the lights on by monitoring the bulk power system, made up of 3 vast networks called these
power grids
|
$2,000
[30]
This Russian's novel "Mother" was dramatized by Bertolt Brecht
Maxim Gorky
|
$2,000
[25]
The December 2009 Cosmo teased the story of this singer's "naughty honeymoon surprise" with Josh Duhamel
Fergie
Alison
|
In the "World Almanac" list of notable third party candidates, 1 of the 2 for whom the main issue was "states' rights"
(1 of) Governor George Wallace & Strom Thurmond