Laura Button — an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
Matthew Warren — a computer engineer from Charleston, South Carolina
Bob Kennedy — a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | $200 | $4,400 | $15,600 |
$2,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Matthew | $1,400 | $4,400 | $9,200 |
$9,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laura | $200 | $3,200 | $14,400 |
$28,800
New champion: $28,800 |
$13,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| KNOW YOUR RIGHTS | THIS & THAT | THE OFFICE WORKOUT | THE PRINCESS BRIDE | I'M GONNA "MAKE" IT! | YOU'LL NEED SOME COACHING |
|
$200
[1]
The Sixth Amendment gives you the right to "enjoy" (yep, enjoy) "a speedy and public" one of these
a trial
Bob
|
$200
[19]
In Exodus his wife is identified as Zipporah
Moses
Matthew
|
$200
[11]
The Mayo Clinic suggests sitting on an exercise ball--you'll improve this, the way you sit, starting with a straight back
your posture
Matthew
|
$200
[6]
With her 1993 marriage to Crown Prince Naruhito, Masako Owada became this country's empress-in-waiting
Japan
Matthew
|
$200
[14]
A complete, renovative beauty treatment; mine needed spackle & a trowel
a makeover
Bob
|
$200
[26]
Walter Alston, Sparky Anderson
baseball
Bob
|
|
$400
[2]
The Seventh Amendment gives you the right to a jury if you're suing for more than this much--2 sawbucks
$20
Matthew
|
$400
[20]
He was U.S. President when the stock market crashed in 1929
Hoover
Bob
|
$400
[12]
Practice the office version of this exercise by sitting down & standing up in rapid succession a few times a day
squats
Bob
|
$400
[7]
After her 1956 wedding, she & her prince drove through the streets of Monte Carlo in an open-top car
Grace Kelly
Matthew
|
$400
[15]
3-word term for keeping your finances in order, or joining 2 opposite extremes of a rope
to make ends meet
Matthew
|
$400
[27]
Tom Osborne, Marty Schottenheimer
football
Bob
|
|
$600
[3]
The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of" these 2 things
speech & the press
Bob
|
$600
[21]
Hephaestus was the Greek god of this; Prometheus was chained to a rock for stealing it
fire
Matthew
|
$600
[13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates an office exercise.) With water bottles, you can tone these muscles in the front of the upper arms
the biceps
Laura
|
$600
[8]
She became Philip Mountbatten's bride in 1947
Queen Elizabeth II
Laura
|
$600
[16]
This adjective refers to using whatever is available to meet an urgent need
makeshift
Matthew
|
$600
[28]
Valery Liukin, Bela Karolyi
gymnastics
Bob
|
|
$800
[4]
The 3rd Amendment says that in time of peace, one of these can't be quartered in a house without the owner's consent
a soldier
Matthew
|
$800
[22]
This U.S. state is "The Magnolia State", y'all
Mississippi
Bob
|
$800
[24]
On your break, walk laps around the office, tracking your steps on this gadget; 10,000 a day is your goal
a pedometer
Matthew
|
$800
[9]
This Powhatan princess wed John Rolfe in 1614
Pocahontas
Matthew
|
$800
[17]
It sounds like a farm machine, but it's really a hard punch that renders an opponent unable to continue boxing
a haymaker
Matthew
|
$800
[29]
Lute Olson, Lenny Wilkens
basketball
Bob
|
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
The 4th Amendment says "No warrants shall issue but upon" this 2-word phrase "supported by oath or affirmation"
probable cause
Matthew
|
$1,000
[23]
This controversial man won an Oscar for directing "On the Waterfront"
(Elia) Kazan
Laura
|
$1,000
[25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates an office exercise.) It may not look like much, but pressing down on a desk for several seconds & holding is this type of static exercise, which increases muscle strength
isometric
Laura
|
$1,000
[10]
Single mom Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby wed Crown Prince Haakon in 2001, making her a princess of this country
Norway
Laura
|
$1,000
[18]
Matthew 5:9 says they shall be called "the children of God"
the peacemakers
Laura
|
$1,000
[30]
Jacques Lemaire, Scotty Bowman
hockey
Bob
|
| GEOGRAPHY | WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT | LITERARY LETTER DROP | PAT-POURRI | PLANTS & TREES | STRONG WORDS |
|
$400
[26]
It's the colorful body of water between Korea & Shanghai
the Yellow Sea
Bob
|
$400
[19]
Near the end of this movie, Maverick makes one final "flyby", annoying the "air boss" of USS Kitty Hawk
Top Gun
Laura
|
$400
[6]
When a Twain title loses a letter, young royal Edward Tudor learns the problems of The London Times
The Prince and the Paper
|
$400
[8]
It's the largest Gothic-style Catholic church in the United States
St. Patrick's cathedral
Bob
|
$400
[13]
Varieties of this plant grown in American gardens include madonna, Korean aureum & tiger
lilies
Matthew
|
$400
[1]
From the Latin for "energy" or "force" comes this word sometimes paired with vim
vigor
Matthew
|
|
$800
[27]
This branch of the Nile used to flood due to seasonal rainfall in Lake Tana
the Blue Nile
|
$800
[20]
Thanks to Rodney Dangerfield, Judge Smails' boat The Flying Wasp meets an untimely end in this comedy
Caddyshack
Matthew
|
$800
[7]
A Faulkner tale about the Compson family loses a letter to focus on animal pelts
The Sound and the Fur
Laura
|
$800
[9]
Despite his big 1775 "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, this man was a wealthy colonial slave owner
Patrick Henry
Bob
|
$800
[15]
Tigers generally avoid man but enjoy the shelter of this tropical tree whose name starts with "man"
a mangrove
Laura
|
$800
[2]
This word for a strong man shares its name with a Georgia-Pacific paper product
brawny
Matthew
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Guyana shares the Acarai Mountains with this nation, its largest neighbor
Brazil
Bob
|
$1,200
[21]
This drama adapted from a book concerns the Massachusetts fishing boat the Andrea Gail
The Perfect Storm ( A Perfect Storm accepted)
Matthew
|
$1,200
[14]
Courageous neologisms abound when a Huxley title drops a letter
Brave New Word
Laura
|
$1,200
[10]
The New York Knicks retired his No. 33 jersey
Patrick Ewing
|
$1,600
[17]
This hardy gray-leaved shrub is so abundant in Nevada that it gave the state one of its nicknames
sagebrush
Laura
|
$1,200
[3]
Completed 12 labors? You may be described with this adjective, like an ancient hero who did the same
herculean
Matthew
|
|
$1,600
[29]
What was once called Muslim East Bengal is today known as this
Bangladesh
Bob
|
$1,600
[22]
In "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", Davy Jones helms this ship, also the name of a Wagner opera
The Flying Dutchman
Laura
|
$1,600
[24]
Drop a letter from a George Eliot novel & the Tulliver siblings are unwell on a certain river
The Ill on the Floss
|
$1,600
[11]
In 2000 this political commentator was the Reform Party nominee for president
Pat Buchanan
Bob
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
Ochroma pyramidale, this tree, yields a lightweight wood often used to make surfboards
balsa
Laura
|
$1,600
[4]
Meaning tough or resilient, this 6-letter word refers to tendons
sinewy
|
|
DD
$3,200
[30]
The Gobi Desert straddles these 2 countries
Mongolia & China
Bob
|
$2,000
[23]
In "Waterworld" Dennis Hopper helmed this ship once piloted by Joseph Hazelwood
the Exxon Valdez
Laura
|
$2,000
[25]
Look out! A Thomas Hardy title loses a letter & you'll want to keep your distance from a frenzied black bird
Far from the Madding Crow
Bob
|
$2,000
[12]
Author of the swashbuckling naval adventure novel "Master & Commander"
Patrick O'Brian
Laura
|
$2,000
[18]
This chalky white "infantile" flower used in bouquets is from the genus Gypsophila, which means "lover of chalk"
baby's breath
Laura
|
$2,000
[5]
Post-Civil War Republicans opposed to civil service reform were called these
Stalwarts
|
He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart
John F. Kennedy