Carl Aveni — a civil litigation attorney from Columbus, Ohio
Chloe Horning — a graduate student in library and information science from Seattle, Washington
Tom Brown — a program analyst originally from Harleysville, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,402)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $400 | $2,000 | $12,800 |
$4,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chloe | $0 | $4,000 | $10,400 |
$14,000
New champion: $14,000 |
$10,400
15 R, 4 W |
| Carl | $3,000 | $5,300 | $13,700 |
$1,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| AUTHORS | MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS | FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE | U.N. OBSERVANCES | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE | 3-LETTER THE BETTER |
|
$200
[1]
While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit
Stephen King
Chloe
|
$200
[6]
Fantine & her daughter Cosette
Les Misérables
Chloe
|
$200
[23]
This type of felt hat that Dick Tracy wore is named for a play by Sardou
a fedora
Tom
|
$200
[10]
December 2 is International Day for the Abolition of this, which didn't disappear in 1865
Slavery
Tom
|
$200
[15]
Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this large peninsula, lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun
the Yucatan
Tom
|
$200
[20]
To point your Mauser
aim
Chloe
Carl
|
|
$400
[2]
Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from this lung disease for many years, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1894
tuberculosis
Carl
|
$400
[7]
Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza
The Man of La Mancha
Chloe
Carl
|
$400
[24]
1950s fashion favored this canine skirt
a poodle skirt
Carl
|
$400
[11]
March 22 is World this Resource Day; the theme for 1999 was "Everyone Lives Downstream"
Water
Carl
|
$400
[16]
This companion island to Trinidad has its own airport, Crown Point International
Tobago
Carl
|
$400
[21]
What a film reel is stored in; hence something finished is "in" it
the can
Chloe
|
|
$600
[3]
Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands
Sir Walter Scott
Chloe
|
$600
[8]
Emile de Becque & Ensign Nellie Forbush
South Pacific
Chloe
Carl
|
$600
[25]
This company's canvas All Star basketball shoe goes all the way back to 1917
Converse
Tom
Chloe
|
$600
[12]
September 16 is International Day for the Preservation of this atmospheric layer
the Ozone Layer
Carl
|
$800
[18]
This Venezuelan waterfall was named for an American bush pilot who discovered it in 1935
Angel Falls
Carl
|
$600
[28]
Saturated
wet
Chloe
|
|
$800
[4]
About the "Human Comedy" series, he said, "French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary"
Honoré de Balzac
|
$800
[9]
Aunt Eller Murphy & Laurey Williams
Oklahoma!
|
$800
[26]
This French-named garment looks like a skirt but is actually pants
culottes
Chloe
|
$800
[13]
Can't wait for Oct. 20, World Day for this science of collecting & arranging numerical facts & data
statistics
Carl
|
$1,000
[19]
This southwestern U.S. desert has a river of the same name, flowing mainly underground to near Soda Lake
Mojave
|
$800
[29]
To impose a levy
to tax
Tom
|
|
$1,000
[5]
His "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement
Ernest J. Gaines
|
$1,000
[22]
Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey
The Sound of Music
Chloe
|
$1,000
[27]
The French name of these casual summer shoes derives from a tough wiry grass that's used to make rope
espadrilles
Chloe
Carl
|
$1,000
[14]
International this Remembrance Day, January 27, commemorates the 1945 date on which Auschwitz was liberated
Holocaust
Carl
|
DD
$1,500
[17]
A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine
Havana
Carl
|
$1,000
[30]
It's the plant seen here; Don Draper favors one of its products
rye
Chloe
|
| "G"ARDEN GLOSSARY | TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES | I SERVED IN HIS CABINET | ARE YOU PERHAPS FRENCH? | BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS | GREEK LETTERS |
|
$400
[6]
Inserting a section of one plant into another so that they grow as one plant
to graft
Tom
|
$400
[14]
In a northern England mining town, a young boy takes up ballet dancing
Billy Elliot
Tom
|
$400
[1]
Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
Barack Obama
Tom
|
$400
[9]
Philippe of this family is Chief Ocean Correspondent for Animal Planet
Cousteau
Carl
|
$400
[16]
Hey___Law
Jude
|
$400
[26]
Precedes "-bits" in the name of a sweet Post cereal
alpha
Chloe
|
|
$800
[7]
Rich in nutrients, this bat or bird dropping is good for your garden
guano
Tom
|
$800
[15]
Policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to a small town to investigate a series of decapitations
Sleepy Hollow
Chloe
Carl
|
$800
[2]
Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt
Ronald Reagan
Tom
|
$800
[10]
Born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois worked into her 90s on her biomorphic creations in this art form
sculpture
Chloe
|
$800
[17]
Maker's___Sanchez
Mark
Tom
|
$800
[27]
The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
pi
Tom
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Open an account at one of these banks that exist for the conservation of seeds, tissues or reproductive cells
a gene bank
Chloe
|
$1,200
[21]
A young cop works with rogue detective Denzel Washington on the narcotics beat in Los Angeles
Training Day
Chloe
|
$1,200
[3]
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
Jimmy Carter
Tom
|
$1,200
[11]
Michelin 3-star chef Joel Robuchon opened his first U.S. restaurant in this city, not New York
Las Vegas
Tom
|
$1,600
[19]
Losing___Washington
Isaiah
Carl
|
$1,200
[28]
A little bit, a really little bit
iota
Tom
|
|
$1,600
[24]
This cereal grain embryo is usually separated from the endosperm during milling; health nuts love the "wheat" kind
the germ
Carl
|
$1,600
[22]
A research chemist appears on a "60 Minutes" expose of the tobacco industry
The Insider
Tom
|
$1,600
[4]
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz
Nixon
|
$1,600
[12]
He was Jacques Chirac's predecessor as president
François Mitterrand
Tom
|
$2,000
[20]
The Heidi___of Riddick
Chronicles
Chloe
|
$1,600
[29]
A homophone of a verb meaning "to paddle"
rho
Carl
|
|
$2,000
[25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some plants on the monitor.) Most plant shoots have a tendency to grow towards the sun, which is called phototropism; if roots grew that way, they'd shrivel up & die, so they grow into the earth, displaying this other -ism
geotropism
|
$2,000
[23]
2 warriors seek the Green Destiny, a stolen ancient sword
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Carl
|
$2,000
[5]
Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall
Harry Truman
Carl
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
Luc Montagnier identified the AIDS virus while working at the institute named for this 19th c. Frenchman
(Louis) Pasteur
Tom
|
DD
$2,400
[18]
Prime___Racket
Numbers
Tom
|
$2,000
[30]
Ancient Romans would've read this one as 11
xi
|
Lyrics to an 1868 tune by this man began, "Guten Abend, Gut Nacht, Mit Rosen Bedacht"
Johannes Brahms