Makeen Huda — a lab assistant from Metairie, Louisiana
Mary Anna Martell — a graduate student in library science from Waterford, Connecticut
Tim Kuehn — a theatrical designer from Venice, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim | $3,400 | $4,000 | $3,200 |
$799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
10 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mary Anna | $3,000 | $7,200 | $22,400 |
$16,800
New champion: $16,800 |
$22,000
29 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Makeen | $800 | $2,800 | $5,600 |
$4,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
10 R, 1 W |
| NAME THE AUTHOR | STATE SONGS? | LANGUAGES | GOING TO X STREAMS | "WALL" | STREET JOURNAL |
|
$200
[24]
"He wanted it because it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger, you were invisible"
Tolkien
Makeen
|
$200
[26]
The Mamas & the Papas:"____ Dreamin"'
California
Makeen
|
$200
[13]
It's the official language of Qatar
Arabic
Makeen
|
$200
[16]
The Xiang River flows hundreds of miles through Hunan Province before joining this even mightier Chinese river
the Yangtze
Mary Anna
|
$200
[1]
Vodka, orange juice & Galliano go into the cocktail called Harvey this
wallbanger
Tim
|
$200
[10]
The Beatles often recorded at a studio on this street, immortalizing its crossing on an album cover
Abbey Road
Mary Anna
|
|
$400
[8]
"'My goodness! My gracious!' they shouted. 'My word! It's something brand new! It's an elephant-bird'"
Dr. Seuss
Tim
|
$400
[27]
Billy Joel:"____ State Of Mind"
New York
Mary Anna
|
$400
[14]
Romansch, a dialect of the Central Alps, is the fourth national language of this country
Switzerland
Mary Anna
|
$400
[17]
At around 20 miles long, the Onyx River is this continent's longest
Antarctica
Mary Anna
|
$400
[2]
The quokka is another name for the short-tailed scrub species of this marsupial
a wallaby
Tim
|
$400
[6]
This street in New Orleans' French Quarter is named for a royal house, not for whiskey
Bourbon Street
Mary Anna
|
|
$600
[9]
"It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball"
Washington Irving
Makeen
|
$600
[28]
The Jackson 5:The semi-autobiographical "Goin' Back To ____"
Indiana
Tim
|
$600
[15]
This dialect forms the basis of modern standard Chinese, usually called Putonghua, "common language"
Mandarin
Tim
|
$600
[18]
Wear a jacket if you're going to the Kalix River in this country's Norrland region; it's even colder than Svealand
Sweden
Mary Anna
|
$600
[3]
A type of sweet onion is named for this Washington city
Walla Walla
Mary Anna
|
$600
[7]
This avenue, the traditional route of the presidential inaugural parade, runs over the Anacostia River
Pennsylvania Avenue
Mary Anna
|
|
$800
[23]
"On a glance it resembled most primitive carving; and then it didn't, for here was the spit-image of Holly Golightly"
(Truman) Capote
Makeen
|
$800
[29]
Alabama:"If You're Gonna Play In ____ (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)"
Texas
Mary Anna
|
$800
[21]
Tagalog is the basis for one of the official languages of this country
the Philippines
Mary Anna
|
$800
[19]
The Xucar originates north of Cuenca in this country before flowing into the Gulf of Valencia
Spain
Makeen
|
$800
[4]
Don't be shy; name this plant seen here
the wallflower
Mary Anna
|
$800
[11]
This Memphis street, a birthplace of the blues, is home to a museum devoted to W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues
Beale Street
Tim
|
|
$1,000
[25]
"Reel'd from the sabre-stroke shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, not the six hundred"
(Alfred Lord) Tennyson
Mary Anna
|
$1,000
[30]
Faith Hill:"____ Girl"
Mississippi
Mary Anna
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
L.L. Zamenhof grew up in an area of Poland where 4 languages were spoken, leading to ethnic animosity, so he created this
Esperanto
Mary Anna
|
$1,000
[20]
Bring a rod! There's great salmon fishing on the River Exe in this English county famous for its clotted cream
Devon
Mary Anna
|
$1,000
[5]
This type of game fish is named for an ocular feature
the walleye
Tim
|
$1,000
[12]
Since 1975 the Tour de France has ended with an 8-lap circuit of this broad avenue
the Champs-Elysées
|
| JOHN PHILIP SOUSA | AUSTRALIAN MOVIES | ANIMAL NAMES | AN ERNEST CATEGORY | RULE,BRITANNICA! | "TO" & "FRO" |
|
$400
[27]
The sousaphone, developed from a suggestion by Sousa, is a 3-valved type of this brass instrument
a tuba
Mary Anna
|
$400
[11]
Rockatansky is the last name of the title character of this 1979 film set in a dystopian future Australia
Mad Max
Mary Anna
|
$400
[1]
Ay, this tiny dog is named for Mexico's largest state in area
Chihuahua
Mary Anna
|
$400
[24]
It was partly at the suggestion of fellow writer John Dos Passos that he moved to Key West, Florida in 1928
Hemingway
Mary Anna
|
$400
[6]
Encyclopedia Britannica has been U.S.-owned since 1901; in the '20s & '30s, this U.S. mail-order company owned it
Sears
Tim
|
$400
[15]
This injury from low temperatures can lead to gangrene
frostbite
Makeen
|
|
$800
[28]
Sousa met his wife, Jane, during rehearsals for this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set on a ship off Portsmouth
H.M.S. Pinafore
Tim
Mary Anna
|
$800
[12]
Though this sheep-herding pig was created in a book by an Englishman, the movie was set in Australia
Babe
Mary Anna
|
$800
[2]
With its stripes resembling another animal, the butterfly seenhereis known as this type of longwing
a zebra longwing
Mary Anna
|
$800
[21]
With his brother Julio, he created one of the world's largest winemaking empires
Ernest Gallo
Mary Anna
|
$800
[7]
This now-standard back-of-the-book feature first appeared in the 7th edition of 1830-1842
the (general) index
Mary Anna
|
$800
[16]
You'll hear this when someone scores a hit in fencing
touché
Mary Anna
|
|
$1,200
[26]
This 1893 march named for a national symbol served as the theme for "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"The Liberty Bell"
|
$1,200
[13]
2 Australian sprinters are sent to fight in Turkey during WWI in this 1981 film
Gallipoli
|
$1,200
[3]
Like a woman who assists in childbirth, a type of toad whose male carries the eggs on its hind legs is called this
a midwife
Mary Anna
|
$1,200
[20]
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings represented this Southern state in the Senate from 1966 to 2005
South Carolina
Makeen
|
$1,200
[8]
The 10th edition of 1902 was sponsored by this London newspaper; thanks to a lawsuit, it quit before the 11th
The Times of London
|
$1,200
[17]
It's "An Irish Lullaby" me mother sang to me in Killarney
"Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral"
|
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
In 1889 the owner of this newspaper asked Sousa to write a march for a ceremony for the winners of its essay contest
The Washington Post
Tim
|
$1,600
[14]
In this movie that showed a new side of Aussie life, an old bus with a royal name takes 3 entertainers into the Outback
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Makeen
|
$1,600
[4]
This scarab relative, often seen at night, is named for the time of year when it's most prevalent
a junebug
Mary Anna
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1947 he headlined the first Grand Ole Opry concert at Carnegie Hall
Ernest Tubb
Mary Anna
|
$2,000
[10]
The 15th edition of 1974 was the first divided into a "Propaedia" outline of knowledge & these 2 "large" & "small" sections
the Macropedia & the Micropedia
|
$1,600
[18]
Colloquial 5-letter title for a first-year college student
frosh
Makeen
|
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1896 Sousa wrote an operetta set in Peru during Spanish occupation that featured this title march
"El Capitan"
|
$2,000
[25]
Toni Collette leaves Porpoise Spit for Sydney & lip-syncs to ABBA songs in this 1994 film
Muriel's Wedding
Makeen
|
$2,000
[5]
This South American monkey seenhereis named for its soft, thick fur
a wooly monkey
Tim
|
$2,000
[23]
After abandoning ship during a transantarctic expedition in 1915, he & his men spent months drifting on ice floes
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Mary Anna
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
EB's thistle logo is a reminder that it was first published in this country, one of whose symbols is the thistle
Scotland
Mary Anna
|
$2,000
[19]
Mais oui, it's French for "cheese"
fromage
Tim
|
From 1792 to 1886 this person, not the Speaker of the House, followed the vice president in the line of succession
the President pro tem (of the Senate)