Jeff Dufour — an online editor from Washington, D.C.
Lanny Timan — a business manager from Chicago, Illinois
Joe Koster — a telephone technician from Pelham, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe | $1,400 | $4,400 | $8,000 |
$15,998
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
15 R, 4 W |
| Lanny | $2,800 | $6,500 | $9,400 |
$16,001
New champion: $16,001 |
$9,600
14 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jeff | $1,600 | $4,800 | $14,800 |
$10,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,800
20 R, 1 W |
| THE Is HAVE IT | THE LAND OF THE BIBLE | NAME DROPPING AT THE MALL | FATS | "CARB"S | PRO TEENS |
|
$200
[24]
In August 2011 this hurricane had winds of 85 mph as it made landfall in North Carolina
Irene
Jeff
|
$200
[14]
Some think that it was in the area at the head of the Persian Gulf; Genesis 2:8 says God planted it "eastward"
the Garden of Eden
Joe
|
$200
[9]
Makers of all-American clothing:____ & Fitch
Abercrombie
Lanny
|
$200
[15]
In the 1860s Hippolyte Mege-Mouries invented this butter substitute made from animal & vegetable fats
margarine
Jeff
|
$200
[1]
Made effervescent by infusion of a gas, like many sodas
carbonated (carbonation accepted)
Jeff
|
$200
[2]
This 2008 NBA MVP jumped to the Lakers straight from a Pennsylvania high school
(Kobe) Bryant
Joe
|
|
$400
[25]
This former Chrysler CEO has a Boston-based foundation for diabetes research
Lee Iacocca
Jeff
|
$400
[18]
Genesis says the lord overthrew these 2 wicked cities, making the land look like a smoking furnace
Sodom & Gomorrah
Joe
|
$400
[10]
His menswear is boss:____ Boss
Hugo
Lanny
|
$400
[19]
PUFAs, short for these healthier fats, are found mostly in plant-based foods & oils
poly-unsaturated fats
Lanny
|
$400
[3]
Weber makes this car part in 1-barrel & 2-barrel versions
a carburetor
Joe
|
$400
[7]
This Korean-American golfer played in her first LPGA event as a 12-year-old; she turned pro in 2005 at 15
Michelle Wie
Jeff
|
|
$600
[26]
Pizza magnate Michael Ilitch owns a National Hockey League team & this American League baseball team
the Tigers (of Detroit)
Joe
|
$800
[22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the Jordan River in Israel.) In the Book of Joshua, as soon as the men carrying this holy object set foot here in the Jordan River, it dried up, allowing them to cross
the Ark of the Covenant
Joe
|
$600
[11]
Really nice shoes for men & women:____ Haan
Cole
Lanny
|
$600
[20]
The fat droplets in milk carry most of this vitamin aka retinol, so the FDA requires skim milk to be fortified
vitamin A
Joe
Lanny
|
$600
[4]
I like my spaghetti "alla" this creamy sauce
carbonara
Joe
|
$600
[8]
She turned pro in 1972 at age 18; by 1974, she'd won Wimbledon & gotten engaged to Jimmy Connors
Chris Evert
Lanny
|
|
$800
[27]
Floor-wax heiress Imogene Powers Johnson has a center for birds named for her at this Ithaca, N.Y. Ivy League school
Cornell
Joe
|
$1,000
[23]
The queen of this place, thought by modern scholars to be roughly present-day Yemen, blessed Solomon & the god of Israel
Sheba
Lanny
|
$800
[12]
"Your personal jeweler since 1912":____ Bridge
Ben
|
$800
[29]
Saturated fats have been implicated in the incidence of this 7-syllable disease aka hardening of the arteries
arteriosclerosis
Jeff
|
$800
[5]
A short-barreled rifle for use by cavalry
a carbine
Jeff
|
$800
[16]
This slugging centerfielder nicknamed the "Commerce Comet" was 19 when he debuted with the Yankees in 1951
Mickey Mantle
Jeff
|
|
$1,000
[28]
In 2008 Carl Icahn bought millions of shares in this Internet company with an exclamation point in its name
Yahoo!
Jeff
|
DD
$1,500
[21]
People of Shinar built a structure called this "because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth"
the Tower of Babel
Lanny
|
$1,000
[13]
Upscale women's clothes:____ Fisher
Eileen
Lanny
|
$1,000
[30]
Regulated in some cities, partially hydrogenated fats are also known by this "changeable" name
trans fats
Joe
|
$1,000
[6]
This acid also called phenol is used as a disinfectant
carbolic
|
$1,000
[17]
Lionel Messi from this country joined Spanish pro soccer at 13 when a team agreed to pay for his growth hormones
Argentina
Lanny
|
| YOU'VE GOT THE WRITE STUFF, JAMES | GEORGIA GIRL | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE | WORD DERIVATIONS | ON A LAST-NAME BASIS | COUNTRIES OF AFRIC"A" |
|
$400
[14]
You wrote the novels "Hawaii" & "Alaska"; too bad you never got around to "Rhode Island"
(James) Michener
Jeff
|
$400
[15]
Before she became a "Pretty Woman" in 1990, she was a pretty girl from Smyrna, Georgia
Julia Roberts
Joe
|
$400
[18]
In 2010 this Cornhusker univ. left the Big 12 for the Big 10, which already had 11 teams, making it basically the Big 12
Nebraska
Lanny
|
$400
[11]
It's not my first time at this public exhibition of cowboy skills, from the Spanish for "cattle ring"
rodeo
Joe
|
$400
[2]
17th century astronomer Galileo
Galilei
Jeff
|
$400
[1]
Addis Ababa is the capital & largest city of this African country
Ethiopia
Jeff
|
|
$800
[19]
You met Samuel Johnson May 16, 1763; it was the start of a beautiful friendship
(James) Boswell
Joe
Jeff
|
$800
[27]
No wonder she wanted to take a "Midnight Train" back there--she was born in Atlanta in 1944
Gladys Knight
Joe
|
$1,200
[24]
Notre Dame's "Word of Life"mural, depicting Christ as a teacher, is known on the football-loving campus as this
Touchdown Jesus
Jeff
|
$800
[12]
It's from the Old English for simply "woman"; that ain't no lady, that's my this
wife
Joe
|
$800
[3]
21st century magician Penn
Jillette
Jeff
|
$1,200
[8]
Its cities include Bong Town & Tubmanburg
Liberia
Joe
|
|
$1,200
[20]
You suffered through glaucoma before publishing "Ulysses" on February 2, 1922, your 40th birthday
(James) Joyce
Lanny
|
$1,200
[28]
She was a Junior Miss Georgia before heading for Hollywood & stardom with "The Natural" & "Batman"
Kim Basinger
Jeff
|
$1,600
[25]
Ben Affleck moved west & attended this Los Angeles college whose name means "western"
Occidental
Jeff
|
$1,200
[13]
This word from the Arabic for "weight of 4 grains" is worth its weight in gold
carat
Lanny
|
$1,200
[4]
16th century artist Michelangelo
Buonarroti
|
DD
$1,500
[7]
Of the countries that fit the category, it stretches farthest east
Somalia
Lanny
|
|
$1,600
[21]
In 2011 Oprah sat down with you again--to discuss the fallout from your "Million Little Pieces" scandal
James Frey
|
$1,600
[29]
This "Queen of Southern Cuisine" was born & raised in Albany, Georgia, where she learned to cook from her grandmother Paul
Paula Deen
Jeff
|
DD
$1,800
[23]
In 1924 North Carolina's Trinity College was endowed by a tobacco magnate & changed its name to this
Duke
Lanny
|
$1,600
[16]
"Growing" from the Italian, this music term means a gradual, steady increase in loudness
crescendo
|
$1,600
[5]
14th century writer Dante
Alighieri
Jeff
|
$1,600
[9]
In books Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is this country's only female gumshoe
Botswana
Joe
Lanny
|
|
$2,000
[22]
Already a Joan Crawford movie, your "Mildred Pierce" came to TV in a 2011 version more faithful to the book
James M. Cain
|
$2,000
[30]
This actress who went to school in Augusta didn't know 'bout birthin' babies in "Gone with the Wind"
Butterfly McQueen
Jeff
|
$2,000
[26]
A noted Commodore from this university was Al Gore, who studied at both its divinity & law schools
Vanderbilt
Jeff
|
$2,000
[17]
This punctuation word (it's from the Greek for "putting in beside" & you're staring right at 2 of 'em)
parentheses
Joe
|
$2,000
[6]
17th century Dutch master painter Rembrandt
van Rijn
Lanny
|
$2,000
[10]
It has ports on the Atlantic & you'll find Namibia on its southern border
Angola
Joe
|
To mark an historic visit, on May 17 an Irish army band played this song followed by Ireland's anthem
"God Save The Queen"