Abigail Gardner — a library technician from Alexandria, Virginia
Ryan McCune — a pathologist from St. George, Utah
Gabor Vari — a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $34,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabor | $5,400 | $3,800 | $19,200 |
$24,001
2-day champion: $58,402 |
$20,200
28 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ryan | $2,200 | $4,400 | $12,000 |
$17,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Abigail | $400 | $2,200 | $3,000 |
$5,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
9 R, 2 W |
| I SAW IT ON TV | "TIVITY" & COMPANY | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER | A LITTLE LEGALESE | GOIN' SOLO | STEAMBOATS |
|
$200
[21]
I saw this guy's "resigned" expression during his speech on August 8, 1974
Nixon
Gabor
|
$200
[6]
3 kittens born to mom Saliega in 2005 are the first Iberian lynx to be born here
captivity
Gabor
|
$200
[26]
"Condi: The Life of a Steel Magnolia"
(Condoleezza) Rice
Gabor
|
$200
[20]
This "of court" may be direct, like using insulting language, or indirect, like refusal to obey a lawful order
contempt
Ryan
|
$200
[11]
...from the Heartbreakers with "You Don't Know How It Feels'"
(Tom) Petty
Gabor
|
$200
[1]
Steamboat Springs in this state was so named because the bubbling springs sounded like a chugging steamboat
Colorado
Ryan
|
|
$400
[22]
I saw this come tumbling down November 9, 1989
the Berlin Wall
Ryan
|
$400
[7]
The quality of generating new ideas; it may be stifled by too many rules
creativity
Gabor
Abigail
|
$400
[27]
"A Woman Named Jackie"
(Jackie Kennedy) Onassis
Gabor
|
$400
[19]
This type of clause that sounds elderly was born in 1895, when Southern states used it to deny black suffrage
a grandfather clause
Gabor
|
$400
[12]
...from the Black Eyed Peas with "Big Girls Don't Cry"
Fergie
Gabor
|
$400
[2]
Appropriately, asteamboatis in the background of theportraitof this American inventor
(Robert) Fulton
Gabor
|
|
$600
[23]
In September 2011 I saw some of the 1,600 homes burned out by wildfires around Bastrop in this state
Texas
Ryan
|
$600
[8]
Amount of output per hour of work
productivity
Ryan
|
$600
[28]
"Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It"
Mae West
Gabor
|
$600
[16]
It's the unlawful taking or destroying of fish or game on another's land
poaching
Gabor
|
$600
[13]
...from Fleetwood Mac with "Stand Back"
(Stevie) Nicks
Gabor
|
$600
[3]
On Aug. 22, 1787 John Fitch made a successful trial of his steamboat on the Delaware River before delegates to this
the Constitutional Convention
Gabor
Ryan
|
|
$800
[24]
I saw U.S. Marines topple a statue of this man on April 9, 2003
Saddam Hussein
Gabor
|
$800
[9]
Birth, particularly of Jesus
nativity
Gabor
|
$800
[29]
"The Downing Street Years"
Margaret Thatcher
Abigail
|
$1,000
[18]
Libel & slander are both forms of this 10-letter term, often found before "of character"
defamation
|
$800
[14]
...from *NSYNC with "Like I Love You"; nice career move, son
(Justin) Timberlake
Gabor
|
$800
[4]
Charlotte Dundas, an early steamer, was powered by an adaptation of the Watt engine linked to one of these in a stern well
a paddle wheel
Ryan
|
|
$1,000
[25]
I saw the announcement of the Good Friday Agreement for peace in this U.K. land
Northern Ireland
Ryan
|
$1,000
[10]
In 1987 this was combined with A.D.D. to create a diagnosis that's now applied to as many as 7% of U.S. schoolkids
hyperactivity
Gabor
|
$1,000
[30]
"Lady Sings the Blues"
Billie Holiday
Abigail
|
DD
$4,000
[17]
Leading questions may be used when dealing with an adverse witness, also called this type of witness
hostile
Gabor
|
$1,000
[15]
...from the Eagles with "All She Wants To Do Is Dance"
(Don) Henley
Gabor
|
$1,000
[5]
Mark Twain recounts learning to pilot steamboats called Paul Jones & Crescent City in this 1883 memoir
Life on the Mississippi
Gabor
|
| WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY | ANAGRAMS | NEWSPAPER HISTORY | STATE'S RIGHTS | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS | DREAMBOATS |
|
$400
[10]
Hippos & baboons were part of the first known one of these, though no "please don't feed the animals" hieroglyphics
a zoo
Abigail
|
$400
[12]
Miguel called Ramon cool; I think he's this, as his therapist might suggest
loco (from cool)
Abigail
|
$400
[20]
In 1896 the Dow Jones Industrial Average officially appeared in print for the first time in this newspaper
The Wall Street Journal
Gabor
|
$400
[9]
Vermont
New Hampshire
Gabor
|
$400
[1]
The title of this Grant Wood painting refers to the style of the house that's behind the farmer & his daughter
American Gothic
Gabor
|
$400
[24]
Time magazine said this blond Bond-shell has shoulders & pecs "so well defined, they could be in Webster's"
(Daniel) Craig
Ryan
|
|
$800
[6]
A team in this Central American country found a 2,200-year-old visual depiction of the Mayan creation story "Popol Vuh"
Guatemala
Gabor
|
$800
[13]
I'll be going to this Canadian province to give an oration
Ontario (from oration)
Abigail
|
$800
[21]
In the 1920s Margaret Mitchell wrote for this Atlanta newspaper that later merged with the Constitution
the Journal
Abigail
|
$800
[11]
Montana
North Dakota
Gabor
|
$800
[2]
A 1948 action painting by this American artist is seen here
Jackson Pollock
Abigail
|
$800
[27]
He was in all his "Glory" in 1996 when he was named People's Sexiest Man Alive, the first & only African American honored
Denzel Washington
Ryan
|
|
$1,600
[8]
In 2011 a 1-ton anchor was recovered from his ship & he turned up in the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie
Blackbeard (Edward Teach)
Gabor
Ryan
|
$1,200
[14]
ABC had to figure out what to do with the time slot for this show
Lost (from slot)
Ryan
|
$1,200
[22]
Missouri poet Eugene Field wrote about this city's paper, "Twinkle, twinkle little Star, bright and gossipy you are"
Kansas City
Ryan
|
$1,200
[17]
Mississippi
Alabama
Ryan
|
$1,200
[3]
Louis Maurer was the horse-drawing specialist in the stable of artists of this 19th century printmaking duo
Currier & Ives
Gabor
|
$1,200
[28]
This Brit had us the moment we saw him as the haughty (but smoldering) Mr. Darcy in a 1995 miniseries of "Pride and Prejudice"
Colin Firth
Ryan
Abigail
|
|
$2,000
[26]
The earliest known records of this Native American people's syllabary were found carved in a cave wall
the Cherokee
|
$1,600
[15]
Marcel is a saint for letting his wife dress him in this, especially the duchess or slipper style
satin (from saint)
|
$1,600
[23]
This Massachusetts daily's early issues included "The Sunday Pulpit", a review of local sermons
The Boston Globe
Gabor
|
$1,600
[18]
Nebraska
Iowa
Ryan
Abigail
|
$1,600
[4]
This American Impressionist never married or had children, but in the 1880s she painted many scenes of mothers & children
(Mary) Cassatt
Gabor
|
$1,600
[29]
Sorry, ladies, this Spanish heartthrob who starred in "Before Night Falls" is married to Penelope Cruz
(Javier) Bardem
Gabor
|
|
DD
$4,200
[7]
Device used by Terry Herbert to find the "Staffordshire Hoard" of buried Anglo-Saxon gold
metal detector
Gabor
|
$2,000
[16]
The article suggested going to see this type of musical program
recital (from article)
|
$2,000
[25]
After 143 years, the Sacramento Union ceased publication in 1994, leaving this paper as the city's oldest
the Bee
Gabor
|
DD
$4,000
[19]
Tennessee
North Carolina
Ryan
|
$2,000
[5]
Emmanuel Radnitzky was the original name of this photographer who had a major role in Dadaism & Surrealism
Man Ray
Gabor
|
$2,000
[30]
He was on the cover of GQ magazine in April 2009 with the tagline "Interview with a Vampire"
Robert Pattinson
Abigail
|
In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly
F. Scott Fitzgerald