David Gard game 1.
Annette Todd — a marketing director from Riverside, California
David Gard — a retail horticulturist from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Patrick Morrison — a student of Slavic studies from Northville, Michigan (whose 3-day cash winnings total $80,701)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick | $2,400 | $6,000 | $14,600 |
$22,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,800
19 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| David | $4,000 | $6,600 | $16,000 |
$29,300
New champion: $29,300 |
$14,600
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Annette | $200 | $3,000 | $3,000 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,000
7 R, 4 W |
| EMILY DICKINSON | 2 BY 2 | MEMPHIS | ANNUAL EVENTS | ASTRONOMY | "V" ME |
|
$200
[8]
A recluse in latter years, Dickinson was called the "nun of" this town
Amherst
David
|
$200
[9]
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" &"Unchained Melody"
The Righteous Brothers
Annette
|
$200
[26]
Memphis has the largest trading market for this plant fiber, with nearly half the U.S. crop going through the city.
cotton
David
Annette
|
$200
[1]
The Spud Days festival held in Shelley in this state features the Miss Russet pageant & the tater trot race
Idaho
Patrick
|
$200
[3]
Dust released by this comet causes the Orionids meteor shower each October
Halley's Comet
David
|
$200
[11]
Martini & Rossi has been making this since the 1800s
vermouth
David
|
|
$400
[14]
As a girl, Emily was forbidden to read the inappropriate works of this "Drum-taps" poet
Walt Whitman
|
$400
[10]
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" &"Maneater"
Hall & Oates
David
|
$400
[27]
One of the lions who roared at the beginning of this studio's movies lived at the Memphis Zoo until his death in 1944
MGM
Patrick
|
$400
[2]
Since 1940 Lincoln, New Mexico has presented a folk pageant called "The Last Escape of" this young outlaw
Billy the Kid
David
|
$400
[4]
In 2005, 2 additional moons, Hydra & Nix, were discovered orbiting this dwarf planet
Pluto
David
|
$400
[12]
The Constitution outlines how to fill these in Congress
vacancies
David
|
|
$600
[15]
Emily began a poem, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er" do this
succeed
Patrick
|
$600
[18]
"Soul Man" &"I Thank You"
Sam & Dave
Annette
|
$600
[28]
Addressing Memphis sanitation workers on April 3, 1962, he said he'd "seen the promised land"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Patrick
|
$600
[21]
2012 marks the 60th year of the Florida Folk Festival, way down upon this river at Stephen Foster State Park
Suwannee
David
|
$800
[6]
Calliope, one of these objects orbiting between Jupiter & Mars, has its own satellite named Linus
an asteroid
David
|
$600
[13]
Do something with great force & you're said to do it "with a" this synonym for retribution
vengeance
Patrick
|
|
$800
[24]
Emily's father served in Congress from 1853 to 1855 as one of the last elected members of this party
the Whig
David
|
$800
[19]
"Shout" &"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
Tears for Fears
Annette
|
$800
[29]
In 1952, 10 years after the Bing Crosby movie, Kemmons Wilson opened the first of these inns in his Memphis hometown
Holiday Inn
Annette
|
$800
[22]
During the week of this Triple Crown horse race, amphibians compete in the frog hop at Patterson Park in Baltimore
the Preakness
Patrick
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
The 2 shortest-named constellations each have 3 letters: Ara & this one in the zodiac
Leo
David
|
$800
[16]
In the Church of England, it's another term for a parish priest
vicar
Patrick
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Thomas Higginson, a contributor to this oceanic-sounding magazine, was Emily's mentor & editor
The Atlantic
David
|
$1,000
[20]
A country duo:"Stay" &"Stuck Like Glue"
Sugarland
|
$1,000
[30]
The world's first self-service grocery store, this chain with a rhyming name opened in Memphis in 1916
Piggly Wiggly
Patrick
|
$1,000
[23]
This Halloween symbol originated in Ireland, where candles were once placed in turnips to keep away ghosts
jack-o'-lanterns
Annette
|
$1,000
[7]
John Archibald Wheeler popularized this term for an object so dense that not even light can escape
a black hole
Patrick
|
$1,000
[17]
In 1775 he invented the electrophorus, a device used to generate static electricity
(Alessandro) Volta
Annette
|
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY | ANTONYMIC PAIRS | A POSTHUMOUS CATEGORY | MOVIE DOG BREEDS | THEPOSTMAN'S HERE | I GOT 3 LETTERS! |
|
$400
[3]
In Germany & the Czech Republic you'll find what the Germans call Bohmerwald, or this forest
the Bohemian Forest
Annette
|
$400
[8]
A loyal friend "sticks with you through" these alliterative antonyms referring to good & bad times
thick and thin
David
|
$400
[4]
In 2001 this president was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor for his Spanish-American War service
Teddy Roosevelt
Patrick
|
$400
[17]
Bruiser in "Legally Blonde"
a Chihuahua
Annette
|
$400
[20]
For nearly 25 years Richard Johnson ran Page Six, the gossip section of this big-city daily
the New York Post
Patrick
|
$400
[1]
This 3-letter credential equal to a high school diploma, dating back to the 1940s
G.E.D.
Patrick
|
|
$800
[28]
Icacos Point at the southwestern tip of Trinidad is only about 7 miles from the South American mainland & this country
Venezuela
|
$800
[9]
If someone's alternately passionate & indifferent about you, his feelings are said to "run" this way
hot and cold
Patrick
|
$800
[5]
His last major composition, "The Art of the Fugue", was published posthumously in 1751
J. S. Bach
David
|
$800
[18]
Marley of "Marley & Me"
Labrador retriever
|
$800
[21]
Richard Nixon was a favoritesubjectof Herblock, who cartooned for this newspaper for 54 years
The Washington Post
Patrick
|
$800
[2]
OBE, short for Officer of this order of knighthood
Order of the British Empire
David
|
|
$1,200
[27]
Sao Tome, this island & several tiny islands form a nation in Africa's Gulf of Guinea
Principe
|
$1,200
[10]
A meeting in which people scream at each other is sometimes politely said to "full of lively" this pair
give and take
David
|
$1,200
[13]
For his role in "Network", he became the first person to win an acting Oscar posthumously
Finch
Patrick
|
$1,200
[19]
Cujo
Saint Bernard
Annette
|
$1,200
[22]
In the 1930s Yorkshire Post editor Arthur Mann opposed this policy of mollifying Nazi Germany
appeasement
Patrick
|
$1,200
[6]
CFE, qualified to sniff out this foul financial "F"
fraud
Annette
|
|
$1,600
[25]
Across the Sea of Galilee on its eastern shore lies this hilly plateau occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War in 1967
the Golan Heights
David
|
$2,000
[12]
Tom Hanks' thanks to his gay drama teacher at the Oscars inspired this Kevin Kline film
In & Out
Patrick
|
$1,600
[14]
In 1963, nearly a year after his death, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Reivers"
Faulkner
Patrick
|
$1,600
[29]
Verdell in "As Good As It Gets": this "Brussels" breed
a Brussels griffon
David
|
$2,000
[24]
In 1878 Joseph Pulitzer merged the St. Louis Post with this newspaper
the Dispatch
David
|
$1,600
[7]
DSM, which stands for this highest non-valorous U.S. military decoration
Distinguished Service Medal
David
|
|
$2,000
[26]
In 1782 King Rama I founded this capital on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River
Bangkok
Patrick
|
DD
$2,600
[11]
Scientific American has a feature that presents a common belief & asks this alliterative question
fact or fiction
David
|
$2,000
[15]
In 2003 this violinist had a street corner outside Carnegie Hall named for him posthumously
Isaac Stern
|
$2,000
[30]
Otis in "The Adventures of Milo and Otis"
a pug
|
DD
$2,200
[23]
Stuart Whatley is managing blog editor for this Post
The Huffington Post
Patrick
|
$2,000
[16]
ACE, helping shape movies in the society of American Cinema these
Editors
|
The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine"
Hannibal Lecter