Joey Falco — a writer from Santa Monica, California
Tamara Tatum-Broughton — an assistant professor of biology from Washington, D.C.
Elisabeth Carrel — a copy editor from Elgin, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisabeth | $-200 | $200 | $8,800 |
$1,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Tamara | $3,600 | $3,800 | $8,200 |
$2,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
13 R, 2 W |
| Joey | $2,800 | $1,600 | $6,400 |
$3,999
New champion: $3,999 |
$12,400
19 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS | AP MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR | STUPID ANSWERS | PLANT-HERS | GOOD NEWS | A "LEG" TO STAND ON |
|
$200
[18]
Washington, D.C. has no streets named for "Y", "Z" or this letter of the alphabet because of its similarity to "I"
J
Elisabeth
|
$200
[2]
2002:American cyclist
Lance Armstrong
Tamara
|
$200
[7]
It's the highest mountain in Kenya
Mt. Kenya
Elisabeth
Tamara
|
$200
[1]
The black-eyed this flower is called a pioneer plant--it's one of the first plants to grow in a new field, such as after a fire
Susan
Joey
|
$200
[12]
This piece of cutlery was added to the European table in the Middle Ages, bringing cleaner hands & better hygiene
a fork
Tamara
|
$400
[27]
The soybean is a member of this plant family
legume
Joey
|
|
$400
[19]
In a Beatles song this street named for an 18th century slave ship owner runs "beneath the blue suburban skies" of Liverpool
Penny Lane
Joey
|
$400
[3]
1982:Edmonton Oilers center
Wayne Gretzky
Tamara
|
$400
[8]
In 1984 this novel first published 35 years earlier was on the bestsellers list
1984
Joey
|
$400
[14]
The flower known as this "of the valley" in the U.S. is called the May Bell in Germany
a lily
Joey
|
$400
[13]
For those wanting privacy to watch movies, the first of this type of theater opened in New Jersey on June 6, 1933
a drive-in theater
|
$600
[26]
Hit the bricks at this theme park that has locations in Denmark, Germany, England & Carlsbad, California
Legoland
Elisabeth
|
|
$600
[20]
Although there is no standard speed limit on this German highway system, there is a recommended limit of about 80 mph
the Autobahn
Elisabeth
|
$600
[4]
1936:Ohio State track star & Olympic gold medalist
Jesse Owens
Joey
|
$600
[9]
In this classic game from Milton Bradley, you have to connect 4 of your pieces in a row to win
Connect Four
Joey
|
$1,000
[23]
Siberian, Yellow Flag & Dwarf Bearded are varieties of this popular 4-letter garden flower
an Iris
Tamara
Joey
|
$600
[15]
To provide old-age retirement benefits & unemployment insurance, Congress passed this act on August 9, 1935
the Social Security Act
Joey
|
$800
[24]
Chopin advocated this smooth playing style
legato
Elisabeth
|
|
$800
[21]
One genealogist estimates around 90% of Kentucky's 1790 population had arrived there via this road
the Wilderness Road
Elisabeth
Tamara
|
$800
[5]
1995:Reliable star seen here
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Tamara
|
$800
[10]
Bakers have been using this brand of chocolate in their recipes since 1780
baker's chocolate
Tamara
|
— |
$1,000
[17]
The Inuit were exempted from a 1986 worldwide ban on commercial hunting of these animals
whales
Elisabeth
Joey
|
$1,000
[25]
This sleeve style that sounds like a dinner roast was popular in the 19th century
leg o'mutton
Elisabeth
|
|
$1,000
[22]
The Grand Trunk Road begins at Peshawar, Pakistan, travels SE though India & ends at Sonargaon in this country
Bangladesh
Elisabeth
|
$1,000
[6]
1935:Heavyweight boxer who defeated Primo Carnera & Max Baer in a 3-month period
Joe Louis
Elisabeth
Tamara
|
$1,000
[11]
Carvings of a horse, star & bell appear on the headstone of this Wild West "Bandit Queen"
Belle Starr
Elisabeth
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[16]
In the late 1700s Charles de l'Epee began the 1st public school for these people in Paris & created a language for them
the hearing-impaired (the deaf)
Joey
|
— |
| AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS | NEW YORK MUSEUMS | AL-LIT-ERATION | POISON | PROPOSED STATES | MATH, YET NOT MATH |
|
$400
[2]
This Oscar winner played cab driver Max (not Maxx) in "Collateral"
Jamie Foxx
Joey
|
$400
[25]
Alfred Barr Jr., the founding director of this museum, intended it to help people enjoy the visual arts of our time
MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
Elisabeth
Joey
|
$400
[14]
Fantastic Fitzgerald, neighbor Nick, car crash
The Great Gatsby
Joey
|
$400
[19]
Phosgene gas was commonly used along the Somme in this war
World War I
Elisabeth
|
$400
[7]
Today with almost 8 million people, this island has talked of splitting from New York since the 1890s
Long Island
Joey
|
$2,000
[26]
This negative-sounding word means to render someone utterly perplexed
nonplus
|
|
$800
[3]
"The Measure of a Man" is "a spiritual autobiography" by this actor whose distinguished feature film career began in 1950
(Sidney) Poitier
Joey
|
$1,200
[1]
The collection of industrialist Henry Clay Frick is on view in a mansion at East 70th St. & this avenue
5th Avenue
Tamara
|
$800
[15]
Bunyan biggie, amply allegorical, Christian chronicles
Pilgrim's Progress
Elisabeth
|
$800
[20]
The venom of the Gaboon viper can affect the way your blood does this inside you--either too much or too little
flow
Tamara
|
$800
[8]
State Senator Bob Morton has proposed that Washington east of these mountains go its own way
the Cascades
Tamara
|
— |
|
$1,200
[4]
Dennis Haysbert's credits include "The Unit", "Far From Heaven" & ubiquitous ads for this insurance company
Allstate
Joey
|
$1,600
[13]
This borough's museum of art upset folks with a 1999 exhibit featuring maggots, dung & formaldehyde
Brooklyn
Joey
|
$1,200
[16]
Rudyard ruminates, superb story,"wee" wonder
Wee Willie Winkie
|
$1,200
[21]
The oldest record of murder with poison, from Egypt, refers to "death by peach"--this toxin
cyanide
Tamara
|
$1,200
[9]
Jefferson had a plan for dividing this "directional" territory into states like Cherronesus & Polypotamia
the Northwest Territory
Elisabeth
|
— |
|
$1,600
[5]
Woody Strode, seenherein this Kirk Douglas film, helped integrate the NFL in 1946 with the Rams
Spartacus
Joey
|
$2,000
[24]
This planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History has a 10,000-volume library on astronomy
the Hayden Planetarium
|
$2,000
[17]
Melville man, Claggart clash, mutiny mitigation
Billy Budd
Joey
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1935 actress Thelma Todd was found in her car, dead of this type of poisoning under unexplained circumstances
carbon monoxide
Joey
|
$1,600
[10]
Absaroka, which in 1939 proclaimed a governor & a Miss Absaroka, had parts of this state, Montana & South Dakota
Wyoming
Elisabeth
Tamara
Joey
|
— |
|
$2,000
[6]
He's gone from "Ocean's Eleven" to "Hotel Rwanda"
Don Cheadle
Tamara
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
The Whitney Museum has 187 works by this artist, including a mobile called "Big Red"
(Alexander) Calder
Elisabeth
|
DD
$4,000
[18]
Dickens delights, title teen, woeful Wackford
Nicholas Nickleby
Joey
|
$2,000
[23]
Jim Jones promised his followers a utopia in this country; it ended in mass suicide by poison
Guyana
Elisabeth
|
$2,000
[11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Western United States.) In 1849, 47 years before Utah statehood, partsof nine future states were encompassed by this proposed state, whose name meant "honeybee"
Deseret
|
— |
In 2005 a sculpture of an African elephant was installed outside this country's embassy in Washington, D.C.
Côte d'Ivoire