Cindy Vanderbur — a health insurance contract specialist from Madison, Indiana
Mike Garrett — a magazine editor from Kamloops, British Columbia
Dan Adkison — a copy editor from Brooklyn, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $37,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $5,200 | $4,400 | $6,400 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Mike | $-1,400 | $200 | $8,200 |
$12,801
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
11 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Cindy | $3,000 | $8,400 | $17,200 |
$17,999
New champion: $17,999 |
$14,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| GREG-CELLENT! | BOOK LEARNIN' | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD | I LOVE PARIS | IN THE "SPRING" TIME | FIVE FINGER EXERCISE |
|
$200
[19]
Gregory is the first name of this cranky TV doctor, a specialist in infectious diseases
House
Cindy
|
$200
[1]
Usually at the end of a book, it's a list of source materials & related readings
a bibliography
Dan
Mike
|
$200
[10]
Adult gobblers of this bird type can have a wingspan of 4 feet & weigh 50 lbs.; some say they're tryptophan-tastic
a turkey
Dan
|
$200
[11]
Commanding the 2nd armored French division, Gen. Philippe LeClerc liberated Paris from the Nazis in this year
1944
Dan
Mike
|
$200
[24]
During this bacchanalia, college students flood Daytona Beach
spring break
Cindy
|
$400
[28]
This c is the note indicated by the first ledger line above the bass staff
middle C
Cindy
|
|
$400
[21]
These Aussie kids' performers kept making fruit salad after the retirement of original member Greg Page
The Wiggles
Cindy
|
$400
[2]
A description under an illustration or photograph, or the verb meaning to add that information
a caption
Dan
|
$400
[4]
This 3- to 5-foot-tall pink bird uses hair-like combs along the edges of its bill to strain food from mud & sand
a flamingo
Dan
|
$400
[12]
The Place de la Concorde is dominated by "The Obelisk of" this place that's also the name of a Las Vegas hotel
Luxor
Cindy
|
$400
[25]
Delicate appetizer traditionally served on the first day of the Chinese New Year
a spring roll
Cindy
|
$600
[26]
In economic terms, it follows "cost-of-living" & "consumer price"
index
Cindy
|
|
$600
[20]
On film, he drove his family in a VW bus to the Little Miss Sunshine Beauty Pageant
Greg Kinnear
Mike
|
$600
[3]
You'll find "rid" in the middle of this word meaning to get rid of some text, as in a dictionary
abridge
Cindy
|
$600
[7]
2 feet in length, the great horned type of this preys on tough customers like porcupines & skunks
an owl
Cindy
|
$600
[13]
Parisians look forward to times when museums & galleries stay open until dawn, called nuits blanches, literally this
white nights
Cindy
|
$600
[16]
Tidying up your domicile on the equinox
spring cleaning
Cindy
|
$800
[27]
A Pac-Man ghost; use your "brain"
Pinky
Dan
|
|
$800
[22]
Greg Evigan did some chimp-hauling in a big rig as Mr. McKay on this '80s show
B.J. and the Bear
Cindy
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew flips through a book.) Technically, a page is only one side of each sheet of paper; the 2-sided sheet is called this
a folio (or a leaf)
Dan
|
$800
[8]
It's not crazy, it's not nuts, but the common one, about 30 inches long, is the state bird of Minnesota
a loon
Dan
|
$800
[14]
The mysterious "man in" this contraption was buried in Paris' St. Paul cemetery under the name Marchiali
the iron mask
Cindy
|
$800
[17]
Seen here is the English type of this hunter & loyal companion
a springer spaniel
Cindy
|
$1,000
[29]
This unit used to measure the diameter of cigars is equal to 1/64 of an inch
the ring gauge
|
|
$1,000
[23]
In a 1956 film he was "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"
Gregory Peck
Cindy
|
$1,000
[6]
This type of "editing" is the correction & revision of grammatical or factual elements in a book
copy editing
Dan
|
$1,000
[9]
This biggest penguin can be 4 feet tall & dive close to 2,000 feet down
the Emperor
Dan
|
$1,000
[15]
The site of heavy fighting during World War I, this river joins the Seine at the Paris suburb of Charenton
the Marne
Mike
|
$1,000
[18]
A beginning from which an enterprise is launched, it's also a summer Olympic diving event
a springboard
Mike
|
— |
| WATERFALLS | COMPLETE THE COMPANY NAME | "HOW TO" ENTERTAIN | TIMEPIECES | IN THE DICTIONARY | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS |
|
$400
[19]
On the Snake River, it once was a pair of waterfalls (thus its name), but one no longer flows because of a dam
Twin Falls
Cindy
|
$400
[20]
Mcgraw-____, educational services & more
Hill
Cindy
|
$400
[1]
This musical won 7 Tonys as well as the 1962 Pulitzer for Drama
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Cindy
|
$400
[4]
In 1996 this courageous actor appeared on the cover of time with the caption "Super Man"
Christopher Reeve
Mike
|
$800
[28]
A singultus is simply one of these involuntary contractions of the diaphragm causing a sudden intake of air
a hiccup
Dan
|
$800
[21]
He was buried in Madrid April 23, 1616, not long after finishing "Don Quixote"
Cervantes
Cindy
|
|
$800
[18]
These falls are lucky enough to carry 90% of the Niagara River's discharge
Horseshoe Falls
Cindy
|
$800
[3]
Lockheed ____, planes & stuff
Martin
Dan
|
$800
[8]
Jay Baruchel voiced a young Viking in this animated film
How to Train Your Dragon
Cindy
|
$800
[5]
He was first mentioned in Time in 1923, in a report on a military rehearsal of the Bavarian Fascista Army
Hitler
Mike
|
$1,200
[27]
This word can precede "infinitive" or follow "banana"
split
Cindy
|
$1,200
[22]
David Halberstam, author of books about this event like 1965's "Anatomy of a Quagmire", died April 23, 2007
the Vietnam War
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[17]
Ocqueoc, with drops as great as 5 feet, is one of the major waterfalls in the lower peninsula of this state
Michigan
Mike
|
$1,200
[2]
Faber & ____, for your U.K. book needs, for your U.K. book needs
Faber
Mike
|
$1,200
[9]
Marilyn Monroe & Betty Grable set out to find rich men interested in matrimony in this 1953 classic
How to Marry a Millionaire
Mike
|
$1,200
[6]
In 1956 Time said he had "a high, unpleasant quaver" & a "rich basso" marred by a "spasmodic delivery"
Elvis Presley
Dan
Mike
|
$1,600
[26]
A languet is something that resembles this body part either in function or shape
a tongue
Mike
|
$1,600
[23]
This English poet laureate died April 23, 1850 at Rydal Mount in his beloved Lake District
Wordsworth
Dan
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Kentucky's Cumberland Falls often feature this; a rainbow with light from a satellite, not a star
a moonbow
Cindy
|
$1,600
[13]
Ingersoll ____, an industrial technology company
Rand
Mike
|
$1,600
[10]
Kate Hudson is writing the titular column on a dating don't in this romantic comedy
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
"The ghostly, white-clad figure descended the ladder" was the lead for a cover story in July of this year
1969
Mike
|
$2,000
[25]
Often concrete, this mass at each end of a bridge bears the weight of an arch
an abutment
Dan
|
$2,000
[24]
Before his April 23, 1915 death abroad, he wrote, "There's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England"
Rupert Brooke
Cindy
|
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
Add "S" to a Frank Lloyd Wright house & you get this, Florida's tallest cataract
Falling Waters
Cindy
|
$2,000
[14]
Church & ____, household products
Dwight
Dan
|
$2,000
[11]
Brooklyn friends Ben & Cam hustle to try to make a buck without selling out in this comedic HBO series
How to Make it in America
|
$2,000
[12]
A story on this transportation of black kids to white schools had an alliterative title including Boston & battle
busing
Mike
|
— | — |
This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776
New Jersey