Andrea Korte — an editorial specialist from Washington, D.C.
Matt Johnson — a baker and philosophy instructor from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Cindy Vanderbur — a health insurance contract specialist from Madison, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cindy | $3,200 | $5,700 | $24,000 |
$36,801
2-day champion: $54,800 |
$24,600
28 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matt | $1,800 | $3,400 | $6,200 |
$12,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
10 R, 3 W |
| Andrea | $3,200 | $4,200 | $18,400 |
$12,401
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| THE AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD | JUST DESSERTS | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS | WHO WANTS TO BE A BILLIONAIRE? | SPEAKING HAWAIIAN | ORE |
|
$200
[17]
2008:This star of "Bonnie & Clyde"
Warren Beatty
Matt
|
$200
[12]
You don't have to go to Florida to enjoy this dessert
key lime pie
Matt
|
$200
[7]
This Presidential Medal of Freedom winner whose work is seenheregot his first commission when he was 15
Norman Rockwell
Cindy
|
$200
[11]
Would you spend $90 million to keep your job? He did just that to claim a third term as NYC mayor
Bloomberg
Cindy
|
$200
[5]
Kahiko is the traditional form of this dance
the hula
Cindy
|
$200
[22]
Processing 10 tons of ore yields one troy ounce of this, atomic number 79; no wonder it's so darned valuable
gold
Matt
|
|
$400
[18]
2004:This portrayer of Joanna Kramer
Meryl Streep
Andrea
|
$400
[13]
Named for the German region where it originated, it's a rich chocolate cake with a cream filling & cherries
Black Forest cake
Cindy
|
$400
[6]
Still going by the name Ruiz, he entered a painting academy in Madrid in 1897, but the teachers bored him
Picasso
Matt
|
$400
[23]
His $9 billion empire, partly in media, helped make him Italian prime minister until his 2011 resignation
Berlusconi
Andrea
|
$400
[2]
In Hawaii, May Day is also this rhyming day, celebrating a certain wreath
Lei Day
Cindy
|
$400
[27]
Add a letter to "melting" to get this method by which a metal is taken from its original ore
smelting
Andrea
|
|
$600
[19]
1994:This "Five Easy Pieces" star
Jack Nicholson
Cindy
|
$600
[14]
Shhh! A chocolate one of these is just out of the oven
soufflé
Matt
|
$600
[8]
Thisartist known for self portraits had a child by a young housekeeper & once declared bankruptcy
Rembrandt
Matt
|
$600
[24]
In 2006 he launched Virgin Fuels to develop environmentally friendly energy sources
Richard Branson
Matt
|
$600
[1]
It's the double-talk Hawaiian name for an assorted platter of appetizers
pupu platter
Andrea
|
$600
[28]
You'll earn more than 5 cents if you know that when it comes to ores of this, it's millerite time
nickel
Andrea
|
|
$800
[20]
1981:This dancer who began his career in Vaudeville
Fred Astaire
Cindy
Andrea
|
$800
[15]
Enjoy this New Orleans specialty, the official doughnut of Louisiana, with a cup of chicory coffee
a beignet
Cindy
|
$800
[9]
During his life he may have sold only one painting , "The Red Vineyard", but in the 20th century his work sold for record amounts
van Gogh
Andrea
|
$800
[25]
This Washington State dropout co-founded a company with Bill Gates & piled up $13.5 billion, so things worked out
Paul Allen
Cindy
|
$800
[3]
It can be a Hawaiian feast or a particular dish usually prepared with coconut cream at that feast
a luau
Andrea
|
$800
[29]
This metal says Cu later to its chief ores, including chalcopyrite & chalcocite
copper
Cindy
|
|
DD
$2,500
[21]
1990:This director of epics like "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
David Lean
Cindy
|
$1,000
[16]
It's the 2-word French name for a custard dessert with a hard, caramelized sugar topping
crème brûlée
Cindy
|
$1,000
[10]
The last name of this Renaissance master whose work is seenheremeans "little barrel"
(Sandro) Botticelli
Andrea
|
$1,000
[26]
He ran track for the University of Oregon & later sold Japanese shoes out of his car; now he's worth billions
Phil Knight
Cindy
|
$1,000
[4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on a hillside in Molokai, HI.) Molokai was left in isolation for centuries by the armies of Oahu & Maui; the priestly leaders on Molokai, known by this big Hawaiian term, were said to be able to pray their enemies to death
kahuna
Cindy
|
$1,000
[30]
When pitchblende, an ore of this element, goes to a mill, sulfuric acid is used to produce yellowcake
uranium
Matt
|
| MAGAZINES | LONGFELLOW | WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND | "L" ON EARTH | A BYZANTINE CATEGORY | THIS OR THAT |
|
$400
[12]
It's said that the devil is in these, also the name of a men's magazine from Conde Nast
Details
Cindy
|
$400
[11]
In a Longfellow rhyme, "I shot" this "into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where"
an arrow
Cindy
|
$400
[1]
Before we knocked out 4 No. 1s in less than a year, we were just 5 brothers from Gary, Indiana
The Jackson 5
Andrea
|
$400
[3]
The Gulf of Riga is on the northwest coast of this country
Latvia
Andrea
|
$400
[21]
Muslim forces captured Alexandria in 642, ending Byzantine rule in this country
Egypt
Andrea
|
$400
[30]
An essential piece of cricket equipment, or a nocturnal mammal
bat
Cindy
|
|
$800
[13]
"Just Like" this 2-letter word is a feature of the weekly with this title
Us
Andrea
|
$800
[20]
Longfellow wistfully wrote, "Art is long, and" this "is fleeting"
time
Cindy
Matt
|
$800
[2]
We're Natalie, Martie & Emily, 3 Southern birds with several Grammys & a 2011 live "Storytellers" DVD
The Dixie Chicks
Cindy
|
$800
[4]
It borders Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam & China
Laos
Cindy
|
$800
[22]
The Byzantines paid tributes of gold to this big bad Hun who attacked them repeatedly in the 440s
Attila
Andrea
|
$800
[29]
Morally low, or the bottom support, as of a sculpture
base
Cindy
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Under longtime editor Gilbert Grosvenor, the circulation of this magazine went from less than 3,000 to more than 2 million
National Geographic
Andrea
|
$1,200
[19]
Hiawatha caught a monster sturgeon named Mishe-Nahma while canoeing on a lake that Longfellow called this
Gitche Gumee
Andrea
|
$1,200
[8]
We got together as kids in the San Francisco Bay Area before hitting it big with "Proud Mary"
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cindy
|
$1,200
[5]
This lake in central Switzerland has a maximum depth of 702 feet
Lake Lucerne
Cindy
|
$1,200
[23]
Byzantium, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, was renamed by this emperor in 330 A.D.
Constantine
Cindy
|
$1,200
[24]
Direct & unreserved in speech, or Congressman Barney
frank
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Ansel Adams helped found this photography magazine named for an opening, as on a camera
Aperture
Cindy
Matt
|
$1,600
[18]
"Week in, week out, from morn till night, you can hear his bellows blow", Longfellow wrote about this character
the blacksmith
Cindy
|
$1,600
[9]
We hit the Top 10 with "Don't Look Back" in 1978; we'd say where we're from, but that'd be too much of a hint
Boston
Cindy
|
$2,000
[7]
It's "jar"ring to note that before sailing to America in 1620, the pilgrims lived in this Dutch city for 11 years
Leiden
Andrea
|
$2,000
[25]
Before invading the west, Byzantine Emperor Justinian made peace with Khosrow, king of this empire to his east
the Persian Empire
Andrea
|
$1,600
[27]
Stays, or a word used to mean a corpse
remains
Cindy
|
|
$2,000
[16]
Thiseditor of The Weekly Standard can also be seen on "Fox News Sunday"
(Bill) Kristol
Matt
|
$2,000
[17]
In "The Courtship of Miles Standish", she told John Alden, "If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning"
Priscilla
Cindy
|
$2,000
[10]
We had a big year in 1966, with 5 Top 10 hits including "Summer In The City"--not bad for 4 Greenwich Village boys
The Lovin' Spoonful
Matt
|
DD
$3,500
[6]
It's the longest river in France
the Loire
Cindy
|
DD
$5,000
[26]
After enduring for more than a thousand years, the Byzantine Empire finally fell to this one in 1453
the Ottoman Empire
Andrea
|
$2,000
[28]
A bad football punt, or the long, straight anchor part connecting the crown & the ring
a shank
|
In 1977 Juanita Kreps, the first woman on the board of the NYSE, became the first woman to head this Cabinet dept.
Commerce