Keith Whitener game 6.
Hillary Meyer — a stay-at-home mom and blogger from Middletown, New York
Barry Peterson — a financial risk analyst from El Paso, Texas
Keith Whitener — a research chemist originally from Charlotte, North Carolina (whose 5-day cash winnings total $100,397)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keith | $4,400 | $8,000 | $16,800 |
$18,001
6-day champion: $118,398 |
$16,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Barry | $1,800 | $4,000 | $9,000 |
$2,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Hillary | $400 | $1,200 | $7,600 |
$14,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
13 R, 2 W |
| ON THE JOB | NAME THAT SPEECHMAKER | BASEBALL TIMELINE | JOHN, IN HIS OWN WRITE | COMPLETES THE LICENSE PLATE | THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARYPAGE 1004 |
|
$200
[30]
Per his wife, Todd Palin is "a lifelong commercial" one of these on the seas
a fisherman
Hillary
|
$200
[11]
"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow...and we're all precious in God's sight"
Jesse Jackson
|
$200
[29]
On July 4, 1939 in Yankee Stadium, he said, "I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for"
Lou Gehrig
Hillary
|
$200
[27]
He's penned many bestselling court-room thrillers, but in 1996, he returned to actual practice & won a $683,500 verdict
John Grisham
Barry
|
$200
[6]
New Hampshire: "Live ___ or Die"
Free
Barry
|
$200
[1]
"Legit" is listed as slang for this word just a bit below it
legitimate
Barry
|
|
$400
[22]
Didier Jouvenet showed the rich & famous to their tables in this "masterly" job at NYC's La Grenouille
maître d'
Barry
|
$400
[12]
"I am proud to run with a man who will be one of the great presidents of this century, Walter F. Mondale"
Geraldine Ferraro
|
$400
[28]
On April 14, 1910 he became the first president to throw the ceremonial first pitch to open a major league season
William Howard Taft
Keith
|
$400
[26]
He also wrote the screenplay for the movie version of his novel "The Cider House Rules"
John Irving
Hillary
|
$400
[7]
Alabama: "Sweet ___"
Home
Hillary
|
$400
[2]
Born Vivian Mary Hartley, she won the Oscar for Best Actress of 1939 & 1951
Vivien Leigh
|
|
$600
[21]
If a glazier's coming to the White House, he's probably fixing one of the 147 of these
a window
Barry
|
$800
[14]
"We're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's one or the other in 1964"
Malcolm X
Barry
|
$600
[25]
23 of these have been pitched in the major leagues & on Aug. 15, 2012 9-month-old Bode Dockal witnessed his second
a perfect game
Keith
|
$600
[18]
This Englishman opened a poem with "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"
(John) Keats
Keith
|
$600
[8]
Alaska: "The Last ___"
Frontier
Barry
|
$600
[3]
It's the 2-word name for this informal men's outfit
a leisure suit
Keith
|
|
$800
[20]
This profession gets abuse, even from Jesus: "Woe unto you...ye lade men with burdens...ye yourselves touch not"
lawyer
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
"& you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog, &...regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep him"
Richard Nixon
Keith
|
$800
[24]
In 1966 this artificial sports surface was used for the first time in an exhibition game in Houston
Astroturf
Barry
|
$800
[17]
In 2001 his "Rabbit Remembered" returned to characters left behind by the title man's death
John Updike
Keith
|
$800
[9]
North Carolina: "First in ___"
Flight
Barry
|
$800
[4]
7-letter word for how much space you have in front of you in which to stretch out your feet on an airplane
legroom
Keith
|
|
$1,000
[19]
The sartorius, our longest muscle, was named for being used in the cross-legged position of this type of worker
a tailor
Keith
|
$1,000
[15]
She said, "I stand before you...under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last pres. election"
Susan B. Anthony
Keith
|
$1,000
[23]
In 1962 this ex-Yankee manager known as the "Old Perfessor" became the first manager of the N.Y. Mets
Casey Stengel
|
$1,000
[16]
He wrote his 1667 masterpiece "To Justify the Ways of God to Man"
John Milton
Barry
|
$1,000
[10]
Washington, D.C.: "___ Without Representation "
Taxation
Keith
|
$1,000
[5]
Heard here is an example of one of these, a short melodic passage in an opera associated with one character
a leitmotif
Keith
|
| WORDS IN HALLOWEEN | HERE'S TO THE IRISH | WORLD EXPLORATION | THINKING | OUTSIDE | THE BOX |
|
$400
[1]
It's below the ankle & behind the arch
the heel
Hillary
|
$400
[14]
In 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winners awarded this rocker their own peace prize for his work on African debt
Bono
Hillary
|
$400
[24]
In 1610 he sailed into the large North American bay now named for him thinking he had found the Pacific Ocean
(Henry) Hudson
Barry
|
$400
[3]
Lao-Tzu wrote that "The journey of a thousand miles commenced with a single" one of these
a footstep (or a step)
Hillary
|
$400
[11]
The unusual markings on the Rembrandt variety of this bulb flower were originally caused by a virus
a tulip
Barry
|
$400
[7]
6-letter word for an elevated enclosed private section from which to watch stadium action in luxury
a skybox
Barry
|
|
$800
[2]
It may be short-eared or great horned
an owl
Keith
|
$800
[13]
Let's raise a glass to this Irish whiskey purveyor who can be seen in ads besting the Hawk of Achill
Jameson
Hillary
|
$800
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) In 1909, from a supply base on Canada's Ellesmere Island, this American naval officer set out across the ice, covering 413 nautical miles to the North Pole
Robert Peary
Keith
Hillary
|
$800
[29]
Flick the switch; the Age of Reason was also known as this
Enlightenment
Barry
|
$1,200
[17]
The old man type of this spiny succulent has a coat of white hair
a cactus
Keith
|
$800
[8]
The container part you can send in to support schools, or the band with the 1967 hit "The Letter"
a boxtop
Hillary
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Temporary financial aid
a loan
Keith
|
$1,200
[15]
He played Oskar Schindler & has also been the voice of Aslan
Liam Neeson
Hillary
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
On April 9, 1682 this Frenchman reached the mouth of the Mississippi & named the area Louisiana
La Salle
Barry
|
$1,200
[27]
Aristippus, the first systematic hedonist philosopher, gave this the lowest value among human experiences
pain
|
$1,600
[18]
One of the smallest of these lepidopterans is the blue pygmy of California, wingspan just over half an inch
a butterfly
Keith
Hillary
|
$1,200
[9]
To make fire before matches were invented, this container held combustible materials, flint & steel
a tinderbox
Hillary
|
|
$1,600
[5]
Saintly nimbus
a halo
Hillary
|
$1,600
[16]
This shaven-headed Irish lass became the first artist ever to refuse a Grammy Award
Sinéad O'Connor
Keith
|
$1,200
[28]
In December 1811 Thomas Manning became the first Englishman to enter this forbidden Tibetan city
Lhasa
Keith
|
$1,600
[26]
Spinoza espoused this belief that God & the universe are identical
pantheism
Keith
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
Believe it or not, the smooth soft-shelled species of this reptile can often outrun a man on level ground
a turtle
Barry
|
$1,600
[10]
In 1974-'75 Dave Schultz of this Philadelphia team spent lots of time in the box, setting an NHL record with 472 penalty minutes
the Flyers
Keith
|
|
$2,000
[6]
Rodin sculpted the "Gates of" this
Hell
Barry
|
$2,000
[23]
Dublin-born Michael Gambon took over the role of Dumbledore from this actor born in Limerick
Richard Harris
|
$2,000
[22]
In 1642 this Dutchman was commissioned to determine the southern extent of the "Great South Land"
(Abel) Tasman
Hillary
|
$2,000
[21]
Semiotics is the study of communication via these, be they the "road" or "peace" type
signs
Barry
|
$2,000
[19]
The Australian species of this bird has a pouched beak up to 18.5 inches long, the longest beak of any bird
a pelican
Barry
|
$2,000
[20]
Matthew says a woman came to Jesus with a box made of this white gypsum containing "precious ointment"
alabaster
Keith
|
New York's delegates were John Lansing, Robert Yates & this Founding Father, the only one of the 3 who signed
Alexander Hamilton