Tracy Carlson — a marketing consultant and author from Newton, Massachusetts
Bryce Johnson — a wine cellar rat from Corvallis, Oregon
Steven Durham — a writer and stay-at-home dad from Asheville, North Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven | $1,400 | $7,800 | $11,200 |
$22,300
2-day champion: $41,100 |
$11,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Bryce | $2,000 | $3,800 | $11,100 |
$16,401
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Tracy | $3,400 | $3,800 | $8,200 |
$5,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,200
10 R, 0 W |
| ON THE MAP | CELEBRITY INSURANCE POLICIES | SLOGANEERING | GET "DOWN"! | THE NIXON YEARS | THE LEAST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD |
|
$200
[6]
Thiscountry is pretty much named for itslocation
the Central African Republic
Bryce
|
$200
[18]
This singer was "Born To Run" all the way to his agent to insure his voice for $6 million
Bruce Springsteen
Tracy
|
$200
[13]
"Great taste, less filling" has been a slogan for this beer
Miller Lite
Steven
|
$200
[21]
Torrential rain
a downpour
Bryce
|
$200
[1]
In 1969 this baseball team won a miraculous first World Series
the Mets
Steven
|
$200
[30]
Every timehe goes to Denny's, he orders the same thing: this breakfast named for a type of home run
Grand Slam
Tracy
|
|
$400
[7]
A carillon in this city plays pieces specially composed by its native son Mozart
Salzburg
Steven
Bryce
|
$400
[19]
Professional coffee taster Gennaro Pelliccia had this insured for millions; rumor has it, so did Gene Simmons
his tongue
Steven
|
$400
[14]
"Please don't squeeze" this up close & personal product
Charmin
Tracy
|
$400
[24]
Direction to the end zone
downfield
Bryce
|
$400
[2]
With 2 Americans aboard, it's where Challenger came to rest in December 1972
the Moon
Steven
|
$400
[28]
Theone timehe was pulled over, he promptly showed his license & this document of the state's record of his car
his registration
Steven
|
|
$600
[8]
It's the tiny country highlighted here
El Salvador
Bryce
|
$600
[12]
1920s silent comic Ben Turpinhad a policy paying a reported $25,000 if this happened to his eyes
if they uncross
Tracy
|
$600
[15]
This laundry detergent was first marketed with the slogan "Oceans of suds"
Tide
Tracy
|
$600
[25]
To change to a lower gear
downshift
Bryce
|
$800
[4]
Jumping 19 cars with his motorcycle in Ontario, California, he set a world record in 1971
Evel Knievel
Tracy
|
$600
[27]
He loves to point out that his birthdate is9/26/53, the fifth through ninth decimal places in this number
pi
Bryce
|
|
$800
[9]
This archipelago includes Luzon in the Philippines & Sumatra in Indonesia
the Malay Archipelago
|
$800
[11]
The legs of this Lord of the Dance have been covered to the tune of $40 million
Michael Flatley
Bryce
|
$800
[16]
This restaurant's slogan is, appropriately, "Pizza! Pizza!"
Little Caesars
Steven
|
$800
[22]
Cracker Barrel promises this type of simple rural cooking
down-home
Steven
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Where do I begin to tell the tale of this tearjerker that topped The New York Times bestseller list for most of 1970
Love Story
Steven
|
$800
[26]
He knows all the lyrics to this British singer's solo hit "While You See A Chance"
Steve Winwood
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Some people of this nation indicatedhereclaim Sinbad the sailor as their own
Oman
Bryce
|
$1,000
[20]
Head & Shoulders took out a $1 million policy on this Steeler's hair
Troy Polamalu
Steven
|
$1,000
[17]
This computer company is working to build "a smarter planet"
IBM
Steven
|
$1,000
[23]
An opening in a ship gives us this phrase said before gulping a drink
down the hatch
Steven
|
$1,000
[5]
Throughout Nixon's presidency, this old cold warrior was the leader of the Soviet Union
(Leonid) Brezhnev
Bryce
Tracy
|
$1,000
[29]
(Alex looks at the camera and delivers the clue in an imitation of the "Most Interesting Man" ad series.) I don't always drink milk, but when I do, I prefer this type with fewer pathogens; stay thirsty, my friends
pasteurized
Steven
|
| AMERICAN LITERATURE | COATS & JACKETS | HAILED FROM WALES | STATE OF THE MOVIE | WORDS WITHIN WORDS | BOTANY |
|
$400
[1]
The plot of Dubose Heyward's "Porgy" is Porgy meets her, Porgy gets her, Porgy loses her
Bess
Steven
|
$400
[11]
Complete with baby pouch, the amauti was the parka for women among this Native American group
Eskimos (or Inuits)
|
$400
[22]
This man who found Livingstone began life in Wales as John Rowlands
(Henry Morton) Stanley
Steven
|
$400
[2]
"The Best Little Whorehouse in ____"
Texas
Steven
|
$400
[26]
I'm antireligious, but I prayed when this blew out at 90 miles per hour
tire (in an tire ligious)
Bryce
|
$800
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Costa Rica.) The orchid here can be fertilized by only a few species of bees; luckily, nature manages to get the job done, producing this flavorful bean used in ice cream & baking
vanilla
Steven
|
|
$800
[7]
In Stephen Vincent Benet's story "The Devil and" him, Mr. Scratch has come to collect a debt
Daniel Webster
Tracy
|
$800
[12]
AKA a varsity jacket, it often sports a vowel or consonant representing its school or team
a letter jacket (or letterman)
Bryce
|
$800
[23]
An annual prize named for him is awarded each year to the best published writer in English under the age of 30
Dylan Thomas
Bryce
|
$800
[3]
Neil Simon's "____ Suite"
California
|
$800
[27]
The Protestant evangelist claimed to have seen a cherub, a type of this
angel (in ev angel ist)
Steven
|
$1,200
[18]
A mountaineer, or a plant such as the Hydrangea anomala, which clings to brickwork by aerial rootlets
a climber
Bryce
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In Chapter 2 of "Moby Dick", he tucked his carpetbag under his arm & "started for Cape Horn and the Pacific"
Ishmael
Steven
|
$1,200
[14]
6-letter name for a fish that inflates itself, or a thickly insulated, not always flattering winter coat
a puffer
Bryce
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
Taste testing chocolate bars for Mr. Cadbury inspired his most famous kids' novel
Roald Dahl
Steven
|
$1,200
[4]
Starring Melanie Griffith:"Crazy in ____"
Alabama
Bryce
|
$1,200
[20]
If the Low Countries were cut off from other anesthetics, this could be used in the Netherlands
ether (in N ether lands)
Bryce
|
$1,600
[16]
The tubular leaves on this carnivorous plant give it this name for a container for pouring liquids
a pitcher plant
Bryce
|
|
$1,600
[9]
His 1942 story "The Bear" relates the story of Ike McCaslin & his companions as they hunt a bear named Old Ben
Faulkner
Tracy
|
$2,000
[28]
The narrator of a 1927 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story naturally wears a coat of this fur, popular at the time
raccoon
|
$1,200
[24]
While not much is known about his life, we do know that his feast day is March 1
St. David
Steven
|
$1,600
[5]
A weepie with Winona Ryder:"Autumn in ____"
New York
Steven
|
$1,600
[19]
The employees commiserated about the avariciousness of the boss--he really is this
miser (in com miser ate)
Bryce
|
$2,000
[17]
In the early 1900s Dutch botanist Hugo De Vries proposed the theory of this alteration in genes
mutation
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Her first publications were accounts of the travels of her & husband Almanzo in the De Smet News in South Dakota
Laura Ingalls Wilder
|
DD
$2,500
[15]
Thistrademark long raincoat is perfect for the weather condition in its name
London Fog
Bryce
|
— |
$2,000
[6]
1991's "____ Masala"
Mississippi
Tracy
|
$2,000
[21]
The physician felt a rush of adrenaline when he barely avoided nicking this artery entering the kidney
renal (in ad renal ine)
Bryce
|
— |
In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today
the University of Oregon