John Haynes — a meteorologist from Alexandria, Virginia
Erin Topping — a high school English teacher from Santa Ana, California
Wes Johnson — a band manager and attorney from Columbia, South Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wes | $3,000 | $2,200 | $7,000 |
$4,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Erin | $0 | $1,000 | $5,000 |
$2,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
9 R, 2 W |
| John | $0 | $2,800 | $11,300 |
$8,599
New champion: $8,599 |
$14,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | "C" IN ROCK | FLORA | CORPORATE SYMBOLS | THE 1920s | BY THE NUMBERS |
|
$200
[7]
His July 15 birthday is a holiday in Brunei
the Sultan of Brunei
John
|
$200
[1]
Sadly, guitarist Joe Strummer died just months before this group of his was inducted into the Hall of Fame
The Clash
Wes
|
$200
[26]
This fruit that's good for making dip is also known as an alligator pear
avocado
Erin
|
$200
[12]
Utensil on which you'd find Betty Crocker's name
spoon
Wes
|
$200
[19]
Charlie Chaplin said, "Motion pictures need" this "as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics"
sound
Erin
|
$200
[6]
Requiring 2 standard decks & 4 jokers, canasta uses a total of this many cards
108
John
|
|
$400
[8]
Tahiti celebrates this on July 14; it's that French connection
Bastille Day
Wes
|
$400
[2]
Ric Ocasek was the lead singer of this "Candy-O" group
The Cars
Wes
|
$400
[27]
Columbia Univ. is a part of a distinguished group of colleges bearing the name of this plant of the genus Hedera
ivy
Wes
|
$400
[13]
Sailor Jack & his job Bingo first appeared on boxes of this in 1919
Cracker Jack
Wes
|
$400
[20]
[Video of Sofia at the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, Kentucky]In the 1920s, this man carved notches into bats to count his home runs
Babe Ruth
Wes
|
$400
[16]
Number of questions you have to answer correctly to win the top prize on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
15
|
|
$600
[9]
"The Folklore of World Holidays" gives instructions on how to make a turnip lantern for this observance
Halloween
John
|
$600
[3]
It's the rockin' group from Rockford, Illinois heard here
Cheap Trick
Wes
|
$600
[28]
James Markham received the first patent for a tree in 1932, a variety of this fuzzy fruit
peach
John
|
$600
[14]
Its oval, topped by a double cross, was used by medieval Italian printers
Nabisco
|
$800
[22]
New York City's last horse-drawn one of these was retired in 1922
fire engine
John
|
$600
[17]
Number of players on a quidditch team, or number of gold medals Mark Spitz won at the '72 Olympics
7
Wes
Erin
John
|
|
$800
[10]
At each of the 12 strokes of midnight starting a new year, a Spaniard will traditionally eat one of these
grape
|
$800
[4]
Like a fairy tale come true, Jon Bon Jovi discovered this metal band
Cinderella
Wes
|
$800
[29]
If you're hungry, plant this Raphanus sativus root vegetable in your garden & it can be ready to eat in 18 days
radish
|
$800
[15]
In this company's caricatures, the guy on the right is actually named Izzy, but is still identified as Jack
the Pep Boys
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
In 1928 24 couples trying to win $5,000 lasted 482 hours in one of these
a dance marathon
Wes
|
$800
[18]
In 2003 Ed O'Neill, in his new TV role, acquired this famous badge number
714
|
|
$1,000
[11]
In Germany, Pfingsten is this observance, 50 days after Easter
Pentecost
John
|
$1,000
[5]
This Nirvana song says, "And I swear that I don't have a gun"
"Come As You Are"
|
$1,000
[30]
If you have to tell wood it's been "knotty", it's usually this wood used to panel rooms & make furniture
pine
Erin
|
$1,000
[24]
The Anheuser-Busch logo is one of these with an eagle in it; Mr. Busch must have felt very left out
the letter A
Erin
|
$1,000
[23]
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay joined a 1927 Boston picket line protesting this pair's execution
Sacco and Vanzetti
John
|
$1,000
[25]
The first Apollo mission launched at night & the last one to go to the moon had this number
17
John
|
| PHYSICISTS | BOX OFFICE BLOCKBUSTERS | NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT | SHRINE CIRCUS | SLAV-ING AWAY | "FOR" YOU |
|
$400
[17]
In 1912 Riccardo Giacconi detected these coming from outside the solar system, maybe from a far-off doctor's office
x-rays
John
|
$400
[1]
This 1939 film that garnered Victor Fleming an Oscar for directing is one of the most popular films of all time
Gone with the Wind
John
|
$400
[26]
"Broadway Bound"
Neil Simon
Erin
|
$400
[6]
The Shinto-styled Meiji shrine is in this world capital
Tokyo
John
|
$400
[7]
While it existed, this nation was the "Land of the Southern Slavs"
Yugoslavia
John
|
$400
[12]
Bragg in North Carolina or Benning in Georgia
fort
John
|
|
$800
[18]
In 1963 Edwin McMillan & Vladimir Veksler shared the award called these for Peace
Atoms for Peace
|
$800
[2]
This Spielberg-directed effort about a boy & his alien was one of the highest-earning films of the '80s
E.T.
John
|
$800
[27]
"The Crucible"
Arthur Miller
Erin
|
$800
[22]
Tibetan Buddhists revere the Bodhnath Stupa, a shrine near this capital of Nepal
Kathmandu
John
|
$800
[8]
Bounded by the Adriatic on the west & the Black Sea on the east, this peninsula was populated by Slavs in the 6th century
the Balkan Peninsula
John
|
$800
[13]
This U.S. Senate committee reviews international treaties
Foreign Relations
John
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Max Born made major contributions to quantum theory, originated by this other Max
Max Planck
John
|
$1,200
[3]
Peggy Lee purrs "The Siamese Cat Song" in this 1950s animation blockbuster
Lady and the Tramp
Erin
|
$1,200
[28]
"Sexual Perversity in Chicago"
(David) Mamet
Wes
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
Thomas A Becket's tomb in this English town became a shrine for pilgrims after he was canonized
Canterbury
John
|
$1,200
[9]
Mr. Spassky could tell you this first name of Slavic origin means "fight" or "battle"
Boris
Erin
|
$1,200
[14]
An illegal copy of a document that has been made to look genuine
forgery
Erin
|
|
$2,000
[21]
This 1922 Nobel Prize winner was active in the Danish resistance to Nazi occupation
Niels Bohr
|
$1,600
[4]
Flower, Faline, Ronno & Thumper are characters in this 1942 Disney cash cow
Bambi
Wes
|
$1,600
[29]
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
Tom Stoppard
Erin
|
$1,600
[24]
For Muslims, this one-room shrine is the "House of God"; it's washed once a year & is covered in a silk cloth
The Kaaba
|
$1,600
[10]
Feb. 14 is the feast day of this saint who lends his name to an alphabet used by the Slavs
Cyril
John
|
$1,600
[15]
The part of a picture that appears nearest the viewer
foreground
John
|
|
DD
$2,500
[20]
In 1908 this German invented a device that counted the alpha particles emitted by radium
Hans Geiger
John
|
$2,000
[5]
This 1915 historic American epic directed by D.W. Griffith grossed over $10M
Birth of a Nation
Wes
|
$2,000
[30]
"The Piano Lesson"
August Wilson
|
$2,000
[25]
The Golden Temple in Amritsar is a shrine of this religious group
the Sikhs
|
$2,000
[11]
The many Slavic languages belong to this hyphenated & most widely spoken family of languages in the world
Indo-European
John
|
$2,000
[16]
The only instance of a world sports championship won posthumously was when Jochen Rindt won in 1970 for this
Formula One Racing
|
This city that Napoleon gave to Bavaria in 1806 has hosted the Winter Olympics twice
Innsbruck, Austria