Steve Ashworth — a financial consultant from Mount Kisco, New York
Jon Olson — a contract manager from Chatham, New Jersey
Graydon Hazenberg — a graduate student originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graydon | $2,100 | $3,600 | $10,500 |
$8,801
2nd place: a trip for two to the Grove Park Inn Resort in Ashville, North Carolina + the Jeopardy! home game |
$8,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Jon | $1,000 | $1,200 | $4,400 |
$7,399
3rd place: a crystal castle from Iris Arc Crystal + the Jeopardy! home game |
$4,400
16 R, 2 W |
| Steve | $1,000 | $3,600 | $11,200 |
$21,200
New champion: $21,200 |
$9,700
21 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| INSECTS | SILLY SONGS | THE SMITHSONIAN | QUOTES | COLORS | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS |
|
$100
[4]
Insects of the order embioptera aren't spiders, but they still spin these
webs
Graydon
|
$100
[22]
"Weird Al" Yankovic parodied this Michael Jackson hit with a song called "Eat It"
Beat It
Steve
|
$100
[17]
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is in the Canal Zone in this country
Panama
Graydon
|
$100
[1]
Robert Lowell wrote, "If we see a light" here, "it's the light of an oncoming train"
at the end of the tunnel
Steve
|
$100
[13]
Shades of this include steel, field & smoke
grey
Jon
|
$100
[5]
Whittier College
Richard Nixon
Jon
|
|
$200
[9]
The wooly-bear caterpillar grows up to be one of these
a moth
Graydon
|
$200
[23]
This rodent group gave us "The Alvin Twist:" in 1962
the Chipmunks
Steve
|
$200
[27]
James Renwick, who designed the Smithsonian "Castle", also designed this city's St. Patrick's Cathedral
New York City
Steve
|
$200
[2]
On arriving in this city, Robert Benchley telegramed, "Streets full of water. Please advise"
Venice
Steve
|
$200
[16]
Color of the guards in a 1960s Maoist movement
red
Jon
|
$200
[6]
Eureka College
Ronald Reagan
Graydon
|
|
$300
[10]
Worker bees have "baskets" on their hind legs to carry this; cuckoo bees don't
pollen
Graydon
|
$300
[24]
Tiny Tim also recorded "Animal Crackers in My Soup", but this little girl sang it first in "Curly Top"
Shirley Temple
Graydon
|
$300
[28]
The Nat'l Museum of Natural history contains the Warner crystal ball & this 45.5-carat blue diamond
the Hope Diamond
Graydon
|
$300
[3]
W.C. Fields said, "It's a funny old world--a man's lucky if he gets out of it" this way
alive
Graydon
|
$300
[18]
A shade of pink is named for this pink-fleshed fish
salmon
Graydon
|
$300
[12]
Georgetown University
Clinton
Steve
|
|
$400
[11]
The bald-faced type of this stinging insect builds oval paper nests
wasps
Jon
|
$400
[25]
This singer ordered a "Cheeseburger in Paradise" in 1978, 1 year after "Margaritaville"
Jimmy Buffett
Steve
|
$400
[29]
The flag that inspired him to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" is in the National Museum of American History
(Francis Scott) Key
Steve
|
$400
[7]
Arthur Miller work that includes the line "He's liked, but he's not--well liked
Death of a Salesman
Steve
|
$400
[19]
A name for an ancient black cosmetic is pronounced like "coal" but spelled this way
kohl
|
$400
[14]
The University of Michigan
Gerald Ford
Jon
|
|
$500
[21]
It's the larva of a beetle, or a synonym for chow
grub
Steve
|
DD
$800
[26]
This entertainer introduced the followingsilly songin the 1941 movie musical "That Night in Rio""I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, I like you very muchI, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, I think you're grand Why, why, why is it..."
Carmen Miranda
Steve
|
$500
[30]
In his capacity as this, William Rehnquist is a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents
Chief Justice of the United States (C.J. of Supreme Court accepted)
Graydon
|
$500
[8]
He said of the Gunpowder Plot, "A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy
Guy Fawkes
Graydon
|
$500
[20]
Something xanthic is a shade of this
yellow
|
$500
[15]
Southwest Texas state
Lyndon Johnson
Graydon
|
| THE 16th CENTURY | STATE CAPITALS | SWEETENERS | 9-LETTER WORDS | BLACK AMERICA | HODGEPODGE |
|
$200
[1]
In 1501 this explorer for whom America is named made his second voyage to the new world
(Amerigo) Vespucci
Jon
|
$200
[6]
The Blue Diamond growers will let you taste some nuts when you tour their plant in this California city
Sacramento
Jon
|
$200
[21]
It's estimated bees must visit over 2 million flowers to produce a pound of this
honey
Jon
|
$200
[11]
Medically speaking, the flu is short for this
influenza
Jon
|
$200
[26]
Josiah Henson, an escaped slave & minister, inspired this Harriet Beecher Stowe character
Uncle Tom
Jon
|
$200
[12]
This flavoring comes from a combination of coffee & chocolate
mocha
Steve
|
|
$400
[2]
In 1582 Pope Gregory instituted the Gregorian calendar to replace this older one
the Julian calendar
Steve
|
$400
[7]
The CNN studio tour is a highlight of this capital city
Atlanta
Graydon
|
$400
[22]
The blackstrap type of this is an important component of animal feeds
molasses
Jon
|
$400
[13]
It's a public declaration of one's views & motives; Marx & Engels wrote a "communist" one
a manifesto
Graydon
|
$400
[27]
In June 1990 he announced he would not seek a fourth term as mayor of Washington, D.C.
Marion Barry
Jon
|
$400
[17]
Some believe when this Biblical city's walls came tumbling down, it was already 6,700 years old
Jericho
Jon
|
|
$600
[3]
His dreams of a Utopian society ended on the scaffold in 1535
(Thomas) More
Graydon
|
$600
[8]
You'll find the World Center for Birds of Prey on West Flying Hawk Lane near this capital of Idaho
Boise
Steve
|
$600
[23]
Found in Sweet 'N Low, this substance is several hundred times as sweet as sugar
saccharin
Graydon
Jon
Steve
|
$600
[14]
It describes a person who is able to speak 2 languages fluently
bilingual
Steve
|
$600
[28]
In 1988 this founder of Motown was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Steve
|
$600
[18]
This author's first book of tales in 1835 included "The Tinderbox" & "The Princess & the Pea"
Hans Christian Andersen
Graydon
|
|
$1,000
[5]
The 1553 execution of this emperor by Pizarro's men marked the end of the Inca civilization
Atahualpa
Graydon
|
$800
[9]
Charles Marion Russell's largest painting hangs in the state capitol in this Montana city
Helena
Jon
|
$1,000
[25]
This chemical marketed as NutraSweet was once studied as a possible ulcer treatment
aspartame
Steve
|
$800
[15]
A malestrom, or a line of appliances
a whirlpool
Jon
|
$800
[29]
In 1978 he followed up his decade-old book "Soul on Ice" with another called "Soul on Fire"
Eldridge Cleaver
Steve
|
$800
[19]
One of the sports enjoyed by Scots at the Highland games is tossing the caber, which is one of these
a pole
Steve
|
|
DD
$2,500
[4]
In 1530 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V granted this island to the Knights Hospitallers
Malta
Graydon
|
$1,000
[10]
The Lightning Route was an electric streetcar system that served this Alabama city for decades
Montgomery
Graydon
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Andreas Marggraf discovered that the sucrose in this plant was the same as that in sugarcane
beet root
Steve
|
$1,000
[16]
It can be a briefcase for manuscripts or an investor's holdings
a portfolio
Jon
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1985 she retired from opera singing after a farewell performance as "Aida"
Leontyne Price
Jon
|
$1,000
[20]
In the 1950s the U.S. & Canada built this series of radar posts in the arctic
the DEW Line
Graydon
|
In an 1875 book she wrote, "Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind"
Mary Baker Eddy