Ray Freson — a retired advertising executive from Arlington, Virginia
Stacey Swann — an instructor and writer from Austin, Texas
Victoria Groce — a musician originally from Decatur, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria | $6,200 | $10,500 | $12,900 |
$2,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
29 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| Stacey | $1,000 | $3,800 | $11,400 |
$8,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,400
12 R, 0 W |
| Ray | $0 | $1,200 | $7,200 |
$14,200
New champion: $14,200 |
$5,200
9 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM | LYRICALLY YOURS | POPE-POURRI | BORN FIRST | FOOD A LAFONTAINE | "T" TIME |
|
$200
[20]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew walks around a control panel in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This equipment was used for the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy & this man
Nixon
Victoria
|
$200
[11]
No. 2 for these 2 in '82: "The girl is mine, the doggone girl is mine, don't waste your time, because the doggone girl is mine"
Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney
Stacey
|
$200
[25]
Gerbert picked this name, not Tweety, when he became pope in 999
Sylvester
Ray
|
$200
[16]
John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Ray
|
$200
[1]
Their rivalry was legend, but on Halloween, be it Braeburn or Criterion... this fruit's gonna get candied
an apple
Victoria
|
$200
[6]
From the Latin for "weaving", it's any woven or knitted fabric
a textile
Victoria
|
|
$400
[21]
A 19th C. goblet in the library was given to Pres. Kennedy when he visited this country of his ancestors in 1963
Ireland
Ray
|
$400
[12]
"She'll make you live her crazy life but she'll take away your pain, like a bullet to your brain" in this 1999 song
"Livin' La Vida Loca"
Victoria
|
$400
[26]
Pope Paul VI named more than 2 dozen new ones of these in 1965, bringing the world total up to 103
cardinals
Stacey
|
$400
[17]
Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Victoria
Stacey
Ray
|
$400
[2]
It's a pastry shell filled with a custard of seasonings, eggs & cream... this November, real men will eat...
quiche
Victoria
|
$400
[7]
Dipsy is the green one of these characters on PBS
a Teletubby
Victoria
|
|
$600
[22]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a coconut shell enshrined in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This is the actual piece of coconut on which John F. Kennedycarved a plea for helpafter this boat was cut in half during World War II
PT-109
Victoria
|
$600
[13]
In 1986, Sammy Hagar wailed, "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time" when he was this band's lead singer
Van Halen
Victoria
|
$600
[28]
Pope Gregory IX formalized the medieval version of this one-word search & destroy heretics program
the Inquisition
Victoria
|
$600
[18]
Alexander the Great, Darius the Great, Frederick the Great
Darius
Victoria
Ray
|
$600
[3]
Once, this vit. A & C-rich herb got top billing; now, sage, rosemary & thyme are back in "Scarborough Fair 2: Reloaded"
parsley
Victoria
|
$600
[8]
This small Arizona city is home to Boot Hill Graveyard & the O.K. Corral
Tombstone
Victoria
|
|
$800
[23]
The library has JFK's phonetic notations to remind himself how to pronounce these 4 words on June 26, 1963
Ich bin ein Berliner
Victoria
|
$800
[14]
Can't argue with that: in "Fly Like An Eagle" he sang, "Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'... into the future"
(Steve) Miller
Victoria
|
DD
$1,500
[29]
Nicholas V was the last pope to serve concurrently with one of these--Felix V, who resigned in 1449
an antipope
Victoria
|
$800
[19]
Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin
Lenin
Victoria
Ray
|
$800
[4]
Boneless, from the small end of the tenderloin... it's coming after your credit card... with a vengeance
filet mignon
Victoria
|
$800
[9]
Thin, pale & young, the image of this model born Leslie Hornby seemed to sum up her era
Twiggy
Stacey
|
|
$1,000
[24]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew fawns over a metal-plated case in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This beautiful humidor, sans cigars, was given to John F. Kennedy by this cranky premier when they first met in Vienna in 1961
Nikita Khrushchev
Ray
|
$1,000
[15]
In this hit, "Feels so good when you know you're down, a super dope homeboy from the Oaktown... Stop. Hammer time"
"U Can't Touch This"
Stacey
|
— |
$1,000
[27]
John Paul Stevens, William Rehnquist, David Souter
John Paul Stevens
Stacey
|
$1,000
[5]
Sponge cake, ice cream, meringue, baked hot for 5 minutes... at your next party, this "stately" dessert will be on fire!
Baked Alaska
Victoria
|
$1,000
[10]
It's beef stomach lining, yum!
tripe
Victoria
|
| MAN IN SPACE | FILMOGRAPHIES | WHAT HATH TODD WROUGHT? | RUSSIAN LIT | 16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS | HISTORIC "D" TOUR |
|
$400
[24]
(Leroy Chiao, aboard the International Space Station, reads the clue.) On January 14, 2004 President Bush said the I.S.S. would focus on human biology in space, to prepare for a first visit to this planet
Mars
Victoria
|
$400
[9]
"The Blob","Bullitt","The Thomas Crown Affair"
(Steve) McQueen
Victoria
|
$400
[19]
Garfield Todd tried to reduce government racism as a 1950s P.M. of Southern Rhodesia, now this country
Zimbabwe
Victoria
|
$400
[4]
25 of the title character's poems form the last part of this Boris Pasternak novel
Dr. Zhivago
Victoria
|
$400
[14]
In boxing, do something crazy like, I don't know, biting a guy's ear off & you'll get a DQ, this
disqualification
Victoria
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
Not only was Henry Ford born in this Michigan city, he also started his first auto company there
Dearborn
Ray
|
|
$800
[26]
Deke Slayton, grounded from this program in 1962 for medical reasons, finally went into space in 1975
the Mercury program
Ray
|
$800
[10]
"Evelyn","The Tailor of Panama","The Thomas Crown Affair"
(Pierce) Brosnan
Victoria
|
$800
[20]
In 1779 Isaac Todd helped form the North West Co. to challenge the Hudson Bay Co.'s monopoly in this trade
the fur trade
Stacey
|
$800
[5]
When parts of this novel were published in Paris in 1973, Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn was branded a traitor
The Gulag Archipelago
Stacey
|
$800
[15]
An attack by an army against an already-attacking enemy force
counteroffensive
Victoria
|
$1,200
[2]
In 1895 French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was sent there
Devil's Island
|
|
DD
$3,000
[27]
(Leroy Chiao reads again.) An early vision of aspace stationwas in a 1952 Collier's magazine article by this scientist
Wernher von Braun
Ray
|
$1,200
[11]
"Get Shorty","Ransom","The Thomas Crown Affair"
Rene Russo
Stacey
|
$1,200
[21]
He promoted the wide-screen process Todd-AO, first used in the 1955 movie "Oklahoma!"
Mike Todd
Ray
|
$1,200
[6]
While in Moscow for the first performance of his "The Cherry Orchard", he became ill and soon died
Anton Chekhov
Victoria
|
$1,200
[16]
Breathe into a paper bag to relax the muscles when suffering from this, breathing too fast & too deeply
hyperventilation
Victoria
|
$1,600
[3]
For many years Paul Klee taught at the National Academy of Art in this German city
Dusseldorf
Victoria
Stacey
|
| — |
$1,600
[12]
"Nixon","Pleasantville","The Upside of Anger"
Joan Allen
Stacey
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1812 Thomas Todd didn't need a wedding at the Elks Lodge; his bride's sister Dolley arranged to have it here
the White House
Victoria
|
$1,600
[7]
Before his death sentence was commuted he wrote "The Little Hero"; after being freed, he wrote "The Idiot"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Victoria
|
$1,600
[17]
Indisputable, or not open to question, it can precede "evidence" in a courtroom
incontrovertible
Victoria
Stacey
|
$2,000
[25]
Until 1975 the West African Republic of Benin was known by this name
Dahomey
Victoria
|
| — |
$2,000
[13]
"Gosford Park","Random Hearts","The Horse Whisperer"
Kristin Scott Thomas
|
$2,000
[23]
John Todd gave his name to a type of this algebraic expression of 2 or more terms connected by symbols
polynomials
|
$2,000
[8]
Some say this 1836 Nikolay Gogol play about a civil servant named Khlestakov is the greatest in the Russian language
The Inspector General
Victoria
|
$2,000
[18]
An extinct genus of small-brained, large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa 1 to 4 million years ago
Australopithecus
Victoria
|
— |
The phrase "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course" is often used to help memorize this
pi