(Alex: On today'sJeopardy!, we have a contestant from New Orleans, Deborah Slattery. This episode was taped prior to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, but we have confirmed with Deborah that she and her family are safe and well. And, of course, our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those affected by Katrina.)
Melissa Ingells — a radio host from Okemos, Michigan
Monica Vidrio — a graduate student originally from Ventura, California
Deborah Slattery — a homemaker from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah | $400 | $2,800 | $9,200 |
$3,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Monica | $1,800 | $2,600 | $15,000 |
$8,000
New champion: $8,000 |
$17,000
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Melissa | $3,400 | $8,600 | $7,800 |
$50
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| THE ANIMAL KINGDOM | NO. 1 HITS OF THE '70s | MEMORIES OF VIETNAM | CITY NICKNAMES | SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN | WORD ORIGINS |
|
$200
[9]
Deuteronomy 14:7 commands us that we can do everything to this desert animal but eat it
a camel
Monica
|
$200
[14]
She had a No. 1 hit with the theme from "Mahogany" (she also starred in the movie)
Diana Ross
Deborah
|
$200
[23]
Now an Arizona senator, he spent 5 1/2 years in Vietnam as a POW
John McCain
Monica
|
$200
[1]
"Music City, USA", Tennessee
Nashville
Deborah
|
$200
[19]
18th century clergyman Augustus Montague Toplady wrote the verses, not heard here, to this hymn
"Rock Of Ages"
Deborah
|
$200
[4]
This common term for a weak, ineffectual person may be derived from "whimper"
wimp
Melissa
|
|
$400
[10]
Of the hippo, hawk or hammerhead shark, the one that can be described as insessorial
the hawk
Deborah
Melissa
|
$400
[15]
Donna Summer was "Hot Stuff" in the summer of 1979, topping the charts with "Hot Stuff" & this naughty hit
"Bad Girls"
Monica
|
$400
[24]
John Kerry served on these boats in the Mekong Delta & a group of their "Veterans for Truth" opposed him in '04
swift boats
Melissa
|
$400
[2]
The "Pittsburgh of the South", Alabama
Birmingham
Deborah
|
$400
[20]
A work from around 1910 by this Auguste gentleman is seen here
Rodin
Melissa
|
$400
[5]
This word said to sled dogs may be an alteration of the French marchons, meaning "let's go"
mush
Monica
|
|
$600
[11]
This order of mammals is often divided into prosimians & larger, smarter anthropoids
primates
Melissa
|
$600
[16]
This No. 1 hit by the Bee Gees says, "What you doin' and you're laying on your back, aah"
"You Should Be Dancing"
|
$600
[25]
Shocking events in this Vietnamese village led to the 1970 court-martial of William Calley
My Lai
Deborah
|
$600
[3]
The "Hornets' Nest", North Carolina
Charlotte
Monica
|
$600
[28]
St. Ambrose himself converted & baptized this longtime influential bishop of Hippo
(St.) Augustine
Monica
|
$600
[6]
Billingsgate, a term for foul language, comes from the name of an old fish market in this world capital
London
Melissa
|
|
$800
[12]
It's the 2-word name of the Arctic bovine seen here
a musk ox
Melissa
|
$800
[21]
Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots had a No. 1 hit in 1976 with this "fowl" song
"Disco Duck"
Melissa
|
$800
[26]
In December 1969 this Texas billionaire tried to send gifts, food & supplies to U.S. POWs in North Vietnam
Ross Perot
Melissa
|
DD
$600
[18]
"Garden City","America's Most Beautiful City", Georgia
Savannah
Deborah
|
$800
[29]
Augusto is the first name of this controversial onetime South American dictator
Pinochet
Melissa
|
$800
[7]
From the Latin for "mother", it's a female prison worker who may be less than maternal
matron
Melissa
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Encyclopedia Britannica says this amphibian was originally an eft, then its name evolved into neft, & finally to this
a newt
Monica
|
$1,000
[22]
Elton John & this woman had a No. 1 duet with "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Kiki Dee
Melissa
|
$1,000
[27]
This general who passed away in 2005 commanded the U.S. forces fighting in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968
Westmoreland
Melissa
|
$800
[17]
The "Cream City", Wisconsin
Milwaukee
|
$1,000
[30]
Augustus was the middle name of this "Lucky" hero born in 1902
(Charles A.) Lindbergh
Deborah
|
$1,000
[8]
Take a whirl on the dance floor under these lights whose name comes from the Greek for the "act of whirling"
strobe lights
|
| RIVERS | DEAD MAN WALKEN | THE ENVIRONMENT | ALL'S PHARAOH | IN LOVE | "WAR" |
|
$400
[1]
This Low Country's principal rivers are the Maas, the Schelde & the Rhine
the Netherlands
Deborah
|
$400
[3]
Unfortunately, Christopher Walken, as Nick, prefers the Russian variety of roulette in this '78 classic
The Deer Hunter
Deborah
|
$400
[6]
One of the EPA's 6 common air pollutants is this element that at least has been cut in gasoline
lead
Melissa
|
$400
[10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew introduces her mummy.) In 1978 some of the objects here at the Egyptian Museum went to New York in a historic exhibit fittingly titled these "of Tutankhamen"
Treasures
Melissa
|
$400
[17]
Aeneas & Dido are lovers in this ancient Roman poet's epic poem on the founding of Rome
Virgil
Monica
|
$400
[21]
From the Old English for "oath-breaker", it's a male sorcerer or wizard
a warlock
Deborah
|
|
$800
[2]
In 1999 this river was put on the back of the New Jersey quarter
the Delaware
Deborah
|
$800
[4]
Chris literally loses his robotic mind in this 2004 remake starring Nicole Kidman
The Stepford Wives
Monica
|
$800
[7]
Most of these biodiverse areas are in the tropics, but Chile's Valdivian one is in a temperate zone
a rain forest
Monica
|
$800
[14]
King Tut's mummy was protected by 9 outer cases, the innermost made from almost 300 solid pounds of this
gold
Monica
|
$800
[18]
In this 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winner, Wang Lung & O-Lan get along just fine until he takes a concubine
The Good Earth
Deborah
|
$800
[22]
TV title description of the leather-clad Xena
warrior princess
Deborah
|
|
$1,200
[5]
The country whose capital is Dakar, or the river that forms part of its border with Mauritania
Senegal
Melissa
|
$1,200
[28]
Trying to destroy Silicon Valley in a 1985 film, Walken tumbles off a blimp fighting this character
James Bond
Deborah
|
DD
$800
[12]
The sewage of half the Russians drains into the Volga--bad news for fish in this body of water at the Volga's end
the Caspian Sea
Melissa
|
$1,200
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Luxor, Egypt.) I'm here, French for "room in front", between the entranceway & Tut's resting place; it wasfilled with objects when it was discovered
antechamber
Monica
Melissa
|
$1,200
[19]
In "Winter on Majorca", this author describes a wretched stay on the island with her ailing lover Chopin
George Sand
Monica
|
$1,200
[23]
A small American bird of the family Parulidae known for its singing & bright colors
a warbler
Melissa
|
|
$1,600
[8]
Columbus may have spotted the mouth of this Venezuelan river in 1498
the Orinoco
Monica
|
$1,600
[30]
Chris was not quite dead yet as a coma patient who develops ESP in this Stephen King-based film
The Dead Zone
Deborah
|
$1,200
[11]
As in a put-down, the name of India's forest-saving Chipko Andolan movement literally means do this
hug trees
|
$1,600
[16]
Tut's tomb was protected from robbers by rubble from the building of the tomb of the 4th pharaoh with this name
Ramses
Deborah
Melissa
|
$1,600
[26]
It's the classic novel about Emma, her husband Charles & her lovers Rodolphe & Leon
Madame Bovary
Melissa
|
$1,600
[24]
In 1955 the West formed the Baghdad Pact & the Eastern Bloc formed this military alliance
the Warsaw Pact
Monica
Melissa
|
|
$2,000
[9]
To get from Madrid to Lisbon by river, take the Manzanares to the Jarama to this river
the Tagus
Monica
|
$2,000
[29]
Walken's Frank Abagnale Sr. didn't live to see the end of this 2002 Spielberg scam film
Catch Me If You Can
Deborah
|
$2,000
[13]
In 1980 the U.S. Congress set aside 17 million acres of land in this state as a permanent wilderness
Alaska
Monica
|
$2,000
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew muses over the first glimpse at the boy king in Luxor, Egypt.) In this year, the view into Tut's tomb was glimpsed for the first time in over 3,000 years by Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon
1922
Deborah
Melissa
|
$2,000
[27]
Canio the clown stabs his wife Nedda & her lover Silvio to death near the end of this opera
Pagliacci
Monica
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
It was the maiden name of the American-born Duchess of Windsor
Warfield
Monica
|
Equatorial Guinea is the only African nation whose official language is this
Spanish