Laura Henne — an environmental specialist from Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Alaric Smith — a songwriter, vocalist, and graduate student from Sacramento, California
Joey Bland — an actor and improviser from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey | $2,600 | $4,200 | $17,200 |
$21,200
2-day champion: $48,200 |
$15,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Alaric | $4,200 | $6,000 | $6,400 |
$12,401
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,400
16 R, 6 W |
| Laura | $600 | $0 | $6,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| SCIENCE LAB | WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK | BUILDING TYPES | STUCK IN THE MIDDLE AGES WITH YOU | MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS | "B" PREPARED |
|
$200
[28]
In 1985 a British Antarctic science expedition first detected one of these that forms annually in the ozone layer
a hole
Laura
|
$200
[1]
___ & The E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen
Joey
|
$200
[21]
The London structure where the little princes were kept in 1483 is called the "Bloody" this
Tower
Alaric
|
$200
[12]
Berlin's first Reichstag was a governmental body formed by princes & nobles of this medieval empire
the Holy Roman Empire
Joey
|
$200
[29]
This magazine's "Marginal Thinking Department" features "drawn out dramas" by Sergio Aragones
Mad magazine
Alaric
Laura
|
$200
[14]
Drink up! This nation leads the world in coffee growing
Brazil
Laura
|
|
$400
[27]
A fluorescent lamp contains argon & a small amount of this liquid metal's vapor
mercury
Laura
|
$400
[2]
___ & Dawn
Tony Orlando
Alaric
|
$400
[22]
Dictionaries define a cottage as a small house with just 1 of these
a story
Alaric
|
$400
[13]
Around 1268 Roger Bacon observed that these new optical devices could be used to improve eyesight
lenses
Alaric
Laura
|
$600
[25]
Adolph Ochs, who bought into The New York Times in 1896, "train"ed at this Tennessee city's Times
Chattanooga
Alaric
|
$400
[15]
Sodium penthothal is in this class of drugs that have sedative & hypnotic properties
barbiturates
Alaric
|
|
$600
[6]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew juices a lemon in the chemistry lab.) This acid--C6H8O7--is found in the juice I'mextracting
citric acid
Alaric
|
$600
[3]
___ & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty
Alaric
|
$600
[9]
A building dedicated to one country at a World's Fair, like the 1939 or 1967 one
a pavilion
Joey
|
$600
[17]
A poet, mathematician & astronomer, he moved people with the quatrains in his 12th century "Rubaiyat"
Omar Khayyam
Joey
|
$800
[24]
In 1989 & 1999, it got the National Magazine Award's "Seal of Approval" for personal service
Good Housekeeping
|
$600
[16]
(Hi, I'm Wolf Blitzer.) During the 2000 election I interviewed Bush, Gore, Nader & this Reform Party nominee
Pat Buchanan
Alaric
|
|
$800
[7]
In 1969 Marcian Hoff Jr. condensed all of a computer's arithmetic functions to this one tiny chip
a microprocessor chip
|
$800
[4]
___ & The Silver Bullet Band
Bob Seger
Joey
|
$800
[10]
The structure seenhereat Churchill Downs is known as this, like certain Buddhist edifices
a pagoda
Joey
|
$800
[18]
Chinese explorer Cheng Ho died in Calicut, India some 65 years before this Portuguese man reached it in 1498
Vasco da Gama
Alaric
|
$1,000
[26]
In 1756, the New Hampshire Gazette, the state's first newspaper, began publishing in this "port" city
Portsmouth
Alaric
|
$800
[19]
In The Princeton Review's 2004 colleges survey, this university of 30,000 was ranked lowest in alcohol consumption
Brigham Young University
Alaric
|
|
$1,000
[8]
William Gilbert coined the word electricity, which comes from the Latin word for this fossil resin
amber
Alaric
|
$1,000
[5]
___ & The Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert
Alaric
|
$1,000
[11]
As well as the art of public speaking, this word can mean a place for prayer, like Montreal's St. Joseph'sone
an oratory
|
$1,000
[23]
Now called ergotism, this "fiery" medieval disease took its name from the order of monks who treated it
St. Anthony's Fire
Alaric
|
DD
$1,400
[30]
Guideposts magazine was founded in 1945 by this "positive" minister & his wife Ruth
Norman Vincent Peale
Laura
|
$1,000
[20]
This African country's capital is Gaborone
Botswana
Joey
|
| 20th CENTURY LITERATURE | MOVIE TAGLINES | WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARIES | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES | PAIR CAPITA | 6-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[6]
This 1949 novel features a society dominated by such slogans as "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength"
1984
Joey
|
$400
[11]
1995:"Houston, we have a problem"
Apollo 13
Joey
|
$400
[16]
Serving under President Clinton, she was the first female press secretary
Dee Dee Myers
|
$400
[22]
National Aviation Day is on the August 19 birthday of this pioneer who made the first powered flight in Dec. 1903
Orville Wright
Alaric
|
$400
[17]
A pair of cocky, cartoon magpies, one had a New York accent & one had a British accent
Heckle & Jeckle
Alaric
|
$400
[1]
Your Uncle Marty can't believe you bought that sweater this way when he owns 3 garment factories
retail
Laura
|
|
$800
[7]
When this title slat bridge with vine handrails broke, 5 victims were hurled to their death
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Joey
|
$800
[12]
2003:"The guy next door just became the man upstairs"
Bruce Almighty
Joey
|
$1,200
[29]
Pierre Salinger became the interim California senator 4 years after being made press secretary by this president
JFK
|
$800
[23]
England honors this bird, not the clock, in April; its arrival announces the return of spring
a cuckoo
Joey
Alaric
|
$800
[20]
About a century ago, London's South Kensington Museum got renamed for this pair
Victoria & Albert
Alaric
|
$800
[2]
The earlier-in-the-sentence counterpart of latter
former
Alaric
|
|
$1,600
[9]
This 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis novel was narrated by a Crete mine owner who's drawn out of his shell by an elderly employee
Zorba the Greek
Joey
|
$1,200
[13]
2001:"Ten years ago he could get to you from behind the glass. On Feb. 9th he's out"
Hannibal
|
$1,600
[26]
Marlin Fitzwater was first appointed by this president
Ronald Reagan
|
$1,200
[24]
Shavu'ot, or Feast of Weeks, is a Jewish holiday celebrated 7 weeks after this festival
Passover
|
$1,200
[18]
Known for their 1972 match, these Russian & American chess players had a rematch 20 years later
Fischer & Spassky
Alaric
|
$1,200
[3]
"Admire" has the same Latin root as this, a household item commonly used for admiration
mirror
Laura
|
|
$2,000
[10]
This most popular of Zane Grey's books featured a gunslinger named Lassiter & Jane Withersteen, a Mormon heiress
Riders of the Purple Sage
|
$1,600
[14]
2001:"One ring to rule them all"
The Fellowship of the Ring
Joey
|
$2,000
[27]
This president appointed Ronald Ziegler, who was just 29
Nixon
Joey
|
$1,600
[25]
On the first Monday in March, Illinois honors this Polish hero of the American Revolution
Pulaski
Joey
|
$1,600
[19]
In a tragic Babylonian love story recounted by Ovid, Pyramus is paired with this fair maiden
Thisbe
Laura
|
$1,600
[4]
It's an alternate name for a high school yearbook
an annual
Joey
|
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
While traveling from Oklahoma to California during the Depression, she says, "All we got is the family unbroke"
Ma Joad
Joey
|
$2,000
[15]
A 2001 sequel:"He will rise again"
The Mummy Returns
|
— |
$2,000
[28]
The weather on July 15, this saint's day, is said to fortell the weather for the next 40 days
St. Swithun
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
"Hurrah! Hurrah! For Cleve & Steve" was an 1890s song for this pair campaigning for prez & veep
Grover Cleveland & (Adlai) Stevenson
Laura
|
$2,000
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates the proper way to hang Old Glory.) When hanging a flag in a window, this rectangular corner section should be to the left of the viewer
the canton
|
Home to the oldest cathedral & the oldest university in the Americas, this capital was founded in 1496
Santo Domingo