(Sarah: With star power and great design, Nike makes us think we could all be athletes. Clues from theOregon campus, next onJeopardy!)
Paul Canty — a homemaker from Easthampton, Massachusetts
Candy Murphy — a federal IT specialist from Brambleton, Virginia
Miranda Schwartz — a copy editor from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miranda | $1,800 | $3,600 | $4,800 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,000
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Candy | $4,400 | $7,800 | $14,600 |
$9,601
New champion: $9,601 |
$14,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Paul | $1,400 | $5,000 | $16,600 |
$4,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| THE SWEET 16th CENTURY | NIKE | PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE | GLOBETROTTING | MAGAZINES | 2-LETTER CROSSWORD HELPER |
|
$200
[2]
Ending in 1504, his fourth voyage to the New World took him to Panama
Columbus
Candy
|
$200
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus, Oregon.) Nike has replicas of the Grand Slam trophies of this golfer, like the'97 Masters& the2000 British Open
Tiger Woods
Candy
|
$200
[12]
Mary Manley, back in the 1600s, came up with "There's no time like" this
the present
Candy
|
$200
[11]
Abercrombie & Kent offers these African journeys; founder Geoffrey Kent was born on one in Zambia
safari
Paul
|
$200
[1]
The Feb. 18, 1929 issue of Time magazine featured the first of 6 covers devoted to this physicist
Einstein
Paul
|
$200
[25]
No--yes, no is a classic drama of this country
Japan
Candy
|
|
$400
[3]
Johann Eck debated this noted Protestant in 1519 & helped get him excommunicated in 1521
Martin Luther
Candy
|
$400
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus. Oregon.) In 1996 wearing hisgolden shoes, he became the first man to win the 200 & 400 meters at the same Olympics; today, he's immortalized at Nike's track
Michael Johnson
Paul
|
$400
[13]
A commodity bought or sold with an agreement that delivery will come later
a future
Candy
|
$400
[16]
His 129-country international travels ended in August 2004 with a trip to Lourdes
Pope John Paul II
Candy
|
$400
[7]
Although published by this organization for 62 years, American Girl advertised itself as "for all girls"
the Girl Scouts of America
Paul
|
$400
[27]
Aa--basaltic lava having a rough surface, from this language that brought us the Lanai
Hawaiian
Miranda
|
|
$600
[4]
Crowned in 1523, Swedish King Gustav I ended the Kalmar Union of Sweden & these 2 countries
Norway & Denmark
Candy
Paul
|
$600
[22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus, Oregon.)Thisis one of the actual shoes Bill Bowerman hand-made for the man known as "Pre", the first major athlete to endorse Nikes, who died tragically in 1975
Steve Prefontaine
Paul
|
$600
[14]
Alvin Toffler wrote that when man's capacity for change is overwhelmed, he experiences this "shock"
future shock
Paul
|
$600
[17]
The hero of the novel "Up in the Air" is a business traveler obsessed with obtaining 1 million of these
frequent flyer miles
Miranda
|
$600
[8]
She once published The Hatchet, a monthly illustrated magazine devoted to Prohibition
Carry Nation
Paul
|
$600
[28]
Fo--Chinese name for this prince turned religious leader
Buddha
Paul
|
|
$800
[5]
He was so devastated to find out his fifth wife was cheating on him, he had her beheaded
Henry VIII
Candy
|
$800
[23]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus. Oregon.) In 1988, Nike's first ads with this 3-word tagline starred wheelchair athlete Craig Blanchette, among others
"Just do it"
Candy
|
$800
[15]
Proust's title "A la recherche du temps perdu" ends with this word in the English translation
past
Miranda
|
$800
[18]
Books by Redmond O'Hanlon include the tale of "A Journey Between the Orinoco and" this river
the Amazon
Candy
|
$800
[9]
Edwin Meredith, a former Secy. of Agriculture, founded Fruit, Garden and Home, which later was changed to this
Better Homes and Gardens
Candy
|
$800
[29]
Ti--a tropical plant in the agave family, or the symbol for this element
titanium
Miranda
|
|
$1,000
[6]
In the early 1500s, between 2 more famous pictures, he worked on his "Virgin and Child with St. Anne"
(Leonardo) da Vinci
Miranda
|
$1,000
[24]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus, Oregon.) Nike Research & Development has come a long way since Bill Bowerman was inspired by this kitchen appliance to design afamous shoe
a waffle iron
Paul
|
$1,000
[26]
It's a homophone for a word meaning "thrown"
past
|
$1,000
[19]
(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN's360.) I took a 16-hour flight from New York to this 25,000-square-mile nation off India to report on tsunami damage
Sri Lanka
Paul
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
The woman for whom this magazine is named is called "orator, union organizer, and hellraiser" on its masthead
Mother Jones
Candy
|
$1,000
[30]
Ai--this slow-moving arboreal South American animal; its laziness is debatable
a sloth
Candy
|
| BOTANY | SONG ADJECTIVES | SHORT STORIES | AMERICANA | PUT ON YOUR HELMUT | YOU'RE GOING "IN" |
|
$400
[21]
Loved by felines, the herb Nepeta cataria is better known by this name
catnip
Paul
|
$400
[11]
Billy Ray Cyrus:"_____ _____ Heart"
Achy Breaky
Paul
|
$400
[6]
His first short story collection of the Jazz Age was 1920's "Flappers and Philosophers"
Fitzgerald
Miranda
|
$400
[16]
America's National Zoo was just 1 year old when it became part of this institution in 1890
the Smithsonian Institution
Candy
|
$400
[1]
Not an ex-Phillie third baseman, but the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982
(Helmut) Schmidt
Candy
Paul
|
$400
[22]
Any of the 4 anterior teeth in the jaw used for cutting
incisors
Miranda
Candy
|
|
$800
[23]
In 1885 this horticulturist bought a farm in Sebastopol, California for his plant-breeding activities
Luther Burbank
Paul
|
$800
[12]
A top-ten hit twice:"_____ Rhapsody"
Bohemian
Paul
|
$1,200
[8]
Dan'l Webster was this "celebrated" title character of an 1865 sketch written by Mark Twain
"The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
|
$800
[17]
During the Fabulous '50s, this theme park had an exhibit called the Bathroom of Tomorrow
Disneyland
Miranda
|
$800
[2]
Not a current senator from Wisconsin, but the chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990
Helmut Kohl
Candy
|
$800
[27]
It's found after "Disco" in a Top 40 song & "Dante's" in story
inferno
Paul
|
|
$1,200
[24]
The jonquil is a species of this flower, & its name is often wrongly applied to all yellow species of the flower
a daffodil
Candy
|
$1,200
[13]
A hard-rock classic:"_____ Child O' Mine"
Sweet
Paul
|
DD
$1,600
[7]
In an 1819 tale, his daughter says about him, "It's been twenty years since he went away from home, with his gun"
Rip Van Winkle
Miranda
|
$1,200
[18]
This Vermont capital with 1 "L" took the name of a French city that has 2 "L"s
Montpelier
Candy
|
$1,200
[3]
Architect Helmut Jahn's works include 1982's One South Wacker Drive building in this city
Chicago
Candy
|
$1,200
[28]
It's a 10-letter verb meaning to introduce into public use by some formal ceremony
inaugurate
Candy
|
|
$1,600
[25]
Pollen grains are grown in this part of a flower that lies at the end of the filament
the anther
Miranda
Candy
|
$1,600
[14]
Simon & Garfunkel:"A _____ Shade Of Winter"
Hazy
Miranda
Candy
|
$1,600
[9]
John Steinbeck wrote a famous story about young Jody Tiflin & this title equine
the Red Pony
|
$1,600
[19]
The city of High Point in this state is a high point for shoppers; it's the "Home Furnishings Capital of the World"
North Carolina
Candy
|
$1,600
[4]
The late Helmut Newton was best known as one of these, especially of nudes
a photographer
Candy
|
$2,000
[30]
From the Latin for "deceitful", it means "stealthily treacherous"
insidious
Miranda
Candy
|
|
$2,000
[26]
Fungus diseases that attack this potassium-rich tropical fruit include Panama & Sigatoka
the banana
Paul
|
$2,000
[15]
Poison:"_____ Bop"
Unskinny
Candy
|
$2,000
[10]
In Hawthorne's "The Great Stone Face", Ernest had an uncanny resemblance to this N.H. formation
the Old Man of the Mountain
Paul
|
$2,000
[20]
Jay Rockefeller's rich life includes serving as a U.S. senator from this state since 1985
West Virginia
Candy
|
$2,000
[5]
In 2005 this Austria-born fashion designer left Prada; his flagship office in New York still bears his name
Helmut Lang
Candy
|
DD
$4,400
[29]
It's a polypeptide hormone produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans
insulin
Paul
|
A 1958 coup in this city ended a monarchy; 10 years of political turmoil followed, then 35 years of dictatorship
Baghdad