Steve Toffler — a travel marketing executive from Boca Raton, Florida
Samantha Kaji — a supervisor from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Marah Eakin — a publicist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marah | $1,400 | $1,600 | $9,200 |
$9,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
12 R, 4 W |
| Samantha | $-400 | $1,800 | $19,000 |
$18,900
New champion: $18,900 |
$18,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W |
| Steve | $500 | $2,900 | $2,900 |
$4,900
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,400
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| OUT WEST | GET YOUR SITH TOGETHER | WHERE THERE'S A WILLIAM | A SIDE OF BACON | NIXON'S THE ONE | I LIKE "IKE" |
|
$200
[11]
This state has state parks named for Curt Gowdy near Buford & Buffalo Bill near Cody
Wyoming
Steve
|
$200
[16]
He's 7 feet tall & the Millennium Falcon's first mate, but he's not much of a conversationalist
Chewbacca
Steve
|
$200
[8]
In 1928 William S. Paley bought a chain of 16 radio stations & created this broadcasting network
CBS
Steve
|
$200
[1]
This method of preserving bacon can be done by either the salt method or the smoke method
curing
Steve
|
$200
[25]
In this year, Nixon faced off against JFK in the first presidential debates ever
1960
Marah
Steve
|
$200
[2]
To solicit a free ride along a road
hitchhike
Steve
|
|
$400
[12]
At 1,149 feet, this city's Stratosphere Tower is the tallest structure west of the Mississippi
Las Vegas
Marah
Steve
|
$400
[17]
This syntactically challenged Jedi called Dagobah home
Yoda
Steve
|
$400
[9]
Daniel Webster served only a month as Secretary of State for this president
(William Henry) Harrison
Samantha
Steve
|
$400
[7]
Though it sounds like a more hasty or reckless way to make bacon, this 6-letter word refers to one slice
a rasher
|
$400
[27]
Herbert Hoover & Nixon were the only 2 presidents of this religious group
Quakers
|
$400
[3]
A sharp rise on a graph followed by a sharp decline
a spike
Marah
|
|
DD
$500
[13]
It's the USA's largest lake west of the Rockies
the Great Salt Lake
Steve
|
$600
[18]
Slate said this Gungan's "weirdly offensive personality make(s) him the focus of fan disillusionment"
Jar Jar Binks
Samantha
|
$600
[10]
Part Cherokee, he once quipped, "My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat"
Will Rogers
|
$600
[23]
Joan Reardon's book on these shellfish includes angels on horseback, in which they're wrapped in bacon
oysters
Steve
|
$600
[28]
It was Richard Nixon's mother's maiden name
Milhous
Samantha
|
$600
[4]
Unbecoming conduct on the gridiron
unsportsmanlike (conduct)
Marah
Steve
|
|
$800
[14]
This 2nd largest Arizona city is called "The Astronomy Capital of the World" due to the many telescopes located nearby
Tucson
|
$800
[19]
He played Senator Bail Organa, Princess Leia's adoptive father
Jimmy Smits
Samantha
|
$800
[21]
Filling a business vacuum, he started the Electric Suction Sweeper Company in 1908
Hoover
Steve
|
$800
[24]
Similar to a Kellogg elf name, bits of diced & fried bacon rind are known as these
cracklings
Samantha
|
$800
[29]
These 2 men served under Nixon as vice president
Gerald Ford & Spiro Agnew
Steve
|
$800
[5]
A double that visually resembles another
a look-alike
Marah
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Named for a British admiral, this inactive volcano in the Cascades last erupted in 1865
Hood
|
$1,000
[20]
3 of the 4 "Star Wars" movie characters with Darth in their names
(3 of) Darth Maul, Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, & Darth Tyranus
Samantha
|
$1,000
[22]
After this man's speech at the National Convention in 1896, the Democrats came out pro-silver
William Jennings Bryan
Marah
Steve
|
$1,000
[26]
From the Italian for "paunch" or "belly", this bacon is often wrapped around other meats
pancetta
Marah
Samantha
|
$1,000
[30]
This daughter of Nixon married Edward Cox at the White House in 1971
Tricia
Samantha
|
$1,000
[6]
A forward on a soccer team
a striker
|
| THE ELEMENTS | THE OLYMPIC GAMES | ART & ARTISTS | GIVE US THE TIME OF DAY | LITERARY SUBTITLES | A LA FRANÇAISE |
|
$400
[2]
Legumes absorb this element from the air & are often planted to restore it to the soil
nitrogen
Marah
Samantha
|
$400
[14]
In 1960 he won the light heavyweight boxing gold medal; 4 years later he won the professional heavyweight title
Cassius Clay (or Muhammad Ali)
Steve
|
$400
[26]
Jonathan Buttall is the young man in this "colorful" work by Thomas Gainsborough
The Blue Boy
Samantha
|
$400
[19]
It's the hour when "The Raven" takes place
midnight
Samantha
|
$400
[3]
Dick King-Smith:"The Gallant Pig"
Babe
|
$400
[1]
Arrr! If you have mal de mer, you've got a case of this
seasickness
Steve
|
|
$800
[8]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a kitchen.) The ancients & the alchemists knew about the flammability of this element; today, it's the main fuel that makes matches strike
sulfur
Samantha
|
$800
[15]
In 2000 the Czech Republic's Jan Zelezny hurled this an Olympic record 295 feet, 9 1/2 inches
the javelin
Marah
Samantha
|
$800
[27]
The pop art stylings of this artist are exemplified by his "Nurse", seen here
Lichtenstein
Samantha
|
$800
[20]
Things sped up with FedEx' 1982 promise to deliver overnight mail by this time so you could read it before lunch
10:30 AM
Marah
Samantha
Steve
|
$800
[4]
Hunter S. Thompson:"A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Samantha
|
$800
[10]
U2's Bono wished Johnny "Drama" happy birthday on this HBO series, from the French for "to surround"
Entourage
Marah
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Heinrich Geissler found he could create a vacuum by moving a column of this element up & down in a tube
mercury
Marah
|
$1,200
[16]
Norwegian Magnar Solberg is the oldest individual winter gold medalist, winning this 2-event sport at 35 in 1972
the biathlon
Samantha
|
$1,200
[28]
Impressionism got its name thanks to his painting "Impression: Sunrise"
(Claude) Monet
|
$1,200
[21]
In 1946 Tote'm Convenience Stores went to these opening & closing hours & changed their name accordingly
7-11 (7:00 AM & 11:00 PM)
Samantha
|
$1,600
[6]
Anthony Swofford:"A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles"
Jarhead
Marah
|
$1,200
[11]
You're very adroit if you know this term for clumsiness or awkwardness means "left" en francais
gauche
Marah
|
|
$1,600
[17]
Baron Axel Cronstedt isolated this element in 1751; that fact & 5 cents will get you...
nickel
Samantha
|
$1,600
[24]
Normal hill & large hill are the 2 individual events in this Winter Olympic sport
the ski jump
Marah
|
$1,600
[29]
A reddish-brown color is named for this Venetian artist who used the color frequently in his paintings
Titian
Samantha
|
$1,600
[22]
London's Draycott Hotel serves tea in the drawing room starting at this hour
4:00 (PM)
Marah
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
Helen Prejean:"An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States"
Dead Man Walking
Samantha
|
$1,600
[12]
From the French for "raw", it's an appetizer of raw veggies served maybe with aioli
crudités
Samantha
|
|
DD
$2,000
[18]
These 2 elements were named for substances they were first separated out of--potash & soda ash
potassium & sodium
Samantha
|
$2,000
[25]
In this team sport you'll hear the terms "house", "tee" & "stone"
curling
Samantha
|
$2,000
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in front of a projection screen.) Correggio got an almost religious ecstasy into his mythological paintings, such as this Roman god &Io
Jupiter
|
$2,000
[23]
In a 1940s hit song Papa said he worked "till half past two 'cause" this whistle "never blew"
the 5:00 whistle
Samantha
|
$2,000
[7]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:"A Vision in a Dream"
Kubla Khan
Samantha
|
$2,000
[13]
Indifference or coldness, this hyphenated French term could also apply to reptiles in an ectothermic sense
sang-froid
Samantha
|
The 2 planets in our solar system that have atmospheres made up mostly of carbon dioxide
Venus & Mars