Michael Smith — an actor originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alicia Aho — a bookseller from Seattle, Washington
Bruce Brown — a substitute teacher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,906)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce | $8,789 | $10,989 | $17,789 |
$789
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Alicia | $-200 | $2,200 | $17,000 |
$28,000
New champion: $28,000 |
$11,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Michael | $-400 | $600 | $3,000 |
$2,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,000
7 R, 2 W |
| BANGLADESH SLOWLY | EXPENSIVE HOLLYWOOD DIVORCES | AIRPORT I.D. CODES | RANKS & TITLES | MUSEUMS | WHAT THE "MEL" |
|
$200
[22]
The flag of Bangladesh, like the flag of Japan, features a big one of these
a red circle (a sun accepted)
Michael
|
$200
[17]
He split amicably with wife Amy Irving in 1989, but it cost him $100 million
Steven Spielberg
Michael
|
$200
[9]
Reserved for Navy airfields, "N" can't begin an identifier for a commercial airport, so this N.J. airport is EWR
Newark
Bruce
|
$200
[6]
From 1867 to 1914 this African country was ruled by a Turkish viceroy called a khedive
Egypt
Bruce
|
$200
[1]
Out here we're proud of this, LACMA for short--it's not the Met, but it has a Rembrandt, okay?
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Bruce
|
$200
[27]
He penned the immortal introduction "Call me Ishmael"
Herman Melville
Bruce
|
|
$400
[23]
The Sundarbans, a swampy area on the Ganges, is one of the last remaining preserves for this big cat
a tiger
Bruce
|
$400
[18]
This ex-husband of comedienne Roseanne Barr had the last laugh after walking away with $50 million
Tom Arnold
Alicia
|
$400
[10]
You can understand why some residents of this Iowa city want to change their airport's designation, SUX
Sioux City
Alicia
|
$400
[7]
Francisco Franco & Chiang Kai-shek used this title as supreme commander of their countries' armies
generalissimo
Bruce
|
$400
[2]
There's a 1941 Crosley at this state's National Automobile Museum, built on Bill Harrah's collection
Nevada
Alicia
Michael
|
$400
[15]
Around since 1978, this "relaxed" soft drink has a rhyming name
Mello Yello
Alicia
|
|
$600
[24]
45 seats in Bangladesh's parliament are reserved for these; so, we guess, they're always down
women
|
$600
[19]
Ex-wife Casey might have said "Cheers" to this TV star after he paid a divorce tab of $30 million
Ted Danson
Michael
|
$600
[11]
The Dade-Collier Training & Transition Airport, with the code TNT, is dynamite for this Southern city
Miami
Bruce
|
$600
[8]
Latin for "to earn by service", this honorary title often follows the name of a retired college professor
emeritus
Bruce
|
$600
[3]
This city's Accademia features work by native sons Giorgione & Canaletto
Venice
Bruce
Alicia
|
$600
[28]
2-word cooking term for a society made up of many different cultures
a melting pot
|
|
$800
[26]
Held August 1, 1971 at Madison Square Garden, the Concert for Bangladesh was organized by this Brit
George Harrison
Bruce
|
$800
[20]
The cost for turning off this singer's "Heartlight" when he divorced his wife in 1996 was $150 million
Neil Diamond
|
$800
[12]
Indianola, Miss. has an airport designated IDL; until 1963, IDL stood for the NYC airport then called this
Idlewild
Bruce
|
$1,000
[16]
A princess who's the daughter of a Portuguese or Spanish monarch is given this title
an infanta
Alicia
|
$800
[4]
The Berlin building seenhereis the archive of this influential school of design
Bauhaus
Bruce
|
$800
[29]
Animal pigment in the skin, hair, eyes or fur
melanin
Bruce
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Hey, a chief crop is this fiber used to make burlap; the BJMC is the corporation that runs the mills
jute
|
$1,000
[21]
In 1994 it was "Dances with Alimony Payments" for this actor when he coughed up $80 million to Cindy
Kevin Costner
Alicia
|
$1,000
[14]
Reserved for commercial radio stations, K & W can't begin IDs, so "EYW" serves this southernmost city in the cont. U.S.
Key West
Bruce
|
DD
$3,389
[13]
Dr. Primrose was one of these priests in Wakefield in an Oliver Goldsmith novel
a vicar
Bruce
|
$1,000
[5]
This NYC museum opened a museum in Las Vegas in partnership with Russia's Hermitage
the Guggenheim
|
— |
| CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE U.S. | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS | BRIT LIT | SCIENCE "T"ALK | THEY DID GOOD | -OON |
|
$400
[21]
The longest-serving Chief (1801-1835), he & Thomas Jefferson both descended from Va. planter William Randolph
(John) Marshall
Bruce
|
$400
[7]
It's the type of bird beingcomplained about"It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late--"
a parrot
Michael
|
$400
[2]
The full title of a Henry Fielding novel is "The History of" him, "a Foundling"
Tom Jones
Alicia
|
$400
[1]
Hydras paralyze their prey with poison from stingers on these body parts
tentacles
Alicia
|
$400
[24]
Terry Fox lost a leg to this disease & tried to run across Canada to raise money to fight it
cancer
Bruce
|
$400
[16]
The name of this type of storm means "great wind"
a typhoon
Michael
|
|
$800
[19]
No. 17, as a lawyer he argued 39 cases before the high court, more than the rest of the sitting justices combined
Chief Justice Roberts
Bruce
|
$800
[8]
It's the profession he'ssinging about"I cut down trees /I skip and jump /I like to press wild flowers /I put on women's clothing /And hang around in bars..."
lumberjack
Alicia
|
$800
[3]
Dona Inez is the mother of this Byron title character
Don Juan
|
$1,200
[13]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a science lab.) There are two basic types of flow--laminar, which is smooth & regular, &this more common one with swirls & eddies
turbulent
Michael
|
$800
[28]
He's the missionary seenherethe year he went to minister to the lepers of Molokai
Father Damien
Bruce
|
$800
[17]
This 1947 musical is set in the highlands of Scotland
Brigadoon
Bruce
|
|
$1,200
[20]
Hard to miss this 300-lb. Chief, known for walking the 3 mi. between his home & the court most mornings & nights
Taft
Bruce
|
$1,200
[9]
It's the packaged meat product that comes with thefollowing"...or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top and--"
Spam
Michael
|
$1,200
[4]
"Jacob's Room" & "A Room of One's Own" are by this member of the Bloomsbury Group
Virginia Woolf
Alicia
|
$1,600
[14]
The name of this element is from the Swedish for "heavy" & "stone"
tungsten
Michael
|
$1,600
[18]
He left the NFL's Arizona Cardinals to join the Army Rangers & was killed in Afghanistan in 2004
Pat Tillman
|
$1,200
[27]
This gold coin of Spain was once worth 8 escudos
a doubloon
Alicia
|
|
$1,600
[22]
We commission you to name this chief who penned the opinion of the ruling outlawing public school segregation
Earl Warren
|
$1,600
[10]
It's the tribunal making an appearance here"Our chief weapon is surprise--surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise--"
the Spanish Inquisition
Alicia
|
$1,600
[5]
At the end of this novel, the contents of the note that George secretly gave Becky Sharp are finally revealed
Vanity Fair
Alicia
|
$2,000
[15]
It's what the "t" stands for in tRNA
transfer
|
— |
$1,600
[25]
This Saskatchewan city was named for a local red berry
Saskatoon
Alicia
|
|
$2,000
[23]
In 1857 he held that Congress did not have power to abolish slavery in the territories
Taney
Bruce
|
$2,000
[11]
It's the game show beingplayed"This is for 15 pounds, and it's to stop us revealing the name of your lover in Bolton."
Blackmail
|
$2,000
[6]
He served up "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of English literary life
Somerset Maugham
|
DD
$6,000
[12]
It's the second of the 3 main sections of an arthropod's body
the thorax
Alicia
|
— |
$2,000
[26]
It's the French dialect spoken in the southern part of Belgium
Walloon
Bruce
|
From the 1795 poem "Erin": "Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile/ The cause, or the men, of" this place
the Emerald Isle