Kate Miller — a human resources assistant from Oxnard, California
Eric Heaton — a software engineer originally from St. Cloud, Minnesota
James Washick — a professor from Greenville, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | $2,800 | $5,400 | $11,200 |
$8,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Eric | $1,800 | $2,600 | $4,200 |
$8,395
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,200
12 R, 5 W |
| Kate | $4,600 | $6,800 | $12,000 |
$9,500
New champion: $9,500 |
$12,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| HOT TRAVEL SPOTS | SNOW BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS | FROZEN FOOD | HAIL OF BULLETS | PARTLY CLOUDY, CHANCE OF RAIN | HERE COMES THE "SUN" |
|
$200
[26]
If you want to climb the tallest mountain in North Africa, go to Jebel Toubkal near Marrakech in this country
Morocco
Eric
|
$200
[1]
A newsman's stuck in a snowy Penn. town in this 1993 film. A newsman's stuck in a snowy Penn. town in this 1993 film
Groundhog Day
James
Eric
|
$200
[6]
In 1953 Ore-Ida introduced these alliterative hash brown babies
Tater Tots
Eric
|
$200
[21]
On Oct. 26, 1881 Ike Clanton & Billy Claiborne escaped the hail of bullets at this site by fleeing to a photo studio
the O.K. Corral
Kate
|
$200
[16]
This island state has the wettest point on Earth, with an average of 460" of rain a year
Hawaii
James
|
$200
[11]
This medical term is also known as insolation or thermic fever
sunstroke
James
Kate
|
|
$400
[27]
Tourism in tropic Seychelles has become a major employer since the opening of the 1st major one of these, SEZ, in 1971
airport
|
$400
[2]
Heeeeere's Johnny! Jack Nicholson has crazy fun in a snow maze in this 1980 thriller
The Shining
Kate
|
$400
[7]
This brand introduced the frozen TV dinner in 1953
Swanson
Eric
Kate
|
$400
[22]
In May 1934 this bank-robbing duo died in a hail of bullets in Louisiana; her body had 23 slugs, his had 25
Bonnie & Clyde
James
|
$400
[17]
Latin for "heap" or "mass" & typically in puffs or mounds, this type of cloud may reach up to 43,000 feet
cumulus
James
|
$400
[12]
This interjection is literally German for "health"
Gesundheit
Kate
|
|
$600
[28]
Cut a rug with locals on this island retreat found between Java & Lombok in Southern Indonesia
Bali
Kate
|
$600
[3]
A man runs through the snowy streets of Bedford Falls shouting, "Merry Christmas!" in this 1946 classic
It's a Wonderful Life
Kate
|
$600
[8]
This brand of frozen food is named for Clarence, born in Brooklyn in 1886
Birds Eye
Kate
|
$600
[23]
Gangster George Nelson, nicknamed this, survived a hail of bullets from 2 FBI agents but was found dead the next day
"Baby Face"
Eric
|
$600
[18]
Usually found below 8,000 feet, this 7-letter cloud class has a gray, horizontal layer & produces drizzle
stratus
James
|
$600
[13]
Describes an egg fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over
sunny side up
Kate
|
|
$800
[29]
Formerly Britain's colony, this archipelago in the NW West Indies once sheltered Blackbeard & Henry Morgan
the Bahamas
Kate
|
$800
[4]
Oh dontcha know, Sheriff Marge Gunderson checks out a body in da snow in this 1996 film
Fargo
James
|
$800
[9]
"It's not delivery... it's" this frozen pizza brand
DiGiorno
Kate
|
$800
[24]
In 1911, these two menhighlightedherereportedly died in a hail of bullets in Bolivia
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Kate
|
$800
[19]
.03" a year of rain falls on Arica in this South American country whose name sounds like a weather condition
Chile
|
$1,000
[15]
In tan-speak, it's what SPF stands for
sun protection factor
Eric
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Fancy dress & gaudy floats are the order of the day at a carnival in Valletta, this island nation's capital
Malta
Eric
|
$1,000
[5]
"Why can't they call me the adorable snowman or the agreeable snowman... I'm a nice guy" is said in this 2001 Pixar film
Monsters, Inc.
James
|
$1,000
[10]
The name of this frozen food brand means "A lavish meal or feast"
Banquet
James
|
$1,000
[25]
A hail of bullets from citizens of this Minn. town killed 2 members of the James-Younger gang in an 1876 bank raid
Northfield
Kate
|
$1,000
[20]
In botany, it's a tendril; it's also this class of cloud noted for its thin white filaments & ice crystals
cirrus
James
Eric
|
DD
$1,800
[14]
From the Middle English for "apart", this term tends to follow the words ripped or torn
asunder
Kate
|
| THE MIDDLE AGES | WOMEN ATHLETES | NURSERY RHYMES | CITIES WITH HOSPITAL-ITY | CLOSING THE BOOK | "PP"-POURRI |
|
$400
[27]
Charlemagne standardized coinage to 12 pennies in a shilling & 20 shillings in this
a pound
Eric
Kate
|
$400
[1]
This Californian known for her exquisitie artistry skated off with a silver medal at the 2006 Olympics
Sasha Cohen
Eric
|
$400
[15]
"Pudding and Pie" follows the name of this nursery rhyme boy who kisses & runs
Georgie Porgie
James
|
$400
[10]
Mass General, as it's known
Boston
Kate
|
$400
[12]
Alcott:"Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!"
Little Women
Kate
|
$400
[23]
Any young woman of the 1920s who showed disdain for conventional dress & behaviour
a flapper
James
|
|
$800
[26]
One way to judge guilt was "trial by" this 6-letter word, like putting the accused's arm in boiling water
ordeal
|
$800
[2]
Olympic medalist Mary Ellen Clark was hampered in this sport by vertigo--a problem when you're 10 meters up
diving
Eric
Kate
|
$800
[5]
He asked the pieman, "Let me taste your ware"
Simple Simon
Eric
|
$800
[11]
With Southern hospital-ity:Emory University Hospital
Atlanta
James
|
$800
[13]
Heller:"Yossarian jumped... the knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off"
Catch-22
James
|
$800
[21]
A change in frequency because of motion is named for this Austrian mathematician who first explained it
Doppler
Kate
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Of the 4 major Crusades, the one in which the Christians actually captured Jerusalem
the First Crusade
|
$1,200
[3]
Nancy Lopez & Beth Daniel are in this organization's Hall of Fame, founded in 1967
LPGA
Kate
|
$1,200
[7]
First name of the little Flinders girl "who sat among the cinders warming her pretty little toes"
Polly
James
|
$1,200
[18]
In Maryland:National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Eric
Kate
|
$1,200
[14]
Fitzgerald:"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the past"
The Great Gatsby
Eric
|
$1,200
[22]
Garibaldi or Verdi
Giuseppe
Eric
|
|
DD
$1,200
[30]
Sir Henry Percy, nicknamed this for his military aggressiveness, of course was slain in battle in 1403
"Hotspur"
Kate
|
$1,600
[4]
She's the American Wimbeldon & U.S. Open champ seen here
(Lindsay) Davenport
James
|
$1,600
[8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the shoe clue from Old World Wisconsin.) A nursery rhyme says, this person, this person, "mend my shoe; get it done by half past two"
cobbler
Kate
|
$1,600
[19]
Since 1962:St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
Memphis
James
Kate
|
$2,000
[17]
Ayn Rand:"(Galt) raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar"
Atlas Shrugged
Eric
Kate
|
$1,600
[24]
Slip a dollar bill to this furniture designer whose name is synonymous with the British Rococo style
Chippendale
James
|
|
$1,600
[29]
The pope hoped Pepin & his Franks would protect him against these Germanic people (not the Gables) led by Aistulf
the Lombards
Eric
|
$2,000
[6]
In 1984 Carl Lewis' 4 Olympic golds in track & field were matched by Romania's Ecaterina Szabo in this sport
gymnastics
Kate
|
$2,000
[9]
"Goosey, Goosey, Gander" says, "There I met an old man who wouldn't" do this
say his prayers
|
$2,000
[20]
A part of history:Parkland
Dallas, Texas
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
Steinbeck:"And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?'"
Of Mice and Men
James
|
$2,000
[25]
It can be a poisonous reddish-brown snake or a Yankee supporter of the South during the Civil War
a copperhead
Kate
|
If you'd invested $84 for 4 shares of this company at its March 13, 1986 IPO, you'd have 1,152 shares & $30,124.80 as of Jan. 1, 2006
Microsoft