Margaret Kickliter — a catering assistant from Palm Harbor, Florida
Patricia DiMaggio — a school registrar from Maynard, Massachusetts
Kate Miller — a human resources assistant from Oxnard, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kate | $2,000 | $2,400 | $9,200 |
$13,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,200
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Patricia | $2,600 | $3,800 | $8,200 |
$14,001
New champion: $14,001 |
$8,200
13 R, 1 W |
| Margaret | $1,500 | $4,300 | $7,000 |
$9,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,400
11 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| EGGHEADS | SPORTSMEN | THE MATERIAL WORLD | WORLD WAR II: THE HOME FRONT | I THINK I LOVE YOU | IT'S ALL "OVER", BABY |
|
$200
[6]
Edward O. Wilson, an authority on these very social colony insects, linked human to animal behavior in "Sociobiology"
ants
Margaret
|
$200
[28]
Known as "Mac the Strife", this tennis champ once told an umpire, "You are the pits of the world"
John McEnroe
Kate
|
$200
[16]
This trademarked brand of hook & loop fasteners is named in part for velour
Velcro
Kate
|
$200
[10]
When this P.M. visited the White House in 1941, he startled the staff by spending much of his time in the nude
Churchill
Patricia
|
$200
[19]
In mythology, she pined away for Narcissus until nothing was left but her voice
Echo
Margaret
|
$200
[1]
Write a check for more than you've got & your account is considered this
overdrawn
Kate
|
|
DD
$500
[7]
She went to the U. of Denver at 15 & got a Ph.D. there studying the USSR; she's now in the Cabinet
Condoleezza Rice
Margaret
|
$400
[24]
He spent 5 seasons with the Shanghai Sharks before becoming the Houston Rockets' center in 2002
Yao Ming
Kate
|
$400
[17]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads in front of the Pentagon.) The Pentagon was constructed primarily with this building material; steel was saved for the 2nd World War effort
(reinforced) concrete
Kate
|
$400
[11]
Silver foil was being rationed, so production of these smoochable candies was halted during World War II
Hershey's Kisses
Patricia
|
$400
[20]
This title character of a Voltaire work falls in love with Cunegonde, a baron's daughter
Candide
|
$400
[2]
It can mean to toss a baseball too far or to remove a ruler by force
to overthrow
Kate
|
|
$600
[8]
Mathematician Kurt Godel was a luminary at this New Jersey town's Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton
Kate
|
$600
[25]
In 2006 "The Bus" went into the garage as this running back played his last game in the Super Bowl
Jerome Bettis
|
$600
[18]
This hard substance also comes from the tusks of the narwhal & the teeth of the hippo
ivory
Patricia
|
$600
[12]
When stockings were no longer available, ladies drew lines on their legs with eyebrow pencil to simulate these
nylon seams
Patricia
|
$600
[21]
In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, she's the young woman the poet will see "nevermore"
Lenore
Patricia
|
$600
[3]
It's where a "man" is when the O flag is hoisted on a ship
overboard
Patricia
|
|
$800
[9]
In 1921 psychology prof Karl Jaspers became a professor of this instead; he went on to be a major existentialist
philosophy
Kate
|
$800
[29]
This 26-year-old Spanish professional golfer is nicknamed "El Nino"
Sergio Garcia
|
$800
[27]
This flooring material is made by pressing linseed oil & rosins onto a cloth backing
linoleum
Margaret
|
$800
[13]
As the 1943 winner of this national title, beautiful Jean Bartel sold 2 1/2 million dollars worth of war bonds
Miss America
Patricia
|
$800
[22]
This Tolstoy character is one Aleksei's lover & another Aleksei's wife
Anna Karenina
Margaret
|
$800
[4]
3-word topographical phrase for someone whose peak years are behind him
over the hill
Margaret
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Seen here, Robert J. Aumann shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in this for his work based on game theory
Economics
Kate
|
$1,000
[30]
This 18-year-old phenom from Nova Scotia was chosen No. 1 by Pittsburgh in the 2005 NHL draft
Sidney Crosby
|
$1,000
[26]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads while picking up stamps with tongs.) I'm using special tongs to put my stamps into this type ofenvelope whose name is derived from a transparent material
glassine
Margaret
|
$1,000
[14]
(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from the track stadium at Duke University.) Because World War II was raging, this event had to be moved away from the West Coast, & on January 1, 1942, it took place right here at Duke University
the Rose Bowl
Margaret
|
$1,000
[23]
Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title lover in this man's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
D.H. Lawrence
Kate
|
$1,000
[5]
Move your pawns up too far too fast, or lend & spend more money than you should, & you're this 12-letter word
overextended
|
| BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT | MOVIE "&" TV | OLD YORK, OLD YORK | BARTENDING | SCIENCE CLASS | REALLY LONG WORDS |
|
$400
[4]
He was governor of Arkansas
Bill Clinton
Margaret
|
$400
[14]
Harry Connick Jr. has been seen as Dr. Leo Markus on this NBC show
Will & Grace
Kate
|
$400
[24]
Forces of this empire occupied York around 71 A.D. & called it Eboracum
Rome
Patricia
|
$400
[1]
Mel or Althea might've enjoyed this, 2 1/2 oz. gin, 1 1/2 teaspoons dry vermouth & 3 cocktail onions
a Gibson
Kate
|
$400
[11]
The Faraday effect shows how this type of field can rotate the vibration plane of a beam of polarized light
a magnetic field
Kate
|
$400
[13]
Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word ever used by this man--it's in "Love's Labour's Lost"
Shakespeare
Patricia
|
|
$800
[5]
He lived the life of a cowboy on his North Dakota ranch
Teddy Roosevelt
|
$800
[15]
The original setting for this 2002 animated Disney adventure was Kansas, not Hawaii
Lilo & Stitch
Patricia
|
$800
[25]
"York" is from Yorvick, the name used by these Scandinavians who conquered the city around 867 A.D.
the Vikings
Patricia
|
$800
[2]
Ground control to this drink: "Take your vodka, triple sec, kirsch & grapefruit juice & put your helmet on"
a Major Tom
Kate
|
$800
[12]
Geysers of what is probably nitrogen rise as high as 5 miles on Triton, this planet's largest moon
Neptune
Patricia
Margaret
|
$800
[19]
Dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane is the long form for the insecticide known by this 3-letter abbrev.
DDT
Kate
|
|
DD
$900
[8]
He was editor & owner of the Marion, Ohio Star newspaper
Warren G. Harding
Margaret
|
$1,200
[16]
They're the 2 words directly separated by an ampersand in the title of the feature-length "South Park" film
Longer & Uncut
Kate
|
$1,200
[26]
York's cathedral of St. Peter is the largest church in England built in this medieval architectural style
Gothic
Kate
|
$1,200
[3]
1 1/2 oz. Scotch, 1/2 oz. drambuie & a lemon twist might get your head pounding if you have too many "rusty" these
a rusty nail
Patricia
|
$1,200
[23]
According to string theory, our universe has at least this many dimensions, but 6 are "curled up" & hard to see
10
|
$1,200
[20]
As you might surmise, anhydrohydroxy-progesterone is a type of this
a hormone
Margaret
|
|
$1,200
[6]
He was the head of Princeton University
Wilson
Margaret
|
$1,600
[17]
This 1997 sequel to a Tim Burton movie featured 2 future U.S. governors--Jesse Ventura & Arnold Schwarzenegger
Batman & Robin
|
$1,600
[27]
York suffered severely during this man's conquest of Northern England in the 1060s
William the Conqueror
Patricia
|
$1,600
[9]
This 6-letter drink has 1 oz. light, dark & anejo rum, as well as 2 teaspoons of 151 proof rum, but no human brains
a zombie
Margaret
|
— |
$1,600
[21]
The "nihil" in floccinaucini-hilipilification suggests it means to judge something as worth this
nothing
Kate
|
|
$1,600
[7]
He was mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee
Andrew Johnson
|
$2,000
[18]
2 of the 3 Jim Carrey movies that fit the category
(2 of) Dumb & Dumber , Me, Myself, & Irene & Fun with Dick & Jane
|
— |
$2,000
[10]
Green creme de menthe, Bailey's Irish cream, vodka & Kahlua make a "dirty" this, not what Juliette Low had in mind
a Girl Scout
Kate
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[22]
Antidisestablish-mentarianism, as per the OED, is opposition to the disestablishment of this church
the Church of England (or the Anglican Church)
Kate
|
"Annie" Sadilek, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, inspired the title character in this 1918 novel of the Great Plains
My Antonia (by Willa Cather)