Louise Hauser — a food pantry supervisor originally from Brooklyn, New York
Lars Jacobsen — a teacher from Burlington, Vermont
Ed Angleton — a biochemist from Indianapolis, Indiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed | $1,000 | $5,600 | $13,200 |
$16,400
2-day champion: $25,599 |
$13,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Lars | $4,200 | $6,400 | $3,600 |
$600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Louise | $2,600 | $2,800 | $4,800 |
$7,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
11 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| INSECTS | QUOTABLE CINEMA | AMERICANA | HARLEY-DAVIDSON | A LIFE OF CRIME | "RAP" SHEET |
|
$200
[21]
The evocatively named sticktight is one of these pet-tormenting parasites
a flea
Ed
|
$200
[1]
1939:"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
The Wizard of Oz
Lars
|
$200
[6]
Rhode Island is nicknamed "Little Rhody", & this state is "Little Ida"
Idaho
Lars
|
$200
[22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Harley-Davidson in Wisconsin.)Thisvery first Harley from 1903 had a production run of 3; 3 was also the number of these units it put out, while today's bikes are often 125
horsepower
Ed
|
$200
[13]
One of the most famous fictional crimesolvers ever, he also played the violin & used cocaine
Sherlock Holmes
Lars
|
$200
[8]
In city names, they can be Grand or Cedar
Rapids
Lars
|
|
$400
[27]
The Colorado type of this plentiful insect is the terror of potato growers
the potato beetle
Ed
Louise
|
$400
[2]
1933:"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast"
King Kong
Lars
|
$400
[7]
The fabulous Hawaiian estate of heiress Doris Duke is now a tourist attraction near Diamond Head on this island
Oahu
Louise
|
$400
[23]
The 1960 "Topper" was Harley's version of this type of bike made by Italian companies like Vespa
a scooter
Ed
|
$400
[15]
About 63% of the people in U.S. federal prisons are there on offenses relating to these
drugs
Ed
|
$400
[9]
A natural, friendly liking for someone based on mutual trust
rapport
Louise
|
|
$600
[28]
The Viceroy butterfly does its best to look like this bad-tasting butterfly
the monarch
Ed
|
$600
[3]
1976:"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Network
Lars
|
$600
[14]
This Chicago cemetery is the final resting place of Mies van der Rohe, but not--despite its name--of Elvis
Graceland
Ed
|
$600
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Harley-Davidson in Wisconsin.) The 1990"Fat Boy"featured in "Terminator 2" is a fitting model whose bikes go by this famous nickname
"Hogs"
Lars
|
$600
[16]
In the film "Bugsy" Ben Kingsley played this Jewish syndicate leader & founder of Murder, Inc.
Meyer Lansky
Lars
|
$600
[10]
Toronto pro team
the Raptors
Lars
|
|
$800
[29]
Some solitary ones make their nests out of mud; social ones, usually from paper
wasps
Ed
|
$800
[4]
1989:"I'll have what she's having"
When Harry Met Sally...
Lars
|
$800
[19]
You don't have to be in spitting distance to know that N.C. has 3 official festivals; 2 of them honor this fruit
the watermelon
Louise
|
$800
[25]
In 1980 Harley released a bike named for this Black Hills Motorcycle Rally site
Sturgis (South Dakota)
Ed
|
$800
[17]
Hanged in 1912, Thomas Jennings was the USA's first criminal convicted using this evidence unique to each of us
fingerprints
Louise
|
$800
[11]
"I'm Not" this guy in a Tony Award-winning play from 1986
Rappaport
Louise
|
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
A mosquito at this life stage is called a wriggler
a larva
Ed
|
$1,000
[5]
1967:"They call me Mr. Tibbs!"
In the Heat of the Night
Lars
|
$1,000
[20]
Love was in the air in 1969 when this state adopted the tourism slogan that says it "is for lovers"
Virginia
Lars
|
$1,000
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Harley-Davidson in Wisconsin.) This is a World War I-era Harley, like the ones this general'sforces rode in pursuit of Pancho Villa
Pershing
Ed
|
$1,000
[18]
On Sept. 26, 1933 he dropped his namesake gun & told the police, "I've been waiting all night for you"
"Machine Gun" Kelly
Louise
|
$1,000
[12]
This archaic term for a mischievous or annoying child can also mean a rogue or scamp
a rapscallion
Louise
|
| TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER | I MARRIED ELIZABETH TAYLOR | THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY | MEN OF THE "C" | LITERATURE | WORD ORIGINS |
|
$400
[3]
In 1961 this country's P.W. Botha assumed his first cabinet position--Minister of Coloured Affairs
South Africa
Ed
|
$400
[5]
This actor married Ms. Taylor in 1964 (& was divorced from her in 1974)
Richard Burton
Lars
|
$400
[21]
Cairo, Copenhagen, Canberra
Copenhagen
Louise
|
$400
[11]
Sho' nuff! He's the American author & cartoonist best known for "Li'l Abner"
(Al) Capp
Lars
|
$400
[26]
In the 1600s Basho wrote a famous hard-to-translate haiku about this creature jumping into a pond
a frog
Ed
|
$400
[1]
If you're schussing around on these, remember that their name comes from old Norse for "sticks"
skis
Louise
|
|
$800
[4]
Though his Fatah party lost in 2006 Palestinian elections, he remained president
Abbas
Lars
|
$800
[6]
This actor married Ms. Taylor in 1975 (& was divorced from her in 1976)
Richard Burton
Ed
|
$800
[22]
Brasilia, Bogota, Buenos Aires
Bogota
Ed
|
$800
[17]
He wrote the immortal words "he took his Vorpal sword in hand: long time the manxome foe he sought"
(Lewis) Carroll
Louise
|
$800
[27]
The infamous Lowood School in this novel was based on a real school that Charlotte Bronte attended at age 8
Jane Eyre
Lars
|
$800
[2]
The minute you walked in the joint, you knew the name of this body part was from the old English "elnboga"
elbow
Ed
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In 1984 Louis Gossett Jr. was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of this assassinated Egyptian leader
Sadat
Ed
|
$1,200
[7]
Paul Simon's ex-father-in-law, he co-starred with Elizabeth in "BUtterfield 8"
Eddie Fisher
|
$1,200
[23]
Wellington, Warsaw, Washington, D.C.
Warsaw
Ed
|
$1,200
[18]
This turn-of-the-century magician's instruction manual for witches is known as "The Book of Shadows"
(Aleister) Crowley
Lars
|
$1,200
[28]
This Jane Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex"
Sense and Sensibility
Ed
Lars
|
DD
$1,200
[14]
It's no Greek myth: this big South American bird was probably named for the wife of Cronus
the rhea
Louise
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Nana Sahib was an important leader of these rebels in 1857 India
the Sepoys
|
$1,600
[12]
He was first elected as a Virginia senator in 1978
John Warner
Louise
|
$1,600
[24]
Oslo, Ottawa, Osmara
Oslo
Ed
|
$1,600
[19]
While in the service of Spain in 1542, this Portuguese explorer discovered California
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
|
$2,000
[30]
Tolstoy wrote this character's "life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible"
Ivan Ilyich
Ed
|
$1,600
[15]
This word for what one often does to red wine before serving comes from a Latin word for an iron ring
decant
Ed
|
|
$2,000
[10]
Indonesia's President Sukarno was the father of this woman who also became president of Indonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri
|
$2,000
[13]
Married in 1991, this construction worker... aw heck, either you know this guy or you don't
Fortensky
Louise
|
$2,000
[25]
Bridgetown, Brussels, Belmopan
Brussels
Ed
|
$2,000
[20]
On July 18, 1938 he was questioned by police after a 28-hour, 13-minute airplane flight
"Wrong Way" Corrigan
|
DD
$6,000
[29]
After Christian's death in an 1897 drama, this title character still acts as a platonic friend to the widow
Cyrano de Bergerac
Lars
|
$2,000
[16]
The name of this greenish patina that forms on copper comes from Old French for "green of Greece"
verdigris
Louise
|
When Alexander Hamilton & James Monroe nearly met in a duel, this man interceded & defused the situation
Aaron Burr