Tom Ricketts — a chemical engineer from Halifax, Massachusetts
Melissa Ahart — a librarian originally from Oswego, New York
Kathy Lisiewicz — a project coordinator from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathy | $2,200 | $2,600 | $7,000 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Melissa | $2,800 | $6,600 | $10,600 |
$10,200
New champion: $10,200 |
$11,800
18 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Tom | $1,600 | $3,600 | $14,800 |
$8,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,000
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| MONEY MATTERS | DOCUMENTARIES | GET TO THE POINT | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES | GUMFIGHT | AT THE OK. CHORALE |
|
$200
[30]
Hey big spender--set aside a few bucks for the future in one of these, an IRA for short
an individual retirement account
Kathy
|
$200
[15]
One of the earliest documentaries was Robert Flaherty's 1922 film about this title Eskimo "of the North"
Nanook
Melissa
|
$200
[4]
(Jon of the Clue Crew lurks in the shadows, weapon at the ready...) A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, this was the weapon of choice
a lightsaber
Melissa
|
$200
[1]
German bibliophiles know that a Buchhandlung is this type of retail store
a bookstore
Melissa
|
$200
[17]
Just like it "sounds", this electric toothbrush from Philips can give you healthier gums
the Sonicare
Melissa
|
$200
[22]
A Tulsa chorale adapted this holiday song, with valkyries for milkmaids & 9 ladies waltzing to Strauss
"The 12 Days Of Christmas"
Melissa
|
|
$400
[14]
In 1976 Bank Americard got this new name with an international flavor
Visa
Kathy
|
$400
[16]
The documentary "Hearts of Darkness" recounted the harrowing making of this other movie
Apocalypse Now
Kathy
|
$400
[5]
A cutting remark, or the point projecting off the end of a hook in an opposite direction
a barb
Melissa
|
$400
[2]
To a Dutchman this clothing accessory is a zakdoek, & is something to sneeze at
handkerchief
Tom
|
$400
[18]
You get an award if you tell us this term for a film of bacteria around teeth that the FDA says "begins gum disease"
plaque
Tom
|
$400
[23]
Nearly 200 Oklahoma singers united in song in 2005 to raise money for the victims of these 2 hurricanes
Katrina & Rita
Kathy
Tom
|
|
$600
[13]
If a stock symbol has more than 3 letters, like MSFT, this company, it's probably on the NASDAQ, not the NYSE
Microsoft
Tom
|
$600
[27]
Subway's Jared Fogle turns up for a cameo in this 2004 Morgan Spurlock film about fast food in America
Super Size Me
Tom
|
$600
[6]
Surreal thinker of the comics seen here
Zippy (the Pinhead)
Tom
|
$600
[3]
In Greek this 2-word phrase means "the many"; it refers to the common people
hoi polloi
Kathy
Tom
|
$600
[19]
From the Latin for "gums", it's an inflammation of the gums in which they bleed easily
gingivitis
Tom
|
$600
[24]
In 2005 the Oklahoma Master Chorale's "Hymns to Theotokos" featured songs dedicated to this biblical woman
Mary
Melissa
|
|
$800
[12]
Applying for college? Consider going for one of these $4,000 grants, named for a Rhode Island senator in 1980
a Pell grant
Melissa
|
$800
[28]
A 1945 Hitchcock film shares its name with this 2002 documentary about the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition
Spellbound
Kathy
|
$800
[7]
Davy Crockett said the sight of this man's knife could "give a man of squeamish stomach the colic"
Jim Bowie
Kathy
|
$800
[9]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives an etymology lesson on the monitor.) According to Grimm's Law, the ancient "D" became our "T" sound & the German sound "Ts", so Latin "duo" became "two" in English &this word in German
zwei
Tom
|
$800
[20]
Adjective for a tooth that's embedded in the jawbone or soft tissue of the jaw & usually has to be extracted
impacted
Tom
|
$800
[25]
The Council Oaks Men's Chorale of Tulsa wowed 'em in 2002 with their rendition of "I Feel Pretty" from this musical
West Side Story
Melissa
|
|
$1,000
[11]
The bonds issued by over 95% of U.S. companies are noninvestment grade, less respectfully called these
junk
Tom
|
$1,000
[29]
In 1997's "Wild Man Blues", director Barbara Kopple followed this other director & his jazz band around Europe
Woody Allen
|
$1,000
[8]
The monument seenhereis one of these pillars that date back to Egyptian temples
an obelisk
Melissa
|
DD
$1,200
[10]
"Margaritas ante porcos" means this in Latin, not "Your aunt has had too many margaritas"
pearls before swine
Tom
|
$1,000
[21]
From the Latin for "around the tooth", this type of chronic disease is caused by bacterial infection
periodontal disease
Kathy
Melissa
|
$1,000
[26]
In 2005 the Chorale at St. Joseph Old Cathedral in Oklahoma City sang this kind of "Mass for the Dead" by Mozart
a requiem
Melissa
|
| EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE | NBA TEAMS' HOME ARENAS | DURING THE PIERCE ADMINISTRATION | BOOK TITLES | THE NEW YORK TIMESOP-ED PAGE | WEARABLE VOCABULARY |
|
$400
[7]
This capital's Vladislav Hall, in the Bohemian Renaissance style, was once Europe's largest enclosed secular space
Prague
|
$400
[26]
Madison Square Garden
the New York Knicks
Melissa
|
$400
[16]
This country emerged from isolation & agreed in 1854 to allow the U.S. trading rights to 2 of its ports
Japan
Tom
|
$400
[2]
As told to Alex Haley:"The Autobiography of ___"
Malcolm X
Melissa
|
$400
[21]
In 1986 this U.S. attorney & future mayor wrote on "How to Return Ethics to New York"
Giuliani
Kathy
|
$400
[1]
Wooden beams laid down to secure the rails of a railroad
ties
Kathy
|
|
$800
[8]
The audience hall of Lubeck's Rathaus dates from 1754 to 1761, a superb example of this light, ornamental style
Rococo
Melissa
|
$800
[27]
The 2 teams that play at the Staples Center
the L.A. Lakers & Clippers
Kathy
|
$800
[17]
This runaway slave published his autobiography, "My Bondage, My Freedom", in 1855
Frederick Douglass
Kathy
|
$800
[3]
Milan Kundera:"The Unbearable ___"
Lightness of Being
Melissa
|
$800
[22]
Lambasting Tom Cruise, Brooke Shields defended her use of drugs to treat this ailment of new mothers
postpartum depression
Melissa
|
$800
[10]
To endow a group with the power to do something, like wear part of a 3-piece suit
vest
Tom
|
|
DD
$1,200
[9]
Thevaultof Rome's Il Jesu, built in the 1500s for this new society, led to fears it would cause echos
the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)
Melissa
|
$1,200
[28]
TD Bank North Garden (or Gahden)
the Boston Celtics
Tom
|
DD
$1,600
[18]
This act of 1854 named for 2 future states allowed the new territories to decide the slavery issue themselves
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kathy
|
$1,200
[4]
Henry James:"The Turn of the ___"
Screw
Tom
|
$1,200
[23]
His July 6, 2003 op-ed doubted Iraq's uranium purchase; 8 days later his wife was outed as a CIA agent
(Joseph) Wilson
Tom
|
$1,200
[11]
Saloonkeeper Clarke & political satirist O'Rourke
PJs
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Based on the column type, it's a style of classical architecture; the Greeks had 3, Doric, Ionic & Corinthian
order
|
$1,600
[29]
Rose Garden Arena
the Portland Trail Blazers
|
$1,600
[19]
This grandson of a founding father arranged an 1853 purchase from Mexico
Gadsden
Tom
|
$1,600
[5]
William Faulkner:"Go Down, ___"
Moses
Tom
|
$1,600
[24]
In political & journalistic circles, this op-edder's fame is such that she's simply called Mo Do
Maureen Dowd
Tom
|
$1,600
[12]
For insulting me, you're going to get a "Van Allen" one of these in the chops
belt
Tom
|
|
$2,000
[15]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.) The Grand Bazaar, one of Tivoli's loveliest buildings, was designed in this exotic style, also known as Moresco
Moorish
Kathy
|
$2,000
[30]
AT&T (formerly SBC) Center
the San Antonio Spurs
|
$2,000
[20]
This British inventor created a steelmaking process allowing large quantities of steel to be produced cheaply
(Henry) Bessemer
Tom
|
$2,000
[6]
Thomas Wolfe:"You Can't ___"
Go Home Again
Kathy
|
$2,000
[25]
His 2005 farewell column said, "Never retire!"; he kept his Sunday magazine language column
William Safire
Melissa
|
$2,000
[13]
& for insulting my friend, you're going to get a "wind" one of these in the eye
sock
Kathy
Tom
|
5 of the 7 islands that make up this U.S. territory are of volcanic origin; the other 2 are coral atolls
American Samoa