Nathan Meyers — a software developer from Medford, Massachusetts
Steve Friedman — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Eric Dolansky — a Ph.D. student in marketing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,402)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric | $1,200 | $1,000 | $5,800 |
$11,598
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Steve | $1,800 | $4,800 | $15,800 |
$2,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,800
19 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Nathan | $2,400 | $6,400 | $14,400 |
$15,801
New champion: $15,801 |
$14,400
17 R, 1 W |
| U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | CARTOON MICE | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE | LIQUIDS | THE SEA OTTER | HOT "BUN"s |
|
$200
[26]
The 2 founders of Yahoo! & the 2 founders of Google all attended this California school
Stanford
Steve
|
$200
[15]
On Nov. 18, 1928 this American icon made his film debut at NYC's Colony Theatre
Mickey Mouse
Eric
|
$200
[6]
John Guare's"Six Degrees of..."
Separation
Steve
|
$200
[17]
Byron wrote, "Let us have" this "and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after"
wine
Steve
|
$200
[7]
Unlike other marine mammals, the sea otter does not have this layer of fat to keep it warm
blubber
Steve
|
$200
[1]
This folklore hero was so big, as a child he rocked in his cradle & caused a 75-foot tide in the Bay of Fundy
Paul Bunyan
Nathan
|
|
$400
[27]
Texas Lutheran University is in Seguin; this school founded in 1873 is in Fort Worth
Texas Christian University
Eric
Steve
|
$400
[18]
This red-caped Terrytoons rodent has been saving the day on TV since 1955, with operatic flair
Mighty Mouse
Nathan
|
$400
[12]
Eugene O'Neill's"Strange..."
Interlude
|
$400
[22]
Whether autumn leaves turn fiery amber, vivid gold or dull brown depends on the composition of this thick liquid
sap
Eric
|
$400
[8]
As seen here, the sea otterwraps itselfin this "marine" material to anchor itself while it rests
seaweed (or kelp)
Steve
|
$400
[2]
A con game, or the police squad that breaks it up
bunko
Nathan
|
|
$800
[29]
The North Carolina university founded in this town in 1834 is now in Winston-Salem
Wake Forest
Steve
|
$600
[19]
This "fastest mouse in all Mexico" has a cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez
Speedy Gonzales
Eric
|
$600
[13]
Neil Simon's"The Prisoner of..."
Second Avenue
Eric
Nathan
|
$600
[23]
The Quaker State Company was founded in 1931 in a Pennsylvania city named for this liquid
oil
|
$600
[9]
There are about 2,500 Southern sea otters off the California coast & 50,000 Northern sea otters off this state
Alaska
Eric
Steve
Nathan
|
$600
[3]
In this early American courting custom, a couple lay fully clothed on a bed & exchanged endearments
bundling
|
|
$1,000
[30]
It's the northernmost Ivy League School
Dartmouth
|
$800
[20]
In 1975 Grape Ape & Mumbly teamed with this Hanna-Barbera cat & mouse duo but by December, the ape was out
Tom & Jerry
Nathan
|
$800
[14]
Beth Henley's"Crimes of the..."
Heart
Steve
|
$800
[24]
The rounded area of a ship's hull, dividing bottom from sides, or the yucky water that collects there
bilge
Eric
Nathan
|
$800
[10]
4-letter term for an otter's skin, the demand for which once almost made them extinct
pelt
Steve
|
$800
[4]
2-word term for the 30,000-pound precision-guided bombs used to destroy underground command centers
bunker busters
Nathan
|
|
DD
$2,800
[28]
Recovering from Katrina, it scheduled a makeup "lagniappe semester" starting in May 2006
Tulane
Steve
|
$1,000
[21]
First name of young Mr. Mousekewitz, voiced by Phillip Glasser in "An American Tail"
Fievel
Steve
|
$1,000
[16]
Oscar Wilde's"A Woman of No..."
Importance
Nathan
|
$1,000
[25]
The cholesterol doctors measure is called this "cholesterol", for the fluid part of whole blood
serum
Nathan
|
$1,000
[11]
Sea otters feed on clams, crabs, abalone & these creatures seen here
sea urchins
Nathan
|
$1,000
[5]
Born Edward Z.C. Judson, he was the originator of the 19th century dime novels, many featuring Buffalo Bill Cody
Ned Buntline
Eric
|
| PHYSICAL SCIENCE | ALL THAT JAZZ | THAT'S SO CONVENTIONAL! | CLEANING UP | YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED | EMBRACE THE "ORB" |
|
$400
[3]
(Kelly and Jon of the Clue Crew play with water in a laboratory; Kelly reads.) Run a comb through your hair & hold it here--the water is drawn to the comb because of this accumulation of electrical charge
static electricity
Eric
|
$400
[21]
The instrument seenherewas played by this swingin' bandleader who was at home with classical too
Benny Goodman
Nathan
|
$400
[9]
During the 1968 Democratic Convention in this city, antiwar protesters clashed violently with police
Chicago
Eric
|
$400
[23]
To fight this, from the Latin for "stain", after surgery, John Charnley devised air tents to keep things sterile
infection
Eric
|
$400
[16]
Victories by Garibaldi in 1860 led to this largest Mediterranean island being joined to Italy
Sicily
Steve
|
$400
[1]
The quality of being able to take in liquids
absorbent
Nathan
|
|
$800
[7]
Phosphorescence is defined as giving off light with little or none of this
heat
Steve
|
$800
[22]
Charlie Christian, 1916-1942, was one of the first to electrically amplify this instrument
a guitar
Steve
|
$800
[12]
In 2004 the 2 major U.S. political parties held their conventions in these 2 cities
New York & Boston
Nathan
|
$800
[26]
In 1887 Johnson & Johnson was incorporated in part to improve upon this man's study of antisepsis
(Joseph) Lister
Steve
|
$800
[17]
It was declared a protectorate February 1, 1893; a treaty to annex it to the U.S. came 2 weeks later
Hawaii
|
$800
[2]
He's the moody crooner heard here"You can bet that I've been crying..."
(Roy) Orbison
Steve
|
|
$1,600
[10]
In 1911 a physicist first observed superconductivity when he found no resistance in this slippery element at 4.2 kelvin
mercury
Steve
|
$1,200
[24]
This bandleader from D.C. traveled with an electric piano, now in the Smithsonian, so he wouldn't wake hotel guests
Duke Ellington
|
$1,200
[13]
George H.W. Bush electrified the Republican Convention in this year when he declared "No new taxes"
1988
Steve
|
$1,200
[29]
To be a cleaner of this, you may need to put on a HAZMAT suit & hope the criminal doesn't return to it
a crime scene
Nathan
|
$1,200
[18]
Israel formally annexed this strategic upland region in 1981
the Golan Heights
Steve
|
$1,200
[4]
Scurvy is caused by a lack of this "acid" found in citrus
ascorbic acid
Eric
Nathan
|
|
$2,000
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew swirls water in a bottle.) I'm creating a small version of this, a mass of fluid in a swirling motion; whirlpools, tornadoes & sunspots are bigger versions
a vortex
Nathan
|
$1,600
[25]
This giant of the jazz vibraphone passed away in his 90s in 2002
Lionel Hampton
|
$1,600
[14]
He gave his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention
William Jennings Bryan
Steve
|
$1,600
[28]
In 1898 Caleb Johnson sold this soap named for 2 types of oil used to make it; later the co. merged with Colgate
Palmolive
Eric
|
$1,600
[19]
Bolivia became landlocked when this country took over its only coastal territory after a 19th c. war
Chile
Eric
|
$1,600
[5]
In December 1991 he gave Yeltsin the nuclear codes
Gorbachev
Eric
|
|
DD
$5,000
[8]
(Jon of the Clue Crew explains the diagrams on the monitor.) For 5 out of 10 carbon-11 atoms to decay into boron-11, it takes 20 minutes, which is this measure for the carbon-11 isotope
the half-life
Steve
|
$2,000
[30]
There's a distinctive left-hand pattern in this style of piano playing, also a word meaning "walk"
stride
Nathan
|
$2,000
[15]
This bespectacled NBC newsman was forcibly removed from the floor of the 1964 GOP Convention in San Francisco
John Chancellor
Eric
|
$2,000
[27]
Because of a clean-up effort, Bernard Rayner became the last to sell pigeon food in this British plaza
Trafalgar Square
Steve
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
Under the 1792 Treaty of Jassy, the Ottoman Empire agreed to Russia's taking over control of this peninsula
the Crimean Peninsula
Eric
|
$2,000
[6]
From Turkish for "cool drink", it's a frozen dessert made from fruit syrup
sorbet
Steve
|
In January 2006 this country swore in Africa's first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberia