(Sofia: Hi, this is Sofia of the Clue Crew. Today, we give you a littletaste of New York City.)
Charan Brahma — an attorney from Los Angeles, California
Lara Kierlin — a pre-med student from Hermosa Beach, California
Frank Stasio — a data analyst from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank | $200 | $-800 | $12,000 |
$12,000
2-day champion: $42,000 |
$11,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Lara | $1,400 | $5,200 | $7,600 |
$3,199
2nd place: Trip to Wyndham Rose Hall Resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
$8,200
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Charan | $2,000 | $3,400 | $12,000 |
$500
3rd place: Trip to Nickerson Inn, Pentwater, Michigan |
$10,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| OLD POETIC FORMS | VERMONT | CLASSIC COMEDY TEAMS | NYC STREET FOODS | USES FOR ARSENIC | "B"EAUTIFUL |
|
$200
[8]
Skaldic, a bit different than Eddaic poetry, originated in Norway, but was developed mainly on this island
Iceland
Charan
|
$200
[9]
The city of Burlington lies on the shores of this, Vermont's largest lake
Lake Champlain
Frank
|
$200
[6]
Hope & ____
(Bing) Crosby
Frank
|
$200
[14]
(Sofia is on Park Avenue, enjoying a pretzel, when....) Oops! I forgot to get a side of this traditional yellow condiment
mustard
Charan
|
$200
[19]
Arsenic compounds are used as coloring agents in these sky displays
fireworks
|
$200
[1]
Until 1973 it was known as British Honduras
Belize
Frank
Charan
|
|
$400
[25]
The Greeks used encomia to praise people; today at a funeral you deliver one of these
eulogy
Frank
|
$400
[10]
In 1974 he became Vermont's first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate; he's still there
Patrick Leahy
Charan
|
$400
[7]
Martin & ____
(Jerry) Lewis
Lara
|
$400
[15]
(Sofia is tasting a Mediterranean delicacy.) This pita contains little balls of this, a deep-fried Mideast treat made from chickpeas or fava beans
falafel
Frank
Charan
|
$400
[20]
Caligula is said to have ordered his alchemists to turn the yellow orpiment, a sulfide of arsenic, into this
gold
Lara
|
$400
[2]
It's a road around a town, or an operation to reroute blood
bypass
Charan
|
|
$600
[29]
Tongdong, a Korean Pyolgok-form poem, is an ode on the 4 of these
seasons
Frank
|
$600
[11]
At 4,393 feet, Mount Mansfield in this range is the state's highest point
Green Mountains
Charan
|
$600
[22]
____ & Ray
Bob (Elliott)
Lara
|
$600
[16]
(Sofia is enjoying a foreign potato product.) From the Ukranian for "dumpling", it's the name of the potato product I'm eating
knish
Lara
|
DD
$600
[21]
Around 3500 B.C. people were mixing copper & arsenic to make this: they soon found copper & tin worked better
bronze
Lara
|
$600
[3]
It's the historic linen seen here
the Bayeux Tapestry
|
|
$800
[30]
The Cielito, "darling", is associated with this cowboy literature of Argentina & Uruguay
gaucho
Charan
|
$800
[12]
This city's annual Battle Day Parade commemorates a Revolutionary War battle that took place on August 16, 1777
Bennington
Frank
|
$800
[23]
Stiller & ____
(Anne) Meara
Lara
|
$800
[17]
(Sofia holds up a slice of thin-crust pizza.) You can get pizza New York-style or in this thicker style named for an Italian island
Sicilian
Charan
|
$800
[26]
Gallium arsenide is used in the semiconductor type of this device found in CD players
a laser (an integrated circuit accepted)
Charan
|
$800
[4]
An athletic competition combining skiing & shooting
biathlon
Frank
|
|
$1,000
[28]
Popular in the 14th century, the Englyn & the Cywydd were poetic forms in this language
Welsh
Frank
Lara
Charan
|
$1,000
[13]
The town of Barre is a world center in the production of this stone used for monuments
granite
Lara
|
$1,000
[24]
Nichols & ____
(Elaine) May
|
$1,000
[18]
(Sofia wraps up our taste of the Big Apple--with a stomache--and a bottle of a well-known product for curing such.) Fortunately, also available in New York is this Procter & Gamble tummy-soothing liquid
Pepto-Bismol
Lara
|
$1,000
[27]
"Arsenic and Old Lace" recommends a teaspoon of arsenic per gallon of this wine
elderberry
Frank
|
$1,000
[5]
(A Renaissance artist, or the intellectual game Cheryl & Jimmy are playing)Cheryl: P.Jimmy: Is it the founder of a colony?Cheryl: No, it's not William Penn.
Botticelli
|
| PHILOSOPHERS | MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS | 1890s AVIATION | COMPANY HISTORIES | PICTURE THE PREZ | CROSSWORD CLUES "AE" |
|
$400
[4]
Hillel phrased this "precious" rule negatively, saying don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you
the Golden Rule
Frank
|
$400
[17]
This beloved Broadway show was based on a comic strip by Harold Gray
Annie
Frank
|
$400
[16]
In 1891 a Japanese inventor powered a model plane with one of these office supplies & it flew a reported 33 feet
rubber band
Lara
|
$400
[7]
In 1894 George Kinney began his chain of stores selling these
shoes
Frank
|
$400
[1]
Representative Thaddeus Stevens led the attempt to impeach this president
Andrew Johnson
Frank
|
$400
[18]
Fabulous fabulist(5)
Aesop
|
|
$800
[8]
A Florida city is named for this medieval author of "The City of God"
St. Augustine
Lara
|
$2,000
[23]
Ingmar Bergman's movie "Smiles of a Summer Night" inspired this Stephen Sondheim musical
A Little Night Music
|
$800
[25]
Alberto Santos-Dumont's first flight of his No.1 airship in 1898 ended with it being caught in one of these
tree
|
$800
[12]
By 1845, with John Young & J.L. Ellis, this NYC jeweler switched from selling paste jewels to real
Charles Lewis Tiffany
Charan
|
$800
[2]
"Big Red" could also have been the nickname of this "man of the people", seen here
Thomas Jefferson
Frank
|
$800
[19]
Paint propellant(7)
aerosol
Frank
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Parmenides, Mr. One Unchanging Reality, was a major thinker pre-this man born around 470 B.C.
Socrates
Frank
|
— |
$1,200
[26]
In 1899 Wilbur Wright asked this museum complex for any info on flying; they sent him some pamphlets
the Smithsonian
Charan
|
$1,200
[13]
Attention, shoppers--Borders Books once belonged to this major discount retailer
K-Mart
|
$1,200
[3]
This president seenherewon the Nobel Peace Prize during his term
Woodrow Wilson
Lara
|
$1,200
[20]
The first "A" in NASA(11)
Aeronautics
Frank
|
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
Expelled from Germany in 1849, he lived his last 30 years in the British kapital
Karl Marx
Frank
|
— |
$1,600
[27]
In 1897 3 Swedes (partly funded by Alfred Nobel) tried to reach this point on Earth by balloon--they died
the North Pole
Frank
|
$2,000
[15]
In 1959 a company in this state got the rights to L'Ecran Magique, the Magic Writer, & renamed it the Etch-A-Sketch
Ohio
Frank
Lara
|
$1,600
[5]
This "cat", seen here, served as president for only 6 months
James A. Garfield
Frank
|
$1,600
[24]
"Cryin'" & "Crazy" rock group(9)
Aerosmith
Charan
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Jacques Lacan revised this philosopher's idea as "Where I think, 'I think, therefore I am', that is where I am not"
Rene Descartes
Lara
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
This count was granted a patent in 1895 for his new method of rigid-airship construction
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Frank
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
In 1893 George Brown & this man formed a partnership in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Robert Williamson
Charan
|
$2,000
[6]
Thispresident was described as a "non-entity with sidewhiskers" & "first in ability on the list of second-rate men"
Chester A. Arthur
Charan
|
$2,000
[21]
MTV cartoon "____ Flux"(4)
Aeon
Frank
|
One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie"
Sidney Sheldon