Alexia Henke — a singer from Brooklyn, New York
David Maynard — a coffee shop manager from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ryan Friedman — a GIS planner from Londonderry, New Hampshire (whose 2-day cash winnings total $32,099)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $600 | $3,600 | $14,801 |
$29,601
3-day champion: $61,700 |
$12,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| David | $3,800 | $4,000 | $10,800 |
$14,801
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Alexia | $2,200 | $3,600 | $14,800 |
$21,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,800
15 R, 0 W |
| MONTHS | WHO'S THE MAN | AIRPORT CODES | GOVERNORS | HE SAID, SHE SAID | BIG MOUTH |
|
$200
[8]
Flanders & Swann sang that it "brings the sweet spring showers--on and on for hours and hours!"
April
Alexia
|
$200
[19]
Spartacus
Kirk Douglas
Ryan
David
|
$200
[2]
Get a real Rocky Mountain high here:DEN
Denver
Ryan
|
$200
[14]
This governor played Prince Hapi in Jackie Chan's 2004 film "Around the World in 80 Days"
Schwarzenegger
Ryan
|
$200
[13]
In "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" she wrote, "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend"
Agatha Christie
David
|
$200
[1]
Proceed down to the mouth of the Congo & you wind up on this ocean
the Atlantic
David
|
|
$400
[9]
It's the only month for which the U.S. can have a President-elect from beginning to end
December
Ryan
|
$400
[20]
Patch Adams
Robin Williams
Ryan
|
$400
[4]
Hopefully its code isn't an omen for your checked bags:MIA
Miami
Ryan
|
$400
[15]
This son of Greek immigrants was elected governor of Massachusetts 3 times in the '70s & '80s
(Michael) Dukakis
Ryan
|
$400
[16]
One of her hints to Abelard was "Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate"
Heloise
David
|
$400
[3]
The Rio Grande, aka the Rio Bravo, lands in this body of water
the Gulf of Mexico
Alexia
|
|
$600
[10]
It's National Military Appreciation Month; we remember fallen soldiers near the end of it
May
Alexia
|
$600
[21]
Texas Ranger J.J. McQuade
Chuck Norris
David
|
$600
[5]
It's actually in Virginia (though its full name says otherwise):IAD
Dulles
David
|
$600
[17]
When it became a state in 1912, William C. McDonald was its governor
New Mexico
|
$600
[25]
Sydney Smith was quoted as saying "There are 3 of" this palindromic word--males, females "and clergymen"
sexes
Alexia
|
$600
[28]
The Yangtze flows into the "East" this "Sea"; the Mekong into the "South" this "Sea"
China
David
|
|
$800
[11]
It's the first month of the year named for a number
September
David
|
$800
[23]
Lieutenant Frank Drebin
Leslie Nielsen
David
Alexia
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
It's named for Sen. Ted Stevens:ANC
Anchorage
David
|
$800
[18]
While New York governor, this Republican ran twice for the presidency in the 1940s
Thomas Dewey
David
|
$800
[26]
One of her book reviews said, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"
Dorothy Parker
|
$800
[29]
Yukon see this sea at the mouth of the Yukon
the Bering Sea
Ryan
|
|
$1,000
[12]
In the musical "Carousel", it's the month of the first clambake of the year
June
Alexia
|
$1,000
[24]
Sergeant Tom Sharky
Burt Reynolds
|
$1,000
[7]
Its McNamara Terminal is also the Northwest Airlines World Gateway:DTW
Detroit
Ryan
David
|
$1,000
[22]
Charles Bryan, brother of William Jennings, was governor of this state from 1931 to 1935
Nebraska
Ryan
|
$1,000
[27]
He said his "Social Contract" was undertaken "without thinking of the limitations of my powers"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
|
$1,000
[30]
The port city of Kismaayo sits on the mouth of the Juba River on this ocean
the Indian
Ryan
|
| "NOV"EMBER | THE 19th CENTURY | DOCTOR! | BRING OUT YOUR FRED | LET'S SING | A LITTLE DEITY |
|
$400
[1]
Anesthetic you're grateful for on a visit to the dentist
novocaine
Ryan
|
$400
[22]
After his band of outlaws was decimated trying to rob a bank in 1876, he & his brother Frank formed a new one
Jesse James
David
|
$400
[3]
In 1954 440,000 schoolchildren became guinea pigs in a test of his polio vaccine
Salk
Alexia
|
$400
[4]
The 18th century monarch once quipped, "God is always with the strongest battalions"
Frederick the Great
David
|
$400
[14]
From the '20s, this title character of Araby is the "I" in "At night when you're asleep into your tent I'll creep"
the Sheik
Ryan
|
$400
[26]
This god was also called Dionysus & Liber--makes sense, as he liberated people from calm & sobriety
Bacchus
Ryan
|
|
$800
[2]
The process of turning a film into a book
novelization
David
|
$800
[23]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands on an Irish seashore at a Martello tower in Dublin, Ireland.) Martello towers were built by the British in the early 19th century to defend against an invasion by this man
Napoleon
|
$800
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through a parlor in Vienna, Austria.) I'm in the waiting room of this man's office in Vienna, restored to how it looked in the early 1900s
Freud
Ryan
|
$800
[7]
Born in Berlin in 1901, this composer was known for his collaborations with Alan Jay Lerner
Fred Loewe
Alexia
|
$800
[18]
John Lennon song with the lyrics "We all shine on like the moon and the stars and the sun"
"Instant Karma!"
Ryan
|
$800
[30]
He's the Titan & friend of mankindseenherein a 17th-century painting
Prometheus
Alexia
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Cape Breton Island is part of this Canadian province
Nova Scotia
Alexia
|
$1,200
[24]
On Dec. 17, 1819 this liberator was made president of the new Republic of Gran Colombia
(Simón) Bolivar
Ryan
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
He decided against a general medical practice & chose a military career, entering the Army Medical Corps in 1875
Walter Reed
Ryan
|
$1,200
[8]
In deteriorating health, he gave his last public piano recital in London at an 1848 benefit for Polish refugees
(Frédéric) Chopin
David
|
$1,200
[19]
"Fly Me To The Moon" says, "Let me sing among those stars, let me see what spring is like on" these 2 planets
Jupiter & Mars
Alexia
|
$1,600
[27]
An Egyptian fertility goddess, or what the Thames is called as it runs through Oxford
the Isis
|
|
$1,600
[12]
From the Latin for "nine", it's a series of devotional prayers over a 9-day period
a novena
Alexia
|
$1,600
[25]
On March 17, 1861 the Kingdom of this country was declared with Victor Emmanuel as its king
Italy
|
$1,200
[6]
This physician & author has been called "the man who reared 50 million kids"
(Dr.) Spock
Ryan
|
$1,600
[9]
Northern readers got the lowdown on slavery in 1845's "Narrative of the Life of" this former slave & orator
Frederick Douglass
Alexia
|
$1,600
[20]
It's the mister you don't mess with in "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive"
Mr. In-Between
Alexia
|
$2,000
[28]
This handsome, ill-fated son of Odin was the most beloved among the Norse gods
Balder
|
|
$2,000
[13]
This city of about 250,000 was a capital of early Russia
Novgorod
|
$2,000
[16]
Francis II, who abdicated this title in 1806, was the last Hapsburg to hold it
Holy Roman Emperor
David
|
$2,000
[17]
We don't just presume, we know thathestudied theology & medicine in Glasgow in the 1830s
(Dr.) Livingstone
Alexia
|
$2,000
[10]
In 1989 he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president
(Frederik) de Klerk
Ryan
|
$2,000
[21]
In the song heard here, it's the title place that won't be revisited
Loch Lomond
David
|
DD
$5,001
[29]
This god was upset to find that the mortal girl Apemosyne could outrun him
Mercury (or Hermes)
Ryan
|
An estimated 100,000-plus people speak this language whose nouns have no gender & end with -O
Esperanto