Nick Swezey game 3.
Kelly Sherer — an account planning manager from West Orange, New Jersey
Tope Charlton — a graduate student from Gaithersburg, Maryland
Nick Swezey — a publisher from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $54,202)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick | $2,800 | $3,200 | $20,000 |
$22,000
3-day champion: $76,202 |
$18,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Tope | $800 | $6,900 | $7,700 |
$7,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 7 W |
| Kelly | $2,600 | $4,200 | $3,800 |
$3,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| "C" IN HISTORY | TV NOSTALGIA | GET YOUR PEANUTS! | THE SOUTHERNMOST NATION | HAVE A HEART | THE SHORT FORM |
|
$200
[11]
For a few years in the 1890s, this future prime minister was heir presumptive to the Dukedom of Marlborough
(Winston) Churchill
Nick
|
$200
[16]
In an animated 1987 TV special, this Space Age family traveled back in time to meet the Flintstones
The Jetsons
Kelly
|
$200
[26]
Most recipes for this candy end with: spread into thin layer; let cool; snap into pieces
peanut brittle
Tope
|
$200
[17]
Mongolia, Malta, Malawi
Malawi
Kelly
|
$200
[6]
JFK was awarded one of these for wounds he received near the Solomon Islands during WWII
a Purple Heart
Tope
|
$200
[1]
Bench presses build up the pecs, short for these
pectorals
Nick
|
|
$400
[12]
This Ohio city was called the "Queen of the West" even before a Longfellow poem popularized the nickname
Cincinnati
Nick
|
$400
[22]
According to his theme song, this quadruped "will never speak unless he has something to say"
Mr. Ed
Kelly
|
$400
[27]
With 500 of these units in one serving, a peanut paste called Plumpy'nut can put 2 lbs. a week on a malnourished kid
calories
Nick
Kelly
|
$400
[18]
Nepal, Nicaragua, Norway
Nicaragua
Kelly
|
$400
[7]
In 1984 "Baby Fae" received a heart transplant from one of these animals
a baboon
Tope
Kelly
|
$400
[2]
The "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang" has an 1896 citation of "diff" as short for this
difference
Tope
|
|
$600
[13]
The fabled emerald mines named for this ancient queen were rediscovered around 1818
Cleopatra
Kelly
|
$600
[23]
In the pilot for this '60s sitcom, Jed & Jethro first meet Mr. Drysdale when he comes to get them out of jail
The Beverly Hillbillies
Tope
|
$600
[28]
In China & India, peanuts are processed mainly for this cooking ingredient
peanut oil
Tope
|
$600
[19]
Portugal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Tope
|
$600
[8]
Shirley Temple appears multiple times on the cover of this Beatles album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Kelly
|
$600
[3]
"Rad", meaning "excellent", was truncated from this
radical
Tope
|
|
$800
[14]
In 1614 explorer Adriaen Block claimed what is now this U.S. state for the Dutch
Connecticut
Tope
|
$800
[24]
In the '50s this movie Tarzan was still hanging out with a chimp, but he wore more than a loincloth as TV's "Jungle Jim"
Johnny Weissmuller
Nick
|
$1,000
[30]
Immigrants Amedeo Obici & Mario Peruzzi founded this company in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. in 1906
Planters
|
$800
[20]
Syria, Suriname, Sweden
Suriname
Tope
|
$800
[9]
When measuring someone's pulse rate, take it on "t.s.", for this "side" of the wrist
the thumb side
Tope
|
$800
[4]
The Cosmo girl doesn't just look good; she can have a convo, short for this
a conversation
Tope
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Legends of riches led a set of Zuni villages to be dubbed the Seven Cities of this
Cibola
Nick
|
$1,000
[25]
The 1973 TV season gave us Richard Roundtree as this supercool private eye he'd played on film
(John) Shaft
Tope
|
DD
$1,300
[29]
The Virginia type of peanuts is what's sold at these events, as mentioned in a song written in 1908
baseball games
Tope
|
$1,000
[21]
India, Indonesia, Iran
Indonesia
Tope
|
$1,000
[10]
In this story a guy dismembers an old man & still hears him under the floor (lub-dub, lub-dub)
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Kelly
|
$1,000
[5]
One of the perks of my job is knowing that "perk" is short for this
perquisite
Nick
|
| WELCOME TO JAPAN | MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "G" | KIDDY LIT | HEY, MR.! | ALL THINGS OPERATIC | BRITSPEAK |
|
$400
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands outside a shrine.) Gates called torii represent the boundary between sacred & ordinary space at the thousands of shrines of this religion all over Japan
Shinto
Tope
|
$400
[1]
Tom Cruise was a "Top" one in '86(3)
Gun
Tope
|
$400
[11]
In a story by Mini Grey, this pair from "Hey Diddle Diddle" run off to NYC & find fame & fortune in vaudeville
the dish & the spoon
Tope
Kelly
|
$400
[16]
World Series & playoff heroics earned Reggie Jackson this nickname
"Mr. October"
Nick
|
$400
[21]
The final act of this opera takes place outside a bullring, where the heroine is stabbed to death
Carmen
Nick
|
$400
[26]
When Nigel heard his wife was preggers, he broke out the champers, this celebratory beverage
champagne
Nick
|
|
$800
[7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands between two women.) Unique to Kyoto is the culture of maiko, who replace theembroidered collar with awhite oneupon becoming one of these
a geisha
Nick
|
$800
[2]
Will Ferrell wore "Blades of" it(5)
Glory
Tope
|
$800
[12]
Garth Williams illustrated this title character seen here
Stuart Little
Kelly
|
$800
[17]
Known as "Mr. Civil Rights", he served as chief counsel of the NAACP prior to taking a seat on the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Kelly
|
$1,200
[23]
This "Cricket on the Hearth" author wrote the libretto for John Hullah's "The Village Coquettes"
Charles Dickens
|
$800
[27]
It's the British word for a merry-go-round or a traffic circle
roundabout
Nick
Tope
|
|
$1,200
[8]
(Kelly stands between two actors.) The kumadori makeup used in this form of Asian theater features red lines on thehero'sface and blue on thevillain's
kabuki
Tope
Kelly
|
$1,200
[3]
1950s Tokyo-threatening titan(8)
Godzilla
Nick
|
$1,600
[14]
The Once-ler tells about the endangered truffula trees in this ecological Seuss story
The Lorax
Kelly
|
$1,200
[18]
In TV's early days, this comedian known as "Mr. Television" was responsible for the explosion in sales of TV sets
(Milton) Berle
Nick
|
$1,600
[24]
The 3 basic vocal classifications for women opera singers are soprano, mezzo-soprano & this lowest range
alto (or contralto)
Kelly
|
$1,200
[28]
An all-male school wouldn't have an alumni reunion but a gathering of these, part of the "network" of them
old boys
Tope
|
|
$1,600
[9]
(Kelly stands near an amateur florist.) Traditionally in Japan in preparation for marriage, women were trained in the tea ceremony, calligraphy & this art of flower arranging
ikebana
|
$1,600
[4]
"Great" guy played by Ladd & Redford(6)
Gatsby
Nick
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
Tom Thumb & Hunca Munca are the title creatures in her "Tale of Two Bad Mice"
Beatrix Potter
Kelly
|
$1,600
[19]
He conducted the Boston Pops orchestra for an amazing 49 years, earning him the nickname "Mr. Pops"
(Arthur) Fiedler
Nick
Tope
|
$2,000
[25]
Italian opera of the early 1700s developed into 2 basic types: opera seria, or serious opera, & this, comic opera
opera buffa
Nick
|
$1,600
[29]
It can mean having a healthy, rosy color, or be a British intensifier like "bloody"
ruddy
Tope
Kelly
|
|
$2,000
[10]
(Kelly stands outside a shrine.) We'll end our category with this Japanese word whose literal meaning is "If it must be so"
sayonara
Tope
Kelly
|
$2,000
[5]
An Ed Wood opus: "Glen or" her(6)
Glenda
Nick
|
$2,000
[15]
While in his 40s, this Edinburgh-born author wed Elspeth Thomson & wrote "The Wind in the Willows" for their son
Kenneth Grahame
Nick
|
$2,000
[20]
This U.S. Senator from Ohio, the son of a president, was known in the media as "Mr. Republican"
Robert Taft
|
DD
$2,400
[22]
In 1939 she made her operatic debut in "Cavalleria rusticana" in Athens at age 15
Maria Callas
Nick
|
$2,000
[30]
Perspex is a British name for this trademarked acrylic plastic used to make the container seen here
Lucite
Kelly
|
A documentary from ESPN is based on the premise that this Louisville-born man "invented" rap in the 1960s
Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay)