Rachel Barg — a charter school teacher from Los Angeles, California
Julián Altschul — a math and science tutor from Jackson Heights, New York
Kyle Brittain — a student from Durango, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle | $800 | $1,600 | $9,200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Julián | $4,000 | $6,800 | $19,600 |
$19,200
New champion: $19,200 |
$21,200
26 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rachel | $400 | $1,000 | $5,400 |
$1,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,400
11 R, 3 W |
| WORLD TRAVEL | THANKS FOR THE MEMORABILIA | COMMON BONDS | NOW APPEARING IN A BIBLICAL BOOK NEAR YOU | PAULA'S HOME COOKING | "MARI" ME |
|
$200
[11]
In July, you can sun yourself on this island & attend its Reggae Sumfest
Jamaica
Kyle
|
$200
[21]
The most ever paid for a sports document was the $996,000 spent for the 1919 contract that sent this man to the Yankees
Babe Ruth
Julián
|
$200
[1]
Middle, boarding, finishing
school
Rachel
|
$200
[16]
No hillbilly, Jethro appears in this book of the Bible as the companion & father-in-law of Moses
Exodus
Julián
|
$200
[26]
(Paula Deen herself flips a sandwich in a frying pan.) I'm gonna celebrate Elvis Presley, a great Southerner, by frying up his favoritesandwich--bananas & this
peanut butter
Rachel
|
$200
[6]
Traditional Mexican dance band, or the music it plays
mariachi
Rachel
|
|
$400
[12]
Dating back to the 6th century, Eglise St-Germain-des-Pres may be the oldest one of these buildings in Paris
a church
Kyle
Julián
|
$400
[22]
At close to $1.3 million, the most expensive dress ever sold was the one she wore to serenade JFK in 1962
Marilyn Monroe
Kyle
|
$400
[2]
Lancashire, Liederkranz, Limburger
cheese
Julián
|
$400
[17]
Ancestor of one of the 12 Tribes, Benjamin appears in this biblical book as his mom Rachel dies giving birth to him
Genesis
Kyle
|
$400
[27]
Paula is famous for her butt massage (for pork butt, that is): it contains paprika, mild chilies & this pungent bulb
garlic
Julián
|
$400
[7]
He was the QB for the Miami Dolphins from 1983 all the way to 1999
Dan Marino
Rachel
|
|
$600
[13]
It's a famous mountain in the Pennine Alps (& a really cool ride at Disneyland)
the Matterhorn
Julián
|
$600
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a black bird statuette.) I'm holding acopyof the title prop from this famous 1941 movie; the original prop sold in 1994 for more than $398,000
The Maltese Falcon
Rachel
|
$600
[3]
Flute, tumbler, shot
glass
Julián
|
$800
[19]
Scary 7-headed beasts are a vision to behold in this book
Revelation
Kyle
Julián
|
$600
[28]
(Paula Deen sprinkles toppings.) Pizza gets a down-home flavor, y'all, when I top it with meat from ham hocks &these traditional Southern greens
collard greens
Rachel
|
$600
[8]
Yellow-orange flowers of the genus Tagetes
marigolds
Rachel
|
|
$800
[14]
Yapese & Ulithian are spoken there, too, but shoppers should know this official language of commerce in Micronesia
English
Julián
|
$800
[24]
A script of "The Godfather" with notes by this man pulled in more than $300,000 at a 2005 auction
Marlon Brando
Kyle
Rachel
|
$800
[4]
People, relay races, chairs
things with legs
Julián
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar appears in this book of the Bible where he has some dreams interpreted
Daniel
Kyle
|
$800
[29]
Paula's recipe for this pineapple, orange & coconut treat is so good that it really is "the food of the gods"
ambrosia
Julián
|
$800
[9]
A butterfly in Barcelona
a mariposa
Julián
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Don't miss Russia's Winter Palace if you go for this opulent style that preceded Rococo
Baroque
Julián
|
$1,000
[25]
A pair of these weapons used by Mark Hamill & David Prowse each sold for over $100,000 at an auction in 2005
lightsabers
Julián
|
$1,000
[5]
Phoenix, Lupus, Andromeda
constellations
Kyle
Rachel
|
$1,000
[20]
Other than the 4 Gospels, one of the 2 books in which Pontius Pilate appears
Acts (of the Apostles) (or 1 Timothy)
Kyle
|
$1,000
[30]
(Paula Deen tries to stir & talk at the same time.) I'm makin' my special black-eyed pea dip, y'all--it's a real Southern tradition to eat black-eyed peas on this holiday, because with each pea you eat, it's gonna be bringin' you a dollar earned
New Year's
Julián
|
$1,000
[10]
This 8-letter term meaning "related to the sea" is also a type of law
maritime
Julián
|
| LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY | LERNER & LOEWE | WOLF GANG | ALSO A FISH | POETS | "R" WORLD |
|
$400
[7]
In 1565 Portuguese knight Estacio de Sa founded this Brazilian city on Guanabara Bay
Rio (de Janeiro)
Julián
|
$400
[16]
In "My Fair Lady", she sings, "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"; Henry Higgings replies, "I think she's got it"
Eliza Doolittle
Julián
|
$400
[21]
In a 12th century beast epic, Isengrim is a wolf who battles against the sneaky Reynard, one of these animals
a fox
|
$400
[26]
To sit on a twig like a bird
perch
Julián
|
$400
[6]
A poem by this American begins, "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd"
Walt Whitman
Julián
|
$400
[1]
A dishonest or unprincipled man, or one of the X-Men
a rogue
Kyle
|
|
$1,200
[9]
In 1541 Pedro de Valdivia, a soldier of this Inca conqueror, founded the city of Santiago in Chile
Pizarro
Rachel
|
$800
[17]
Lerner & Loewe wrote "How To Handle A Woman" & "If Ever I Would Leave You" for this 1960 musical
Camelot
Julián
|
$800
[22]
In a Medieval legend, the town of Gubbio is terrorized by a wolf until this saint greets it & tames it
St. Francis of Assisi
Julián
|
$800
[27]
Long pointy stick used as a war weapon
pike
|
$800
[12]
This Lake Poet, perhaps lonely as a cloud, wandered over to visit Sir Walter Scott in 1803
Wordsworth
Julián
|
$800
[2]
What the Brits call a Mackintosh isn't an apple but one of these
a raincoat
Rachel
|
|
$1,600
[10]
In 1957 this physician & patron of voodoo was elected president of Haiti, which he ruled with an iron fist for 14 years
"Papa Doc" (Duvalier)
Kyle
|
$1,200
[18]
This song from "Gigi" begins,"We met at nine.""We met at eight.""I was on time.""No, you were late"
"I Remember It Well"
Julián
|
$1,200
[23]
Raksha is the mother wolf who raises this human boy in Kipling's "The Jungle Book"
Mowgli
Kyle
|
$1,200
[28]
To struggle clumsily or helplessly
flounder
Kyle
Rachel
|
$1,200
[13]
His "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" says, "In the room the women come and go/ talking of Michelangelo"
T.S. Eliot
Kyle
|
$1,200
[3]
In the movies, it was Charles Foster Kane's cryptic final word
Rosebud
Julián
|
|
$2,000
[11]
In December 1980 a junta appointed Jose Napoleon Duarte president of this small Central American country
El Salvador
|
$2,000
[20]
Lerner & Loewe's last collaboration was a 1974 film of this Antoine de Saint-Exupery story
The Little Prince
Julián
|
$1,600
[24]
This Jack London character survives years of dog fighting & finally finds a compassionate human owner
White Fang
Rachel
|
$1,600
[29]
To have inhaled the aroma of something
smelt
Julián
|
$1,600
[14]
Richard Cory, "a gentleman from sole to crown" in a poem by this 3-named man, "put a bullet through his head"
Edwin Arlington Robinson
|
$1,600
[4]
Its functions include insight, imagination & control of the left hand
the right side of the brain
Julián
|
|
DD
$2,400
[8]
By the 7th century this civilzation's city of Tikal in the Yucatan had a population of tens of thousands
the Mayans
Julián
|
DD
$2,400
[19]
Alan Jay Lerner began writing this musical's book by studying the history & customs of 18th c. Highland Scots
Brigadoon
Julián
|
$2,000
[25]
In the Jean M. Auel novel "The Plains of Passage", a wolf named "Wolf" is the hunting partner of this cavewoman
Ayla
Rachel
|
$2,000
[30]
To lightly burn
char
|
$2,000
[15]
"Funeral Blues" by this British poet begins, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone"
Auden
Julián
|
$2,000
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a plant diagram on the monitor.) Similar to a root, it's the botanical term for a thick, horizontal underground stem from which shoots develop into new plants
a rhizome
Kyle
|
This 2-word phrase may be traced to a line in a Sherlock Holmes story, "The chaplain stood with a... pistol in his hand"
smoking gun