Erin Holm — a new learner experience coordinator from St. Anthony, Minnesota
Kevin Holbert — a linguistics student from Buffalo, New York
Max Zarou — a fifth-grade teacher originally from Culver City, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max | $-1,800 | $1,400 | $19,400 |
$15,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$18,200
24 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W |
| Kevin | $5,400 | $8,200 | $11,400 |
$21,424
New champion: $21,424 |
$11,400
17 R, 3 W |
| Erin | $1,800 | $2,800 | $3,200 |
$6,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| BRITISH POETRY | STAR TREKJARGON | LOU D.O.B.s | THE MOST POPULOUS NATION | SEASON'S EATINGS | HOT "ROD"s |
|
$200
[25]
No. 1 of these by Shakespeare, "From fairest creatures we desire increase", urges a handsome man to have kids
his sonnets
Kevin
|
$200
[19]
The type-2 of this weapon had a max power setting of 16 & could be set to heat, disrupt or stun
a phaser
Erin
|
$200
[15]
Aug. 4, 1901, New Orleans:Got his first cornet about 6 years later
Louis Armstrong
Kevin
|
$200
[6]
Australia, South Africa, New Zealand
South Africa
Max
|
$200
[7]
(Bobby Flay of the Food Network reads the clue.) Of 145, 155 or 165 degrees, the one that's the minimum internal temperature for safely cooked turkey according to the U.S.D.A.
165
Max
|
$200
[1]
It's the state flower of both Kentucky & Nebraska
the goldenrod
Erin
|
|
$400
[26]
Lord Byron was a major influence on this later poet lord who wrote 1842's "The Lord of Burleigh"
Tennyson
Max
|
$400
[21]
This Star Fleet missive prohibits interference with other civilizations
the Prime Directive
Max
|
$400
[16]
Jan. 4, 1809, Coupvray, France:Modified the Barbier point writing system for the Royal Institute for Blind Children
Louis Braille
Erin
|
$400
[11]
Israel, Lebanon, Syria
Syria
Max
Kevin
|
$400
[8]
In "A Christmas Carol", the Cratchit family has this bird, stuffed, for Christmas dinner
a goose
Erin
|
$400
[2]
Then-last name of the current U.S. senator who graduated from Wellesley College in 1969
Rodham
Erin
|
|
$600
[27]
Blake asked,"Little" this, "who made thee?... Gave thee clothing of delight, softest clothing, woolly, bright"
lamb
Erin
|
$600
[22]
This device briefly converts a person to energy, beams the energy, then reassembles the person
a transporter
Max
|
$600
[17]
February 18, 1848, New York City:The pieceseenhereis a creation of this opalescent glass pioneer
Tiffany
Kevin
|
$600
[12]
Switzerland, Sweden, Swaziland
Sweden
Max
Kevin
|
$600
[9]
(Paula Deen stirs something up.) Hey, y'all--I make a very easy version of this classic Christmas gift with pecans, dates, cherries &, of course, 1/2 a cup of good old-fashioned bourbon
a fruitcake
Max
|
$600
[3]
A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature
a parody
Kevin
|
|
$1,000
[29]
This British poet got romantic about "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
Keats
Kevin
|
$800
[23]
When Spock checks chronometric data he's looking at measurements of the space-this continuum
time
Erin
|
$800
[18]
Dec. 27, 1822, Dole, France:Founding father of microbiology
Pasteur
Max
|
$800
[13]
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia
Indonesia
Max
Kevin
|
$800
[10]
The song "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" says, "Oh, bring us" this dessert "and a cup of good cheer"
figgy pudding
Kevin
|
$800
[4]
His 5th century B.C. writings traced the struggles between the Greeks & the Persian Empire
Herodotus
Erin
|
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
Leaving his girl for his duty, Lovelace wrote, "I could not love thee, dear, so much, lov'd I not" this "more"
honor
Erin
|
$1,000
[30]
This crystal regulates matter/antimatter reactions that provide energy for travel faster than light
dilithium
Max
|
$1,000
[24]
May 11, 1933, The Bronx:This guy who changed his name to Minister Louis X in the '50s
Louis Farrakhan
Kevin
|
$1,000
[14]
Portugal, Colombia, Peru
Colombia
Max
Kevin
|
$1,000
[20]
(Duff Goldman from the Food Network TV show Ace of Cakesdecorates some cookies.) Fit for a king, a favorite touch on Christmas cookies is this type of icing that hardens to a smooth finish
royal icing
Erin
|
$1,000
[5]
Noah's great-grandson, he was remembered as a mighty hunter
Nimrod
Kevin
|
| THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT | GIRLY MOVIES | ART & ARTISTS | BRANDED | UNDER THE "C" | 5-LETTER WORDS |
|
$400
[21]
The guillotine has been retired per article 66-1 of the French constitution, prohibiting this
capital punishment (beheading accepted)
Max
|
$400
[1]
It's the only Hitchcock movie ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture
Rebecca
|
$400
[16]
His sculpture of Victor Hugo got a "miserable" reaction; later it was placed on the avenue named for Hugo
Rodin
Max
|
$400
[26]
In 2001 the oldest known pair of this company's jeans sold for more than $46,000 on eBay
Levi
Max
|
$400
[6]
Whaddayamean, funny? I'm funnyhow? I make you laugh? I amuse you? Tell me. Tell me what's funny
a clownfish
Max
|
$400
[11]
A bee with no sting
a drone
Erin
|
|
$800
[22]
Since 1958 France's government has been the Fifth of these
a Republic
Erin
|
$1,200
[3]
Not several shrubs, they're actually Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk & Kim Walker (Winona's name was Veronica)
Heathers
Max
|
$800
[17]
Monet & this fellow Impressionist often painted the same scene, like Monet's wife & son in 1874
Auguste Renoir
Max
Kevin
|
$800
[27]
Pop Secret Homestyle is a brand of popcorn you make in this device, used for popcorn since the 1940s
a microwave
Erin
|
$800
[7]
This is formed by a rocklike accumulation of calcareous skeletons
coral
Kevin
|
$800
[12]
A type of star, sequoia or slalom
giant
|
|
$1,200
[23]
France's highest one of these is the one of cassation, a word meaning annulment or reversal
court
Max
|
$1,600
[4]
Jessica Lange got a lobotomy in this 1982 biopic detailing one of Tinseltown's saddest starlet stories
Frances
Max
|
$1,200
[18]
Maurice Utrillo often painted scenes of this area of Paris & its best-known landmark, Sacre Coeur
Montmartre
Max
|
$1,200
[28]
You pour the pancake syrup right out of the top of the lady's head with this brand's bottle
Mrs. Butterworth
Max
Kevin
|
$1,200
[8]
It warms the depths of my heart to know you're about to tell me the name of this clammy species seen here
cockle
Max
|
$1,200
[13]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated angle on the monitor.) With a measure of less than 90 degrees, an angle like the one seen here is referred to as this type of angle
acute
Kevin
|
|
$1,600
[24]
This son of a Hungarian immigrant became president in 2007
Sarkozy
Max
|
DD
$2,000
[2]
A tagline for this 1983 horror film is "She'll possess you. Then destroy you. She's death on wheels. She's..."
Christine
Max
|
$1,600
[19]
This Dadaist exhibited ready-mades like "Fountain", a urinal that he signed R. Mutt
Duchamp
Max
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1920 the U.S. Post Office approved this Connecticut company's postage meter
Pitney Bowes
Max
|
$1,600
[9]
Whales belong to this order
cetaceans
Kevin
|
$1,600
[14]
A usually nonmalignant tumor causing obstruction
a polyp
Kevin
Erin
|
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
There are about 36,000 of these, the basic unit of local government; there was an ill-fated one of Paris in 1871
a commune
Max
|
$2,000
[5]
For this 2004 film, Catalina Sandino Moreno was the first Best Actress Oscar nominee to speak all her lines in Spanish
Maria, Full of Grace
Max
|
$2,000
[20]
In 1940 this Dutch abstract artist moved to NYC, which influenced his masterpiece "Broadway Boogie-Woogie"
Piet Mondrian
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1990 for $1.36 billion, Con Agra bought this food brand that is also a woman's first name
Beatrice
Kevin
|
$2,000
[10]
Thisrare fish has been called a living fossil
the coelacanth
Kevin
|
$2,000
[15]
To voluntarily give up a claim or a right, maybe with a gesture meaning bye-bye
waive
Max
|
He got his name because Mexican victims of his attacks would cry out in terror to St. Jerome
Geronimo