Joanna Ramsey — an elementary school teacher from Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ethan Brosowsky — an actor from Los Angeles, California
Murtaza Sutarwalla — an attorney originally from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $255)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murtaza | $3,600 | $6,800 | $21,200 |
$20,614
2nd place: $2,000 |
$20,400
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Ethan | $1,000 | $7,200 | $10,800 |
$21,600
New champion: $21,600 |
$9,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Joanna | $600 | $600 | $2,200 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,200
7 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE WHITE STRIPES | MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE | "FER"GIE | PINK | THE KILLERS | POP MUSIC |
|
$200
[26]
The Grevy's type of this creature has narrow close-set stripes & frequents Kenya & Somalia
the zebra
Murtaza
|
$200
[1]
The simplest substance that can also be called oxygen hydride has this chemical formula
H 2 O
Murtaza
|
$200
[16]
Adjective for an organism that can reproduce, or for an imagination full of ideas
fertile
Murtaza
|
$200
[6]
Technically, this finger is known as the minimus, meaning "least"
the pinky
Murtaza
|
$200
[11]
Murderers are figuratively said to have the "mark" of this biblical man
Cain
Murtaza
|
$200
[21]
The title of a 2005 album by The White Stripes is "Get Behind Me" you
Satan
|
|
$600
[29]
On Tajikistan's flag, the white stripe is symbolic of this plant used in fabrics
cotton
Ethan
|
$400
[2]
In 1905 the Germans swept the Nobel science prizes; this aspirin maker won the chemistry prize
Bayer
Murtaza
|
$400
[17]
To consult together, or to bestow
confer
Murtaza
|
$400
[7]
Don Featherstone was the ingenious creator of these pink plastic lawn decorations
pink flamingos
Joanna
|
$400
[12]
A tip following the publication of the manifesto of this long-distance killer led to his 1996 capture in Montana
the Unabomber
Murtaza
|
$400
[22]
The tragic events of this date inspired the song "Skylines And Turnstiles" by My Chemical Romance
September 11
Ethan
|
|
$800
[27]
The white stripes on this are likely a symbol of the bandages used in bloodletting many years ago
a barber's pole
Ethan
|
$600
[3]
Stannum is the Latin name for this chemical element; it's also where it gets its chemical abbreviation, Sn
tin
Murtaza
|
$600
[19]
If it contains iron, it's described as this, Bueller
ferrous
Ethan
|
$600
[8]
Despite this other name, these documents important to immigrants are actually pink
green cards
Joanna
|
$600
[13]
Months after his wife Laci's disappearance, this man was caught with $15,000 in cash & his brother's I.D.
(Scott) Peterson
Joanna
|
$600
[23]
It's the royal-sounding title of Fergie's solo album
The Duchess
Murtaza
|
|
$1,000
[28]
Thisdaughter of a crooner didn't do something stupid when she sang the theme to "You Only Live Twice"
Nancy Sinatra
Ethan
|
$800
[4]
A granular activated version of this element is used in filters for gas masks & fish tanks
carbon
Murtaza
Ethan
|
$800
[18]
This frozen-food company's slogan is "Every dinner should feel this good"
Stouffer's
Murtaza
|
$800
[9]
In Scrabble it's what a pink square means in terms of scoring
double word (score)
Ethan
|
$800
[14]
This Texan died in 1967 while waiting to be retried for the murder of an alleged murderer
(Jack) Ruby
Murtaza
|
$800
[24]
Pink took part in the remake of "Lady Marmalade", featured on the soundtrack of this Nicole Kidman film
Moulin Rouge!
Ethan
|
|
DD
$2,000
[30]
One legend about this holiday treat says that it's shaped like a "J" for "Jesus" & the white stands for his virgin birth
a candy cane
Ethan
|
$1,000
[5]
If you burn steel wool, it weighs more afterwards because of this process where a gas is combined with the iron
oxidation
|
$1,000
[20]
A pine, a fir, or a spruce
a conifer
Murtaza
|
$1,000
[10]
These serrated scissors used in sewing give a zigzag edge to cloth
pinking shears
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1924 these 2 Chicago intellectuals kidnapped & killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks
Leopold & Loeb
Ethan
Joanna
|
$1,000
[25]
"Somebody Told Me" that The Killers were formed in this city in 2002
Las Vegas
|
| PRESIDENTIAL FACTS | MICHELLE PFEIFFER PFILMS | BAWDY BABES IN BOOKS | SPEAKING IN TONGUES | IT HAPPENED IN SAN FRANCISCO | WE "ONE" YOU |
|
$400
[3]
His 1901 White House dinner with Booker T. Washington was played up on his 1904 presidential campaign
Teddy Roosevelt
Joanna
|
$400
[1]
Michelle plays Velma Von Tussle, mother of dance princess Amber, in this 2007 movie
Hairspray
|
$400
[23]
In an 1850 novel, John Wilson & Arthur Dimmesdale plead with her to name her lover (a knotty situation for ol' Art)
Hester Prynne
Murtaza
|
$400
[11]
A holdover from Colonial times, it's Zambia's only official language
English
Murtaza
|
$400
[18]
In 1967 Charles Hall made waves by inventing this furniture item, which he called the Pleasure Pit
a waterbed
Murtaza
|
$400
[16]
"Desirable" turkey part technically known as a furcula
a wishbone
Murtaza
|
|
$800
[4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the George H.W. Bush Library in College Station, TX.) George H.W. Bush's Library has the mitt he used as captain of this school's baseball team; he also got a chance to meet Babe Ruth
Yale
Murtaza
|
$800
[2]
As drug kingpin Tony Montana, Al Pacino weds coke fiend Elvira (Michelle) in this De Palma bloodbath
Scarface
Ethan
|
$800
[24]
In the "Queste del Saint Graal", Lancelot can't look directly at the Holy Grail because of his affair with her
Guinevere
Joanna
|
$800
[12]
The Croatian language uses the Roman alphabet; the very similar main language of Serbia, this alphabet
Cyrillic
Ethan
|
$800
[19]
An engineer saw a streetcar slide down Nob Hill, killing 5 horses, & came up with this better system
cable cars
Murtaza
Ethan
|
$800
[17]
Halifax engineer Sandford Fleming came up with these divisions working on the Trans-Canada Railway
time zones
|
|
$1,200
[5]
Tad, the son of this president, had a pair of goats as pets at the White House
Lincoln
Murtaza
|
$1,200
[8]
Decisions, decisions: this 1988 film finds Michelle choosing between Kurt Russell & Mel Gibson
Tequila Sunrise
Joanna
|
$1,200
[25]
This title Flaubert floozy's tryst ends (for a while) when her lover leaves to seek his fortune in Paris
Madame Bovary
Ethan
|
$1,200
[13]
This small isle in the Irish Sea has its own language, which now has to be taught in schools or it'll die out
the Isle of Man
Murtaza
|
$1,200
[20]
The Beatles played their last formal concert on (of course) a wild & windy night at this venue
Candlestick Park
Murtaza
|
$1,200
[28]
Robert E. Lee rides for all time on this giant sculpture outside of Atlanta
Stone Mountain
Murtaza
|
|
$1,600
[6]
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Library in Little Rock, AR.) This exhibit, "The Fight for Power", covers the events of this process done to Clinton & only Andrew Johnson before him
impeachment
Joanna
|
$1,600
[9]
Daniel Day-Lewis is Newland Archer to Michelle's Countess Olenska in this film based on a novel by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
|
$2,000
[26]
Philip Carey picks up more than the check when he falls for a money-hungry waitress in this 1915 Maugham novel
Of Human Bondage
|
$2,000
[15]
Prem Chand wrote fiction in Hindi & in this language of the Muslims of India & Pakistan
Urdu
Murtaza
|
$1,600
[21]
Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first television image at the foot of this hill named for a means of communication
Telegraph Hill
Ethan
|
$1,600
[29]
Partly from the Greek for "sound", it's a native speaker of English
an anglophone
Murtaza
|
|
DD
$2,000
[7]
This Buffalo lawyer was a bachelor during only the first of his 3 runs for the presidency
Grover Cleveland
Joanna
|
$2,000
[10]
Michelle plays evil witch Lamia, bent on maintaining her unnatural youth, in this 2007 fantasy film
Stardust
Murtaza
|
— |
DD
$2,400
[14]
In Vietnamese, this European language is known as Phap
French
Murtaza
|
$2,000
[22]
This mayor was shot dead by a former city supervisor in 1978
George Moscone
|
$2,000
[27]
A withered, witchy old woman
a crone
Joanna
|
Among those who objected to this drama series that premiered in October 1959 were Frank Sinatra & J. Edgar Hoover
The Untouchables