Rory Gillingham — an administrative assistant from Sacramento, California
Daria Labinsky — a librarian from Corrales, New Mexico
Caitlin Dudek — an environmental consultant from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caitlin | $1,200 | $3,400 | $6,100 |
$100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,600
10 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Daria | $4,200 | $6,200 | $22,400 |
$22,100
New champion: $22,100 |
$18,200
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Rory | $4,000 | $7,200 | $7,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| NEBRASKA: THE GOOD LIFE | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS | A CATEGORY FULL OF HOLES | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS | COOKING | SPELLING "B" |
|
$200
[12]
Rub shoulders with Nebraska state legislators at Billy's restaurant on H Street in this capital
Lincoln
Daria
|
$200
[7]
A controversial U.S. general
Patton
Rory
|
$200
[6]
A par 3 golf course often has this many holes, half as many as a regular course
9
Rory
|
$200
[26]
Alice finally decides that her journey through the looking-glass was one of these but doesn't know whose it was
a dream
Rory
|
$200
[1]
Butterball advises putting the thermometer in this part of the turkey that provides dark meat
the thigh
Caitlin
|
$200
[17]
Acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining the lungs
B-R-O-N-C-H-I-T-I-S
Caitlin
|
|
$400
[13]
In 1927 Edwin Perkins of Hastings, Nebraska invented this powdered soft drink
Kool-Aid
Rory
|
$400
[8]
A Hindu leader
Gandhi
Daria
|
$400
[18]
In case of rain when camping, always keep one of these South American cloaks with a hole in it ready for wear
a poncho
Caitlin
Daria
|
$400
[27]
These 2 brothers have "Dum" & "Dee" embroidered on their collars
Tweedledum & Tweedledee
Rory
|
$400
[2]
From the Latin for "flat wood", it's one of a fry cook's tools
a spatula
Daria
|
$400
[22]
This country borders the Congo, Tanzania & of course, Rwanda
B-U-R-U-N-D-I
Daria
|
|
$600
[14]
Visit this area of rolling dunes, or check out the migration of the cranes also called these
sandhills
Daria
|
$600
[9]
Collision
Crash
Rory
|
$600
[19]
The nearby Andromeda Galaxy has a supermassive one of these at its center
a black hole
Rory
|
$600
[28]
An egg that Alice buys grows larger & larger & eventually becomes this wall-sitter
Humpty Dumpty
Daria
|
$600
[3]
Hungarian goulash recipes measure salt & pepper in teaspoons or tablespoons, but this spice in cups
paprika
Rory
|
$600
[23]
Acute form of food poisoning that once claimed as many as 65% of its victims
B-O-T-U-L-I-S-M
Caitlin
|
|
$800
[15]
Born in 1913, this 38th U.S. president was the only chief executive whose life began in Nebraska
Ford
Daria
|
$800
[10]
An historic Scotsman's nickname
Braveheart
Rory
|
$800
[20]
Until these holes on postage stamps were introduced in the 1850s, stamps had to be cut by hand
perforations
Daria
|
$800
[29]
"All mimsy were the borogoves" in this poem whose first & last stanzas are exactly the same
"Jabberwocky"
Daria
|
$800
[4]
Craig Claiborne's recipe for this French soup reminds you to chill thoroughly & pronounce the final "S"
vichyssoise
Daria
|
$800
[24]
Istanbul was once Constantinople & before that, this city founded by the Greeks
B-Y-Z-A-N-T-I-U-M
Daria
|
|
$1,000
[16]
It's not such a good life in this "corny" tale that Stephen King set in Nebraska, not Maine
Children of the Corn
Daria
|
DD
$1,200
[11]
A middle name in Latin
Amadeus
Rory
|
$1,000
[21]
This "Hoosier Poet" recalled "long, lazy... happy days of yore" in his poem "The Old Swimmin' Hole"
James Whitcomb Riley
Daria
Rory
|
$1,000
[30]
This "colorful" royal advises Alice to "Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time"
the Red Queen
Caitlin
|
$1,000
[5]
Also sometimes done to harbors, it means to coat food with a dry ingredient like flour
dredge
Caitlin
|
$1,000
[25]
A Marxist adjective for the middle class
B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S
Rory
|
| EUROPEAN HISTORY | FROM THE GREEK | POETIC BIRDS | BELOVED BOSTON CELTICS | "M.L." | CAR |
|
$400
[16]
From 1346 to 1561, the Teutonic Knights ruled Latvia & this northern neighbor as the Medieval state of Livonia
Estonia
Daria
|
$400
[21]
It's a list of source materials used in the preparation of a work, like a term paper
a bibliography
Daria
Rory
|
$400
[1]
Coleridge:"The ___ did follow,/ And every day for food or play,/ Came to the mariners' hollo!"
albatross
Caitlin
|
$400
[3]
Just part of his resume: College Player of the Year, NBA Rookie of the Year, 9-time All-NBA First Team, 3 straight MVPs
Larry Bird
Rory
|
$400
[5]
In 1521 an imperial diet at Worms declared him an outlaw
Martin Luther
Rory
|
$400
[26]
The Lexus LS-460 has an 8-speed one
a transmission
Daria
|
|
$800
[17]
The British captured this narrow peninsula in 1704; Spain has coveted it ever since
Gibraltar
Daria
|
$1,200
[23]
This arch that separates the stage from the auditorium is from the Greek for "before the stage"
the proscenium
Daria
|
$800
[2]
Keats' "Ode to ___":"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!"
a nightingale
Daria
|
$800
[4]
This "colorful" coaching legend led Boston to 8 NBA crowns in a row from 1959 to 1966
Red Auerbach
Daria
|
$800
[9]
Before he went exploring, he was Thomas Jefferson's private secretary
Meriwether Lewis
Daria
|
$800
[27]
Daytime running these are mandatory in Canada
lights
Daria
|
|
$1,200
[18]
In 1241 Hamburg & Lubeck businessmen formed an association that grew into this big league
the Hanseatic League
Daria
|
$1,600
[24]
This term for 2 dissimilar organisms living together in mutualism comes from the Greek for "with" & "life"
symbiosis
Caitlin
|
$1,200
[13]
Wallace Stevens (I of XIII):"Among twenty snowy mountains/ The only moving thing/ Was the eye of a ___"
blackbird
Rory
|
$1,200
[6]
Before joining the Celts in 2007, this "K.G." veteran got 120 out of 123 first-place MVP votes for the 2003-04 season
Kevin Garnett
Rory
|
$1,200
[10]
By 1918 this Russian-born mob mastermind was running a floating crap game with Bugsy Siegel
Meyer Lansky
Daria
|
$1,200
[28]
Pronounced as 2 syllables, this word for a zippy 2-door car is French for "cut"
coupé
Caitlin
|
|
$1,600
[19]
When this "dark" knight sacked Limoges, France in 1370, he killed more than 3,000 citizens
the Black Prince
Daria
|
$2,000
[25]
This math term for a restricting factor comes from Greek words for "beside" & "measure"
parameter
|
$1,600
[14]
Whitman:"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking/ Out of the ___'s throat, the musical shuttle"
mockingbird
|
$1,600
[7]
Before winning 2 NBA titles playing for the Celtics, M.L. Carr played in the ABA for the Spirits of this city
St. Louis
|
$1,600
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew relaxes with a drink at Tavern on the Green in New York.) I'm having a cocktail called Cherry Oz at Tavern on the Green; the restaurant is run by Jennifer LeRoy, granddaughter of this producer of "The Wizard of Oz"
Mervyn LeRoy
Daria
|
$1,600
[29]
In cars, it governs air flow to the carburetor; in a shotgun, it controls the amount of spread of the shot
the choke
|
|
$2,000
[20]
As prince & king, Carol I ruled this Eastern European nation from 1866 to 1914
Romania
Rory
|
DD
$5,000
[22]
The punctuation mark is from the Greek for "limb"; the organ is from the Greek for "large intestine"
a colon
Daria
|
DD
$2,500
[15]
Shakespeare: "Love and constancy is dead;/___ and the turtle fled/ In a mutual flame from hence"
Phoenix
Caitlin
|
$2,000
[8]
He's the Hall of Fame Celtic seen here without his navy
(Kevin) McHale
Rory
|
$2,000
[12]
In 1948 she discovered the skull of Proconsul africanus
Mary Leakey
Caitlin
|
$2,000
[30]
Air bags work by heating sodium azide, NaN3, to produce this gaseous element that fills the bag
nitrogen
|
In 1970 2 performers reached the Top 20 with this hit whose 6-word title was inspired by Boys Town
"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"