Tova Perlmutter — a nonprofit executive from Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Matt Saxe — a fundraiser originally from St. Louis, Missouri
Wes Pierce — a financial planner from Anaheim Hills, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wes | $1,800 | $5,400 | $19,800 |
$19,599
2-day champion: $33,800 |
$19,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Matt | $0 | $2,800 | $4,800 |
$2,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,800
7 R, 3 W |
| Tova | $4,200 | $6,400 | $20,000 |
$399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,200
21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| "I" ON THE WORLD | 1990s POP/ROCK | AIRLINE CARRY-ON NO-NOs | WORDS IN SEPTEMBER | COLORADO | WHY DON'T YOU COME TO YOUR SENSES? |
|
$200
[9]
In ancient times, Babylonia was located in the southern part of what is now this country
Iraq
Tova
|
$200
[1]
Take a bow if you know that "Take A Bow" was a big hit for her
Madonna
Tova
|
$200
[6]
Chlorine for the pool? Nope. Used as this type of liquid chemical whitener? Also no
bleach
Wes
|
$200
[22]
Neil Armstrong famously took a small one
step
Matt
|
$200
[16]
Choosing "or bust", in Nov. 1806 Ol' Zebulon made it partway up but didn't summit this featured later named for him
Pike's Peak
Wes
|
$200
[2]
It's how polar bears sense a dead whale 20 miles away
smell
Wes
|
|
$400
[10]
In 1964 & 1976 this resort city in Austria hosted the Winter Olympics
Innsbruck
Tova
|
$400
[3]
In a 1995 hit he asked, "Have you ever really loved a woman?"
Bryan Adams
Wes
|
$400
[27]
Sorry, Dr. Scholl, but gel inserts for these aren't allowed
shoes
Tova
|
$400
[23]
Approximately 1.094 yards
meter
Tova
|
$400
[17]
On July 11, 1955 the first class of cadets for this academy was sworn in at its temporary location in Denver
the Air Force Academy
Wes
|
$400
[5]
Fantastic, groovy, "out of" this, man
sight
Tova
|
|
$600
[11]
In Roman times, this peninsula was known as Hispania
Iberia
Wes
|
$600
[4]
Their "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" was featured in the movie "Armageddon"
Aerosmith
Tova
|
$600
[28]
Funny you should ask, but no, you can't bring this electrified rod for driving livestock in your carry-on
a cattle prod
Wes
|
$600
[24]
A destructive insect, or just anyone annoying you
pest
Matt
|
$600
[18]
This architect's Mile High Center in Denver was completed in 1956; we'd like your initial reaction
I.M. Pei
Tova
|
$600
[14]
It's a session in which testimony is presented before a judge in a lawsuit
hearing
Tova
|
|
$800
[12]
The Bosporus Bridge links the Asiatic & European sections of this city
Istanbul
Tova
|
$800
[7]
In the '90s they peppered the charts with songs like "Wannabe" and "Say You'll Be There"
The Spice Girls
Matt
|
$800
[29]
Items like this one seen here? Not so much
a snow globe
Wes
|
$800
[25]
Grolsch or Molson, for example
beer
Tova
|
$800
[20]
Toot toot! By the late 1930s, this northwest Colorado town shipped itself out as "Ski Town, USA"
Steamboat Springs
Wes
|
$800
[15]
It's the sense that Simple Simon asks to use
taste
Wes
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[13]
(Jon of the Clue Crew points to a Southeast Asian region on a map on the monitor.) Once referring to a region controlled by France, today it's simply the name of this peninsula that includes Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam
Indochina
Tova
|
$1,000
[8]
In 1992 it was hardly the "End Of The Road" for this group, whose hit spent 13 weeks at No. 1
Boyz II Men
Wes
|
$1,000
[30]
Like the billy club, this leather-covered club with a rhyming name cannot be in a carry-on bag
a blackjack
Matt
|
$1,000
[26]
The larch
tree
Matt
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
In 1870 this man helped young men go west by sponsoring a Colorado farming colony
Horace Greeley
Wes
|
$1,000
[19]
Meissner corpuscles are nerve endings thought to aid this sense
touch
|
| MEDICINE & HISTORY | 3 OR MORE WIVES | BIBLE BROS | FACE BOOK | STOCK SYMBOL SHOPPING | GOOD "P.R." |
|
$400
[22]
When Queen Victoria's granddaughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her
hemophilia
Matt
Tova
|
$400
[15]
Sybil Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Hunt, Sally Hay
Richard Burton
Wes
|
$400
[1]
David's son Adonijah asked to wed his late father's nurse; he was denied, & this brother of his had him whacked
Solomon
Matt
|
$400
[13]
A young woman named Latifa wrote the memoir "My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under" this Afghan group
the Taliban
Tova
|
$400
[3]
Fill up your basket & focus on this store:TGT
Target
Wes
|
$400
[8]
"Yankee" before the name of this braised beef dish means that vegetables were added during the cooking process
pot roast
Tova
|
|
$800
[26]
Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease
yellow fever
Wes
|
$800
[16]
Donna Peele, Denise Richards, Brooke Mueller
Charlie Sheen
Wes
|
$800
[2]
In a move that came back to haunt him, this twin brother of Jacob sold his birthright for some lentil soup
Esau
Wes
|
$800
[27]
Robert Louis Wilken's "The Spirit of Early Christian Thought" is subtitled "Seeking the Face of" him
God
Wes
|
$800
[4]
For you do-it-yourselfers:HD
Home Depot
Wes
|
$800
[9]
It has the domain extension .pr
Puerto Rico
Wes
|
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1996 Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life
Yeltsin
Tova
|
$1,200
[17]
Randall Lee Gosch, Casey Coates, Mary Steenburgen
Ted Danson
Tova
|
$1,200
[14]
The first called of Jesus' disciples, he was the brother of Simon Peter
Andrew
Wes
|
$1,200
[28]
Teen Jane Johnson realizes she was kidnapped in Caroline Cooney's "The Face on" this, where missing kids are pictured
a milk carton
Wes
|
$1,200
[5]
For a good deal on electronics & appliances:BBY
Best Buy
Matt
|
$1,200
[10]
It's a system in which one's work is evaluated by those in the same field; NIH grants are subject to dual ones
peer review
Wes
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Napoleon's invasion of Russia was partly doomed by epidemic typhus, primarily carried by bacteria on this parasite
lice
Tova
|
$1,600
[20]
Judy Nye, Janie Shirley Smith, Jane Fonda
Ted Turner
Matt
|
$2,000
[19]
Joseph had 10 half-brothers & only 1 full brother, him
Benjamin
Tova
|
$1,600
[29]
After penning "My Stroke of Luck", this Hollywood legend shared "90 Years of Living, Loving, & Learning" in "Let's Face It"
Kirk Douglas
|
$1,600
[6]
For cookbooks, cookware, cutlery & more:WSM
Williams-Sonoma
Wes
|
$1,600
[11]
This Latin phrase means "determined by share"
pro rata
Wes
|
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
Generations of inbreeding doomed this dynasty in Spain as Charles II was both witless & childless
Hapsburg
Tova
|
$2,000
[21]
Melissa Lee Gatlin, Toni Lawrence, Cynda Williams, Pietra Dawn Cherniak, Angelina Jolie
Billy Bob Thornton
Wes
|
DD
$5,000
[18]
This biblical patriarch's brothers were Haran & Nahor, & he was Lot's uncle
Abraham
Tova
|
$2,000
[30]
"Cover Her Face" is an Adam Dalgliesh mystery by this British woman
P.D. James
Tova
|
$2,000
[7]
For incense, candles & home accents:PIR
Pier 1 Imports
Wes
|
$2,000
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew bangs Jimmy of the Clue Crew on the knee.) It's the medical term for the response elicited by a tap on a particular tendon; axons quickly carry the impulse, causing the lower leg to extend
patella reflex
Wes
|
It's the largest country in the world without any permanent natural rivers or lakes
Saudi Arabia