Seth Alcorn game 2.
Elaine Brofford — an usability consultant from Denver, Colorado
Nancy Jankowiak — a program manager from Woburn, Massachusetts
Seth Alcorn — a bookseller from Placentia, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $42,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seth | $1,600 | $5,000 | $14,200 |
$28,300
2-day champion: $70,400 |
$14,200
21 R, 4 W |
| Nancy | $2,000 | $6,800 | $19,400 |
$10,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$19,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Elaine | $-1,000 | $-200 | $11,900 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| THE GREAT DEPRESSION | SHAPES | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT | JIMMY JAM | DRIVING | ADD A LETTER |
|
$200
[26]
In the hardest times, this figure stood at over 25%, representing almost 15 million Americans
unemployment rate
Nancy
|
$200
[6]
It's the common graphic the USDA used as a visual guide for healthy eating
pyramid
Seth
Nancy
|
$200
[1]
This character wed Tracy Draco in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
James Bond
Seth
|
$200
[11]
He played Victor Sifuentes on "L.A. Law" before hitting the street as Det. Bobby Simone on "NYPD Blue"
Jimmy Smits
Seth
|
$200
[21]
Tom & Ray of "Car Talk" use the slogan "Drive Now, Talk Later" to alert us to the danger of these
using cell phones while driving
Elaine
|
$200
[16]
To turn maze into corn add this letter
I (for maize)
Seth
|
|
$400
[27]
Half a loaf was better than none for the people seen in one of these
bread line
Seth
|
$400
[7]
Oooh, a "love" one of these involves 2 people who each love the same third person
triangle
Seth
|
$400
[2]
While Rip Van Winkle slept, this war took place around him
Revolutionary War
Seth
|
$400
[12]
"Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads" is a 1992 box set retrospective by this singer
Jimmy Buffett
Nancy
|
$400
[22]
These exist even at unmarked intersections, so watch for that old lady with the baby carriage
crosswalks
Nancy
|
$400
[17]
It turns real into a word meaning royal
G (for regal)
Seth
|
|
$600
[28]
This "holiday" declared March 6, 1933 came with a $10,000 fine or 10 years in jail for violators
bank holiday
Elaine
|
$600
[8]
You'll need at least 54 feet of moulding for a 12 foot x 15 foot room, one in this shape
rectangle
Seth
|
$600
[3]
In "The Years with Laura Diaz", Laura spends part of her long life as a companion to this Mexican female artist
Frida Kahlo
Nancy
|
$600
[13]
From 1974 through 1978, he was ranked the No. 1 tennis player in the world
Jimmy Connors
Nancy
|
$600
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew) To earn the Auto Mechanic Scouting badge, you must know how to change these 2 filters
oil & air
Seth
|
$600
[18]
Turn pizza into a public square by adding this letter
A (for piazza)
Nancy
|
|
$800
[29]
Things named for him during the Depression include a big dam & a type of miserable shantytown
Herbert Hoover
Nancy
|
$800
[9]
Apple introduced this style for the Powermac in 2000 & discontinued it in 2001 due to poor sales
cube
|
$800
[4]
With a tambourine & a goat, this gypsy girl dances before Notre Dame
Esmeralda
Nancy
|
$800
[14]
He was the lead guitarist for Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page
Nancy
|
$800
[24]
ANCO says smearing & chattering are 2 problems that should make car owners consider replacing these
windshield wiper blades
Seth
|
$800
[19]
It's what you add to flue to get an amusement park log ride
M (for flume)
Nancy
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Some say the 1930 tariff named for these 2 politicians made the Depression worse & helped spread it overseas
Smoot & Hawley
Seth
|
$1,000
[10]
Danish composer Rued Langgaard is known for his "Sfaerernes Musik", "Music of" these
spheres
Seth
|
DD
$1,400
[5]
Adopted by an Irish regiment, Kipling's Kimball O'Hara was from this country
India
Nancy
|
$1,000
[15]
And now an update...this "Saturday Night Live" regular also appeared in HBO's "Band of Brothers"
Jimmy Fallon
Seth
Elaine
|
$1,000
[25]
Don't drive without passengers in a H.O.V. lane, short for this
high occupancy vehicle
Nancy
|
$1,000
[20]
Add this one letter to -ology to get the zoology branch that studies birds' eggs
O (for oology)
Nancy
|
| MEDICINE | LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY | INVENTIVE MINDS | AREAS OF THE U.S. | ALL IN THE FAMILY | "MOTHER", "FATHER", "SISTER", "BROTHER" |
|
$400
[2]
An otoscope has a small funnel-shaped attachment that is used to peer into this organ
ear
Nancy
|
$400
[1]
It's a malt liquor, a gun or a former Houston Major League Baseball team
Colt .45
Nancy
|
$400
[18]
After he forgot a can opener for his beverages at a picnic, Ermal Fraze invented this
pull tab opener
Seth
|
$400
[23]
The combined surface area of the 5 bodies of water in this group is 94,230 square miles
Great Lakes
Seth
|
$400
[9]
Today you'll find Archie & Edith Bunker's easy chairs here
Smithsonian Institution
Elaine
|
$400
[8]
Bearded codger carrying a scythe & an hourglass
Father Time
Elaine
|
|
$800
[3]
In 1844 dentist Horace Wells used this anesthetic on himself to pull a tooth; he then began using it on patients
nitrous oxide
Seth
|
$800
[4]
This lawyer went to high school with Dustin Hoffman, repped Michael Jackson &, from time to time, indulges in rhyme
Johnnie Cochran
Seth
|
$800
[19]
This office supply invented by Johann Vaaler is a real gem today
paper clip
Elaine
|
$800
[24]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York City) I'm at this part of Manhattan named for the paper of record
Times Square
Nancy
|
$800
[10]
He may have been a meathead, but he's now a successful director & producer
Rob Reiner
Seth
|
$800
[11]
Your native language
mother tongue
Nancy
|
|
$1,200
[28]
E. Donnall Thomas shared the Nobel Prize for the first transplant of this bone substance between 2 people who weren't twins
marrow
Nancy
|
$1,200
[5]
This movie cop said, "This is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off"
Dirty Harry
Seth
|
$1,200
[20]
Joseph-Marie Jacquard made his moolah inventing a new one of these
loom
Nancy
|
$1,200
[25]
In the late 20th century, much of the Rust Belt lost population, but this warm southwestern belt gained it
Sun Belt
Seth
Nancy
|
$1,200
[15]
Premiering in 1972, it was the first spinoff of "All in the Family"
Maude
Elaine
|
$1,200
[12]
Dostoyevsky's last novel
"The Brothers Karamazov"
Seth
|
|
$1,600
[29]
An EKG is an electrocardiogram; an EEG, this
electroencephalogram
Seth
|
$1,600
[6]
This lawyer & author seen here clerked for Supreme Court justice Arthur Goldberg in 1963
Alan Dershowitz
|
$2,000
[22]
U.S. Patent 4,173,796 was issued in 1979 to this doctor from the Univ. of Utah for an artificial heart
Robert Jarvik
|
$1,600
[26]
"Artistic" name for a colorful area of sandstone formations in northeastern Arizona
the Painted Desert
Elaine
|
$2,000
[17]
This member of the Rat Pack made a memorable guest appearance on the show in 1971
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Elaine
|
$1,600
[13]
The inner iridescent layers of the shells of many bivalve mollusks
mother of pearl
Nancy
|
|
$2,000
[30]
One of the goals of this "Project" is to identify the sequence of the chemical base pairs that make up our DNA
Human Genome Project
Nancy
|
$2,000
[7]
Taking a bullet for the chief exec isn't enough; this Treasury Dept. division also goes after counterfeiters
the Secret Service
Seth
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
An early name for this fastener device invented by Whitcomb Judson was the clasp locker
zipper
Nancy
|
$2,000
[27]
These rugged, uninhabitable areas are in northwest Nebraska & the western Dakotas
the Badlands
Seth
|
DD
$3,700
[16]
He's the big band leader mentioned in the first line of the show's theme song
Glenn Miller
Elaine
|
$2,000
[14]
This Chekhov play concerns Olga, Masha & Irina Prozorov
The Three Sisters
Elaine
|
This word that begins with the Greek word for "all" was coined by John Milton & means "tumultuous disorder"
pandemonium