Justin Bernbach game 3.
Charles Swanson — a substitute teacher from Racine, Wisconsin
Katy Karlin — a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
Justin Bernbach — a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,301)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin | $3,400 | $5,600 | $25,800 |
$29,300
3-day champion: $80,601 |
$21,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Katy | $2,400 | $1,200 | $10,800 |
$9,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Charles | $2,200 | $5,800 | $10,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
19 R, 2 W |
| NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES | THE HUMAN ANIMAL | TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008 | SCRAMBLED EGGS | TRUTH OR DARE | BEACH VOLLEYBALL |
|
$200
[21]
Like its lengthy river, this state's name is Algonquian for "great water"
Mississippi
Charles
|
$200
[6]
In the "Sopranos" first season finale, Jimmy Altieri gets whacked for being one of these rodents
a rat
Charles
|
$200
[1]
No. 7 in "Food Trends":Meat from this animal (kid is the tenderest)
goat
Justin
|
$200
[16]
Its eggs weigh around 3 pounds each:RICH SOT
ostrich
Charles
|
$200
[11]
Dare: Imitate Kikazaru, the monkey who illustrates this phrase that goes with "see no evil" & "speak no evil"
"hear no evil"
Charles
|
$200
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.) It's part of a regulation match played to 21 or 15 points; it's also the word that comes between bump & spike
set
Charles
|
|
$400
[22]
Laugh all you like but Hiawatha's wife in a poem by Longfellow was named for this Minnesota waterfall
Minnehaha
Katy
|
$400
[7]
Comanche chief Parra-o-coom was described as "a great" this animal "of a man"; it's also what his name means
bear
Charles
|
$400
[2]
No. 2 in "Jerry Stiller's Top 10 Words":This before "gevalt!" (Bonus--No. 3 was "colonoscopy")
Oy
Justin
|
$400
[17]
Mmm... caviar:SO URGENT
sturgeon
Katy
|
$400
[12]
Truth: This "Common Sense" pamphleteer later turned to inventing, trying to come up with a smokeless candle
Thomas Paine
Charles
|
$400
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.) It's the lethal term for an attack that results in an immediate point or side-out; it can be a gentle dink as well as a dramatic spike
a kill
Justin
|
|
$800
[24]
Although its name means "place of sandflies", we associate this Pennsylvania borough with groundhogs
Punxsutawney
Charles
|
$600
[8]
Slang for a woman on the prowl for younger men
a cougar
Charles
|
$600
[3]
No. 7 in "Quotes":This politician, when told that 2/3 of Americans did not support the Iraq War--"So?"
Dick Cheney
Charles
|
$600
[18]
A type of this lays the smallest egg for an avian:BRING HIM MUD
hummingbird
Charles
|
$600
[13]
Dare: Respond with an imitation of this radio therapist whose "Sexually Speaking" program began in 1980
Ruth Westheimer
Katy
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$600
[28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.) If you make this type of spectacular save, it might get ranked high on the web site with the same-sounding name
dig
Charles
|
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
Moving right along--this large Alabama city, as well as a river & bay, was named for an Indian tribe in the region
Mobile
Katy
|
$800
[9]
On behalf of Western intelligence, Col. Oleg Penkovsky was one of these inside the USSR
a mole
Charles
|
$800
[4]
No. 1 in "Discoveries":"Snow on" this
Mars
Katy
|
$800
[19]
This bird's eggs are so pretty a color is named for them:IN BRO
robin
Katy
|
$800
[14]
Truth: This fight promoter said "There was a spontaneous combustion of love" at the Trump wedding
Don King
Justin
|
$800
[29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.) A floater serve is hit with minimal spin so that it moves unpredictably on the same principle as this pitch in baseball
a knuckleball
Justin
Katy
|
|
$1,000
[25]
An RV maker based in Iowa shares its name with this large Wisconsin lake
Winnebago
Justin
|
$1,000
[10]
Denis Leary says of firefighters, "You have to be like" this sea creature. "You have to keep moving forward"
a shark
Katy
Charles
|
$1,000
[5]
No. 9 in "Green Stories":"Northeastern utilities bid $38.5 million for the right to emit 12.5 tons of" this
carbon dioxide
Justin
|
$1,000
[20]
Reptile born with an "egg tooth" so it can escape its shelled jail:TAILOR GAL
alligator
Justin
|
$1,000
[15]
Dare: She was born on Aug. 18, 1587, the first English child born in America
Virginia Dare
Justin
|
$1,000
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hermosa Beach, CA.) A one-handed block is known by this word, after the way a movie king defended himself against airplanes
a kong
Justin
Katy
Charles
|
| NIGHT WATCH | CLASSIC MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS | NAME THE PLAY | OUT IN THE STREET | HEADLINES | FROM B TO C |
|
$400
[19]
July 7, 2009:If you're in Australia, the Americas or sailing the Pacific, look for an eclipse of this
the Moon
Charles
|
$400
[2]
1956:The Red Sea is parted
The Ten Commandments
Katy
|
$400
[1]
George: "It's very simple, Martha, this young man is working on a system whereby chromosomes can be altered"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Justin
|
$400
[26]
This street, seen here, was crossed on a 1969 album cover
Abbey Road
Justin
|
$400
[9]
On May 24, 1927 the Las Vegas Review headlined that this man "Spurns Offers. Back to Air Mail, Says"
(Charles) Lindbergh
Justin
|
$400
[14]
Pertaining to an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, all too common in the 14th century
bubonic
Katy
Charles
|
|
$800
[20]
The schedule is TBD, but if you head way up north in March or Sept., you can probably catch this big light show
Aurora borealis
Justin
|
$800
[5]
1968:(Spoiler alert!)Taylor discovers Lady Liberty poking up through the sand
Planet of the Apes
Charles
|
$800
[3]
Algernon: "You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life"
The Importance of Being Earnest
Katy
|
$800
[27]
Thissign means there's a legal crossing for those going here
school
Justin
|
$800
[10]
On May 3, 1973 the Chicago Tribune said this local landmark "Becomes the Tallest of the Tall"
the Sears Tower
Charles
|
$800
[15]
A group of nations acting together, like the old Soviet one
bloc
Justin
|
|
$1,200
[21]
January 3, 2010:Look out! The Quadrantids will be coming from Bootes! Oh... relax, it's just a shower of these things
meteors
Katy
|
$1,200
[6]
1998:Bullet trails in the water showcase the horror of the Normandy invasion
Saving Private Ryan
Charles
|
$1,200
[4]
Nathan: "There is the highest player of them all... why do you think they call him Sky? That's how high he bets"
Guys and Dolls
Justin
|
$1,200
[28]
You might see the signhereon your way to Samut Prakan in this country where elephants are a national symbol
Thailand
|
$1,200
[11]
A Sept. 13, 1901 Buffalo News headline read, he "Passed Away... from Effects of Cowardly Assassin's Bullet"
President McKinley
Justin
|
$1,600
[17]
1829 novelist of "Les Chouans"
Balzac
Katy
|
|
$1,600
[22]
If you stay up really, really, late (like till 2061), you'll see this, named for the guy who identified it in 1705
Halley's Comet
Justin
|
$1,600
[7]
1968:Dave enters the airlock without a space helmet
2001: A Space Odyssey
Justin
|
$1,600
[24]
Orsino: "O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, methought she purged the air of pestilence"
Twelfth Night
Katy
|
$1,600
[29]
Bogie and Bacall aremoseying overto protest hearings by the House committee on these in 1947
Un-American Activities
Katy
|
$2,000
[13]
From the Sept. 16, 1961 N.Y. Times:He "Dies in African Air Crash; Kennedy Going to U.N. in Succession Crisis"
Dag Hammarskjold
|
$2,000
[18]
Branch of the Indo-European family of languages
Baltic
Charles
|
|
$2,000
[23]
June 6, 2012:At sunset, watch this planet make a transit across the sun--only the 8th since the invention of the telescope
Venus
Katy
|
$2,000
[8]
1984:Men ride giant worms & attack the forces of the Emperor
Dune
Justin
|
$2,000
[25]
Inez: "I prefer to choose my hell; I prefer to look you in the eyes and fight it out face to face"
No Exit
|
$2,000
[30]
The crossing signhereis for this South American bird, not the actress who played Carla on "Cheers"
a rhea
Justin
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
From the July 22, 1925 Knoxville Journal:This man "Declared Guilty"; "Bryan's Testimony Ordered Stricken"
(John T.) Scopes
Justin
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
Pompous; overblown
bombastic
Justin
|
Once called radium F, this element was named for the homeland of one of its discoverers
polonium