Nelson Jesudas — an electrical engineer from Chandler, Arizona
Shima Majidi — a copyright attorney from New York, New York
Nina Ginocchio — a school librarian from Park Ridge, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nina | $3,800 | $4,200 | $15,000 |
$12,500
3-day champion: $56,700 |
$15,000
21 R, 2 W |
| Shima | $0 | $1,200 | $5,600 |
$8,601
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Nelson | $1,800 | $3,800 | $8,600 |
$11,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| LITERATURE IN THE 1800s | COLLEGE FOOTBALL QUOTES | TASTY AD SLOGANS | I'M FUNEMPLOYED | MEDICAL PREFIXES & SUFFIXES | RHYMELESS WORDS |
|
$200
[17]
Stephen Crane subtitled this novel "An Episode of the American Civil War"
The Red Badge of Courage
Shima
|
$200
[23]
A Buckeye at this school: "I'm really happy for... the guys who've been around here 6 or 7 years, especially our seniors"
Ohio State
Nina
|
$200
[1]
"The best part of wakin' up is" this beverage "in your cup"
Folgers
Shima
|
$200
[16]
Move over Rachel Zoe--I love to work with celebs as this type of stylist (Angelina's fitting is today!)
a fashion stylist
Shima
|
$200
[6]
Following lump- & tonsil(l)-, it denotes a surgical removal
-ectomy
Nina
|
$200
[11]
It's a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land; there's one of Aden
a gulf
Nina
|
|
$400
[18]
The first chapter of this Carlo Collodi classic appeared in an Italian children's magazine in 1881
Pinocchio
Nina
|
$400
[24]
This coach of the Gipper: "I've found that prayers work best when you have big players"
Knute Rockne
Nina
|
$400
[2]
This sandwich chain invites you to "Eat fresh"
Subway
Shima
|
$400
[19]
Architecture is too staid; I want to design these, like Nitro at Six Flags
roller coasters
Nina
|
$400
[7]
Coro-refers to the pupil of the eye; this, one letter different, refers to the lower intestine
colo-
|
$400
[12]
It's an oven for firing pottery
a kiln
Nina
|
|
$600
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Rosenborg Castle Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In one translation of an 1868 work, this author calls Denmark's Rosenborg "the Castle of the Roses, as beautiful as the flower that gave it its name"
Hans Christian Andersen
Nelson
|
$600
[25]
Auburn's Shug Jordan: "Always remember" this guy "was a 40-point favorite over David"
Goliath
Shima
|
$600
[3]
This cereal brand is "kid-tested, mother-approved"
Kix
Nina
|
$600
[20]
I'm a taster of this product & I'm a huge fan of Yuengling & Newcastle
beer
Nelson
|
$600
[8]
This suffix means "disease"; when it follows osteo- & homeo-, the words refer to methods of treating disease
-pathic
Shima
|
$600
[13]
I won't tell you the word; I plead this amendment
the Fifth
Nina
|
|
$800
[27]
In 1859 Edward Fitzgerald translated this Persian's 12th c. work into rhymed quatrains
Omar Khayyam
Shima
|
$800
[29]
This Seminoles coaching legend: "After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't ready for that"
Bobby Bowden
Nelson
|
$800
[4]
"Betcha can't eat just one" of these
Lay's
Nelson
|
$800
[21]
I'm working as this, the same job as Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat", & I get to organize all the social events
a cruise director
|
$1,000
[10]
Used as a suffix, -emia means pertaining to this substance
blood
Nina
|
$800
[14]
There are grey & timber types of this large carnivorous mammal
a wolf
Nina
|
|
$1,000
[28]
This 1898 Henry James novella is considered one of the greatest ghost stories ever written
The Turn of the Screw
Shima
|
$1,000
[30]
This 1980s Notre Dame coach, now on ESPN: "On this team, we're all united in one goal--to keep my job"
Lou Holtz
|
$1,000
[5]
This brand of hot dog answers "to a higher authority"
Hebrew National
Nelson
|
$1,000
[22]
I'm a real-life Lara Croft & I write about my discoveries for this Washington, D.C. magazine founded in 1888
National Geographic
Nina
|
DD
$1,200
[9]
After my-, it means pain in the muscles; after neur-, it's pain along the course of a nerve
-algia
Shima
|
$1,000
[15]
It's the zodiacal degree that marks the beginning of a house or a sign
the cusp
|
| THE STATE'S POSTAL ABBREVIATION | MARK ANTONY | CRY | HAVOC | THE "DOG"S | OF WAR |
|
$400
[6]
...is Ma's husband
Pennsylvania
Nina
Nelson
|
$400
[20]
It was good to be Antony around 40 B.C., when he went to Athens & had himself declared this, as the "New Dionysus"
a god
Shima
|
$400
[12]
You are guaranteed to cry in your popcorn during this 1970 tearjerker with Ali MacGraw & Ryan O'NO'NO'NO'NO'NO'NO'NO'Neal
Love Story
Nina
|
$400
[17]
In the "Winter of Terror", 1950-51, hundreds of these killed 200 people & destroyed 1,500 buildings in the Alps
avalanches
Nelson
|
$400
[1]
On Aug. 4, 1956 this hit song by Elvis debuted in the Top 40
"Hound Dog"
Nelson
|
$400
[9]
Military Police System's AA12 is a new fully automatic 12-gauge type of this weapon
a shotgun
Nina
|
|
$800
[7]
...precedes Laurentiis & Palma in the names of cinema figures
Delaware
Nelson
|
$800
[21]
Antony's final defeat was in a naval battle against the forces of this man who later became emperor
Octavius
Nelson
|
$800
[13]
Every man cries when Kevin Costner's dead dad emerges from the corn for a game of catch in this 1989 film
Field of Dreams
Nelson
|
$800
[18]
One of these swept through the South China Sea in 1782, killing an estimated 40,000 Taiwanese
a tsunami
Shima
|
DD
$700
[5]
An unnecessary, wasteful or fraudulent project
a boondoggle
Nelson
|
$800
[24]
Belleville springs & pressure plates are terms used when talking about these hidden weapons
land mines
Nina
|
|
$1,200
[8]
...can also mean multiple strikeouts on your scorecard
Kansas
Shima
|
DD
$1,500
[22]
Defeated in his quest to rule Rome, Mark Antony committed suicide in this country in 30 B.C.
Egypt
Nelson
|
$1,200
[14]
Roberto Benigni shields his son from the horrors of a concentration camp in this Italian Oscar winner
Life Is Beautiful
Nina
|
$1,200
[19]
A tavern dispute sparked the 3-day St. Scholastica Riot, which killed 60 of this English university's students in 1355
Oxford
|
$800
[2]
Proverbially, where a misbehaving husband is until his wife forgives him
the doghouse
Shima
|
$1,200
[25]
This weapon created in 1947 has been featured on a Russian coin, Burkina Faso's coat of arms & Mozambique's flag
the AK-47
|
|
$1,600
[10]
...means "he" in French
Illinois
Nina
|
$2,000
[23]
Antony wasn't completely heroic; he had this Roman orator executed for bad-mouthing him
Cicero
Nina
|
$1,600
[15]
Try not to sob as Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston & their kids hold a funeral for the family dog in this 2008 film
Marley & Me
Nina
|
$1,600
[26]
Typhoon Ruby hit this British colony on Sept. 5, 1964, killing more than 700 people
Hong Kong
Nina
|
$1,200
[3]
Someone put in charge to guard against theft, or just Cerberus' day job
a watchdog
Nina
Nelson
|
— |
|
$2,000
[11]
...follows "Toko" in a Michener title
Rhode Island
Nina
|
— |
$2,000
[16]
Rachel McAdams & Ryan Gosling love each other until they become Gena Rowlands & James Garner in this 2004 weepie
The Notebook
Shima
|
$2,000
[27]
An 1837 fire destroyed this city's Winter Palace, but the Hermitage's treasures were saved
St. Petersburg
|
$1,600
[4]
Slang for a World War II infantryman
dogface
|
— |
Not standardized as the shape we know, the first of these alliterative items, black on white metal, appeared in Detroit in 1915
a stop sign