Najah Ali — a college student from Lawrenceville, Georgia
Chris Hernandez — a biology student originally from Wharton, New Jersey
Nina Ginocchio — a school librarian from Park Ridge, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $56,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nina | $4,000 | $5,000 | $8,200 |
$3,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,200
14 R, 1 W |
| Chris | $1,200 | $5,600 | $24,400 |
$23,000
New champion: $23,000 |
$24,000
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Najah | $800 | $2,500 | $7,700 |
$10,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
10 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| ON THE 3rd OF JULY | TITLE WOMEN IN SONG | COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN | PUBS & TAVERNS | HERE, PIGGY, PIGGY, PIGGY | SCRAMBLED GODS & GODDESSES |
|
$200
[14]
1890:This territory, no small potatoes, joins the Union as the 43rd state
Idaho
Chris
|
$200
[12]
"Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave, no one was saved"
"Eleanor Rigby"
Chris
|
$200
[25]
Though he wrote a number of operas, Michael Haydn is far less famous than this older brother
Joseph Haydn
Najah
|
$200
[3]
The Last Drop Tavern was named for its proximity to the spot where public hangings took place in this Scottish capital
Edinburgh
Nina
|
$200
[1]
Pooh's porcine pal
Piglet
Nina
|
$200
[7]
A hunky hurler:ROTH
Thor
Nina
|
|
$400
[15]
1988:The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge is completed in this city, its second bridge between Europe & Asia
Istanbul
Chris
|
$400
[13]
"You've got me on my knees... I'm begging, darlin', please"
"Layla"
|
$400
[26]
His 18th child, Johann Christian, wrote operas for the King's Theatre in London
Johann Sebastian Bach
Nina
|
$400
[19]
The good folk at gdaypubs.com are making a major pub crawl in this country, which has more than 4,000 of them
Australia
Chris
|
$400
[2]
Many a mom has compared her kid's messy room to this kind of hog enclosure
a pigsty
Chris
|
$400
[8]
She's Mrs. Osiris:SI SI
Isis
Nina
|
|
$600
[16]
1962:After 132 years of French rule, this North African nation becomes independent
Algeria
Chris
|
$600
[23]
"Oo, you make my motor run, my motor run, gun it comin' off the line (this girl)... my my my i yi woo!"
"My Sharona"
|
DD
$500
[29]
We hope that Liszt was on the guest list when his daughter Cosima married this "Die Walkure" composer in 1870
Wagner
Najah
|
$600
[20]
In the 1600s London's leading literary lights got lit at this tavern named for a fish-tailed female
a mermaid
Nina
|
$600
[4]
This "airborne" 3-word phrase is a cute way of saying "never"
when pigs fly
Nina
|
$600
[9]
Apollo's sister:A MISTER
Artemis
Nina
|
|
$800
[17]
1608:Samuel de Champlain establishes this city, Canada's oldest
Quebec
Chris
|
$800
[24]
"Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine"
"Lola"
|
$600
[27]
Both the junior & senior Johanns in this Viennese family conducted dance music as well as composed it
Strauss
Chris
Najah
|
$800
[21]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, VA.) The Raleigh Tavern here in Williamsburg has hosted many a feast, including one for this Frenchman during his triumphant return to America in 1824
Lafayette
Najah
|
$800
[5]
In an 1865 book, the Duchess' baby surprises this title girl when it grunts, turns into a pig & trots away
Alice in Wonderland
Nina
|
$800
[10]
Babylonian babe:HI STAR
Ishtar
Najah
|
|
$1,000
[18]
324 A.D.: this Roman emperor defeats Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople
Constantine
Chris
|
$1,000
[30]
"You don't have to put on the red light, those days are over, you don't have to sell your body to the night"
"Roxanne"
|
$800
[28]
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was a composer as well as the brother-in-law of this British queen
Queen Victoria
Najah
|
$1,000
[22]
Have some Bass Ale or Strongbow Cider at the Rose & Crown in the U.K. section of this Disney World park
Epcot
Chris
|
$1,000
[6]
In "Henry IV, Part II", Doll Tearsheet calls this rotund gent a "little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig"
Sir John Falstaff
|
$1,000
[11]
He's swift of foot:MY CURER
Mercury
Nina
|
| ART SCENARIOS | BIG CITY MAYORS | DON'T GO THERE | SPIKE LEE | JUNGLE FEVER | DO THE RIGHT "THING" |
|
$400
[12]
1930:Woman with brooch; balding man with glasses, pitchfork; cottage in Gothic Revival style in back
American Gothic
Chris
|
$400
[2]
Havana-born Manny Diaz
Miami
Chris
|
$400
[7]
Armed robbers have targeted tourists hiking the trails above this Colombia capital
Bogotá
Najah
|
$400
[26]
Spike chronicled the aftermath of this disaster in the 2006 documentary series "When the Levees Broke"
Hurricane Katrina
Nina
|
$400
[18]
The jungle babbler isn't someone who's gone mad in the forest, it's a type of this
a bird
Najah
|
$400
[1]
Old British coin equal to one fourth of a penny
a farthing
Chris
|
|
$800
[13]
Deity stands on shell, modestly covering herself; Zephyr & Aura bring winds & a grace rushes to cover her
The Birth of Venus
Najah
|
$800
[3]
Richard M. Daley
Chicago
Chris
|
$800
[8]
An Ebola outbreak in the Western Kasai Province & rising crime in Kinshasa: don't go to this country
the Congo
Chris
|
$800
[27]
Spike directed Denzel Washington in "Mo' Better Blues", "He Got Game" & this biopic
Malcolm X
Chris
|
$800
[22]
This 1987 song features the lyrics, "If you got the money, honey, we got your disease"
"Welcome To The Jungle"
|
$800
[17]
Cosa Nostra, another term for the Mafia, can be translated as this
our thing
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[15]
1931:3 timepieces appear to be melting (one's on a branch); a fourth is swarming with ants
The Persistence of Memory
Chris
Najah
|
$1,200
[4]
Thomas Menino, who followed Ray Flynn
Boston
Chris
|
$1,200
[9]
Violent crime & harassment of women are on the rise in this country's Kathmandu Valley
Nepal
Chris
|
$1,200
[28]
Spike's 1989 film "Do the Right Thing" was nominated for this film festival's Palme d'Or Award
the Cannes
Chris
|
$1,200
[23]
Go to the Columbus Zoo & see Jungle Jack's Landing, named for this director emeritus of the zoo
Jack Hanna
Chris
|
$1,200
[19]
An old prayer asks for deliverance from ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties & these
things that go bump in the night
Nina
|
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
1893:2 people on a rail behind a bald man; hands clasped over his ears; his mouth contorts to an "O" shape
The Scream
Najah
|
$1,600
[5]
Gavin Newsom
San Francisco
Chris
|
$1,600
[10]
The State Dept. says travel in this country, including Khartoum & Omdurman, is potentially dangerous
Sudan
Chris
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
In "Get on the Bus", Spike told the tale of a group headed to this 1995 Washington, D.C. gathering
the Million Man March
Chris
|
$1,600
[24]
John Huston wrote & directed this 1950 jewel heist caper that starred Sterling Hayden & Marilyn Monroe
The Asphalt Jungle
|
$1,600
[20]
In the 1818 poem "Endymion", John Keats reminded us all that this 4-word phrase "is a joy forever"
a thing of beauty
Nina
|
|
$2,000
[16]
1492:Naked "man" within circle & square; appears to have multiple limbs; text above & below
Vitruvian Man
Nina
|
$2,000
[6]
The South's Shirley Franklin
Atlanta
Chris
|
$2,000
[11]
The State Dept. notes troops & tensions along this country's southern borders with Ethiopia & Djibouti
Eritrea
Chris
|
$2,000
[30]
Set in 1944 Italy, this 2008 Spike Lee film told the story of 4 black American soldiers trapped in a Tuscan village
Miracle at St. Anna
|
$2,000
[25]
He wrote of the law of the jungle, "The wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die"
Rudyard Kipling
Nina
|
$2,000
[21]
Millard Fillmore ran unsuccessfully for president as this party's candidate in 1856
the Know-Nothing Party
Chris
|
One of the 2 moons in our solar system larger than Mercury; one orbits Jupiter & one orbits Saturn
Ganymede or Titan