Joe Webb — an American lit doctoral student from St. Louis, Missouri
Jessica Harry — an attorney originally from Jackson, Wisconsin
Chris Hernandez — a biology student originally from Wharton, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $2,800 | $4,800 | $14,400 |
$28,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
18 R, 1 W |
| Jessica | $1,800 | $5,000 | $11,000 |
$15,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,000
17 R, 2 W |
| Joe | $-600 | $-1,200 | $16,400 |
$28,801
New champion: $28,801 |
$15,800
14 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| JAMES BOND | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER | MOONRAKER | A QUANTUM OF SHOELACE | DOCTOR, NO | 4 I's ONLY |
|
$200
[1]
A 1948 Olympic silver medalist in weightlifting, Harold Sakata played Oddjob, henchman to this title villain
Goldfinger
Joe
|
$200
[2]
Bo Derek probably knows diamonds rate this on the Mohs scale, which measures hardness
10
Chris
|
$200
[26]
For the Moon this process is the opposite of waning
waxing
Jessica
|
$200
[7]
The shoestring type of this sweet treat usually comes in red or black
licorice
Joe
|
$200
[16]
...those aren't freckles, it's this disease; see Koplik's spots inside the cheeks? A rash will appear in a few days
the measles
Chris
Jessica
|
$200
[8]
A U.S. state
Mississippi
Chris
|
|
$600
[19]
Orson Welles played "Le Chiffre" in the campy 1967 version of this Bond film
Casino Royale
Jessica
|
$400
[3]
Sanguinary term for a diamond sold to finance military operations
a blood diamond
Chris
|
$400
[27]
In 1959 the Soviet Union launched the second craft appropriately bearing this name & crashed it into the Moon
Luna
Jessica
|
$400
[9]
You might be on a "shoestring" one of these allotments of funds, from the Latin for "leather bag"
a budget
Joe
|
$400
[17]
...it's rhinoplasty, surgery to change the structure of this, but the patient doesn't want a horn
the nose
Joe
|
$400
[10]
Precedes Tavi in the name of a furry Kipling character
Rikki-Tikki
Jessica
|
|
$800
[20]
The title of this film with Timothy Dalton & Carey Lowell explains why Bond gets away with murder
Licence to Kill
Chris
|
$600
[4]
Astronomers gave this Beatles-inspired name to BPM 37093, a white dwarf star with a 2,500-mile-wide diamond core
Lucy
Chris
|
$600
[28]
When translated into English, the names of this planet's moons are fear & terror
Mars
Chris
|
$600
[14]
Nicknamed 'Trane, this sax-y jazzman once quipped, "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere"
John Coltrane
Jessica
|
$600
[23]
...his arm doesn't have to come off; he just has lateral humeral epicondylitis, this "sporty" affliction
tennis elbow
Jessica
|
$600
[11]
The Mayo Clinic says as many as 80% of adults have this periodontal disease
gingivitis
Chris
|
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
This title was a reference to Sean Connery's 1971 insistence that he'd played Bond for the last time
Never Say Never Again
Joe
|
$800
[5]
The slogan "A diamond is forever" was coined in 1947 by an ad exec for this South African commercial giant
De Beers
Chris
|
$800
[29]
They are the 2 planets in our solar system that have no known moons
Mercury & Venus
Jessica
|
$800
[15]
That plastic or metal tip at the end of your shoelace is called this
an aglet
|
$800
[24]
...that's not Bart Simpson; the yellowed skin, enlarged liver & loss of appetite indicate this 9-letter disease
hepatitis
Chris
Jessica
|
$800
[12]
We could go on forever about this luxury division of Nissan
Infiniti
Jessica
|
|
$1,000
[21]
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was the only film to feature him as Bond
(George) Lazenby
Jessica
|
$1,000
[6]
This state park in Arkansas is the USA's only diamond-producing site open to the public
Crater of Diamonds State Park
|
— |
$1,000
[22]
This unlicensed Puritan preacher & "Pilgrim's Progress" author made shoelaces in prison
John Bunyan
Jessica
|
$1,000
[25]
...parietal bones aren't in the leg, they're at the top of this 5-letter bony structure; you did finish med school, right?
the skull
|
$1,000
[13]
Reducing or making smaller, like one might do to an Internet browser window
minimizing
Joe
|
| THE MATERIAL WORLD | CAN'T GET ENOUGH BROADWAY | "SAN" CITY | ORDER IN THE SUPREME COURT | POET-TREE | RHYME TIME |
|
$400
[26]
The traditional hula is danced in skirts made of leaves; skirts made of this came from the Gilbert islands
grass
Joe
|
$400
[17]
ABBA-solutely fabulous! In 2008 it passed "Hello, Dolly!" to become the 16th longest-running show in Broadway history
Mamma Mia!
Joe
|
$400
[3]
It's home to the Castro, the Presidio & the Giants
San Francisco
Jessica
|
$400
[16]
When named to the court in 1897, Joseph McKenna brushed up at this type of school at Columbia University
a law school
Chris
|
$400
[1]
In 1923 he wrote, "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though"
Robert Frost
Jessica
|
$400
[8]
The aches of Abel's older brother
Cain's pains
Jessica
|
|
$800
[27]
In building, you get a rough look with beton brut, this material left just as it was poured
cement
Chris
|
$800
[19]
This actor who saw plenty of carnage as Tony Soprano starred on Broadway in "God of Carnage" in 2009
James Gandolfini
Jessica
|
$800
[4]
It's the capital of El Salvador
San Salvador
Chris
|
$800
[18]
Going from a temp job to permanent employment, he's the only president who also served on the Supreme Court
Taft
Chris
|
$800
[2]
"A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth's sweet flowing breast" is one of his lines from "Trees"
Joyce Kilmer
|
$800
[9]
A porcine hairpiece
a pig wig
Chris
|
|
$1,200
[28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a pink rock sample at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.) Because of its softness, rhodochrositeis not used in jewelry, but it's highly valued for its color; the name means this, also glasses used by optimists
rose-colored
Jessica
|
$1,200
[23]
In 2009 Jeremy Irons trod the boards in a play named for this "-ism"--we hope it makes a lot of Monet
Impressionism
Jessica
|
$1,200
[5]
City that was Davy Crockett's final frontier
San Antonio
Joe
|
$1,200
[20]
In September 1991 Clarence Thomas was the subject of a contentious confirmation hearing before this committee
the Senate Judiciary Committee
Chris
|
$1,200
[13]
"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall... and after many a summer dies the swan", wrote this lord in 1860
Tennyson
Joe
|
$1,200
[10]
Your bill for taking a taxi
a cab tab
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[29]
The word serigraphy, a type of printing, comes from the Latin for this fabric
silk
|
$1,600
[24]
Angela Lansbury played the happy medium Madame Arcati in the 2009 revival of this Brit's "Blithe Spirit"
Noel Coward
Joe
|
$1,600
[6]
There's a park named for JFK in this capital of Costa Rica
San José
Chris
|
DD
$1,200
[22]
One of the few decisions made in the summer was in the case United States v. this person in 1974
Richard Nixon
Joe
|
$2,000
[15]
"Who has seen" this? "Neither you nor I: but when the trees bow down their heads," it "is passing by"
the wind
|
$1,600
[11]
A group of 3 under the zodiac sign of the lion
the Leo trio
Jessica
|
|
$2,000
[30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a washi, or paper, factory in Kyoto, Japan.)Thismaterial from plant cell walls is the basis of papermaking; soaking fibers in a strong solution dissolves more of it, resulting in softer washi
cellulose
Chris
|
$2,000
[25]
Geoffrey Rush & Susan Sarandon hit Broadway in 2009 in a revival of this Romanian-born absurdist's "Exit the King"
Ionesco
Joe
|
$2,000
[7]
With a population of less than 5,000, it's one of the smallest capitals in Europe & is in one of the smallest nations
San Marino
Joe
|
$1,600
[21]
Her marriage to Texas oilman J. Howard Marshall became a Supreme Court ordeal in 2006
Anna Nicole Smith
Joe
|
DD
$4,000
[14]
In a famous ode Keats called this bird "light-winged Dryad of the trees"
a nightingale
Joe
|
$2,000
[12]
A glass handgun made by Waterford
a crystal pistol
Joe
|
Napoleon died before some of his officers could sneak him to this U.S. state where his death mask now resides
Louisiana