Nirav Shah — an attorney from Brooklyn, New York
Nicole Labruto — a surf school manager from Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey
Ben Flaccus — a political consultant from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | $800 | $5,000 | $13,800 |
$999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,800
16 R, 1 W |
| Nicole | $1,200 | $4,000 | $10,200 |
$6,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Nirav | $1,700 | $2,900 | $13,300 |
$20,500
New champion: $20,500 |
$14,800
20 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| STATELY RIVERS | I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU | WHAT THE BLEEP? | POLITICAL VERBIAGE | A MIXED BAG | FASHION STATEMENTS |
|
$200
[12]
Bogue Falaya, Bayou Lafourche
Louisiana
Nirav
|
$200
[5]
This guy seemingly kicked half of the Lone Star State in the face playing TV's Cordell Walker
Chuck Norris
Nirav
|
$200
[1]
A song:"O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of bleep..."
grain
Nicole
Nirav
|
$200
[7]
As far as political contributions go, this "comfy" cash is not regulated by federal law
soft money
Nirav
|
$200
[26]
Its name is synonymous with French luxury:TOUT US VIOLIN
Louis Vuitton
Nicole
|
$200
[21]
You take these "off" to praise someone, but keep something "under" one to keep a secret
a hat
Nicole
|
|
$400
[13]
Clearwater River, Snake River
Idaho
Nicole
|
$400
[14]
He flexed his muscles from Brussels in the 1994 film "Street Fighter": wham, bam, thank you...
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Ben
|
$400
[2]
The Miranda warning:"Anything you say can & will be used against you in a bleep bleep bleep"
court of law
Ben
|
$400
[8]
John Kerry served on this type of vessel, which became a verb meaning to attack a candidate's credibility
swift boat
Nicole
Nirav
|
$400
[27]
We've got her purses in the bag:APE SKATED
Kate Spade
Nirav
|
$400
[22]
If you've surprised someone who's unprepared, you've caught him this way
with his pants down
Ben
|
|
$600
[16]
Rahway River, Passaic River
New Jersey
Nicole
|
$600
[15]
In 1998 we got caught in "Rush Hour" with this Hong Kong-born star
Jackie Chan
Nicole
|
$600
[3]
Churchill:"We shall bleep on the beaches... we shall bleep in the fields & in the streets, we shall bleep in the hills"
fight
Nirav
|
$600
[9]
Money set aside for a campaign is said to be kept in one of these "bellicose" containers
a war chest
Nirav
|
$600
[28]
Take direction with their shoes & bags:SINEW NET
Nine West
Ben
|
$600
[23]
A clothing store mannequin probably inspired this 2-word phrase for a pompous person
a stuffed shirt
Ben
|
|
$800
[17]
Manatee River, Kissimmee river
Florida
Nicole
|
$800
[19]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar exchanged sky hooks for left hooks taking on this martial arts master in "Game of Death"
Bruce Lee
Ben
|
$800
[4]
Jefferson:"When in the course of bleep events, it becomes necessary for one people..."
human
Nicole
|
$800
[10]
Usually begun by the people, a ballot this, from the Latin for "begin", is yea-or-nayed by all a state's voters
initiative
Nirav
|
$800
[29]
His company is in New York:THENCE NO ELK
Kenneth Cole
|
$800
[24]
This phrase means a situation has been reversed; in the 19th c. that switch was easier: there weren't right & left ones
the shoe is on the other foot
Nirav
|
|
$1,000
[18]
Kennebunk River, Penobscot River
Maine
Ben
|
$1,000
[20]
A weary Daniel Larusso hears, "Get him a body bag!" but delivers the match-winning kick in this 1984 film
The Karate Kid
Ben
|
$1,000
[6]
Coleridge:"From the fiends, that plague thee thus!--why look'st thou so?"--"With my bleep I shot the albatross"
crossbow
|
DD
$1,500
[11]
A family got mad at John McCain's use of this, their last name; their ancestors refused to brand cattle
Maverick
Nirav
|
$1,000
[30]
He designed for Perry Ellis before designing under his own name:CAR JOB SCAM
Marc Jacobs
Nicole
|
$1,000
[25]
Napoleon has been credited with coining the phrase "an iron hand in" one of these
a velvet glove
Ben
|
| MICROSOFT | COLORFUL SONGS | FILL IN THE STEINBECK TITLE | ABRAHAM | MARTIN | "JON" |
|
$400
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) After reading a 1975 Popular Electronics article about the first PC, the Altair 8800, Paul Allen & Bill Gates adapted this fundamental programming language for it
BASIC
Nirav
|
$400
[5]
"Actin' funny, but I don't know why, 'scuse me while I kiss the sky"
"Purple Haze"
Nirav
|
$400
[11]
"T.G.O.W."
The Grapes of Wrath
Ben
|
$400
[26]
Abraham shows up in chapter 17 of this biblical book
Genesis
Nicole
|
$400
[16]
He was the first U.S. president born after the country won its independence
Martin Van Buren
Ben
|
$400
[1]
This tile game takes its name from the Chinese for "sparrows"
mah-jongg
Nirav
|
|
$800
[22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew uses her fingers to move some virtual documents around on a large tabletop flat screen monitor.) Technology that allows a computer to recognize the position & motion of my hands brought Microsoft its 10,000th one of these from the government in 2009
a patent
Nicole
|
$800
[7]
"Ohh, but ain't that America for you & me, ain't that America something to see"
"Pink Houses"
Nirav
|
$800
[12]
"O.M.A.M."
Of Mice and Men
Ben
|
$800
[27]
His nephew, who escaped Sodom with a salty wife
Lot
Ben
|
$800
[17]
Of a bird, a lizard or a fish, it's what a sand martin is
a bird
Nirav
|
$800
[2]
This adventurous cartoon boy had a pal named Hadji & a dog named Bandit
Jonny Quest
|
|
$1,600
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) Microsoft Research, the company's cutting-edge branch, is developing software using FR, short for this
facial recognition
Ben
|
$1,200
[8]
"Hey where did we go, days when the rains came Down in the hollow playin' a new game"
"Brown Eyed Girl"
Nicole
|
$1,200
[13]
"E.O.E."
East of Eden
Ben
|
$1,200
[28]
After this wife's death, Abraham married Keturah
Sarah
Nirav
|
$1,200
[18]
This Dickens title character tries to make his fortune in the United States
Martin Chuzzlewit
|
$1,200
[3]
In the Bible he's a son of Saul & a close friend of David
Jonathan
Nirav
|
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presses her palm to a scanner plate at a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) Futuristic research going on here on the Microsoft campus includes unlocking doors with this method, based on your physical characteristics, from the Greek for "life" & "measure"
biometrics
Nicole
|
$1,600
[9]
"Look at the stars look how they shine for you & everything you do, yeah, they were all..."
"Yellow"
Nirav
|
$1,600
[14]
"C.R."
Cannery Row
Nicole
Nirav
|
$1,600
[29]
His son by the handmaid Hagar, considered the father of the Arabs
Ishmael
Nicole
|
$1,600
[19]
This island northeast of Venezuela was taken by France in 1635
Martinique
Ben
|
$1,600
[4]
Although the flower seenhereis a type of Narcissus, it is popularly called this
jonquil
Nicole
|
|
$2,000
[25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew plays with a mouse on a computer at a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) One of the reasons Windows sold a million copies a month in the '90s was the GUI, short for this, which let users communicate with the computer via symbols & icons
graphical user interface
Ben
|
$2,000
[10]
"Hey, hey mama said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove"
"Black Dog"
Nirav
|
$2,000
[15]
"T.R.P."
The Red Pony
Nicole
|
DD
$1,800
[30]
Muslims believe that Abraham helped build this building in Mecca thousands of years ago
the Kaaba
Nicole
|
$2,000
[20]
The patron saint of France, St. Martin of this city was famous for his charity & kindness
Tours
|
$2,000
[6]
Sounding like the basement torture room, it's the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle
the donjon
|
One critic called Peter Martin's book about him "the best biography of the greatest biographer in the English language"
James Boswell