First show consolation prizes appeared in lectern score displays at the conclusion of the game.
Nick Gorski — a journalist from Charlottesville, Virginia
Rachel Pildis — a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
Robert Knecht Schmidt — a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert | $2,200 | $5,800 | $5,400 |
$5,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rachel | $4,000 | $4,200 | $9,800 |
$12,000
New champion: $12,000 |
$9,800
15 R, 3 W |
| Nick | $2,800 | $4,800 | $14,800 |
$9,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| STORY PROBLEMS | A PIECE OF HISTORY | LINENS & THINGS | MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS | HYBRIDS | JIM RHYME |
|
$200
[1]
The problem in this 1902 story is for Sherlock to find the beast (or man) that's been killing folks on the Devonshire moors
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Rachel
|
$200
[16]
The Huntington Library has some jewels--a manuscript of "The Canterbury Tales" (c. 1410) & one of his Bibles (c. 1455)
Gutenberg
Robert
|
$200
[6]
A flat piece of absorbent material on which you wipe your feet before entering a house
a doormat
Robert
|
$200
[18]
This Spielberg film featured a longer ending in which Richard Dreyfuss explores the mother ship
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Robert
|
$200
[27]
Grapple
a grape & an apple
Nick
|
$200
[11]
The outward projection of a hat
a brim
Robert
|
|
$400
[2]
In this story Bilbo & the dwarves have to get a pile of treasure out from under a dragon
The Hobbit
Nick
|
$400
[17]
Hebrew university has his archives--digitized, too, so you can see his notes on relativity in his hand
Einstein
Nick
|
$400
[7]
This basic type of sheet has elastic edges tailored to grip a mattress; can some bodv help me fold it?
a fitted sheet
Robert
|
$400
[22]
A blood-craving Audrey II "branches" out & takes over NYC in Frank Oz' ending that never was to this film
Little Shop of Horrors
Rachel
|
$400
[28]
Stagflation
stagnation & inflation
Robert
|
$400
[12]
Filled with gloom, like a certain reaper
grim
Rachel
|
|
$600
[3]
Sydney Carton solves the problem of saving Charles Darnay's neck (literally) in this work
A Tale of Two Cities
Rachel
|
$600
[23]
Apollo astronauts collected 841 pounds of these (most are stored at Johnson space center)
Moon rocks
Robert
|
$600
[8]
From the Greek for heavy fabric, it'sthe type of thick wall covering seen here
a tapestry
Nick
|
$600
[19]
An alternate ending for this movie has Will Smith alive & a reunion of vampire lovers
I Am Legend
Nick
|
$800
[25]
Tangelo
a tangerine & a pomelo
Robert
Rachel
|
$600
[13]
Dainty & refined partner of proper
prim
Robert
|
|
$800
[4]
In this 1980 Ludlum thriller, an amnesiac is faced with the problem of reconstructing his past while dodging killers
The Bourne Identity
Robert
|
$800
[24]
A 17-ton piece of its hull was recovered from its wreckage site, 450 miles off the coast of Newfoundland
the Titanic
Robert
|
$800
[9]
Named for an 18th century London draper, it's a small, lacy, ornamental cloth
a doily
Rachel
|
$800
[20]
Dante got shot while minding the convenience store in the original end of this Kevin Smith comedy
Clerks
Nick
|
$1,000
[30]
Cyborg
cybernetic organism
Robert
|
$800
[14]
A sudden, capricious desire or act
whim
Nick
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Porfiry's problem in this story is to get Raskolnikov to confess
Crime and Punishment
Nick
|
$1,000
[26]
The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system
cuneiform
Robert
|
$1,000
[10]
It's not something false, it's a decorative covering for a pillow
a sham
Rachel
|
$1,000
[21]
The original script for this Jamie Foxx film set in Saudi Arabia had his FBI team getting blown up
The Kingdom
Robert
Rachel
|
DD
$1,200
[29]
Pixel
picture element
Robert
|
$1,000
[15]
What one does during natation
swim
Rachel
|
| STORY PROBLEMS | CLASSICAL TV THEMES | KENTUCKY IS JUST DUCKY | FROM THE DUTCH | THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL | ATHLETES' COUNTRIES OF BIRTH |
|
$400
[2]
12 hens each lay a half dozen eggs, but 2 get broken; then a hen lays one more, leaving this many unbroken eggs
71
Rachel
Nick
|
$400
[7]
The 18th c. fanfare heardhereis the theme for this PBS show that's brought class & drama to American TV
Masterpiece Theatre
Robert
|
$400
[12]
Until 1792 Kentucky was a part of this state
Virginia
Rachel
|
$400
[1]
From the Dutch for "to cross", it's a pleasure trip taken aboard ship
a cruise
Nick
|
$400
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento, CA.) Though they've ridden Harleys & Kawasakis, the CHP has been riding motorcycles made by this Munich-based company since the 1990s
BMW
Rachel
|
$2,000
[21]
Eric Lindros, Eric Gagne
Canada
Rachel
|
|
$800
[3]
If a lepidopterist spots 4 butterflies, each with 3 black spots & 5 yellow spots, he spots this many spots
32
Robert
Rachel
|
$800
[8]
The evening newscast by Chet Huntley & this partner used Beethoven's 9th for its theme
(David) Brinkley
Robert
|
$800
[13]
Reflecting the state nickname, the International Museum for this genre of music is in Owensboro
bluegrass
Robert
|
$1,600
[22]
A medical charlatan, it's from a longer Dutch word meaning one who applies a phony cure-all ointment
a quack
Rachel
|
$800
[18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento, CA.) The Breathalyzer will test to see if I'm over this blood alcohol content; its enactment as the limit in all 50 states has saved many lives
.08
Nick
|
— |
|
$1,200
[4]
The "Jeopardy!" writers drank 72 beers after work yesterday: 20 in the 1st round, 26 in the 2nd & this many at last call
26
Rachel
|
$1,200
[9]
Appropriately, the series titled this director "Presents" used afuneral marchby Gounod as its theme
Hitchcock
Robert
|
$1,200
[14]
This racetrack is home to the Kentucky Derby
Churchill Downs
Robert
|
$2,000
[20]
This term for a leave of absence granted to a member of the military is from a Dutch word for "permission"
furlough
Nick
|
$2,000
[19]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento, CA.) Named for a slain nine-year-old girl, these alerts issued by the CHP are an attempt to galvanize a community into looking for a missing child
an Amber alert
Rachel
|
— |
|
$1,600
[5]
A widget costs 64 cents & you pay with a dollar; you get 4 coins in change, these
a penny, a quarter & two nickels
Robert
Rachel
Nick
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
In 1829, though he didn't know it, he composed the theme music for "The Lone Ranger"
Gioachino Rossini
Robert
|
$1,600
[15]
The first of these restaurants was opened by Colonel Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
Nick
|
— | — | — |
|
DD
$4,000
[6]
A scout troop hikes 3 miles due north, 4 miles due east & straight back this far to their starting point
5
Nick
|
$2,000
[11]
Theovertureto Reznicek's "Donna Diana" introduced this TV mountie "of the Yukon"
Sergeant Preston
|
$2,000
[16]
Not Calhoun but this John C. from Kentucky was U.S. VP from 1857 to 1861 & then Sec. of War for the Confederacy
John C. Breckinridge
Robert
|
— | — | — |
In 1875 she wrote, "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe"
Mary Baker Eddy