Jack Aponte — a non-profit technology consultant from Brooklyn, New York
Sarah Sumadi — a director of volunteers at a community center from Chicago, Illinois
Morgan Saxby — a research associate from Charlottesville, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan | $6,600 | $11,000 | $22,200 |
$8,000
2-day champion: $40,401 |
$26,400
32 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Sarah | $0 | $-400 | $2,800 |
$4,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,800
7 R, 3 W |
| Jack | $1,400 | $1,600 | $400 |
$338
3rd place: $1,000 |
$400
9 R, 4 W |
| THE 1920s | SPORTS TALK | A SEAFOOD GUIDE | BIBLICAL BAD STUFF | KNIT IT | IT'S A "BUST"! |
|
$200
[1]
Sled-dog teams that delivered serum during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic saved the town of Nome in this state
Alaska
Jack
|
$200
[16]
In baseball's American league, it's a player whose only job in the game is to bat for the pitcher as many times as needed
the designated hitter
Jack
|
$200
[21]
Popular with sushi lovers, the Atlantic bluefin this has been overfished for decades & may face extinction
tuna
Morgan
|
$200
[2]
Abimelech, Lamech & Cain all commit this crime
murder
Jack
|
$200
[26]
Orenburg in Russia is famous for knitted these, scarf-like square covers for the head & shoulders in cold winters
babushka
Morgan
|
$200
[11]
A breaker of wild horses
a bronco buster
Morgan
|
|
$400
[7]
In 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith went against his party's position by opposing this amendment
the 18th Amendment
Morgan
|
$400
[17]
Begun in 1877, it's the oldest of tennis' 4 grand slam tournaments
Wimbledon
Morgan
|
$400
[22]
Fishing for the slimehead, better known as the orange this, also catches & kills threatened species of deep sea sharks
roughy
Morgan
|
$400
[3]
This 7th of the 10 plagues returned in Munich in 1984, damaging 250,000 cars & costing $1 billion
hail
Jack
|
$400
[27]
Gentlemen, if you don't feel like making your own "skinny knit" these, J. Crew sells them
ties
Morgan
|
$400
[12]
Last-ditch Senate maneuver
a filibuster
Jack
|
|
$600
[8]
No autopsy was done after this president died in San Francisco August 2, 1923; the doctor just said it was apoplexy
Harding
Morgan
|
$600
[18]
The Staples Center in Los Angeles is home court to these 2 NBA teams
the Lakers and the Clippers
Sarah
|
$600
[23]
High-market demand has caused overfishing of the Patagonian toothfish, what we call this Chilean fish
a sea bass
Morgan
|
$600
[4]
For rebelling against Moses & Aaron, Dathan & Abiram were swallowed up by this
the earth
Sarah
Jack
|
$600
[28]
This round Jewish skullcap may be hand-knitted for special occasions
a yarmulke
Morgan
|
$600
[13]
A close-fitting, often strapless bodice
a bustier
Sarah
|
|
$800
[9]
Among the fads of the 1920s were crosswords, dance marathons & this Chinese game that uses tiles
mah-jongg
Morgan
|
$800
[19]
42-pound polished stones with a handle on top are slid on ice in this sport
curling
Morgan
|
$800
[24]
Seafloor habitat can be damaged in harvesting this religious-sounding creature also called lawyerfish
a monkfish
Morgan
|
$800
[5]
Daniel tells Belshazzar, ruler of this kingdom, you've "lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven"
Babylon
Jack
|
$800
[29]
Make that scarf for your nephew look fancy with these on the end, from the Old French for "clasp"
tassels
|
$800
[14]
Black & Decker introduced this helpful household item in 1979
a DustBuster
Morgan
|
|
DD
$2,800
[10]
The USA's first woman governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, governed this "Equality State" from 1925 to 1927
Wyoming
Morgan
|
$1,000
[20]
What was originally the Houston Oilers is today this NFL team
the Tennessee Titans
Jack
|
$1,000
[25]
AKA St. Peter's fish, it suits us to a "T", having a low environmental impact when raised on U.S. farms
tilapia
Sarah
|
$1,000
[6]
Moloch, Ashtoreth & Baal were all Canaanite these
gods
Morgan
|
$1,000
[30]
A sweater called this-knit is made by repeatedly crossing one group of stitches over another for a ropy look
cable-knit
Jack
|
$1,000
[15]
To "come on like" this is to do something with great speed or force
gangbusters
|
| "C" IN SCIENCE | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | LITERARY MATH | LOOK OUT BELOW! | WINNING WORDS |
|
$400
[2]
No kidding, the name of this type of wispy cloud is from the Latin for "curl"
cirrus
Morgan
Sarah
|
$400
[1]
In chapter one of "On The Line", she says, "I saw a picture once of Venus pushing me in a stroller on the tennis court..."
Serena Williams
Morgan
|
$400
[14]
A Maverick preacher & a swashbuckling Civil War General founded Drake University in this capital of Iowa
Des Moines
Morgan
|
$400
[9]
Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-" times Verne's "Leagues Under the Sea"
100,000
Morgan
|
$400
[25]
At last, we've come upon this city & its famous Cathedral
Moscow
Sarah
|
$400
[21]
North Korea has an arch of this that's bigger than the one in Paris
Triumph
Jack
|
|
$800
[5]
It's another name for a canine tooth
a cuspid
Morgan
|
$800
[3]
"The Time Of My Life" is the memoir this late actor wrote with his wife Lisa Niemi
Patrick Swayze
Sarah
|
$800
[15]
www.goducks.com is the official website for this West Coast school's athletics
(University of) Oregon
Morgan
Jack
|
$800
[10]
Christie's "Little Indians" minus Tolkien's "Towers"
8
Morgan
|
$800
[26]
I can almost hear the music coming from this building down under
the Sydney Opera House
Jack
|
$800
[22]
It's said that to this person, like Mr. Borge or Mr. Garber, "belong the spoils"
the victor
Sarah
|
|
$1,200
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew performs a physics demonstration.) When I swing a bucket of water, it doesn't spill because of this force that pulls it in the center & keeps it from following its path of inertia
centripetal force
Morgan
Sarah
|
$1,200
[4]
This D-List comedian modestly titled her memoir "Official Book Club Selection"
(Kathy) Griffin
Morgan
|
$1,200
[16]
This University of California campus graduates more than 2,000 Banana Slugs annually
Santa Cruz
Morgan
|
$1,200
[11]
Bradbury's "Fahrenheit" minus Garcia Marquez' "Years of Solitude"
351
Morgan
|
$1,200
[28]
Look way down there--it's this Cascade Mountains body of water
Crater Lake
Morgan
|
$1,200
[23]
The items held by the fans seenhereindicate they are celebrating this type of decisive win
a sweep
Morgan
|
|
$1,600
[7]
The earliest period of the Paleozoic Era, it extends from about 542 to 488 million years ago
Cambrian
Jack
|
$1,600
[19]
The daughter of a rock legend, this former teen star told of her life of addiction in 2009's "High on Arrival"
Mackenzie Phillips
|
$1,600
[17]
In the '40s Enrico Fermi built a nuclear pile on a squash court at the University of this city
Chicago
Morgan
|
$1,600
[12]
Hanff's "Charing Cross Road" plus Heller's "Catch-"
106
|
$1,600
[29]
How fortunate that we're about to make landfall on this peninsula at the southwest tip of Africa
the Cape of Good Hope
Morgan
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
It means to win; when it precedes "upon", it means to persuade
prevail
Morgan
|
|
DD
$4,000
[8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew does a demonstration with some falling water.) The two streams of water form one, because water molecules are so attracted to each other that when they come near, they stick together, a uniting action known as this
cohesion
Morgan
|
$2,000
[20]
"Shooting Stars" tells of his meteoric rise from high school ball to one of the highest paid players in the NBA
LeBron James
Morgan
|
$2,000
[18]
Colby College in Waterville in this state was originally a literary & theological institution
Maine
Sarah
|
$2,000
[13]
Pynchon's "Crying of Lot" divided by Hawthorne's "House of... Gables"
7
Morgan
|
$2,000
[27]
We're heading straight for this Cambodian landmark that was built to honor Vishnu
Angkor Wat
Morgan
|
$2,000
[30]
The hymn title these "Kings Their Titles Take" was the only phrase Dr. Spooner admitted spoonerizing
conquering
|
In chapter 10, "The whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the jewels... rushed upon" this title boy's "mind"
Oliver Twist