Brett Garner — an office manager from Bountiful, Utah
Megan Kardine — a pre-med student from Glen Mills, Pennsylvania
Randall Johnson — an enologist from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randall | $4,000 | $7,600 | $9,800 |
$12,801
2-day champion: $18,400 |
$12,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Megan | $2,200 | $2,000 | $6,400 |
$12,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Brett | $200 | $2,600 | $-2,200 |
$-2,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-2,200
8 R, 5 W |
| JULIA CHILD | ZOMBIELAND | LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS | I'M A WHEEL WATCHER | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE | "FREE" PLAY |
|
$200
[11]
Memorabilia from "Julie & Julia" were recently added to Julia's kitchen exhibit at this Washington, D.C. complex
the Smithsonian
Megan
Brett
|
$200
[22]
This 1968 George Romero classic filled rural Pennsylvania with zombies
Night of the Living Dead
Megan
|
$200
[1]
Like his contemporary Johan Strauss Sr., Joseph Lanner composed this type of dance music
the waltz
Randall
|
$200
[19]
About 500' high, Singapore's "The Flyer" is one of the world's tallest of these amusement park rides
ferris wheel
Randall
|
$200
[26]
In 1981 James G. Nourse wrote the bestseller "The Simple Solution to" this puzzling toy phenomenon
a Rubik's Cube
Megan
|
$200
[6]
Hyphenated adjective for food quickly chilled & vacuum dehydrated to preserve freshness
freeze-dried
Randall
|
|
$400
[12]
As a newlywed, Julia learned to prepare food from Gourmet Magazine & this Erma Rombauer book
The Joy of Cooking
Randall
|
$400
[16]
& they thought alligators were bad! In 1984's "C.H.U.D." zombies haunt this city's sewer system
New York
Brett
|
$400
[2]
Between 1713 & 1730 Francois Couperin published 4 books of suites for this precursor of the piano
the harpsichord
Randall
|
$400
[20]
Falling victim to a curse, this fairy tale maiden pricks her finger on a spinning-wheel spindle
Sleeping Beauty
Brett
|
$400
[27]
These puzzles bear the name of the tool that's used to cut up & make them
a jigsaw
Brett
|
$400
[7]
During the civil rights struggle, they took buses throughout the South to protest segregation
the Freedom Riders
Megan
|
|
$600
[13]
Asked about her favorite comfort food, Julia quipped, "Red meat &" this liquor that's popularly paired with tonic
gin
Randall
|
$600
[17]
In this infamously awful numerical 1959 Ed Wood film, aliens "Plan" to turn all of Earth into zombieland
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Brett
|
$600
[3]
Fernando Sor was best known for his compositions for this instrument that would later be recorded by Andres Segovia
the guitar
Randall
|
$600
[23]
Numerical term for a superfluous person; it could apply on a double date
a fifth wheel
Megan
Brett
|
$800
[29]
This number grid puzzle takes its name from the Japanese for "single number"
sudoku
Randall
|
$600
[8]
A popular resort area, it's the second-most populous city in the Bahamas
Freeport
Randall
Megan
|
|
$800
[14]
In 1963, Julia became a staple on PBS, hosting this long-running show
The French Chef
|
$800
[18]
A London pub called The Winchester becomes zombie central in this 2004 Simon Pegg comedy
Shaun of the Dead
Randall
|
$1,000
[5]
Franz Sussmayr, a pupil of this composer, completed his "Requiem" after his death
Mozart
Randall
Brett
|
$800
[24]
In Tibetan Buddhism, one of these objects is inscribed with mantras & always rotated clockwise
a prayer wheel
Randall
|
$1,000
[28]
The Knight's Tour & 8 Queens are logic puzzles using this game's board & its pieces
chess
Randall
|
$800
[9]
This alternate term for a pirate comes from the Dutch for "plunder"
freebooter
|
|
$1,000
[15]
When World War II broke out, Julia, hoping to become a spy, joined the OSS, this forerunner of the CIA
the Office of Strategic Services
Brett
|
$1,000
[21]
In this 2002 movie based on a video game, zombies swarm through an underground lab called The Hive
Resident Evil
|
DD
$1,200
[4]
Bizet adapted a melody by Sebastian de Yradier for the "Habanera" in this opera
Carmen
Randall
|
$1,000
[25]
The "safety" version of this transport was the first to have wheels of equal size, unlike the penny-farthing
bicycles
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a molecular animation on the monitor.) In the body, these high-energy molecules can ricochet wildly & also damage cells
free radicals
Megan
|
| 1910 | MUSICAL BY SONG & SINGER | BIRD "R"s | A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING | FUN WITH WORDS | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES |
|
$400
[15]
Deposed by the Chinese, a religious leader with this title reached exile in Darjeeling, India in March
Dalai Lama
Megan
|
$400
[1]
"The Perfect Nanny"by Jane & Michael Banks
Mary Poppins
Randall
|
$400
[21]
This state bird of Wisconsin has beautiful blue eggs
a robin
Megan
|
$400
[11]
A branch of math, it's also another name for tartar build up on the teeth
calculus
Randall
|
$400
[6]
A French writer knows "bon mot" translates literally as this
good word
Randall
|
$1,200
[26]
The "Catch" is that this satirical writer was born in Brooklyn in 1923 (not '22)
Joseph Heller
Randall
|
|
$800
[14]
Ending an 800-year-old monarchy, in October this country became a republic & its last king, Manuel II, fled to England
Portugal
Brett
|
$800
[2]
"Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"by Frankie Valli
Jersey Boys
Megan
|
$800
[22]
This flightless bird of South America is related to the ostrich & the emu
the rhea
Megan
|
$800
[12]
Besides serving in politics, this Civil War general, famous for his whiskers, was the first president of the NRA
Burnside
Brett
|
$800
[7]
George Carlin joked about this many words "you can never say on television"
7
Megan
|
$1,600
[27]
He was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, but soon moved with his parents to Oxford, Mississippi
Faulkner
Randall
|
|
$1,200
[16]
This Wall Street figure closed the year at 81.36
the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Randall
|
$1,200
[3]
"Oh, What A Circus"by Che & Company
Evita
Brett
|
$1,200
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows three different kinds of bird feet on the monitor.) There's a diversity of form & function in bird feet; whether for perching, for grasping or for defense, like the talons on these--a term for birds of prey
a raptor
Megan
|
$1,200
[13]
Although first cultivated in China, this flower's name is from the Greek for "gold flower"
Chrysanthemum
|
$1,200
[8]
Found in a Dostoyevsky title, it's one of the few English words that both start & end with "und"
underground
|
— |
|
$2,000
[18]
U.S. Marines landed in this Central American country to protect U.S. banks that had loaned the country money
Nicaragua
|
$1,600
[4]
"Knowing Me, Knowing You"by Sam Carmichael
Mamma Mia!
Megan
|
$1,600
[24]
I was run out of town on this marsh bird whose short-billed species are sometimes called crakes
rail
|
$1,600
[19]
Measuring over 14 feet long with two faint images, it's been preserved at a royal chapel in Italy since 1578
the Shroud of Turin
Megan
|
$1,600
[9]
Sesquipedalophobia is a fear of these, of which sesquipedalophobia is one
long words
Megan
Brett
|
— |
|
DD
$3,000
[17]
Boutros Ghali, the first native-born prime minister of this country, was assassinated in February
Egypt
Randall
|
$2,000
[5]
"Cool"by Riff
West Side Story
|
$2,000
[25]
It's the species of bird seen here, as well as the name for the collar of feathers
ruff
Brett
|
$2,000
[20]
The first Hispanic American to get the Kennedy Center honor, in 2009 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Chita Rivera
|
DD
$1,600
[10]
Its the New World country that takes its name from a Latin word for a metal
Argentina
Megan
|
— |
A river is named for this man born in Scotland in 1764, the first European known to have crossed Canada
Alexander Mackenzie