Don Meals — an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
Lois Petzold — an ombudsman from Anderson, South Carolina
Emily Jusino — a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $3,800 | $7,200 | $9,600 |
$599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Lois | $2,400 | $3,200 | $6,000 |
$6,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
11 R, 3 W |
| Don | $2,800 | $4,200 | $13,700 |
$8,199
New champion: $8,199 |
$15,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| MOUNTAINS IN RANGE | CREATURE FEATURES | AT THE POD "IUM" | STOCK SYMBOLS | MIXING APPLES & ORANGES | THE TENTH INNING |
|
$200
[9]
It's only within the last 600,000 years that this range became the highest
the Himalayas
Don
|
$200
[17]
2006:"____ on a Plane"
Snakes
Don
|
$200
[1]
"Jeopardy!" will reign forever! Or at least this long, 1,000 years
millennium
Emily
|
$200
[4]
Headquartered in Atlanta, it flies under the symbol DAL
Delta
Don
|
$200
[16]
An apple & a crossbow play important roles in this 1804 Schiller tale
William Tell
Don
|
$200
[26]
(Ken Burns reads the clue.) Since Jim Creighton of the Brooklyn Niagarastried an illegal rising fastball in 1859, players have looked for an edge, like the time Albert Belle got caught in 1994 using a bat that had been doctored this way
it was corked
Emily
|
|
$400
[10]
The Brooks rangein Alaska is sometimes included as part of this range
the Rockies
Emily
|
$400
[18]
1988:"____ in the Mist"
Gorillas
Emily
|
$400
[2]
Our stage isn't big enough for me! I need one of these large outdoor venues where sporting events are held
stadium
Emily
|
$400
[5]
This consumer products giant rates a PG for its symbol
Procter & Gamble
Lois
|
$400
[22]
This 2-word Vietnam War item consisted of 2 weedkillers--2,4-D & 2,4,5-T
Agent Orange
Emily
|
$400
[27]
(Ken Burns reads the clue.) You can't talk about baseball without mentioning this small Caribbean nation that's given us players like Jose Reyes & Sammy Sosa
the Dominican Republic
Don
|
|
$600
[13]
Thisrange was covered with glaciers that formed lakes, like Como and Constance
the Alps
Don
|
$600
[19]
1959 & 2006:"The Shaggy ____"
Dog
Emily
Lois
|
$600
[3]
Up here I feel like my life is playing out in one of these public places where you might ooh & aah over a humphead wrasse
an aquarium
Lois
|
$600
[6]
Take stock in this corporation, SCHW
Schwab
Lois
|
$600
[23]
The European type of this holiday plant seenheregrows most often on apple trees
mistletoe
Don
|
$600
[28]
(Ken Burns reads.) In 1995 she said the owners negotiated in bad faith, ended the strike & sent playersback to workon their existing contract; 14 years later she would become a Supreme Court justice
Sotomayor
Lois
|
|
$800
[14]
Some of the highest mountains in this, the world's longest surface chain, are active volcanoes
the Andes
Emily
|
$800
[20]
2005: "March of the ____'
Penguins
Emily
|
$800
[11]
The pressure of constant adulation pains this part of my skull that encloses the brain
the cranium
Don
|
$800
[7]
This company that trades under AXP may give you a lot of credit
American Express
Lois
|
$800
[24]
Have a devil of a time in this smallest state in Australia, often called the Apple Isle
Tasmania
Lois
|
$800
[29]
(Ken Burns reads the clue.) He learned to hit lefty so he could be 2 steps closer to first base, & the Prime Minister of Japan once said he "makes me proud to be Japanese"
Ichiro Suzuki
|
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
Thisrange includes the oldest mountains in North America
the Appalachians
Emily
|
$1,000
[21]
1987:"The ____ of August"
Whales
|
$1,000
[12]
I promise I'll stop pontificating if you promise to not take me back to one of these recuperative hospitals
a sanitarium
Emily
|
$1,000
[8]
This company with the symbol LIZ has designs on you
Liz Claiborne
Don
|
$1,000
[25]
This Florida sports & concert venue was demolished in 2008
the Orange Bowl Stadium
Emily
|
$1,000
[30]
(Ken Burns reads.) Bud Selig, seen here, pulled double duty as Major League Baseball commissioner & owner of this team that shook up baseball when it switched leagues in 1997
the Milwaukee Brewers
|
| A PALACE IN HISTORY | FROM THE LATIN | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS | RIDING THE RAILS | MONKEY BUSINESS | COMPUTER MILESTONES |
|
$400
[10]
Iolani Palace in Honolulu was seen as the headquarters for the state police unit on this '70s TV series
Hawaii Five-O
Emily
|
$400
[11]
A hated person may be burned in this symbolic way, from the Latin for "likeness"
effigy
Emily
|
$400
[1]
Carl Sandburg wrote 6 volumes on this president; the first 2 made up "The Prairie Years"
Lincoln
Lois
|
$400
[24]
With 44 platforms, this NYC terminal is the world's largest railway terminal
Grand Central Station
Emily
Lois
|
$400
[15]
The effort to save the golden monkey is this country's biggest species protection project since the panda
China
Emily
|
$400
[4]
1996: the first successful PDA takes off--this alliterative one
the PalmPilot
Don
|
|
$800
[18]
This small Scandinavian country's parliament meets at Christiansborg Palace, the fifth on the same site
Denmark
Lois
|
$800
[12]
Some of my best friends are Samoans: I don't have this, from the Latin for "judging before"
prejudice
Don
|
$800
[2]
"The River of Doubt" tells of this president's jungle adventure & trip up the Amazon after he left office
Theodore Roosevelt
Don
|
$800
[25]
This U.S. city has been called "Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler"
Chicago
Don
|
$800
[20]
The Muriqui prize, named for a South American monkey, is given for helping preserve this country's forest
Brazil
Don
|
$800
[5]
1993: this company introduces its Pentium processor
Intel
Don
|
|
$1,200
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Chilean presidential palace.) The presidential palace in Santiago, Chile looks a lot more peaceful than on September 11, 1973, when it was attacked &this man was violently thrown from power
(Salvador) Allende
Lois
Don
|
$1,600
[16]
Reading a declassified document is hard when the text is full of these, from the Latin for "to drive back"
redaction
Emily
|
$1,600
[8]
Books about him include "One Man Alone" & "Arrogance of Power"
Richard Nixon
|
$1,200
[26]
With a route over 5,700 miles, the world's longest railway line is this Russian one
Trans-Siberian Railway
Emily
Lois
|
$1,200
[21]
Thisbiggest type of New World monkey has a scream that can be heard even in tropical rainstorms
a howler monkey
Don
|
$1,200
[6]
1982: this company's 64 computer is introduced, soon becoming the best-selling model of all time
Commodore
Don
|
|
$1,600
[27]
Japan's Imperial Palace is on the former site of this castle, also the old name for Tokyo
Edo
Emily
Don
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
Latin for "after" gave us this synonym for "keister"
posterior
Don
|
$2,000
[9]
Jon Meacham's 2008 bestseller "American Lion" is a portrait of this president during his White House years
Andrew Jackson
Don
|
$1,600
[29]
At over 15,000 feet high, the highest railway station in South America is in Condor in this small country
Bolivia
Emily
|
$1,600
[22]
Macaca mulatta is better known as this monkey that's helped in medical science, especially blood grouping
Rhesus
Don
|
$1,600
[7]
1997: Altavista introduces this free online translator
Babelfish
Lois
|
|
$2,000
[28]
This borough of greater London put a plaque on the "timely" site of the old palace where Elizabeth I was born
Greenwich
Lois
|
$2,000
[17]
If you're thunderstruck you're this, from the Latin tonare, "thunder"
astonished
Emily
|
DD
$2,500
[3]
He's the subject of 2003's "An Unfinished Life"
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Don
|
$2,000
[30]
The highest speed recorded on a national rail system was the 357 mph by this country's TGV in 2007
France
Don
|
$2,000
[23]
The Chacma & Anubis are 2 of the 5 species of these large, ground-dwelling African monkeys
baboons
|
$2,000
[14]
1969: He develops the first supercomputer, the CDC 7600
(Seymour) Cray
Don
|
Now in season 23, its producer says it's the only show with "no script, no actors, no host & no re-enactments"
COPS