Sarah Rabin Spira — a preschool director from Washington, D.C.
Mike Hodel — a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
Don Meals — an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont (whose 3-day cash winnings total $42,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don | $1,400 | $3,400 | $11,400 |
$1,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,400
18 R, 3 W |
| Mike | $4,200 | $6,400 | $2,800 |
$2,100
New champion: $2,100 |
$3,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $2,000 | $3,400 | $10,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT | IF THE TV SERIES HAD A DOWNER ENDING | 2012 | CLUB TED | THE GREAT SEAL OF THE U.S. | DOUBLE D's |
|
$200
[16]
Keep left when driving on Hokkaido & this country's other islands
Japan
Don
|
$200
[21]
On his last day in office, President Bartlet launches a nuclear attack on Norway; he's just never liked Norway
The West Wing
Sarah
|
$200
[26]
433 Eros, one of these, will pass within .178 astronomical units of Earth (that's close, astronomical units-wise)
an asteroid
Don
|
$200
[1]
After leaving ABC's "Nightline", he became the managing editor for the Discovery Channel
Ted Koppel
Don
|
$200
[9]
Francis Hopkinson, who designed the U.S. flag, suggested the seal include a shield with this many stripes
13
Mike
|
$200
[2]
Some say this synonym for nuptials isn't a word; it's a sentence!
wedding
Don
|
|
$400
[17]
There's no need to change sides when you drive across the border between these 2 countries at Belleek
Ireland & Northern Ireland
Mike
|
$400
[22]
Boss Hogg has the General Lee impounded on dozens & dozens of felony evading arrest charges, then car-crushes it
The Dukes of Hazzard
Don
|
$400
[27]
The Summer Olympics are set to open in this city
London
Don
|
$400
[7]
In 1980 he founded the first 24-hour cable news channel
(Ted) Turner
Mike
|
$400
[10]
The Great Seal is kept in a glass enclosure by this cabinet department
the State (Department)
Don
Mike
|
$400
[3]
Derby rider's seat
saddle
Don
|
|
$600
[18]
Keep to the left side of the road when you visit these West Indian islands just east of Florida
the Bahamas
Sarah
|
$600
[23]
The one-armed man says, "It's about time I finished the job" & shoots Richard Kimble
The Fugitive
Don
|
$600
[28]
On December 17 members of this "college" will meet in every U.S. state
the electoral college
Sarah
|
$800
[14]
He penned the bestseller "God, Guns & Rock 'n' Roll"
Ted Nugent
Sarah
|
$600
[11]
The first design of the reverse featured a scene from this biblical book with Moses on the shore of the Red Sea
Exodus
Sarah
|
$600
[4]
Adjective meaning designed to elude detection
hidden
Sarah
|
|
$800
[19]
Stay well to the left in this mountainous country between India & China; Maoists ousted the monarchy in 2008
Nepal
Mike
|
$800
[24]
A moose eats Dr. Joel Fleischman; that's it, the whole 60 minutes, just a moose eating a guy
Northern Exposure
Mike
|
$800
[30]
After 62 years the U.S. is scheduled to relinquish wartime control of this nation's military
South Korea
Don
|
$1,000
[15]
The animated movie "The Iron Giant" was based on a children's book by this late British poet laureate
Ted Hughes
|
$800
[12]
The Great Seal in use today was engraved from an 1885 master made by this NYC jewelry firm
Tiffany & Co.
Mike
|
$800
[5]
An enigmatic word puzzle
a riddle
|
|
$1,000
[20]
If you want to drive from Klerksdorp to Roodepoort in this country, head east & hang a left at Sasolburg
South Africa
|
$1,000
[25]
Congress kills the O.S.I. program; Oscar Goldman is directed to recycle title gal Jaime Sommers for spare parts
The Bionic Woman
Don
|
$1,000
[29]
An ancient Meso-American one of these is set to reset...gulp
a calendar
Mike
|
DD
$1,400
[8]
The international airport in Anchorage was renamed for him in 2000
Sen. Ted Stevens
Mike
|
$1,000
[13]
The first sketch of the Great Seal in 1776 didn't include an eagle but did include this motto later seen in its beak
E pluribus unum
Don
|
$1,000
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When a current doubles back on itself, a type of miniature vortex is created, a phenomenon known by this name
an eddy
Mike
|
| ANCIENT GREEKS | FOOD WORDS | BOOKS' OTHER TITLES | A BUSINESS IS BORN | LENIN | McCARTNEY |
|
$400
[6]
Sophocles ended the story of this king "at Colonus", a village where Sophocles himself lived
Oedipus
Mike
|
$400
[1]
An amateur radio operator, or a type of hog meat
ham
Don
|
$400
[20]
Vonnegut's "The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death"
Slaughterhouse-Five
Don
|
$400
[28]
It was born in Seattle in 1971 & named for the first mate in "Moby Dick"
Starbucks
Sarah
|
$400
[10]
Vladimir Lenin was admitted to the bar & practiced this profession in Samara in 1892; many of his clients were peasants
law
Sarah
|
$400
[11]
As a teen, Paul composed this tune honoring his dad's music; his dad was the title age when the song came out in 1967
"When I'm Sixty-Four"
Don
|
|
$800
[7]
Born on Samos, he's the philosopher & mathematician in the illustration seen here
Pythagoras
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
It's an argument, maybe over whether "it's what's for dinner"
beef
Sarah
|
$800
[16]
Dodie Smith's "The Great Dog Robbery"
101 Dalmatians
Sarah
|
$800
[25]
This food chain began in 1980, when Safer Way Natural Foods merged with Clarksville Natural Grocery
Whole Foods
Don
|
$800
[21]
Lenin avidly read "Das Kapital" & in 1889 became a follower of this philosophy named for the book's author
Marxism
Mike
Sarah
|
$800
[12]
Originally, the first 2 lines of this Beatles song were "she was just 17, never been a beauty queen"
"I Saw Her Standing There"
Sarah
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Leonidas' wins at this place got him the title "triple crowned" & brought him worship back home on Rhodes
Olympia
Don
Mike
Sarah
|
$1,200
[3]
To waste little by little, or a fried treat similar to a doughnut
fritter
|
$1,200
[17]
Thackeray's "A Novel Without a Hero"
Vanity Fair
|
$1,200
[26]
The first drug-store in this chain began operating out of a Chicago hotel in 1901; in 2009 the 7,000th store opened
Walgreens
Sarah
|
$1,200
[22]
Lenin's merciless destruction of the opposition to the Bolsheviks cleared the way for this man's dictatorship
Stalin
Sarah
|
$1,200
[13]
The title of Paul's 2006 classical album "Ecce Cor Meum" translates as "Behold My" this
Heart
|
|
DD
$1,600
[9]
Epaminondas the Theban defeated this militaristic power in 371 B.C., sending it into decline
Sparta
Mike
|
$1,600
[4]
A sweet coating on some doughnuts, or to fill with glass
glaze
Don
|
$2,000
[19]
Cormac McCarthy's "Blood" this: "the Evening Redness in the West"
Meridian
|
$1,600
[27]
In 1998, after renaming their Backrub search engine, Larry Page & Sergey Brin incorporated under this name
Google
Mike
|
$1,600
[23]
This military group formed under Lenin officially lost its colorful name in 1946
the Red Army
Don
|
$1,600
[14]
During a meeting, a frustrated George Harrison said, "If we ever get out of here", inspiring a lyric in this Wings No. 1 hit
"Band On The Run"
|
| — |
$2,000
[5]
To hit repeatedly with short jabs, or a seasoning that can be ground fresh
pepper
Don
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
Voltaire's "Optimism"
Candide
Sarah
|
— |
$2,000
[24]
In 1917 Lenin used the slogan "all power to" these, from the Russian for "councils"
the soviets
Don
|
$2,000
[15]
Paul's album "Tug of War" closes with this duet that wishes for racial harmony
"Ebony And Ivory"
Mike
Sarah
|
One type of this aquatic animal gives milk that's 65% fat; pups are weaned in 4 days, the least of any mammal
the seal