Pam Jones-Pigott — a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
Reggie LaFond — a business analyst from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ari Stern — a mathematician from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ari | $1,800 | $4,000 | $5,600 |
$9,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
14 R, 4 W |
| Reggie | $2,200 | $5,200 | $8,400 |
$13,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Pam | $1,200 | $3,200 | $12,800 |
$16,800
New champion: $16,800 |
$11,600
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| THE EXECUTOR BRANCH | BEST SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY | ODD PLACE NAMES | NONPOTENT POTABLES | CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON | A FEW"GUE" |
|
$200
[21]
Thomas Jefferson's veep, he killed a famous man in a famous duel
Aaron Burr
Reggie
|
$200
[5]
"It Takes A Village" (1996)
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Pam
|
$200
[25]
Donna Summer could be the "queen of" this Illinois farming community with a musical name
Disco
Pam
|
$200
[8]
Gee, I could have had a Runner's Mark: Tabasco, Worcestershire, lemon & 4 ounces of this alphanumeric juice
V-8
Reggie
|
$200
[16]
Bowie
a knife
Pam
|
$200
[1]
Adjective meaning lacking clarity or distinctness
vague
Pam
|
|
$400
[22]
He shot & killed Charles Dickinson in an 1806 duel
Andrew Jackson
Reggie
|
$400
[6]
"Gracie: A Love Story" (1990)
George Burns
|
$400
[27]
Meaning 2-shelled, the name of this New Jersey town goes back to its oyster industry days
Bivalve
Pam
|
$400
[9]
Without this traditional liquor, a Bloody Mary becomes a Virgin Mary
vodka
Ari
|
$400
[17]
Thompson
a machine gun
Ari
|
$400
[2]
A destructive elephant away from its normal range, or Sarah Palin in the title of her 2009 memoir
rogue
Ari
|
|
$600
[23]
He personally killed a Spaniard at the Battle of San Juan Hill
Teddy Roosevelt
Pam
|
$600
[7]
"It's Always Something" (1989)
Gilda Radner
Pam
|
$600
[28]
The ghost town of Adaven is in this state; holding "Adaven" up to a mirror might help
Nevada
Pam
|
$600
[11]
An unfuzzy navel combines lemon juice, orange juice & this flavor fruit nectar
peach
Ari
Pam
|
$600
[18]
Sidewinder (not the snake)
missile
Reggie
|
$600
[3]
A congressman refers to another, even if he thinks he's useless, as "my distinguished" this
colleague
Ari
|
|
$800
[24]
In 1754 he ordered his Virginia militiamen to fire on a group of unsuspecting Frenchmen, killing 10
George Washington
|
$800
[13]
"The Civil War" (1991)
Ken Burns
Reggie
|
$800
[29]
You can cash in if you know there's a town in Texas with this name, the Spanish word for money
Dinero
Reggie
|
$800
[12]
For some real zing, try Zingerade, which combines lemonade with the Red Zinger type of this
tea
|
$800
[19]
Walther PPK
pistol
Ari
|
$800
[4]
The opposite of a preface
an epilogue
Reggie
Pam
|
|
$1,000
[26]
As sheriff of Erie County, N.Y., Grover Cleveland personally hanged 2 criminals, earning him the nickname "Hangman of" here
Buffalo
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
"The Words of Gandhi"(1984)
Ben Kingsley
Reggie
|
$1,000
[30]
Drop the "Old" from Zachary Taylor's nickname & you'll have the name of this town in Northern California
Rough & Ready
Reggie
|
$1,000
[15]
The fresh fruit mocktail called a Flossy Aussie contains both kumquats & this fruit
kiwi
Reggie
|
$1,000
[20]
The USS Harry S. Truman
an aircraft carrier
Ari
|
$1,000
[10]
One foot is dragged on every step in this Caribbean dance favorite
merengue
Ari
|
| MUMMIES OF THE WORLD | PRO ATHLETES BY NUMBER WORN | LAWYERS | LITERARY OBITUARY | SYNONYMS | THINGS ARE SLOW |
|
$400
[21]
One of the world's oldest mummies, the Detmold Child was mummified in this high S. Amer. country 3,000 years before Tut
Peru
Pam
|
$400
[16]
Magic Johnson, Jim Brown
thirty-two
Reggie
|
$400
[25]
Divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson coined this term for financial support after an unmarried couple splits up
palimony
Ari
|
$400
[11]
A popular London scientist & medical man, by suicide (though police found another man's body in his place)
Dr. Jekyll
|
$400
[6]
In film titles this synonym for fear is found before "of the Tongs", "of Tiny Town" & "on a Train"
terror
Ari
|
$400
[1]
If your computer is slow, try scanning this & then defragmenting it
your hard drive
Ari
|
|
$800
[22]
Veronica Orlovits is part of a group of mummies found in a forgotten church crypt in Pest county in this country
Hungary
Pam
|
$800
[17]
Moses Malone, Derek Jeter
two
Ari
|
$800
[26]
Flamboyant lawyer Melvin Belli was nicknamed "the king of" these civil wrongs
torts
Pam
|
$800
[12]
Shakespearean royal, very briefly survived by her husband & son, by poisoning, in Denmark
Queen Gertrude
Ari
Pam
|
$800
[7]
This synonym for "tumbled" is also a Shakespearean adjective meaning "cruel", as in a type of "swoop"
fell
Ari
|
$800
[2]
Now that Pluto has been reclassified, this planet has the longest orbit around the sun
Neptune
Pam
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Royal mummies like Nespaqashutiwere placed inside these stone items, whose name is from the Greek for flesh-eating
sarcophagi
Ari
|
$1,200
[18]
Jackie Robinson, Ronnie Lott
forty-two
Reggie
|
$1,600
[28]
This prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial fell ill & died shortly after that trial ended
William Jennings Bryan
|
$1,200
[13]
19th c. pickpocket gang leader, described as "a receiver of stolen goods", by execution
Fagin
|
$1,200
[8]
This word whose 2 syllables rhyme is a synonym for "to ambush"
waylay
Ari
|
$1,200
[3]
Slowpoke Rodriguez, "the slowest mouse in all Mexico", was his cousin
Speedy Gonzales
Ari
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Found in the family vault still wearing his boots, mummified German Baron von Holz died during this early 17th c. war
the Thirty Years' War
|
$1,600
[19]
Bobby Orr, Lou Gehrig
four
Reggie
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
John Adams was a defense attorney for patriots like John Hancock, & for British troops accused in this 1770 skirmish
the Boston Massacre
Pam
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
Long Island society mourns his loss. Murdered, in West Egg, by George Wilson
The Great Gatsby
Pam
|
$1,600
[9]
This synonym for "rich" consists of an adverb, a preposition & a verb
well-to-do
Ari
|
$1,600
[4]
If you bet that the slowest fishes of all are these of genus Hippocampus--go to the winner's circle
seahorses
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Preserved to accompany humans into the afterlife, cat mummies were popular in this Egyptian period named for a Greek
the Ptolemaic Period
Reggie
|
$2,000
[20]
Willie Mays, Jeff Gordon
twenty-four
Reggie
|
$2,000
[29]
This orator who argued McCulloch v. Maryland in the Supreme Court was one of the USA's most highly paid lawyers
Daniel Webster
Reggie
|
$2,000
[15]
This Louisiana governor & "boss" rose to ruthless demagogue, assassinated, by Adam Stanton
Willie Stark
Reggie
|
$2,000
[10]
A man's first name, or a word meaning "abrupt"
Curt
Pam
|
$2,000
[5]
Even a fountain pen was too much technology for this historian who took 20 years to write "The Civil War"
Shelby Foote
|
In 1886 he published his first book, "The Trumpet and Drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions
(John Philip) Sousa