Jesse Cuevas — a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
Laura Spadanuta — a trade magazine reporter and editor originally from Floral Park, New York
Pam Jones-Pigott — a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pam | $2,400 | $1,800 | $-2,400 |
$-2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$600
10 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Laura | $4,000 | $8,200 | $11,800 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
17 R, 2 W |
| Jesse | $1,600 | $6,800 | $15,200 |
$24,000
New champion: $24,000 |
$12,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS | LIVE LONG & PROSPER | I'M HENRY VIII, I AM | CHARLIE | THE UNICORN | "TION" THE NONBELIEVERS |
|
$200
[2]
Fewer babies were crying after 1849, when Walter Hunt invented this pin for diapers
a safety pin
Pam
|
$200
[7]
When he died in 1937 at the age of 97, this oil man had given away more than $500 million; he still left his kids a few bucks
(John D.) Rockefeller
Laura
|
$200
[1]
I had this many wives--big deal, Liz Taylor's had more husbands
6
Jesse
|
$200
[15]
In the comics he was obsessed with the little red-haired girl
Charlie Brown
Laura
|
$200
[26]
In "Through the Looking-Glass", she meets a unicorn who is stunned to discover she's not a monster
Alice
Jesse
|
$200
[19]
You fill one out to start the process of getting a job
an application
Jesse
|
|
$400
[10]
Joseph Niepce created the first permanent one of these images in 1826
a photograph
Pam
|
$400
[8]
This hotel founder lived to the age of 91; he made quite a pile, but he never saw Paris... or Nicky
Conrad Hilton
Pam
|
$400
[3]
You might think I was an ally of this reformer, but in fact I was named "Defender of the Faith" for writing a 1521 attack on him
Martin Luther
Laura
|
$400
[16]
High-energy play on the diamond earned Pete Rose this enthusiastic moniker
Charlie Hustle
Pam
|
$600
[27]
The endangered Indian species of this large ungulate has the scientific name R. unicornis
rhinoceros
Jesse
|
$400
[20]
A tensing of a mother's muscles during birth; push!
a contraction
Jesse
|
|
$600
[6]
Thimonnier, like Singer, built a type of this machine, but his was destroyed by rioting tailors
a sewing machine
Pam
|
$600
[13]
This San Francisco Examiner man lived to be 88; his last word probably wasn't "Rosebud", though
(William Randolph) Hearst
Jesse
|
$600
[4]
I always wanted a male heir, but little Ed didn't last long; this "bloody" daughter of mine succeeded him
Mary
Laura
|
$600
[14]
PBS talk show host Charlie Rose won an Emmy in 1987 for an interview he conducted in prison with this other Charlie
Charles Manson
Laura
|
$800
[28]
The "Gentleman Caller" breaks Laura's prized figurine in this play from 1945
The Glass Menagerie
Jesse
|
$600
[21]
A sudden violent discharge from Vesuvius
an eruption
Laura
|
|
$800
[11]
Elevators date back to Roman times; in 1853 he showed off his safety device so passengers could ride on them
Otis
Pam
|
$800
[24]
Daniel Ludwig, who lived to be 95, pioneered this 11-letter type of ship of over 100,000 tons of displacement
super tankers
|
$800
[5]
I enjoyed all kinds of sports & in 1520 had a spirited wrestling match with the king of this country
France
Jesse
|
$800
[17]
Warner Oland and Sydney Toland (2 non-Chinese) played this Chinese detective on film
Charlie Chan
Laura
|
$1,000
[29]
This unicorn-like whale's "horn" is really a long tusk
narwhal
Jesse
|
$800
[22]
A series of engraved letters on stone, from the Latin for "to write"
an inscription
Laura
|
|
$1,000
[12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew pushes an enclosed plunger.) Pushing a plunger compresses the air inside the cylinder, creating enough heat to ignite a piece of paper; the same principle is used in a type of engine invented by this man
(Rudolf) Diesel
Laura
|
$1,000
[25]
This publisher whose name is on communications schools at Penn & USC died in 2002 aged 94
(Walter) Annenberg
Laura
|
$1,000
[9]
This humanist was my Chancellor from 1529 to 1532; I had him arrested for treason & dropped the axe on him
Thomas More
Laura
|
$1,000
[18]
One of his last film roles was as the swindling wife murderer in 1947's "Monsieur Verdoux"
Chaplin
Jesse
|
DD
$3,000
[30]
This Japanese beer brand uses a unicorn for its logo & that's what its name means
Kirin
Jesse
|
$1,000
[23]
A living manifestation of a god
an incarnation
Pam
Laura
|
| PLAYMATES | SAD LINES | AT THE MOVIE THEATER | MEDICAL ISSUES | "C-P-R" | EUROPEANA |
|
$400
[11]
Miss March, March Fong Eu was California's first woman in this post; Condoleezza Rice was one for the U.S.
Secretary of State
Laura
|
$400
[16]
This Coleridge "rime" says, "a sadder and a wiser man he rose the morrow morn"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Jesse
|
$400
[10]
You can get tickets at the multiplex at moviefone.com or from the same service by dialing 777-this
FILM
Laura
|
$400
[1]
Parasitic protozoa called plasmodia cause this disease; female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the parasite to humans
malaria
Pam
|
$400
[21]
Full, cited authority might be this "and verse"
chapter
Laura
|
$800
[24]
The capital of this country is on the Vilnia River
Lithuania
Jesse
|
|
$800
[12]
Miss January Jones, seen here, plays Betty on this AMC advertising show
Mad Men
Pam
|
$800
[17]
Shakespeare wrote, "a sad tale's best for" this season
winter
Jesse
|
$800
[6]
Willis Carrier tested this in the Rivoli in 1925 & soon movie houses were installing & advertising it
air conditioning
Jesse
|
$800
[2]
Addison's disease is a metabolic dysfunction of these glands useful in an emergency
the adrenal glands
Jesse
|
$1,600
[23]
The person with this job adjusts body structures, like the spinal column
a chiropractor
Jesse
|
$1,200
[25]
In 1997 Ferrari bought this other fast car maker founded in Bologna in 1914
Maserati
Pam
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Miss June Allyson played the wife of this bandleader in his movie story, opposite Jimmy Stewart
Glenn Miller
Pam
|
$1,200
[18]
His "Ode to a Nightingale" says, "where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, where youth grows pale"
Keats
Laura
|
$1,200
[7]
If you're seeing a picture tonight, good chance it's on one of this "kingly" company's 6,761 U.S. screens
Regal
Jesse
|
$1,200
[3]
(I'm Katie Couric.) To raise awareness of a specific type of cancer, I had an on-camera one of these procedures, aired in March of 2000
a colonoscopy
Pam
|
$2,000
[22]
He's the attendant at a casino who rakes in the chips & money
croupier
|
— |
|
$1,600
[14]
Miss June Havoc inspired the character of Baby June in this musical, back on Broadway in 2008
Gypsy
Laura
|
$1,600
[19]
Whittier rhymed, "of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4
"it might have been"
Pam
Laura
|
$1,600
[8]
1998's "The Last Broadcast" was the 1st film shown theatrically using this type of distribution & projection
digital
Jesse
|
$2,000
[5]
This structure near the center of the base of the brain directs the hormonal activities of the pituitary gland
the hypothalamus
Jesse
|
— | — |
|
$2,000
[15]
Miss May Swenson was an American poet who also translated poetry from this language, her first as a child
Swedish
Laura
|
$2,000
[20]
One of his lines from "Tintern Abbey" mentions "hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity"
William Wordsworth
|
$2,000
[9]
Heard here, the pipe organ called "The Mighty" this brand was long popular in movie theaters
Wurlitzer
Pam
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
In 2010 Bret Michaels suffered from hyponatremia, low levels of this element in the blood
sodium
Pam
|
— | — |
In 2000 the Centre Court Arena in Melbourne, Australia was renamed for him
Rod Laver