Vito Cortese — a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Anne McFadden — an antitrust attorney from Washington, D.C.
Dave Ellis — a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave | $4,200 | $5,600 | $7,200 |
$7,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,200
12 R, 1 W |
| Anne | $2,000 | $1,200 | $2,000 |
$4,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,000
8 R, 2 W |
| Vito | $2,200 | $7,400 | $20,600 |
$21,685
New champion: $21,685 |
$22,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| OTHER CIVIL WARS | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | CIRCUS HISTORY | FOOD SPECIFICS | GOLF | "TEE" TIME |
|
$200
[26]
In the Peasant's War, fought mainly in this country, Martin Luther wanted the rebels treated "like mad dogs"
Germany
Dave
|
$200
[16]
...of chess pieces
a bishop
Vito
|
$200
[21]
In 1825 Joshua Purdy Brown erected the first of these portable circus structures in Wilmington, Del.
a big-top (or tent)
Dave
|
$200
[6]
Bouillon is a thin, clear this
broth (or soup)
Anne
|
$200
[1]
The right to hit first goes to the person who's this 4-letter word, meaning his ball is farthest from the hole
away
Vito
|
$200
[11]
A group of people appointed for a specific function, like the Senate Judiciary one
committee
Vito
|
|
$400
[27]
Benito Juarez emerged from the War of Reform as a principal influence in this country's politics
Mexico
Vito
|
$400
[17]
...of the New England states
Connecticut
Vito
|
$400
[22]
Not until 1982 did a performer publicly do this many somersaults from bar to catcher on the trapeze
four
Dave
Vito
|
$400
[7]
Polenta is a dish of cooked, ground this
corn
Dave
|
$400
[2]
A courteous golfer replaces & repairs this loose piece of turf dug out of a fairway by a swing
a divot
Vito
|
$400
[12]
Artist Marcel Duchamp added one to the Mona Lisa
a goatee
Anne
|
|
$800
[29]
Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism at the end of this country's Wars of Religion
France
|
$600
[18]
...in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Hank Aaron
Vito
|
$600
[23]
In 1907 these siblings purchased the Barnum & Bailey circus
the Ringling Brothers
Dave
|
$600
[8]
En croute means wrapped in this & baked
pastry
Anne
Vito
|
$600
[3]
Exhibiting Bernoulli's Principle, these indentations on a golf ball cause it to lift & stabilize it in flight
a dimple
Vito
|
$600
[13]
A promise of a refund if a purchased product is unsatisfactory
a guarantee
Vito
|
|
$1,000
[30]
A 1921 treaty dividing the island demanded a fidelity oath that brought about a civil war in this country
Ireland
|
$800
[19]
...among the state capitals
Albany, New York
Anne
|
$800
[24]
Many circus historians credit Isaac van Amburgh with being the first to put his head in this dangerous place
the lion's mouth
Dave
|
$800
[9]
Pumpernickel refers to a dark type of this bread
rye
Dave
|
$800
[4]
In golfing slang, to use a "Texas wedge" is to use this club when not on the green
a putter
Vito
|
$800
[14]
It's a person who holds the title to a property for the benefit of another person
a trustee
Anne
|
|
DD
$1,200
[28]
This country's civil war, lasting from 1936 to 1939, began in Morocco
Spain
Vito
|
$1,000
[20]
...of the Old Testament prophets
Amos
Vito
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1947 this "flying" family perfected the 7-man pyramid on the high wire
the Wallendas
Vito
|
$1,000
[10]
Mascarpone is a soft Italian this
cheese
Dave
|
$1,000
[5]
For 2009-10 this Georgia golf course was rated No. 1 by Golf Digest
Augusta
Dave
|
$1,000
[15]
This aquatic mammal can grow up to Io feet long & can weigh up to 2,000 pounds: some mermaid!
a manatee
Dave
|
| HOME COUNTRY OF THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL | SCI FI MOVIE SUMMARIES | ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS | LITERARY TERMS | DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY DEPARTMENT | THE HALL OF HUMAN ORIGIN |
|
$400
[11]
Ban Ki-moon
South Korea
Anne
|
$400
[6]
1977: Certain folks can't get a Wyoming landmark out of their heads & go there to meet new friends
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dave
|
$400
[20]
A 2010 exhibit at the Rijksmuseum Schiphol Airport in this country was called "Sunny Skies"
the Netherlands
Dave
|
$400
[23]
In the text of a play, dramatis personae is a list of these
the characters
Anne
|
$400
[22]
Completes Cyndi Lauper's line, "if you're lost you can look and you will find me..."
"time after time"
Anne
|
$400
[1]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a bone.) Early humans lived a perilous existence; this 1.8-million-year-old ankle joint found in Tanzania bears teeth marks, probably made by one of these dangerous reptiles that still haunt African waters
crocodiles
Anne
|
|
$800
[12]
Kurt Waldheim
Austria
Vito
|
$800
[7]
1968: Early hominids fashion a weapon, then a trip to Jupiter goes awry
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vito
|
$1,200
[29]
Husband to Georgia O'Keeffe, this 291 Gallery founder had a show in gallery 321 of the St. Louis Art Museum
Alfred Stieglitz
Vito
|
$800
[24]
An outline of the main points of a work is called this, from the Latin for "see together"
a synopsis
Vito
|
$800
[21]
Hyphenated type of sportscaster who gives a detailed description of a sporting event
play-by-play man
Dave
|
$800
[2]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates the morphing station.) The hall's morphing station allows visitors to see what they'd look like, had they been born into a different human species; here, I'm morphing from a Homo sapiens into one of these long-extinct cousins
a Neanderthal
Anne
Vito
|
|
$1,200
[13]
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Egypt
|
$1,200
[8]
1982: It's rainy all day in future L.A. as a cop looks for murderers & doubts his girl's humanity
Blade Runner
|
$1,600
[28]
Otto Dix & Max Beckmann were part of a 2006 show on German this -ism at Vienna's Leopold Museum
Expressionism
Vito
|
$1,600
[25]
Please "stop" repeating these recurring lines at the ends of the stanzas
the refrains
|
$1,200
[17]
Completes Yogi Berra's declaration "it ain't over till..."
"it's over"
Vito
|
$1,200
[3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in front of a skeleton.) A diet heavy in plants requires a long digestive tract, so a broad torso & ample gut are visible in the reconstruction of the famous 3.2-million-year-old human fossil discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 & known by this female name
Lucy
Vito
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Kofi Annan
Ghana
|
$1,600
[9]
1979:After discovering that certain pods didn't contain peas, a gal & her cat are the last survivors of the Nostromo
Alien
Vito
|
$2,000
[27]
In 2010 MoMA put on this French artist: "Radical Invention, 1913-1917", including "The Moroccans"
Henri Matisse
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
A poetic lament for the dead; Milton's "Lycidas" was a pastoral one
an elegy
Vito
|
$1,600
[18]
In the world of delivery, it means sent directly from point of pickup to point of drop-off
door-to-door
Vito
|
$1,600
[4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a trail of footprints.) 3.6 million years ago, in Africa, an early human left a trail of fossil footprints with a stride much shorter than ours; Mary Leakey found the prints, which were likely made by this type of human, whose name means "southern ape"
Australopithecus
Vito
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Trygve Lie
Norway
Vito
|
$2,000
[10]
1981:Hi-ho, hi-ho, miners are dying on Io; bad drugs are the problem & a former James Bond is the solution
Outland
|
— |
$2,000
[26]
The Italian sonnet is sometimes named for this Tuscan
Petrarch
Vito
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
First mentioned in Exodus, this form of reciprocal justice can lead to optometrist bills
an eye for an eye
Vito
|
$2,000
[5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a skull.) Fossil skulls from different human species show changes in facial & cranial features; this skull with a large brain case & prominent brow ridge belong to a species named for this city in southwest Germany, where the first specimen was found
Heidelberg
|
In May 1964 this New Orleans native was 62 years old when he bumped The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" from the No. 1 spot
Louis Armstrong