George Tsuji — a software engineer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Aimee Slater — a program manager originally from Spokane, Washington
Vito Cortese — a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $68,485)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vito | $2,600 | $4,600 | $9,900 |
$13,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,400
20 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Aimee | $600 | $5,600 | $6,400 |
$12,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
11 R, 3 W |
| George | $1,600 | $4,200 | $13,800 |
$20,000
New champion: $20,000 |
$13,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WORLD HERSTORY | THE QUOTABLE DE NIRO | THE DREADED COUNTING CATEGORY | YOU'RE SUCH AN ANIMAL! | DRINKS ARE ON ME! | WORD PUZZLES |
|
$200
[12]
In 1860, 4 years after leaving the Crimea, she wrote the book "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not"
Florence Nightingale
Vito
|
$200
[1]
1980:"You never got me down, Ray"
Raging Bull
Aimee
George
|
$200
[15]
In baseball it's how a pitcher-to-catcher-to-first double play is scored (this is an easy one)
1, 2, 3
Aimee
|
$200
[11]
It's the only seal with tusks
a walrus
Aimee
|
$200
[6]
Ads for this iced tea brand encouraged people to take a backward "plunge" into a pool
Nestea
George
|
$200
[22]
When I needed money, I did this--bought, then quickly resold
flipped the house
Vito
|
|
$400
[13]
Convincing the gang to take the Bozeman Pass was just one of her contributions to Lewis & Clark's expedition
Sacagawea
Vito
|
$400
[2]
1991:"Counselor, come out, come out, wherever you are"
Cape Fear
Aimee
George
|
$400
[27]
In poker if you've got a jack high straight, these are your 3 lowest cards
7, 8, 9
Aimee
|
$400
[18]
In parts of Asia, more than half the milk produced comes from the "water" type of this bovid
buffalo
Vito
|
$400
[7]
In the 1870s a friend told Charles Hires that his root tea would sell better under this name
root beer
Vito
|
$400
[23]
It's an arm of the Mediterranean
the Aegean Sea
George
|
|
$600
[14]
After briefly attending Oxford University, she returned to India in 1941 & married a Parsi lawyer the following year
Indira Gandhi
George
|
$800
[4]
1995:"Meeting in the middle of a desert always made me nervous, it's a scary place"
Casino
George
|
$600
[28]
If a Spanish child tells you to count to mil while he hides, you'll end with this trio of numbers
998, 999, 1000
George
|
$600
[19]
North America's 2 venomous lizards are the Mexican beaded lizard & this scary denizen of the Southwest
a Gila monster
Vito
|
$600
[8]
I get hot & thirsty reading clues all day; this is a job for this drink & its pitch-pitcher's cry of "Oh yeah!"
Kool-Aid
Vito
|
$600
[24]
Quickly, quickly, quickly--this way
lickety split
George
|
|
$800
[16]
Some scholars believe that this wife of Akhenaton was not Egyptian but an Asian princess from Syria
Nefertiti
Aimee
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
(In Sicilian)"To you she's beautiful. For me, there's only my wife & son"
The Godfather Part II
George
|
$800
[29]
If Joe Biden counts senators to see if he has a quorum, he can stop after these 3 numbers
49, 50, 51
Vito
George
|
$800
[20]
This agile monkey of the Americas dines on, among other things, the arachnid in its name
a spider monkey
Aimee
|
$800
[9]
In 1965 the Univ. of Florida football team began using this drink developed by school researchers
Gatorade
Aimee
|
$800
[25]
Conditionof commotion & noisy confusion
uproar
George
|
|
$1,000
[17]
For supporting a revolt against him, Henry II had this wife imprisoned from 1173 till his death in 1189
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Aimee
|
$1,000
[5]
1988:"$100,000 & I'll have the Duke here for you by Friday night"
Midnight Run
|
$1,000
[30]
If you're counting out pennies to buy a first class stamp, you'll end with these 3 numbers
42, 43, 44
Aimee
|
$1,000
[21]
Around 9 pounds at birth, the pygmy species of this African mammal may eventually reach some 600 pounds
a hippopotamus
Aimee
|
$1,000
[10]
Vitamin-happy Glaceau also makes this "wise" drink with "purity you can taste, hydration you can feel"
Smartwater
Vito
|
$1,000
[26]
Formidable feudalfirearm
crossbow
George
|
| CUBA, SI! | YANKEES, NO! | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES | CONTRONYMS | THEY COME IN TWOS | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS |
|
$400
[6]
Turquino Peak, Cuba's highest, is in the chain known as this "Maestra"; California has one "Nevada"
Sierra
Vito
|
$400
[5]
"Next year" finally came to this team's fans in 1955, when its "Bums" beat the Yanks in the Series for the first time in 6 tries
the Brooklyn Dodgers
George
|
$400
[20]
This playwright was born in March 1828 in Skien, a small lumbering town of Norway
Ibsen
Vito
|
$400
[25]
To hide by blocking, or to show by projecting
screen
|
$400
[10]
The 2 most basic forms of skiing are Nordic & this downhill type named for a mountain range
Alpine
George
|
$400
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) A series of quick, jumping steps is called this, also the Italian term for the tempo at which the music is playing
allegro
Vito
|
|
$800
[7]
Celebrated Jan. 1, Triumph of the Revolution, Cuba's national holiday, commemorates events of this 20th c. year
1959
|
$800
[4]
The Yankees lost game 7 of the 1926 World Series when this portly gent was thrown out trying to steal second base
Babe Ruth
Vito
|
$800
[21]
He was born in "The Jungle" of Baltimore in 1878
(Upton) Sinclair
Aimee
|
$800
[18]
A solid fruit core, or a cavity in the ground
a pit
Vito
|
$800
[11]
The 2 components of a complete sentence are a subject & this unit
a verb
Vito
|
$800
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) A fouetté is a pirouette that lets the dancer regain momentum after each spin; the Black Swan does 32 in a row in a ballet by this composer
Tchaikovsky
George
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Cuba is the largest island in this "directional" archipelago
the West Indies
|
$1,200
[1]
A "Big Red Machine" from this city ran right over the Yankees in a 4-game sweep of the 1976 World Series
Cincinnati
Aimee
George
|
$1,200
[22]
Salinas, California (east of... Frisco) was the birthplace of this author, who often referred to it in his work
Steinbeck
Vito
|
$1,200
[15]
An advantage in golf or a disadvantage through lack
a handicap
George
|
$1,600
[13]
The 2 main kinds of camels are the one-humped dromedary & this 2-humped Asian species
Bactrian
|
$1,200
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) Legend says the Royale was created in an attempt to do the harder entrechat quatre by this 17th-century French king, under whom ballet became a strict art form
Louis XIV
Vito
Aimee
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Reaching heights of 75 feet, Cuba's national tree is the royal this
palm
|
$1,600
[2]
In 2004 this team came back from a 3-games-to-0 deficit & beat the Yanks for the A.L. pennant; revenge gets no sweeter
the Boston Red Sox
George
|
DD
$1,500
[23]
He didn't have a "Sister Carrie" when he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871
Theodore Dreiser
Vito
|
$1,600
[16]
To remove excess fat, or to add Christmas ornaments
trim
Vito
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
The 2 main gods of Hinduism are Vishnu & him
Shiva
Vito
|
$1,600
[29]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) The step battement tendu was highly valued by this legendary choreographer; he told his wife, Maria Tallchief, that if she'd do it properly she wouldn't have to learn anything else
Balanchine
Vito
|
|
$2,000
[19]
Many Cuban practitioners of this "saintly" Afro-Caribbean religion speak Lucumi, a "secret" language
Santería
Vito
|
$2,000
[3]
This ace L.A. lefty dominated the Yanks in the 1963 World Series, striking out 23 & beating them twice in a 4-game sweep
Sandy Koufax
Vito
|
$2,000
[24]
This existentialist came into being (not nothingness) June 21, 1905 in Paris
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
George
|
$2,000
[17]
To bless an action by decree, or to ban an action by decree
sanction
|
$2,000
[14]
Named for their method of secretion, they're the 2 main types of glands in the body
endocrine & exocrine
George
|
$2,000
[30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) The final pas de deux is one of the famous dances from this ballet; maybe it's fitting that its choreographer Lev Ivanov died on Christmas Eve when it's set
The Nutcracker
Vito
|
It was first transmitted by the USS Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras on August 11, 1909
SOS