Melissa Nilles — a legislative aide from Kapolei, Hawaii
Erik Lang — a mail room clerk from Nashville, Tennessee
Steve Gratz — a freelance artist from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve | $1,400 | $5,400 | $24,300 |
$18,600
2-day champion: $30,999 |
$23,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Erik | $2,400 | $2,000 | $2,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
16 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Melissa | $600 | $1,600 | $8,800 |
$6,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
11 R, 2 W |
| IT'S TV, IT'S HBO | THE LAST EMPEROR | PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME | CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF | TAKE A LETTER | "I"s IN THE PRIZE |
|
$200
[15]
Steve Buscemi whoops it up during Prohibition in this 2010 drama
Boardwalk Empire
Melissa
|
$200
[4]
Napoleon III
France
Steve
|
$200
[20]
Barack's Andean pack animals
Obama's llamas
Erik
|
$200
[23]
When Rome burned in 64 A.D., Nero was 35 miles away & couldn't have played this, as it wasn't invented until the 15th c.
a fiddle
Erik
|
$200
[1]
Theodore Roosevelt did not use this personal pronoun once during his 1905 inaugural address
I
Erik
|
$200
[27]
The Seattle Times won one in 2010 for its breaking news reporting
a Pulitzer
Erik
|
|
$400
[16]
In 2010 this war-based miniseries produced by Spielberg & Hanks got 24 Emmy nominations
The Pacific
Melissa
|
$400
[5]
Puyi, aka Xuantong
China
Erik
|
$400
[12]
George W.'s rumps
Bush's tushes
Erik
|
$400
[22]
This "ground lion" reptile rarely changes its color for camouflage: it's usually signifying its emotional state
chameleon
Erik
|
$400
[3]
This letter has been used as slang for a $10 bill
an X
Steve
Melissa
|
$600
[30]
In 1971 Pope Paul VI created a peace prize named for his predecessor, John this number
the XXIII
Steve
|
|
$600
[17]
This comedy website has come to HBO with Will Ferrell as an executive producer
Funny or Die
Melissa
|
$600
[2]
Maximilian
Mexico
Steve
|
$600
[9]
Zachary's padded envelopes
Taylor's mailers
Erik
|
$600
[13]
By some measures, the largest organism isn't a blue whale, but a 2,385-acre Oregon mushroom, the "humongous" this
fungus
Erik
|
$600
[24]
This vowel appears most often in the 2-letter postal abbreviations of the 50 states
A
Steve
Erik
|
$800
[29]
The only Nobel Prize that has 2 names is this "or medicine"
physiology
Erik
Melissa
|
|
$800
[18]
In 2007 the Emmy for writing for a drama went to David Chase's "Made in America" episode of this show, & then...
The Sopranos
Melissa
|
$800
[6]
Sultan Mehmed VI
the Ottoman Empire
Erik
|
$800
[10]
Herbert's strategic military exercises
Hoover's maneuvers
Erik
|
$800
[14]
Some argue there are 46 states, not 50, as Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania & Massachusetts are all these
Commonwealths
Melissa
|
$800
[25]
On a compass this letter is found at 270 degrees
W
Steve
|
$1,000
[28]
The Medal of Honor named for this island was "designed to pay homage to the immigrant experience"
Ellis Island
Steve
|
|
$1,000
[19]
Mary Lou got a new job in the 1998 finale of this Garry Shandling show--"Jeopardy!" contestant coordinator
The Larry Sanders Show
Steve
|
$1,000
[7]
Constantine XI
the Byzantine Empire
Erik
|
$1,000
[11]
James K.'s Ma & Pa
Polk's folks
Steve
|
$1,000
[21]
Some think America was named for Richard Ameryk, one of Cabot's investors, not for this Italian who died in 1512
Amerigo Vespucci
Steve
|
$1,000
[26]
An old book says it's pronounced "by closing the lips... and letting the voice issue by the nose"
M
Steve
|
DD
$2,400
[8]
Created in 1949, the peace prize bearing this man's name was renamed the Lenin Prize in 1956
Joseph Stalin
Erik
|
| IT'S NOT TV, IT'S "HBO" | BROADWAY BILLYS | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN | BRITISH ROYAL HOUSE, PLEASE | LITERARY E-MAIL ADDRESSES | SUGAR |
|
$400
[24]
Would you be mine, could you be mine, won't you be this term from the Old English for "near dweller"
neighbor
Steve
|
$400
[21]
"Mr. Saturday Night" in the movies, in 2004 he starred in a one-man show called "700 Sundays"
Billy Crystal
Steve
|
$400
[2]
In 1900 Canada's Geraldine Moodie became the first female photographer working above this "circle"
the Arctic Circle
Melissa
|
$400
[16]
Surname of the actor who played Elmer Gantry on film
Lancaster
Steve
|
$400
[6]
hogwarts_headmaster@harrypotter.edu
Dumbledore
Steve
Erik
|
$400
[11]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a container of a viscous brown substance near large equipment inside the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.) In the refining process, seven different boiling sessions will force 100 pounds of sugar to yield 1.5 pounds of this sticky substance
molasses
Erik
|
|
$800
[25]
Jim Gallegos' collection of this toy car brand is estimated to be worth $2 million
Matchboxes
Steve
|
$800
[22]
In 2003 Patrick Swayze did a 2-week stint as lawyer Billy Flynn in this musical
Chicago
Melissa
|
$800
[1]
19th c. Congo traveler Mary Kingsley said this large ape is "the most horrible wild animal I have seen"
a gorilla
Steve
|
$800
[14]
A type of wide, triangular necktie knot
a Windsor
Erik
|
$800
[17]
aka-smeagol@my-precious.info
Gollum
Steve
|
$800
[9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands by sugar washing equipment at the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.) An early process in refining is washing the syrupy mother liquor from the raw sugar in this type of rotating machine
a centrifuge
|
|
$1,200
[26]
If your actions are open to public scrutiny, you're "living life in" one of these glass enclosures
a fishbowl
Melissa
|
$1,200
[23]
In 2010 this Broadway dancing title tot was played by Liam Redhead (& 3 other boys, on different nights)
Billy Elliot
Steve
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1906 explorer Fanny B. Workman claimed to have climbed higher than 23,000 feet in these mountains
the Himalayans
Melissa
|
$1,200
[12]
In 1940 this company began making Peppermint Patties in Pennsylvania
York
Erik
|
$1,600
[19]
naval-historian-action-guy@clancy.cia.gov
Jack Ryan
Melissa
|
$1,200
[8]
In golden syrup, a byproduct of refining, some of the sucrose is broken down into these 2 sugars
glucose & fructose
|
|
$1,600
[28]
Those darn Etruscans were said to use this chicken part to tell their fortune; wasn't so lucky for the chicken
the wishbone
Steve
|
$1,600
[27]
"Movin' Out", which moved into the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2002, was based on the songs of this pop star
Billy Joel
Steve
|
$1,600
[4]
Around 1901 archaeologist Gertrude Bell excavated many of the ruins of Iraq & later began this city's Natl. Museum
Baghdad
Steve
|
$1,600
[13]
Take a "G" away from what you have the next day after too many Pimm's cups the night before to get this royal house
Hanover
Steve
|
$2,000
[20]
diarist@1984ministry-of-truth.gov
Winston Smith
Steve
|
$1,600
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew looks at large bins of raw sugar at the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.) Sugar beets can be stored but this plant, grown in Florida & used by Domino Sugar, deteriorates so it has to be quickly turned into raw sugar, then refined
sugar cane
Steve
|
| — | — |
$2,000
[5]
In the 1840s Ida Pfeiffer of Austria published an account of her trip along this long river to the Black Sea
the Danube
Erik
Melissa
|
$2,000
[15]
Confederate general Jeb lent this surname to light tanks known as the M2, M3 & M5
Stuart
Steve
|
DD
$2,500
[18]
ageless-wonder@wilde-pictures.com
Dorian Gray
Steve
|
$2,000
[10]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew carries a container in the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.) In large factory vacuum pans, the sugar seed is mixed into the mother liquor to initiate the formation of these structures; the surface regularity reflects its internal atomic symmetry
crystals
|
By area, it's the world's largest country that's named for a river
India