Maureen Abell — a family law and immigration lawyer from New York, New York
Dan Jensen — a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
Steve Gratz — a freelance artist from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $30,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve | $1,200 | $2,200 | $10,200 |
$11,301
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
17 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dan | $3,600 | $9,300 | $11,300 |
$21,001
New champion: $21,001 |
$10,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Maureen | $2,600 | $4,800 | $10,500 |
$20,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| FRANCE, FRANCE REVOLUTION | "V" SHALL SEE | DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? | SAY UNCLE | STATE QUARTERS | NICK NAMES |
|
$200
[30]
This structure, a symbol of the Bourbon monarchy, was stormed on July 14, 1789
the Bastille
Dan
|
$200
[1]
The hungry South Carolina native seen here
the Venus Flytrap
Steve
|
$200
[21]
You'll find San Jose, California about 90 miles southwest of this state capital
Sacramento
Maureen
|
$200
[6]
This personification of the United States wears a white top hat that has white stars on a blue band
Uncle Sam
Dan
|
$200
[12]
A salmon breaching the water in front of Mount Rainier
Washington
Steve
|
$200
[11]
Nick Park created the animated characters Wallace & this loyal dog
Gromit
Dan
|
|
$400
[25]
France was in dire straits financially due to its support of this other revolution
the American Revolution
Dan
|
$400
[2]
You're all wet if you can't name this location
the Victoria Falls
Maureen
|
$400
[29]
San Jose in this country is on the main highway from Manila to Aparri
the Philippines
Steve
Dan
|
$400
[7]
This "electric" character in "The Addams Family" could light up a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth
Uncle Fester
Maureen
|
$400
[17]
Susan Constant, Godspeed & Discovery, ships that brought settlers to Jamestown
Virginia
Maureen
|
$400
[13]
He played Four Leaf Tayback in the 2008 comedy "Tropic Thunder"
Nick Nolte
Dan
|
|
$600
[26]
Germinal, Fructidor & Thermidor could be found on the New French Republican this adopted in 1793
calendar
Steve
|
$600
[3]
It's a point on a triangle indicated here
a vertex
Dan
|
$600
[24]
San Jose Succotz in Belize is the starting point for Xunantunich, famous for its ruins of this people
the Mayans
Maureen
|
$600
[8]
Among the stories he narrates are "The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox" & "Why Mr. Possum has no hair on his tail"
Uncle Remus
Dan
|
$600
[20]
A grizzly bear emerging from the water with a salmon in its jaws & the motto "The Great Land"
Alaska
Dan
|
$600
[14]
Drumroll, please, for this star of "Drumline" who is the CEO of the Can I Ball record label
Nick Cannon
Dan
|
|
$1,000
[28]
A royalist power grab in Paris was crushed by this young general in 1795
Napoleon Bonaparte
Maureen
|
$800
[4]
Early 20th century revolutionary seen here
Pancho Villa
Dan
|
$800
[23]
If you're looking for the San Jose river, it's in this Canadian province on the Pacific
British Columbia
Dan
|
$800
[9]
John Candy played this loud & crude slacker relative of Macaulay Culkin in a 1989 film
Uncle Buck
Maureen
|
$800
[19]
A racecar superimposed on an outline of the state & the motto "Crossroads of America"
Indiana
Dan
|
$800
[15]
Nick Lowe wrote Elvis Costello's classic song "(What's so funny 'bout)" this trio
"Peace, Love, And Understanding"
Steve
|
|
DD
$1,500
[27]
Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety controlled this period of revolution that saw 30,000 executions
the Reign of Terror
Dan
|
$1,000
[5]
Structure seenhereperfected by the Romans
a viaduct
Dan
|
$1,000
[22]
San Jose island off Texas in the Gulf of Mexico is this type of narrow island parallel to the shore
a barrier island
Steve
|
$1,000
[10]
This Chekhov hero's real name is Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky
Uncle Vanya
Maureen
|
$1,000
[18]
A trumpet with musical notes & a pelican
Louisiana
Steve
|
$1,000
[16]
Nick Hornby novels made into films include "About a Boy" & this one in which John Cusack ran a record store
High Fidelity
Dan
|
| PHYSICS | NO. 1 WITH A BULLET | ART "T" | LANGUAGE OF ORIGIN | SEASONAL QUOTES | NICKNAMES |
|
$400
[11]
In the late 19th century, scientists postulated that this travels in waves through what they called luminiferous ether
light
Steve
|
$400
[20]
This title character of a Jim Croce No. 1 carried "a 32 gun in his pocket for fun"
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Steve
|
$400
[1]
Luca della Robbia made decorative reliefs from this, baked clay, glazed in blue & white
terracotta
Steve
|
$400
[6]
Hallelujah, sabbath
Hebrew
Maureen
|
$400
[15]
The narrator of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" has settled his brain "for a long" this season's "nap"
winter
Maureen
|
$400
[30]
On her death, Tony Blair said, "She was the 'People's Princess', and that is how she will stay"
Princess Diana
Maureen
|
|
$800
[12]
The torr is equal to 1 mm Hg, or the pressure exerted by 1 millimeter of this metal
mercury
Steve
|
$800
[22]
In "The Night The Lights Went Out In" this state, an innocent man fires a shot to summon the law--big mistake
"Georgia"
Dan
|
$800
[2]
Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" is one of these multipaneled works
a triptych
Dan
|
$800
[7]
Coach, paprika
Hungarian
Steve
|
$800
[19]
In 1864 at Spotsylvania, this Union General vowed "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer"
Ulysses Grant
|
$800
[26]
Born in 1874, he was nicknamed "The Handcuff King" & "The King of Escapologists"
Houdini
Dan
|
|
$1,600
[14]
The term horsepower was first used by James Watt affer comparing the power of horses to the power of these
steam engines
Dan
|
$1,200
[27]
"Out of the doorway the bullets rip/ To the sound of the beat" in this Queen No. 1
"Another One Bites The Dust"
|
$1,200
[3]
Salvador Dali is among those who've portrayed this "of St. Anthony"
The Temptation
Steve
|
$1,200
[8]
Almanac, hashish
Arabic
Maureen
|
$1,200
[16]
This royal "made some tarts all on a summer's day"
the Queen of Hearts
Maureen
|
$1,200
[23]
This writer was known affectionately as "The Concord Rebel" & "The Poet Naturalist"
Thoreau
Steve
|
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
Fluid dynamics can be divided into hydrodynamics, the study of fluids in motion, & this study of gases in motion
aerodynamics
Steve
|
$1,600
[28]
"The sound of the battle rang/ Through the streets of the old East Side" in "The Night" this town "Died"
"Chicago"
Steve
|
$1,600
[4]
Still life painter William Harnett was a practitioner of this type of illusionism, French for "deceive the eye"
trompe l'oeil
Steve
|
$1,600
[9]
Kowtow, catsup
Chinese
Steve
|
$2,000
[18]
In 1950 Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "but I miss you most of all, my darling, when" these "start to fall"
"The Autumn Leaves"
Maureen
|
$1,600
[24]
Though he didn't really blaze his own trails, this explorer & politician was nicknamed "The Pathfinder"
John C. Fremont
Steve
|
|
$2,000
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) On the surface of a cylinder rising at a constant angle lies this three-dimensional curve whose name is from the Greek for "spiral"
a helix
Steve
|
$2,000
[29]
In the 1965 No. 1 "Eve Of" this, "The eastern world, it is explodin'/ Violence flarin', bullets loadin'"
"Destruction"
Maureen
|
$2,000
[5]
John Constable deprecatingly called the work of this other Brit "airy visions, painted with tinted steam"
Turner
Steve
|
$2,000
[10]
Jai alai
Basque
Steve
Dan
Maureen
|
DD
$2,500
[17]
T.S. Eliot wrote that it was the "cruellest month...stirring dull roots with spring rain"
April
Maureen
|
$2,000
[25]
Before he came to the U.S., this physicist's Italian students called him "The Pope"; they considered him infallible
Enrico Fermi
Steve
|
The name for this news agency means "peninsula", referring to the Arabian peninsula
Al Jazeera