Scott Harris — a videographer and elementary school librarian from Las Vegas, Nevada
Julie Wolfson — a systems engineer from Littleton, Colorado
Jeff Gorham — an accountant from Richmond, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff | $400 | $2,400 | $8,000 |
$9,601
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
14 R, 4 W |
| Julie | $1,400 | $4,800 | $9,600 |
$16,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
14 R, 1 W |
| Scott | $1,600 | $2,200 | $13,600 |
$19,201
New champion: $19,201 |
$15,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 2 DDs) |
| SPOKEN IN SOUTH AMERICA | DESCRIBING THE FILM | FAITH IN AMERICA | GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT |
|
$200
[8]
English is official, but about half of Guyana is of East Indian descent, so many there speak these 2 Indic languages
Hindi & Urdu
|
$200
[2]
2007: Big robots, explosions, Michael Bay, explosions, an Allspark, explosions
Transformers
Julie
|
$200
[16]
It's the term for a regular Quaker gathering; like at a business one, minutes are read
a meeting
Julie
|
$200
[20]
Cyrus Dallin made thesculptureof this man that's near the Old North Church
Paul Revere
Jeff
Scott
|
$200
[1]
In 1919 this school was established as the Southern Branch of the University of California
UCLA
Jeff
Scott
|
$200
[11]
At 29 feet, 4 1/2 inches, Mike Powell holds the world record for this
the long jump
Julie
|
|
$400
[9]
The city of Recife, "reef" in this language, is so named for its location behind a long & protective coastal reef
Portuguese
Jeff
|
$400
[3]
1986: Principal Rooney has a bad day; a Ferrari meets a bad end--Broderick...? Broderick...?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Jeff
|
$400
[17]
Illinois has the Diocese of Peoria, Diocese of Joliet & this of Chicago, headed by cardinal George
archdiocese
Julie
|
$400
[21]
The American Museum of Natural History in New York honors this president
Theodore Roosevelt
Scott
|
$400
[4]
Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College
South Dakota
Scott
|
$400
[12]
"The Lottery" or "The Gold Bug"
a short story
Julie
|
| — |
$600
[5]
1984: Sarah Connor... duck!When Arnolds attack; Your clothes. Give them to me. Now
The Terminator
Julie
|
$600
[18]
John Adams & John Quincy Adams were members of this religion, meaning they believed in 1 divinity, not 3
Unitarian
|
$600
[22]
San Diego has astatueofthis11th-century chivalrous Spanish warrior
El Cid
Jeff
|
DD
$800
[10]
Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Scott
|
$600
[13]
Traditionally, the main ingredients in these Scottish cookies are flour, sugar & an ample amount of butter
shortbread
Jeff
|
| — |
$800
[6]
1988: A cop comes to L.A. for Christmas, goes to his wife's holiday party, kills a lot of party crashers
Die Hard
Scott
|
$800
[19]
In the main Hare Krishna mantra, it's the word that's not Hare or Krishna
Rama
|
$800
[23]
Kiev remembers Khmelnitsky--a leader of these mountedwarriors of Ukraine & Russia
the Cossacks
Julie
|
$800
[25]
This university in West Virginia is named for the Supreme Court Chief Justice who raised the court to a position of power
Marshall
Jeff
|
$800
[14]
Tinker, of "Tinker to Evers to Chance", was one of these
a shortstop
Jeff
|
| — |
$1,000
[7]
2010: Affleck-ted directing; Massachusetts mayhem; you can bank (rob) on it
The Town
Scott
|
— |
$1,000
[24]
This20th-century leader rides in Anatolia
Kemal Ataturk
|
$1,000
[26]
The Daily Wildcat is the college newspaper from this Southwestern university
the University of Arizona
Julie
|
$1,000
[15]
This California port city is home to an aquarium & the Queen Mary
Long Beach
Julie
|
| PENGUINS | SIBLINGS OF SONG | SOUP TALK | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET | WHERE IT AILS YOU | BE "APP"Y |
|
$400
[11]
(Lindblad and National Geographicnaturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) The recent increase in gentoo penguin numbers may be due to decreased sea ice coverage caused by this phenomenon of rising average air temperatures
global warming
Scott
|
$400
[1]
Last name of Mark & Donnie; their family is a funky bunch
Wahlberg
Jeff
|
$400
[9]
The classic French soup vichyssoise is traditionally made with leeks & these tubers
potatoes
Julie
|
$400
[14]
...this anti-slavery author; her Hartford home was next door to Twain's
(Harriet Beecher) Stowe
Jeff
|
$400
[22]
Tinnitus
the ear
Scott
|
$400
[4]
Colorful piles of it are often strewn about on Christmas morning
gift wrapping
Jeff
|
|
DD
$500
[28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Antarctica.) This 7-letter term for a breeding place for penguins comes from the name of a colony of another black bird
a rookery
Scott
|
$800
[2]
Tattooed twins Benji & Joel Madden front this band
Good Charlotte
Scott
|
$800
[10]
In 1897 Campbell's introduced this flavor of soup, condensed in a can
tomato
Jeff
Julie
|
$800
[15]
...this young British author who was traveling from India to England via the U.S. in 1889
(Rudyard) Kipling
Jeff
|
$800
[23]
Plantar fasciitis
the foot
Jeff
|
$800
[5]
The tongue of a bell
a clapper
Jeff
|
|
$800
[27]
(Lindblad and National Geographicnaturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) Because the chicks of this largest penguin take so long to mature, females lay their eggs in winter so that the chicks can be independent by summer
the emperor penguin
Scott
|
$1,200
[3]
Last name of Jimmie, who taught his younger brother Stevie Ray how to play guitar
Vaughan
Julie
|
$1,200
[19]
Don't send it back: this soup from the Andalusian region of Spain is supposed to be cold
gazpacho
Julie
|
$1,200
[16]
...this poet, whose "Idylls of the King" started an Arthurian craze that inspired "A Connecticut Yankee"
Tennyson
Jeff
|
$1,200
[24]
Coccydynia
the tailbone
Scott
|
$1,200
[6]
A hiking route that goes from Maine to Georgia
the Appalachian Trail
Julie
|
|
$1,600
[30]
(Lindblad and National Geographicnaturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) This species of small penguin is distinguished by a narrow black band that runs across its throat & seems to be holding a black cap upon its head
the chinstrap penguin
Julie
|
$1,600
[12]
Rich & Chris Robinson didn't fly as solo acts, so they reformed this group
The Black Crowes
Scott
|
$1,600
[20]
The name of the Italian soup pasta e fagioli means "pasta &" these
beans
Scott
|
$1,600
[17]
...this British-born journalist in the 1860s, a few years before a journey in Africa made him famous
(Henry Morton) Stanley
Scott
|
DD
$1,500
[25]
Acromioclavicular joint separation--the joint
the shoulder
Scott
|
$1,600
[7]
A bluefish is one of the fish also called this
a snapper
|
|
$2,000
[29]
(Underwater specialist Lisa Trotter delivers the clue from Antarctica.) Though efficient swimmers, penguins must come up for air, & do so in a method called this, after the way a certain cetacean leaps in and out of the water
porpoising
|
$2,000
[13]
Last name of brothers Eddie & Alex, who lent that name to a hard rock band in 1974
Van Halen
Scott
|
$2,000
[21]
Tamil gives us the name of this soup that's flavored with curry
mulligatawny
|
$2,000
[18]
...this newspaper publisher, when Twain was chased out of his office at the New York tribune
Horace Greeley
Jeff
|
$2,000
[26]
Medial cruciate ligament sprain
the knee
Jeff
|
$2,000
[8]
Russian word for a member of the ruling power, especially in a Communist country
apparatchik
|
At his 1994 inaugural, he called for "a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world"
Nelson Mandela