IBM Challenge mini-documentary: "What is Watson?"
Marty Christy — a language arts middle school teacher from Alexandria, Virginia
Mai Do-Burrous — a stay-at-home mother from New York, New York
Fred Cofone — a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred | $200 | $5,200 | $21,200 |
$21,200
2-day champion: $24,400 |
$20,400
24 R (including 3 DDs), 3 W |
| Mai | $3,800 | $3,800 | $10,600 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
17 R, 4 W |
| Marty | $400 | $0 | $-400 |
$-400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-400
6 R, 5 W |
| BRITISH NOVELISTS | UP ON MOUNT RUSHMORE | GENESIS QUOTE FILL-IN | UNUSUAL COUNTRY MUSIC LYRICS | "M.C." 5 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS |
|
$200
[16]
An unflattering version of ex-girlfriend Maria Beadnell appeared in his "Little Dorrit"
(Charles) Dickens
Marty
|
$200
[1]
Picked West Point as the site for the U.S. Military Academy
Washington
Mai
Marty
|
$200
[24]
"They sewed ____ ____ together, and made themselves aprons"
fig leaves
|
$200
[19]
Don't own no pickup truck / They make me go fetal / Just like to scoot around / In this company's Beetle
Volkswagen
Fred
|
$200
[4]
He's worth every penny as Alfred Pennyworth in "The Dark Knight"
Michael Caine
Mai
|
$200
[8]
It can mean undistinguished or one walking as opposed to driving
pedestrian
Mai
|
|
$400
[17]
Her relationship with writer Vita Sackville-West would inspire the play "Vita and Virginia"
Virginia Woolf
|
$400
[2]
Sent Lewis & Clark off to see the country
Jefferson
Fred
|
$400
[25]
"And the Lord set a mark upon ____, lest any finding him should kill him"
Cain
Marty
|
$400
[20]
& I'm proud to be / From this country / Where at least I know I'm free / From Halifax to Kamloops / It's the place for you & me!
Canada
Fred
|
$400
[5]
The parents of this 52nd governor of New York immigrated to the U.S. from Salerno, Italy
Mario Cuomo
Fred
|
$400
[9]
Bridgeport is the largest city in this northeastern state
Connecticut
Fred
|
|
$600
[18]
James Hilton's father, a school headmaster, was an inspiration for the title character in "Goodbye, Mr." him
Chips
Fred
|
$600
[3]
Was married twice
Theodore Roosevelt
Mai
|
$600
[26]
"And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have ____ over the fish of the sea"
dominion
Fred
|
$600
[21]
Workin' on Wall Street / Sure takes its toll / But a ski trip to this country's Davos or Gstaad / Is good for the soul
Switzerland
Fred
|
$600
[13]
This child star got his first on-screen kiss in "My Girl"
Macaulay Culkin
Mai
Marty
|
$600
[10]
Verb meaning to introduce a disease-producing agent for the purpose of creating resistance
inoculate
Mai
|
|
DD
$800
[29]
Her only published work under her real name, Mary Ann Evans, was a translation of "Essence of Christianity"
(George) Eliot
Fred
|
$800
[6]
Eliminated the tax on whiskey & sent a naval expedition against the Barbary pirates
Jefferson
Fred
|
$800
[27]
"There were ____ in the earth in those days"
giants
|
$800
[22]
I don't like beer / I like my drinks pretty / Like this vodka, cointreau, cranberry juice & lime juice one / On "Sex & the City"
a cosmopolitan
Fred
|
$800
[14]
Edgar Degas' style influenced that of this female American Impressionist
Mary Cassatt
Mai
|
$800
[11]
9-letter adjective literally applying to one in the womb; it's used of a project just getting started
embryonic
Fred
Marty
|
| — |
$1,000
[7]
Appointed Oliver Ellsworth Chief Justice
Washington
Mai
|
$1,000
[28]
"And God set them in the ____ of the heaven to give light upon the earth"
firmament
Marty
|
$1,000
[23]
You won't find me at the barbecue / 'Cause I don't eat no legs / I'm on this 5-letter diet / Not even dairy & eggs
vegan
Fred
|
$1,000
[15]
The film "Gigi" gave him his signature song "Thank Heaven For Little Girls"
Maurice Chevalier
Marty
|
$1,000
[12]
This small fault or offense is from both Spanish & Italian for "sin"
peccadillo
Fred
Marty
|
| OUR WATERY WORLD | TV PERSONALITY MARRIAGES | CHICKS DIG ME | ANAGRAM ZOO | GEOLOGY | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" |
|
$400
[4]
The City of Worms, where Martin Luther refused to recant in 1521, is a port on this German river
the Rhine
Fred
Mai
|
$400
[5]
She & hubby Will Arnett played a sister-&-brother ice skating team in "Blades of Glory"
Amy Poehler
Fred
|
$400
[26]
Kathleen Kenyon's excavation of this city mentioned in Joshua showed the walls had been repaired 17 times
Jericho
Mai
|
$400
[15]
A tiny terrier:RISKY HERO
Yorkshire
|
$400
[3]
A deep ravine that's often dry in the summer, it shares its name with a "grand" dam in Washington state
a coulee
Fred
Mai
|
$400
[1]
Established as part of the New Deal, it's the TVA for short
the Tennessee Valley Authority
Mai
|
|
$800
[12]
This ocean's deepest point, more than 23,000 feet, is in the Java Trench
the Indian Ocean
Fred
Marty
|
$800
[6]
Anna Torv & Mark Valley played lovers on this eerie Fox show & married in real life in 2008
Fringe
|
$800
[30]
This mystery author & her archaeologist hubby dug in hopes of finding the lost Syrian city of Urkesh
Agatha Christie
Mai
|
$800
[16]
An ape:MICE ZAP HEN
chimpanzee
Mai
|
$800
[10]
This layer of rock between the Earth's core & crust makes up about 85 percent of the planet's mass
the mantle
Mai
|
$800
[2]
In the King James Bible, the Book of Psalms says, "Yea, though I walk through" this, "I will fear no evil"
the valley of the shadow of death
Marty
|
|
$1,600
[21]
The only major river that flows both north & south across the equator is this second-longest river in Africa
the Congo
Mai
|
$1,200
[28]
After 7 months of marriage, Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" & Fred Armisen of this late night staple separated
SNL ( Saturday Night Live )
Mai
|
$1,200
[29]
At the Olduvai Gorge in 1959, she & hubby Louis found a 1.75 million-year-old Australopithecus boisei skull
Mary Leakey
Fred
|
$1,200
[17]
A fish-catching bird:MORTAR CON
cormorant
Fred
|
$1,200
[11]
From the Greek for "without shape", this term refers to rocks & minerals that have no crystalline structure
amorphous (amorphic accepted)
Mai
Marty
|
DD
$1,200
[7]
Where Tut rested undisturbed until 1922
the Valley of the Kings (the Valley of Kings accepted)
Fred
|
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
This large Central American lake that shares its name with a country has some of the world's few freshwater sharks
Lake Nicaragua
Fred
|
$1,600
[27]
His wife Jennifer Carpenter plays his sister on "Dexter"
Michael C. Hall
|
$1,600
[24]
Harriet Boyd Hawes was the first woman to discover & excavate a Minoan settlement on this island
Crete
Fred
|
$1,600
[18]
A member of the weasel family:GARBED
badger
|
$1,600
[13]
Lamina is a layer in this type of rock that is less than 1 cm. in thickness & is visually separable from other layers
sedimentary
|
$1,600
[8]
Fragrant perennial with a 4-word name seen here
lily of the valley
Fred
|
|
$2,000
[25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a globe on the monitor.) Exactly two-thirds of the way south from the equator, you can circumnavigate the world without ever crossing land at this latitude
60 degrees south
|
$2,000
[22]
This "All My Children" star had all his children--Michael, Lola & Joaquin--with wife Kelly Ripa
(Mark) Consuelos
Mai
|
$2,000
[23]
At Mt. Carmel in Israel, Dorothy Garrod was the first to find this prehistoric human skeleton outside of Europe
Neanderthal
Mai
|
$2,000
[19]
A crocodilian:MANIAC
caiman
Fred
|
$2,000
[14]
"Bovine" term for a crescent-shaped lake formed in an abandoned river bend
an oxbow
Fred
|
$2,000
[9]
Spencer Johnson of "Who Moved My Cheese?" fame wrote a book about life's ups & downs titled these opposites
Peaks and Valleys
Fred
Mai
|
Since the 1600s this 8-letter word has meant men of letters; a punning form of it refers to celebrities
literati