Katie Sowder — a freelance researcher from Kansas City, Missouri
Mary McGlynn — an English professor from Maplewood, New Jersey
Tim Maas — an Army ammunition inspector from McAlester, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $31,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim | $3,000 | $4,000 | $13,800 |
$3,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Mary | $2,800 | $3,300 | $3,700 |
$2,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
15 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| Katie | $200 | $1,400 | $11,900 |
$5,900
New champion: $5,900 |
$11,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| CAMELOT | THE KING & "I" | IN THE HEIGHTS | WICKED | RENT | GOD SPELL |
|
$200
[2]
While rescuing Queen Guinevere, this knight mistakenly killed Sir Gareth, which led to disbandment of the round table
Lancelot
Tim
Mary
|
$200
[3]
In a 1961 Elvis smash, this 8-word refrain follows, "wise men say only fools rush in, but"
I can't help falling in love with you
Tim
|
$200
[8]
This spinner of such tales as "It" & "The Stand" stands well over 6 feet
Stephen King
Tim
|
$200
[18]
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" is attributed to this Soviet leader
Stalin
Mary
|
$200
[13]
Apt. space is tight in this borough, also home to the mil. sq. ft. of storage rental at Chelsea mini-storage
Manhattan
Katie
|
$200
[1]
One of this Norse god's main epithets is Vingnir ("the hurler") (4 letters)
T-H-O-R
Mary
|
|
$400
[24]
In "Le Morte D'Arthur", Arthur tells him, I must take a wife but only "by thy counsel and thine advice"
Merlin
Tim
|
$400
[4]
In 1957 the King recorded this seasonal song about getting somewhere for the holidays "if only in my dreams"
I'll Be Home For Christmas
Mary
|
$400
[9]
I Samuel 17:4 says he was "six cubits and a span"; that's 9 feet 6 inches!
Goliath
Tim
|
$600
[20]
Living up to his nickname, in 440 this "Scourge of God" broke a truce with eastern Romans & blitzed Danubian towns
Attila the Hun
Tim
|
$400
[14]
The highest business rents in the world are along this Paris boulevard
Champs-Elysées
Mary
|
$400
[23]
"To Anacreon In Heaven" mentions this rollicking Roman god's vine(7 letters)
B-A-C-C-H-U-S
Tim
Mary
Katie
|
|
$600
[28]
This sword-proffering lady was a Tony-winning role in "Spamalot" for Sara Ramirez of "Grey's Anatomy"
The Lady of the Lake
Tim
Mary
|
$600
[5]
Completes the title of the King's second No. 1 "I Want You, I Need You..."
I Love You
Tim
|
$600
[10]
Fans of this shock jock might be shocked to learn that he stands 6-foot-5
Howard Stern
Mary
|
$800
[21]
In 1565 he said he'd rule Russia... if he could execute traitors as he wished & take their possessions: Russia said sure!
Ivan the Terrible
Mary
|
$600
[15]
This car rental business began in Chicago in 1918 with a fleet of 12 Model Ts
Hertz
|
$600
[25]
This Egyptian god of death & resurrection was the brother-husband of Isis (6 letters)
O-S-I-R-I-S
Katie
|
| — |
$800
[6]
The King called this Hank Williams classic he recorded in 1973 "the saddest song I've heard in my life"
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Tim
|
$800
[11]
Who better to tell us how to "Awaken The Giant Within" & control our own destiny than this 6'7" motivational speaker
Tony Robbins
Mary
|
$1,000
[22]
In the '70s nearly a million Cambodians died under the regime of this Khmer Rouge leader
Pol Pot
Tim
|
$800
[16]
A one-year rental for a luxury suite in this downtown Los Angeles arena can set you back about $475,000
Staples Center
Tim
|
$800
[26]
Vulcan is the Roman equivalent of this Greek fire god (10 letters)
H-E-P-H-A-E-S-T-U-S
Tim
|
| — |
$1,000
[7]
The King's debut album included a rockin' version of this Ray Charles classic about a gal way across town
I Got A Woman
Tim
|
$1,000
[12]
Sadly, the tale of this 7-foot-7 former NBA center came to an end in June 2010; he was laid to rest in his native Sudan
Manute Bol
Mary
|
DD
$1,500
[19]
In 1859 he joined a Shakespearean stock company in Richmond, Virginia (but that's not why he's in the category)
John Wilkes Booth
Mary
|
$1,000
[17]
In the 16th century the knights of Malta paid Holy Roman Emperor Charles V an annual rent of one of these birds
Maltese falcon
Mary
|
$1,000
[27]
This Hindu god of wisdom & good fortune has the head of an elephant (7 letters)
G-A-N-E-S-H-A
Mary
Katie
|
| ISLANDS IN THE SEA | ANTHONY HOPKINS FILMS | YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE COUCH | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS | THE GREAT WAR | THE PEACE CORPS |
|
$400
[15]
Sicily(on all sides)
the Mediterranean
Tim
|
$400
[10]
Hopkins was Richard, son of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, in this 1968 film
The Lion In Winter
Mary
|
$400
[20]
Soccer-playing teens are prone to Osgood-Schlatter disease, mainly seen as a swelling just below this joint
the knee
Tim
|
$400
[1]
It means sad or listless; when tripled, it means "and so on"
blah
Tim
|
$400
[6]
Stanley Kubrick's WWI film "Paths Of Glory" is about a real incident involving this country's army
France
Tim
Mary
|
$1,600
[27]
At the invitation of President Nkrumah, the first overseas volunteers arrived in this country on the Gulf of Guinea in August of 1961
Ghana
|
|
$800
[16]
Aruba
the Caribbean
Katie
|
$800
[11]
Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for his role in this 1991 film
Silence Of The Lambs
Katie
|
$800
[21]
This contact sport injury resulting from a blow to the head has several grades; with grade I, you stay conscious
a concussion
Katie
|
$800
[2]
"To run" this way means to run viciously, frenzied for blood; originally the term referred to a crazy Malay
amok
Tim
|
$1,200
[8]
In the War's biggest naval battle, the British & German fleets fought to a draw off this Danish peninsula
Jutland
Tim
|
$2,000
[26]
The Corps serves the 2nd as well as the 3rd World, in Romania & this Balkan neighbor on its southern border
Bulgaria
|
|
$1,200
[17]
Lesbos &Lemnos
the Aegean
Katie
|
$1,200
[12]
Sir Anthony was the voice of Hrothgar in the 2007 animated version of this epic
Beowulf
Mary
|
$1,200
[22]
It's the most common sports sprain & also common is your buddy telling you to just walk it off
the ankle
Mary
|
$1,200
[3]
Led Zeppelin knows that this word refers to a concluding passage of a musical piece or a ballet
a coda
Katie
|
DD
$1,400
[7]
In 1916 some 10,000 British & Indian troops trapped in the Mesopotamian town of Kut surrendered to these foes
the Turks
Tim
|
— |
|
$2,000
[19]
Masirah, off the Omani coast
the Arabian Sea
Mary
|
$1,600
[13]
It was Anthony Hopkins for whom death (Brad Pitt) came calling in this 1998 film
Meet Joe Black
Mary
Katie
|
$1,600
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical demonstration on a monitor.) If the inflammation called bursitis happens where the tendons in your forearm attach to the prominence of the humerus bone, it's known as this sporty affliction
tennis elbow
Katie
|
$1,600
[4]
A symbol of life in Egypt, it's also known as an Ansate Cross
an ankh
Tim
|
$1,600
[9]
The British & this ally took the German colony of Tsingtao in 1914; in 1941, the teams would be different
Japan
Mary
|
— |
|
DD
$2,500
[18]
Nunivak
the Bering Sea
Katie
|
$2,000
[14]
In "Amistad", about an 1839 uprising of Africans on a slave ship, Hopkins played this former president arguing for the defense
John Quincy Adams
|
$2,000
[24]
Acute mountain sickness can develop into the pulmonary or cerebral type of this accumulation of fluid
edema
Tim
|
$2,000
[5]
This word from Heinlein's "Stranger In A Strange Land" means "to communicate sympathetically"
grok
|
$2,000
[25]
When war began, the Triple Alliance of Germany, Italy & Austria-Hungary faced the Triple this
the Triple Entente
Tim
|
— |
Although capital of its country, it is not the capital of the province in which it's located, nor is it the seat of government
Amsterdam