Denise O'Connor — a health care attorney from Oak Ridge, New Jersey
Trey McCraw — an aspiring novelist from Maiden, North Carolina
Julie Ross Godar — an online managing editor from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,801)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julie | $2,400 | $6,600 | $17,400 |
$2,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$17,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Trey | $1,200 | $1,400 | $10,600 |
$21,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
14 R, 1 W |
| Denise | $2,600 | $5,600 | $15,900 |
$31,700
New champion: $31,700 |
$11,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| D-DAY | LET'S DO "UNCH" | AUSTRIANS | THE U.S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | SOUNDS GEOMETRIC | CHEVY CHASE ONSNL |
|
$200
[7]
The deepest ground penetration on June 6 was not by Americans or Brits but by this country's forces at Juno beach
Canada
Trey
|
$200
[10]
Let's have this mid-morning meal with a portmanteau name
brunch
Julie
|
$200
[26]
As a U.S. governor, he established the hydrogen highway & million solar roofs plan
Schwarzenegger
Trey
|
$200
[21]
The USBGN rarely approves the use of this punctuation mark, so it endorses names like Henrys Fork & Pikes Peak
an apostrophe
Julie
|
$200
[6]
You may facetiously call your wastebasket this "file"
a circular file
Trey
|
$200
[1]
(Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) On "Weekend Update", I announced "Our top story tonight: Generalissimo" this man "is still dead"
Franco
Julie
Denise
|
|
$400
[8]
The decision to go on June 6 was due to James Stagg, chief adviser to Eisenhower on this atmospheric science
weather
Trey
|
$400
[11]
Let's hit the gym & do these till our abs cry
crunch
Julie
|
$400
[27]
He graduated from the medical school of the University of Vienna in 1881; tell me, how do you feel about that?
Freud
Denise
|
$400
[22]
D'oh! The USBGN's website says it's a myth that there's a community named this in each of the 50 states--there's one in only 34
Springfield
Denise
|
$400
[17]
The Texas Dept. of Agriculture uses this geometric term for the nutritious food kids should eat--breakfast, lunch & dinner
a square meal (food pyramid)
Julie
|
$400
[2]
(Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) In 1986, 10 years after I played at least a small part in denying this man a new term, I met him at a conference on humor & the presidency held at his museum
Gerald Ford
Trey
|
|
$600
[9]
A counterattack by tanks called these, from the German for "armor", was barely turned back by British gunners
Panzers
Denise
|
$600
[12]
Let's get a pizza... & a couple of burritos... & some chips... I've got a bad case of these
the munchies
Julie
|
$600
[28]
Pre-Spago, this chef's first job in the U.S. was at La Tour in Indianapolis in 1973
(Wolfgang) Puck
Julie
|
$600
[23]
The USBGN shot down a recent proposal to change the name of this to the "Gulf of America"
the Gulf of Mexico
Denise
|
$600
[18]
At the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comaneci got a perfect 10 on this uneven equipment
the parallel bars
Denise
|
$600
[3]
(Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) When I checked into "Samurai Hotel", Richard Pryor & this actor argued with swords, over who'd carry my bags to my room
John Belushi
Denise
|
|
$800
[15]
Visits to Longues-sur-Mer, the only coastal German one of these emplacements with guns intact, are "electrifying"
batteries
|
$800
[13]
Let's have you prove me right by showing you know this term for an intuition
a hunch
Denise
|
— |
$800
[24]
The USBGN has been in the middle as Alaska's lawmakers have fought with Ohio's over the name of this mountain
(Mt.) McKinley
Julie
|
$800
[19]
Rather than long-term care for chronic disorders, some hospitals give this type of care (the opposite of obtuse)
acute
Julie
|
$800
[4]
(Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) I played this "SNL" character who tried to gain entry into peoples' homes by claiming to be a plumber, a dolphin & a deliverer of a "candygram"
the Land Shark
Denise
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Rommel said, "the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive...it will be" this, which became the title of a book & movie
the longest day
Trey
|
$1,000
[14]
Let's read "An American Dilemma", this Nobel Prize winner's 1944 study of race relations
(Ralph) Bunche
Trey
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
The USBGN catalogs the locations of these but won't release them; if you want to spelunk, you're on your own
caves
Denise
|
DD
$1,400
[20]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) Microsoft surface uses multiple cameras to find my finger position with this geometric technique where two known points lead to the location of an unknown
triangulation
Julie
|
$1,000
[5]
(Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) I told Gilda Radner, "I don't know, Babs, but I do know this--you've really let" this small, fleshy item that hangs from the soft palate "go to the dogs"
your uvula
Julie
|
| "E" DAY | HERBS & SPICE GIRLS | BALLET | IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD | 20th CENTURY NOVELS | ELEMENT, SPEL-EMENT |
|
$400
[12]
In November 1848, for the first time, it was the same for Americans in every state
Election Day
Julie
|
$400
[2]
In 2003 Geri Halliwell, this redheaded spice, played Phoebe in an episode of "Sex and the City"
Ginger Spice
Trey
|
$400
[26]
In the 1960s Galina Ulanova retired & Maya Plisetskaya became this company's prima ballerina
the Bolshoi
Trey
|
$400
[1]
The British rescued 5 of these toy dogs when looting the Chinese imperial palace in 1860; one was presented to Queen Victoria
Pekingese
Denise
|
$400
[7]
James Michener's novel about this country centers on a village on the Vistula River
Poland
Trey
|
$400
[21]
Uranium, phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen
U P O N
|
|
$800
[13]
In 1834 slavery was abolished in the British Empire as of August 1, long celebrated as this day
Emancipation Day
Denise
|
$800
[3]
This trumpet player headed the Tijuana Brass on "Spanish Flea", the theme song for "The Dating Game"
Herb Alpert
Julie
|
$1,600
[27]
Before studying ballet & opening his own ballet school in New York City in 1953, he was a tap dancer
(Robert) Joffrey
Trey
|
$800
[17]
The Aztecs revered this dog; by the 19th century, it was nicknamed pelon, Spanish for "bald"
a Mexican hairless dog
Julie
Denise
|
$800
[8]
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's" is the opening passage, & about the most comprehensible part, of this Joyce novel
Finnegans Wake
Julie
|
$800
[22]
Boron, aluminum, potassium
B Al K
Trey
|
|
$1,600
[15]
Fittingly, schools were not closed on April 5, 2009, which was this "and sharing day, U.S.A."
Education
Julie
|
$1,200
[4]
The uniquely dressed Herb Tarlek hung out with Les Nessman & Dr. Johnny Fever at this title radio station (on TV)
WKRP in Cincinnati
Denise
|
— |
$1,200
[18]
The AKC says the name of this dog breed seenheregoes back to one owned by Kees de Gyselaer
Keeshond
|
$1,200
[9]
Just before his death in 1975, Rex Stout published "A Family Affair", his final book about this portly detective
Nero Wolfe
Julie
|
$1,200
[23]
Sulfur, silver
S Ag
Julie
|
|
$2,000
[16]
In Japan before WWII February 11 was celebrated as this large political unit day
Empire Day
Trey
|
$1,600
[5]
"I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want"; for you to name this 1-word 1997 Spice Girls No. 1 hit
"Wannabe"
|
— |
$1,600
[19]
In the 1980s Wally Conron was the first to breed this dog; now there are oodles of them
labradoodles
Denise
|
$1,600
[10]
At 900+ pages, his 1998 novel "I Know This Much is True" is one hefty read
(Wally) Lamb
Julie
|
$1,600
[24]
Sodium, yttrium
Na Y
Trey
|
|
DD
$5,500
[14]
The U.S. Department of Energy has a website urging us to "Make every day" this April event
Earth Day
Denise
|
$2,000
[6]
In 1979 this duo hit No. 1 for 4 weeks with "Reunited"
Peaches & Herb
Julie
|
— |
$2,000
[20]
Byron said his dog, of this large breed, possessed beauty without vanity & all the virtues of man without his vices
a Newfoundland
Trey
|
$2,000
[11]
Yakov Liebermann, the hero of this Ira Levin novel, was based on Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
The Boys from Brazil
|
$2,000
[25]
Tin, iodine, fluorine, fluorine
Sn I F F
Julie
|
Founded in 1795, this city that hosts a popular annual sporting event has "sport" in its name
Williamsport