Ben Sack — an Internet entrepreneur from Boston, Massachusetts
Amy Larimer — a fish and wildlife technician from Corpus Christi, Texas
Mary Anna Martell — a graduate student in library science from Waterford, Connecticut (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Anna | $2,000 | $3,800 | $6,200 |
$600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
13 R, 4 W |
| Amy | $2,000 | $5,800 | $13,400 |
$11,799
New champion: $11,799 |
$13,400
16 R, 1 W |
| Ben | $4,300 | $6,100 | $7,500 |
$10
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| NONFICTION | 1923TIMECOVERS | WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL MASCOT? | IT'S THE "PIT"S | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF | NYSE |
|
$200
[4]
In a book subtitled "A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation", the equation is this
E = mc 2
Mary Anna
|
$200
[27]
The very first Time cover, in March 1923, featured Joe Cannon, who had held this job currently held by John Boehner
Speaker of the House
Mary Anna
|
$200
[2]
GEICO
a gecko
Ben
|
$200
[7]
This person supervises the gambling in a casino
a pit boss
Amy
|
$200
[21]
Appropriately, Kentucky's official state music is this type of country music that favors the banjo
bluegrass
Mary Anna
|
$200
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from outside the New York Stock Exchange.) Thepedimentabove the New York City Stock Exchange entrance is titled "Integrity Protecting the Works of Man"; presiding over images of industry, science & agriculture, the figure of Integritywears the winged hat representing & associated with this Roman god of commerce
Mercury
Mary Anna
|
|
$400
[5]
It holds the record in its own record book as the bestselling copyrighted nonfiction book of all time
the Guinness Book of World Records
Ben
|
$400
[25]
July 23's cover showed Roy Asa Haynes, the U.S. commissioner of this unpopular program repealed in 1933
Prohibition
Ben
|
$400
[1]
Aflac
a duck
Amy
|
$400
[12]
This pea-sized gland is also called the hypophysis
pituitary
Ben
|
$400
[20]
The Western hemlock, Washington's state tree, is this type, also found in the state's official nickname
evergreen
Mary Anna
Amy
|
$400
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the New York Stock Exchange.) Share prices on the Big Board have been listed indecimalssince 2001, when the 200-year-old practice of trading in these numerical units was finally ended
fractions
Ben
|
|
$600
[6]
"Have A Little Faith: A True Story" was a 2009 bestseller by this "Tuesdays with Morrie" author
(Mitch) Albom
Ben
|
$600
[22]
Late in the year, Time showcased this fading former U.S. president who died the following year
(Woodrow) Wilson
Ben
|
$600
[8]
NBC(since the 1950s)
a peacock
Ben
|
$600
[13]
In baseball, it's a ball purposely thrown wide of the plate to help the catcher nab a base stealer
a pitchout
Amy
|
$600
[19]
Maryland's state dog is this retriever with a body of water in its name
a Chesapeake Bay retriever
Mary Anna
|
$600
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the New York Stock Exchange.) When world events disrupt markets, even the bustling New York Stock Exchange can undergo an emergency closure; the longest such shutdown began July 31st of this year, with war in Europe just days away
1914
Amy
Ben
|
|
$800
[3]
"Against All Odds" is this current Massachusetts senator's tale of overcoming a childhood of beatings & worse
Scott Brown
Amy
|
$800
[10]
At the end of 1923, this Irish author graced Time's cover & inside discussed his new play about Joan of Arc
(George Bernard) Shaw
Ben
|
$800
[14]
Klondike bar
a polar bear
Mary Anna
|
$800
[9]
This term for a meager monetary wage originally referred to the allowance of food given to a monk
a pittance
Ben
|
$1,000
[18]
The diatonic or Cajun type of this is Louisiana's state musical instrument
an accordion
Amy
|
$800
[29]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.) In 1979, the New York Stock Exchange formed a new exchange for trading in these forward-looking securities; right now I can buy 33.2 ounces of gold for delivery next January
futures
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[16]
Published posthumously in 1977, "American Hunger" is a continuation of his "Black Boy" autobiography
(Richard) Wright
Mary Anna
|
$1,000
[26]
The fourth issue in 1923 featured the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who's better known by this name
Ataturk
Amy
|
$1,000
[15]
Elmer's glue
a bull
Mary Anna
Ben
|
$1,000
[17]
Adamstown is the only settlement on this tiny British dependency in the South Pacific
Pitcairn Island
Mary Anna
|
DD
$1,500
[11]
Virginia's official nickname is "Old" this, a reference to its status as England's oldest colony in the Americas
Dominion
Ben
|
$1,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside the New York Stock Exchange.) If the Dow Jones Industrial Average declines more than 10% in a day, trading is halted to prevent a market slide; it's a safety feature called this 2-word term, also a device that protects homes from electrical overloads
circuit breaker
Mary Anna
Ben
|
| ARTISTS | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY | THE HERO WITH... | WORDS IN THE PREAMBLE | A THOUSAND | FACES |
|
$400
[7]
Like Whistler, this "American Gothic" artist painted his own mother, in "Woman With Plants"
(Grant) Wood
Ben
|
$400
[24]
"Ghost" (Oscar) &"The View" (Emmy)
(Whoopi) Goldberg
Ben
|
$400
[1]
A tank; in an effort to escape his notoriety, this hero joined the Royal Tank Corps in 1923 as T.E. Shaw
Lawrence (of Arabia)
Mary Anna
|
$800
[19]
Yes, Lady, the founders hoped to "secure the blessings of" this
liberty
Ben
|
$800
[25]
Numeric title for an Arabian folktale collection that originated in the 9th century
1,001 Nights
Ben
|
$800
[12]
This Chicago businessman looks like he might be taking in a ballgame
(William) Wrigley
Ben
|
|
$800
[6]
In 1949 Life magazine asked if this drip artist was "the greatest living painter in the United States"
Jackson Pollock
Mary Anna
|
$800
[23]
"Kramer vs. Kramer" (Oscar) &"Holocaust" (Emmy)
Meryl Streep
Amy
|
$800
[2]
The Golden Apples of the Hesperides
Hercules
Mary Anna
|
$1,200
[18]
The preamble mentions this peaceful state; there's a sea of it on the Moon
tranquility
Amy
|
$1,200
[11]
A volcanic region within Alaska's Katmai National Park is designated "The Valley of Ten Thousand" these
Smokes
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
Thislate brother-in-law of JFK was the first director of the Peace Corps & later ran the War on Poverty
Sargent Shriver
Ben
|
|
$1,200
[5]
He modeled the 2 seated men in his "Nighthawks" after himself & the lone woman at the diner after his wife Jo
(Edward) Hopper
Amy
Ben
|
$1,200
[22]
"The Fugitive" (Oscar) &"The Executioner's Song" (Emmy)
Tommy Lee Jones
Amy
|
$1,200
[3]
A horn named Olifant, which was sounded too late to help his Frankish forces
Roland
Ben
|
$1,600
[17]
One goal is to "promote the general" this, also a term for government aid to the needy
welfare
Amy
|
DD
$1,600
[9]
Before the Soviet tanks rolled in, a manifesto called the "Two Thousand Words" urged protest in this country in 1968
Czechoslovakia
Ben
|
$1,200
[27]
Once a part of the original trio, herejoined the troupe after a short solo career
Shemp
|
|
$1,600
[4]
This "Whaam!" artist said that "paintings are Rorschach ink blots. They are what you want them to be"
Roy Lichtenstein
Ben
|
$1,600
[21]
"Tender Mercies" (Oscar) &"Broken Trail" (Emmy)
Robert Duvall
Amy
|
$1,600
[16]
A sword named Gram, which he used to kill Fafnir
Siegfried
|
$2,000
[15]
We want this to be "more perfect"; not the best English, but let's go with it
union
Mary Anna
|
$2,000
[10]
This thinker published the bestsellers "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" & "The Power of Myth"
(Joseph) Campbell
Mary Anna
|
$1,600
[26]
Thisprecociouslittle girlfirst appeared in the comics in 1933 as the niece of an aunt named Fritzi
Nancy
Ben
|
|
$2,000
[8]
After visits to this country in the 1850s, Frederic Church painted its Cotopaxi volcano
Ecuador
Mary Anna
Amy
|
$2,000
[20]
"The Miracle Worker"(Oscar) &"The Miracle Worker" (Emmy)
Patty Duke
Amy
|
$2,000
[14]
The hero with a seat at the 2011 S.O.T.U. was named Daniel Hernandez, who helped when this Arizona rep. was attacked
(Gabrielle) Giffords
Ben
|
— | — | — |
With about 340,000 people today, it's the most populous French city that came under Italian occupation in World War II
Nice