Donna Laux — a marketing director from New Braunfels, Texas
Rob Landolfi — an environmental protection specialist from Washington, D.C.
Chris Fleitas — a high school college prep counselor from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $38,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $5,400 | $10,400 | $28,800 |
$44,001
2-day champion: $82,901 |
$28,200
32 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Rob | $1,400 | $3,400 | $22,000 |
$13,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,000
13 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Donna | $1,000 | $400 | $6,400 |
$1,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
7 R, 1 W |
| ADD A LETTER | LANDMARKS | SURPRISE PARTY | PROHIBITION | BLU-RAYS | WHO MAKES IT? |
|
$200
[24]
Add a letter to "hotel" & you end up with this less-expensive lodging place
a hostel
Chris
|
$200
[12]
This name properly refers to only the great hour bell at the northern end of London's Houses of Parliament
Big Ben
Chris
|
$200
[3]
Little girls love to have this kind of party, though lemonade usually replaces the oolong or orange pekoe
a tea party
Rob
|
$200
[11]
Thescenefor prohibition is set with the 1829 inauguration party for this president; it moved outside due to drunken revelry
Andrew Jackson
Rob
|
$400
[16]
The 2008 Blu-ray release of this all-time classic comes with a passport holder, for your flight to Lisbon
Casablanca
Chris
|
$600
[25]
Nutri-Grain Bars & Rice Krispies Treats
Kellogg's
Chris
|
|
$400
[20]
One extra letter makes a "uniformed" person this, meaning very much out of the loop
uninformed
Chris
|
$400
[1]
It served as the gateway entrance to the International Exhibition of 1889, held in Paris
the Eiffel Tower
Chris
Rob
|
$400
[13]
Hugh Hefner originally planned to call Playboy magazine this, another term for a bachelor party
Stag
Donna
|
$400
[7]
After alcohol was made illegal in Maine, vendors offered swigs from concealed pints in their pants & got this nickname
bootleggers
Rob
|
$600
[17]
Time travel info is on the Blu-ray of this Jake Gyllenhaal film, & you don't have to access the title "Code" to get it
Source Code
Chris
Rob
Donna
|
$800
[26]
Ivory Soap
Proctor & Gamble
|
|
$600
[21]
Here's a "riddle"; now add a letter & it's this hot, flat cooking surface
a griddle
Chris
|
$600
[2]
A 5,500-mile-long section of it runs from Mount Hu near Dandong to a spot in Gansu Province
the Great Wall of China
Donna
|
$600
[14]
Traditionally, you throw this type of party to show off your new home
a housewarming
Rob
|
$600
[8]
It was not illegal to make wine forhome use; beer was a no-no, though, under this act that accompanied prohibition
the Volstead Act
Chris
|
$800
[18]
An interactive guide to class action is a helpful part of the season 1 Blu-ray of this Glenn Close series
Damages
Chris
|
$1,000
[27]
Inspiron laptops
Dell
Rob
|
|
$800
[22]
Add a letter to "reel" & you'll be able to do this, take much pleasure
revel
Chris
|
$1,000
[6]
This, the only remaining town gate of Berlin, is at the western end of the avenue Unter den Linden
the Brandenburg Gate
Chris
|
$800
[15]
The first party to sell these containers was held in 1948; today, you can also host online parties
Tupperware
Chris
|
$800
[9]
The St. Louis brewery--er, former brewery--headed by this man did just fine as a maker of malt extract
(August) Busch
Chris
|
$1,000
[19]
"Sibling Rivalry" is a special feature on the Blu-ray of this fraternal Ferrell-Reilly comedy
Step Brothers
Chris
|
— |
|
$1,000
[23]
Add a letter to "glen" & you can take it in this way, bit by bit
glean
Rob
|
DD
$1,400
[5]
This national memorial includes a 16-inch mole & a mustache that is 20 feet wide
Mount Rushmore
Chris
|
$1,000
[4]
Cheers & glasses raised for this T.S. Eliot comedy that won the 1950 Tony for Best Play
The Cocktail Party
Chris
|
$1,000
[10]
This "Little Flower" N.Y. rep. (& later mayor) believed that God would disapprove of prohibition"And I don't think that he intended the use of grapes to be made into jelly."
Fiorello LaGuardia
Rob
|
— | — |
| BLUE RAYS | "G" WHAT A COUNTRY | LITERATURE | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC | RHETORICALLY SPEAKING | THE U.S. COAST GUARD |
|
$400
[18]
The sky is blue because blue light is most readily scattered from sunlight, being down at the short end of this
the spectrum
Donna
|
$400
[29]
It was unified in the 19th century & reunified in the 20th
Germany
Chris
|
$400
[1]
A line from this 1894 Kipling book says, "Rikki-Tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud"
The Jungle Book
Rob
|
$400
[24]
In 2011 Bruno Mars blew up the charts with a song that says, "I'd catch a" this "for ya, throw my hand on a blade for ya"
grenade
Chris
|
$400
[19]
The substitution of an inoffensive word for an offensive word is this type of "-ism"
a euphemism
Chris
|
$400
[28]
The Jayhawkhelicopter can reach 205 miles per hour as one of the Coast Guard's main assets in SAR, "search and" this
rescue
Chris
|
|
$1,200
[16]
In electronics, a blue gun isn't a weapon but part of this in TV sets, also called the picture tube
a cathode ray tube
Rob
|
$800
[8]
In 2011 citizens protesting financial austerity measures rioted in this Mediterranean country
Greece
Donna
|
$1,200
[13]
One reviewer called this recent Sara Gruen bestseller "so much more than a tale about a circus"
Water for Elephants
Chris
Rob
|
$800
[25]
This group topped the charts & won an Album of the Year Grammy for 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"
U2
Chris
|
$800
[20]
"I'd give my right arm for a drink" is an example of this, from the Greek for "exaggeration"
hyperbole
Chris
|
$800
[4]
The USCG has reach--a PSU went to protect Navy ships after the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in this Mideast country
Yemen
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[15]
A type of bioluminescence, the blue glow of sea creatures like plankton is called this, also ending in -escence
phosphorescence
Donna
|
$1,200
[9]
This New World country gained its independence from Spain in 1821
Guatemala
|
$1,600
[14]
He wrote "Bech: A Book", "Bech Is Back" & "Bech At Bay" in addition to his "Rabbit" novels
(John) Updike
Rob
|
$1,200
[26]
In 2011 she appeared with a children's choir on "Oprah" to sing her hit "Firework"
Katy Perry
Chris
|
$1,200
[21]
Archaism in rhetoric is a use of this type of term
obsolete (or old or antiquated)
Donna
|
$1,200
[5]
One job of a USCGtenderis inspecting & replacing buoys, fog signals, lights & other indicators, collectively called aids to this
navigation
Chris
|
|
$2,000
[12]
Blue light can worsen this type of degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 55
macular degeneration
Donna
|
$1,600
[10]
The West Indies nation we invaded in 1983
Grenada
Chris
|
$2,000
[3]
This 1930 William Faulkner novel deals with the death & burial of Addie Bundren
As I Lay Dying
Chris
|
$1,600
[27]
In his song "Russians," he wondered "How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?"
Sting
|
$1,600
[22]
An example of antithesis is the line "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved" this "more"
Rome
Chris
|
$1,600
[6]
In WWII a major Coast Guard task was hunting these vessels, Hitler's main weapon in the Battle of the Atlantic
U-boats
Chris
|
|
DD
$10,800
[17]
The blue light in the pools of water in these power facilities is called Cerenkov radiation
nuclear power plants
Rob
|
$2,000
[11]
Between Cameroon & Congo you'll find this country, independent from France since 1960
Gabon
Rob
|
DD
$3,800
[2]
Chapters in this James Bond novel include "Gem Quality" & "Hot Ice"
Diamonds Are Forever
Rob
|
$2,000
[30]
It's the "explosive" name of the Taio Cruz hit heard here"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes /Saying ay-o /Gotta let go /I wanna celebrate..."
"Dynamite"
|
$2,000
[23]
Rhetorically, "Hello darkness, my old friend" is termed this, just like a punctuation mark
apostrophe
Chris
|
$2,000
[7]
The Coast Guard looks out for the smuggling of drugs & people in this practice, from the old French for "to forbid"
interdiction
Chris
|
Aside from racquet sports, one of the 2 other Summer Olympic sports in which men may currently compete against women
equestrian events or sailing