Michael Gurshtein — a thin films engineer from Thornton, Colorado
Rebecca Blustein — an academic consultant originally from Oakland, California
Patrick Antle — a graduate student in chemistry from Billerica, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick | $6,000 | $9,400 | $13,795 |
$795
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,800
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rebecca | $600 | $2,600 | $9,800 |
$4,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
13 R, 0 W |
| Michael | $200 | $1,000 | $13,000 |
$25,000
New champion: $25,000 |
$13,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS | LOOK OUT BELOW | AMERICAN FOOD | THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR | ALSO A GIRL'S NAME | SINGERS IN SONGS |
|
$200
[6]
It's the oldest Ivy League school & the USA's oldest institution of higher learning
Harvard
Patrick
|
$200
[9]
A railroad causeway cuts this Utah lake in half, causing red algae to grow on one side & green algae on the other side
the Great Salt Lake
Michael
|
$200
[16]
In summer you can celebrate the Fourth of July with Kraft's special Jet-Puffed, star-shaped these
marshmallows
Rebecca
|
$200
[21]
In a letter to Teddy Roosevelt, the U.S. ambassador to England wrote of this conflict, "It's been a splendid little war"
the Spanish-American War
Michael
|
$200
[25]
Despite inflation, it's still the going rate "for your thoughts"
penny
Patrick
|
$200
[1]
"Otis", Jay-Z & Kanye West's homage to this man, samples his hit "Try a Little Tenderness"
Otis Redding
Michael
|
|
$400
[7]
Founded in Warren, Rhode Island, it moved to Providence in 1770
Brown
Michael
|
$400
[10]
You can see thefall colorsaround this largest city in Maine
Portland
Patrick
|
$400
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a pig diagram on the monitor.) In the South, soups, greens, & bean dishes get added flavor from this part of the pig, referred to by an alliterative name
ham hock
Rebecca
|
$400
[22]
The Rough Riders' famous charge actually took place up Kettle Hill, not this better-known neighbor
San Juan Hill
Patrick
|
$400
[26]
It just occurred to me that this can mean the beginning of daylight or the beginning of anything
dawn
Patrick
|
$400
[2]
In the song "Give It Away", the Red Hot Chili Peppers call this reggae legend "a poet and a prophet"
Bob Marley
Michael
|
|
DD
$800
[8]
This school plays its home football games at Franklin Field
the University of Pennsylvania
Michael
|
$600
[11]
More than 30 years after it erupted in Washington State, you can see still see theblast & debris zone from this volcano
Mount St. Helens
Rebecca
|
$600
[18]
Benny & Clovis Martin are credited with creating this New Orleans version of a hero or sub sandwich back in the 1920s
a po' boy
Michael
|
$600
[23]
On May 1, 1898 a U.S. fleet under George Dewey destroyed a Spanish fleet in this bay
Manila Bay
Patrick
|
$600
[27]
A single hamburger, hold the bun
patty
Rebecca
|
$600
[3]
A song by Big Sean says, "Just to set the mood, girl I brought some Marvin Gaye" & this kind of white wine (it rhymes)
Chardonnay
Michael
|
|
$800
[12]
It grew out of a single log hut in the New Hampshire wilderness
Dartmouth
Patrick
|
$800
[14]
Take alookat the Three Gorges Dam--the world's largest--& thereservoirit created in this country
China
Patrick
Michael
|
$800
[19]
Juice, jellies, & jams are made with this American fruit variety seen here
Concord grapes
Patrick
|
$800
[24]
African-American troops known as this animal type of "soldiers" played an important role in combat in Cuba
Buffalo Soldiers
|
$800
[28]
To do this to almonds, place in boiling water very briefly, rinse in cold water, then remove the skin
blanch
Rebecca
|
$800
[4]
The chorus of a song by Barenaked Ladies says, "Lying in bed just like" this Beach Boy "did"
Brian Wilson
Patrick
|
|
$1,000
[13]
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs is located at this university
Princeton
Patrick
|
$1,000
[15]
Aphotofrom the space station shows anumbral shadowacross Turkey, caused by this phenomenon
an eclipse
Patrick
|
$1,000
[20]
This trademarked Louisville chocolate nut dessert derives its name from being served on the first Saturday in May
Derby Pie
|
$1,000
[30]
Teddy Roosevelt called the sound of these early machine guns "the only sound I ever heard my men cheer in battle"
Gatling guns
Patrick
|
$1,000
[29]
It's a type of expansion bolt used to hang heavy objects on a hollow wall
molly
|
$1,000
[5]
Mick gave his blessing (& footage for the video) for this 2011 collaboration by Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera
"Moves Like Jagger"
Patrick
|
| THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM | WOMEN DIRECTORS | A DAZZLING INTERNAL ORGAN SOLO | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS | THEY GO BY THIER FIRST INITIAL | A "WHEY" WITH PUNS |
|
$400
[11]
This king wisely had the First Temple built in the 10th century B.C.
Solomon
Rebecca
|
$400
[23]
In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow finally broke the male hold on the directing Oscar, winning for this film
The Hurt Locker
Rebecca
|
DD
$5
[20]
(I'm Dr. Oz.) One reason to always wear your seat belt is for the protection of this organ under the diaphragm, which creates vital antibodies
the spleen
Patrick
|
$400
[21]
A 2008 winner revealed the origins & dispersal of "The Hemingses of" this home
Monticello
Rebecca
|
$400
[1]
J is for John:Head & headquarters of the FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Patrick
|
$400
[6]
To paraphrase Sinatra, "the constituent of dairy products which I possess"
my whey
Patrick
|
|
$800
[12]
The First Temple was designed as a permanent home for the Ark of the Covenant, which contained these
the tablets with the Ten Commandments
Rebecca
|
$800
[27]
With films like "Marie Antoinette" & "Lost in Translation", directing must run in the family for this woman
Sofia Coppola
Rebecca
|
$400
[16]
When folks say this is "growling", they're talking about peristaltic waves, which start at its top & move downward
the stomach
Patrick
|
$800
[22]
In his speech, this 2001 winner for "The Corrections" thanked another Jonathan, editor Jonathan Galassi
Jonathan Franzen
Patrick
|
$800
[2]
J is for Julius:Los Alamos guy
(J. Robert) Oppenheimer
Patrick
Michael
|
$800
[7]
A place that's off the beaten path is called this; it also means sorry, we have no more of curds' partner
out of the whey
Michael
|
|
$1,200
[13]
In 586 B.C. this Babylonian king & his army destroyed the First Temple
Nebuchadnezzar
Patrick
|
$1,200
[28]
Charlize Theron wowed the critics by playing against type as a serial killer in this 2003 film directed by Patty Jenkins
Monster
Michael
|
$800
[17]
2 healthy specimens of this organ filter wastes from about 50 gallons of blood daily
the kidneys
Patrick
|
$1,200
[24]
She won in the children's paperback category for "A Swiftly Tilting Planet"
Madeleine L'Engle
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[4]
G is for George:Sent to prison for Watergate
(G. Gordon) Liddy
Michael
|
$1,200
[8]
This cliche says "where there's" a document disposing of an estate, there's also a 5% solution of lactose
where there's a will, there's a whey
Michael
|
|
$1,600
[14]
Only the high priest could enter this inner part of the temple, sanctum sanctorum in Latin
the Holy of Holies
Rebecca
|
— |
$1,200
[18]
Usually 3 to 4 inches long, this tube may or may not have a function in humans but blockage there can kill you
the appendix
Patrick
|
$1,600
[25]
This film critic for The New Yorker won in 1974 for "Deeper into Movies", a collection of her reviews
(Pauline) Kael
Rebecca
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
H is for Henry:Billionaire who had a Reform Party
Ross Perot
Michael
|
$1,600
[9]
It's how you might learn by difficult experience, or the watery part of milk if it's frozen solid
the hard whey
Patrick
|
|
$2,000
[15]
From the Greek for "scatter", it's the term for Jewish migrations out of Palestine after the Second Temple fell
the diaspora
Michael
|
— |
$1,600
[19]
Our tour now hits the islets of Langerhans, which carry out the endocrine functions of this pear-shaped gland
the pancreas
Patrick
Michael
|
$2,000
[26]
Author Louis Sachar won for Young People's Lit & kids weren't the only ones who dug this novel about Stanley Yelnats
Holes
Michael
|
$2,000
[5]
E is for Everette:Sent to prison for Watergate
E. Howard Hunt
|
$2,000
[10]
Someone glib is said to have this, a cheese byproduct paired with vocabulary
a whey with words
Michael
|
Chapters in his autobiography include "Outcaste", "First Day in Pretoria" & "Fasting as Penance"
Gandhi