Sonia Saraiya — a writer and editor originally from Lutz, Florida
Patrick Antle — a graduate student in chemistry from Billerica, Massachusetts
Jessamine Price — a graduate student in creative writing from Greenbelt, Maryland (whose 3-day cash winnings total $26,803)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jessamine | $3,800 | $8,200 | $21,000 |
$12,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$20,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Patrick | $2,800 | $4,400 | $14,800 |
$22,800
New champion: $22,800 |
$14,800
21 R, 2 W |
| Sonia | $1,600 | $3,200 | $3,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| HISTORICAL BOBBLEHEADS | SLANG | 4-LETTER FILM TITLES | SAME-NAMED WRITERS | I'VE GOT THE BREWS | RIVER DAMAGE |
|
$200
[1]
Thisscientist's work didn't result in slow, gradual change--its impact was revolutionary
Charles Darwin
Sonia
|
$200
[22]
The Obamas have employed this alternative to a high five
the fist bump
Sonia
|
$200
[11]
Movie in which Brody memorably says, "You're gonna need a bigger boat"
Jaws
Jessamine
|
$200
[5]
Pynchon &Hardy
Thomas
Patrick
|
$200
[21]
This company no longer brews its own Blue Ribbon brand but owns Schaefer, Schlitz & 30 other brands
Pabst
Sonia
|
$200
[16]
Sediment from erosion hurts rivers because this can't penetrate the water, hindering the ecosystem
sunlight
Patrick
|
|
$400
[2]
Thismuch-admired woman helped set fashion trends for many years
Jackie Kennedy
Sonia
|
$400
[23]
This 2-word warning lets you know that crucial plot elements of a book or movie are about to be given away
a spoiler alert
Sonia
|
$400
[12]
Eric Bana was mighty but doomed as Hector in this 2004 epic
Troy
Sonia
|
$400
[7]
Werfel &Kafka
Franz
Patrick
|
$400
[25]
The thickness of this top part of your draft beer is measured in fingers
the head
Sonia
|
$400
[17]
Surface runoff from farms or your lawn can add these chemicals, like chlordane, to your local river
pesticides
Patrick
Sonia
|
|
$600
[3]
Reporter, politician, orator, historian, & all-around amazing 20th-century bobblehead seen here
(Winston) Churchill
Patrick
|
$600
[24]
Phobar is an acronym indicating that this Adobe software has been used so that an image is "beyond all recognition"
Photoshop
Jessamine
|
$600
[13]
A group of teens get ready for the title school event in this 2011 Disney film
Prom
Sonia
|
$600
[8]
Ferber &St. Vincent Millay
Edna
Patrick
|
$600
[28]
This type of "brewery" is defined as one producing less than 15,000 barrels a year; its name even means "small"
a microbrewery
Sonia
|
$600
[18]
This country's Sarno river is the most polluted in Europe
Italy
Jessamine
|
|
$800
[4]
The two bobbleheads seenherehad a historic meeting at this location, April 9, 1865
Appomattox Court House
Jessamine
Sonia
|
$800
[26]
A social one of these reptiles changes the way he interacts depending on the people he's around
chameleon
Patrick
|
$800
[14]
James Cromwell's Farmer Hoggett said, "That'll do, pig, that'll do" in this film
Babe
Jessamine
|
$800
[9]
Harte &Easton Ellis
Bret
Sonia
|
$800
[29]
This Mexican beer, the top-selling canned import in the U.S., is named for a town in Baja California
Tecate
Jessamine
Patrick
Sonia
|
$1,000
[20]
You may not love the time of this disease that's been called the "archetype of waterborne illnesses"
cholera
Jessamine
|
|
$1,000
[6]
On May 1, 2011, the bobblehead seenheretook this posthumous step that precedes canonization
beatification
Patrick
|
$1,000
[27]
To describe a fashion don't, "Project Runway" winner Christian Siriano used the catchphrase "hot" this
a hot mess
Sonia
|
$1,000
[15]
Farley Granger & John Dall strangle a classmate for kicks in this Hitchcock classic
Rope
Jessamine
|
$1,000
[10]
Chandler &Feist
Raymond
Jessamine
|
$1,000
[30]
This type of beer follows "Shiner" in a brew introduced in 1913
bock
Patrick
|
DD
$1,400
[19]
A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is mainly caused by an excess of this element, much of it carried by the Mississippi
nitrogen
Jessamine
|
| EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | COMEDY DUOS | PHENOMENA | 18th CENTURY AMERICA | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER | X-Y-Z ABBREVS. |
|
$400
[1]
Kazanlak, 100 miles east of Sofia in the Valley of Roses of this country, is known for its roses used in perfumes
Bulgaria
Jessamine
|
$400
[6]
The duo of him & Jerry Lewis broke up after making the 1956 film "Hollywood or Bust"
Dean Martin
Patrick
|
$400
[15]
The dangerous thinning of this atmospheric layer is most pronounced over the poles
the ozone layer
Patrick
|
$400
[10]
Every Colonial home had to have "The Compleat Housewife", an early collection of "receipts", i.e. this type of book
a cookbook
Jessamine
|
$400
[26]
Testis is Latin for this participant in a trial; can I get a testis?!
a witness
Jessamine
|
$400
[17]
ZG(a condition in orbit)
zero gravity
Patrick
|
|
$800
[2]
Gotland is this country's largest island
Sweden
Jessamine
|
$800
[7]
After surviving Gitmo, these 2 title guys had a Very 3D Christmas
Harold & Kumar
Sonia
|
$800
[22]
The southern lights are also called this australis
aurora
Patrick
|
$800
[11]
When his House of Burgesses speech in 1765 was called treasonous, he replied, "If this be treason, make the most of it"
Patrick Henry
Patrick
|
$800
[27]
Meaning "under the penalty", you've been served! (with this word from Latin, right now)
subpoena
Patrick
|
$800
[21]
Zin(a California wine)
Zinfandel
Jessamine
|
|
$1,200
[3]
This city on the Vistula river was Poland's capital from 1038 to 1596
Krakow
Patrick
|
$1,200
[8]
It's New Zealand's "Fourth most-popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk comedy folk duo"
Flight of the Conchords
Patrick
|
$1,200
[23]
A thunderstorm downdraft that picks up dust as it surges can cause ahaboob, "strong wind" in this language
Arabic
Jessamine
|
$1,200
[12]
In 1716 the first theater in the colonies was built in this Colonial capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
Jessamine
|
$1,600
[29]
This Latin word, still used today, originally meant "he pledged"; today, it's a sworn written statement
an affidavit
Patrick
|
$1,200
[20]
XBH(in baseball)
an extra base hit
Patrick
|
|
$1,600
[4]
The mountains of this chainextend from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean
the Pyrenees
Sonia
|
$1,600
[9]
Dick's brother, Tom of this pair plays golf & is known to sink putts using a yo-yo
the Smothers Brothers
Jessamine
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
This term for a lucky type of visible electrical discharge is a corruption of Erasmus, a patron saint of sailors
St. Elmo's fire
Jessamine
|
$1,600
[13]
In 1793 this lexicographer founded the American Minerva, New York City's first daily newspaper
(Noah) Webster
Jessamine
|
$2,000
[28]
If you're "not of sound mind" to stand trial, you're this 3-word Latin phrase
non compos mentis
Jessamine
|
$1,600
[18]
Yb(a chemical element)
Ytterbium
Patrick
|
|
DD
$2,400
[5]
The city of St. Petersburg lies at the eastern end of this gulf named for a nearby country
the Gulf of Finland
Sonia
|
$2,000
[16]
Seen here is one of the finer productions of this comedy duo
Anne Meara & Jerry Stiller
Jessamine
|
$2,000
[25]
Bangladesh's Barisal guns are unexplained booming noises, perhaps seismic in origin, heard over this bay
the Bay of Bengal
Jessamine
|
$2,000
[14]
William Emerson has been called the U.S. Army's first of these; his grandson Ralph Waldo went into a similar field
chaplain
Patrick
|
— |
$2,000
[19]
XRT(a medical method)
X-ray topography (or treatment or therapy)
Jessamine
Patrick
|
After dying, she's described as having "too much of water", & her brother says, "therefore I forbid my tears"
Ophelia