Nancy Nakayama — a lawyer and aspiring grant writer from Seattle, Washington
Nick Bulum — a newspaper insert writer and designer from Long Beach, California
Cathy Guiles — a copy editor originally from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cathy | $800 | $2,200 | $7,000 |
$13,201
2-day champion: $27,801 |
$7,000
11 R, 2 W |
| Nick | $5,800 | $7,400 | $6,600 |
$8,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Nancy | $800 | $3,600 | $4,300 |
$6,201
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| HUNGER GAMES | MED. ABBREV. | A MATTER OF HOURS | HOW THE WEST WAS SPUN | HOBBIES | THE VERSATILE "O-U-G-H" |
|
$200
[16]
Nona Sivley won season 8 of this devil of a cooking competition that's on Fox
Hell's Kitchen
Nancy
|
$200
[21]
In the event of SCA (Sudden Cardiac Arrest), a life can be saved by an AED (an Automated External one of these devices)
defibrillator
Cathy
|
$200
[26]
On Aug. 20, 1866 the National Labor Union was ahead of its time when it asked Congress to make the workday this long
8 hrs
Nick
|
$200
[3]
Of this incident, Wyatt Earp remarked, "were it to be done again, I would do it exactly as I did it at the time"
gunfight at the O.K. Corral (shootout ... accepted)
Nancy
|
$200
[7]
A life list (which might include auks) & binoculars are used in this hobby
birdwatching
Nick
|
$200
[1]
Tall grass area on a golf course
the rough
Cathy
|
|
$400
[17]
An "All Stars" version of this Bravo cooking show brought back 18 contestants who'd almost won in past seasons
Top Chef
Cathy
|
$400
[22]
In reference to medication, ED stands for "effective" this
dose
Cathy
|
$400
[27]
Lance Armstrong ran his first marathon with the goal of finishing under this time; he made it by 24 seconds
3 hrs
|
$400
[12]
Jesse's brother, he said outlaw life was "one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil"
Frank James
Nick
|
$400
[8]
In the 18th century, these figures were used to perform entire operas
marionettes or string puppets
Nancy
|
$400
[2]
Deck the halls with these of holly
boughs
Nick
|
|
$600
[18]
"Ryori No Tetsujin" is the original title of this Japanese import
Iron Chef
Nancy
|
$600
[23]
To a cardiologist, AO can be short for this blood vessel
the aorta
Cathy
|
$600
[28]
It premiered on CBS in 1988; in 2002 the title added "Investigates" & in 2004, that became "Mystery"
48 Hours
Nick
|
$600
[13]
A Topeka paper said this "wild" gunfighter should be thanked for "the safety of life and property at Abilene"
(Wild Bill) Hickok
Nick
|
$600
[9]
The sport of this dates from 1943, when it was also called aqua-lung
scuba diving
Cathy
|
$600
[4]
Pre-bun or pre-loaf stage
dough
Nick
|
|
$800
[19]
Meals on wheels, indeed! Teams competed in a coast-to-coast culinary battle in a great race of these
food trucks
Nick
|
$800
[24]
BB is short for this type of drug that is used to treat angina
a beta-blocker
Cathy
|
— |
$800
[14]
After killing this outlaw, Pat Garrett wrote a book to "correct the thousand false statements" in the press
Billy the Kid
Nick
|
$800
[10]
Add 4 letters to "actors" to get these military devotees, like inau then tic farbs & obsessive stitch counters
reenactors
Nick
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
Greenwich is an inner one of London
a borough
Nick
|
|
$1,000
[20]
After each course, a chef is "cut" from the competition on this show hosted by Ted Allen of "queer eye"
Chopped
Nancy
|
$1,000
[25]
TPR stands for these 3 vital signs
temperature, pulse and respiration
Cathy
Nancy
|
— |
$1,000
[15]
This West Texas judge said, "I know the law...I am its greatest transgressor"
Judge Roy Bean
|
$1,000
[11]
Ikebana is the Japanese art of creating arrangements made from these
flowers
Nancy
|
$1,000
[6]
A long, narrow area of atmospheric low pressure
a trough
Nick
|
| HISTORIANS | RECENT MOVIES | COMPOUND WORDS | COME UP TO THE LAB | PORTRAITS | TAKE ME TO THE NEAREST U.S. EMBASSY |
|
$400
[23]
In 2011 David McCullough took readers on "The Greater Journey: Americans in" this foreign city
Paris
|
$400
[1]
Christoph Waltz played Cardinal Richelieu in the 2011 adaptation of this swashbuckling novel
The Three Musketeers
Nick
|
$400
[6]
This winning declaration in a chess game is from the Arabic for "the king is dead"
checkmate
Nancy
|
$400
[17]
Let's measure the volume of our new potion with the glass column called a graduated this shape
a cylinder
Nick
|
$400
[18]
In 1949 she painted "Diego and I", a portrait of herself with her husband's image appearing on her forehead
(Frida) Kahlo
Nick
|
$400
[11]
I'm in Haiphong
Hanoi
Cathy
Nick
Nancy
|
|
$800
[24]
Husband & wife Will & Ariel Durant researched & wrote the 11-volume "Story of" this
Civilization
Nancy
|
$800
[2]
Kermit the Frog & Miss Piggy returned to put on a show in this 2011 favorite
The Muppets
Cathy
|
$800
[7]
A place where alcohol was served illegally during prohibition, so named because its customers talked discreetly
a speakeasy
Cathy
|
$1,200
[16]
The "fractional" type of this evaporation process further separates liquids based on their boiling points
distillation
|
$800
[19]
Don't tell his mother, but his "Arrangement in Grey" self-portrait from 1872 is seen here
(James) Whistler
Nancy
|
DD
$1,200
[12]
I'm in Port Said
Cairo
Nancy
|
|
$1,200
[25]
This first great Greek historian did some field work, traveling to Egypt & the Black Sea
Herodotus
Nick
|
$1,200
[3]
Kenny Wormald stepped into Kevin Bacon's dancing shoes in the remake of this 1984 film
Footloose
Nick
|
$1,200
[8]
They're the botanic beasts seen here
snapdragons
Nancy
|
— |
$1,200
[20]
He painted Camille "in the Meadow", "in the Garden at Argenteuil" & "on her Deathbed"
(Claude) Monet
Nancy
|
$1,200
[13]
I'm on the island of Euboea
Athens
|
|
$1,600
[26]
The son of a historian, he co-founded Americans for Democratic Action & served in JFK's administration
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
|
$1,600
[4]
The 2011 entry in this family espionage film franchise was released in 4D--the added dimension being smell
Spy Kids
Cathy
|
$2,000
[10]
In the Bible, "there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire... and Elijah went up by" one of these "into heaven"
a whirlwind
|
— |
$1,600
[21]
His poster "Moulin Rouge" featured dancer La Goulue & her partner
(Toulouse-)Lautrec
Nancy
|
$1,600
[14]
I'm in Entebbe
Kampala
Nick
|
|
$2,000
[27]
This Eisenhower biographer founded the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans
Stephen Ambrose
|
$2,000
[5]
"Anonymous" posits that this Earl of Oxford is the real author of Shakespeare's plays
Edward de Vere
|
DD
$2,500
[9]
A descending slope in a road, it can also mean to lower one's status or salary
downgrade
Nancy
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
Get in the van & name this Flemish artist whose portrait of 5 children of Charles I hangs in Windsor Castle
van Dyck
Nancy
|
$2,000
[15]
I'm in Maracaibo
Caracas
Cathy
|
Its nickname is said to come from a line in an 1899 speech that followed "frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me"
Missouri