Trevor Bryan — an academic advisor from Tallahassee, Florida
Michelle LaLonde — a law librarian from Novi, Michigan
Judy Nichols — a mystery writer from Wilmington, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judy | $0 | $1,000 | $11,100 |
$1,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,600
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Michelle | $3,000 | $4,400 | $10,600 |
$18,500
New champion: $18,500 |
$9,600
16 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Trevor | $2,600 | $6,600 | $14,600 |
$6,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,600
18 R, 2 W |
| THE ELIZABETHAN ERA | IT'S USEFUL IN THE KITCHEN | 2 Zs, PLEASE | BEHIND THE SONGS | WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE | "THE" NOVEL |
|
$200
[3]
In 1599 a syndicate headed by actor Richard Burbage built this theatre
the Globe Theater
Michelle
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$200
[8]
Some of these long-handled spoons designed to serve soup have small lips to pour without dripping
a ladle
Trevor
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$200
[9]
A storm with dry, driving snows & intense cold; it's also delicious at Dairy Queen!
a blizzard
Judy
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$200
[14]
Tom Higgenson's flirtation with a girl in New York & a promise to write her a song led to this megahit for the Plain White T's
"Hey There Delilah"
Judy
Trevor
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$200
[21]
TV show with Monica, Phoebe & Chandler
Friends
Michelle
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$200
[1]
Roy Hobbs plays left field for the New York Knights in this first novel by Bernard Malamud
The Natural
Trevor
|
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$400
[4]
By the time this circumnavigator reached the Pacific in August 1578, only his flagship remained of the 5 that left England
Drake
Judy
Michelle
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$400
[16]
Stop these small perforated mashers for garlic!
presses
Judy
|
$400
[10]
It's a New World vulture of the family Cathartidae
a buzzard
Michelle
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$400
[15]
It was a Saturday in the park--Central Park--that inspired Robert Lamm to write this group's first gold single
Chicago
Michelle
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$400
[22]
The outline of the human face as seen from the side
profile
Trevor
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$400
[2]
The title of this Kathryn Stockett bestseller refers to the black maids who work for white families in 1960s Mississippi
The Help
Michelle
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|
$800
[6]
In 1568 Elizabeth I had this cousin, a possible claimant to the throne, put under house arrest
Mary, Queen of Scots
Michelle
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$600
[18]
Edward Lear wrote of the jumblies, who "went to sea in" this bowl-shaped item; seems like a bad idea
a sieve
|
$600
[11]
The mouth of a pistol barrel
a muzzle
Trevor
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$600
[17]
This country singer wrote "When I Said I Do" for wife Lisa Hartman, who then recorded the song with him as a duet
Clint Black
Michelle
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$600
[23]
One individual unit of a company's stock
a share
Michelle
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$600
[28]
Mitch McDeere is the newest associate at Bendini, Lambert & Locke in this Grisham thriller
The Firm
Judy
|
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
In 1598 Thomas Bodley began rebuilding this school's library with his own money & books
Oxford University
Michelle
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$800
[26]
The name of this hand-operated rotary device is also a kick useful in treading water
an eggbeater
|
$800
[12]
An open square in Italy, or ex-baseball catcher Mike
a piazza
Trevor
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$800
[19]
Blue Oyster Cult's Buck Dharma wrote this song after pondering about dying young & whether loved ones are reunited
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper"
Trevor
|
$800
[24]
Resembling
like
Trevor
|
— |
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$1,000
[7]
This English courtier attempted to colonize Roanoke Island in the 1580s
(Sir Walter) Raleigh
Michelle
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$1,000
[27]
Keep your kitchen & chef's whites clean by covering pans with this stainless steel alliterative item
a splatter screen
|
$1,000
[13]
It's found after "tin" but before "Borden"
Lizzie
Trevor
|
$1,000
[20]
A girl who he knew was trouble called & said she was coming over; he wrote "Wicked Game" by the time she got there
Chris Isaak
Trevor
|
$1,000
[25]
It comes before "fun at" to mean mock someone
poke
Trevor
|
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| EVENTS AROUND THE USA | EXTREME ANIMALS | QUOTE "UN"QUOTE | NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS | GREAT DEPRESSIONS | 1930s COMEDIES |
|
$400
[7]
The Bourbon Festival in Bardstown in this state "gives you 6 full days of smooth bourbon"
Kentucky
Michelle
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$400
[13]
The Goliath this, from the family Scarabaeidae, is one of the heaviest insects, weighing nearly a quarter of a pound
a beetle
Trevor
|
$400
[1]
Calvin Coolidge is reported to have said, "When a great many people are unable to find work", this "results"
unemployment
|
$400
[8]
1979:This Alabama bus rider
(Rosa) Parks
Trevor
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$400
[22]
The Plaine du Cul-de-sac is a 20-mile-long depression in this French-speaking Caribbean island country
Haiti
|
$400
[6]
In "Sons of the Desert" this comic duo sneaks off to their lodge convention without telling their wives
Laurel & Hardy
|
|
$800
[9]
In 1985 the U.S. Open Championships in this sport dominated by Shaun White moved to Vermont's Stratton Mountain
snowboarding
Trevor
|
$800
[14]
This slowest mammal has a ground speed of about 6-8 feet per minute; it's a little faster in the trees
a sloth
Judy
|
$800
[2]
Humpty Dumpty told Alice that "there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get" these "presents"
unbirthday presents
Trevor
|
$800
[18]
1968:This member of the Rat Pack
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Michelle
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$800
[23]
Between the Black Forest & Vosges Mountains, this river flows through a graben, or depression, named for it
the Rhine River
|
$1,600
[28]
A screwball comedy starred Carole Lombard as a socialite & William Powell as the title butler, "My Man" him
My Man Godfrey
Judy
|
|
$1,200
[10]
Each February, take the grumpy plunge (into the Mississippi!) at Wabasha's Grumpy Old Men Festival in this state
Minnesota
Judy
|
$1,200
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Norway's Svalbard Islands.) Traveling distances as great as 25,000 miles gives the Arctic type of this the record for the longest migration of any bird
a tern
Trevor
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1875 William Ernest Henley wrote, "Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but" this
unbowed
Judy
Michelle
Trevor
|
$1,200
[19]
1976:This big-league slugger
Hank Aaron
Judy
Michelle
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$1,600
[25]
This 900,000-square mile desert on a Mideastern peninsula has mushy depressions called sabkhas
the Arabian Desert
|
$2,000
[27]
In this film Clark Gable reassures Claudette Colbert saying, "The walls of Jericho will protect you from the Big Bad Wolf"
It Happened One Night
Judy
|
|
$1,600
[11]
Headliner concerts at a June 2011 International Jazz Festival were held at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre in this city
Rochester (New York)
Michelle
|
$1,600
[16]
The giant Mekong type of this barbeled fish is one of the largest freshwater fish; one specimen was 9' long & 646 lbs.
a catfish
Trevor
|
DD
$1,500
[4]
Carl Gustav Jung said that this "is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good"
the unconscious
Judy
|
$1,600
[20]
1983:Thisbrassysinger& activist who died in 2010
Lena Horne
Judy
|
DD
$1,800
[24]
Part of the Great Basin, the Carson Sink is in this western U.S. state
Nevada
Michelle
|
— |
|
$2,000
[12]
Called "Cowboy Christmas" by contestants, the Buffalo Bill Cody Stampede Rodeo is a load of bull in this state
Wyoming
Trevor
|
$2,000
[17]
One of the world's deadliest animals is the sea wasp, a type of this with up to 60 tentacles; its venom can kill up to 60 people
a jellyfish
Trevor
|
$2,000
[5]
Socrates said that this type of life "is not worth living"
the unexamined life
Judy
|
$2,000
[21]
1990:This governor of Virginia
(Douglas) Wilder
Michelle
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$2,000
[26]
This lake in Quebec, Vermont & New York fills a broad valley & was once its own sea
(Lake) Champlain
Michelle
|
— |
He titled his 2011 memoir "Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain"
Hal Holbrook