Kerr Houston — a professor of art history from Baltimore, Maryland
Amy Drittler — a university public relations director from Tazewell, Tennessee
Dan Adkison — a copy editor from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan | $2,600 | $7,800 | $20,600 |
$5,600
3-day champion: $37,400 |
$14,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Amy | $1,000 | $2,400 | $2,400 |
$1,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,600
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Kerr | $5,200 | $7,200 | $16,400 |
$4,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,400
25 R, 2 W |
| MARINE BIOLOGY | BRAND NAMES | MAN: RAY | PRO TEAM ADDRESSES | AXIS & ALLIES | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS |
|
$200
[21]
"The Night Of" this 10-armed creature wasn't a horror film but a Jacques Cousteau TV special
the squid
|
$200
[8]
This tissue was issued in 1924
Kleenex
Amy
|
$200
[26]
Raymond Loewy designed the Shell logo, the iconic Coke bottle & this company's intercity buses
Greyhound
Kerr
|
$200
[14]
At 1265 Lombardi Avenue, you & 73,127 of your friends can enjoy this team's tundra
the Green Bay Packers
Kerr
|
$200
[1]
These countries were the "Big 3" Allied powers of World War II
U.S., Britain, and Russia (or U.S.S.R.)
Dan
|
$200
[15]
Birds do it & so do Twitter users
tweet
Kerr
|
|
$400
[22]
These marine mammals of the weasel family use rocks to open such hard-shelled prey as clams & crabs
otters
Kerr
|
$400
[9]
In the 1880s Dr. Charles Fleet invented this lip balm
ChapStick
Kerr
|
$400
[27]
In 2007 the Pulitzer Prize board gave this sci fi author a special citation for his distinguished career
Ray Bradbury
Dan
|
$400
[13]
This team hoops it up on Seventh Avenue, between 31st & 33rd Streets
New York Knicks
Kerr
|
$600
[3]
This member of the Allies surrendered on June 22, 1940
France
Dan
|
$400
[16]
A succession of sharp snapping noises such as heard in a roaring fire
crackles
Dan
|
|
$600
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows drawings of whale skulls on the screen.) Long ago, whale blowholes were here, but evolution streamlined cetacean breathing, moving the nostril up top, where it's still connected to this respiratory tube, & then to the lungs
the trachea
Dan
|
$600
[10]
Shake it like this instant camera that first flashed on the scene in 1947
a Polaroid
Kerr
|
$600
[28]
He pleaded guilty in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., then later unsuccessfully asked for a trial
James Earl Ray
Amy
|
$600
[5]
Don't pass up seeing this NFL team at 2269 Dan Marino Boulevard
Miami Dolphins
Kerr
|
$800
[4]
Slovakia was called this type of state because the Nazis manipulated it like Punch
a puppet state
Kerr
|
$600
[17]
This 3-letter onomatopoetic word can precede gun or top
pop
Kerr
|
|
$800
[24]
A spicule is a needlelike piece supporting the soft tissue of these absorbent invertebrates of phylum Porifera
a sponge
Amy
|
$800
[11]
The Sanford Pink Pearl is a brand of this stationery item
an eraser
Dan
|
$800
[29]
This detective novelist co-wrote the screenplay for "Double Indemnity"
Raymond Chandler
Kerr
|
$800
[6]
Bear down & watch this basketball team run the floor at 191 Beale Street
Memphis Grizzlies
Amy
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
An "axis" binding these 2 cities was proclaimed in 1936
Berlin and Rome
Dan
|
$800
[18]
Salesmen have often been encouraged to not "sell the steak, but sell" this
the sizzle
Dan
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This largest ray is a graceful swimmer even though it may weigh up to 3,000 pounds
a manta
Dan
|
$1,000
[20]
The name of this Unilever brand is an Italian word for a rich meat sauce
Ragu
Dan
|
$1,000
[30]
Educator Raymond Moley was the leader of this smart-sounding group of advisors to FDR
the Brain Trust
|
$1,000
[7]
This major league team used to take the field at 34 Kirby Puckett Place
Minnesota Twins
Kerr
|
$1,000
[12]
"Terminal" was the code name for the final Allied wartime conference, held in 1945 in this German city
Potsdam
Kerr
|
$1,000
[19]
Asthma sufferers will be familiar with this hissing sound produced in the chest while breathing
wheezing
Dan
|
| JAZZ PIANISTS | THE MIDWEST | IT'S A COVER-UP | THE ACLU | BIBLICAL IDOL | THE "IX" FACTOR |
|
$400
[30]
On April 29, 1986, the United States Post Office released astamphonoring this pianist & bandleader
Duke Ellington
Kerr
|
$400
[9]
A fish found in an Illinois canal in 2009 raised fears that invasive Asian carp may enter these 5 vital bodies of water
the Great Lakes
Kerr
|
$400
[18]
4-letter word for the covering on a ballfield during a rain delay
a tarp
Amy
|
$400
[1]
In 1920 the ACLU was born out of an earlier group focused on the civil liberties of conscientious objectors to this
World War I
Amy
|
$400
[8]
This wise king unwisely made God angry when he erected an altar for the Moabite god Chemosh
Solomon
Kerr
|
$400
[5]
Tennis that matches up 2 male/female pairs
mixed doubles
Kerr
|
|
$800
[29]
This "Take Five" pianist was named a "living legend" in 2003 by the Library of Congress
Dave Brubeck
Amy
|
$800
[10]
Something special is said to be the greatest thing since this food item that Chillicothe, Missouri claims to have pioneered
sliced bread
Kerr
|
$800
[19]
This long, loose outer garment is paired with "dagger" in a term for the world of espionage
a cloak
Kerr
|
$800
[2]
In 1942 the ACLU denounced the internment of more than 100,000 Americans of this ancestry
Japanese
Dan
|
$800
[23]
Any of the children of Israel who consorted with the god Molech faced a rocky future with this punishment
stoning
Kerr
|
$800
[6]
Word element exclusively added to the end of a word
a suffix
Kerr
|
|
$1,200
[17]
Erroll Garner wrote the music for this ballad that begins, "Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree"
"Misty"
Dan
|
$1,200
[11]
Butler & Ball State are universities in this state
Indiana
Kerr
|
$1,200
[20]
18th century pope Clement XIII put these, mentioned in Genesis 3, on the Vatican's nude statues
a fig leaf
Kerr
|
$1,200
[3]
The ACLU helped win a 1933 ruling overturning a ban on the sale of this James Joyce classic in the United States
Ulysses
Dan
|
$1,200
[24]
Nehustan was a brass one of these reptiles fashioned by Moses & later worshipped by the Israelites as if it were a god
a snake
Amy
|
$1,200
[7]
The U.K. stopped using this coin in 1980
the sixpence
Kerr
|
|
$1,600
[28]
His score for the 1929 stage production "Hot Chocolates" included the hit tune "Ain't Misbehavin'"
Fats Waller
Dan
|
$1,600
[12]
The trilobite is the state one of these of both Ohio & Wisconsin; it lived there when the area was underwater
fossil
Dan
|
$1,600
[21]
By itself, it's an undergarment; add "cover" to get a fitted removable piece of fabric used on furniture
slip
Dan
|
$1,600
[4]
In 1952 the ACLU filed a brief supporting the NAACP in this Supreme Court case decided 2 years later
Brown v. The Board of Education
Kerr
|
DD
$1,200
[25]
Also known as the Lord of the Flies, this god of Ekron was consulted by Ahaziah, King of Israel
Beelzebub
Amy
|
$1,600
[15]
A pharmaceutical solution, or a cure-all
an elixir
Amy
|
|
$2,000
[27]
He earned his "Fatha" nickname in the 1930s after giving fatherly advice about drinking to an announcer
Earl "Fatha" Hines
|
DD
$8,000
[13]
This river passes through Waterloo, Iowa as well as through the cities named for its falls & rapids
the Cedar
Dan
|
$2,000
[22]
The name of this warming item is from the French for "white"
a blanket
|
$2,000
[14]
In Kitzmiller v. Dover, the ACLU fought the required teaching of this 2-word alternative to natural selection
intelligent design
Kerr
|
$2,000
[26]
The prophet Elijah worked hard to stamp out the cult of this Canaanite god the Israelites had worshipped in the wilderness
Baal
Dan
|
$2,000
[16]
This stop-motion animation technique is named for a type of imaginary being
pixilation
Dan
Kerr
|
One of the 4 small U.N. member nations that use the euro as their official currency even though not in the European Union
(1 of) Andorra, Montenegro, Monaco, or San Marino