Lydia Brawner — a performance artist from Oakland, California
Ben Pirie — a recent law school graduate from Portland, Oregon
Jacob Silverman — an arts and culture journalist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob | $5,400 | $8,000 | $14,000 |
$11,000
2-day champion: $29,799 |
$13,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Ben | $1,200 | $200 | $400 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,600
12 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Lydia | $1,600 | $3,000 | $5,400 |
$4,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,400
10 R, 1 W |
| INTERBRAND TOP 100 GLOBAL BRANDS | HOW'D THEY DIE? | THE GREAT LAKES | MEN | RUNNING A MARATHON | "PACE" YOURSELF |
|
$200
[7]
This soft drink company with over 3,500 beverages in its portfolio tops the world in brand value, as it has for the past 11 years
Coca-Cola
Ben
|
$200
[12]
Nathan Hale
hanging
Jacob
|
$200
[26]
A small part of Indiana touches the southern end of this lake
Lake Michigan
|
$200
[1]
The drilling of the Big Bend tunnel through the Alleghenies in the 1870s may have led to the tale of this folk hero
John Henry
Ben
|
$200
[24]
The modern marathon race was first held at the revival of the Olympic games in 1896 in this city
Athens
Ben
|
$200
[3]
Where an Apple computer keyboard has "Delete", a P.C. has this
Backspace
Jacob
|
|
$400
[8]
The world's largest media conglomerate at No. 9, in 2012 it will open Cars Land at its California Adventure park
Disney
Jacob
|
$400
[13]
The Wicked Witch of the East
crushed by a house
Jacob
|
$400
[27]
Among the Great Lakes, it's the deepest & highest above sea level, & apparently the one with the most self-esteem
Lake Superior
Ben
|
$400
[2]
"The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition" is a book by this humorist
Will Rogers
Lydia
|
$400
[25]
This marathon runs from Hopkinton to the Back Bay
the Boston Marathon
Lydia
|
$400
[4]
Cardiac support device that produces rhythmic electrical impulses
a pacemaker
Jacob
|
|
$600
[9]
Interbrand calls shopping online through this retailer "one of the web's defining experiences"
Amazon
Lydia
|
$600
[14]
Maximilien Robsepierre
by guillotine
Jacob
|
$600
[28]
Number of Great Lakes that are partly in Canada
four
Ben
|
$600
[20]
"The Real America" is one of several books by this commentator, who's been seen on TV & heard on radio
Glenn Beck
Jacob
|
$600
[17]
To the nearest minute, what you'll have to average per mile to run a 2:10 marathon like the champs
5 minutes
Ben
|
$600
[5]
The 1970s were wide open with this model seen here
a Pacer
Lydia
|
|
$800
[10]
This French firm known for its handmade leather goods sits at No. 18 & is the world's most counterfeited fashion brand
Louis Vuitton
Jacob
|
$800
[15]
Yoda
old age
Ben
|
$800
[29]
Ports on this lake include Ashtabula & Toledo
Lake Erie
|
$800
[21]
"A Passion for Nature" is a 2008 biography of this man, shownhereon the left, out-bearded by John Burroughs
John Muir
Ben
|
$800
[18]
The last American man to win the Olympic marathon was Frank Shorter in 1972 in this city
Munich
Ben
|
$800
[6]
It's the shell you have to remove to enjoy a tasty lobster
a carapace
Jacob
|
|
DD
$1,600
[11]
The only Finnish company on the list, it has 27% of the global cellphone market, the most of any company
Nokia
Jacob
|
$1,000
[16]
Tennessee Williams
by choking on a pill-bottle cap
|
$1,000
[30]
This second-largest of the Great Lakes by surface area was named for the Indians who lived on its shores
Lake Huron
Jacob
|
$1,000
[22]
In his adventures, Reinhold Messner, best known for doing this without oxygen, has lost several toes & his brother Gunther
scale Mount Everest
Jacob
|
$1,000
[19]
In Beijing in 2008, Sammy Wanjiru of this nation broke the Olympic record by almost 3 minutes
Kenya
Jacob
|
$1,000
[23]
French truckers sometimes stage Operation Escargot; translate & you know traffic slows to this
a snail's pace
Jacob
Lydia
|
| IRISH HISTORY | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS | LITERARY VILLAINS | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | OLD MONEY | WHO PLAYED THE MRS.? |
|
$400
[28]
The airborne fungus Phytophthora infestans caused this crop to fail in 1845
the potato
Lydia
|
$400
[4]
Add a letter to "smile" & you get this figure of speech
a simile
Jacob
|
$400
[6]
Talking to this villain, Smee says, "I have often noticed your strange dread of crocodiles"
Captain Hook
Lydia
|
$400
[24]
Gorki Park, The Revolution Museum
Moscow
Ben
|
$400
[16]
To make change, the coin called a "piece of" this was cut into smaller pieces; "two bits" was a quarter of one
eight
Ben
|
$400
[10]
The seductive Mrs. Robinson in the movie "The Graduate"
(Anne) Bancroft
Jacob
Lydia
|
|
$800
[30]
A short-lived rebellion for independence began in Dublin on Monday, April 24, 1916, the day after this holiday
Easter
Jacob
|
$800
[2]
From the Latin for "true", it means to test the truth by comparison or investigation
verify
Jacob
Ben
|
$800
[7]
The sinister Mrs. Danvers torments the second Mrs. de Winter in this 1938 novel
Rebecca
|
$800
[26]
Alameda Park along Avenida Juarez
Mexico City
Ben
|
$1,200
[18]
The name of this unit of weight used in monetary transactions also means "natural ability"
talent
|
$800
[11]
Mrs. Smith in 2005's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
Angelina Jolie
Ben
|
|
$1,200
[29]
Taken as a slave to Ireland in the early 400s, he escaped to France, where he studied for the priesthood before returning
St. Patrick
Ben
|
$1,200
[1]
A hot dog
a frankfurter
Lydia
|
$1,200
[8]
Pretending to be an ally of Winston Smith in this novel, O'Brien is a party leader who's been watching Winston for years
1984
|
$1,200
[27]
The column of King Sigismund (built in 1644), the heart of Chopin (built in 1810)
Warsaw
Jacob
|
$1,600
[19]
This colorful currency printed during the Civil War lent its name to a political party of the 1870s & '80s
the greenback
|
$1,200
[12]
Dorothy Parker in "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle"
Jennifer Jason Leigh
|
|
$1,600
[23]
In 1446 Dermot McCarthy built this castle & installed a stone taken from an earlier version of the castle
Blarney
Jacob
|
$1,600
[3]
The British borrowed this word for a table napkin from the French
a serviette
Jacob
|
$1,600
[9]
In "The Old Curiosity Shop", Little Nell's grandfather gambles away the shop to this evil dwarf
Quilp
|
$1,600
[25]
The Reza Abbasi Museum
Tehran
Jacob
|
$2,000
[15]
One of the world's earliest coins, it has a name from the Greek for "to grasp"
a drachma
Lydia
|
$1,600
[13]
Mrs. Bradley of Britain's "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries" & Mrs. Peel of "The Avengers"
Diana Rigg
|
|
$2,000
[22]
Ireland's four historic regions are Munster, Leinster, Connacht, & this one, most of which became Northern Ireland
Ulster
Lydia
|
$2,000
[5]
A narrow passageway; a restricted airspace for the passage of aircraft
corridor
|
$2,000
[21]
This unscrupulous villain of "King Lear" betrays his father to Regan & her husband, the Duke of Cornwall
Edmund
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
The Tower of Belem, built in the 1500s to honor Vasco da Gama
Lisbon
Ben
|
DD
$2,200
[17]
Corinth minted its own coins called pegasi that featured this type of animal in flight
a horse
Ben
|
$2,000
[14]
Mrs. King, who starred opposite Bruce Boxleitner's scarecrow
Kate Jackson
|
It's the constitutional kingdom of more than 6 million whose road vehicle sticker is seenhereHKJ
the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan