Tim Wong — a landscape designer from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Anna-Lise Santella — an editor and musicologist from Trout Valley, Illinois
Jon Shoup — a graduate student of political science from Charlottesville, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,179)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon | $1,000 | $4,600 | $7,300 |
$11,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Anna-Lise | $1,800 | $6,600 | $19,400 |
$15,400
New champion: $15,400 |
$19,400
21 R, 2 W |
| Tim | $-800 | $-200 | $5,800 |
$5,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| FASHION | PRESIDENTS BY KIDS | BOY SCOUT TIES | HAPPY BIRTHDAY | "FOR" | HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW |
|
$200
[12]
This retailer has a line for kids called Crewcuts
J. Crew
Jon
|
$200
[13]
Chelsea
Bill Clinton
Tim
|
$200
[6]
The knot at the bottom of the Boy Scout badge represents the Scouting slogan "do" one of these "daily"
a good turn
Anna-Lise
Tim
|
$200
[1]
This San Francisco landmark celebrated its 75th birthday on May 27, 2012
the Golden Gate Bridge
Anna-Lise
|
$200
[8]
A well-protected building, perhaps "of solitude"
a fortress
Jon
|
$200
[21]
This British comic actor played bumbling inspector Jacques Clouseau in 5 "Pink Panther" movies
Peter Sellers
Anna-Lise
|
|
$400
[19]
Zooey Deschanel wore a Prada gown to the 2012 Golden Globes, but her nails were painted like these dressy suits
tuxedos
Jon
|
$400
[14]
Charles, Thomas, John & Abigail
John Adams
Tim
|
$400
[7]
Happy campers know that with a taut-line hitch, you can tighten or loosen the guyline of one of these
a tent
Anna-Lise
Tim
|
$400
[2]
& a big happy Sept. 26 birthday to her, born at Sea World in 1985 & the 1st killer whale to survive being born in captivity
Shamu
Jon
|
$400
[9]
The list of the exact ingredients to make my secret age-reducing elixir
a formula
Jon
|
$400
[22]
Sacha Baron Cohen wrote, produced & starred in this 2006 mockumentary about a journalist from Kazakhstan
Borat
Anna-Lise
|
|
$600
[20]
Write it down--a very narrow straight skirt popular in the 1950s is named for this implement
a pencil
Jon
|
$600
[15]
2 stepkids: John & Martha
George Washington
|
$600
[26]
Many Scouting awards include knots; the award for a den leader of these young 'uns has a gold knot on blue
Cubs
Anna-Lise
|
$600
[3]
It would have been quite a party for these two people, a politician and a comic, on their October 13th birthday
Margaret Thatcher & Lenny Bruce
|
$600
[10]
It's the type of content a radio station specializes in, such as news/talk or jammin' oldies
format
Anna-Lise
|
$600
[23]
Hill's Angels were the scantily clad women on this Brit's sketch-comedy show
Benny Hill
Jon
|
|
$800
[29]
Carrie on "Sex and the City" worshipped the high-end women's shoes designed by this man, real first name Manuel
(Manolo) Blahnik
Anna-Lise
|
$800
[16]
Jack, Chip, Jeffrey & Amy
(Jimmy) Carter
Jon
Anna-Lise
|
$800
[27]
This practice, also done by film editors, joins 2 ropes & makes them almost as strong as the original ones
splicing
Anna-Lise
|
$800
[4]
Bird lovers celebrate the April 26, 1785 birth of this man
Audubon
Tim
|
$800
[11]
10-letter musical direction to play very loudly
fortissimo
Anna-Lise
|
$800
[24]
After "Monty Python's Flying Circus", he found further comic success as hotel owner Basil Fawlty
John Cleese
Anna-Lise
|
|
$1,000
[30]
The glamour of Hollywood in the '40s inspires designing duo Mark Badgley & him
Mischka
Anna-Lise
|
$1,000
[17]
His 6 include Neil, Marvin & Dorothy
George H.W. Bush
|
$1,000
[28]
A clove hitch is useful in camping; tie a rope to your sack of food, which you'll hang high to make this alliterative "bag"
a bear bag
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
The commemoration of this former U.S. senator's June 3, 1808 birthday is a legal holiday in several Southern states
Jefferson Davis
Tim
|
$1,000
[18]
An organized meeting for the discussion of a specific topic
forum
Anna-Lise
|
$1,000
[25]
His work on shows like "The Office" has been better received than his hosting of the 2011 & 2012 Golden Globes
Ricky Gervais
Jon
|
| NATURE | "M"USICALS | THE RIVER OF HISTORY | A FEW 4-LETTER CATEGORY | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY | IN UTAH ROW |
|
$400
[7]
Pond scum is composed of green & brown forms of these simple organisms
algae
Tim
|
$400
[6]
The title character of this musical shows up at 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London & works her magic
Mary Poppins
Tim
|
$400
[1]
It was a border of the Roman Empire, & outposts like Singidunum (now Belgrade) were built along it
the Danube
Jon
|
$400
[21]
A star explosion, or a PBS series
nova
Tim
|
$400
[16]
This Ancient Greek wrote, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, so you would state home to your own land at once?"
Homer
Jon
|
$1,600
[26]
A native of Ogden, Brent Scowcroft was this adviser to presidents Gerald Ford & George H.W. Bush
National Security Advisor
Jon
|
|
$800
[8]
This beetle gets its 4-letter name from its huge jaws that resemble the antlers of a male deer
a stag beetle
Anna-Lise
|
$800
[9]
In this Lerner & Loewe show, Colonel Pickering, author of "Spoken Sanskrit", makes a dare to a colleague
My Fair Lady
Anna-Lise
|
$800
[2]
The name of this Michigan waterway that meets up with the Kalamazoo River refers to a fight that involved 4 guys
Battle Creek
|
$800
[22]
Savasana, the dead body pose, is but one posture in this activity
yoga
Tim
|
$800
[17]
His "Apology" is seen as a reliable representation of the trial of Socrates
Plato
Anna-Lise
|
$2,000
[27]
This Beaver-born tinkerer is sometimes considered the inventor of television
Philo T. Farnsworth
|
|
$1,200
[13]
The chickaree is also called the pine type of this rodent; it hides pine cones the way others hide nuts
squirrel
Tim
|
$1,200
[10]
The MGM Studio Chorus backs up Judy Garland on this movie musical's "The Trolley Song"
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna-Lise
|
$1,200
[3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) Depicted here is the historic moment when American & Russian forces met on April 25th, 1945, at Torgau, Germany, on this river
the Elbe
|
$1,200
[23]
The back of the neck
nape
Anna-Lise
|
$1,200
[18]
Known for her 600s B.C. lyric poetry, she was married & had a daughter named Cleis
Sappho
Tim
|
— |
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
The moonflower, whose blossoms open in the evening, is a fragrant variety of this a.m. flower
the morning glory
Tim
|
$1,600
[11]
The original London soundtrack of this musical features Jonathan Pryce & Lea Salonga
Miss Saigon
Jon
|
DD
$1,500
[4]
Until the Erie Canal opened, this 981-mile tributary of the Mississippi was the main route west for goods & people
the Ohio River
Jon
|
$1,600
[24]
As an adjective, it means stylish; as a noun, it's a prestigious award
tony
Jon
|
$1,600
[19]
Shakespeare used Sir Thomas North's translation of this Greek's "Lives" for some material in his plays
Plutarch
Tim
|
— |
|
$2,000
[15]
There are 3 species of this bird with "wing" it its name: Bohemian, Japanese & cedar
waxwing
Anna-Lise
|
$2,000
[12]
For this 2002 musical, Twyla Tharp used 28 Billy Joel songs
Movin' Out
Anna-Lise
|
$2,000
[5]
Many Civil War battles had 1 name from a river & 1 from a settlement, as in Stones River/Murfreesboro in this state
Tennessee
Jon
|
$2,000
[25]
This "beast" of a word originated in the 1930s from the Tibetan language of the Sherpas
yeti
Anna-Lise
|
$2,000
[20]
To refute a claim that he was senile, this playwright read in court from his own play "Oedipus at Colonus"
Sophocles
Anna-Lise
Tim
|
— |
The 1995, 2003 & 2006 winners for Best Actor all appeared in this 1982 teen comedy
Fast Times at Ridgemont High