Jennifer Emmett — an executive assistant from Fremont, California
Ron King — a web designer from Camarillo, California
Matt Samberg — an attorney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $61,402)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $1,000 | $2,200 | $13,400 |
$12,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,400
18 R, 2 W |
| Ron | $3,600 | $6,200 | $7,200 |
$13,601
New champion: $13,601 |
$12,200
18 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Jennifer | $600 | $0 | $6,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| ROYAL DYNASTIES | LONG RUNS IN PRIME TIME | THE BEST OF DEAR ABBY | SEAPORTS | ANCHORS AWEIGH | "FUL" STEAM AHEAD |
|
$200
[1]
France's Louis XIII(1610-1643)
Bourbon
Matt
|
$200
[13]
Steve Zirnkilton read the opening on this series that ran from 1990 to 2010: "In the criminal justice system..."
Law & Order
Matt
|
$200
[26]
My son "has been paying a psychiatrist $50.00 an hour every week for two-and-a-half years. He must be" this
crazy
Matt
|
$200
[5]
It's Egypt's busiest seaport & second-largest city
Alexandria
Matt
|
$200
[7]
This 4-letter traditional greeting for hailing other vessels may be from the name of a type of boat
ahoy
Matt
|
$200
[10]
A dress or mirror that goes down to the feet
full-length
Jennifer
|
|
$400
[2]
China's Jiajing(1521-1566)
Ming
Ron
|
$400
[14]
No pelvic gyrations allowed, but this hosts's really big shew did run from 1948 to 1971
Ed Sullivan
Ron
|
$400
[27]
"I was married to Bill for three months and I didn't know he drank until one night he came home" this
sober
Matt
|
$400
[18]
San Juan is this commonwealth's chief seaport & capital
Puerto Rico
Matt
|
$400
[8]
These wide pants were made to roll up above the knee when swabbing the decks & to remove easily when you fall overboard
bell-bottoms
Ron
|
$400
[11]
Pivot point, from the Latin for "couch foot"
a fulcrum
Jennifer
|
|
$600
[3]
England's Charles I(1625-1649)
Stuart
Matt
|
$600
[15]
It's now on Sunday mornings, but this news show ran from 1947 to 1965 in prime time
Meet the Press
Ron
|
$600
[28]
"My mother is mean and short tempered--I think she is going through her mental" this
pause
|
$600
[23]
Hammerfest, a seaport in this country, calls itself the northernmost city in Europe
Norway
Jennifer
|
$600
[9]
This name for a heavygarmentworn by sailors in cold weather comes from a word for cloth, not a vegetable
a peacoat
Matt
|
$600
[12]
Endowed with a pure pedigree
full-blooded
|
|
$800
[4]
Iran's Reza Shah & Mohammad Reza Shah
Pahlavi
Ron
|
$800
[19]
"Guess the occupation" was the concept on this prime-time game show that ran from 1950 to 1967
What's My Line?
Ron
|
$800
[30]
"Are" these "pills deductible?" "Only if they don't work"
birth control pills
|
DD
$800
[24]
21 miles from Dover, this French seaport is closer to England than any other city in mainland Europe
Calais
Jennifer
|
$800
[16]
This punishment involved dragging a person under a ship from one side to the other
keelhauling
Ron
|
$800
[21]
Giving excessive praise
fulsome
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Frederick III of Germany(1440-1493)
Hapsburg
Matt
Ron
|
$1,000
[20]
What's that, girl? Jimmy's in the well & you starred in this TV show that lasted from 1954 to 1974?
Lassie
Matt
|
$1,000
[29]
To someone asking if a 10-pound baby born 5 mos. after a marriage could be premature: "The baby was on time." This "was late"
the wedding
Ron
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1905 sailors from the Battleship Potemkin staged a mutiny in this port on the Black Sea
Odessa
Ron
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[17]
Now a term for small high-tech devices, it was originally a sailors' equivalent of "doohickey"
gadget
|
$1,000
[22]
In 2005, after 183 years in Lower Manhattan, this fish market moved to the Bronx
Fulton
Ron
|
| PEOPLE WITH BRADY KID NAMES | RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHAEOLOGY | SPIRITUALS | ISN'T IT AN -"ISM"? | TITLE CHARACTERS | HALLEY'S CATEGORY |
|
$400
[6]
Known as The Shark, he was the first PGA Tour player to surpass $10 million in earnings
Greg Norman
Ron
|
$400
[1]
In 1870 Heinrich Schliemann began his excavation of Troy following the descriptions in this epic poem
the Iliad
Matt
|
$400
[25]
A low-swinging, sweet one is "comin' for to carry me home"
a sweet chariot
Jennifer
|
$400
[15]
If you said someone "went into the fertilizing business" instead of saying he died, you used this noun
a euphemism
|
$400
[20]
In a 1937 novel, Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit
Ron
|
$400
[10]
Halley calculated that one of these sighted in 1682 would reappear in 1758; it did, & his name was forever attached to it
a comet
Matt
|
|
$800
[7]
He founded the Black Panther Party with Huey Newton in 1966
Bobby Seale
|
$800
[2]
Archaeologists have found some remains of this structure mentioned in Genesis 11 (but it only had 7 stories)
the Tower of Babel
Matt
|
$800
[26]
He "fit the battle of Jericho"
Joshua
Jennifer
|
$800
[16]
If my daughter ever hosts the show, it won't be because of this, from the Latin for "nephew"; the girl is a natural!
nepotism
Jennifer
|
$800
[21]
In the first book of a bestselling trilogy, superhacker Lisbeth Salander
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Ron
|
$800
[11]
The Royal Society said that Halley should pay to have this man's "Principia" published, so Halley ponied up
Newton
Ron
|
|
$1,200
[8]
His father was the first anchor of a nightly news program in Canada; he came south & anchored at ABC
Peter Jennings
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1978 she found at Laetoli, south of Olduvai Gorge, footprints in volcanic ash made by hominins living 3.5 mil. years ago
Mary Leakey
Ron
|
$1,200
[27]
"Lord I want to be in that number when" this happens
when the saints go marching in
Matt
Ron
|
$1,200
[17]
A term originating from Greek myth, it's an inordinate fascination with oneself
narcissism
Matt
Ron
|
$1,600
[23]
Edward Tudor of Wales & street urchin Tom Canty
The Prince and the Pauper
Matt
|
$1,200
[12]
In 1720 Halley became Astronomer Royal at this observatory, a post he held until his death in 1742
the Greenwich Observatory
Ron
|
|
$1,600
[9]
She & Christopher Darden headed up the prosecution team in the O.J. murder case
Marcia Clark
Matt
|
$1,600
[4]
Beginning in 1900 Sir Arthur Evans uncovered the Palace of Minos at Knossos on this island
Crete
Jennifer
|
— |
$1,600
[18]
Holland Carter won a 2009 Pulitzer in this category "for his wide ranging reviews of art"
criticism
Ron
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
In a 17th century French comedy, mankind hater Alceste
The Misanthrope
Ron
|
$2,000
[14]
The development of these tables used in life insurance was influenced by mortality tables Halley made for the city of Breslau
actuarial tables
Matt
|
| — |
$2,000
[5]
In 1923 this British archaeologist published "The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen"; fitting, 'cause he found it
(Howard) Carter
Ron
|
— |
$2,000
[19]
A thing that belongs to an earlier time; we'll give you an "A" for effort if you get it
an anachronism
Matt
|
$2,000
[24]
In a Shakespeare play, Mistress Page & Mistress Ford
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Jennifer
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) In 1677 Edmond Halley observed one of these rare astronomical events--the passage of a planet across the Sun's bright disk; in his case, it was Mercury
a transit
Ron
|
On May 18, 1974 this country tested its first nuclear device, nicknamed "Smiling Buddha"
India