Penny Citrola — an English language tutor originally from East Meadow, New York
Paul Camp — a letter carrier from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Vamsi Adusumilli — a marketing director originally from Columbia, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vamsi | $1,600 | $3,600 | $7,600 |
$5,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
11 R, 3 W |
| Paul | $3,800 | $7,000 | $8,400 |
$1,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Penny | $200 | $1,000 | $17,400 |
$17,800
New champion: $17,800 |
$17,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
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$200
[1]
For $90,000, the X6 M sport utility from this German automaker better be one freakin' amazing driving machine
BMW
Paul
|
$200
[2]
This term for the termination of a proceeding without a verdict sounds like the end of a school class
dismissal
Penny
|
$200
[7]
Cristina Kirchner of this country ably succeeded her husband
Argentina
Paul
|
$200
[16]
Most stars are made of the same stuff when they form, about 74% hydrogen & 25% this gas
helium
Penny
|
$200
[26]
It's the "ES" in ESP, or do you need to read my mind?
extrasensory
Paul
|
$200
[21]
This show that began in 1970 has featured on-air talent like Jon Gruden & Keith Jackson
Monday Night Football
Paul
|
|
$400
[9]
The 2011 911 Speedster convertible from this company cost $204,000! Someone call 911!
Porsche
Paul
|
$400
[3]
Glenn Close knows they're monies awarded to a litigant for loss or injury
damages
Paul
|
$400
[8]
Jalal Talabani has been this troubled nation's president since 2005
Iraq
Vamsi
|
$400
[17]
The beehive cluster, a group of stars visible to the naked eye, is on the shell of this crabby constellation
Cancer
Paul
|
$400
[27]
After films like "Alien" & "Independence Day", these beings might demand a better image in the media
extraterrestrials
Vamsi
|
$400
[22]
As of October 1975 it had run longer than the Korean War, & still had 8 years left
M*A*S*H
Paul
|
|
$600
[10]
It's a very right & proper $300,000 for a 2012 Ghost from this British carmaker
Rolls-Royce
Vamsi
Paul
|
DD
$600
[4]
Punishable by fine or imprisonment of one year or less, they're 5 times more common than felonies in many states
misdemeanors
Paul
|
$600
[13]
Next on the menu, this country'sprime minister--Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey
Paul
|
$600
[18]
This word for what we know to be a very old star is Latin for "new"--silly ancient astronomers!
nova
Paul
|
$600
[30]
A YouTube clip from the 1940s shows a newsboy saying this 6-word line before "Millionaire Playboy in Trouble Again!"
"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"
Paul
|
$600
[23]
This TV show traces its origins to 1992, when 2 Univ. of Colorado students made the animated short "Jesus vs. Frosty"
South Park
Penny
|
|
$800
[11]
James Bond would enjoy a One-77 from this 2-named company; it's yours for $1.9 million, but only 77 were made
Aston Martin
Paul
|
$800
[5]
This other "A" word is an accomplice or abettor in a crime but is not there when it is committed
accessory
|
$800
[14]
This Venezuelan calls himself "leader of the Bolivarian revolution"
Chavez
Vamsi
|
$800
[19]
Most stars are red these, with less than 50% the mass of the Sun
dwarfs
Vamsi
|
$800
[28]
This adjective means not pertinent to the issue at hand
extraneous
Vamsi
|
$800
[24]
Set in post-Civil War Kansas, it ran from 1955 to 1975
Gunsmoke
Paul
|
|
$1,000
[12]
Mary had a little 2009 Reventon from this Italian company--Mary likes going 0-62 in 3.4 secs. & had $1.6 million to blow
Lamborghini
Vamsi
|
$1,000
[6]
In order to get a more objective trial, ask for a "change of" this to seek to have a case heard in a new jurisdiction
venue
Paul
|
$1,000
[15]
Histerm as Mexican president ends in 2012
Felipe Calderón
Paul
|
$1,000
[20]
We are serious that Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, with a -1.46 measure of apparent this
magnitude
|
$1,000
[29]
It's calculating a value beyond the range of that which is known
extrapolation
|
$1,000
[25]
"Meanwhile, Back in the Nixon Suite" was one segment when it debuted in 1968 on a Tuesday; it now airs on another night
60 Minutes
|
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$400
[26]
Theodore H. White wrote a series of books about "The Making of" this elected official
the President
Penny
|
$400
[21]
Argus-eyed, meaning extremely observant, refers to a 100-eyed giant whose eyes were transferred to this bird's tail
the peacock
Penny
|
$400
[11]
Rather than let his gunpowder-filled ship be captured, Captain Jan van Speijk did this to it, he & his crew still aboard
blew it up
Vamsi
Paul
|
$400
[16]
This male voice range falls between tenor & bass
baritone
Penny
|
$400
[6]
His dad was Apollos Rivoire; their last name changed
(Paul) Revere
Vamsi
|
$400
[1]
2012:"May the odds be ever in your favor"
The Hunger Games
Vamsi
|
|
$800
[27]
Joan Didion analyzed the turbulent 1960s in a nonfiction work called this, like a Beatles LP
The White Album
|
$800
[22]
This exclamation used by Scarlett O'Hara refers to a musical instrument
fiddle-dee-dee
Penny
|
$800
[12]
The village of Spaarndam has a statue of the boy who heroically stuck his finger in this
the dam (or the dike)
Penny
|
$800
[17]
The 2 arias for the Queen of the Night in Mozart's "Magic Flute" are for this type of soprano
coloratura
Vamsi
|
$800
[7]
After multiple lymphoma bouts, this Microsoft co-founder decided it was time to write a memoir, "Idea Man"
(Paul) Allen
Paul
|
$800
[2]
2010:"Find your voice"
The King's Speech
Penny
|
|
$1,200
[28]
The book "Mirror Mirror" transports this classic tale of young woman & septet to the time of the Borgias
"Snow White" ("and the Seven Dwarfs")
Vamsi
|
$1,200
[23]
"From pillar to post", meaning "to and fro", has its origins in this court sport
tennis
Penny
|
$1,200
[13]
"He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery", she wrote in Amsterdam in 1944
Anne Frank
Paul
|
$1,200
[18]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a violinist at the Juilliard School in New York.) String players debate how much of this technique to use; a little adds warmth to the tone, but too much & you get the nanny goat effect
vibrato
Penny
|
$1,200
[8]
I am comfortable enough to say to this actor, seen here, I love you, man
Paul Rudd
Penny
|
$1,200
[3]
1999:"Mischief. Mayhem. Soap"
Fight Club
Penny
|
|
$1,600
[30]
"It was the wild, the savage, frozen-hearted northland wild", he wrote in "White Fang"
Jack London
Vamsi
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
This 4-word phrase meaning natural selection was coined by philosopher Herbert Spencer, not Darwin
survival of the fittest
Penny
|
$1,600
[14]
The Military Order of William was created in 1815, after a future Dutch king was wounded in this battle
Waterloo
|
$1,600
[19]
German for "song", it's a German folk or art song
Lied
|
$1,600
[9]
Emeril Lagasse succeeded him as the executive chef at the Commander's Palace in New Orleans
Prudhomme
Paul
|
$1,600
[4]
1994:"For Harry and Lloyd every day is a no-brainer"
Dumb and Dumber
Vamsi
|
|
$2,000
[29]
This character "actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket"
the White Rabbit
Penny
|
$2,000
[25]
This walking stick or club takes its name from a town in Ireland
shillelagh
Penny
|
DD
$1,800
[15]
After tackling a bomb-wielding man on an airliner, Jasper Schuringa was nicknamed this, like a spectral ship
"The Flying Dutchman"
Paul
|
$2,000
[20]
This Italian word is used of music gradually getting softer, the same as decrescendo
diminuendo
|
$2,000
[10]
Seen here, he was a senator from Massachusetts
Paul Tsongas
|
$2,000
[5]
1994:"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free"
The Shawshank Redemption
Penny
|
On July 31, 1971 Air Force Colonel David Scott became the first person to drive one of these
a lunar rover