Sheri Boysen — a stay-at-home mom from Houston, Texas
Mike Malaier — an attorney from Tacoma, Washington
David Schuman — a communications and economics student originally from Ardsley, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $2,600 | $700 | $4,300 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
15 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mike | $1,600 | $2,200 | $20,600 |
$8,100
New champion: $8,100 |
$19,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Sheri | $2,600 | $4,200 | $16,400 |
$1,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| CLEAN OUT YOUR CLOSET | MUSEUMS | WHAT YEAR WAS THAT? | BIG CHECKS | IN THE POLITICAL ARENA | THE NON -ED PAST PARTICIPLE |
|
$200
[12]
Have too many sweaters? Contact the org. named for this late cardigan-wearing kids' TV host to find a sweater drive
Mister (Fred) Rogers
Sheri
|
$200
[2]
Exhibits at the Denmark museum devoted to this children's author include his top hat & letters to singer Jenny Lind
Hans Christian Andersen
Mike
|
$200
[1]
Fukushima nuclear disaster,"Mr. Popper's Penguins" in theaters
2011
David
Mike
|
$200
[7]
A 2012 million-dollardonationto a pro-Obama super-PAC came courtesy of this man
Bill Maher
Mike
|
$400
[22]
He supported Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign; now he's governor of Texas & his views have changed a bit
Rick Perry
David
|
$600
[15]
...of kneel
knelt
David
|
|
$400
[13]
Donate old sneakers to this athletic shoe co.; its Reuse-A-Shoe program turns them into athletic court surfaces
Nike
Sheri
|
$400
[6]
A prison has been taken over by unhinged inmates in this notorious chamber of Madame Tussaud's London wax museum
Horrors
Mike
|
$400
[21]
Chernenko becomes oldest-ever USSR leader, Ferraro doesn't become first female VP, Jim Fixx dies jogging
1984
Mike
|
$400
[8]
Arnold Palmer is seenherechecking in during the early years of this tour, now called the Champions Tour
the Seniors Tour
David
Sheri
|
$600
[3]
Orrin Hatch began representing this state in the U.S. Senate in 1977
Utah
Sheri
|
$800
[16]
...of unbind; it described poetry's Prometheus
unbound
Sheri
|
|
$600
[14]
No longer wearing a cape that's 100% merino this? Consider donating it to Babee Greens, which will turn it into a diaper cover
wool
Mike
|
$600
[18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem.) The Shrine of the Book, which houses these texts, discovered in the 1940s, isshapedlike the top of one of the jars that contained them
the Dead Sea Scrolls
David
|
$800
[26]
The Constitution gets a 25th Amendment, the Six-Day War, "The Summer of Love"
1967
David
Mike
Sheri
|
$600
[9]
The sweepstakes to promote this company's discount subscriptions has given away over $227 million, some of it here
Publishers Clearing House
David
|
$800
[4]
Last name of Michigan congressman Fred, whose niece Kate was the 2012 S.I. Swimsuit Issue cover girl
Upton
David
|
$1,000
[17]
...of smite; it also commonly means very much in love
smitten
Mike
|
|
$800
[25]
When you finish cleaning out your closet, you can have the goods picked up by this group by calling 800-SA-TRUCK
Salvation Army
David
|
$1,000
[20]
The American Museum of Science & Energy is in this city just west of Knoxville, Tennessee
Oak Ridge
David
|
$1,000
[23]
The Battle of New Orleans, get your Wordsworth with "The White Doe of Rylstone"
1815
David
Sheri
|
$800
[10]
Youth Education Towns are getting a coolmillion thanks tothisNFL honcho.
Roger Goodell
David
|
$1,000
[5]
In 1988 he became the first Orthodox Jew to win election to the Senate
Joe Lieberman
David
|
— |
|
$1,000
[24]
Help disadvantaged women get a professional wardrobe by donating a suit to a non-profit named "Dress for" this
Success
Sheri
|
DD
$1,500
[19]
Architect Pierre Cuypers designed this museum that houses Vermeer's "The Kitchen Maid"
the Rijksmuseum (in Amsterdam)
David
|
— |
$1,000
[11]
Elizabeth Taylor is seen here with a check for her favorite cause, research to cure this
AIDS
Sheri
|
— | — |
| IN THE CORPORATE ARENA | LITERARY TABLOID HEADLINES | RANDOM HOUSE | CHEMISTRY | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT | "MAN"LY PLACES |
|
$400
[26]
This insurance company is on your side--& you're in its arena, if you go to Columbus Blue Jackets home games
Nationwide
Sheri
|
$400
[18]
1597:"Families vow to end feud after Verona teens' double suicide"
Romeo and Juliet
Sheri
|
$400
[13]
The first cornerstone of this D.C. building located on 18 acres was laid in October 1792
the White House
David
|
$400
[8]
On the periodic table, tellurium precedes this element, symbol I, but its atomic mass is greater
iodine
David
|
$400
[2]
A list of a team's players, such as baseball's "25-man" one
roster
Sheri
|
$400
[1]
Iguana Crypt is a real "man" cave--it's listed by the Speleological Society of this Canadian province
Manitoba
Sheri
|
|
$800
[27]
The Wizards practice their court magic at this phone company's "Center"; can you hear me now? Good
Verizon
David
|
$800
[19]
1954:"Marooned & unsupervised schoolboys divide up & wage war"
Lord of the Flies
Sheri
|
$800
[14]
There's a "Chapel in the Woods" for weddings at this Memphis landmark, just down the blvd. from the Heartbreak Hotel
Graceland
David
Sheri
|
$800
[9]
In 1856 William Perkin created the first synthetic one of these ink-like colorants; it was mauve
dye
David
|
$800
[3]
A tribe of Asiatic nomads, perhaps a "Golden" one
a horde
David
|
$800
[4]
The name of this city on the Rhine precedes "Steamroller" in the name of an electronic music group
Mannheim
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[28]
This company is based in Memphis, so giving the Grizzlies a forum for hoops is something it can deliver
FedEx
David
Sheri
|
$1,200
[20]
1850:"Minister & married woman exposed after conceiving illegitimate daughter"
The Scarlet Letter
Sheri
|
$1,200
[15]
Fair Lane, the 56-room Dearborn, Michigan home built for this man, cost around $2 million, & that's in 1915 bucks!
Henry Ford
Mike
|
$1,200
[10]
In osmosis, a liquid passes through a barrier usually called a semipermeable one of these
a membrane
Mike
|
$1,200
[23]
A pair of rhymed poetic lines
a couplet
Mike
|
$1,200
[5]
The northeastern portion of Inner Mongolia is sometimes included in this historical region of China
Manchuria
Mike
|
|
$1,600
[29]
If you drive its CR-V to see the Anaheim Ducks play in the "Center" bearing its name, this company will be doubly happy
Honda
Sheri
|
$2,000
[22]
1846:"Man walls up enemy in twisted revenge"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
Mike
|
$1,600
[16]
Built between 1936 & 1939, this Frank Lloyd Wrighthouseis a national historic landmark
Fallingwater
David
Sheri
|
$1,600
[11]
In a standard lead-acid battery, lead plates & an electrolyte of this diluted acid create electrical energy
sulfuric acid
Mike
|
$1,600
[24]
A rod around which sewing thread or an LP record revolves
spindle
Sheri
|
$1,600
[6]
David Lloyd George was born in this British city known for its textile production
Manchester
Mike
|
|
$2,000
[30]
The Chicago Blackhawks take wing at the arena named for this airline
United
Mike
|
DD
$3,800
[21]
1847:"Attic head case sets fire to house when hubby falls for new governess"
Jane Eyre
Sheri
|
$2,000
[17]
Honolulu's Shangri La, built by this alliterative tobacco heiress, houses her collection of Islamic art
Doris Duke
Sheri
|
DD
$3,600
[12]
Used as a purification process, it's the evaporation of a liquid & then the condensation of the vapor
distillation
Mike
|
$2,000
[25]
It's the act of throwing someone out a window
defenestration
Mike
|
$2,000
[7]
During WWII, an internment camp for Japanese Americans was at this California locale
Manzanar
|
This teen duo debuted in a 1992 animated short in which they played baseball with a frog
Beavis & Butt-head