Paul Nelson game 3.
Colin Bodels — a creative director and branding consultant from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Jessica Lee — an immigration attorney from Evanston, Illinois
Paul Nelson — a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul | $4,800 | $7,200 | $18,100 |
$16,200
3-day champion: $45,400 |
$17,200
27 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Jessica | $0 | $1,200 | $2,000 |
$3,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,000
8 R, 2 W |
| Colin | $1,400 | $2,400 | $10,000 |
$1,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| A YEAR IN THE LIFE | "OO" WHAT'S THAT? | LONG SONGS | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | RUNNING | WITH SCISSORS |
|
$200
[12]
1861:He resigns from the U.S. Army after 36 years of service for "the defense of my native state"
Robert E. Lee
Paul
|
$200
[6]
A cozy corner of a room, or a small recess, perhaps for breakfast
a nook
Paul
|
$200
[21]
In 1971 Don McLean served up this 8 1/2-minute anthem about "the day the music died"
"American Pie"
Paul
|
$200
[1]
The Parthenon
Athens
Paul
|
$200
[25]
An Ironman Triathlon is a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride & this run
a marathon
Colin
|
$200
[16]
In the hand game known as roshambo, it's what scissors beats
paper
Paul
|
|
$400
[13]
1973:He nationalizes all foreign-owned petroleum assets in Libya
Gadhafi
Paul
|
$400
[7]
It's a Southern term for a peanut
a goober
Paul
|
$400
[23]
This 8-minute-long classic begins, "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold"
"Stairway To Heaven"
|
$400
[2]
The presidential palace (built on the site of Pizarro's house)
Lima (Peru)
Paul
|
$400
[26]
Jogging is this type of exercise that increases the efficiency of the body's oxygen intake
aerobic
Paul
|
$400
[17]
The name of these sewing shears refers to their notched blades, not to a color
pinking shears
Colin
|
|
$600
[11]
1669:This Englishman stops writing in his diary because of deteriorating vision
Samuel Pepys
Paul
Colin
|
$600
[8]
This jewelry item from the '70s that changes colors in response to body heat has made several comebacks
a mood ring
Colin
|
$600
[24]
This "colorful" 1984 hit by Prince clocks in at over 8 1/2 minutes
"Purple Rain"
Jessica
|
$600
[3]
Museum Van Loon & the Heineken Experience
Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Paul
|
$600
[28]
Currently, it's the shortest sprint distance in the Summer Olympics
the 100-meter dash
Jessica
|
$600
[18]
Most scissors are a pair of pivoting blades, connected by a screw, or one of these two-headed metal pins
a rivet
|
|
$800
[14]
1933:This "Untouchable" is in charge of the Treasury Department's alcohol-tax unit
Eliot Ness
|
$800
[9]
It means to go gaga over something; you don't actually have to faint
swoon
Paul
Colin
|
$800
[22]
In the version that's combined with "Where Did Our Love Go", this Soft Cell hit goes on for 9 minutes
"Tainted Love"
Colin
|
$1,000
[5]
Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary
Wellington
Colin
|
$800
[29]
Usual 4-letter term for the rate at which a group runs; you "set" it if you're in the front
the pace
Paul
|
$800
[19]
It's the 3-word name for hydraulic rescue scissors used to cut heavy sheet metal in car wrecks
the jaws of life
Paul
|
|
$1,000
[15]
1951:This longtime friend of Gandhi is elected president of the Indian National Congress
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
Paul
|
$1,000
[10]
Thesemountains in Idaho get their name from their jagged appearance
the Sawtooth Mountains
|
$1,000
[30]
Set aside 17 minutes, baby, if you want to hear this Iron Butterfly hit in its entirety
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
|
DD
$1,200
[4]
The Copernicus Science Centre & The John Paul II Museum Collection
Warsaw (Poland)
Paul
|
$1,000
[27]
A 2010 study suggests 40 mph might be possible for humans--the key is increasing the muscle fibers called "fast" this
twitch
Paul
|
$1,000
[20]
Finnish company Fiskars has sold over 1 billion pairs of the scissors introduced in 1967 with this color handle
orange
Paul
|
| LITERARY AWARDS | GODLY EXPRESSIONS | FOOD STUFF | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS | MOVIES: WHO PLAYED 'EM? | "G", I LOVE SCIENCE |
|
$400
[26]
Since 1953, the Spur Awards have been presented annually to writers of this genre
Western
Paul
|
$400
[20]
Completes the biblical line "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in..."
vain
Paul
|
$400
[11]
The name of this Scandinavian buffet is from the Swedish for "bread & butter table"
smorgasbord
Jessica
|
$400
[25]
In the 1920s & '30s this literary group that included Dorothy Parker met daily for lunch at a NYC hotel
the Round Table at the Algonquin
Colin
|
$400
[1]
Jerry Maguire
Tom Cruise
Paul
|
$400
[2]
This muscular sac sits just below the liver
the gallbladder
Jessica
|
|
$800
[27]
Brian Selznick won a 2008 Caldecott Medal for Illustration for his book "The Invention of" this French boy
Hugo Cabret
Paul
Jessica
|
$800
[19]
In 2012 physicists announced strong evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson, popularly called this
the God particle
Jessica
|
$800
[12]
The balloon type of this utensil is ideal for whipping egg whites into proper consistency for meringues
a whisk
Paul
|
$800
[24]
The Dumbarton Oaks mansion was the site of a 1944 meeting that proposed forming what became this world body
the United Nations
Jessica
|
$800
[3]
Billy Madison
Adam Sandler
Jessica
|
$800
[5]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of an atomic nucleus.) After radioactive decay, when a nucleus is in a high-energy state, the particles of photons known as these rays are released
gamma rays
Paul
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Vincent Bugliosi won a 1975 Edgar Award for this book that was subtitled "The True Story of the Manson Murders"
Helter Skelter
|
$1,200
[18]
Soldiers have long been advised to "Put your trust in God and keep" this "dry"
your powder
Jessica
|
$1,200
[14]
During the 1928 presidential campaign, Republican ads promised this foodstuff
a chicken in every pot
Paul
|
$1,200
[23]
During the 1604 Hampton Court conference, this king accepted a request for a new translation of the Bible
King James
Paul
|
$1,200
[4]
"Bridesmaids" maid of honor Annie Walker
Kristen Wiig
Paul
|
$1,200
[6]
A lab animal manipulated to exhibit a human disease is an example of a GMO, short for this type of organism
genetically modified
Paul
|
|
$1,600
[29]
A British sci-fi award named for this "Childhood's End" author consists of an engraved bookend
Arthur C. Clarke
|
$1,600
[16]
In a theater, if your seats are in the gods, they're in this section
the balcony
|
$1,600
[13]
Following her husband's death, Irma Rombauer penned this culinary classic in 1931
The Joy of Cooking
Colin
|
$1,600
[21]
In February 1945 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at this Black Sea resort in the Livadiya Palace
Yalta
Paul
|
$1,600
[8]
In 2002, Frida Kahlo
Salma Hayek
|
$1,600
[7]
This feature of Jupiter is about 12,400 by 7,500 miles
the Great Red Spot
Colin
|
|
$2,000
[30]
He won a Bram Stoker award for horror for "Lisey's Story" & also has a lifetime achievement award
Stephen King
|
$2,000
[17]
Whether "Little" or not, "God's Acre" means one of these places
a cemetery
|
$2,000
[15]
The New York Public Libraryexhibit"Lunch Hour NYC" includes a reassembled one of these beloved & once very modern dispensers
an automat
Jessica
|
DD
$2,500
[22]
An 18-minute brawl was caught on film during this 1968 meeting in Chicago
the Democratic National Convention
Paul
|
$2,000
[9]
Albert Nobbs
Glenn Close
Colin
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
White Sands National Monument is actually an expanse of dunes of this mineral
gypsum
Colin
|
"Si ve algo, diga algo" was part of a 2011 Spanish-language TV campaign by this Cabinet department
Homeland Security