Lucas Peterson — an actor originally from Oak Park, Illinois
Beth Youngers — a swim coach from Rochester, Minnesota
Jake Ayres — a law student from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake | $3,000 | $5,200 | $19,600 |
$4,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Beth | $200 | $3,000 | $17,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Lucas | $6,800 | $11,200 | $16,800 |
$13,900
New champion: $13,900 |
$14,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| CHARLES DISCHARGED | WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? | CONTAINERS | "XO" | ONE-WORD NO. 1 HITS | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL |
|
$200
[18]
This cartoonist died in not particularly macabre fashion Sept. 29, 1988
Charles Addams
|
$200
[24]
August 25:This young maiden
Virgo
Beth
|
$200
[28]
It's what a baby wallaby rides in
a pouch
Jake
|
$200
[16]
Along with the Angles, they came from continental Europe to Britain in the 5th century
the Saxons
Jake
|
$200
[1]
1999, Santana & Rob Thomas:A slick tune
"Smooth"
Beth
|
$200
[4]
(First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) I grew up on this side of Chicago that according to the song "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" is the baddest part of town
the south side
Jake
|
|
$400
[19]
You might say he took that final solo flight from Maui Aug. 26, 1974
Charles Lindbergh
Beth
|
$400
[25]
April 25:This sign that doesn't like red capes
Taurus
Jake
|
$400
[30]
A sheath to hold your dagger or sword
a scabbard
Jake
|
$400
[14]
Fate or a bill collector may be this, meaning unyielding & unstoppable
inexorable
Jake
|
$400
[2]
1985, Tears for Fears:A sound
"Shout"
Jake
|
$400
[7]
(First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.)Thispoet was so right in 1904 when he called Chicago "a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities"
Carl Sandburg
Lucas
|
|
$600
[20]
The world of seismology was shaken when he passed on Sept. 30, 1985
(Charles) Richter
Jake
|
$600
[21]
June 14:These boys
Gemini
Beth
|
$600
[15]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C..)Thistype of ceramic material gets its name from Italian for "baked earth"; its waterproof quality was as valuable to the Native Americans as it was to the Italians
terra cotta
Lucas
|
$600
[11]
Voluptuous
buxom
Jake
|
$600
[3]
1970, Edwin Starr:What is it good for?
"War"
Lucas
|
$600
[8]
This is the stadium where the Bears play, but please don't put an "s" on the end
Soldier Field
Lucas
|
|
$800
[22]
He vulcanized rubber but bounced out of the world a poor man July 1, 1860
Goodyear
Lucas
|
$800
[26]
October 24:This Orion nemesis
Scorpio
Beth
|
$800
[17]
From the French for "small basin", it's a basketlike container for an infant
a bassinet
Beth
|
$800
[12]
To clear of suspicion
exonerate
Jake
|
$800
[5]
2009, Lady Gaga:Certain photographers
"Paparazzi"
Lucas
|
$1,000
[10]
Thisdowntown park is known as Chicago's front yard; it was the place to be for 125,000 of our friends on Election Night 2008
Grant Park
Jake
|
|
$1,000
[23]
This man who muscled his way into the world as Angelo Siciliano in 1892 left his well-built body Dec. 23, 1972
Charles Atlas
Lucas
|
$1,000
[27]
December 1:Go ahead, take a shot
Sagittarius
Lucas
|
$1,000
[29]
Named by the Brits after the Germans who created it, it's the two-word name for the 5-gallon container seen here
a jerry can
|
$1,000
[13]
The science of the classification of organisms
taxonomy
Lucas
|
$1,000
[6]
1981, Olivia Newton-John:Let's get the response
"Physical"
Lucas
|
DD
$3,400
[9]
(First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) Grant Wood's "American Gothic" & Picasso's "Mother & Child" are highlights of this museum's amazing collection
the Art Institute
Lucas
|
| THE BOOK OF NUMBERS | TIME SPAN LANGUAGE | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARYDEFINITIONS | THE GREAT PRETENDERS | JULIA ROBERTS MOVIE BY ROLE | "P" COUNTRY |
|
$400
[20]
Anthony Burgess one-upped Orwell with this title
1985
Jake
|
$400
[10]
Church calendars once marked festivals in a certain color, hence this term for a special day
a red-letter day
Jake
|
$400
[30]
"The unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought", it may be involuntary
manslaughter
Beth
Lucas
|
$400
[14]
Though born in what's now Slovenia, Don Carlos was a 19th c. pretender to this country's throne
Spain
Jake
|
$400
[8]
Street walker Vivian Ward
Pretty Woman
Jake
|
$400
[1]
The Andes cover about 25% of it
Peru
Jake
|
|
$800
[29]
Hawthorne's home where it's a rough time for the Pyncheons
The House of the Seven Gables
Beth
|
$800
[12]
This term for midnight implies it's the time to bring out the broom & pointy hat
the witching hour
Jake
|
$1,200
[6]
The "state of being morally abhorrent or socially taboo" in depicting sex, such as in pornography
obscene (or obscenity)
Jake
|
$1,200
[25]
King Inge the Hunchback of this country had to battle the pretender Haakon the Broad-Shouldered
Norway
Lucas
|
$800
[11]
Recently divorced round-the-world traveler Liz Gilbert
Eat Pray Love
Lucas
|
$800
[2]
An Islamic republic
Pakistan
Lucas
|
|
$1,200
[22]
Eliot Asinof bestseller about the 1919 Black Sox scandal
Eight Men Out
Beth
|
$1,200
[13]
"An nou fericit" is the Romanian equivalent of this annual English phrase
Happy New Year
Lucas
|
$1,600
[7]
"Testimony that is given by a witness who relates not what he or she knows personally, but what others have said"
hearsay
Beth
|
$1,600
[26]
Charles Stuart, the 18th c. "Young Pretender" to the British throne, was better known by this handsome-sounding nickname
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Beth
|
$1,200
[17]
Reluctant nuptialist Maggie Carpenter
The Runaway Bride
Beth
|
$1,200
[3]
Uses the euro as its currency
Portugal
Jake
|
|
$1,600
[23]
"Weepy" 1966 Thomas Pynchon novel
The Crying of Lot 49
Jake
|
$1,600
[15]
In 1950 an Alpha Tau Omega master changed one letter in this to create a do-gooding "Help Week"
Hell Week
|
$2,000
[9]
This circumstance "reduces the degree of culpability and thus may reduce the damages... or the punishment"
mitigating (or extenuating circumstances)
Lucas
|
$2,000
[27]
In the 21st century Henri d'Orleans & Louis de this were rival claimants to the nonexistent title King of France
Louis de Bourbon
|
$1,600
[18]
Tinkerbell (she's fairy nice)
Hook
Jake
|
$1,600
[4]
Pacific land named for a 16th century king
the Philippines
Beth
|
|
$2,000
[24]
Solzhenitsyn's book describing an inmate's 24 hours
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Jake
Beth
Lucas
|
$2,000
[16]
Thisagave gets its name from lo-o-o-ng time it takes to bloom
the century plant
Jake
|
DD
$8,000
[21]
"A defamatory assertion expressed in a transitory form, especially speech"
slander
Jake
|
DD
$8,000
[28]
In the early 1600s 3 pretenders to Russia's throne claimed to be Dmitry Ivanovich, son of this man
Ivan the Terrible
Beth
|
$2,000
[19]
Tess, sometime wife of a gambler & thief
Ocean's Eleven
Lucas
|
$2,000
[5]
It borders Belarus
Poland
Jake
|
Built in 1911, this Wisconsin home was named for a Welsh bard associated with King Arthur
Taliesin