Rachel Shuman — a curriculum coordinator from Silver Spring, Maryland
Jan Rishoi — an analytic software sales executive from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Josh Frumkin — a non-profit assistant director of donor relations from Germantown, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $43,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh | $4,200 | $5,200 | $12,000 |
$799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,000
19 R, 0 W |
| Jan | $1,200 | $0 | $9,600 |
$4,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,600
12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rachel | $2,000 | $3,800 | $11,600 |
$19,600
New champion: $19,600 |
$14,600
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE SIGHTS YOU'LL SEE! | PATRON SAINTS | MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "R" | ANTHROPOLOGY | ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN | I CAN ALMOST TASTE THAT WORD |
|
$200
[6]
A giant statue of this logger & Babe the blue ox greet visitors to the Trees of Mystery in Klamath, California
Paul Bunyan
Josh
|
$200
[26]
St. Patrick:This country
Ireland
Jan
|
$200
[1]
1976 Stallone pug(5)
Rocky
Josh
|
$200
[19]
This term can mean a native of any region, but usually it's applied to the indigenous peoples of Down Under
aborigine
Josh
|
$200
[16]
Send not to know for whom this tolls; a knoller tolled it for thee
a bell
Josh
|
$200
[11]
Adjective for racy humor or life at sea
salty
Josh
Jan
|
|
$400
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a rock in front of an exhibit on Rocks from Space at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA.) The Harvard Museum has many more impressivemeteoritesbut none more interesting: after an explosion blew it free, it took about 3 million years to make its way to Earth from this planet that orbits about 50 million miles away
Mars
Josh
|
$400
[27]
St. Thomas Aquinas:These institutions, like one named for him in Grand Rapids
a college
|
$400
[2]
Bill Maher's 2008 documentary(10)
Religulous
Josh
|
$400
[20]
It's a culture-specific prohibition of certain behavior, like...well, things we don't talk about
taboo
Rachel
|
$400
[17]
Hey, Don! Even mad men know a clerk who sold clothing & dry goods did this 6-letter job
a draper
Jan
|
$400
[12]
One of the 4 basic tastes, it's also a noun for a basic type of cocktail
sour
Rachel
|
|
$600
[8]
Visiting Philly? Take a tour of 239 Arch Street, the house where it's said this woman lived from 1773 to 1785
Betsy Ross
Jan
|
$600
[28]
St. Francis of Assisi:This "saintly" U.S. state capital
Santa Fe
|
$600
[3]
Brad Pitt spy spoof "Burn After ____"(7)
Reading
Rachel
|
$600
[23]
This term for a basic social unit of parents & their offspring sounds like they are radioactive
a nuclear family
Rachel
|
$600
[18]
Like their brethren in West Virginia, colliers went down, down, down to work in this place
a coal mine
Josh
|
$600
[13]
This 10-letter word that means "sugary" is one letter longer than the name of a sugar substitute
saccharine
|
|
$800
[9]
One of the largest public displays of these dwarfed trees outside of Japan is at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
bonsai
Rachel
|
DD
$800
[29]
St. Andrew:This profession he practiced for a living
a fisherman
Jan
|
$800
[4]
For bike messengers it's "premium"(4)
rush
Josh
|
$800
[24]
This type of social group, from the Greek for "nation", is linked by language, culture, origin or religion
an ethnicity (or ethnic group)
Rachel
|
$800
[21]
There were wax & tallow subspecialties of this, a word meaning candlemaker
chandler
|
$800
[14]
Everyone wants quesadillas to be this adjective; you don't want your screenplay described that way
cheesy
Jan
|
|
$1,000
[10]
Natural Bridge, Virginia is home to an exact foam replica of this circular landmark on an English plain
Stonehenge
Josh
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
Suave Snape portrayer Alan(7)
Rickman
Josh
|
$1,000
[25]
The Taung baby, discovered in 1924, was the first fossil ever found of this "southern" genus, species africanus
Australopithecus
Jan
|
$1,000
[22]
In the British army, a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant had this job, also the name of a comic book hero
batman
|
$1,000
[15]
In this word that means "without taste", every other letter spells "bad"
bland
Rachel
|
| "WHITE" MATTER | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS | LET'S GO CAROLING | THE BEAT MOVEMENT | IN THE DICTIONARY | I GOT A BRIDGE I'D LIKE TO SELL YOU |
|
$400
[2]
Get a load of the jaws on this predator seen here
a great white shark
Josh
|
$400
[7]
One of this circus man's 1st exhibits was Joice Heth, who claimed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington
(P.T.) Barnum
Josh
|
$400
[1]
"Hark" when I tell you its music was adapted from a Mendelssohn cantata commemorating the printing press
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
Josh
|
$400
[19]
Many beat writers such as Gary Snyder were involved in this eastern religion, particularly the Zen form
Buddhism
Josh
|
$400
[12]
To invest with the functions of a priest
ordain
Rachel
|
$1,200
[28]
It's already been sold & moved across the ocean to Arizona; if you've got the "capital", it's yours
London Bridge
Josh
|
|
$800
[3]
Architect James Hoban modeled this building after Leinster House in Dublin
the White House
Jan
|
$800
[8]
In 1848 he sold his song "Oh! Susanna" for $100
(Stephen) Foster
Rachel
|
$800
[15]
In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge scares a caroler singing this song; so much for "comfort and joy"
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
Jan
|
$800
[20]
Seen here, Neal Cassady never wrote a novel but inspired some including this one that depicts him as Dean Moriarty
On the Road
Josh
Jan
|
$800
[13]
To bring a formal charge or accusation againstbefore trial
indict
Jan
|
$1,600
[27]
Named for the unhappy sounds prisoners made when crossing it, this Venice bridge is 400 years old & priced to move
the Bridge of Sighs
Rachel
|
|
$1,200
[4]
From 1901 to 1931 they were owned by Charles Comiskey
the Chicago White Sox
Jan
|
$1,200
[9]
Hailing from New Hampshire, he's the orator & statesman seen here
(Daniel) Webster
Rachel
|
$1,600
[17]
This carol uses "Greensleeves" as its melody & 3 verses of the William Dix poem "The Manger Throne" for lyrics
"What Child Is This?"
|
$1,200
[21]
Beat writer Gregory Corso was born on Bleecker Street in this NYC neighborhood where the beatniks gathered
Greenwich Village
Jan
|
$1,200
[14]
Get on "track" & name this adjective describing someone from Scandinavia
nordic
Josh
|
$2,000
[26]
Relax, it's only a little torsional oscillation here, in 1940, at Tacoma Narrows Bridge over this body of water
Puget Sound
Jan
|
|
$1,600
[5]
Bechamel, for example
a white sauce
Jan
|
$2,000
[11]
Last of the Whigs was a nickname of this president
Fillmore
Rachel
|
$2,000
[18]
Meaning to sing heartily, it's what we do to "the ancient yuletide carol" in "Deck The Halls"
troll
Jan
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1953 this grandson of an adding machine company founder published "Junkie", his first novel
William S. Burroughs
|
$1,600
[25]
A close pal or buddy; a political one often gets a plum job
a crony
Rachel
|
— |
|
$2,000
[6]
In a 1906 novel Weedon Scott rescues & tames this wild wolf-dog
White Fang
Josh
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
An 1877 cartoon showed 12 widows crying in bed, mourning the death of this man
Brigham Young
Rachel
|
DD
$4,000
[16]
The view of a certain Middle Eastern city inspired Pastor Phillips Brooks to write this carol in 1868
"O Little Town Of Bethlehem"
Jan
|
$2,000
[23]
"A Supermarket in California", an ode to Walt Whitman, was one of the other poems included in this 1956 Ginsberg work
Howl
Rachel
|
$2,000
[24]
Macbeth says life is "a tale told by" this type of person
an idiot
Rachel
|
— |
Thomas Watson Jr. appeared on the March 28, 1955 cover of Time with the caption "Clink. Clank." This
Think