Joe Emison — a chief technology officer from Asheville, North Carolina
Kevin Moser — an attorney from Fort Wright, Kentucky
Susan Jann — an operations coordinator from Bristol, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan | $4,400 | $6,600 | $17,100 |
$19,600
2-day champion: $42,400 |
$20,600
24 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Kevin | $600 | $400 | $9,200 |
$18,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
11 R, 3 W |
| Joe | $3,000 | $2,800 | $8,400 |
$16,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| SOCK IT TO ME | SPORTS TERMS | TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS | "BLOCK" PARTY | EAT PREY | LOVE |
|
$200
[15]
This term for a teenage girl of the 1940s refers to ankle socks folded over at the top
bobby socks
Kevin
|
$200
[7]
In basketball a helpful pass resulting in a score gets you this on the scoresheet
an assist
Joe
|
$200
[26]
In 1797 Tennessee's William Blount became the first man expelled from this body & its only member impeached by the House
the U.S. Senate
Susan
Kevin
Joe
|
$200
[2]
This company says it "has helped clients obtain nearly $50 billion in tax refunds" & other benefits
H&R Block
Joe
|
$200
[21]
Thisbloodsucking insect preys on humans. Sleep tight
a bedbug
Susan
|
$200
[1]
This character speaks the line "Be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet"
Juliet
Joe
|
|
$400
[14]
Unlike most other kinds, tube socks aren't shaped to fit this part of your foot
the heel
Susan
|
$400
[8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew walks on the beach at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.) This basic swimming stroke used by lifesavers was pioneered in Australia during a rescue approach; it's modified to keep the head out of the water & the rescuer's eyes on the victim
the Australian crawl
|
$400
[27]
From 1913 to 1918 Chattanooga lawyer William McAdoo, this man's son-in-law, was also his Treasury secretary
Woodrow Wilson
Susan
|
$400
[3]
It was Lucy's usual term of non-endearment directed at Charlie Brown
Blockhead
Kevin
|
$400
[22]
This "royal" predator of North America ran to about 40 feet long & 7 tons, but isn't around anymore
Tyrannosaurus rex
Susan
|
$400
[17]
In an 1850 poem he wrote, "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
|
|
$600
[11]
2-word term for an extra little Christmas gift; you can get some at the Starbucks store
a stocking stuffer
Joe
|
$800
[10]
A cesta is the basket used to catch & throw the pelota, or ball, in this fast sport
jai alai
Susan
|
$600
[28]
Governor during reconstruction, William Brownlow mobilized the Tennessee guard to crush this then-new hate group
the Ku Klux Klan
Joe
|
$600
[4]
A hit movie, or an aerial bomb weighing several tons
Blockbuster
Susan
|
$600
[23]
Don't tread on this venomous predator seen here
a (western) rattlesnake
Susan
|
$600
[18]
A song by this composer says, "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's fall in love"
Cole Porter
Joe
|
|
$800
[12]
Originally green & white, these socks worn by the Campbell clan were named for a county in west Scotland
argyle
Susan
Joe
|
$1,000
[16]
This 6-letter German term means to make a straight downhill run on skis
schuss
Kevin
Joe
|
$800
[29]
In 1958 Tennessean William Anderson commanded this submarine on the first voyage under the North Pole's ice pack
the USS Nautilus
|
$800
[5]
Occupational name for a type of wood-topped table
butcher's block
Susan
|
$800
[24]
One of the fiercest predators of penguins is the leopard variety of this mammal
a seal
Susan
|
$800
[19]
In "The Prophet" he wrote, "Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea"
Kahlil Gibran
|
|
$1,000
[13]
In 1931 ankle socks caused a sensation when Mrs. Fernley-Whittingstall wore them playing this at Forest Hills
tennis
Susan
|
DD
$1,600
[9]
This term for a golf course is actually a Scottish word for sandy coastal land
links
Joe
|
$1,000
[30]
A real-life "Bones", forensic anthropologist William Bass founded the "Body Farm" at the U. of Tenn. in this city
Knoxville
Joe
|
$1,000
[6]
Alliterative term for a substance taken to reduce the heart rate or to prevent migraines
a beta blocker
Joe
|
$1,000
[25]
Called the tiger of the sea, this streamlined ocean predator can be a threat to swimmers wearing shiny objects
a barracuda
Kevin
|
$1,000
[20]
Around 413 A.D. this church father declared, "Love and do what you will"
St. Augustine
|
| THE 12th CENTURY | GRAMMAR | THE P-51 MUSTANG | ARCHITECTURE | WOODY GUTHRIE | THIS ISLAND IS YOUR ISLAND |
|
$400
[26]
Tradition has it that the first stone for this Paris cathedral was laid in 1163 by Pope Alexander III
Notre Dame
Joe
|
$400
[25]
In standard usage this equals a positive, so "I didn't do nothing" means "I did something"
a double negative
Susan
|
$400
[1]
The P-51 Mustang's reputation was so great, in the mid-'60s executives at this company named a youth-oriented coupe after it
Ford
Susan
|
$400
[14]
Pendentives are used to place this vaulted circular roof atop a square room
a dome
Susan
|
$400
[7]
Woody had a Gibson one of these on which he placed the sticker that read, "This machine kills Fascists"
a guitar
Kevin
|
$400
[2]
Majorca
Spain
Susan
|
|
$800
[27]
In 1181 this type of exploding star lit up the nighttime sky in Cassiopeia & remained visible for 185 days
a supernova
Kevin
|
$1,200
[23]
Some grammar mavens complain about the use of "hopefully" as a sentence one of these, modifying the whole sentence
an adverb
Susan
Kevin
|
$800
[8]
The Mustang was the main fighter of this international organization when it began fighting the Korean War
the United Nations
Kevin
|
$800
[15]
In a ribbed vault, the ribs provide support, or seem to, for this arachnid-sounding material between the ribs
webbing
Joe
|
$800
[10]
Woody didn't like bosses, but this "Boss" gave a speech honoring him at 2012's South by Southwest music festival
Springsteen
Joe
|
$800
[3]
Mindanao
the Philippines
Susan
|
|
$1,200
[30]
Berthold V founded this future Swiss capital in 1191 as a military post on the Aare river
Bern
Kevin
|
$1,600
[22]
To change a sentence from active to passive voice, you usually add a form of this common verb
to be
Susan
|
$1,200
[9]
This sound barrier breaker flew a Mustang for most of his 12.5 aerial kills during World War II
(Chuck) Yeager
Susan
|
$1,200
[16]
As in the home seen here, Desert Modernism thrived in the mid-20th century in this California desert city
Palm Springs
Susan
|
$1,200
[11]
The aging, ailing Woody was visited by Joan Baez & other stars in the early-'60s revival of this 4-letter style of music
folk music
Kevin
|
$1,200
[4]
Hispaniola(2, please)
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Susan
|
|
DD
$1,500
[29]
This queen of France was divorced from Louis VII in March 1152 & married Henry Plantagenet 2 months later
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Susan
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
In English exactly 3 words, with a total of 6 letters, represent this part of speech
the articles
Susan
|
$1,600
[19]
Often flying P-51 Mustangs, this distinguished African-American unit flew more than 1,500 missions during WWII
the Tuskegee Airmen
Kevin
|
$1,600
[17]
Recipients of the Pritzker Prize receive a medallion based on designs by this Chicagoan, the "Father of the Skyscraper"
Louis Sullivan
|
$1,600
[12]
In May 1939 Guthrie began writing his column "Woody Sez" for People's World, this party's newspaper
the Communist Party
Joe
|
$1,600
[5]
Sakhalin
Russia
Susan
|
|
$1,600
[28]
One of the first books on this branch of medicine also practiced by barbers advocated molten lard
surgery
Susan
|
$2,000
[21]
In "Der Ring Des Nibelungen", the -en ending indicates this grammatical case, also called the genitive
the possessive
Kevin
|
$2,000
[20]
In 1944 theP-51gave the Luftwaffe hell with its new visibility-maximizing type ofcanopynamed for this fragile object
a bubble
Joe
|
$2,000
[18]
Inigo Jones restored St. Paul's cathedral from 1633 to 1642, before it burned & was rebuilt by this man
Christopher Wren
Kevin
|
$2,000
[13]
Guthrie took the title for this 1943 autobiography from one of his songs about a train
Bound for Glory
|
$2,000
[6]
MacKenzie King Island
Canada
Susan
|
In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do"
(Horatio) Nelson