Jessica Young — a recent college graduate originally from Charleston, West Virginia
Chrisanne Eastwood — a bookseller from Moorpark, California
Mike Wallace — a real estate agent from Sunnyside, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | $1,800 | $6,000 | $17,000 |
$20,000
2-day champion: $48,800 |
$15,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Chrisanne | $3,600 | $6,000 | $4,800 |
$4,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Jessica | $-400 | $600 | $6,800 |
$5,347
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| LBJ PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY | DOUBLE TALK | SKYSCRAPER CITY | SHEEP-POURRI | COLLEGE BASKETBALL | MARCH MADNESS |
|
$200
[13]
The revamped main part of the library reopens tomorrow, December 22nd, which would have been this person's 100th birthday
Lady Bird Johnson
Mike
|
$200
[7]
Thisbreed was kept by fierce Asian tribes for hunting & guarding
the chow chow
Jessica
|
$200
[1]
The Trump building at 40 Wall St.
New York City
Jessica
|
$200
[12]
This term for a diploma refers to the parchment from which it was once made
a sheepskin
Mike
|
$200
[6]
The NCAA has trademarked this alliterative nickname for the semifinals of its championship tournament
the final four
Jessica
|
$200
[18]
The second movement of his Third Symphony, the "Eroica", is a funeral march
Beethoven
Jessica
|
|
$400
[14]
A lifelong passion, includingworking with young people, is honored by having LBJ's name on the headquarters of this cabinet department
the Department of Education
|
$400
[8]
The music for this high-kicking dance of France is heard here
the cancan
Chrisanne
|
$400
[2]
Republic Plaza, rising 714 feet (not a mile)
Denver
Chrisanne
|
$400
[19]
As as verb, it means to swindle
to fleece
Mike
|
$400
[27]
In one of college basketball's biggest upsets, Villanova beat this Patrick Ewing-led D.C. school for the 1985 men's title
Georgetown
Jessica
|
$400
[20]
His Slavonic March of 1876 was commissioned by the Russian Musical Society to support Serbs at war with Turkey
Tchaikovsky
Jessica
|
|
$600
[15]
Truman had pushed for this system; LBJsignedit into law, & 81-year-old Harrygot the first card
Medicare
Chrisanne
|
$600
[9]
From Chinese, this piece of double talk can be a toast or casual, light chatter
chin-chin
Chrisanne
|
$600
[3]
The John Hancock Center at 875 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Mike
|
$600
[24]
The New York Times reports that this nighttime method doesn't work as it's too boring to do for very long
counting sheep
Mike
|
$600
[28]
The Lady Bears of this Texas school went 40-0 en route to winning the 2012 women's champtionship
Baylor
Chrisanne
|
$600
[21]
Hector Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique" contains the grim "March to" this place where the hangman awaits
the gallows
Mike
|
|
$800
[16]
The library has a replica of this, which LBJ was the first to use to contact Moscow; as you can see, it wasn't a red phone
the hotline
Mike
Chrisanne
Jessica
|
$800
[10]
It's also called the dolphinfish
the mahimahi
Jessica
|
$800
[4]
Named for an insurance company in a big insurance town, Travelers Tower
Hartford
Chrisanne
|
$800
[25]
Ventriloquist Shari Lewis first appeared with this sock puppet on a 1957 episode of "Captain Kangaroo"
Lamb Chop
Mike
|
$800
[29]
In the 1957 men's final, N. Carolina sent 5'11" Tommy Kearns to jump center against this 7' Kansas "stilt"--& won the game
Wilt Chamberlain
Chrisanne
|
$800
[22]
Yale played this march for Edward Elgar when it gave him an honorary Ph.D. in 1905; he probably loved it--he wrote it
"Pomp And Circumstance"
Mike
|
|
$1,000
[17]
LBJ reminded world leaders that "we are one world" with copies of thephototaken from Apollo 8 with this 9-letter name
Earthrise
|
$1,000
[11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a root in Molokai, HI.) Made from aroot, the mildly sedative ancient elixir of Hawaii is called "'awa" locally but is known elsewhere by this double talk name
kava-kava
Jessica
|
DD
$1,200
[5]
The Marriott Rivercenter at 101 Bowie St.
San Antonio
Chrisanne
|
$1,000
[26]
In "Little Boy Blue" "the sheep's" here, "the cow's in the corn"
the meadow
Chrisanne
|
— |
$1,000
[23]
It's said to have been inspired by a "colonel" who would whistle its distinctive 2-note phrase rather than shout "fore!"
"Colonel Bogey March"
Mike
|
| THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | SIGNATURE SONGS | CHEWING GUAM | "D" IN SCIENCE | WORDS WITHIN WORDS | AMERICAN POETRY |
|
$400
[13]
Dec. 25, this year:5 months into WWI, German & British troops emerge from their trenches for a game of soccer
1914
Jessica
|
$400
[6]
"YMCA"
the Village People
Chrisanne
|
$400
[21]
Hormel makes a "hot & spicy" version of this canned meat product for Guam, where folks are crazy for it
spam
Mike
|
$400
[11]
To astronomers, the presence of this type of "matter" is descerned from its gravitational pull
dark
Mike
|
$400
[1]
Grandma in Johannesburg sent my birthday check in this currency
the rand
|
$800
[25]
In his "Sunflower Sutra", he wrote, "Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole"
Allen Ginsberg
Chrisanne
|
|
$800
[16]
December 25, 1776:2,400 U.S. troops cross this river for a surprise attack
the Delaware
Chrisanne
Jessica
|
$800
[7]
"(Sittin' on) The Dock Of The Bay"
Otis Redding
Jessica
|
$800
[22]
Brought to Guam from the Philippines, Paksiw is a dish of fish cooked in this pungent acidic liquid
vinegar
Jessica
|
$800
[12]
This principal muscle of respiration contracts when you breathe in & relaxes when you breathe out
the diaphragm
Chrisanne
|
$800
[2]
One of these raised at Sonoma in 1846 was lost in a conflagration in 1906
a flag
Chrisanne
|
$1,200
[24]
"I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs", Louise Gluck wrote in this enchantress' "Power"
Circe
Chrisanne
Jessica
|
|
$1,600
[19]
December 25, 1939:The Battle of Jelja commences in the "Winter War" between these 2 foes
Finland & Russia
Mike
Chrisanne
Jessica
|
$1,200
[8]
"It's Not Unusual"
Tom Jones
Chrisanne
|
— |
DD
$1,000
[14]
The name of this part of a neuron comes from the Greek for "pertaining to a tree"
a dendrum (dendrite also acceptable)
Jessica
|
$1,200
[3]
Wheezing & fainting are distinguishing signs of an allergic reaction to this ouchie
a sting
Jessica
|
$1,600
[23]
Emily Dickinson wrote, "I'm" this! "Who are you? Are you" this "too?"
nobody
Chrisanne
Jessica
|
|
$2,000
[20]
December 25, 1944: The U.S. 101st Airborne repels a German attack on this town at the heart of the "Bulge"
Bastogne
Mike
|
$1,600
[9]
"Smoke On The Water"
Deep Purple
Jessica
|
— |
$1,600
[15]
(I'm Dr. Oz.) Replace half your sugary drink with water; sugar releases this neurotransmitter that travels along reward pathways in the brain, making you crave more sugar
dopamine
Mike
|
$1,600
[4]
An irrational number can't be expressed as one of these between 2 integers
ratio
|
— |
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
Dec. 25, 1837:U.S. troops suffer heavy casualties fighting this Florida tribe at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee
the Seminole
Mike
|
$2,000
[10]
"Rock Lobster"
The B-52's
Jessica
|
— |
$2,000
[17]
This "D"-man noted that the frequency of sound waves is afctby the relative motion of the source & detector
(Christian) Doppler
Mike
|
$2,000
[5]
There's no danger in reheating this soup--microwaves use nonionizing radiation
onion
Jessica
|
— |
One of the 3 national capitals made up of 2 words that begin with the same letter
(1 of) Addis Ababa, San Salvador, or Phnom Penh