Sarah Shemkus — a freelance writer from Manchester, Massachusetts
Ana Peso — a high school librarian from Wheeling, Illinois
Paula Menasche — a high school social studies teacher from Coral Gables, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paula | $1,000 | $3,800 | $11,000 |
$17,500
2-day champion: $34,700 |
$11,000
16 R, 1 W |
| Ana | $-400 | $2,000 | $10,400 |
$5,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,400
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $4,800 | $7,400 | $8,600 |
$5,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| PEOPLE ARE READING... | THAT'S SOME HOTEL! | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS | 1990s HISTORY | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS | NAME THE OLYMPIANS' SPORT |
|
$200
[10]
"An American Son", by this senator whose parents left Cuba in the 1950s
Marco Rubio
Ana
|
$200
[26]
Pack light for the Woodpecker Hotel near Stockholm; it's over 40 feet up, via a rope ladder, in one of these
a treehouse
Paula
|
$200
[3]
Give life to; Warner Bros. cartoonists did it to Bugs Bunny
animate
Sarah
|
$200
[8]
On Aug. 2, 1990 this nation invaded Kuwait & within 48 hours, had complete control; didn't last
Iraq
Paula
|
$200
[1]
Prior to inventing the first practical electric razor, Jacob Schick patented the Pencilaid, which did this
sharpened pencils
|
$200
[21]
Mark Spitz
swimming
Paula
|
|
$400
[11]
If they bought it before it was pulled, this Jonah Lehrer book on creativity whose title is also a John Lennon song
Imagine
Paula
|
$400
[27]
Enjoy a drink at Clink in Boston's Liberty Hotel, built as one of these in the 1800s
a prison
Sarah
|
$400
[4]
Sprout like a plant, or lie on a couch like a useless slug, watching TV & eating chips
vegetate
Paula
|
$400
[9]
Let me tell you something, McMahon! In 1999 he joined "the body" politic & became governor of Minnesota
Jesse Ventura
Ana
|
$400
[2]
Elisha Otis had his ups & downs but hit a high spot in 1852 when he invented a safety device for this conveyance
an elevator
Sarah
|
$400
[22]
Aly Raisman & Jordyn Wieber
gymnastics
Sarah
|
|
$600
[12]
"The Price of Politics", the latest by this tireless reporter on the White House & Capitol Hill
Bob Woodward
Ana
|
— |
$600
[5]
Make beautiful, or add fictitious details
embellish
Sarah
|
$600
[14]
The British government returned this "Stone of Destiny" to Edinburgh in 1996
the Stone of Scone
|
$600
[17]
This pitchman made sure we all knew about his family's inventions the Pocket Fisherman & the Veg-O-Matic
Ron Popeil
Ana
|
$600
[23]
Bode Miller
skiing
Paula
|
|
$800
[13]
"Wherever I Wind Up" by R.A. Dickey, who unlike most baseball players has mastered both written English & this weird pitch
the knuckleball
Ana
Sarah
|
— |
$800
[6]
To lighten a ship, you might do this, cast overboard something that's not needed
jettison
Ana
Sarah
|
$800
[15]
In 1997 he became the U.N.'s first secretary-general from sub-Saharan Africa; in 2012 he tried to make peace in Syria
Kofi Annan
Paula
|
$800
[19]
Joshua Pusey patented these in book form in 1892 but didn't "strike it" rich until several years later
matches
Sarah
|
$800
[24]
Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips
equestrian
Ana
|
|
$1,000
[18]
"Get Jiro!", a graphic novel by this host of "No Reservations"; Jiro is a sushi chef known to decapitate diners
Anthony Bourdain
Ana
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[7]
From the Latin for "road", it means to depart from the norm
deviate
Sarah
|
$1,000
[16]
A 51-day standoff between the feds & Branch Davidians took place in 1993 near this seat of McLennan County, Texas
Waco
Paula
|
$1,000
[20]
Laurens Hammond invented a device to Shuffle bridge cards &, in 1934, the first practical electric one of these instruments
an organ
Ana
|
$1,000
[25]
Dick Button (1948 & 1952)
figure skating
Ana
Sarah
|
| "MIDDLE" ENGLISH | LATIN MAMMALS | WRITERS ON FILM | WORLD WAR II | IN BETWEEN | PRESIDENT CLINTON'S HARLEM |
|
$400
[16]
Time of life from 45 to 60, roughly
middle age
Paula
|
$400
[11]
Leo
lion
Paula
|
$400
[1]
Philip Seymour Hoffman won the best actor Oscar for his role as this author
Truman Capote
Sarah
|
$400
[6]
The Allies blew up an abbey en route to capturing Monte Cassino in this country
Italy
Paula
|
$400
[21]
In a rainbow:Between yellow & blue
green
Sarah
|
$400
[26]
(President Clinton delivers the clue.) After World War I Harlem was the center of a literary movement known as the "Harlem" this; a European one took place from the 14th to the 17th centuries
Renaissance
Ana
|
|
$800
[17]
An intermediary or go-between
a middleman
Ana
|
$800
[12]
Simia
monkeys (or apes)
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
Nicole Kidman won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as this author in "The Hours"
Virginia Woolf
Sarah
|
$800
[7]
The "Death March" from this Philippine peninsula cost the lives of thousands of Allied prisoners of war
Bataan
Ana
|
$800
[22]
In the Bible:Between Leviticus & Deuteronomy
Numbers
|
$800
[27]
(President Clinton delivers the clue.) The Great Depression saw many people come to Harlem, including this man who would become the first black mayor of New York City
(David) Dinkins
Paula
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Pretenders hit from "Learning to Crawl"
"Middle Of The Road"
Paula
|
$1,200
[13]
Porcus
pigs
Sarah
|
$1,200
[3]
It's the better-known pen name of Karen Blixen, who's portrayed in "Out of Africa"
Isak Dinesen
Sarah
|
$1,600
[9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a naval animation on the monitor.) At the 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance, a line of Japanese ships received deadly raking fire from American Admiral Scott's fleet in a classic naval maneuver called "crossing" this
the T
Sarah
|
$1,200
[23]
Among popes:Between Paul VI & John Paul II
John Paul I
|
$1,200
[28]
(President Clinton delivers the clue.) Ben E. King & my friend Aretha Franklin have sung of this"Harlem" area along Park Avenue north of 96th Street, historically associated with NYC's large Puerto Rican population
Spanish Harlem
Ana
|
|
$1,600
[19]
She's now Duchess of Cambridge
Kate Middleton
Ana
|
$1,600
[14]
Vacca
cows
Paula
|
$2,000
[5]
She was portrayed by both Kate Winslet & Dame Judi Dench in the 2001 biopic "Iris"
Iris Murdoch
Paula
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
Germany launched its ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union in June of this year
1941
Ana
|
$1,600
[24]
In a book series:Between "Twilight" & "Eclipse"
New Moon
Ana
|
$1,600
[29]
(President Clinton delivers the clue.) After Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, Arthur Mitchell, the first black dancer in the New York City Ballet, opened this troupe in a garage on 152nd Street
the Dance Theatre of Harlem
Paula
|
|
$2,000
[20]
The central leg of the triangular run made by transatlantic slave ships
the Middle Passage
Sarah
|
$2,000
[15]
Vulpes
foxes
Paula
|
DD
$4,000
[4]
The movie "Nora" tells of the relationship between Nora Barnacle & this writer played by Ewan McGregor
James Joyce
Sarah
|
$2,000
[10]
The Spitfire & this lesser-known "stormy" fighter were the keys to the RAF's victory in the Battle of Britain
the Hawker Hurricane
|
$2,000
[25]
In the Greek alphabet:Between zeta & theta
eta
Ana
|
$2,000
[30]
(President Clinton delivers the clue.) In January 2012 President Obamasanga bit of "Let's Stay Together" in tribute to Al Green at this famous Harlem Venue
the Apollo Theater
Ana
|
The town where he was born in 1811 is now in far eastern Austria; when he was born there it belonged to another country
Franz Liszt