Diva Bole — a law student from Elkton, Maryland
Helen Juvonen — an actor from Toronto, Canada
Joan Blinn — a retired proofreader and editor from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joan | $3,400 | $7,000 | $20,400 |
$40,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$19,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Helen | $3,600 | $6,600 | $21,000 |
$40,801
New champion: $40,801 |
$21,000
25 R, 1 W |
| Diva | $-600 | $0 | $3,600 |
$3,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
8 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| FOOD WORDS & PHRASES | THE STORY OF ENGLISH | DVD SPECIAL FEATURES | THE CITY IN QUESTION | WHERE'D YOU GO TO COLLEGE? | TITLE CHANGES |
|
$200
[7]
To be embarrassed is to have this "on one's face"
egg
Joan
|
$200
[1]
English is a member of the West Germanic branch of the language family called Indo-this
European
Helen
|
$200
[26]
One of its special features is a documentary hosted by Lauren Bacall called "You Must Remember This"
Casablanca
Helen
|
$200
[14]
12 got death, 7 got prison & 3 were acquitted at the first of these trials, held from Nov. 1945 to Oct. 1946
Nuremberg
Helen
|
$200
[21]
Elizabeth Dole & William Styron: this North Carolina university
Duke
Joan
|
$200
[2]
F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Tender is the Meat"
night
Joan
|
|
$400
[9]
This meat is a synonym for a performer who overacts
ham
Joan
|
$400
[8]
Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian & West Saxon were the major dialects of this, spoken until about 1100
Anglo-Saxon (or Old English)
Joan
Helen
Diva
|
$400
[27]
"The Godfather" DVD collection includes this family's family tree
the Corleone family
Diva
|
$400
[16]
"Spanish Bombs" & "The Guns Of Brixton" are on the Clash album this city "Calling"
London
Helen
|
$400
[22]
Ralph Waldo Emerson & Tommy Lee Jones: this Ivy League school
Harvard
Joan
|
$400
[3]
John Irving: "The World According to Madonna"
Garp
Helen
|
|
$600
[12]
Something perfectly neat is in this dessert "order"
apple pie
Joan
|
$600
[10]
In Chaucer's day, "boot" was pronounced "boat"; the change to modern speech is called the GVS, "great" this "shift"
vowel
Joan
|
$800
[29]
The DVD for this 1986 drama includes interviews with Rob Reiner & Stephen King, & a music video by Ben E. King
Stand By Me
Helen
|
$600
[18]
This syndrome is also called terror-bonding or traumatic bonding
Stockholm
Helen
|
$600
[23]
Regis Philbin & Nicholas Sparks: this Catholic college
Notre Dame
Diva
|
$600
[4]
William Golding: "Lord of the Dance"
flies
Helen
|
|
$800
[15]
It means to worry or fuss; to suffer consequences of one's own actions is to do it "in one's own juices"
stew
Joan
|
$800
[11]
"A Table Alphabeticall", often considered the first English one of these, was published in 1604
a dictionary
Helen
|
$1,000
[30]
"Behind the Scenes with Mattie Ross" is a special feature of this 2010 movie remake
True Grit
Joan
|
$800
[19]
Lemon-lime soda, triple sec, sour mix & Jack Daniel's make up this city's "lemonade"
Lynchburg (lemonade)
|
$800
[24]
Colleagues William Rehnquist & Sandra Day O'Connor: this private school in California
Stanford
Diva
|
$800
[5]
James Jones: "From Here to Montezuma"
eternity
Helen
|
|
$1,000
[17]
By itself it's a southern bread; following "corn", it's also an adjective referring to folksy humor
pone
Helen
|
$1,000
[13]
With the growth of the British Empire in this century, the number of native English speakers rose from about 26 mil. to 126 million
the 19th century
Joan
Diva
|
DD
$1,200
[28]
"The Rising", "Comrades" & "Revolution parts 1 & 2" are special features of this Warren Beatty film
Reds
Diva
|
$1,000
[20]
It's August 1968, so you know this city'sspring is over as Soviet tanks roll in
Prague
Joan
|
$1,000
[25]
Saul Bellow & Cindy Crawford: this private university in Illinois
Northwestern
Joan
|
$1,000
[6]
Zora Neale Hurston: "Their Eyes Were Watching ESPN"
God
Helen
|
| SOCIAL MEDIA | "RR" CROSSING | MAURITANIA & MOROCCO | THE DAILY SHOWALUMNI | THE RENAISSANCE | THIS MEANS WAR! |
|
$400
[16]
@ChrisRRegan, @ this site: "Higgs boson is the name of the villain on the next season of 'Justified'"
Twitter
Helen
|
$400
[2]
The circulating money of a country
currency
Joan
|
$400
[23]
4 years apart, in 1956 & 1960, Morocco & Mauritania gained independence from this country
France
Helen
|
$400
[1]
In 2009 this ex-correspondent brought his "veritasiness" to Iraq to entertain the troops
(Stephen) Colbert
Helen
|
$400
[7]
This artist's notebooks, in mirror writing, contained items from drawings to shopping lists
da Vinci
Joan
|
$400
[21]
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
WWI
Helen
|
|
$800
[17]
Top passwords stolen at a 2012 breach of this business resume site included "job", "career" & of course "link"
LinkedIn
Helen
|
$800
[3]
Charon would do this to souls across the river Styx, for which he received a coin
ferry
Joan
|
$800
[25]
Othello knows this 4-letter word can mean an inhabitant of either Morocco or Mauritania
moor
Helen
|
$800
[12]
Both he and his wife Nancy were on the show before he started managing a paper company on NBC
(Steve) Carell
Helen
|
$800
[8]
Renewed interest in ancient texts prompted Johannes Reuchlin's 1506 grammar of this Old Testament language
Hebrew
Joan
|
$800
[22]
The explosion of the USS Maine
the Spanish-American War
Joan
|
|
$1,200
[18]
A health data-sharing platform, patientslikeme.com was founded by 3 engineers from this Boston-area univ., "initially"
MIT
Helen
|
$1,200
[4]
To lose assets in large quantities, or to bleed profusely
hemorrhage
Joan
|
$1,200
[27]
The flags of Mauritania & Morocco each bear a star; Mauritania's adds this object
the crescent moon
Diva
|
$1,200
[13]
Rob Corddry reported on Dick Cheney's hunting mishap before playing Ari Fleischer in this Oliver Stone pic
W.
Diva
|
$1,200
[9]
The most widely read seer of the Renaissance, this French astrologist began making prophecies around 1547
Nostradamus
Joan
|
$1,200
[24]
Marshal Choe Yong Gun leads his troops across a border
the Korean War
Joan
|
|
$1,600
[19]
"Find your style!" on this site that lets you "organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web"
Pinterest
Helen
|
$1,600
[5]
In England, it's a lawyer who gets to plead in the higher courts, and also toaccessorizebeautifully
barrister
Helen
|
$2,000
[30]
The phosphate-rich area called Western this lies between Mauritania & Morocco; both have claimed it
Sahara
Helen
|
$1,600
[14]
"When a news story falls through the cracks", this man "catches it for a segment" called "Back in" him
Lewis Black
Diva
|
$1,600
[10]
Henry VIII appointed him Lord Chancellor in 1529; 6 years later, he lost his head
Thomas More
Diva
|
$1,600
[26]
Egypt & Syria simultaneously attack Israel on 2 fronts, on a holy day
the Yom Kippur War
Joan
|
|
$2,000
[20]
This site "helps you make the most of where you are" & boasts 2 billion check-ins
Foursquare
Helen
|
$2,000
[6]
Metz is the capital of this French region that's west of Alsace
Lorraine
Helen
|
DD
$3,000
[29]
After Morocco allegedly aided a failed coup, Mauritania gravitated toward this third country that borders both
Algeria
Joan
|
$2,000
[15]
We don't know if this pre-Jon Stewart host of "The Daily Show" is still "on assignment in Kuala Lumpur"
Craig Kilborn
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
Artisans who produced this stringed, pear-shaped instrument included Frei & Unverdorben
the lute
Diva
|
$2,000
[28]
Bismarck publishes the Ems telegram, royally peeving Napoleon III
the Franco-Prussian War
Joan
|
Title character who's "clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere"
Dracula