Steve Rininger — a lawyer from Chicago, Illinois
Abby Fisher — a professional volunteer from Belmont, Massachusetts
Lauren Girard — a museum guest relations manager from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lauren | $3,000 | $6,200 | $20,400 |
$15,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Abby | $3,600 | $5,600 | $9,400 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,400
19 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Steve | $1,800 | $4,800 | $11,200 |
$22,200
New champion: $22,200 |
$11,200
11 R, 2 W |
| POETIC PUNISHMENT | CENTURY OF THE INVENTION | _O_O | GEOGRAPHY: DROP A LETTER | SOMEONE'S IN THE KITCHEN | WITH DINAH |
|
$200
[14]
In this 1798 poem a man must do penance for killing a bird by wandering the earth & telling his story
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Lauren
|
$200
[8]
YouTube
the 21st century
Lauren
Steve
|
$200
[6]
Hungry pigs & monkeys greatly contributed to the demise of this bird on the island of Mauritius
dodo
Lauren
|
$200
[17]
Drop a letter from an African countryand you get this director of "Avatar"
Cameron (from Cameroon)
Lauren
|
$200
[1]
General Mills created her name as a signature to personalize responses to questions about baking
Betty Crocker
Lauren
|
$200
[19]
In the early '70s he starred in "Deliverance" & "The Longest Yard" & dated Dinah Shore
Burt Reynolds
Abby
Steve
|
|
$400
[27]
In this 1667 poem Satan is punished with "eternal miserie"
Paradise Lost
Abby
Steve
|
$400
[10]
The Kodak camera
the 19th century
Abby
|
$400
[7]
As a teen Carl Sandburg traveled throughout the Midwest as one of these vagrants
hobo
Abby
|
$400
[18]
...From a Pacific island nation to find this item of forum wear
toga (from Tonga)
Abby
|
$400
[2]
Chocolate maker Mars Inc. owns him & his rice brand
Uncle Ben
Lauren
|
$400
[23]
The last of the 7 husbands of singer Dinah Washington was Night Train Lane, a cornerback in this sport's hall of fame
football
Abby
|
|
$600
[28]
John Donne wrote, "follow (for he is easy paced) this snail / be thine own palace, or the world's thy" this
jail
|
$600
[11]
The lightning rod
the 18th century
Abby
|
$600
[9]
It's played on a grassy field 300 yards long by 160 yards wide
polo
Abby
|
$600
[20]
Drop a letter from the land seen here& you get this Irish songstress
Enya (from Kenya)
Lauren
|
$800
[4]
On "The Big Bang Theory", Raj said he'd been having a rendezvous with these 2 pancake ladies
Aunt Jemima & Mrs. Butterworth
Lauren
|
$600
[24]
In comics from this publisher, Dinah Lance, aka the Black Canary, gets a bat-kiss
DC
Lauren
|
|
$800
[29]
His poem "On a Political Prisoner" was inspired by a countess sentenced to life for her part in the 1916 Irish rebellion
(William Butler) Yeats
Lauren
|
$800
[12]
Movable type (in Europe)
the 15th century
Abby
|
$800
[15]
It can mean style, sex appeal, a magical charm or talent; we hope you don't lose yours
mojo
Abby
|
$800
[21]
...From a New England state & you'll dig deep in this place
mine (from Maine)
Steve
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Charles Lubin named his line of cheesecakes this, honoring his 8-year-old daughter
Sara Lee
Lauren
|
$800
[25]
In the Bible Shechem defiled Dinah, daughter of this man & Leah; her brothers killed him
Jacob
Abby
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In Shelley's poem titled him "unbound", the title character is punished by daily visits from Jupiter's eagle
Prometheus
Abby
|
$1,000
[13]
The telescope
the 17th century
Steve
|
$1,000
[16]
This Japanese general & prime minister was executed as a war criminal in 1948
Tojo
Steve
|
$1,000
[22]
Drop a letter froma sultanateand you get this maiden name of Mrs. Sarkozy
Bruni (from Brunei)
Lauren
|
$1,000
[5]
Carol Bernick created what became this brand as a salt-free seasoning blend
Mrs. Dash
Steve
|
$1,000
[26]
The last chapter of this George Eliot novel says, "Adam and Dinah were married"
Adam Bede
Steve
|
| TIME TO JAZZ-ERCISE | TAKING A "DIVE" | THE CIVIL WAR | CURRENCY SPECULATION | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE | KILLER WORDS, MAN |
|
$400
[17]
This nearly 300-lb. jazz great who gave us "Honeysuckle Rose" died tragically young at 39
Fats Waller
|
$400
[7]
It's a sudden, swift plunge of stocks, or an airplane's path straight down, front end first
nosedive
Steve
|
$400
[3]
Lincoln said of it, "That speech won't scour. It is a flat failure"
The Gettysburg Address
Abby
|
$400
[28]
I imagine 1,000 of this Russian currency will buy you a blini feast
ruble
Steve
|
$400
[2]
1994: "Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam"
Forrest Gump
Abby
|
$400
[23]
Officially in use in France in 1792, this device was named for a member of the revolutionary assembly
guillotine
Abby
|
|
$800
[29]
The modestly named Great Jazz Trio was Ron Carter on bass, Tony Williams on percussion & Hank Jones playing this
piano
|
$800
[8]
This salad vegetable cultivated since antiquity is also called escarole
endive
Lauren
|
$800
[4]
The American flag was lowered in surrender at this fort on April 14, 1861
Fort Sumter
Lauren
|
$1,200
[18]
I'm seeing tough times for Greece if it leaves this 8-letter term for the countries that share its currency
Eurozone
Abby
|
$800
[5]
1972: "Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me"
Don Corleone
Abby
|
$800
[22]
To carry out the terms of a will
execute
Lauren
|
|
$1,600
[26]
In 1954 this "wealthy" drummer swung from Harry James to Tommy Dorsey
Buddy Rich
|
$1,200
[9]
It's the variability between organisms in an ecosystem
biodiversity
Abby
|
$1,200
[6]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) On May 2, 1863 Stonewall Jackson led his men on a 12-mile march to get into position for an attack on the unsuspecting federal troops. Lee remained behind for a frontal assault. This battle is considered Lee's greatest victory
Battle of Chancellorsville
|
$1,600
[27]
Did folks "flash a McKinley" when they used this no-longer-issued bill that could have bought you a car in the '30s?
500
Steve
|
$1,200
[1]
1987: "Greed is right. Greed works. Greed... captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit"
Gordon Gekko
Lauren
|
$1,200
[14]
To cry out loudly in pain or fear is to scream bloody this 6-letter word
murder
Abby
|
|
$2,000
[24]
This singer was homeless for the year before her big break, winning an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in 1934
Ella Fitzgerald
|
$1,600
[10]
To withdraw funds, like from companies doing business with Sudan to show support for the people of Darfur
divest
Abby
|
$1,600
[25]
He said, "I can make the march" & show "the world... that we have a power which Davis cannot resist"
Sherman
Abby
|
$2,000
[20]
Maybe El Salvador considered the cristobal as its currency before choosing this
colón
|
$2,000
[13]
2010: "The nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. but I can't speak"
King George VI
Abby
Steve
|
$1,600
[15]
This word follows Boston & Amritsar for events that took place in 1770 & 1919, respectively
massacre
Lauren
|
| — |
$2,000
[11]
Pain in the lower left side of the abdomen & fever are symptoms of this 14-letter inflammation of the colon
diverticulitis
Lauren
|
$2,000
[21]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map animation on the monitor.) At dawn September 17, 1862, General Hooker began hisattackto reach Confederate artillery, gathered by Dunker Church; just four hours into this battle, 13,000 were dead or wounded
Antietam
Lauren
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
Wouldn't she be happy to know she's on the First Spouse ten-dollar gold coin seen here
Dolley Madison
Abby
|
DD
$5,000
[12]
1980: "Hey, Ray...I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray."
Jake LaMotta
Lauren
|
$2,000
[16]
To obstruct or clog, or a mechanism that diminishes air to the carburetor
choke
Steve
|
On his deathbed he told police, "What I have done is nobody else's business"; one theory is he was protecting others
(Vincent) van Gogh