Rebecca Rider game 1.
Rebecca Rider — an office supply sales assistant from Fresh Meadows, New York
Brian Daner — a Congressional attorney from Washington, D.C.
Tom Carroll — a court officer lieutenant from White Plains, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $3,000 | $3,200 | $12,400 |
$24,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,400
18 R, 5 W |
| Brian | $1,400 | $4,800 | $11,200 |
$22,395
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Rebecca | $3,200 | $6,000 | $16,800 |
$25,600
New champion: $25,600 |
$19,600
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| BASED ON THE COMIC BOOK | STATES THAT BORDER CANADA | DRINKS | FATHER FIGURES | ON THE MONEY | TREE HOMOPHONES |
|
$200
[13]
In May 2012 this band of superheroes had the biggest box-office weekend of all time with $207 mil. domestically
The Avengers
Rebecca
|
$200
[7]
At 1,538 miles, it has the longest border with Canada of any U.S. state
Alaska
Tom
Rebecca
|
$200
[11]
This lemon-lime soft drink encourages you to "obey your thirst"
Sprite
Tom
Rebecca
|
$200
[1]
For designing the tallest of his era, like the Woolworth building, Cass Gilbert was "the father of" this type of structure
skyscraper
Tom
|
$200
[22]
"The Ugly Duckling" was one of 5 of his stories featured on Danish 10-kroner coins between 2005 & 2007
Hans Christian Andersen
Rebecca
|
$200
[6]
Fireplace residue
ash
Tom
|
|
$400
[14]
Anne Hathaway is feline groovy as "cat" burglar Selina Kyle in this 2012 film
The Dark Knight Rises
Rebecca
|
$400
[8]
This state's Erie county has a 42-mile border with Canada; don't try to drive across it
Pennsylvania (New York also accepted)
Tom
Brian
|
$400
[27]
In 1963 this cooperative released its first juice blend, Cran-Apple
Ocean Spray
Rebecca
|
$400
[2]
W.C. Handy was "the father of" this musical style
the blues
Tom
|
$400
[23]
This Moscow theatre appears on Russia's 100-ruble note
the Bolshoi
Brian
|
$400
[18]
It's what covers a mink
fur (fir)
Rebecca
|
|
$600
[15]
In 2012 Nicolas Cage reprised this title role as Johnny Blaze, a motorcyclist who gives up his soul to become a vigilante
Ghost Rider
Rebecca
|
$600
[9]
All of Washington's 427-mile border with Canada is with this province
British Columbia
Rebecca
|
$600
[28]
"Here's to your health!" is the motto of this iced tea brand that celebrated its 20th year in 2012
Arizona
Tom
|
$600
[3]
In 2012 "the father of the Internet", Vint Cerf, said the U.S. government really started it via this department
Defense
Tom
|
$600
[24]
For its 150th anniversary in 1980, this country issued a special 500-franc coin in 2 languages: French & Dutch
Belgium
Brian
|
$600
[19]
To tidy "up" or neaten
spruce
Tom
|
|
$800
[16]
Gerard Christopher played the young hero in this 1988-1992 TV series; Stacy Haiduk was Lana Lang
The Adventures of Superboy
Tom
|
$800
[10]
Presque Isle in this eastern state is less than 10 miles from our neighbors
Maine
Tom
|
$800
[29]
This brand of apple juice was named for where it was once thought the best fruit grew
Tree Top
|
$800
[4]
It's all according to this man who was "the father of whist" for systematizing the card game
(Edmund) Hoyle
Tom
|
$1,000
[26]
Cuba features this Marxist revolutionary & buddy of Fidel on its 3-peso note
Che Guevara
Tom
|
$800
[20]
To yearn for the one you love
pine
Rebecca
|
|
$1,000
[17]
This team first came to TV in 1967 as an animated series on which Jo Ann Pflug voiced the Invisible Woman
The Fantastic Four
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[12]
The geographic center of North America is in this state bordering Saskatchewan & Manitoba
North Dakota
Brian
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
"The Father of History", this ancient Greek wrote a 9-volume work on the wars between Greece & Persia
Herodotus
Rebecca
|
DD
$2,400
[25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Sydney, Australia.) Australia's $2 coin depicts an aboriginal tribal elder set against the background of native grass trees & this constellation
the Southern Cross
Brian
|
$1,000
[21]
The person who plants the fruit pips so they'll grow
seeder (cedar)
|
| THE WRITE OF SPRING | MOONS | MEMPHIS MUSIC HALL OF FAME | 4 LETTERS, 2 Ns | THE UNITED STATES MARINES | I LOVE THE CORE |
|
$400
[14]
Its prologue begins, "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote/ The droghte of March hath perced to the roote"
The Canterbury Tales
|
$400
[9]
Galatea, one of its moons, is named for the daughter of a sea god
Neptune
Tom
|
$400
[24]
The 2012 first group of inductees of course includes this "King of Rock & Roll" who moved to Memphis in his teens
Elvis Presley
Tom
|
$400
[1]
Meaning "not any", it's been used with both singular & plural verbs since the 9th century
none
Rebecca
|
$400
[6]
Recruitment for the first Marines was in this Penn. city's Tun Tavern; its beer is still sold to Marines worldwide
Philadelphia
Brian
|
$400
[19]
At Columbia University, the "core" this is the "set of common courses required of all undergraduates"
curriculum
Brian
|
|
$800
[15]
Her poem No. 1333 begins, "a little madness in the spring/ is wholesome even for the king"
(Emily) Dickinson
Brian
|
$800
[10]
Saturn has a moon named this, also the name of a moon in "Avatar"
Pandora
Brian
|
$800
[25]
This trio recorded "Legs" & the rest of the 10-million-selling album "Eliminator " at Memphis' Ardent Studios
ZZ Top
Rebecca
|
$800
[2]
Grammatically, it can be Massapequa, darkness or Fabio
noun
Rebecca
|
$800
[7]
The red stripe on a marine's blue trousers honors those lost in the Battle of Chapultepec in this war
the Mexican(-American) War
Rebecca
|
$800
[20]
Often used for research rather than power, the pool type of this has its core at the bottom of a pool of water
nuclear reactor
Tom
|
|
$1,200
[16]
It's the title of Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 work warning of the dangers of pesticide use
Silent Spring
Tom
|
$1,200
[11]
Some astronomers believe that these 2 moons of Mars were asteroids at one time
Phobos and Deimos
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[26]
Jim Stewart & Estelle Axton combined their names to create this label behind "Green Onions" & "Soul Man"
Stax
Tom
|
$1,200
[3]
Soon, Shakespeare, soon
anon
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[17]
Legend says Germans in WWI called Marines "Teufelshunde", which led to this alliterative nickname
devil dogs
Tom
|
$1,200
[21]
Paleoclimate is studied by taking these long cylinders from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica
ice core (samples)
Tom
|
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
"It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" is from the famous opening line of this novel
A Tale of Two Cities
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[12]
Uranus' 2 largest moons are Titania & this one, named for a fairy king
Oberon
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[27]
Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" won a 2005 Oscar for this film with "Hustle" in its title
Hustle and Flow
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[4]
When air is liquefied at about -300 degrees Fahrenheit, this is left behind
neon
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[18]
General James Amos is the 35th man in this highest marine post; that makes him one of the joint Chiefs
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Brian
|
$1,600
[22]
Core training is at the heart of this fitness discipline named for this man, first name Joseph
Pilates
Tom
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Huck Finn said "when you've got" this, "you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache"
spring fever
Tom
|
$2,000
[13]
This 2-letter moon of Jupiter is the most volcanically active body in the solar system
Io
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[28]
This reverend says, if you want to worship with me in Memphis, "here I am (come & take me)" at the full gospel tabernacle
Al Green
|
$2,000
[5]
British legal education has long been provided by 2 institutions called these "of court"
Inns
Brian
|
DD
$3,200
[8]
The Corps is usually at the vanguard in wartime, & one of its mottos is "first to" do this
fight
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[23]
Inspired by Gandhi, James Farmer created C.O.R.E., the "congress of" this
racial equality
Tom
|
In 1972 this company bought its first ship, the Empress of Canada, & renamed it the Mardi Gras
Carnival (Cruise Lines)