Eric Nelson — a teacher and small business owner from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Emily Vandermeulen — a geographic information systems specialist from Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
Salvo Candela — a university administrator from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvo | $200 | $4,800 | $19,400 |
$21,195
2-day champion: $47,295 |
$19,600
28 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Emily | $3,400 | $4,400 | $8,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
15 R, 4 W |
| Eric | $1,600 | $3,200 | $8,800 |
$9,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
12 R, 2 W |
| MONOGRAMS OF THE FAMOUS & INFAMOUS | IRREGULAR PAST TENSES | YOU'VE GOT TASTE | WORLD "S"ITIES | POTPOURRI | THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN |
|
$200
[19]
Naval hero JPJ
John Paul Jones
Eric
|
$200
[16]
Also the name of a flower, we did this when the judge entered the courtroom
rose
Salvo
|
$200
[11]
This fancy brand of mustard says that since 1777 it's "been synonymous with all that is refined, exquisite and delicious"
Grey Poupon
Salvo
|
$200
[1]
Pavlovsk & Pushkin are suburbs of this second-largest Russian city
Saint Petersburg
Salvo
|
$200
[26]
According to the nursery rhyme, it's when "the cradle will rock"
when the wind blows
Salvo
Eric
|
$200
[6]
Green Bay
football
Eric
|
|
$400
[20]
Hard-drinking 19th century poet & critic EAP
Edgar Allan Poe
Salvo
|
$400
[17]
Psalm 77: "The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven... the earth trembled and" this
shook
Salvo
|
$400
[12]
For the very finest in domestic beer, try this Boston brewer's Utopias, aged up to 16 years in the barrel room
Sam Adams
Emily
|
$400
[2]
Sometimes called the "Gateway to Australia", it's the oldest city on the continent
Sydney
Salvo
|
$400
[27]
This type of foot seen in medieval images of the devil may have come from the god Pan
a cloven foot
Salvo
|
$400
[7]
Columbus
hockey
Eric
|
|
$600
[23]
Infamous actor JWB
John Wilkes Booth
Salvo
Eric
|
$600
[18]
It's the simple past tense of "forbid"
forbade
Eric
|
$600
[13]
The Oyster Perpetual is a legendary watch from this upscale brand
Rolex
Emily
|
$600
[3]
This Bolivian city is known as the "City with Four Names", the others being La Plata, Charcas & Ciudad Blanca
Sucre
Salvo
|
$600
[28]
In 2012 this model & "Project Runway" host launched her Truly Scrumptious collection for Babies R Us
Heidi Klum
Eric
|
$600
[8]
Oklahoma City
basketball
Emily
|
|
$800
[24]
Contemporary British composer ALW
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Salvo
|
$800
[21]
A present & past tense form of the same verb together make this on the playground
seesaw
Salvo
|
$800
[14]
You can keep your Cheez Whiz; I'm sticking with this other Kraft cheese food that got the AMA seal of approval in 1931
Velveeta
Salvo
|
$800
[4]
This city's main east-west street, Nanjing Road, begins at the Huangpu River & heads west
Shanghai
Salvo
|
$800
[29]
This London theatre was razed in 1644, 2 years after the Puritans closed it down
the Globe
Salvo
|
$800
[9]
Jacksonville
football
Salvo
Emily
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Prolific female author JCO
Joyce Carol Oates
|
$1,000
[22]
In past tense, it's what I did to the truth, then to the rules, then to my friend's ear
bent
Eric
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
To show that its fountain pens were the pinnacle of writing instruments, a company took this Alpine name
Montblanc
Salvo
|
$1,000
[5]
In 1822 Prince Regent Pedro of Portugal proclaimed Brazil's independence while visiting this city
São Paulo
Emily
|
$1,000
[30]
More U.S. presidents have died on this month & day (in different years) than any other
July 4th
Emily
|
$1,000
[10]
Memphis
basketball
Eric
|
| AN ODD RHYME | CHEMISTRY | HOW COLLEGES GOT THEIR NAMES | LITERARY ANIMALS | THE "WILD" & "CRAZY" | BENJAMIN HARRISON ADMINISTRATION |
|
$400
[16]
Group of whales or peas
a pod
Salvo
|
$400
[21]
Being amphoteric, ammonia likes to react with either of these, the 2 types of substances on the pH scale
an acid or a base
Emily
|
$400
[11]
Formerly YMCA Evening College, this city's Golden Gate University got its name at the suggestion of a student
San Francisco
Salvo
|
$400
[1]
When Tarzan called Tantor, one of these animals would come trumpeting & tearing a big path
an elephant
Emily
|
$400
[6]
In Mexico, this Jeff Bridges film about country music was titled "Loco Corazon"
Crazy Heart
Emily
Eric
|
$400
[26]
In 1890 President Harrison designated this the first federal immigration station
Ellis Island
Emily
|
|
$800
[17]
A considerable lump of chewing gum
a wad
Emily
|
$800
[22]
Hydrogen peroxide in your bathroom is slo-o-owly undergoing this, a breakdown into components, like a dead organism
decomposition
Salvo
|
$800
[12]
NYC's Fashion Institute of Technology got its name in imitation of this school up Boston way
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Salvo
|
$800
[2]
This little girl who lives at the Plaza has a turtle named "Skipperdee" who eats raisins & wears sneakers
Eloise
Salvo
Emily
|
$800
[7]
Tough love from Ryan Gosling helps Steve Carell get over Julianne Moore in this rom-com
Crazy, Stupid Love
Eric
|
$800
[27]
In 1891 these were installed in the White House, but the Harrisons chose to continue using the old-style gas ones
electric lights
Emily
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Slab o'turf
sod
Eric
|
$1,200
[23]
When a substance forms clumps in water you've got a colloid; if it disperses uniformly it's this, like a 7% one
a solution
Salvo
Emily
|
$1,200
[13]
This sister college to Columbia was founded in 1889 & named for the then-president of Columbia
Barnard
Salvo
|
$1,200
[3]
In a trilogy Katniss Everdeen wears a gold pin of this genetically altered bird
a mockingjay
Emily
|
$1,200
[8]
Add some cream & this 1957 Ingmar Bergman film sounds lie a perfect dish for Wimbledon
Wild Strawberries
Emily
Eric
|
$1,200
[28]
6 states joined the Union: Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming & these 2, on the same day
North & South Dakota
Salvo
|
|
$1,600
[19]
A staff for Aaron
a rod
Salvo
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
A synonym for simple sugars, like glucose, this word is quite polysyllabic
monosaccharide
Salvo
|
$2,000
[15]
The USA's oldest college for black women, it was named for benefactor John D. Rockefeller's in-laws
Spelman College
|
$1,600
[4]
Gunpowder is the "broken-down plough-horse" this man rides in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Ichabod Crane
Emily
|
$1,600
[9]
"Long Nights" is an Eddie Vedder song in this Sean Penn film about a young man trying to find himself in Alaska
Into the Wild
Salvo
|
$1,600
[29]
On July 2, 1890 Ben signed this act outlawing trusts or any other monopolies hindering trade
the Sherman Antitrust Act
Salvo
|
|
$2,000
[20]
One who's half human, half divine
a demigod
Salvo
|
$2,000
[25]
AMU stands for this "unit" based on the isotope carbon-12
atomic mass unit
|
DD
$3,000
[14]
This Pittsburgh U. was formed by the merger of 2 schools, 1 founded by a philanthropist & the other by 2 banker brothers
Carnegie Mellon University
Salvo
|
$2,000
[5]
In this Richard Adams classic, Blackberry is the smartest of the rabbits, but Hazel is the leader
Watership Down
Salvo
Emily
|
$2,000
[10]
A Kalahari bushman & a Coke bottle are the unlikely duo at the heart of this 1980 comedy
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Eric
|
$2,000
[30]
On March 3, 1891 9 of these courts were created to relieve the Supreme Court of some of its jurisdiction
Circuit courts (of appeal)
Salvo
Emily
|
The last song in this musical is "Tomorrow Is A Latter Day"
The Book of Mormon