Anne Hardiman — a lawyer from Houston, Texas
Mark Richardson — an actor and Internet marketer originally from Staunton, Virginia
Salvo Candela — a university administrator from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $47,295)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvo | $2,400 | $4,600 | $20,100 |
$18,900
3-day champion: $66,195 |
$20,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mark | $800 | $5,400 | $2,200 |
$1,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,200
12 R, 6 W |
| Anne | $1,600 | $3,400 | $9,400 |
$9,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | WHICH RELIGION'S HOLIDAY? | STATE QUARTERS | GATES | ON BASS & VOCALS | ENDS IN "SH" |
|
$200
[26]
In Art Spiegelman's "Maus", Jews are portrayed as mice & Nazis as these
cats
Mark
|
$200
[1]
Shrove Tuesday
Christianity
Salvo
|
$200
[12]
It features the state motto "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation" &, of course, a peach
Georgia
Salvo
|
$200
[21]
He set up his first software company at age 19 with his schoolmate Paul Allen, which worked out fairly well for the 2
Bill Gates
Salvo
|
$200
[8]
The first solo Top 40 hit for this ex-"Police"man was "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"
Sting
Anne
|
$200
[6]
From Middle English for "to brandish a weapon", it's a minor battle in a war
a skirmish
Salvo
|
|
$400
[27]
"Persepolis" Chronicles Marjane Satrapi's youth in this Islamic republic
Iran
Anne
|
$400
[2]
Nirvana Day
Buddhism
Salvo
Mark
|
$400
[13]
Maple trees with sap buckets in front of Camel's Hump Mountain
Vermont
Anne
|
$400
[22]
This 3-mile-long strait separates San Francisco from Marin county; perhaps you're familiar with the bridge?
the Golden Gate
Salvo
|
$400
[16]
Hello, 'ello, 'ello ...is there anybody in there? Roger Waters was "Comfortably Numb" for this group
Pink Floyd
Mark
|
$400
[7]
To grind or strike the teeth together
gnash
Mark
|
|
$600
[28]
"Pedro and me" is a remembrance of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive participant in this MTV show about young housemates
The Real World
Salvo
|
$600
[3]
Ganesh Chaturthi
Hinduism
Anne
|
DD
$600
[14]
The zia sun symbol over a topographical outline of the state
New Mexico
Anne
|
$600
[23]
A W.E.B. Du Bois professor of the humanities at Harvard, he made national headlines in July 2009
(Henry) Louis Gates
Anne
|
$600
[17]
He spews fire, he plays bass, he sings "Rock And Roll All Nite" for Kiss
Gene Simmons
Mark
|
$600
[9]
Smart & fashionable, or Victoria Beckham's nickname
posh
Salvo
|
|
$800
[29]
"The Green River Killer" is about a detective in this Pacific state, written by the detective's son
Washington
Mark
|
$800
[4]
Purim
Judaism
Mark
|
$800
[15]
The Old Man of the Mountain
New Hampshire
Mark
|
$800
[24]
As Berlin's arch of triumph, it's surmounted by the "Quadriga of Victory", a statue of a chariot drawn by 4 horses
the Brandenburg Gate
Anne
|
$800
[18]
Geddy Lee laid down the low end & sang "The Spirit of Radio" & "Closer to the Heart" for this Canadian band
Rush
Mark
|
$800
[10]
It can be partially melted ice or snow, or a drink made of flavored syrup poured over crushed ice
slush
Salvo
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Thiscreator of "Watchmen" & "V for Vendetta" has as distinctive a look as any of his characters
Alan Moore
|
$1,000
[5]
Pioneer Day
Mormonism (Church of Latter Day Saints)
Salvo
Anne
|
$1,000
[20]
A mansion called Federal Hill & a thoroughbred racehorse behind a fence
Kentucky
Salvo
|
$1,000
[25]
He served in the Air Force from 1967 to 1968 & as Secretary of Defense for 2 presidents
Robert Gates
Mark
|
$1,000
[19]
This bassist & singer is the new hope of jazz, & her first name, Esperanza, even means "hope"
Spalding
|
$1,000
[11]
Bag it up, it's just trash or garbage
rubbish
Salvo
|
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | SYNONYMS | "CH"OW | EUROPE | MISNAMED ANIMALS | INSPIRED BRITISH COMEDY |
|
$400
[9]
Playboy named Pauline Reage's "The Story of" this letter one of "the 25 sexiest novels ever written"
O
Mark
Anne
|
$400
[12]
This trademarked brand name has become a synonym for in-line skating
rollerblade
Salvo
|
$400
[6]
This cheese is named for a village in England's Somerset county
cheddar
Salvo
|
$400
[1]
Lake Garda & Lake Trasimeno are popular resort areas in this European country
Italy
Salvo
|
$400
[14]
"Bear" sometimes follows the name of this Aussie mammal that's actually 100% marsupial
a koala
Salvo
|
$400
[22]
"Married For Life", which changed the Bundy name to Butler
Married... with Children
Mark
|
|
$800
[27]
Oliver Mellors is the gamekeeper at Wragby who has a passionate affair with this title "lady"
Lady Chatterley
Anne
|
$800
[13]
This synonym for expectation is also the title of a song that was long used in Heinz ketchup commercials
anticipation
Mark
Anne
|
$800
[7]
The lightness of this type of pie is achieved with stiffly beaten egg whites
chiffon
Salvo
|
$800
[2]
Walter Ulbricht was the longtime Communist despot of this European country
East Germany
Salvo
|
$800
[15]
This South American rodent is not from the African place in its name, nor will you hear it go "oink"
a Guinea pig
Salvo
|
$800
[23]
"The upper hand", with Joe McGann in the Tony Danza widower role
Who's the Boss?
Salvo
|
|
$1,200
[28]
The kids are a lot more hormonal in this 2012 J.K. Rowling book than in her Harry Potter tales
The Casual Vacancy
|
DD
$1,500
[19]
This synonym for "chorus" also means to hold yourself back from doing something
refrain
Salvo
|
$1,200
[8]
This ground pork sausage is widely used in Mexican & Spanish cooking
chorizo
Mark
|
$1,200
[3]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 2,000 years ago, because the peninsula was believed to be a large island with reefs & sandbanks, writers like Pliny the Elder called theregionby this name, meaning "dangerous island"
Scandinavia
Salvo
|
$1,200
[16]
This two-word "canine" seenhereis actually a burrowing rodent that belongs to the squirrel family
a prairie dog
Salvo
|
$1,200
[24]
"Brighton Belles", about 4 older gals in a Sussex country house
Golden Girls
Salvo
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Not to gripe but in this 1969 Philip Roth novel, quite a time is had with a young lady known as "The Monkey"
Portnoy's Complaint
|
$1,600
[20]
In the eastern U.S. the puma is called by this name that also starts with "P"
panther
Mark
|
$1,600
[10]
This medium-sized east coast clam has a hard shell
a cherrystone
|
$1,600
[4]
Once this river reaches the Netherlands, it breaks up into branches like the Waal
the Rhine
Mark
|
$1,600
[17]
This word comes before "lemur", but the animal really only glides a couple of hundred feet--& isn't a lemur
flying
Salvo
|
$1,600
[25]
"Days Like These", also set decades ago & keeping Eric Forman as the lead's name
That '70s Show
Mark
|
|
$2,000
[30]
The cover of this 1956 bestseller said it "lifts the lid off a small New England town"
Peyton Place
Anne
|
$2,000
[21]
The indentation in the bottom of a bottle of wine is called the kick or this synonym for "kick"
punt
Mark
Anne
|
$2,000
[11]
Thesemushrooms have a nutty flavor
chanterelle
Salvo
|
DD
$3,000
[5]
With about 12 million people, this city on the Eastern European plain is the most populous entirely in Europe
Moscow
Salvo
|
$2,000
[18]
Not a rodent as it might seem, the tufted this is a bird that feeds mainly on insects
a titmouse
Salvo
|
$2,000
[26]
"The Fosters", in which immigrants from Guyana are scratching & surviving in south London, not Chicago
Good Times
|
One of its principal members said, "One morning one of us, having no black, used blue instead, &" this movement "was born"
Impressionism