Phil Goldstein — a benefits consultant from Decatur, Georgia
Mary Graves — an online instructor from Terre Haute, Indiana
Judy Arginteanu — a freelance writer and editor from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judy | $800 | $3,000 | $9,800 |
$7,300
2-day champion: $28,300 |
$9,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Mary | $5,000 | $7,400 | $11,800 |
$4,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Phil | $1,200 | $5,000 | $3,400 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,400
16 R, 5 W |
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|
$200
[17]
A motto from this broadcasting entrepreneur: "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise"
Ted Turner
Phil
|
$200
[12]
1974:This team's Mean Joe Greene
the Pittsburgh Steelers
Phil
|
$200
[11]
Henry VIII is said to have had this 2nd wife behearted as well as beheaded & to have kept her heart in a heart-shaped box
Anne Boleyn
Phil
|
$200
[22]
This scale is named for the guy who invented the mercury thermometer
Fahrenheit
Mary
|
$200
[1]
Home of Mumbai's stock exchange, Dalal Street is India's answer to this New York City thoroughfare
Wall Street
Judy
|
$200
[6]
Found after "IP" or "email", it's also the place you live
address
Mary
|
|
$400
[18]
In the view of this former "Nightline" anchor, "We now communicate with everyone and say absolutely nothing"
Ted Koppel
Judy
|
$400
[13]
1981:This Giants linebacker
Lawrence Taylor
Phil
|
$400
[27]
Yes, Virginia, in 1087 Italians stole the reputed remains of this saint from Turkey
Saint Nicholas
Mary
|
$400
[23]
A refrigerator hums at the level of 40 of these sound units
decibels
Judy
Mary
|
$400
[2]
Pamplona's Calle Estafeta is where you can see these ruminants make their "run" each July
the bulls
Judy
|
$400
[7]
Fractional term for the place where military types reside & are sometimes "confined to"
quarters
Judy
Mary
|
|
$600
[19]
He quipped, "Baseball is the only field... where a man can succeed 3 times out of 10 and be considered a good performer"
Ted Williams
Mary
|
$600
[14]
1988:Mike Singletary of this team
the Chicago Bears
Phil
|
$600
[28]
Anyone with common sense knows that in 1820 this American revolutionary's body was exhumed & lost
Tom Paine
Judy
|
$600
[24]
This measure of a ship's speed equals 1 nautical mile per hour
a knot
Phil
|
$600
[3]
In the 1990s this country built a highway across the Takla Makan Desert, an area where once the Silk Road ran
China
Mary
|
$600
[8]
It's Spanish for "house"; come on over, "mi" "es su"
casa
Judy
|
|
$800
[20]
This late U.S. senator from Alaska often talked about his love of flying
Ted Stevens
Judy
|
$800
[15]
1994:This ready for "Prime Time" cornerback
Deion Sanders
Phil
|
$800
[29]
George W. Bush's granddad is among those who allegedly stole Geronimo's head for this secret Yale society
Skull and Bones
Judy
|
$800
[25]
Equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, this unit is 1 1/2 times the actual ability it describes
horsepower
Mary
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
The Karakoram Highway has this superlative distinction amongst international highways
it's the highest altitude
Mary
|
$800
[9]
A floating leaf that supports a water lily, or a slang term for a home
pad
Mary
|
|
$1,000
[21]
"Birthday Letters", a collection of poetry by him, addressed his relationship with Sylvia Plath after decades of silence
Ted Hughes
Phil
|
$1,000
[16]
2009:Cornerback Charles Woodson of this team
the Green Bay Packers
Phil
|
$1,000
[30]
In 1973 this country-rock pioneer known as "GP" was treated to a homemade cremation by his drunk buddies
Gram Parsons
Phil
|
$1,000
[26]
This British unit of weight is equal to 14 pounds
a stone
Phil
|
$1,000
[5]
Also the title of an Eddy Grant hit, it was London's first shopping street with a certain type of illumination
Electric Avenue
Mary
|
$1,000
[10]
A plant or animal's natural environment; it's from a Latin word meaning "to dwell"
habitat
Mary
|
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|
$400
[11]
(I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) As a child, I dreamed of living among wild animals, influenced by my favorite book characters, Dr. Dolittle & this "Lord of the Jungle" (I knew I'd be a better jungle companion for him than that other wimpy Jane)
Tarzan
Mary
|
$400
[16]
In chemistry, a base is a substance that turns red vegetable dyes this color
blue
Phil
|
$400
[6]
Peter Griffin(voiced by Seth MacFarlane)
Family Guy
Mary
|
$400
[21]
Built in the early 18th century as the mission of San Antonio de Valero in Texas, it made headlines in 1836
the Alamo
Phil
|
$400
[1]
The Schuylkill River in this city was an important subject for Thomas Eakins, as seen here
Philadelphia
|
$400
[26]
A prison for serious offenders
a penitentiary
Phil
|
|
$800
[12]
(Hi, I'm Jane Curtin.) I loved "World's Fair", a 1985 autobiographical novel by this author whose initials stand for Edgar Lawrence
(E.L.) Doctorow
Mary
|
$800
[17]
A home run with the bases loaded
a grand slam
Phil
|
$800
[7]
Ward Cleaver
Leave It to Beaver
Mary
|
$800
[22]
This Boston market & meeting hall known for its grasshopper weather vane opened on September 24, 1742
Faneuil Hall
Phil
|
$800
[2]
Canova's statue "Daedalus And" this doomed son looked so real, he was accused of making casts of live models
Icarus
Judy
|
$800
[27]
This philosophical attitude was associated with Jaspers & Sartre
existentialism
Judy
|
|
$1,200
[13]
(Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) My favorite story is this author's "The Death Of Ivan Ilyich", about a man who only starts to understand what his life is about as he's dying
Tolstoy
Judy
Phil
|
$1,200
[18]
If you're trying to accomplish this feat, know that South Base Camp is in Nepal & North Base Camp is in Tibet
climbing Mount Everest
Mary
|
$1,200
[8]
On a TLC reality series:4-foot-tall Matt Roloff
Little People, Big World
|
$1,200
[23]
Permanent cultivation of this food in the Colonies began in the largely Irish area of Derry, New Hampshire in 1719
potatoes
Mary
|
$1,600
[4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew explains an image of a painting shown on a monitor.) The first work attributed to Leonardo individually, titled "The Annunciation", depicts the meeting of these two Biblical figures
Mary & the angel Gabriel
Mary
|
$1,200
[28]
A movie that plays shamelessly on your emotions has this maudlin quality
sentimentalism
Mary
Phil
|
|
$1,600
[14]
(Hi, I'm David Duchovny.) I love Fitzgerald; Hank Moody, the novelist I play, is partial to this Prague-born writer who illustrated man's alienation in society
(Franz) Kafka
Phil
|
$1,600
[19]
Each rung on the DNA double helix represents one of these, such as A-T
a base pair
Phil
|
$1,600
[9]
Reverend Eric Camden (played by Stephen Collins)
7th Heaven
Mary
|
$2,000
[25]
In July 1759, when the British took from the French a crucial New York fort, the headline could have read, this "falls"
Niagara
Judy
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
It took him to make a masterpiece in 1662 out of "The Syndics of the Amsterdam Drapers' Guild"
Rembrandt
Judy
|
— |
|
$2,000
[15]
(Hi, I'm Aisha Tyler.) One of my favorites is "You Shall Know Our Velocity!" by this novelist who's also the founder of quirky publisher McSweeney's
Dave Eggers
|
$2,000
[20]
Found in a British Harry Potter title, this stone was sought by alchemists to turn base metals into precious ones
a philosopher's stone
Phil
|
$2,000
[10]
On ABC, Larry Bird, an alien from the planet Zabvron
The Neighbors
|
DD
$2,400
[24]
In 1677 he drafted the first charter guaranteeing separation of church & state in the Quaker Colony of West New Jersey
William Penn
Mary
|
$2,000
[5]
Merritt is his daughter, hence "Evening at Merritt's Cottage" by this beloved artist who died in 2012
Thomas Kinkade
|
— |
This country is home to the highest mountain outside Asia
Argentina