Christina Rodriguez — a claims processor from Carterville, Illinois
Andy Hermann — a website producer from Los Angeles, California
Bill Hawkins — a hotel concierge from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill | $800 | $2,200 | $8,600 |
$13,100
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,600
14 R, 2 W |
| Andy | $4,400 | $10,400 | $23,800 |
$27,000
New champion: $27,000 |
$24,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Christina | $1,200 | $2,400 | $2,000 |
$3,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,000
9 R, 3 W |
| RADIO, RADIO | ALL IN THE FAMILY | TERMS WITH GREEK LETTERS | HERE'S THE BEGINNING | THE MIDDLE IS "OK" | BUT THE END IS ROUGH |
|
$200
[5]
The kids choose all the music on 88.9 KOPO, run by the Pa'ia Youth and Cultural Center in this state
Hawaii
Christina
|
$200
[16]
When Gloria Steinem married South African activist David Bale in 2000, she became step-mom to this actor
Christian Bale
Andy
|
$200
[1]
A & B in this multiple star system are 4.4 light years from Earth
Alpha Centauri
Bill
|
$200
[26]
At the start of this C.S. Lewis book: "Once there were 4 children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy"
The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe
Bill
Andy
|
$200
[11]
Any first-year pro athlete
a rookie
Bill
|
$200
[21]
Of the 23 stab wounds he received on March 15, 44 B.C., only one was fatal, but one is always enough
Julius Caesar
Andy
|
|
$400
[6]
Fayetteville's KXUA boasts that it plays no music that has been on this publication's Top 40 chart "in the last 50 years"
Billboard
Christina
|
$400
[17]
It's the last name of celebrity sisters Emily, who stars on "Bones", & Zooey of "New Girl"
Deschanel
Andy
|
$400
[2]
Inderal is one of this class of drugs that can lower blood pressure
a beta-blocker
Bill
|
$400
[27]
This 1997 bestseller begins, "The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house"
Tuesdays with Morrie
Bill
|
$400
[12]
I like my salmon prepared this way, over smoldering hardwood chips
smoked
Andy
|
$400
[22]
Accused of 2 murders, this man was killed on Nov. 24, 1963 in front of literally millions of witnesses
Lee Harvey Oswald
Bill
Andy
|
|
$600
[7]
The "VL" in Memphis' WEVL stands for this, like in the state nickname; it has only 3 paid staff members, the others...
the volunteers
Christina
|
$600
[18]
1 of Ernest Hemingway's 2 granddaughters who appeared together in the movie "Lipstick"
Mariel & Margaux
Bill
|
$600
[3]
It was a No. 1 hit song for Helen Reddy
"Delta Dawn"
|
$600
[28]
The father of 4 young girls is revealed to be off at war at the start of this 1868-69 novel
Little Women
Christina
|
$600
[13]
In a nursery rhyme there was this type of man & he walked this type of mile
crooked
Andy
|
$600
[23]
In October 1967 the revolutionary dreams of this man from Argentina ended via bullets in Bolivia
Che Guevara
Christina
|
|
$800
[8]
Gilda Radner was the weather girl on WCBN, the campus broadcasting network of this Michigan college town
Ann Arbor
Andy
|
$1,000
[20]
Martha Plimpton of "Raising Hope" comes from this show biz family; her dad is Keith & her late uncle was David
the Carradines
Andy
|
$800
[4]
The Mayo Clinic says these fatty acids from fish oil reduce blood triglyceride levels
omega-3 acids
Andy
|
— |
$800
[14]
It's the accessory worn by the woman seen here
a choker
Andy
|
$800
[24]
In 1973 Albert DeSalvo, known as this Massachusetts killer, was slain in prison by the Walpole Shanker
the "Boston Strangler"
Andy
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Jonathan Schwartz spins standards for the Big Apple station "W" these 3 letters
NYC
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
The father of "You're So Vain" singer Carly co-founded this publishing company
Simon & Schuster
Andy
|
$1,000
[10]
A boy crosses the Pacific in a lifeboat (oh yeah, with a tiger!) in this 2001 Yann Martel novel
Life of Pi
Andy
|
— |
$1,000
[15]
Said orally
spoken
Bill
|
$1,000
[25]
After his capture, this slave & preacher made a lengthy confession & was hanged on Nov. 11, 1831
Nat Turner
Andy
|
| EUROPEAN LAKES | WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? | AD-JECTIVES | NOT BY SHAKESPEARE | ALL SCIENCE "E" | THE SHOW WITHIN THE SHOW |
|
$400
[26]
This resident of a lake in the Scottish Highlands is purportedly seen here
the Loch Ness monster
Andy
|
$400
[16]
In 2010, 932 applicants to this New Haven college had their agony prolonged by being waitlisted; only 98 got in
Yale
Andy
|
$400
[6]
In a slogan almost a century old, Maxwell House coffee is this "to the last drop"
"good"
Andy
|
$400
[7]
Shakespeare never put this comical knight's name in a title, but Verdi did
Falstaff
Bill
|
$400
[21]
Pine trees & Kalmia shrubs are both this, meaning leaves of the past season aren't shed until new foliage is completely formed
evergreens
Christina
|
$400
[1]
"TGS", "Sports Shouting", "America's Kidz Got Singing"
30 Rock
Bill
|
|
$800
[27]
In 1932, a dam was built across the Zuiderzee, creating the IJsselmeer, this country's largest lake
the Netherlands
Andy
|
$800
[17]
In the original Broadway show in 1956, Bert Lahr & E.G. Marshall were "waiting for" him; good luck with that
Godot
Andy
|
$800
[12]
Since 1975 BMW has been touting its vehicles as this kind of "driving machine"
"ultimate"
Andy
|
$800
[8]
A "holistic guide to stopping compulsive eating" is punningly titled "The Taming of" this
the Chew
Bill
|
$800
[22]
Physicist J.J. Thomson discovered this subatomic particle in 1897
an electron
Andy
|
$800
[2]
"Monsterpiece Theater" hosted by Alistair Cookie
Sesame Street
Christina
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Europe's 2 largest lakes, Ladoga & Onega, lie in the northwestern part of this country
Russia
Bill
Andy
|
$1,200
[18]
Delray Medical Center & Sarasota Memorial are hospitals in this state called "God's waiting room"
Florida
Andy
|
$1,200
[13]
Wendy's burger's are "hot 'n" this, so hit them up for plenty of napkins
"juicy"
Andy
|
$1,200
[9]
In a 2008 film Steve Coogan is a drama teacher putting on a sequel titled this
Hamlet 2
Andy
|
$1,200
[23]
The gas-exchanging tissues of the lungs are destroyed in this lung disease
emphysema
Andy
|
$1,200
[3]
"Troy and Abed in the Morning"
Community
Bill
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Lake Marathon, an artificial lake, served as this capital's main water supply from 1931 until 1959
Athens
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
1993's Handgun Violence Prevention Act, named for him, called for a 5-day waiting period in a handgun purchase
(James) Brady
Andy
|
$1,600
[14]
In GEICO ads, it preceded "a caveman can do it"
"so easy"
Bill
|
$2,000
[11]
Feste the Fool is a character in this Alan Gordon novel that one-ups a bard comedy
Thirteenth Night
|
$1,600
[24]
(Alex reports from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) These marine iguanas are lying on the beach and exposing their dark backs to the sun because they are these, from the Greek for "outside" and "heat," unlike mammals like us, which are endotherms
exotherms
Bill
|
$1,600
[4]
"Pucks", starring Matt LeBlanc
Episodes
Bill
Christina
|
|
$2,000
[30]
In 2006 this prestigious boys' school on the Thames completed construction of Lake Dorney for rowing
Eton
Andy
|
$2,000
[20]
Billy is an Aussie word for a type of pot, as in "he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled" from this song
"Waltzing Matilda"
Christina
|
$2,000
[15]
A classic magazine ad showed a tiny VW Beetle surrounded by white space with the caption "think" this
"small"
Andy
Christina
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
After III, the only King Henry with no Shakespeare title is him, the subject of a 2007 Sean Cunningham biography
Henry VII
Andy
|
$2,000
[25]
Adrenaline is another name for this hormone secreted in response to stress or fear
epinephrine
Christina
|
$2,000
[5]
"Everybody Loves Hypnotoad", ("filmed thousands of miles below a live studio audience")
Futurama
Christina
|
Donna Shalala, Alberto Gonzales & Tom Vilsack have each served as the "designated survivor" skipping this event
the State of the Union address