Mike Lewis — a systems engineer from Bloomington, Minnesota
Julia Lent — a government affairs director originally from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Scott Singer — an attorney from Boca Raton, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $40,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $4,000 | $7,000 | $21,000 |
$16,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$20,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Julia | $2,200 | $3,000 | $6,200 |
$5,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
7 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Mike | $1,600 | $4,200 | $25,000 |
$35,000
New champion: $35,000 |
$20,200
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | TOWERS | NAME THAT TUNESMITH | TOYING WITH YOU | PRODUCE SOME SLANG | THE VICE PRESIDENCY |
|
$200
[10]
The library's Manhattan location is at 42nd Street & this famous thoroughfare
5th Avenue
Scott
|
$200
[21]
Genesis 11:3 says the people who built this structure had brick for stone & slime for mortar
The Tower of Babel
Mike
|
$200
[18]
1967:"Ruby Tuesday"(both men, please)
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Mike
|
$200
[26]
This "chatty" Mattel girl's name can be spelled from the letters in "chatty"
Cathy
Scott
|
$200
[2]
A Bronx cheer is also known as this fruit
raspberry
Julia
|
$200
[3]
(Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) In 1789, as this man became the first VP, he said that he was more used to engaging in debates than presiding over them
John Adams
Julia
|
|
$400
[1]
To enter the Main Branch, you can pass between 2 statues of these named Patience & Fortitude
lions
Mike
|
$400
[22]
Like Pisa, Edam in this country boasts a leaning tower; its Carillon dates from 1561
the Netherlands
Scott
|
$400
[19]
2012, with Yoo Gun hyung:"Gangnam Style"
Psy
Mike
|
$400
[27]
Cepia released these "Pets" in time to empty parental wallets at Christmas 2009
ZhuZhu Pets
Scott
Mike
|
$400
[7]
A New Zealander
kiwi
Scott
|
$600
[5]
(Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) The first VP to become president on the death of the incumbent, this man shocked many by insisting on wielding the full presidential powers
John Tyler
Scott
|
|
$600
[6]
Among portraits on display is one of John Jacob Astor IV, probably the richest victim of this early 20th century disaster
the Titanic
Mike
|
$600
[23]
Thislargest Alberta city has a very nice tower, though it's only about a third the height of the one in Toronto
Calgary
Mike
|
$600
[12]
1957:"Peggy Sue"(along with Jerry Allison & Norman Petty)
Buddy Holly
Mike
|
— |
$600
[14]
This disparaging term is used for a small country whose economy is mostly dependent on its fruit exports
banana republic
Mike
|
$800
[13]
(Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) Since 1974 the official residence of the vice president has been on the grounds of this astronomical agency of the United States
the Naval Observatory
Julia
|
|
$800
[8]
In 1901 this steel baron donated millions to the library to help establish 39 branches around the city
(Andrew) Carnegie
Scott
|
$800
[24]
The Memorial Jose Marti, a 358-foot marble tower in the Plaza de la Revolucion, is the highest point in this world capital
Havana
Scott
Mike
|
$800
[17]
1980:"(Just Like) Starting Over"
John Lennon
Julia
|
— |
$800
[15]
This tropical fruit is slang for a grenade because of its similar shape & crisscross pattern
pineapple
Mike
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
(Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) The vice president is a member of the Board of Regents of this, "America's Attic"
The Smithsonian
Julia
|
|
$1,000
[9]
The library's holdings include this female author's walking stick; do they keep it in "A Room of One's Own"?
Virginia Woolf
Scott
|
$1,000
[25]
In 2009 its name was changed to the Willis Tower
the Sears Tower
Scott
|
$1,000
[20]
2006:"Waiting On The World To Change"
John Mayer
Mike
|
— |
$1,000
[16]
This 2-word term for pretended disdain for what you can't have is from Aesop's fable about a fox in a vineyard
sour grapes
Scott
|
$1,000
[11]
(Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) In 1832, after ticking off President Jackson & defending a state's right to nullify an act of the Congress, this proud Southerner became the first vice president to resign
(John C.) Calhoun
Scott
|
| BOOKS BY THE NUMBER | IT'S GARY | GERMAN HISTORY | POTPOURRI | FUN WITH SCIENCE | "IE" TIMES 2 |
|
$400
[1]
E.L. James:"____ Shades of Grey"
Fifty
Scott
|
$400
[11]
Gary Ross wrote the screenplay for this film in which Tobey Maguire played jockey Red Pollard
Seabiscuit
Scott
|
$400
[16]
In the 1806 Confederation of this river, Napoleon united all the states of Germany except for Austria & Prussia
the Rhine
Mike
|
$400
[17]
The AD100 is an annual list of the best in design from this magazine
Architectural Digest
Scott
|
$400
[22]
One method to show movies this way divides the image into red & blue parts that your brain combines
3-D
Scott
|
$400
[6]
This rhyming handheld communications device was developed originally in WWII
walkie-talkie
Mike
|
|
$800
[2]
Nathaniel Hawthorne:"The House of the ____ Gables"
Seven
Mike
|
$800
[30]
In 2011 this toothy-grinned actor was a contestant on "Celebrity Apprentice"
Gary Busey
Mike
|
$800
[12]
In a 1520s revolt called these humble farming folks' War, 100,000 of them were killed
peasants
Scott
|
$800
[18]
Bill Moggridge set the standard with his design for this: a clamshell case with a hinged lid that folded over a keyboard
a laptop computer
Mike
|
$800
[26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Stick two forks together, insert a toothpick into the tine & you'll find that you canbalanceit on the side of a glass; it's a method of finding the center of this & it looks cool
gravity (or mass)
Mike
|
$800
[7]
"Religious" precedes this 3-word term for Quakers
Society of Friends
Scott
|
|
$1,200
[3]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:"____ Years of Solitude"
One Hundred
Julia
|
$1,200
[29]
He's played Sirius Black & Gotham's Lt. Jim Gordon
Gary Oldman
Mike
|
$1,200
[13]
When Hitler declared himself der Fuhrer in August 1934, he repudiated this 1919 treaty & began rearmament
(Treaty of) Versailles
Scott
|
$1,200
[19]
This Greek olive gets its name from the Greek city of its (& Yanni's) birth
Kalamata
Scott
|
$1,200
[23]
It's annoying when you walk across carpet & touch metal but helpful when Xerox machines use it to make copies
static electricity
Scott
|
$1,200
[8]
A form of instrumental blues, or the "Bugle Boy of Company B"
boogie-woogie
Scott
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Arthur Conan Doyle:"The Sign of ____"
Four
Scott
|
$2,000
[28]
Seen here, he was exquisitely obnoxious as boss Bill Lumbergh in "Office Space"
Gary Cole
Mike
|
$1,600
[14]
Jealous of this chancellor's fame, Wilhelm II forced him to resign on March 18, 1890
Bismarck
Scott
|
$1,600
[20]
In 2012 Xi Jinping succeeded this man as head of China's Communist Party
Hu Jintao
|
$1,600
[24]
Defined as a system of particles uniformly distributed in a gas, it's used in spray paint
aerosol
Mike
|
$1,600
[9]
In 1954 this Vietnam village was the site of the decisive battle of the First Indochina War
Điện Biên Phủ
Scott
Mike
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Khaled Hosseini:"A ____ Splendid Suns"
Thousand
Julia
|
DD
$6,400
[27]
This actor is in the Lt. Dan Band
Gary Sinise
Mike
|
DD
$2,400
[15]
In 1919 the National Assembly met in this city to write a new constitution & establish a federal republic
Weimar
Scott
|
$2,000
[21]
Sealy uses this 2-letter symbol on the NYSE, perhaps to represent a user of one of its mattresses
ZZ
Mike
|
$2,000
[25]
Have fun with the over 300-year-old "3-body problem", determining the motions of these 3 bodies based only on mutual gravity
the Sun, Moon & Earth
Scott
|
$2,000
[10]
In the "Nibelungenlied", he's the son of Siegmund & Sieglinde
Siegfried
Mike
|
In 1816 Francisco Goya published a series of 33 etchings called "La Tauromaquia", depicting this activity
bullfighting