Katrina Whitehead — a strategic analyst from Sandston, Virginia
Les Chun — a property manager from San Francisco, California
Sam Hopkins — an M.B.A. student originally from Prairie Village, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | $3,600 | $5,400 | $19,000 |
$12,400
2-day champion: $31,601 |
$16,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Les | $2,800 | $5,800 | $20,400 |
$2,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Katrina | $2,000 | $2,800 | $10,400 |
$300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,400
12 R, 1 W |
| SOFA'S CHOICE | IN THE CAPITAL CITY | "PARTY" TIME! | TREES THE CHARM | CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES TO THE MOVIES |
|
$200
[26]
Shikibuton is the Japanese word for the mattress part of this collapsible sofa
futon
Katrina
|
$200
[3]
Oct. 6, 1981:Anwar Sadat is assassinated
Cairo
Sam
|
$200
[6]
A group sent out to look for someone who is missing
search party
Katrina
|
$200
[2]
The world's tallest living tree, the coast this is also a wide body: its trunks can be 25 feet wide
redwood
Sam
|
$200
[1]
This organization started by Millard & Linda Fuller has built more than 500,000 homes
Habitat for Humanity
Les
|
$200
[21]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?"
The Graduate
Sam
|
|
$400
[27]
This type of sofa that changes into a bed shares its name with a type of car that lets you get some sun
convertible
Les
|
$400
[4]
April 29, 1945:Eva Braun gets married
Berlin
Sam
|
$400
[7]
In 1949 this pre-wedding affair for Jimmy Stewart was televised & featured a "Wizard of Oz" Munchkin in a diaper
a bachelor party
Sam
|
$400
[11]
Though it's Georgia's state fruit, about 3/4 of the fruit grown in the U.S. from this tree is from California
peach
Les
|
$400
[17]
The group known as WWP helps these injured service men & women, WWs for short
wounded warriors
Sam
|
$400
[22]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "Fiddle-dee-dee! war, war, war; the war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring"
Gone with the Wind
Sam
Katrina
|
|
$600
[28]
This 9-letter type of sofa has independent pieces that can be rearranged
sectional
Sam
|
$600
[5]
Dec. 11, 2012:Hugo Chavez has major cancer surgery (it's not Caracas)
Havana
Les
|
$600
[8]
The title of a 2005 Dave Chappelle film, it's an outdoor festival held on a closed-off city street
block party
Les
|
$600
[12]
A flowering tree that produces acorns, the California white type of this can be 90 feet tall
oak
Sam
|
$600
[18]
French physicians & journalists started this medical aid group in the wake of war & famine in Biafra & floods in Pakistan
Doctors Without Borders
Les
|
$600
[23]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "If...you're not with him, you'll regret it. maybe not today. maybe not tomorrow, but soon, & for the rest of your life"
Casablanca
Les
|
|
$800
[29]
An overstuffed sofa & a topcoat with a velvet collar are both named for the Earl of this
Chesterfield
Les
Katrina
|
$1,000
[14]
1665:the "Great Plague" kills 7,000 people in one week
London
Katrina
|
$800
[9]
A band of Native American fighters who raid an enemy, or a hawkish political group
war party
|
$800
[15]
Hey there, hoss, the Ponderosa type of this is common in the Rockies & the eastern side of the Cascades
pine
Katrina
|
$800
[19]
Appropriately, this 4-letter organization started out in 1946 by sending packages to survivors of WWII
CARE
Les
|
$800
[24]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "Hello! my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"
The Princess Bride
Les
|
|
$1,000
[30]
From the French, it's someone you tell secrets to, or the type of sofa seen here
confidant
Sam
|
DD
$1,800
[13]
Nov. 7, 1867:The future Marie Curie is born
Warsaw
Sam
|
$1,000
[10]
Alliterative term for an occasion where you indulge in feeling sorry for yourself
pity party
Les
|
$1,000
[16]
A Yarmouth, Maine tree called Herbie, a majestic American type of this tree, had to be cut down in 2010 at age 217
elm
Katrina
|
$1,000
[20]
The logo of this ecologically-minded group is seen here
the Nature Conservancy
Sam
|
$1,000
[25]
(Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh?... Funny how? How am I funny?"
Goodfellas
Sam
Les
|
| THE COLOMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | GIMME A "D" | THE NAPOLEONIC ERA | I SAW THAT BOOK ON TV | COMEDY TEAMS? |
|
$400
[2]
Under "B":it's the capital & largest city
Bogotá
Sam
|
$400
[23]
Of the zodiac signs
Aquarius
Sam
Katrina
|
$400
[24]
German gives us the name of this type of restaurant--try the knishes
delicatessen
Sam
|
$400
[1]
Napoleon's invasion of this nation in mid-1812 was a turning point in his fortunes
Russia
Sam
|
$400
[30]
Based on a book series, this CW show about catty young ladies in Manhattan ended its 6-year run in 2012
Gossip Girl
Les
|
$400
[7]
Game show dealmaker Mr. Hall plus a reticulated slitherer
Monty Python
Sam
|
|
$800
[3]
Under "C":it's Colombia's most important legal agricultural export
coffee
Sam
|
$800
[22]
Of the 5 Great Lakes
Erie
Katrina
|
$800
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Traffic engineer Henry Barnes advocated this system of diagonal crossing; because of the way pedestrians weave around each other in the middle of the intersection, it's called the Barnes this
Barnes Dance
Sam
|
$800
[16]
Napoleon met his Waterloo in 1815 just outside the town of Waterloo in what's now this country
Belgium
Les
|
$800
[18]
Julia McKenzie, born in 1941, began playing this British snoop in 2008's "A Pocket Full of Rye"
Miss Marple
Les
|
$800
[8]
Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton & Dave Alexander in Iggy Pop's band
The Three Stooges
Sam
|
|
$1,200
[4]
Under "V":in 2009 & 2010, one of these named Galeras caused major evacuations
volcano
Katrina
|
$1,200
[19]
Of the English titles of the books making up the Pentateuch
Deuteronomy
Les
|
$1,200
[21]
The "D" in products like Zyrtec-D & Claritin-D stands for this, which will help your stuffy nose
decongestant
Sam
|
$1,200
[15]
Victory in this October 1805 battle established British naval supremacy for the next 100 years
Trafalgar
Sam
|
$1,200
[17]
Writer Andrew Davies adapted this novelist for 1994's "Middlemarch"
(George) Eliot
Les
|
$1,200
[9]
Coldplay's Chris & boxer Lennox
Martin & Lewis
Les
|
|
$1,600
[5]
Under G:this 4-letter word for "big" preceded "Colombia" in the 1820s, when it also included Ecuador
Gran
Sam
|
$2,000
[25]
Of the properties in a classic Monopoly game
Atlantic Avenue
Sam
|
$1,600
[27]
In legalese, this 8-letter word means a person's true, fixed & permanent residence
domicile
Katrina
|
$1,600
[14]
This British prime minister, the Younger, helped lead the fight against Napoleon until his death in 1806
(William) Pitt
Katrina
|
$1,600
[12]
In 2005 TV viewers could see "Oprah Winfrey Presents" this Zora Neale Hurston book
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Les
|
$1,600
[10]
Separated at birth: "Manifesto" man Karl & "Right Here Waiting For You" singer Richard
The Marx Brothers
Sam
|
|
DD
$4,000
[6]
Under "E":Many Spanish explorers came to Colombia searching for this fabled city of gold
El Dorado
Sam
|
DD
$5,000
[20]
Of the First Ladies' first names
Abigail
Les
|
$2,000
[29]
This type of glazed ear then ware is named for a Dutch town
Delft
Katrina
|
$2,000
[26]
Napoleon commissioned the Arc de Triomphe after this 1805 battle, one of his greatest victories
Battle of Austerlitz
|
$2,000
[13]
The Brits did up this John Galsworthy "Saga" splendidly in 1967 & again in 2002
The Forsyte Saga
Les
|
$2,000
[11]
The Canadian students inside school before their classrooms open
Kids in the Hall
Les
|
In 1920, the New York Times said he lacks the “knowledge ladled out daily in high schools”; on July 17, 1969, the paper apologized
Robert Goddard