Timothy Youker — a theater scholar from Chanhassen, Minnesota
Katie Annis — a stay-at-home mom from Ashburn, Virginia
David Brown — a fundraising intern from Palo Alto, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | $1,200 | $2,000 | $12,400 |
$10,400
2-day champion: $32,600 |
$12,400
20 R, 4 W |
| Katie | $1,600 | $2,200 | $3,800 |
$2,300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,800
7 R, 3 W |
| Timothy | $0 | $5,400 | $17,600 |
$9,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,800
23 R (including 3 DDs), 5 W |
| BORN ON THE 24th OF JULY | NAIL POLISH COLORS | COASTAL U.S. STATES | SPORTS ON FILM | 11-LETTER WORDS | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? |
|
$200
[21]
This San Francisco Giants home run king was born on July 24, 1964
Barry Bonds
David
|
$200
[30]
Limited-edition shades from MAC Cosmetics were inspired by these 2 girls from the Archie comics
Betty & Veronica
David
|
$200
[1]
Its Gulf Coast is between Alabama's & Louisiana's
Mississippi
Timothy
|
$200
[6]
"The Perfect Game"
baseball
Timothy
|
$200
[13]
This campaign against "errant" Christians & others didn't officially end until 1834
the Inquisition
Timothy
|
$200
[7]
Petunia my lovely, this Pennsylvania battle goes on & we are to assault Culp's Hill! My life insurance policy is in the chifforobe
Gettysburg
Katie
|
|
$400
[22]
On July 24, 1783 this military man was liberated from his mom in Venezuela
Simón Bolívar
Timothy
|
$400
[29]
OPI likes a pun: an orangey red is called "A Roll in" this Dutch seat of government
The Hague
Timothy
|
$400
[2]
Of the 3 coastal western states in the lower 48, its coast is the shortest at 157 miles
Washington
David
|
$400
[8]
"Invictus"
rugby
Katie
Timothy
|
$400
[14]
Mystery solved--it's the hunting hat seen here
a deerstalker
Timothy
|
$400
[12]
Darling Beatrice! The picture you sent of yourself in this 4-letter skirt! Be still my heart, you wild vixen!
a hoop skirt
David
|
|
$600
[23]
She winged her way into the world on July 24, 1897 & flew into history just shy of her 40th birthday
Amelia Earhart
David
|
$600
[28]
Completes the name of a polish by L'Oreal, "Because You're..."
Worth It
David
|
$600
[3]
Bay Head on its famous "shore" was ravaged by Superstorm Sandy
New Jersey
David
|
$600
[9]
"Senna"
auto racer
|
$800
[16]
An irrational fear not of affordable California wine but of all things French
Gallophobia
David
Timothy
|
$600
[18]
Ima, I fear we may be lost! We are in Encino in this state & it is eerily quiet
California
Katie
|
|
$800
[24]
Before achieving fame as a pere, this novelist became a fils on July 24, 1802 in Aisne, France
Alexandre Dumas
Timothy
|
$800
[27]
Chanel named a yellow polish for this champagne & orange juice cocktail
a mimosa
Timothy
|
$800
[4]
This New England state has the least, a scant 13 miles on the sea
New Hampshire
David
Timothy
|
$800
[10]
"Goon" starring Seann William Scott
hockey
Timothy
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
Adjective for actions that can be supported by reasoning, like certain homicides
justifiable
Timothy
|
$800
[19]
My taste buds have been amputated, Ida, yet I yearn for your pies with this insect name with brown sugar, molasses & butter
shoo-fly
Timothy
|
|
$1,000
[25]
On July 24, 1956 it was clap hands, here comes Charlie, this future party-switching Florida governor
Charlie Crist
|
$1,000
[26]
Hard Candy's Crystal Confetti Collection includes a red & black one named for this type of costume ball
masquerade
Timothy
|
$1,000
[5]
Wilmington, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, is its main seaport
North Carolina
David
Katie
|
$1,000
[11]
"Crossover" with Anthony Mackie
basketball
|
$1,000
[17]
Cold War policy of restricting the spread of communism by confining it geographically
containment
Timothy
|
$1,000
[20]
O fair Lulubelle, my pancreas lies somewhere in S.C. but its islets of this, whose beta cells make insulin, live in my mem'ry
Langerhans
Timothy
|
| FILL IN THE NONFICTION BLANK | COINS OF OUR REALM | MAKE IT A DOUBLE-LETTER WORD | "AMERICAN" ENTERTAINMENT | INSECTS | I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES |
|
$400
[30]
Howard Stern:"Private ___"
Parts
Timothy
|
$400
[10]
An 1864 2-cent piece was the first U.S. coin with this 4-word motto
"In God We Trust"
David
|
$400
[16]
A state of prolonged unconsciousness wakes up with another letter to become a punctuation mark
coma & comma
David
|
$400
[1]
Nicki Minaj joined it as a judge in 2013
American Idol
David
|
$400
[5]
Last seen in 1956, the Cockerell's species of this large bee was rediscovered in 2011 in New Mexico
bumblebee
David
Katie
|
$400
[21]
This organization "Vows to Develop a Plan to Train and Arm Security Guards at Every School in the Nation"
The N.R.A.
David
|
|
$800
[29]
Joseph Campbell:"The Hero with a Thousand ___"
Faces
Timothy
|
$800
[12]
The first delivery of these coins was in Oct. 1794, in time for kindly uncles to hand them out as holiday gifts
silver dollars
Katie
Timothy
|
$800
[17]
Slang for a policeman; with an added letter, it becomes a fowl enclosure
cop & coop
David
|
$800
[2]
This scary FX show stars Jessica Lange as Sister Jude
American Horror Story: Asylum
David
|
$800
[6]
The West Nile virus is transmitted predominantly by the Culex genus of this insect
the mosquito
Timothy
|
$800
[22]
"Video Game Review: In New Tomb Raider", she "Shows a Vulnerable Side"
Lara Croft
David
|
|
$1,200
[28]
James D. Watson:"The Double ___"
Helix
Timothy
|
$1,200
[13]
From 1913 to 1938 it featured a composite picture, possibly of men named Iron Tail, Two Moons & John Big Tree
the buffalo or Indian head nickel
|
$1,200
[18]
An abbreviated football official becomes a sand ridge at the water's surface
ref, reef
Timothy
|
$1,200
[3]
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is on this Green Day album
American Idiot
David
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
4 inches long with a 4-inch wingspan, the giant darner is the USA's largest species of this insect
a dragonfly
Timothy
|
$1,200
[23]
"Key Moments From the Supreme Court Hearing on the Defense of" this "Act"
Marriage
David
|
|
$1,600
[27]
Will & Ariel Durant:"The Story of ___"
Civilization
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
To mark the 150th birthday of the man on the front, this image was added to the back of the 1-cent coin in 1959
the Lincoln Memorial
Timothy
|
$1,600
[19]
A word meaning top-rate or excellent takes on another letter to become a meal of the day
super & supper
David
|
$1,600
[4]
Kevin Spacey won an Oscar for this rosy movie
American Beauty
Katie
|
$1,200
[7]
Also called a measuring worm, it's the caterpillar of a large number of moths
an inchworm
Katie
|
$1,600
[24]
This school "Fires Basketball Coach Mike Rice After Video Goes Public"
Rutgers
Katie
|
|
$2,000
[25]
L. Ron Hubbard:"___: the Modern Science of Mental Health"
Dianetics
David
|
$2,000
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows two coins on the monitor.) Useful to the visually impaired, this feature added to the edges of quarters & dimes makes similarly sized coins easier to identify by touch
reeding (ridges accepted)
David
|
$2,000
[20]
A long-barreled gun loads an extra letter to be a word meaning to turn pages hastily
rifle & riffle
David
|
$2,000
[11]
Luther Vandross sang back-up on the David Bowie song with this title
the "Young Americans"
Timothy
|
$1,600
[8]
Just like chickens, cockroaches have this internal organ that grinds food
a gizzard
Katie
Timothy
|
$2,000
[26]
This country "Orders Arrest of Satirist for Skits on Islam and Morsi"
Egypt
Timothy
|
Born in what's now Maine in 1807, he's honored with a bust in a special section of Westminster Abbey
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow