Amanda Graves — a writer from Whitinsville, Massachusetts
Theresa Warner — a graduate student of Spanish originally from Alton, Missouri
Jason Idalski — a web producer from Ypsilanti, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $2,800 | $3,400 | $15,200 |
$10,399
2-day champion: $35,998 |
$9,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Theresa | $2,400 | $1,000 | $8,600 |
$6,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,600
16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amanda | $2,800 | $4,400 | $10,000 |
$2,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| TAKE IN (ALPHABETICAL) ORDER | PARTS OF THE WHOLE | THE CELEBRITY BOOK AISLE | THE STATE DEPT. SUGGESTS YOU STAY HOME | VARIETY OF VEG | BIOSPHERE 2 |
|
$200
[1]
If the clue fits, you must say this word, meaning to declare not guilty
acquit
Jason
|
$200
[21]
Safety pin, pull ring, explosive
a grenade
Jason
|
$200
[9]
In 1986 he was the subject of Kitty Kelley's "His Way"
Frank Sinatra
Amanda
|
$200
[16]
Khartoum & the rest of this African nation are under a travel warning
Sudan
Theresa
|
$200
[4]
Moth, fava
bean
Amanda
|
$200
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Biosphere 2 at the University of Arizona.) The rainforest is key to getting feedback of tropical ecosystems and the atmosphere under climate change; in the canopy, we're using the LI-COR 6400 to measure the effectiveness of this energy process in green leaves
photosynthesis
Amanda
|
|
$400
[2]
Proverbially, the most beautiful woman amongst many "of the ball"
belle
Theresa
|
$400
[22]
Cap, gills, stem
a mushroom
Theresa
|
$400
[10]
In "celebraTORI" she shares how to unleash "your inner party planner"
(Tori) Spelling
Theresa
|
$400
[17]
Forget about "Benghazi, Bani Walid... Sabha and Kufra" in this country
Libya
Theresa
|
$400
[5]
Bermuda, Maui
onion
Amanda
|
$400
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Biosphere 2 at the University of Arizona.) Rain & temperature are varied to see how they impact subterranean productivity in rainforests; root observation devices give researchers new understanding of the flow of this element, atomic No. 6, in the ecosystem
carbon
Jason
|
|
$600
[3]
"Life is" this type of restaurant with a dance floor, music & a show, old chum
cabaret
Amanda
|
$600
[23]
Visor, pauldron, gauntlets
armor
Amanda
|
$600
[13]
His books include "Dirt on My Shirt" for kids & the "Complete Redneck Dictionary"
(Jeff) Foxworthy
Theresa
|
$800
[19]
In Somalia the group al-this has "merged with al-Qaida" to wreak joint terror
al-Shabab
|
$600
[6]
Banana, bell
pepper
Amanda
|
$600
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Biosphere 2 at the University of Arizona.) The site where the first Biospherians grew food now houses the world's biggest earth-science experiment, which will show how our land forms over time; it's called "L.E.O.", the Landscape this Observatory--Darwin would be proud
evolution
Theresa
|
|
$800
[11]
A loose, colorfully patterned pullover African garment for men
a dashiki
Jason
|
$800
[24]
Handrails, belt & flywheel, display console
a treadmill
|
$800
[14]
In "Lucky Man" he talks about dealing with the "reality of mortality, maturity and Parkinson's disease"
(Michael J.) Fox
Jason
|
$1,000
[20]
Just north of Nicaragua, it has the world's highest murder rate
Honduras
|
$800
[7]
Smooth-leaf, baby, semi-savoy
spinach
Amanda
|
$800
[29]
A million-gallon "ocean" helps test how changes affect the zoo- & phyto- types of this basis of the sea's food chain
plankton
Amanda
|
|
$1,000
[12]
11-letter word meaning to spit
expectorate
Theresa
|
$1,000
[25]
F holes, scroll,12-inch endpin
a cello
|
$1,000
[15]
Who better to pen the foreword to her 2013 memoir "Unsinkable" than daughter Carrie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds
Jason
|
DD
$3,000
[18]
Hezbollah's "strong presence" & "shelling... from Syria" are reasons to avoid this country
Lebanon
Theresa
|
$1,000
[8]
Imperator, Chantenay, little fingers
carrots
|
$1,000
[30]
The biomes used to study biodiversity have names like desert, rainforest & this African grassland with scattered trees
the savanna
|
| MASTERS OF TEXT | IRISH LITERATURE | THE AMERICAN FRONTIER | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS | BUSINESS | "AZ" USUAL |
|
$400
[9]
Stopped off for a Venti here, S$
Starbucks
Jason
|
$400
[6]
The narrator of this satire says, "I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground"
Gulliver's Travels
Amanda
|
$400
[25]
With wood costly, ranchers turned to this new "thorny fence" in the 1870s to keep livestock from roaming
barbed wire
Theresa
|
$400
[11]
Richard Harris & others sang of this L.A. space "melting in the dark, all the sweet, green icing flowing down"
MacArthur Park
Amanda
|
$400
[16]
This phone company took its name from its origin within the "S"outhern "P"acific "R"ailroad
Sprint
Theresa
|
$400
[1]
A grand public space, like NYC's Rockefeller one
plaza
Theresa
|
|
$800
[15]
I hope to make you laugh--I'm texting you something FYA
for your amusement
Jason
|
$800
[7]
This "Waiting for Godot" playwright wrote a novel trilogy that included "Molloy", "Malone Dies" & "The Unnamable"
(Samuel) Beckett
Amanda
|
$800
[26]
Nearly everyone on the frontier was affected by ague, basically this disease borne by mosquitos
malaria
Jason
|
$800
[12]
It wasn't "Blue Velvet", but the song "The Days Of Sand & Shovels" also charted for this singer
Bobby Vinton
|
$800
[21]
Ferdinand Porsche designed the first model for this German company whose cars often move slower than Porsches
Volkswagen
Jason
|
$800
[2]
The name of this Mesoamerican group is Nahuatl for "near the cranes"
the Aztecs
Theresa
|
|
$1,200
[17]
I can't tell you everything, you'll just have to FITB
fill in the blanks
Amanda
|
$1,200
[8]
This Irish-born writer's most famous novel is partly narrated by Jonathan Harker in the form of a journal
(Bram) Stoker
Theresa
|
— |
$1,200
[13]
In a top 40 classic from 1966 this "king of the road" warned us that "You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd"
Roger Miller
|
$1,600
[23]
In 2013 this news network acquired Current TV & took its spot on U.S. cable; salaam aleikum
Al Jazeera
Theresa
|
$1,200
[3]
It's the color of the skyseen here
azure
Theresa
|
|
$1,600
[18]
On a positive note: DWBH (shall I sing it to you?)
don't worry, be happy
|
$1,600
[10]
Prolific short story writer Frank O'Connor once served in the I.R.A. & on the board of directors of this playhouse
the Abbey Playhouse
|
— |
$1,600
[14]
In 1967 "Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt)" charted for this "I'm Henry The Eighth I Am" band
Herman's Hermits
|
DD
$7,000
[22]
If it used the founder's daughter's given name, this restaurant chain would be called Melinda's
Wendy's
Jason
|
$1,600
[4]
North Carolina has held a festival of these flowers since 1948
azaleas
Theresa
|
|
$2,000
[19]
& on a final note, all I can say is, GR2BR
good riddance to bad rubbish
|
DD
$2,800
[20]
"The Boarding House" & "The Sisters" are 2 of the 15 stories appearing in this 1914 James Joyce collection
Dubliners
Amanda
|
— |
$2,000
[24]
You'll be nibbling on bacon & chewing on cheese if you can name this beastly 1976 hit from the Captain & Tennille
"Muskrat Love"
|
— |
$2,000
[5]
The dudy, or Polish bagpipes, once accompanied this dance
the mazurka
Jason
|
The creator of this title place said its name came from the letters labeling the last drawer of his file cabinet
Oz