Korin Kormick — an opera singer from Jersey City, New Jersey
John Emery — a graduate student of financial engineering from Brandon, Florida
Stuart Anderson — a JAG originally from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart | $4,600 | $8,800 | $20,400 |
$24,801
3-day champion: $51,601 |
$18,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| John | $800 | $2,400 | $12,400 |
$24,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Korin | $0 | $2,000 | $11,200 |
$17,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,200
11 R, 0 W |
| THE ROLLING STONES | UNPACK YOUR ADJECTIVES | KENTUCKY-ANA | LANGUAGES IN THE USA | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS |
|
$200
[6]
He pranced out on his own with the 1985 solo album "She's the Boss"
Mick Jagger
John
|
$200
[13]
The Postal Service suggests putting this word on that package of glass unicorn figurines
fragile
Stuart
|
$200
[8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Lexington, KY.) The rolling plateaus of Lexington, Ky.'s Fayette County are covered with Poa pratensis, also known as this, the name of a region here & a type of music
bluegrass
Stuart
|
$200
[1]
In 1993 KLAX-FM became the first station in this language to top L.A.'s radio ratings
Spanish
John
|
$200
[16]
This unit of weight for a gemstone is exactly 200 milligrams
a carat
Stuart
|
$200
[23]
The magazine ran several articles by this man whom the National Geographic Societysponsoredon 37 expeditions
Jacques Cousteau
Korin
|
|
$800
[7]
After 30 years, this bassist retired from the band in 1992
Bill Wyman
|
$400
[14]
Characterized by meddlesome curiosity, perhaps like the Charles Schulz dog of the same name
snoopy
Stuart
|
$400
[9]
Bowling Green is home to the assembly plant & national museum of this Chevy sports car
Corvette
John
|
$400
[2]
Pennsylvania Dutch is actually a form of this language
German
John
|
$400
[17]
This measure of land area was originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day
an acre
Korin
|
$400
[24]
Perhaps the most iconic coverphotois of Sharbat Gula, a then-12-year-old refugee from this country
Afghanistan
Stuart
|
|
$1,000
[28]
This multi-instrumentalist drowned in his own swimming pool in 1969
Brian Jones
|
$600
[15]
Ladies, according to the title of a 1963 book, you have this type of mystique
feminine
John
|
$600
[10]
In 1935 Kentucky's governor gave this restaurant founder his "rank"
Colonel Sanders
Stuart
|
$600
[3]
This traditional dialect of U.S. Chinatowns is largely being replaced by Mandarin
Cantonese
Stuart
|
$600
[18]
This ancient measure found in the Bible ranged between 18 & 22 inches
a cubit
John
|
$600
[27]
The April 2002 issuerevealedthe oldest known (by 700 years)muralof this Central American people from 100 A.D.
the Maya
Korin
|
| — |
$800
[20]
Adjective for bad behavior found in "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
naughty
Stuart
|
$800
[11]
Alumna Ashley Judd is part of the big blue nation as a fan of this University of Kentucky basketball team
Wildcats
Stuart
|
$800
[4]
Oy! U.S. home speakers of this language dropped by 50% between 1980 & 2010, to around 150,000
Yiddish
Stuart
|
$800
[19]
For liquids, 4 cups equals 2 pints or one of these units
a quart
Korin
|
$800
[25]
In September of 1960, the magazine reported the first world-famous find by this husband-&-wife pair
(Louis and Mary) Leakey
Stuart
|
| — |
DD
$3,000
[21]
Cheerful, or tending to float in a fluid
buoyant
Stuart
|
$1,000
[12]
The Kentucky bourbon Old Tub was renamed this, for the man who rebuilt the family business after prohibition
Jim Beam
Stuart
John
|
$1,000
[5]
Geonbae! U.S. home speakers of this language quadrupled between 1980 & 2010, to around 1.1 million
Korean
|
$1,000
[22]
This measure of computer speed equals 1 trillion (with a "T") floating-point operations per second
teraflop
Stuart
|
$1,000
[26]
In a 2004 article, this man, who found the Titanic 19 years earlier, surveysdamage done to the wreck by the curious & greedy
(Robert) Ballard
John
|
| OTHER ROLLING STONES | COMIC BOOK WOMEN | 16th CENTURY WRITING | U.S. GOVERNORS | PEAKS & VALLEYS | "V-E" DAY |
|
$400
[19]
Aron Ralston's memoir of being trapped when an 800-pound boulder rolled onto his arm is called "Between" this pair
a rock & a hard place
Korin
|
$400
[1]
Born on Paradise Island, shewas the first prominent female superhero ofcomics
Wonder Woman
John
|
$400
[14]
British scholar Roger Ascham's "Schoolmaster" shows how to teach writing in this language
Latin
John
|
$400
[6]
In January 2009 in Raleigh, Beverly Perdue took the oath of office as the first woman governor of this state
North Carolina
Stuart
|
$400
[7]
This California valley was named by pioneers whose companions passed away in the desolate region in 1849
Death Valley
Korin
|
$400
[8]
Green with vegetation
verdant
John
|
|
$800
[20]
This beer's bottle says, "from the glass lined tanks of old Latrobe"
Rolling Rock
John
|
DD
$1,200
[2]
When she was introduced, she worked on The Daily Star
Lois Lane
John
|
$800
[17]
With knee-slappers like "Is she a widow? I love her better therefore", "Ralph Roister Doister" is the oldest English one
comedy
|
$800
[13]
Seen here, she's the current governor of Arizona
Jan Brewer
|
$1,200
[26]
Chile's Valley of the Moon in this desert has lunar-looking stone & sand formations
the Atacama
Stuart
|
$800
[10]
Local term for the open pasture land of South Africa
veldt
Stuart
|
|
$1,200
[21]
With Joanna & Mary the mother of James, in Luke 24 she found the stone rolled away from Jesus' sepulchre
Mary Magdalene
Korin
|
$1,200
[4]
A descendent of an ancient line of sorceresses, shecan control the weather & hasledthe X-Men on occasion
Storm
Stuart
|
$1,200
[18]
John Skelton's satire "Collyn Clout" was directed against this cardinal & adviser to Henry VIII
Cardinal Wolsey
Stuart
|
$1,200
[25]
In 2007 Deval Patrick became this New England state's first black governor & the second ever elected in the U.S.
Massachusetts
John
|
$1,600
[27]
Clingmans Dome, Tennessee's highest peak, is also known as this, so sing a song when you're "on top of" it
Old Smoky
Stuart
|
$1,200
[9]
Early type of bicycle known as a "bone-shaker"
velocipede
John
|
|
$1,600
[22]
Here's a surprise beginning--before rock & roll, this short story writer started a magazine called The Rolling Stone
O. Henry
Korin
|
$1,600
[5]
She is first mentioned in "Amazing Spider-Man #15", & Peter eventually marries her
Mary Jane
John
|
$1,600
[28]
This Edmund Spenser work is named for Gloriana, who had several knights in her service
The Faerie Queene
Korin
|
$1,600
[29]
Thisformer New Mexico governor was the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012
Gary Johnson
|
$2,000
[3]
Tours of Tours are part of tourism in the French valley named for this river--& don't miss the chateaux
the Loire
Korin
|
$1,600
[11]
Fine parchment made of calfskin
vellum
Stuart
|
|
$2,000
[23]
The beetle seenhereis named for this Corinthian king who had trouble with rolling a big stone
Sisyphus
Stuart
|
$2,000
[16]
This Batman villainess combines her natural allure with hypnotic plant toxins to manipulate men
Poison Ivy
Korin
|
$2,000
[24]
The educated playwrights known as the "University Wits" included this author of "Tamburlaine the Great"
(Christopher) Marlowe
Stuart
|
$2,000
[30]
On Jan. 27, 2010 Governor Bob McDonnell of this state gave the GOP response to the State of the Union address
Virginia
|
DD
$5,200
[15]
Silvius was an old name for this Swiss peak known for its pyramid shape
the Matterhorn
John
|
$2,000
[12]
It's a mathematical quantity with both direction & magnitude
vector
Stuart
|
Facebook & Ti Vo have both claimed trademarks for an icon representing this gesture
thumbs-up