Mike Shapiro — an actuary from Denver, Colorado
Rebecca Anderson — an accounting manager from Phoenix, Arizona
Bill Tolany — a marketing executive from Austin, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $44,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill | $1,600 | $5,400 | $13,800 |
$1,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,800
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rebecca | $3,400 | $3,800 | $3,400 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,400
10 R, 3 W |
| Mike | $-800 | $-200 | $12,300 |
$3,401
New champion: $3,401 |
$11,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| HOSPITAL CORNERS | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? | MATH APPEAL | FOODIE CALL | FRAGILE | THIS SIDE "UP" |
|
$200
[26]
Center Street & 3rd Avenue SW in Rochester, Minnesota: this clinic
the Mayo Clinic
Mike
|
$200
[16]
(Hi, I'm Isaac Mizrahi.) This dance pop diva from New York has her own sense of fashion & is all over my iPod with songs like "Bad Romance"
Lady Gaga
Mike
|
$200
[11]
As the bases are 90 feet apart, it's the area in square feet of a baseball infield
8,100 square feet
Bill
Mike
|
$200
[1]
Foodies swear by the Himalayan pink type of this seasoning, said to be mined from the Himalayan foothills
salt
Rebecca
|
$200
[21]
The object seenherehelps create these fragile items
bubbles
Mike
|
$200
[6]
Dude, you're way too this word, nervous & easily annoyed
uptight
Mike
|
|
$400
[27]
Huron & St. Clair Streets, Chicago: Memorial Hospital of this nearby "directional" university
Northwestern
Rebecca
|
$400
[17]
(Hey, there, I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) Sometimes I think about running away & joining this French-Canadian troupe, especially when I'm listening to "Alegria" & their other soundtracks
Cirque du Soleil
Bill
|
$400
[12]
In 67 divided by 22, 67 is this, also a nice check stockholders get
a dividend
Mike
|
$400
[2]
Dishes flavored or garnished with these fancy fungi are called a la Perigourdine
truffles
Rebecca
|
$400
[22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a micrograph on the monitor.) Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, gets its name from the appearance of the genetic mutation on the "X" one of these
chromosome
Bill
|
$400
[7]
This "Saturday Night Live" newscast title has been used since a weekend in 1975
Weekend Update
Rebecca
|
| — |
$600
[18]
(I'm Kelly O'Donnell of NBC News.) Sometimes I like to go country on my iPod, listening to this trio whose hits include "Here Comes Goodbye" & "Life Is a Highway"
Rascal Flatts
Bill
|
$600
[13]
To write one of these as a decimal, move the decimal point 2 places to the left
a percentage
Bill
|
$600
[3]
I spy that this "CIA" has campuses cooking in California, New York, Texas & Singapore
the Culinary Institute of America
Rebecca
Mike
|
$600
[24]
This woman who won a Massachusetts Senate seat in 2013 co-wrote "The Fragile Middle Class"
Elizabeth Warren
Bill
|
$600
[8]
"Casablanca" begins with an order to do this to "all suspicious characters and search them"
round up
Bill
|
| — |
$800
[19]
(Hi, I'm CCH Pounder.) My iPod's got soul--specifically, this "Godfather of Soul", & his 1968 Top 10 hit "Say It Loud--I'm Black And I'm Proud"
James Brown
Rebecca
|
$800
[14]
A 2013 paper on "twin" these numbers shows there are infinitely many pairs of them no more than 70,000,000 apart
prime numbers
Bill
|
$800
[4]
It can be a type of bivalve mollusk or a thin slice of meat made flatter by pounding
a scallop
|
$800
[23]
In 2011 Steve Wynn bought 4 of these for $12.8 million & sent them back to China (a good idea for a guy who once tore a Picasso)
vases
Bill
Rebecca
|
$800
[9]
In summer 2013 shares of Pandora stock surged after Goldman Sachs did this to it from "neutral" to "buy"
upgrade
Rebecca
|
| — |
$1,000
[20]
(I'm Lewis Black.) My iPod includes the Stones, Stevie Wonder & this First Daughter of country music whose hits include "Seven Year Ache"
Rosanne Cash
|
$1,000
[15]
7 x (6 x 3) = (7 x 6) x 3 is an example of this law, meaning it doesn't matter which pair you multiply first
associative
Mike
|
$1,000
[5]
Making a reduction using this fruit that has hundreds of seeds? Not to worry, you can buy its juice from POM Wonderful
a pomegranate
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[25]
Truces between Israel & this group that runs Gaza & intends Israel's destruction are often called fragile
Hamas
Bill
|
$1,000
[10]
Hang gliders ride these rising currents of air to stay aloft
updrafts
Bill
|
| A DAY ON THE BOAT | LET IT SLIDE | OSCAR MIRE | "P"OETS | ALBERTA | ANAGRAM PAIRS |
|
$400
[6]
It's the May 31, 1911 launch of this ship that displaces 52,000 tons; now, its fitting-out phase begins
the Titanic
Mike
|
$400
[18]
PowerPoint is often used to create this frame-by-frame presentation used by marketing & sales people
a slide show
Mike
|
$400
[2]
He had 5 nominations for Best Director, including in consecutive years for "Lifeboat" & "Spellbound"
Alfred Hitchcock
Bill
|
$400
[12]
"Enough Rope", the 1st collection by this Algonquin Round Table member, contained "Resume", her poem about suicide
(Dorothy) Parker
Bill
Rebecca
|
$400
[25]
In 2013 75,000 people in this most populous Alberta city were evacuated due to flooding
Calgary
Mike
|
$400
[9]
A coffee cup to store your Juicy Fruit
gum mug
Mike
|
|
$800
[20]
It's Dec. 25, 1492 & this ship, Columbus' flagship, has run aground off Haiti & will be lost
the Santa Maria
Mike
|
$800
[19]
A beach park in Brazil is home to "Insano", at 135 feet the world's tallest freestanding one of these
a water slide
Bill
|
$800
[5]
"The Big Chill" is that she was nominated for 5 Oscars in the '80s: ...but no cigar
Glenn Close
Bill
|
$800
[13]
She wrote most of the poems in her collection "Ariel" in the winter of 1962 after Ted Hughes left
(Sylvia) Plath
Rebecca
|
$800
[17]
In a 2012 election, Albertans gave 17 seats to an upstart party named for this wild official provincial flower
the wild rose
|
$800
[1]
Stressed-out youngsters over the age of 12
tense teens
Bill
|
|
$1,200
[21]
It's Oct. 21, 1797 & Boston sees the launch of this ship; the copper sheathing on its bottom was made by Paul Revere
the Constitution
Bill
|
$1,200
[23]
The slider helped Sparky Lyle & Zack Greinke achieve success in this profession
(baseball) pitching
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[4]
He retired in 2012; final score, 0 wins in 8 nominations, including twice as the same king, in "Becket" & "The Lion in Winter"
Peter O'Toole
Bill
|
$1,200
[14]
His "The Rape of the Lock" poked fun at a quarrel between Arabella Fermor & a lord who had snipped a lock of the lady's hair
Pope
Mike
|
$1,200
[26]
One of Alberta's exports to the U.S. is this woman who wrote & sang "Big Yellow Taxi"
Joni Mitchell
Mike
|
$1,200
[7]
Someone who searches out a buddy or pal
friend finder
Mike
|
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
It's Feb. 17, 1864; this sub has just sunk the Housatonic with its spar torpedo, but she's not looking so good herself
the Hunley
Bill
|
$2,000
[24]
In the 1500s a sliding column was added near the mouthpiece of this instrument to adjust the pitch; it's still there
trombone
Bill
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[3]
Loved by the ladies, he's been spurned by Oscar for playing a captain, a barber & a children's author
Johnny Depp
Bill
|
$2,000
[16]
On Easter Sunday 1341, this Italian was crowned poet laureate, the first to be named in Rome since antiquity
Petrarch
Bill
Mike
|
$1,600
[27]
Alberta wildlife includes a vole named for this type of landscape; Alberta is called the same type of province
a prairie
Bill
|
$1,600
[8]
To pointlessly use up perspiration
waste sweat
Bill
|
| — | — |
$2,000
[11]
This female producer with an alliterative name has 7 nominations from "E.T." to "War Horse"
Kathleen Kennedy
|
DD
$2,500
[15]
This Imagist became immersed in Fascist politics while living in Italy
(Ezra) Pound
Mike
|
— |
$2,000
[10]
Seat for the queen in a hive of a type of wasp
hornet throne
Mike
|
Members of the Hungarian, Swedish & Israeli parliaments spoke when a bust of this foreign diplomat was unveiled
Raoul Wallenberg