Gus Iurillo — a business ownership coach from Glen Allen, Virginia
Molly Kossoff — a beauty-industry magazine editor from West Hills, California
Mike Shapiro — an actuary from Denver, Colorado (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | $600 | $2,000 | $11,000 |
$1,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Molly | $4,600 | $5,000 | $16,200 |
$11,100
New champion: $11,100 |
$18,200
28 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Gus | $0 | $1,000 | $7,000 |
$5,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
9 R, 1 W |
| 20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | ANOTHER JACKSON 5 | IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS | FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | THINGS TO DO TODAY | WICKED |
|
$200
[11]
"The Crucible" &"On the Road"
the 1950s
Molly
|
$200
[16]
In 1987 Lisa Jackson took a job with this govt. agency & oversaw Superfund industrial cleanup sites; in 2009 she became its leader
the EPA
Gus
|
$200
[21]
Its main campus lies along the Charles River
Harvard
Molly
|
$200
[1]
Married &nightly condensation
wed & dew
Molly
|
$200
[23]
Send that check to charity; this guy & his wife Melinda's foundation has granted $26 billion
Bill Gates
Gus
|
$200
[6]
I'm Elphaba--"Wicked" is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel subtitled "The Life & Times of" this character
the Wicked Witch of the West
Molly
|
|
$400
[12]
"Carrie" &"Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders"
the 1970s
Molly
|
$400
[17]
In the spring of 1862, you did not want to be a Union commander up against this major general in the Shenandoah Valley
Stonewall Jackson
Mike
|
$800
[22]
It's home to the Lauder Institute of Management & the Wharton School of Business
Penn (the University of Pennsylvania)
Mike
|
$400
[7]
Ignore someone at a party &hot dog holders
buns & snub
Mike
|
$400
[24]
Make a dent in this 1,400-page Tolstoy novel, issued in complete form in 1869
War and Peace
Molly
|
$400
[5]
They call me "Wonderful" in the show & give me credit for the idea of building a wonderful road of yellow brick & a town of this color
emerald (green)
Molly
|
|
$600
[13]
"All Quiet on the Western Front" &"This Side of Paradise"
the '20s
Gus
|
$600
[18]
From 1990-1996, heserved as a nonvoting member of the U.S. Senate from the District of Columbia
Jesse Jackson
Molly
|
— |
$600
[8]
Tough blue fabric &extracted ore
denim & mined
Molly
|
$600
[25]
Pick up more of these for that roofing job--I'll need cedar ones in the 24-inch "royal" length to match
cedar shingles
|
$600
[2]
My name is Madame Morribile& "weather is my specialty", which creates a huge plot twist when I conjure up this weather phenomenon
the tornado
Molly
|
|
$800
[14]
"Valley of the Dolls" &"Silent Spring"
the 1960s
Molly
|
$1,000
[20]
This artist started to move from representation to abstraction after a 1938 nervous breakdown
Jackson Pollock
Gus
|
— |
$800
[9]
"Pale" beer type &kingly
lager & regal
Mike
Molly
|
$800
[26]
Whip up a 7-course meal, including this expensive, boneless, 2-word cut of beef from the small end of the tenderloin
filet mignon
Mike
Molly
|
$800
[3]
I, Galinda, try to teach my less fortunate college roommate Elphaba to be more like me in this show-stopping number"Follow my lead /And, yes, indeed /You /Will /Be..."
"Popular"
Molly
|
|
$1,000
[15]
"The Good Earth" &"It Can't Happen Here"
the 1930s
Mike
Molly
Gus
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
Maynard Jackson was mayor of fhis city, & one of the USA's busiest airports now bears his name
Atlanta
Molly
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
After-dinner treats &emotionally strained
desserts & stressed
Mike
|
— |
$1,000
[4]
Fiyerohere--I've been the love interest of both Elphaba & Galinda for 10 years, since the show opened on Broadway in 2003, the night before this holiday (fitting for a show about 2 witches)
Halloween
Molly
|
| HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC | ANTHONY HOPKINS MOVIES BY ROLE | IT'S IN THE "CAN" | MIDDLE AGE MEN | ARE YOU GONNA EAT THAT? | POTPOURRI |
|
$400
[22]
This ex-planet's average distance of 3.7 billion miles from Earth could pose commuting problems
Pluto
Molly
|
$400
[1]
Professor Van Helsing(1992)
Dracula
Molly
|
$400
[12]
A soldier carries water in it
a canteen
Molly
|
$400
[6]
In the 1280s this Venetian served as an official for Kublai Khan in the city of Yangzhou
Marco Polo
Gus
|
$400
[18]
These, even if you call them escargots, their French name--non
snails
Molly
|
$400
[30]
John McCain says he has to translate this friend & fellow senator's Southern accent into English
Lindsey Graham
Gus
|
|
$800
[29]
You might want to wish upon Proxima this, a star only 4.2 light-years from our sun
Centauri
Molly
|
$800
[2]
Odin(2011)
Thor
Molly
|
$800
[11]
This postal marking or perforation on a stamp indicates that it's been used
cancellation
|
$800
[7]
This poet had mooned over Beatrice Portinari for 9 years before she even spoke to him in 1283
Dante
Molly
|
$800
[19]
This generic 4-letter variety of seaweed, kombu in Japanese--no
kelp
Molly
|
$800
[21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 4 great rivers of Africa are the Niger, the Nile, the Zambezi &this one that lends its name to 2 countries in its basin
the Congo
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Not many are looking to settle in Valles Marineris, canyons discovered on this planet by Mariner 9 in 1971
Mars
Molly
|
$1,200
[3]
Defense lawyer John Quincy Adams(1997)
Amistad
Mike
|
$1,200
[8]
In "Moby Dick", Melville wrote, "better sleep with a sober" one of these flesh-eaters "than a drunken Christian"
a cannibal
Molly
|
$1,600
[16]
In 1057 he was killed in battle at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire, not at Dunsinane Castle
Macbeth
Mike
|
$1,200
[13]
This, Foeniculum vulgare, looking sort of like celery & tasting like licorice--no!
fennel
Molly
|
$1,200
[23]
A century-old Silver Ghost from this British car company sold for $7.1 million in 2012
Rolls Royce
Molly
|
|
$1,600
[27]
If you have your heart set on this 2-letter moon of Jupiter, pack a coat; temperatures get below -225 degrees
Io
Molly
|
$1,600
[4]
Butler James Stevens(1993)
The Remains of the Day
Gus
|
$1,600
[9]
In a 1972 hit, Sammy Davis Jr. told us that he could "take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew"
the Candy Man
Molly
|
$2,000
[17]
At the battle for Jaffa in 1192, Richard the Lionheart's mount was killed, so this Muslim foe sent him 2 to replace it
Saladin
Gus
|
$1,600
[14]
Also known as the velvet stem, the enoki type of this--yes
a mushroom
Mike
|
$1,600
[24]
Like the one in your nose, this dividing membrane between 2 halves takes its name from the Latin for "fence"
septum
Gus
|
|
DD
$5,000
[26]
Want land? Buying on this moon of Saturn is a no-brainer: its 3,200-mile diameter is bigger than Mercury!
Titan
Mike
|
$2,000
[5]
Mad genius Bailey(a 2013 sequel)
RED 2
|
$2,000
[10]
In Catholicism this part of the mass begins after the preface & sanctus & ends just before the Lord's prayer
the canon
|
DD
$3,200
[15]
Al-Razi gave the first description of acquired immunitv in a discussion of this disease that disfigured & killed
smallpox
Mike
|
$2,000
[20]
The comice type of this fruit--yes, with good cheese
a pear
|
$2,000
[25]
In 2013 Detroit became the largest U.S. city ever to take this undesirable step
declaring bankruptcy
Mike
|
This 19th century character talks about his own writings about tattoo marks & on the tracing of footsteps
Sherlock Holmes