Rani Peffer game 3.
Sarah Orman — a travel planner from Shoreview, Minnesota
Adam Johnston — a project manager from Mechanicsville, Maryland
Rani Peffer — a corporate finance manager from Crittenden, Kentucky (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,712)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rani | $3,200 | $8,600 | $14,200 |
$12,423
3-day champion: $41,135 |
$15,400
21 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Adam | $2,000 | $3,400 | $4,600 |
$1,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sarah | $-400 | $1,800 | $5,000 |
$700
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
8 R, 3 W |
| AROUND THE USA | SONG & DANCE | LITERARY BUNNIES | HODGEPODGE | THE FABRIC OF OUR LIVES | ALAS, POOR... |
|
$200
[13]
Gobbler's Knob is the scene of the action for a critter named Phil in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania for this annual event
Groundhog Day
Adam
|
$200
[11]
Chubby Checker had hits singing about this dance; Joey Dee & the Starliters sang about the "Peppermint" one
the twist
Adam
|
$200
[21]
Alice overheard him say, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!"
the White Rabbit
Rani
|
$200
[6]
Seen here is a page printed in this languagein the 15th century
Hebrew
Rani
Adam
|
$200
[26]
When you say it's fiber from insect larvae made from cocoon spinning, it's hard to believe we love to sleep on sheets of it
silk
Sarah
|
$200
[1]
This order of classical architecture characterized by austere columns
Doric
Adam
|
|
$400
[14]
The Mar-a-Lago estate, now a private club owned by Donald Trump, is in this Florida "Beach" town
Palm Beach
Rani
Sarah
|
$400
[15]
In 1999 Lou Bega had a hit with this Caribbean dance "No. 5"
mambo
Adam
|
$400
[22]
This naughty little guy disobeyed his mother & "first ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes"
Peter Rabbit
Adam
|
$400
[7]
Echoing the size of some of its early audio products, the RX100 HD digitalcamera from this companyfits in a pocket
Sony
Rani
|
$400
[27]
Go wale-watching in this woven fabric with vertical stripes of tufted ribs
corduroy
Rani
|
$400
[2]
This, the "intake" you should regulate if you're trying to drop weight
caloric
Adam
|
|
$800
[17]
Is a marathon too short? Try a 100-mile course with a high point at 12,600 feet--the Leadville trail 100 run in this state
Colorado
Rani
|
$600
[16]
The title of this Ritchie Valens hit is a dance; the Spanish lyrics say that you need a little grace to do it
"La Bamba"
Adam
|
$600
[23]
Gary Wolf's book questioned, "Who Censored" this character; in the movie he was "framed"
Roger Rabbit
Sarah
|
$600
[8]
The 1880s cartoonseenhereshows the helpless Cherokee nation tied down like this Swift character
Gulliver
Adam
|
$600
[28]
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face as I wear this goat-hair sweater, like Oprah's favorite by Ralph Lauren
cashmere
Rani
Sarah
|
$600
[3]
This word for things that happened before the written word
prehistoric
Rani
|
|
DD
$1,000
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) As the U.S. expanded its territory westward, this point moved from the east coast in 1776 to South Dakota in 1959 with the addition of Alaska & Hawaii
geographic center
Adam
|
$800
[19]
A "Rock" song about doing this dance says, "Lower now, how low can you go"
the limbo
Rani
|
$800
[24]
The subtitle of this Margery Williams children's story is "Or How Toys Become Real"
The Velveteen Rabbit
Rani
|
$800
[9]
Responding to criticism by calling the critic an illiterate moron is this kind of attack with a 2-word Latin name
ad hominem
Adam
|
$800
[29]
Made from a certain type of rabbit's coat, this soft, fuzzy yarn was a hit in 1980s sweaters
angora
Rani
|
$800
[4]
This acid produced in the stomach
hydrochloric
|
|
$1,000
[18]
There are bobcats on this state's Kiawah island
South Carolina
Rani
|
$1,000
[20]
In a No. 1 hit Little Eva told us, "Everybody's doin' a brand new dance"--this one in which "You gotta swing your hips"
"The Loco-Motion"
Sarah
|
$1,000
[25]
Richard Adams conceived of this story about Hazel, Fiver & others while on a long car journey with his 2 daughters
Watership Down
Adam
Sarah
|
$1,000
[10]
The monolith that Aborigines call Uluru was named this by surveyor William Gosse
Ayers Rock
Rani
|
$1,000
[30]
This coarse, heavy plain-weave fabric used in gunny sacks is made of hemp or jute
burlap
Adam
|
$1,000
[5]
Alas, poor this castlethat brings tourists to the English Midlands
Warwick
Rani
|
| BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS | THE NEW YORK TIMESBUSINESS | O-E-O-E | WHAT ISLAND? | 99 MODELS OF GEAR | ON THE WALL |
|
$400
[15]
Dispatched HMS Invincible to the South Atlantic under captain Jeremy Black
Margaret Thatcher
|
$400
[6]
(I'm Gretchen Morgenson.) I've written a lot about shareholders trying to get greater accountability for this group of people, including one story headlined "Daring to Knock on the Boardroom Door"
boards of directors
Rani
Sarah
|
$400
[18]
Depressed or sad because of a lack of friends or companionship; are you this tonight?
lonesome
Rani
|
$400
[1]
Rafjam's Bed & Breakfast & the Bob Marley mausoleum
Jamaica
Sarah
|
$400
[20]
This NHL star tucked in his 99 jersey to one side, a childhood habit to stop his stick from getting caught
Wayne Gretzky
Rani
|
$400
[24]
...of Madonna's house are works by this woman who died in Coyoacan 4 years before Madonna was born
Frida Kahlo
Rani
|
|
$800
[14]
Staged a comeback in 1951 at age 76
Churchill
Adam
|
$800
[7]
Sam Grobart said that this app from Intuit was better than his accountant & got him $2,000 in refunds
TurboTax
Rani
|
$800
[19]
It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood
horsepower
Adam
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
Ankarafantsika National Park, with its unique collection of lemur species
Madagascar
Sarah
|
$1,200
[16]
Before wearing 99 for the Dodgers, part of this Manny being Manny for Boston was wearing a snood over his dreads
Manny Ramirez
Adam
|
$800
[26]
...of the Prado is a Tiepolo showing Marystomping aserpent, representing this event's freedom from original sin
the Immaculate Conception
Rani
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Also met Mussolini on that fateful Munich trip
Chamberlain
Adam
|
$1,200
[8]
(I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) In 2000 I broke the news of the acquisition of J.P. Morgan by this banking company
Chase
|
$1,200
[21]
Job description of George Balanchine & Bob Fosse
choreographer
Adam
|
$1,200
[3]
Great Neck & Amagansett
Long Island
|
$1,600
[17]
In 1984 Nena sang, "Floating in the summer sky, 99" of these "go by"--we'll accept a response in English or German
red balloons
Rani
|
DD
$1,200
[25]
...of this museum is a portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna as a child (1712-13) by Ivan Nikitin
the Hermitage Museum
Rani
|
|
$2,000
[13]
Alternated with Gladstone from 1868 to 1880
Benjamin Disraeli
|
$1,600
[9]
An Oct, 3, 2011 Times Cast covered White House emails about this solar energy co. that got huge govt. loans & went bust
Solyndra
Adam
|
$1,600
[22]
Drink up! It can precede "whale", though the dolphin types get more press
bottlenose
Sarah
|
$1,600
[4]
The Philippine National Police Academy
Luzon
|
— | — |
|
DD
$6,000
[12]
The longest serving Labor prime minister ever
Tony Blair
Adam
|
$2,000
[10]
(I'm Eric Lichtblau.) In 2012, as this group celebrated its centennial, I wrote that as the longtime leading business voice in Washington, it was competing to be heard in fiscal debates
the Chamber of Commerce
|
$2,000
[23]
In Marxist theory, this class is primarily concerned with property values
the bourgeoisie
Rani
|
$2,000
[5]
The Al Khamis Mosque & the Manama Souk Bazaar
Bahrain
Adam
|
— | — |
The "Gossip Girl" series of books was inspired by this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel also set in New York City but 120 years earlier
The Age of Innocence