Sam Bernhard — a student originally from Blacksburg, Virginia
Donna Fairweather-Foley — a retired police officer from Huntington, New York
Meredith Larson — an attorney from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meredith | $1,000 | $4,600 | $21,600 |
$22,801
2-day champion: $42,701 |
$21,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Donna | $2,600 | $5,400 | $11,200 |
$22,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Sam | $1,000 | $3,400 | $5,400 |
$10,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,400
17 R, 7 W |
| A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT | POP QUIZ | IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS | THAT WORD SMARTS! | CAESAR | SALAD |
|
$200
[11]
Fort Dodge is on the Des Moines River in this state
Iowa
Donna
|
$200
[13]
He was English king Charles II's daddy (don't think too hard)
Charles I
Sam
|
$200
[16]
The right "to keep and bear" these
arms
Donna
|
$200
[1]
As well as smart, this 6-letter word means shining, radiant or filled with light
bright
Sam
|
$200
[26]
Suetonius' book "The Twelve Caesars" begins with this man before covering 11 emperors
Julius Caesar
Sam
|
$200
[6]
How about oneof these Mexican salads? Its name means "toasted"
tostada
Donna
Sam
|
|
$400
[12]
One of the highest navigable rivers in the U.S., the Animas rises to over 10,000 feet in this state
Colorado
Sam
|
$400
[14]
You might notice a slight resemblance between the beautiful boy seen here&this guy, his proud pop
John Lennon
Sam
|
$400
[17]
The right to a trial by one of these
a jury
Sam
|
$400
[2]
Cut out the "A" from a meat hatchet & you get this word that means having quick intelligence
clever
Donna
|
$400
[27]
Hail this Caesar who boasted that he found Rome a city of bricks & left it a city of marble
Caesar Augustus
Sam
|
$400
[7]
This salad of tomatoes & mozzarella gets its name from an island near the Bay of Naples
caprese
Meredith
Donna
Sam
|
|
$600
[21]
Each year at Titusville, New Jersey, you can see a reenactment of the crossing of this river
the Delaware
Meredith
Sam
|
$600
[15]
He gave the world Emilio Estevez
Martin Sheen
Meredith
|
$600
[18]
No requirement to house these during peacetime
soldiers
Sam
|
$600
[3]
You can "live by your" these or "be at your" these "end", but at the least, "keep your" these "about you"
wits
Sam
|
$600
[28]
You can stand at the spot where in 69, after 7 months in power, Galba was killed in this area of temples & shops
the Forum
Meredith
|
$600
[8]
Add some crunch to your salad with this white-fleshed veggie also called a Mexican potato
jicama
|
|
$800
[24]
All 340 miles of the James River are within this state, which was home to an early settlement
Virginia
Donna
|
$800
[22]
He's Hannah Montana's real-life daddy
Billy Ray Cyrus
Meredith
|
$800
[19]
The right "of the people peaceably to" do this, gather together
assemble
Donna
Sam
|
$800
[4]
From the German for "a cut", it's the opposite of blunt or rounded
sharp
Sam
|
$1,000
[30]
In 85 Domitian gave himself a lifetime job as this--not stopping book publication but supervising Senate membership
censor
Meredith
|
$800
[9]
This salad with chopped turkey, bacon, tomatoes & hard-boiled eggs is named for the owner of the Brown Derby
a Cobb salad
Donna
|
|
$1,000
[25]
In the south of this state, the Atchafalaya River empties into Atchafalaya Bay
Louisiana
|
$1,000
[23]
He fathered baseball * Barry Bonds
Bobby Bonds
Sam
|
$1,000
[20]
No excessive bail or fines or either of these kinds of "punishment"
cruel or unusual
Donna
|
$1,000
[5]
"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?" Then you better bring "parsley", this, "rosemary & thyme"
sage
Donna
Sam
|
DD
$1,800
[29]
If he'd been emperor of Egypt, his name would have been Nileius
Tiberius
Meredith
|
$1,000
[10]
This "colorful" salad dressing was created in San Francisco in the 1920s & named for a play
Green Goddess
|
| "P"s ON EARTH | AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS | RECENT HISTORY | THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY | THE BONE IDENTITY | WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES |
|
$400
[1]
In 2010 a cable snapped, sending Foucault's original one of these crashing to a Paris museum floor
a pendulum
Donna
|
$400
[26]
Monty Python's Terry Jones says of this pre-Shakespeare poet, "Once you get past the spelling, he speaks so clearly"
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sam
|
$400
[21]
2010 saw scientists sequence the genome of this ancient species, proving it interbred with us
Neanderthals
Sam
|
$400
[6]
In 1936 Buddy rocked into the world as Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock in this state
Texas
Donna
|
$400
[11]
Scapula is the Latin name for this, which resembles the blade of a shovel
your shoulder
Sam
|
$400
[16]
A bad review in Osaka
a pan (in Ja pan )
Meredith
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The U.S. sped up its pullout from Luzon's Clark Air Force Base after this volcano's 1991 eruption
Mount Pinatubo
Meredith
Donna
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
Andrew Sachs, who played a Spaniard among Brits on "Fawlty Towers", reads this 1859 "tale" of a Brit among the French
A Tale of Two Cities
Meredith
|
$800
[22]
In 2010, after 69 days trapped underground, 33 miners were rescued in this country
Chile
Donna
|
$800
[7]
This title gal of a 1957 Buddy hit inspired a 1986 hit Kathleen Turner/Nicolas Cage movie
Peggy Sue
Donna
|
$800
[12]
The largest & strongest facial bone is this one of the lower jaw
the mandible
Meredith
|
$800
[17]
A friend in Kathmandu
a pal (in Ne pal )
Donna
|
|
$1,600
[4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Eataly in New York.) Pandoro in Verona & pandolce in Genoa are also Christmas specialties, but the best known edible symbol of an Italian Christmas is this Milanese treat eaten the world over
panettone
Meredith
|
$1,200
[29]
This amazon.com subsidiary .com has an A-list collection that includes Anne Hathaway reading L. Frank Baum
audible.com
Meredith
|
$1,200
[23]
In May 2012 a pastel version of this Edvard Munch work set a record by selling for almost $120 million at auction
The Scream
Sam
|
$1,200
[8]
The Beatles chose their name partly in homage to Buddy's backing band with this other insect name
The Crickets
Donna
|
$1,200
[13]
The radius is parallel to this bone
the ulna
Sam
|
$1,200
[18]
An open space in Dhaka's forest
a glade (in Ban glade sh)
Donna
Sam
|
|
DD
$1,800
[2]
The grave of this founder of a U.S. state is at Old Jordans Cemetery, Buckinghamshire, England
William Penn
Donna
|
$2,000
[27]
Natascha McElhone interprets the poems of this British poet, sister of Dante Gabriel
Christina Rossetti
|
$1,600
[24]
In September 2013 this Texas senator held the floor for 21 hours in an effort to derail Obamacare
(Ted) Cruz
Meredith
|
$1,600
[9]
In 1957 Buddy topped the charts with a hit with this title, a line repeatedly spoken by John Wayne in "The Searchers"
"That'll Be The Day"
Sam
|
$1,600
[14]
This long, slender bone parallel to the tibia bears little body weight, but the security of the ankle joint depends on it
the fibula
Meredith
|
$1,600
[19]
Precipitation in Bangkok
hail (in T hail and)
Meredith
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Most species of this small mammal live in high areas of Asia
a pika
Donna
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
Prompting further international sanctions, in February 2013 this nation conducted its third nuclear test
North Korea
Meredith
|
$2,000
[10]
Sadly, in 1959 Buddy died in a plane crash along with the Big Bopper & this 17-year-old singer
Ritchie Valens
Meredith
|
$2,000
[15]
This wedge-shaped bone that's just above the coccyx is actually 5 bones that fuse in early adulthood
the sacrum
Meredith
|
$2,000
[20]
A simple roofed shelter in Thimphu
a hut (in B hut an)
Sam
|
After throwing a long, last-second touchdown in 1975, Roger Staubach said, "I closed my eyes & said" this
Hail Mary