Lee May — a merchandising manager originally from Roanoke, Virginia
Ilissa Gold — an attorney originally from Nashville, Tennessee
Sarah Olson — a project coordinator from El Cerrito, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $0 | $400 | $14,000 |
$16,801
2-day champion: $27,401 |
$13,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Ilissa | $1,000 | $2,200 | $8,400 |
$16,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lee | $2,000 | $8,000 | $8,000 |
$15,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
21 R, 5 W |
| CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | CRY FOWL! | ACTORS WHO WRITE | ANSWERS IN ABUNDANCE | IN OLD NEW MEXICO |
|
$200
[4]
The thinnest coin we use today, it's 1.35 mm thick
the dime
Lee
|
$200
[3]
The strings on the Japanese koto, a type of zither, were traditionally made of this fiber but are now mostly synthetic
silk
Ilissa
|
$200
[11]
Canada &snow
goose
Lee
|
$200
[1]
They wrote "Good Will Hunting" together
Matt Damon & Ben Affleck
Sarah
|
$200
[19]
Lima or pinto
bean
Sarah
Ilissa
|
$200
[26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santa Fe, New Mexico.) A longtime fixture in New Mexico, the versatile horno, or beehive oven, keeps its temperature for several hours; 1 common use is making chicos, a treat from this staple Indian grain
corn
Lee
|
|
$400
[6]
A series of presidential $1 coins features this symbolic lady on the reverse
Lady Liberty
Lee
|
$400
[5]
This small Hawaiian instrument was probably 1st made by Portuguese cabinet makers who emigrated to the islands
the ukulele
Ilissa
|
$400
[13]
Plymouth Rock &leghorn
chicken
Lee
|
$400
[2]
He co-wrote "Good Night, and Good Luck."
George Clooney
Lee
|
$400
[20]
A Copenhagener
a Dane
Ilissa
|
$400
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santa Fe, New Mexico.) The arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century changed the whole way of life in this area; 1 example was the introduction of this Spanish-named work animal of Las Golondrinas Ranch
a burro
Sarah
|
|
$800
[9]
Though not a president, this founding father was put on the front of the half-dollar in 1948
Benjamin Franklin
Lee
|
$600
[7]
The amadinda, a type of this percussion instrument from Uganda, uses logs instead of wooden bars
a xylophone
Ilissa
|
$600
[14]
Trumpeter &whistling
swan
Lee
|
$600
[16]
He co-wrote "The Passion of the Christ"
Mel Gibson
Lee
|
$600
[21]
A baby Kodiak
cub
Lee
|
$600
[28]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santa Fe, New Mexico.) El Rancho de Las Golondrinas was the last stop before Santa Fe for wagons traveling onthis1,200-mile Spanish-named road from Mexico City; for 300 years, it was the main route into New Mexico
El Camino Real
|
|
DD
$1,000
[8]
The back of a U.S. quarter featuring this place calls it the "Isla del Encanto"
Puerto Rico
Ilissa
|
$800
[10]
"The Messiah" & the "Lady Blunt" are said to be the only violins he built that are still in practically new condition
Stradivarius
Ilissa
|
$800
[15]
Harlequin &canvasback
duck
Sarah
|
$800
[24]
He adapted "Into the Wild"
Sean Penn
Lee
|
$800
[22]
European river of 1,700 miles
Danube
Sarah
|
$800
[29]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santa Fe, New Mexico.) After settling in the Southwest U.S., this once-semi-nomadic tribe began weaving; while Hopi designs were limited to stripes, their people introduced geometric shapes likezigzags & diamonds
the Navaho
Lee
|
|
$1,000
[18]
She's on the front of the 2010 $1 coin that has the Hiawatha Belt on the reverse
Sacajawea
Lee
|
$1,000
[12]
In 1810 Sebastien Erard patented a pedal device for this instrument that changed the pitch of its strings
the harp
Sarah
Lee
|
$1,000
[17]
Lady Amherst's &ring-necked
pheasant
Sarah
Lee
|
$1,000
[25]
He co-wrote "This Is the End"
Seth Rogen
Lee
|
$1,000
[23]
A subtle difference
a nuance
Ilissa
|
$1,000
[30]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santa Fe, New Mexico.) Spain wouldn't send fine Merino sheep to North America, so the mainstay of colonial textiles were these sheep, still bred today; the name means "coarse" or "rough", & you may know it from a sweet treat with a rough, ribbed texture
churro
|
| QUOTABLE PLAYS | NAME THAT FOOD! | BASEBALL: THE 1950s | CANADIAN PROVINCES | PARTS OF SPEECH | THE HISTORIC SEÑOR-"A" OR SEÑORIT-"A" |
|
$400
[11]
"Hoke, what I'm looking for is somebody to drive my mother around"
Driving Miss Daisy
Ilissa
|
$400
[1]
Orange-butter sauce doused in Grand Marnier & prepared in a chafing dish, it's flame on! for this crepe dish
Crepe Suzette
Sarah
|
$400
[26]
On April 23, 1954 this Braves outfielder hit his first Major League home run; he'd hit 754 more before he retired
Hank Aaron
Lee
|
$400
[3]
The name of this province is said to mean "rocks standing high", referring to Niagara Falls
Ontario
Sarah
Lee
|
$400
[16]
"Eating" and "jumping" are examples of the verbal type of these
nouns
Sarah
|
$400
[21]
Caesarion was the son of Julius Caesar & this queen
Cleopatra
Ilissa
|
|
$800
[12]
Referring to John Merrick:"The most striking feature about him was his enormous head"
The Elephant Man
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
This puffy poppy seed roll shares its name with a former royal title
Kaiser
Lee
|
$1,600
[28]
In 1958 this man, "Mr. Cub", hit 47 home runs, still the National League record for a shortstop
Ernie Banks
Lee
|
$800
[4]
Locals just call this seventh province "The Island"
Prince Edward Island
Lee
|
$800
[17]
"This" and "some" are examples of the limiting type of these
adjectives
Sarah
Lee
|
$800
[22]
Spain's queen from 1474 to 1504, she had some trouble with her daughter who was known as Joan the Mad
Isabella
Ilissa
|
|
$1,600
[14]
"Wait! One more look. Good-by, good-by world! Good-by, Grover's Corners"
Our Town
Sarah
Lee
|
$1,200
[8]
Sautéed in a mix of rum, brown sugar & banana liqueur & poured over vanilla ice cream, go Bananas this!
Foster
Sarah
Lee
|
$2,000
[27]
In a 1951 playoff game, he hit the "shot heard 'round the world" propelling the Giants into the World Series
Bobby Thomson
|
$1,200
[5]
The Isthmus of Chignecto joins the peninsula of this Atlantic province to the Canadianmainland
Nova Scotia
Lee
|
$1,200
[18]
"An eagle and a leopard saw the goat" has 3 of these, totaling 6 letters
articles
Sarah
|
$1,600
[24]
As Wisconsin's Chancellor, this future Cabinet member was the first woman to head a Big-10 school
Donna Shalala
|
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
From Act I of this play:"She can't see!... Or hear. When I screamed she didn't blind; not an eyelash"
The Miracle Worker
Sarah
|
$1,600
[9]
Last name of the opera singer for whom the French Chef Escoffier created a "peach" dessert in the late 1800s
(Nellie) Melba
Sarah
|
— |
$1,600
[6]
On its north, this province borders the Yukon; on its south, Idaho
British Columbia
Lee
|
$1,600
[19]
Polysyndeton is the repetition of this part of speech for effect, as in "It was red and yellow and green and brown"
a conjunction
Sarah
Ilissa
|
$2,000
[25]
The daughter of Belgium's King Leopold I, she was Empress of Mexico from 1864 to 1867
Carlota
|
|
$2,000
[15]
"Here's a paper written in his hand, a halting sonnet of his own pure brain, fashioned to Beatrice"
Much Ado About Nothing
Sarah
|
$2,000
[10]
Benjamin Wenberg had a lobster dish named for him; Ben got in a fight at Delmonico's, so that was changed to Lobster this
Newberg
Sarah
|
— |
$2,000
[7]
Alphabetically, it's the last of Canada's 3 prairie provinces
Saskatchewan
Ilissa
|
$2,000
[20]
On "Schoolhouse Rock!" this part of speech was presented by the Lolly family
adverb
|
DD
$4,200
[23]
Her father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged several marriages for her, including one at age 13 in 1493 to Giovanni Sforza
Lucrezia Borgia
Ilissa
|
In 1947 Churchill called it "the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried"
democracy