Sarah McNitt game 3.
Stacy Meyers — a graduate student of education from Fredericksburg, Virginia
Gudrun Juffer — a law clerk originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sarah McNitt — a study-abroad advisor originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $2,400 | $4,400 | $13,600 |
$17,600
3-day champion: $46,000 |
$13,600
19 R, 2 W |
| Gudrun | $2,000 | $2,200 | $1,200 |
$2,300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,400
10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Stacy | $1,600 | $3,800 | $10,400 |
$2,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| CEREAL CHARACTERS | BEETHOVEN | WHAT'S YOUR SIGN, BABY? | NO VOWEL BUT Y | A NOVEL CATEGORY | THROWN OF GAMES |
|
$200
[6]
This trio has been helping sell Rice Krispies since the 1930s
Snap, Crackle, and Pop
Sarah
|
$200
[26]
An 1800 letter is the first to mention Ludwig's loss of this; oil of almonds wasn't helping
hearing
Gudrun
|
$200
[11]
You're impulsive! audacious! intemperate! & your glyph, said to represent ram's horns? nice!
Aries
Sarah
Stacy
|
$200
[12]
A metronome supplies it
rhythm
Sarah
|
$200
[1]
In this 1954 novel Jack tells the other boys, "We're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything"
Lord of the Flies
Sarah
|
$200
[5]
Woody Hayes has been credited with saying, "3 things can happen when you pass" in this sport "& 2 of them are bad"
football
Sarah
|
|
$400
[7]
For many years it's been this creature for Cocoa Puffs
a cuckoo
Stacy
|
$400
[27]
Beethoven's final public concert was a performance of this final symphony
9th
Stacy
|
$400
[13]
"The Astrology Encyclopedia" says you are "a moody sign... the source of the term crabby"--but that doesn't scare me!
Cancer
Sarah
|
$400
[15]
Charon's waterway
Styx
Stacy
|
$400
[2]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) From London's Reform Club to the first stop in Egypt, across India, then on to Yokohama, to thepenultimate stop in New York, here's the route taken in this Jules Verne novel
Around the World in Eighty Days
Sarah
|
$400
[22]
In 2007 a French long jumper was speared in the back by an errant one of these from a nearby event; yes, it's on YouTube
javelin
Sarah
|
|
$600
[8]
The silly spokes-creature for Trix cereal is this type of animal
a rabbit
Stacy
|
$600
[28]
In 1792 Beethoven moved to this city; 35 years later he was buried there
Vienna
Stacy
|
$600
[14]
Such a dual nature! associated with Castor & Pollux, you're 2-faced, but I mean that in the best way!
Gemini
Gudrun
|
$600
[18]
Meaning bitterly ironic, it also describes a lopsided grin
wry
Sarah
|
$600
[3]
It's the English title of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho's "O Alquimista"
The Alchemist
Gudrun
|
$600
[23]
In craps, you need a pair of 4s to throw 8 this "way"
the hard way
|
|
$800
[9]
Cornelius is one of these animals selling Kellogg's corn flakes
a rooster
Gudrun
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
With angry strings & gentle keyboard, piano concerto No. 4evokes this mythic musician calming the Furies with song
Orpheus
Stacy
|
$800
[16]
You're the 7th sign! Suave but liable to pout; romantic but fickle; it's like you try to balance everything!
Libra
Sarah
|
$800
[19]
This gift of the magi can be used for incense
myrrh
Gudrun
|
$800
[4]
Frederic Henry, the protagonist of this Hemingway novel, is in the Italian ambulance service during WWI
A Farewell to Arms
|
$800
[24]
354 wins did not overcome the controversy as this ex-Red Sox pitcher didn't make the Hall of Fame cut in 2013
Roger Clemens
Sarah
Gudrun
Stacy
|
|
$1,000
[10]
First name of the leprechaun mascot of a popular cereal
Lucky
Sarah
|
— |
$1,000
[17]
A St. Paddy's Day baby, you're the 12th & last sign of the zodiac, yet you're first in my heart
Pisces
|
$1,000
[20]
Nimble
spry
Sarah
|
$1,000
[21]
In a much lighter vein than "Gone Girl", there's "Where'd You Go," this French-sounding first name
Bernadette
|
$1,000
[25]
The pole in this Scottish athletic toss seenherecan weigh 80 to 180 pounds
caber toss
Stacy
|
| SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES | THE FLY | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND | BLADE RUNNER | METROPOLIS | "IN"CEPTION |
|
$400
[13]
This movie jumped the gun a bit in 1996, actually opening on July 3rd
Independence Day
Gudrun
|
$400
[1]
Unlike most other insects, true flies have this many wings; some have wingbeats of up to 1,000 times a second
2
|
$400
[8]
The third one of these existed in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945
reich
Sarah
|
$400
[18]
Good for runs on icy surfaces, this footwear has a blade whose front is called a toe pick
figure skates
Stacy
|
$400
[20]
A reclining Buddha, 49 feet high, can be found at the Wat Pho temple in this Thai capital city
Bangkok
Gudrun
|
$400
[3]
A system for paying for a sofa in fixed amounts at specified intervals is this plan
installment plan
|
|
$800
[14]
Giant creatures called kaiju rise from the title ocean & start a war on humanity in this 2013 film
Pacific Rim
Sarah
|
$800
[2]
The common housefly has up to 4,000 of these vision-enhancing facets in each compound eye
lens
Stacy
|
$800
[9]
In 1789 the third of these representative groups covered about 24 million of France's 25 million people
estate
Stacy
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
In a Tennyson poem, Bedevere is asked to make a run with this & fling it "into the middle mere"
Excalibur
Stacy
|
$1,200
[22]
Don't be chicken! Say this city became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet socialist republic in 1934
Kiev
Sarah
|
$800
[4]
I need to hear you say this is what the medical term "IV" is short for, stat! Don't you die on me, clue! Stay with me!
intravenous
Sarah
|
|
$1,200
[15]
The title of this 2013 Matt Damon film is a paradise for heroes in Greek mythology
Elysium
Sarah
|
— |
$1,200
[10]
Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the third Punic war resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement
Carthage
Stacy
|
$1,200
[23]
This title of a 2006 Annette Bening movie flies in the face of a parental admonition about blades
Running with Scissors
Gudrun
Stacy
|
$1,600
[24]
This largest South African city is in a gold-rich area called the Rand
Johannesburg
Sarah
|
$1,200
[5]
It described Adam Smith's hand (his literary one, not his literal one)
invisible
Sarah
|
|
$1,600
[16]
This antagonist from a 1968 classic got its name from being a computer that's heuristic & algorithmic
HAL
Stacy
|
— |
$1,600
[11]
The last time a U.S. third party finished ahead of a major party in a pres. election was in this year of Teddy's bully bid
1912
Gudrun
|
$2,000
[26]
In the "ring" cycle, this hero runs to the rescue with his sword Notung
Siegfried
Stacy
|
$2,000
[25]
You'll be let down if you go to this South American capital for a mountain view, but there is the Palacio Salvo
Montevideo
|
$1,600
[6]
9-letter word meaning sterile or barren
infertile
Gudrun
|
|
$2,000
[17]
1962's "La Jetee", about a man sent back in time to avert apocalypse, was remade as this numeric Bruce Willis film
12 Monkeys
Gudrun
|
— |
$2,000
[12]
The German statue seenhereshows this Holy Roman Emperor & Third Crusade starter
Barbarossa (or Frederick I)
Stacy
|
— |
DD
$4,200
[21]
In 1890 the population of this U.S. city bordering Mexico was 16,000; today it's 1.3 million
San Diego
Gudrun
|
$2,000
[7]
"In wine there is truth"; in truth, this is how you say that phrase in Latin
in vino veritas
Sarah
|
This 5-letter name appears 7 times in Shakespeare titles, more than any other name
Henry