Chip Bell — a telecom engineer from Marysville, Ohio
Jennifer Cross Miller — a communications manager from Pacheco, California
Karen Ruckert — a civil rights attorney originally from Topeka, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen | $0 | $800 | $3,600 |
$700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jennifer | $3,600 | $5,200 | $8,600 |
$600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,000
18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Chip | $1,400 | $8,200 | $9,000 |
$17,300
New champion: $17,300 |
$8,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| HARRY POTTER & THE CHAPTER TITLES | THE BIG BAND THEORY | "FOO"' ON YOU | WATER GATE | BLACK SOCKS | SCANDAL |
|
$200
[2]
In book 1,"The ____ Hat"
Sorting
Jennifer
|
$200
[5]
It won't mean a thing if you can't name this big band era that began around 1935
swing
Karen
|
$200
[9]
Botulism is a type of this
food poisoning
Jennifer
|
$200
[12]
This 3-letter word can refer to a beaver's construction or the reservoir of water it creates
dam
Karen
|
$200
[16]
Florsheim sells black calf-length socks named for this dressy men's outfit
tuxedo
Chip
|
$200
[1]
Following a bounty scandal, coach Sean Payton of this NFL team was given a 1-year suspension
New Orleans Saints
Jennifer
|
|
$400
[3]
In book 4,"The ____ World Cup"
Quidditch
Jennifer
|
$400
[6]
Typical big bands of the '30s & '40s featured a wind section made up of 4 trumpets, 5 reed instruments & 4 of these sliders
trombones
Jennifer
|
$400
[10]
It's a Chinese dish of a pancake-shaped omelet with a mix of chopped foods
egg foo young
Jennifer
|
$400
[13]
Last name of Australian director Peter that's also a term for a water barrier
Weir
Karen
|
$400
[21]
Your black socks may be lisle, a thread named for a city in this country
France
|
$400
[17]
A year after becoming the director of this, David Petraeus stepped down following a scandal
the CIA
Jennifer
|
|
$600
[4]
In book 6, her "Helping Hand"
Hermione
Chip
|
$600
[24]
Fletcher Henderson's band pioneered these short, repeated musical phrases, also a term for a comic's improvs
riffs
Jennifer
|
$600
[11]
Proverbially, it follows "penny wise"
pound foolish
Chip
|
$600
[14]
It's a 10-letter synonym for seawall
breakwater
Chip
|
$600
[22]
Anything that's out of an earlier time, specifically a retro sports uniform, like the Iowa Hawkeyes oneseen here
throwback
|
$600
[23]
On film, Ralph Fiennes portrayed this real-life intellectual who was involved in a 1950s quiz show scandal
Charles Van Doren
|
|
$800
[7]
In book 7,"The Elder ____"
Wand
Jennifer
|
$800
[25]
Lionel Hampton said this clarinet "King" "opened the door for Jackie Robinson" by integrating his popular band
Benny Goodman
Chip
|
$800
[18]
7-letter word for a person given to coarse or undignified joking
buffoon
Karen
|
$800
[15]
Led Zeppelin sang, "if it keeps on rainin"' this is "goin' to break"
levee
Chip
|
$800
[27]
In Japan black tabi doesn't refer to a cat but to socks worn by these masters of clandestine martial arts
ninjas
Jennifer
|
$800
[29]
In 2013 Rob Ford, mayor of this 4th-largest city in N. America, first said he smoked weed, not crack...then yes, OK, crack, too
Toronto
Chip
|
|
$1,000
[8]
In book 2,"The Whomping ____"
Willow
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[26]
Ava Gardner said this clarinetist and band leader "dumped me one week after our first anniversary."Herethey are in happier times
Artie Shaw
Chip
|
$1,000
[19]
A liveried servant who attends the door or carriage
footman
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[20]
In cells, the inner mitochondrial is classified as this type of membrane that doesn't permit the passage of fluids
impermeable
Chip
|
$1,000
[28]
The "Nightmare Song" from "Iolanthe" by this duo includes bicycling across Salisbury plain in black silk socks
Gilbert & Sullivan
Chip
|
DD
$2,000
[30]
In 1991 he went to prison on drug charges; 3 years later, he was reelected mayor of D.C.
Marion Barry
Chip
|
| READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO | GEOMETRY | HEAD FOR THE BORDERS | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES | WHAT ARE THEY? | FLAKES |
|
$400
[11]
This tome by David McCullough came to the screen with David Morse as George Washington
John Adams
Karen
|
$400
[8]
If 2 angles of a triangle are 50 degrees each, then this must be the size of the third angle
80 degrees
Jennifer
|
$400
[6]
This nation of thousands of islands does have a land border with Papua New Guinea
Indonesia
Karen
|
$400
[1]
A wee bit of drink intended to cure a hangover is called this
hair of the dog
Karen
|
$400
[13]
Hypnos & Hermes
(Greek) gods
Jennifer
Chip
|
$1,600
[27]
In 1920 this British chocolatier introduced its flake candy bar, the "crumbliest flakiest chocolate"
Cadbury
Karen
|
|
$800
[14]
A series of books by Charlaine Harris inspired this show about a group of supernatural misfits
True Blood
Jennifer
|
$800
[9]
2 geometric figures that coincide exactly when superimposed are said to be this, from the Latin for "to agree"
congruent
Chip
|
$800
[7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Though once a single country, these two nations have their border in the jungle, and there's no road between them
Colombia and Panama
Chip
|
$800
[2]
If you get this predator's "share" of food, you're getting the biggest portion
lion's share
Karen
|
$800
[22]
In history, Tordesillas (1494) & Portsmouth (1905)
treaties
Karen
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
One reason this famed fresco began flaking soon after completion in 1498 was that it was painted on dry plaster
The Last Supper
Karen
|
|
$1,200
[15]
In the miniseries "Mildred Pierce", based on the novel by James M. Cain, she played the title role
(Kate) Winslet
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[10]
Euclid's "Elements" begins with a definition of this as "that which has no part"
a point
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[12]
These 2 independent nations have their only border with Italy
San Marino and Vatican City
Chip
|
$1,200
[3]
If you mess with this formal papal document, you get the horns
bull
Karen
|
$1,200
[23]
hip & mansard
roofs
Karen
|
$2,000
[28]
Named for a Polish city, this breakfast roll has a flat center & is usually covered with onion flakes
Bialy
|
|
$1,600
[16]
(Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times presents the clue.) Based on my book, the 2011 HBO movie "Too Big to Fail" starred William Hurt as this George W. Bush Treasury secretary known informally as Hank
(Henry) Paulson
Jennifer
|
DD
$1,400
[18]
Johannes Kepler used this geometric figure to describe the orbits of the planets, with the Sun as a focus
ellipse
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) It's bordered by nine countries, the mostfor any African nation. It also has one of the continent's wordiest names
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[4]
In this type of "march", your arms are pinioned behind your back
frog march
Chip
|
$1,600
[24]
"Tancredi"&"Der Freischutz"
operas
|
— |
|
$2,000
[17]
Evan Wright's book about a marine battalion in the early days of the Iraq War was the basis for "Generation" this
Kill
|
$2,000
[19]
Also the name of a trigonometric function, this straight line intersects an arc at 2 places
secant
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[21]
One of the 2 mainland South American countries that don't border Brazil
Chile (or Ecuador)
Karen
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[5]
It makes a difference "whose" this animal "is being gored'
ox
|
$2,000
[25]
purslane & high mallow
flowers
|
— |
During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal
(Edmund) Hillary