Emily Waltenbaugh — a library volunteer coordinator from Nashville, Tennessee
Amy Nienaber — an aspiring student from Bettendorf, Iowa
Clay Walls — a university honors program manager from Birmingham, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay | $1,200 | $3,200 | $800 |
$800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$800
10 R, 6 W |
| Amy | $2,400 | $3,800 | $17,200 |
$21,000
New champion: $21,000 |
$16,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Emily | $3,400 | $1,800 | $10,200 |
$3,150
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| NURSERY RHYMES | COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES | UNITS OF MEASURE | MORGAN TOWN | FEUDS | THE 1-SYLLABLE WORD |
|
$200
[1]
It's the nursery rhyme that says, "the cow jumped over the Moon"; in the military it precedes "straight up the middle"
"Hey Diddle Diddle"
Clay
|
$200
[26]
Knute Rockne lost just 12, but won one for the Gipper & 104 more at this schooi
Notre Dame
Amy
|
$200
[21]
Walking the streets in New York City, you'll cover about 20 of these to walk a mile north-south
blocks
Emily
|
$200
[6]
British army officer Frederick Edgeworth Morgan chose this invasion site for WWII's Operation Overlord
Normandy
Amy
|
$200
[8]
These 2 families' feud went all the way to the Supreme Court case Plyant Mahon v. Abner Justice, jailer of Pike County, Ky.
the Hatfields & the McCoys
Emily
|
$200
[16]
This excavation in the earth for pulling out ore isn't yours
mine
Amy
|
|
$400
[2]
Jack is urged to be nimble & quick, helping him do this
jump over the candlestick
Emily
|
$400
[27]
This coach with a papal first name left Florida in 2010 & now coaches the Ohio State Buckeyes
Urban Meyer
|
$400
[22]
A hank of this knitting material is 840 yards for cotton, 560 yards for wool
yarn
Emily
|
$400
[7]
At age 28 in 1994, hewas appointed editor-in-chief of News of the World
Piers Morgan
Emily
|
$400
[9]
These 2 families are sworn enemies in "Romeo and Juliet"
the Capulets & the Montagues
Amy
|
$400
[17]
Your pedal digits
toes
Clay
|
|
$600
[3]
Little Jack Horner put his thumb in a Christmas pie & pulled out this fruit
plum
Clay
|
$600
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows two football helmets on the monitor.) When Fritz Crisler redesigned the black helmets for this Big 10 team so the players could see each other better, the team nearly doubled its yardage from the previous season
the University of Michigan
|
$600
[23]
This informal unit often used to indicate a margin of victory is equal to roughly half the length of a horse's head
nose
Clay
|
$600
[13]
Barbara Morgan became the first teacher in space 21 years after being the backup for this woman on the Challenger
(Christa) McAuliffe
Clay
|
$600
[10]
After a bitter feud the Dassler Bros. formed rival sneaker companies; Rudolf founded Puma & Adolf, this one
Adidas
Emily
|
$600
[18]
A grape plant, or a 6-second video
vine
Emily
|
|
$800
[4]
Jack of Jack & Jill got his head patched with these 2 things
vinegar & brown paper
Clay
|
$800
[29]
The eyes of this university are upon Mack Brown & have seen him win more than 150 games
Texas
Emily
|
$800
[24]
This unit of volume that equals 35.24 liters is often found before "basket"
bushel
|
$800
[14]
This Hartford-born man formed a syndicate that resupplied the U.S. government's gold reserves after the panic of 1893
J.P. Morgan
Emily
|
$800
[11]
RFK's investigation into labor racketeering led to a long-standing feud with this president of the Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa
Amy
|
$1,000
[20]
This is the ray or beam of sunlight that "won't cop out when there's danger all about"
shaft
|
|
$1,000
[5]
"Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has" this
far to go
Amy
|
$1,000
[30]
Tom Osborne won 255 games at this univ. & 3 elections to Congress from the state (you win 255 games & you'll get elected, too)
(University of) Nebraska
Amy
|
$1,000
[25]
Change 2 letters in "radius" to get this unit for measuring angles
radian
Clay
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1674 King Charles II knighted this Welsh buccaneer
Sir Henry Morgan
Clay
|
$1,000
[12]
This Arizona town was home to many feuds, including the Clanton-Earp one, which came to a head on October 26, 1881
Tombstone
Emily
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
Scottish term for a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast
firth
Emily
|
| SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES | GOOD OL' SOUTHERN COOKIN' | MATHEMATICIANS | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | HAPPY | GO "LUCKY" |
|
$400
[1]
"The lady is enamored of thee, verily, verily, verily"
"She Loves You"
Emily
|
$400
[6]
To make red-eye gravy, you'll need ham drippings & a strong cup of this, black
coffee
Amy
|
$400
[12]
Londoner Michael B. Green is the current holder of the Lucasian chair of mathematics at this university
Cambridge
Clay
Amy
|
$400
[7]
"Erin go bragh" means this country "forever"
Ireland
Amy
|
$400
[21]
The women in this Amy Tan title group share dim sum, mah jong & immigrant angst
the Joy Luck Club
Amy
|
$400
[26]
This cereal is "magically delicious"
Lucky Charms
Amy
|
|
$800
[2]
"Wilt thou still require me, wilt thou still provide sustenance unto me, roughly midway through my 7th decade?"
"When I'm Sixty-Four"
Amy
|
$800
[17]
The greens of this lawn weed can be sauteed with onions, garlic & chili peppers & served with Parmesan cheese
dandelions
Clay
Amy
|
$800
[13]
This "Father of Geometry" founded the school of mathematics at the Museum, an institution in Alexandria
Euclid
Amy
|
$800
[8]
About 5 million live in this country
Denmark
Amy
|
$800
[22]
Though married, Mistress Page & Mistress Ford are wooed by this character in "The Merry Wives of Windsor "
Falstaff
Amy
|
$800
[27]
Proverbially, the 3 words that precede "unlucky in love"
lucky at cards
Emily
|
|
$1,200
[3]
"Aid me if thou canst, I feel sorrow... & my gratitude is large for thy presence here"
"Help!"
Emily
|
$1,200
[18]
"Joy of Cooking" says that chess pies, a Southern specialty, are essentially these nut pies without the nuts
pecan pies
Clay
|
$1,200
[14]
In the 13th century this Italian famous for his number sequence introduced the decimal system into Europe
(Leonardo) Fibonacci
Clay
|
$1,200
[9]
The Tagus River runs across the entire width of this country
Portugal
Amy
|
$1,200
[23]
Kurt Vonnegut also wrote plays, like his 1970 offering "Happy Birthday" this person
Wanda June
Amy
|
$1,200
[28]
"She's up all night for good fun, I'm up all night to" do this in a summer 2013 hit
get lucky
Clay
|
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
"I believe I shall be melancholy, I believe it shall be anon... the woman who disturbeth my temper is leaving hence"
"Ticket To Ride"
Emily
|
$1,600
[19]
A classic recipe for fried these unripened garden products is: slice, dip in cornmeal, fry in bacon grease
green tomatoes
Emily
|
$1,600
[15]
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, this British lord & mathematician urged Khrushchev & JFK to have a summit conference
Bertrand Russell
Clay
|
$1,600
[10]
Established in 1929, one of the world's oldest airlines, Lot, is based in this country
Poland
|
$1,600
[24]
The title of this Edith Wharton novel is taken from Ecclesiastes
The House of Mirth
Clay
Emily
|
$1,600
[29]
Even after his deportation to Italy in 1946, he remained an influential American mob boss
Lucky Luciano
Clay
Emily
|
|
$2,000
[5]
"Assemble forth, all ye jesters, speak thusly... Hark! Thou must conceal thy amorousness"
"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
Emily
|
$2,000
[20]
One story says this squirrel stew was named for the Virginia county where it was first prepared for a political rally
Brunswick stew
Emily
|
$2,000
[16]
In the 11th century this Persian astronomer & poet wrote "Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra"
Omar Khayyám
|
DD
$3,000
[11]
While this Balkan country's national name means "land of eagles", the name we know it by is from the Latin for "white"
Albania
Amy
|
$2,000
[25]
This Joyce Carol Oates work shares its title with a Hieronymus Bosch depiction of paradise & more
Garden of Earthly Delights
Amy
|
— |
It begins with a vow to an ancient god & ends with "if I transgress it & swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot"
the Hippocratic Oath