Julia Collins game 13.
Lara Brenckle Malmont — a strategic communications lead from Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Sirena Terr — a business lawyer and consultant from Livingston, New Jersey
Julia Collins — a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois (whose 12-day cash winnings total $245,610)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julia | $4,600 | $5,000 | $17,800 |
$15,800
13-day champion: $261,410 |
$17,400
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Sirena | $2,400 | $4,400 | $3,000 |
$3,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,200
11 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Lara | $1,000 | $3,600 | $6,800 |
$6,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,800
8 R, 1 W |
| LETTERS TO CANADA | THE HAIR APPARENT | SKYDIVING | FAMOUS WOMEN | THE HEISMAN WINNER'S SCHOOL | "E" FOLLOWS "D" |
|
$200
[16]
QC is the postal abbreviation for this Canadian province, the largest in area
Quebec
Julia
|
$200
[6]
In the '70s, Darnell "Dr. Dunk" Hillman of the ABA sported a monumental one of these
an afro
Julia
|
$200
[25]
This electric term is used for the sudden jolt felt by a jumper when the chuteopens
shock
Lara
|
$200
[1]
In 2013 N.Y. mag. reported, "Three years before November 8, 2016, she's working hard to be relaxed, calm, easy"
Hillary Clinton
Lara
|
$200
[26]
Tim Tebow(2007)
University of Florida
Julia
|
$200
[11]
From the Latin for "faithful", it's loyalty or faithfulness to one's spouse
fidelity
Julia
|
|
$400
[17]
Put MB on your letter & it'll go to this province that could be called the Land of 38,000 Lakes
Manitoba
Julia
|
$400
[7]
Joan on "Mad Men" sported this 'do that sounds like insects live on your head
a beehive
Julia
|
$400
[24]
The auxiliary parachute is also called this, a word found on bottles of fine wine
reserve
Julia
|
$400
[2]
Drinks definitely were not on this pro-Prohibition woman
Carrie Nation
Julia
|
$400
[27]
Johnny Manziel(2012)
Texas A&M
Lara
|
$400
[12]
Wine is often poured from the bottle into this decorative container
a decanter
Sirena
|
|
$600
[18]
One of the 4 original provinces, it's NB
New Brunswick
Sirena
|
$600
[8]
Hey, wise guy, time to dish & get this cut--nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
a bowl cut
Sirena
|
$600
[20]
To exit & clear the plane & then activatethe chute right away is rhymingly called hop & this
pop
Sirena
|
DD
$400
[3]
In 1896 this educator became the first woman in Italy to get a medical degree
Maria Montessori
Julia
|
$600
[28]
Vinny Testaverde(1986)
University of Miami
|
$600
[13]
This decorative art with needle & thread includes such stitches as flat, knotted & looped
embroidery
Sirena
|
|
$800
[22]
This province with lots of dinosaur bones is SK
Saskatchewan
Sirena
|
$800
[9]
In this braided look from Africa, narrow strips of hair are plaited tightly against the scalp
cornrows
Sirena
|
$800
[19]
It's the 2-word term for the fastest speed a body can reach falling through the air
terminal velocity
Lara
|
$800
[4]
After a trip "on the good ship Lollipop", this child star was later ambassador to Ghana & Czechoslovakia
Shirley Temple
Lara
|
— |
$800
[14]
This term refers to a student at a military school such as West Point who is training to become an officer
cadet
Julia
|
|
$1,000
[23]
NU is new & stands for this territory created in 1999
Nunavut
Lara
|
$1,000
[10]
Yeah, baby! Let's do this 4-letter 'do, cut in slightly uneven, overlapping layers downward from the crown
a shag
Julia
|
$1,000
[21]
2-word specified area where skydivers plan toland, or a Gary Busey film about skydiving crooks
Drop Zone
Lara
|
$1,000
[5]
Freed from slavery in 1827, she went to court to get her son back from the South; "verify" her
Sojourner Truth
Julia
|
— |
$1,000
[15]
From the Latin for "to shackle the feet", this verb means to hinder or obstruct progress
impede
Julia
|
| TO THE EXOPLANETS! | PHIL-IBUSTER | SPY FICTION | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES | THE SECRETARY OF WAR | THAT USED TO BE A THING |
|
DD
$200
[26]
In 1992 the first exoplanets were found orbiting one of these rotating stars that emit regular bursts of radiation
a pulsar
Sirena
|
$400
[1]
This NBA coach once quipped, "If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball"
Phil Jackson
Julia
|
$400
[21]
This code name of a spy completes Ken Follett's title "Eye of..."
the Needle
|
$400
[2]
San Antonio mayor Julian Castro delivered this at the 2012 Democratic Convention
the keynote address
Sirena
|
$400
[12]
Last name of Secretary No. 3--the fort named for him played a "key" role in "The Star-Spangled Banner"
McHenry
Julia
|
$400
[7]
Clark Kent would have trouble today finding one of these to change in, as AT&T & other companies have abandoned them
phone booths
Julia
|
|
$400
[22]
NASA has found an Earthlike planet within a "habitable zone"--the area in a star system where this could exist in liquid form
water
Julia
|
$800
[17]
In 1991 this gray-haired daytime talk show host said, "The mammary gland has become the hallmark of our culture"
Phil Donahue
Sirena
|
$800
[25]
I spied "A Delicate Truth", a 2013 thriller by this British octogenarian
John Le Carré
|
$800
[3]
A thingamajig; its usage dates back 100 years
a doohickey
|
$800
[13]
Pierce's War Secretary, he soon ended up in a war, all right... with the United States
Jefferson Davis
Julia
Sirena
|
$800
[8]
"A Feathered River Across the Sky" is a 2014 book about this creature that once made up over 1/4 of North America's birds
the passenger pigeon
Sirena
|
|
$800
[23]
In 2013 Caltech scientists announced there are more than 100 billion planets in this alone--about one per star
the Milky Way
|
$1,200
[18]
Name this athletic wear mogul--just do it
Phil Knight
Julia
Sirena
|
$1,200
[28]
Aspects of his 1958 novel "Our Man in Havana" seemed to predict the Cuban Missile Crisis
Graham Greene
|
$1,200
[4]
This detachable men's shirt front started to become popular in the 19th century
a dickey
Julia
|
$1,600
[15]
Nice balancing act! This future prez was Madison's Secretary of State & War at the same time
James Monroe
|
$1,200
[9]
The landmark "Old Man of the Mountain" collapsed in 2003, but it's still on license plates of this state
New Hampshire
Sirena
|
|
$1,200
[24]
The first Earth-size exoplanets were found by the NASA satellite launched in 2009 & named for this 17th c. German astronomer
(Johannes) Kepler
Sirena
|
$1,600
[19]
In 2003 this Phil Keoghan-hosted reality show won its first Emmy--it would not be the last
The Amazing Race
|
— |
$1,600
[5]
A tough way to get off a drug
cold turkey
Lara
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
A son of this president worked for Garfield & later became a wealthy corporate lawyer
(Abraham) Lincoln
Julia
|
$1,600
[10]
On June 26, 2013 the Supreme Court said this act was "unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons"
DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act)
Lara
|
|
$2,000
[27]
In 1995 astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, in this "equine" constellation
Pegasus
Julia
Sirena
|
$2,000
[20]
This Texas senator teamed up with Rudman & Hollings for a 1985 balanced-budget law
Phil Gramm
|
— |
$2,000
[6]
If a person purchases a business that is fully equipped & ready to open, it is said to be this
turnkey
Julia
|
$2,000
[16]
Secretary during the Civil War, he died 4 days after Grant appointed him to the Supreme Court
Edwin Stanton
|
$2,000
[11]
Formed in 1930, this 3-letter airline got absorbed by American in 2001
TWA
Julia
|
The full name of this scholarly group founded after a lecture in 1660 includes "of London for Improving Natural Knowledge"
the Royal Society