Julia Collins game 16.
Steve Martinez — a U.S. Air Force logistics readiness officer from Fairfax, Virginia
Simone Chavoor — a media consultant from Oakland, California
Julia Collins — a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois (whose 15-day cash winnings total $314,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julia | $5,600 | $9,600 | $31,400 |
$22,800
16-day champion: $337,700 |
$28,600
29 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Simone | $-200 | $800 | $6,600 |
$1,100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Steve | $-200 | $3,200 | $9,200 |
$15,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
14 R, 1 W |
| WHAT'S COOKING? | IMPRESSIVE SPORTS RECORDS | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME | BIG STUFF | "BOARD" WALK | EMPIRE |
|
$200
[1]
This basic tomato-based spaghetti sauce whose name means "in sailor's style"
marinara
Julia
|
$200
[26]
This longtime Packer QB who truly never knew when to quit started 297 straight games
Brett Favre
Steve
|
$200
[6]
Beatrix' water mammals
Potter's otters
Julia
|
$200
[19]
This planet is so big that more than 1,000 Earths would fit inside it
Jupiter
Steve
|
$200
[16]
Stand up on one of these to shoot the curl at the Banzai pipeline
a surfboard
Simone
|
$200
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) The map here shows the growthof this empire, from 275 B.C. to133 B.C.to14 A.D.& to117 A.D.
the Roman Empire
Julia
|
|
$400
[2]
This comfort food--ground beef, seasonings, bread crumbs & a ketchup glaze baked in a rectangular pan
meat loaf
Steve
|
$400
[27]
On March 23, 1952 the Blackhawks' Bill Mosienko performed this 3-goal feat in just 21 seconds
a hat trick
Julia
|
$400
[7]
Philip's clear, thin soups
Roth's broths
Simone
|
$400
[20]
This country's King Fahd Airport covers 300 square miles, more than all of Bahrain, which has 3 airports of its own
Saudi Arabia
|
$400
[17]
It's divided into 20 equal-sized areas & has double & triple score rings
a dart board
Steve
|
$400
[12]
In the 20th century the sun finally set on this empire that at its peak included 1/5 of the world & its peoples
the British Empire
Steve
|
|
$600
[3]
Chicken & this spicy Mexican sauce made with several kinds of chiles &, of course, Mexican chocolate
mole
Julia
|
$600
[28]
You know about the 100 points, but in 1968 he also had the NBA's only 20-20-20 game: 22 points, 25 rebounds & 21 assists
Wilt Chamberlain
Steve
|
$600
[8]
Umberto's lizards
Eco's geckos
Julia
|
$600
[21]
Dedicated in 80 A.D., it covered 5 acres, was 4 stories high & originally sat 50,000 spectators
the Colosseum
Julia
|
$600
[18]
On "Downton Abbey" one footman's job is to stand by this piece of furniture that's often in a dining room
a sideboard
Julia
|
$600
[13]
A superpower during the Middle Ages, it ended in 1806 when its last monarch lost to Napoleon & abdicated
the Holy Roman Empire
Simone
|
|
$800
[4]
A country ham named for this Virginia town, the "Ham Capital of the World"
Smithfield
Julia
|
$800
[29]
To match his major league pitching wins, you'd have to win 25 games a year for 20 years... & you'd still be 11 short
Cy Young
|
$800
[9]
Hillerman's sliced luncheon meats
Tony's bolognas
|
$800
[24]
Cawker City, Kansas claims the world's biggest ball of this 5-letter item, with around 8 million feet
twine
Julia
|
$800
[22]
Popular nickname for the New York Stock Exchange
the Big Board
Julia
Simone
|
$800
[14]
Founded by Cyrus the Great, this empire conquered parts of Asia, Africa & Europe
the Persian Empire
|
|
$1,000
[5]
This Spanish dish of saffron-flavored rice with shellfish such as shrimp, lobster & clams as well as chorizo
paella
Julia
|
$1,000
[30]
Before Rulon Gardner beat Aleksandr Karelin in this Olympic sport, Karelin hadn't given up a point in 10 years
(Greco-Roman) wrestling
Steve
|
$1,000
[10]
Koontz's mungs & favas
Dean's beans
Julia
|
DD
$2,400
[25]
The world's largest building by volume is this company's 472 million-cubic-foot factory in Everett, Wash.
Boeing
Julia
|
$1,000
[23]
Traditional hat for a cap-&-gowned graduate-to-be
a mortar board
Steve
|
$1,000
[15]
From its capital Constantinople, this empire remained a world force for more than 1,000 years
the Byzantine Empire
Julia
Steve
|
| MAUI? WOWIE! | ADJECTIVES | SUPER-HEAR-O | ALL GONE | MISTER "E" CATEGORY | THE ATLANTIC |
|
$400
[26]
The name of the Maui port Lahaina originally meant "cruel" or "relentless" this; today tourists bask in it
the sun
Simone
|
$400
[6]
This adjective meaning "really great" precedes "Sams" & "Four"
Fantastic
|
$400
[11]
A Snoop Dogg song mentions this duo "deep in Gotham, fighting crime"
Batman & Robin
Steve
|
$400
[1]
We give a hoot that the whekau, or laughing this bird of New Zealand, laughs no more
an owl
Julia
|
$400
[16]
He's the wizard seenhereusing one ofhisinventions
Thomas Edison
Steve
|
$400
[21]
This mayor credited the 1982 Atlantic article "Broken Windows" with showing the way to slash crime in New York City
Giuliani
Simone
|
|
$800
[27]
Maui was created by 2 of these, Puu Kukui & Haleakala
volcanoes
Steve
|
$800
[7]
This adjective can refer to a lazy person, or maybe to someone who types only in lowercase
shiftless
Simone
|
$800
[12]
moe. is known for their song about this guy, aka the Star-Spangled Avenger
Captain America
Steve
|
$800
[2]
The giant rice rat of Martinique hasn't been seen since 1897; the introduction of this cobra foe may be responsible
a mongoose
Julia
|
$800
[17]
Last name of lawmen Wyatt & Virgil
Earp
Julia
|
$1,200
[23]
A controversial 2012 piece was "Why Women Still Can't..." this 3-word phrase, meaning excel at work & family
have it all
Julia
|
|
$1,200
[28]
1 letter off from a mainland folk hero of great size, this type of tree in Lahaina boasts more than a dozen separate trunks
a banyan
Julia
|
$1,200
[8]
This 15-letter adjective ascribes human form or attributes to a non-human thing
anthropomorphic
Julia
Simone
|
$1,200
[13]
The chorus to the Manowar song about this god & superhero includes "by your hammer let none be saved"
Thor
Simone
|
$1,200
[3]
The last known thylacine, or "tiger" of this Australian island, died in 1936
Tasmania
Julia
|
$1,200
[18]
In 2000, while he was a senator from North Carolina, People magazine named him sexiest politician alive
John Edwards
Julia
|
$1,600
[24]
Reading the magazine's 1857 first issue was a transcendentalist experience, as this man had 4 poems in it
(Ralph Waldo) Emerson
Julia
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Europeans first set foot on Maui in 1786; this Englishman sighted it in 1778 but couldn't find a landing spot
(Captain) Cook
Steve
|
$1,600
[9]
Pronounced differently, this adjective meaning "pertaining to birth" is a former province of South Africa
natal
Simone
|
$1,600
[14]
The Man of Steel isn't such a fan, but other superheroes thinkthis3 Doors Down song has real substance"If I go crazy, then you can call me Superman"
"Kryptonite"
Julia
Simone
|
$2,000
[5]
The dwarf woolly type of this roamed Russia's Wrangel Island a few centuries after the Great Pyramid was built
a mammoth
Steve
|
$1,600
[19]
He was CEO of Disney from 1984 to 2005
Michael Eisner
Julia
|
$2,000
[25]
In an 1869 Atlantic shocker, Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed this "noble" romantic poet's affair with his half-sister
Byron
Julia
Simone
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Maui came under Hawaiian rule when it was conquered in 1795 by this "great" king
Kamehameha
Simone
|
$2,000
[10]
The opposite of poetic, this adjective meaning unimaginative or dull comes from the Latin for "straightforward"
prosaic
Julia
|
$2,000
[15]
Paul McCartney & Wings sang of Titanium Man & this helmeted foe of the X-Men aka Erik Lehnsherr
Magneto
Simone
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
The wolf named for these islands wasn't around for the 1982 war; it was hunted to extinction a century before
the Falklands
Julia
|
$2,000
[20]
Slain in Mississippi in 1963, this civil rights leader was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery
Medgar Evers
Julia
|
DD
$2,200
[22]
In 1933 she wrote about what she'd look at if she had sight for 3 days: Rembrandts, Fifth Avenue, the face of her dog Helga...
Helen Keller
Simone
|
In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words
the Terminator