Guy Wilson — a football coach and tutor from Leesburg, Florida
Heather Powell — a director of compliance investigations from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Sarah Fremgen — a microbiologist from Carrollton, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | $7,000 | $11,000 | $19,400 |
$31,400
2-day champion: $52,400 |
$18,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Heather | $1,800 | $3,800 | $8,900 |
$16,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Guy | $-200 | $2,000 | $15,200 |
$9,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| WRAPPER'S DELIGHT | MICHIGAN ODDS & ENDS | WHAT KIND OF ANIMATED ANIMAL ARE YOU? | DIFFERS BY A LETTER | THAT'S ALL IN THE PAST | I'M A CHANGED MAN! |
|
$200
[18]
The wrapper leaf for these, like Cohibas, is the most expensive leaf used
cigar
Heather
Guy
|
$200
[1]
Appropriately, this type of public building in Grand Rapids is named after astronaut Roger B. Chaffee
a planetarium
Heather
Guy
|
$200
[3]
Rocky of Rocky & Bullwinkle fame
a squirrel
Sarah
|
$200
[8]
A baseball officiator & a huge territory under sovereign power
an umpire & an empire
Sarah
|
$200
[13]
On Oct. 20, 2011 he was killed in his hometown of Surt, Libya
Gaddafi
Sarah
|
$200
[26]
Some men can be real pigs, especially after Circe gets done with them in this epic poem
The Odyssey
Sarah
|
|
$400
[19]
Corn husks are the traditional wrappers for these treats
tamales
Sarah
|
$400
[2]
The Porcupine Mountains, or "Porkies", are in this 16,000-square-mile northern slice of Michigan
the Upper Peninsula
Sarah
|
$400
[4]
Alvin, Simon & Theodore
the chipmunks
Sarah
|
$400
[9]
Likely to break & a stiff hairlike structure on a brush
brittle & bristle
Sarah
|
$400
[14]
In the 1840s he led 147 Mormon settlers west & would supervise the migration of thousands more
Brigham Young
Sarah
|
$400
[27]
In this Villeneuve tale, a monster/prince tells his female guest, "do not trust too much to your eyes"
Beauty and the Beast
Heather
|
|
$600
[20]
Throughout history, organs were removed before the subject was wrapped in linens in this embalming process
mummification
Sarah
|
$600
[23]
Crazy! The city of Wayne & Wayne county are both named after this 18th century soldier
Anthony Wayne
Heather
|
$600
[5]
Babar
an elephant
Heather
|
$600
[10]
Heavenly & plunging from a platform into a pool
divine & diving
Heather
|
$800
[16]
Once called Lacedaemon, it was a city-state that eventually came under Rome's control in 146 B.C.; this is...!
Sparta
Guy
|
$600
[28]
Stevenson: "all human beings...are commingled out of good and evil: and" this man "alone... was pure evil"
Hyde
Guy
|
|
$800
[21]
Leeches & earthworms create these cases not for their pupal stages but for their eggs
cocoons
Heather
|
$800
[24]
Fair Lane is the name of Henry Ford's mansion in this city next to Detroit
Dearborn
|
$800
[6]
Timon in "The Lion King"
a meerkat
Sarah
|
$800
[11]
A pair of 4-letter words meaning to leave out & to send forth
omit & emit
Heather
|
$1,000
[17]
Lasting 16 years longer than you'd think, this war was won by the French, though England won most of the battles
the Hundred Years War
Sarah
|
$800
[29]
One minute, this 1890 title guy is young & handsome; the next, his old corpse is only I.D.'d by his rings
Dorian Gray
Sarah
|
|
$1,000
[22]
This shoulder wrap for women is spelled the same as a past tense verb
a stole
Sarah
|
$1,000
[25]
This 1860s Detroiter's name is on a ginger ale that's the oldest existing U.S. bottled soft drink
(James) Vernor
Guy
|
$1,000
[7]
Diego, voiced by Denis Leary
a saber-toothed tiger
Sarah
|
$1,000
[12]
Pertaining to a son or daughter & a small ornament on top of a spire or piece of furniture
filial & finial
Sarah
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
Paul Revere whipped up patriotic anger with his image of this bloody 1770 event
the Boston Massacre
Sarah
|
$1,000
[30]
This Kafka guy awakes to find he has an armor-plated back, a domelike brown belly & numerous legs
Gregor Samsa
|
| INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS | THE THEATRE | 1940s NEWSMAKERS | "ISM" QUEST | FOOD IN THE BIBLE | BODY LATIN |
|
$400
[4]
Itstraddles two continents
Turkey
Guy
|
$400
[2]
When these theatre awards were first presented in 1947, the winners got a scroll plus a compact (women) or money clip (men)
a Tony Award
Heather
|
$400
[9]
In a July 1941 speech in London, he told the Nazis, "You do your worst and we will do our best"
Churchill
Heather
|
$400
[26]
The active, principled denial of the existence of God
atheism
Heather
|
$400
[1]
In Leviticus, God says thou shalt not gather every one of these "of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor"
grapes
Heather
|
$400
[21]
Manus
hand
Heather
|
|
$800
[16]
In Southern Africa
Lesotho
Sarah
|
$800
[3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a curtain on the monitor.) In the theatre, when the curtain is raised vertically & completely disappears into the fly, it's called this type of reveal for the instrument of execution it resembles
a guillotine
Sarah
|
$800
[12]
This newsmaker isseenhereduring his 1948 fast to end the violence following the partition of India
(Mohandas) Gandhi
Guy
|
$800
[27]
It's the desire to suffer pain & to be subject to another's commands
masochism
Heather
|
$800
[5]
Miraculously, Jesus fed 5,000 people with just "five barley loaves, and two small" ones of these
fish
Guy
|
$800
[22]
Pulmo
lung
Sarah
Heather
|
|
$1,200
[17]
It's made up of about 700 islands & keys
The Bahamas
Sarah
|
$1,600
[11]
In June 2012 this NYC series celebrated its 50th anniversary with an outdoor production of "As You Like It"
Shakespeare in the Park
Guy
|
$1,200
[13]
In 1948 this undersea explorer made the first underwater archaeological dive using scuba tanks
Cousteau
Guy
|
$1,200
[28]
(I'm science reporter Amy Harmon.) In a "Talk to the Newsroom" feature, I discussed covering the debate over whether this "ism", the belief that God made the universe from nothing, should be taught alongside evolution in science classrooms
creationism
Sarah
|
$1,600
[7]
The King James Version tells us Esau sold his birthright for a pottage of these legumes
lentils
|
$1,200
[23]
Maxilla
jaw
Guy
|
|
$1,600
[18]
Population about 80 million
Iran
Heather
Guy
|
$2,000
[19]
In 1937 John Houseman & Orson Welles founded this repertory company that did radio as well as stage
the Mercury Theatre
Heather
|
$1,600
[14]
Convicted of high treason, he was shot by a firing squad at Akershus Fortress in Oslo on October 24, 1945
(Vidkun) Quisling
Guy
|
$1,600
[29]
Coined in 1870s Britain, it's extreme nationalism backed up by a bellicose foreign policy
jingoism
|
$2,000
[8]
In a parable, Jesus told of this "least of all seeds" that, when grown, is the greatest among herbs
the mustard seed
Guy
|
$1,600
[24]
Genu
the knee
Sarah
|
|
$2,000
[20]
An Alpine nation; itssticker abbreviationcomes from its Latin name
Switzerland
Sarah
|
DD
$3,500
[10]
This magazine began in 1884 as a handout for David Belasco's "May Blossom"
Playbill
Heather
|
$2,000
[15]
After losing to FDR in 1940, this GOP candidate told the party faithful that its function was to be "that of the loyal opposition"
Wendell Willkie
|
$2,000
[30]
(I'm Ross Douthat.) In my online postings, like those critical of Obamacare, I try to bring to the Times blogosphere this philosophy; George W. Bush said his was compassionate & I hope mine is too
conservatism
Guy
|
DD
$3,200
[6]
After the Israelites crossed into Canaan & other sustenance was available, this food stopped falling
manna
Guy
|
$2,000
[25]
Supercilium
the eyebrow
|
Of The Beatles' 20 U.S. No. 1 hits, this song has the shortest title
"Help!"