Alana Norton — a furniture store manager from Woodbury, Minnesota
Jesse Yu — a math student from Staten Island, New York
Jennifer Blanton — an attorney from San Diego, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer | $1,400 | $4,200 | $12,400 |
$8,799
2-day champion: $38,400 |
$14,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jesse | $3,400 | $2,800 | $6,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 8 W |
| Alana | $2,800 | $5,600 | $8,000 |
$3,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
18 R, 1 W |
| INTERNET SLANG | MOVIES' 2 MALE LEADS | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS | POLITICAL PARTIES | "HERM"-ETICALLY | SEALED |
|
$200
[2]
A Spanish speaker might text his amigo "ADM" or "ay Dios mio", this in English
oh my God
Jennifer
|
$200
[1]
"Grumpy Old Men"
(Walter) Matthau & (Jack) Lemmon
Alana
|
$200
[3]
This Vatican basilica's Porta Santa is a holy door that's opened once every 25 years
St. Peter's
Alana
|
$200
[8]
His 1996 election-day party aboard Air Force One included champagne, mango ice cream & a Macarena line
Clinton
Alana
|
$200
[9]
Munster or Melville
Herman
Jennifer
|
$200
[17]
This resinous preparation is mentioned in "Puff the Magic Dragon"
sealing wax
Alana
|
|
$400
[4]
Someone trying to get your goat is one of these, just like the foe of the Billy Goats Gruff
a troll
Jesse
|
$400
[24]
"Wedding Crashers"
Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn
Jennifer
|
$400
[10]
In the 20th century electric motors were installed in this Paris cathedral's bells, including the one named Emmanuel
Notre Dame
Jesse
|
$400
[11]
Chuck Connors, Cesar Romero & Buddy Ebsen were on hand at L.A.'s Century Plaza to celebrate his 1984 presidential win
Reagan
Alana
|
$400
[16]
Thierry was the first name of the man who founded this French company; his last name was really that of a god
Hermès
Jesse
|
$400
[18]
The Weddell sealis usually found hanging around this continent
Antarctica
Jennifer
|
|
$600
[5]
RDV is a cool way to type this word for a meeting
rendezvous
Alana
|
$600
[25]
"Brokeback Mountain"
Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal
Alana
|
$600
[15]
It's defined as a church averaging more than 2,000 worshipers a week; Joel Osteen's in Houston gets 40some thousand
a megachurch
Alana
|
$600
[12]
Brother Billy skipped the Plains, Georgia election-night party for this guy in 1980, but it was a bust anyway
Jimmy Carter
Alana
|
$600
[21]
Soft-bodied crustacean that lives in the castoffs of others
a hermit crab
Alana
|
$600
[28]
Traditionally used on private letters, the pope's Fisherman's Ring is this type of sealing ring
a signet
Alana
|
|
$800
[6]
If you're gaming with a pal online & he doesn't respond, it may be a case of "LD", this "dead"
link
Jesse
|
$800
[26]
"White House Down"
Channing Tatum & Jamie Foxx
Jennifer
Jesse
|
$1,000
[20]
For more than 1,000 years, it was the cathedral of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
the Hagia Sophia
Jennifer
|
$800
[13]
Whoopee! When he got 2 A.M. word of his reelection, he ordered bacon & eggs for himself, Colson & Haldeman
Nixon
Jesse
|
$800
[22]
Old Hickory's plantation home near Nashville
The Hermitage
Alana
|
$800
[29]
Navy SEALs know that their name comes from these 3 places where they fight
sea, land & air
Jesse
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Eminem knows that if someone calls you a "stan" it's not a compliment, it means you're one of these
an obsessive fan (or stalker fan)
Jesse
|
$1,000
[27]
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
Steve Martin & Michael Caine
Jennifer
|
DD
$1,800
[19]
The San Miguel Mission in this state capital began holding mass in the early 1600s
Santa Fe
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[14]
Jay Leno emceed the 2003 victory party at this man's campaign HQ; he had announced his candidacy on Jay's show
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[23]
It's an old word for people who are now said to have "an intersex condition"
a hermaphrodite
Jennifer
|
$1,000
[30]
As part of the job, this U.S. Cabinet secretary is the guardian of the Great Seal of the United States
Secretary of State
Jesse
|
| SUMMER READING? | NAME-CHECKING SONGS | SCIENCE | ASIAN CITIES | 5-LETTER WORDS | CHESHIRE CATS |
|
$400
[15]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "August 1914" centers on a military defeat suffered by this country
Russia
Jesse
|
$400
[2]
Ice T:"Fool, I'm the illest, bulletproof, I die harder than" this actor
Bruce Willis
Alana
|
$400
[9]
The name of the Cretaceous period comes from a Latin word for this substance used to write on a blackboard
chalk
Alana
|
$400
[1]
Near the delta of the Indus River, the largest city in this country was formerly called Kolachi
Pakistan
Jennifer
Jesse
Alana
|
$400
[18]
This mallet used by a judge can also mean "to call a meeting to order"
a gavel
Jennifer
|
$400
[23]
This pseudonymous Oxford don was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, not Wonderland, in 1832
Lewis Carroll
Jennifer
|
|
DD
$600
[22]
It's Ron Kovic's memoir of his loss of innocence & mobility in Vietnam
Born on the Fourth of July
Jennifer
|
$800
[3]
"Mama Said Knock You Out":"Just like" this boxer, "they called him Cassius"
Muhammad Ali
Alana
|
$800
[10]
With a high one of these, 2,800 degrees F., scandium is used to make high-intensity lights
melting point
Alana
|
$1,200
[6]
Some 15 million Indians live in the metro area of this city once infamous for its "Black Hole"
Calcutta
Jesse
Alana
|
$800
[19]
An instrument such as the guiro, seen here, is made from this type of plant that's hollowed out
a gourd
Jesse
|
$800
[24]
Cheshire's Charles Marriott was a great leg break & googly bowler, making him really good at this sport
cricket
Jennifer
|
|
$800
[17]
Father & daughter flee the law in an RV in Chris Fabry's "June Bug", a reimagination of this author's "Les Miserables"
(Victor) Hugo
Alana
|
$1,200
[4]
"Baby Got Back":"You can have them bimbos, I'll keep my women like" this track star
Flo-Jo
Jesse
|
$1,200
[11]
THC binds to receptors, making food smell better & possibly explaining this craving with a plural name
the munchies
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[7]
Da Lat is in southern Vietnam; this city the French called Tourane is 300 miles north, on the coast
Da Nang
Jennifer
Jesse
|
$1,200
[20]
As you have 2 feet, you're one of these
a biped
Jennifer
|
$1,200
[25]
Cheshire-born WWI flying ace Christopher Draper, "The Mad Major", earned the Croix de Guerre & this medal, the DSC
the Distinguished Service Cross
Jesse
|
|
$1,600
[27]
Despite this Faulkner novel's title, one of its main characters is Joe Christmas
Light in August
|
$1,600
[14]
Weezer:"I look just like" this '50s singer, "& you're Mary Tyler Moore"
Buddy Holly
Jennifer
|
$1,600
[12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When a positron reacts with an electron by annihilation, it produces this "hulk"-ing kind of radiation
gamma radiation
Jesse
|
$2,000
[8]
The old part of this Yemeni capital is surrounded by a 30-foot high wall
Sana'a
Jesse
|
$1,600
[21]
Meaning "to dispense with", this word sounds like a gesture of hello
waive
|
$1,600
[29]
James Chadwick of Macclesfield, Cheshire, won a 1935 Nobel Prize for his discovery of this chargeless atomic particle
a neutron
Jesse
|
|
$2,000
[28]
WWII prisoners at an Arkansas internment camp play a part in Bette Greene's "Summer of My" this
German Soldier
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[16]
"Message Of Love" by the Pretenders says, "When love walks in the room... it's good... like" this French screen siren
Brigitte Bardot
Jennifer
|
$2,000
[13]
The early Earth had this, NH3, in its atmosphere; today what there is comes from decomposing animal waste
ammonia
Jesse
|
DD
$3,600
[5]
In 2010 this largest Chinese city overtook Singapore as the world's busiest container port
Shanghai
Jesse
|
$2,000
[26]
A U.S. O-1 visa is for this type of foreign person "of extraordinary ability"
alien
Jesse
|
$2,000
[30]
Bowman's capsule, part of this blood-filtering organ, is named for Nantwich, Cheshire's William Bowman
the kidney
Jesse
|
Since 1953 5 consecutive siblings have been this country's head of state
Saudi Arabia