Beverly Garcia — a lawyer from Quincy, Massachusetts
Jeff Versteeg — an account executive from Cleveland, Ohio
Christi Esterle — a librarian and stay-at-home mom from Colorado Springs, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christi | $3,400 | $3,800 | $12,200 |
$24,200
2-day champion: $36,199 |
$13,200
20 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jeff | $1,600 | $3,200 | $11,700 |
$11,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Beverly | $1,600 | $1,400 | $6,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| BORN IN THE USA | GLORY DAYS | COVER ME | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | THE "E" STREET BAND |
|
$200
[7]
Drawn up in Wisconsin in 1867, this architect was a real Prairie Style home companion
Frank Lloyd Wright
Beverly
|
$200
[10]
This religion's festival of colors is celebrated by throwing colored powder & water to honor the god Krishna
Hinduism
Christi
|
$200
[26]
A bandage covering a wound, or a preparation covering a salad
dressing
Christi
|
$200
[16]
...knows this state is in the first line of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
Oklahoma
Christi
Jeff
|
$200
[6]
Despite 2 suicide mentions & "we gotta get out while we're young", this was proposed as N.J.'s state song in 1980
"Born To Run"
Beverly
|
$200
[1]
Don't take this word meaning infinite time to respond
eternity
Christi
|
|
$400
[8]
In 2012 this Ala.-born ex-Sec. of State was one of the first 2 female members of Augusta National Golf Club
Condoleezza Rice
Christi
Jeff
|
$400
[27]
On New Year's Eve the Dutch hold bonfires of these, which were a centerpiece of the home just a week before
Christmas trees
Jeff
|
$400
[25]
Used to prevent soil erosion, rye & buckwheat are alliteratively planted as "cover" these
crops
Christi
|
$400
[17]
...remembers that when we meet Tom, he's just finished 4 years here, & it ain't college
prison
Jeff
|
$400
[9]
"I didn't know my own face, oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin' away on the streets of" this city
Philadelphia
Beverly
|
$400
[2]
Adjective meaning pertaining to horseback riding
equestrian
Christi
|
|
$600
[13]
Heturned on, tuned in & dropped out of college before becoming a Harvardlecturerin 1959
Timothy Leary
Jeff
|
$600
[28]
The Texas Cavaliers River Parade is a centerpiece of this annual San Antonio event, "party" in Spanish
the fiesta
Christi
|
$600
[24]
"Easy, breezy, beautiful..." is a pitch of this makeup brand
Cover Girl
Jeff
|
$600
[18]
...thinks this actor did a fine job as Tom in the 1940 "Grapes of Wrath" movie
Henry Fonda
Beverly
|
$600
[22]
Bruce donned some old duds to sing "Whip My Hair" with "Neil Young" (actually this TV host, doing a great impression)
Jimmy Fallon
Jeff
|
$600
[3]
An enterprising type of businessman who says, yes, start up with me
entrepreneur
Jeff
|
|
$800
[14]
A N.Y. congressman from 1903 to 1907, this newspaper magnate returned to California & got into castle building
(William Randolph) Hearst
Jeff
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
April 9 is Bataan Day, aka Day of Valor, on the Bataan Peninsula & in the rest of this nation
the Philippines
Christi
|
$800
[23]
An independent record label of yore, or a pupal covering for butterflies
a chrysalis
Christi
Beverly
|
$800
[19]
...recalls traveling with Jim Casy, who talks about the "holy sperit" & is called this, similar to a minister
preacher
Jeff
Beverly
|
$800
[21]
Springsteen's 1973 debut, "Greetings from" this New Jersey resort city, initially sold only 25,000 copies
Asbury Park
Christi
Beverly
|
$800
[11]
To disembowel
eviscerate
Beverly
|
|
$1,000
[15]
This Chicago law man who enforced Prohibition ran for Cleveland mayorin 1947; here endeth the lesson
(Eliot) Ness
Christi
|
$1,000
[30]
Jamhuri is Swahili for "republic", & this country's Jamhuri Day celebrates its independence from Great Britain
Kenya
|
$1,000
[5]
In military slang, your "cover" refers to this article of clothing
a helmet (or hat)
Christi
|
$1,000
[4]
...was told, "They's a grove of" these--& "a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one"
oranges
|
$1,000
[20]
"Everybody's got" this body part, a song Bruce first intended to give to The Ramones
a hungry heart
Jeff
|
$1,000
[12]
An arm of the sea at the lower end of a river
estuary
Christi
|
| MR. SECRETARY | DOUBLE LETTERS | CLIFFS | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | SCIENTIFIC NON-AMERICAN | NAME THE NETWORK |
|
$400
[6]
In the 1980s, William Bennett monitored the halls of this Cabinet department as its secretary
Education
Jeff
|
$400
[26]
It's a disorderly crowd waiting for its "rouser"
rabble
Christi
|
$400
[19]
A cave at the bottom of the cliffs below Tintagel Castle in Cornwall is said to be the home of this Arthurian wizard
Merlin
Christi
|
$400
[1]
In 1996 Michelle Obama became an associate dean at this school in her hometown
the University of Chicago
Beverly
|
$400
[16]
In 1714 this Dutch physicist made the first working mercury-in-glass thermometer
Fahrenheit
Beverly
|
$400
[24]
"Ace of Cakes","Chopped","Everyday Italian"
Food Network
Christi
|
|
$800
[13]
(Vice President Biden reads the clue.) The idea of a vice president was proposed at the Constitutional Convention by this first Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
Jeff
|
$800
[27]
Term for a young child; you're one letter off, Kermit
moppet
Christi
Jeff
|
$800
[20]
The La Quebrada cliff divers at this Mexican resort city perform daily shows, diving from more than 100' into a shallow inlet
Acapulco
Christi
Beverly
|
$800
[2]
Elizabeth Dole received the distinguished alumni award from this North Carolina school
Duke
Beverly
|
$800
[17]
In a 1758 work this Swedish botanist applied his binomial system to animal classification
Linnaeus
Beverly
|
$800
[25]
"Modern Family","Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.","Shark Tank"
ABC
Jeff
|
|
$1,200
[12]
This father of a recent presidential candidate was HUD secretary under Nixon
George Romney
|
$1,200
[11]
An importer of illegal goods, without payment of legal duty (of course)
smuggler
Christi
|
$1,200
[21]
More than 700 years ago, Puebloan people lived in the caves of this state's Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
New Mexico
Beverly
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
The campus of the University of this state is in Orono, named for a Penobscot chief
Maine
Beverly
|
$1,200
[18]
Last name of the man who took the image seenherein the 1890s
Roentgen
|
$1,200
[15]
"Fashion Police","Rich Kids of Beverly Hills","Chelsea Lately"
the E! network
Jeff
|
|
$1,600
[8]
On April 4, 1996 the NYSE closed for a minute in memory of Ron Brown, who was this Cabinet secretary
Secretary of Commerce
Christi
Jeff
|
$1,600
[10]
A prairie one was similar to but smaller than a Conestoga wagon
schooner
|
$1,600
[22]
2,000-foot sea cliffs are on this island's Kalaupapa Peninsula near Father Damien's leper colony
Molokai
Beverly
|
$1,600
[4]
Minnesota's Northfield College got this name in 1871, honoring a benefactor
Carleton
Beverly
|
$2,000
[30]
A continuous loop of material with a half-twist is the "strip" named for this 19th century German
(August) Möbius
Christi
|
$1,600
[28]
"News Hour","Foyle's War","Great Performances"
PBS
Christi
|
|
$2,000
[7]
Serving until 1975, Rogers Morton of Maryland was the last secretary of this department to come from east of the Mississippi
Interior
|
$2,000
[9]
According to Vatican I of 1870, the pope has this quality when speaking ex cathedra
infallible
Christi
|
$2,000
[23]
This Venezuelan waterfall plunges uninterrupted for a half mile down a cliff
Angel Falls
Christi
|
$2,000
[5]
A sportswriter used the term "ivy colleges" in 1933 to describe 9 schools--the 8 current Ivies & this school in New York State
the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
|
DD
$2,500
[14]
This English astronomer died on Jan. 14, 1742 at age 85; that's 9 years longer than than we might have expected
(Edmond) Halley
Jeff
|
$2,000
[29]
"Bar Rescue","Ink Master", lots of mixed martial arts
Spike
Jeff
|
In 1950 the England-Scotland border was closed for the first time in 400 years to try to recover this stolen item
the Stone of Scone