Josh Hager — an archivist from Raleigh, North Carolina
Sara Goodman — a graduate student originally from Huntington Woods, Michigan
Elisa Korb — a professor from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $37,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisa | $1,800 | $2,800 | $16,800 |
$12,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Sara | $3,400 | $4,600 | $8,200 |
$16,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Josh | $600 | $3,200 | $13,100 |
$26,100
New champion: $26,100 |
$11,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| STATES' HIGH & LOW POINTS | THE TV BUSINESS | SILENT G | TITLE CHARACTERS | BOOKS FOR BARTENDERS | MERE MEREDITHS |
|
$200
[16]
High:20,320 feet in Denali Borough
Alaska
Sara
|
$200
[1]
In many markets the broadcast day is broken up into parts including 7-8 P.M., called "access", & 8-11 P.M., called this
prime time
Sara
|
$200
[11]
This word meaning dexterity precedes "of hand"
sleight
Sara
|
$200
[6]
Egyptians did not call their ruler by this title until the 18th Dynasty, roughly 1500 to 1300 B.C.
pharaoh
Elisa
|
$200
[26]
"Tequila Mockingbird" , a book of literary cocktails, has a recipe called "Are You There, God? It's Me," this drink
Margarita
Elisa
Josh
|
$200
[21]
Harold Hill is the smooth-talking title salesman in this Meredith Willson musical
The Music Man
Sara
|
|
$400
[17]
High:Wheeler Peak in Taos County
New Mexico
Josh
|
$400
[2]
Established in 1934, this U.S. govt. agency regulates TV, radio, cable & satellite broadcasting
the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Sara
|
$400
[12]
Let's splash on some of this mildly perfumed toilet water
cologne
Elisa
|
$400
[7]
Know it was the title of the supreme ruler of the Tatar tribes during the Middle Ages, or feel my "wrath"
the khan
Elisa
|
$400
[27]
A book of "drinks and bites" themed to this TV show includes the Bon Temps Sazerac & Arti-Choked-to-Death Dip
True Blood
Sara
|
$400
[22]
Meredith College is a women's college in this capital of "The Tar Heel State"
Raleigh
Sara
Josh
|
|
$600
[18]
Low:Colorado River in Yuma County
Arizona
Josh
|
$600
[3]
Often 30 minutes in length, it's an advertisement recorded to look like a news program or talk show
an infomercial
Elisa
|
$600
[13]
If you have a tumor, you want it to be this; it also means pleasant
benign
Sara
|
$600
[8]
In the 11th century the rulers of the Turkish Seljuk Empire had this title
sultan
Josh
|
$600
[28]
Perhaps your heart will grow fonder reading "The Little Green Book of" this spirit
Absinthe
Elisa
|
$600
[23]
This 20th-century actor is seenherein one of his signature roles
Burgess Meredith
Elisa
|
|
$800
[19]
Low:Snake River in Nez Perce County
Idaho
|
$800
[4]
TV advertisers' coveted age group is this 31-year span
18-49
Elisa
Josh
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
The partition separating the thoracic cavity from the abdominal
the diaphragm
Sara
|
$800
[9]
It's the 8-letter title of a prince of the ex-ruling house of Austria who did not duck well enough
archduke
Josh
|
— |
$800
[24]
This former host of the "Today" show & "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" recently hosted a special on the life of Valerie Harper
Meredith Vieira
Sara
|
|
$1,000
[20]
High:Black Mountain in Harlan County
Kentucky
|
$1,000
[5]
Term for a TV station not owned by a network that grants a network use of specific time periods
an affiliate
Elisa
|
$1,000
[15]
You may sell goods "on" this, also a type of store selling secondhand clothes
consignment
Josh
|
$1,000
[10]
From 1349 to 1830 it was the official title of the king of France's oldest son
the dauphin
Sara
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
In 1962 he became the first black student at the University of Mississippi
James Meredith
|
| WORLD HIGH & LOW POINTS | PAINTERS | LITERARY QUOTES | ANTHROPOLOGY | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES | STARTS WITH A 3-LETTER BODY PART |
|
$400
[3]
High:this Irish company decides to concentrate on stout beers in 1799; good call!
Guinness
Elisa
|
$400
[6]
For the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan Van Eyck painted 2 monumental nudes on the wings: this biblical couple
Adam & Eve
Elisa
|
$400
[13]
Rudyard Kipling described him as "like a little cat in his fur and his tail" but "like a weasel in his head and his habits"
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Josh
|
$400
[7]
Indians of the Pacific Northwest carved family & clan emblems & histories on these that were made of cedar
totem poles
Sara
|
$400
[20]
Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert hitchhike across George Romero's original apocalypse
It Happened One Night of the Living Dead
Elisa
Josh
|
$1,600
[26]
Courage, guts, resourcefulness
gumption
|
|
$800
[18]
Low:this crime began in Peru in 1931; the demand was for the pilot to fly around dropping leaflets
a skyjacking
|
$800
[5]
This Belgian surrealist is known for his paintings featuring men in bowler hats
René Magritte
Elisa
|
$800
[14]
This Ayn Rand novel begins, "Howard Roark laughed"
The Fountainhead
Elisa
Josh
|
$800
[9]
In the 1700s Johann Blumenbach divided the races based on these bony body parts & claimed Caucasian ones are "most beautiful"
skulls
Elisa
|
$800
[21]
Jimmy Stewart meets an angel & a Monty Python member is mistaken for the Messiah
It's a Wonderful Life of Brian
Sara
|
$2,000
[25]
An official representative of the pope
a legate
Elisa
|
|
$1,200
[19]
High:Su-Lin, the first of these exhibited in the West, reaches the U.S. in 1936; we've been going crazy ever since
a (giant) panda
Sara
|
$1,200
[4]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) The exotic landscape meant to evoke the Mexican jungle is by this Primitive artist, who never actually left France, & began his self-taught training career in his 40s
Henri Rousseau
Elisa
|
$1,200
[15]
James Bond asked Goldfinger about this henchman, "Why does the man always wear that bowler hat?"
Oddjob
Josh
|
$1,600
[11]
Polygamy can be divided into polygyny, having multiple wives, & this, having multiple husbands
polyandry
Sara
Josh
|
$1,200
[22]
"Wolverines!" shout the American teens who resist an invasion of Soviet primates
Red Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Josh
|
— |
|
$1,600
[8]
High:the 1935 birth of this physical manifestation of a bodhisattva of compassion
the Dalai Lama
Elisa
|
$1,600
[2]
Leonardo da Vinci painted this fresco in the church of the Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan
The Last Supper
Sara
|
$2,000
[17]
In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", she's called a "smiling, tender angel of mercy"--ironically
Nurse Ratched
Josh
|
$2,000
[24]
From a single molar found in China in 1927, Davidson Black postulated on the existence of this early human
Peking Man
Sara
|
$2,000
[23]
Patrick Swayze gets a job as a bouncer at Vincent Price's unique museum
Road House of Wax
Josh
|
— |
|
$2,000
[12]
High or low? In the 400s B.C. Sophron of Syracuse uses this as an art form, perhaps walking against the wind
mime
|
$2,000
[1]
(Alex reports from The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) Mont Sainte-Victoire dominates not only the landscape of Aix en Provence, but also the landscape paintings of this native son & Post-Impressionist, who devoted more than 30 canvases to it. It also appears in the background of many of his other works, as well
Paul Cézanne
Elisa
|
DD
$3,500
[16]
In this 1946 novel, Old Major says that "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
Animal Farm
Josh
|
DD
$10,000
[10]
Ruth Benedict's "The Chrysan themum and the Sword" is a classic 1946 study of this country's culture
Japan
Elisa
|
— | — |
Among its firsts are underwater auto tunnel to a foreign country & corp. to net more than $1 billion in a single year
Detroit