Silvia Lesko — a director of religious education from Denton, Texas
Alex Champlin — a copywriter from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Elisa Korb — a professor from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisa | $0 | $400 | $11,200 |
$10,700
2-day champion: $37,100 |
$11,200
13 R, 2 W |
| Alex | $3,800 | $5,400 | $15,405 |
$8,405
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Silvia | $1,400 | $4,400 | $6,800 |
$1,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM NICKNAMES | FABRICS | SAME-LETTER SWAP | WHAT A FOSSIL! | A BLOODY BUSINESS | WHERE WOULD YOU FIND... |
|
$200
[26]
This team plays its home games in "The House That Rockne Built"
Notre Dame
Silvia
|
$200
[18]
The name of this fabric often used for shirts worn by lumberjacks may be from the Welsh for "wool"
flannel
Elisa
|
$200
[13]
Change all the B's in "babble" & you get this word meaning to inform on someone
tattle
Alex
|
$200
[11]
A trace fossil is of activity, not of the animal itself; for example, these measuring 5' across left by sauropod dinos
a footprint
Alex
|
$200
[1]
In 1792 highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person executed by this recent invention
the guillotine
Alex
Silvia
|
$200
[6]
An apse
a church
Elisa
|
|
$400
[27]
This Trojans home field is known as "The Grand Old Lady"
the Coliseum
Elisa
|
$400
[19]
Mackinaw, a heavy water-repellent woolen cloth, originated in the early 19th century in this state
Michigan
Silvia
|
$400
[14]
All the S's in "sassy" have morphed & given us this goat
nanny
Alex
|
$400
[12]
The Sioux thought the mammals that left brontotherium fossils made this sound by running across the clouds
thunder
Silvia
|
$400
[2]
The low-carb diet named for this N.Y. town surged in popularity after its creator was murdered in 1980
Scarsdale
Silvia
|
$400
[7]
A cowcatcher
a train (locomotive)
Alex
|
|
$600
[28]
This school's Gamecocks rough it up in "The Cockpit"
the University of South Carolina
Elisa
|
$600
[20]
Despite its name this fabric doesn't come from a great white but is often wool with rayon or acetate
sharkskin
|
$600
[15]
Your "puppy" left some P's on the carpet & became this well-preserved body
a mummy
Silvia
|
DD
$600
[23]
Of the 3 types of rock, it's the one in which you'll mainly find fossils
sedimentary
Silvia
|
$600
[3]
This out-of-favor English queen was executed by the sword in 1536
Anne Boleyn
Elisa
Silvia
|
$600
[8]
The Diplomatic Room (which was once the furnace room)
the White House
Alex
|
| — |
$800
[21]
This fabric is called plush when the pile is more than 1/8" in height
velvet
Silvia
|
$800
[16]
Servers crash as "Google" loses its G's & becomes this artistic endeavor of the idle
doodle
Alex
|
$800
[24]
The three lobes of the arthropod fossil seenheregive it its name
a trilobite
Alex
|
$800
[4]
In 1957 Albert Anastasia of Murder, Inc. was gunned down in this type of tonsorial establishment
a barbershop
Elisa
Silvia
|
$800
[9]
The palatoglossal arch
your mouth
Alex
|
| — |
$1,000
[22]
From the Persian for "rag", this bed sheet fabric is finer than muslin
percale
|
$1,000
[17]
London's in bloom as the B's have deserted a bobby & turned him into this flower
a poppy
Silvia
|
$1,000
[25]
The fossil called Archimedes resembles one of these tools that Archimedes was famous for inventing
a screw
|
$1,000
[5]
Nice head on this Scottish hero. Too bad it ended up, in 1305, adorning London Bridge as a warning
William Wallace
Alex
|
$1,000
[10]
An azimuth clamp
a telescope
|
| LIGHTHOUSES | SPACE STUFF | LAYING THINGS M TO M | THE PLAYS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW | ARMS AND THE MAN | MRS. WARREN'S PROFESION |
|
DD
$5
[26]
First lit in 1792, Virginia's Old Cape Henry Lighthouse on this bay was the first authorized by the federal government
the Chesapeake Bay
Alex
|
$400
[9]
The Big Dipper is part of this constellation, from the Latin for "great bear"
Ursa Major
Alex
|
$400
[4]
A 1.6-quart wine bottle
a magnum
Alex
|
$400
[1]
About this title character, the executioner says, "Her heart would not burn, my lord"
Joan of Arc
Alex
|
$400
[14]
This Aussie worked with trainer Mike Ryan to get ripped arms to reprise his role of Wolverine
Hugh Jackman
Elisa
|
$400
[3]
In 2012 Elizabeth Warren was elected a senator from this state
Massachusetts
Alex
|
|
$400
[16]
In 2007 Diamond Head Lighthouse on this island joined 4 others in a 5-stamp set issued by the U.S. Postal Service
Oahu
|
$800
[10]
You get an "A" if you know the U.S. ended its manned space program with the final landing of this shuttle in 2011
Atlantis
Alex
Silvia
|
$800
[5]
A stately tomb; it's hard to enjoy an eternal night at the...
mausoleum
Elisa
|
$800
[2]
"Heartbreak House" is set in the Sussex home of Captain Shotover on the eve of this war
World War I
|
$800
[15]
All that dunking & dribbling has been good for the muscle tone of this man'sarms
Blake Griffin
|
$800
[13]
Mrs. Warren is on the Senate committee known as HELP: Health, Eduction, Labor & these retirement benefits
Pensions
Elisa
Alex
|
|
$800
[17]
The first American lighthouse built outside the original 13 colonies was built on this Louisiana lake
Lake Pontchartrain
Alex
|
$1,200
[11]
Seen during a total lunar eclipse in 2014 was thephenomenonknown by this sanguine term
a blood moon
Elisa
|
$1,200
[6]
It's equivalent to 0.0154 grains
a milligram
Alex
|
$1,200
[12]
This flower girl tells Henry Higgins, "Every girl has a right to be loved"
Eliza Doolittle
Elisa
|
$1,200
[19]
If you want to get the arms of a god, follow the workout that this actor did to play Thor in the Marvel movies
Chris Hemsworth
Elisa
|
$1,200
[23]
Elizabeth chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for this program whose 4-letter abbrev. sounds like a canvas cover
TARP
Alex
|
|
$1,600
[27]
The Jeddah Light in western Saudi Arabia towers 430 feet over this body of water
the Red Sea
Elisa
|
$1,600
[18]
This bright hyphenated comet that was seen in the skies in the 1990s had 3 tails instead of one
the Hale-Bopp comet
Elisa
|
$1,600
[7]
A state of rowdy disorder is said to be "complete & utter" this 6-letter term
mayhem
Silvia
|
— |
$1,600
[20]
It's said that this action star & Total Gym endorser can split the atom...with his bare hands
Chuck Norris
Silvia
|
$1,600
[24]
An expert on bankruptcy, Elizabeth Warren wrote a 2008 text on the essentials of this part of the bankruptcy code
Chapter 11
Alex
Silvia
|
|
$2,000
[28]
Le Phare de Cordouan, France's oldest working light, lies at the mouth of the Gironde on this bay
the Bay of Biscay
Elisa
|
$2,000
[22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a telescope image of Jupiter on the monitor.) A triple eclipse shows the shadows of 3 moons in a rare alignment across Jupiter's face: out here is Callisto, whose shadow is here; Ganymede's shadow is here; & the white circle is this moon & here's its shadow
Io
Alex
|
$2,000
[8]
A fundamental quantity in mechanics; let's see if it swings on the clue
momentum
Alex
|
— |
$2,000
[21]
He has lots of tattoos on his arms, including one that he famouly had altered to "Wino Forever"
Johnny Depp
Alex
|
$2,000
[25]
Mrs. Warren championed the creation of & was the interim director of this bureau, CFPB for short
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
|
He came to power 34 days before FDR & left it 19 days after him
Adolf Hitler