Candice Torres — a contract analyst from Stallings, North Carolina
Dan Tran — a Ph.D. student in physics originally from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,600)
Shane Curtis — an assistant professor from Lansing, Kansas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shane | $3,000 | $5,000 | $15,000 |
$18,000
3-day champion: $42,001 |
$15,000
19 R, 1 W |
| Dan | $2,200 | $5,200 | $3,800 |
$3,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
14 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Candice | $2,000 | $4,200 | $1,800 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,600
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| CELEBRITY MARRIAGES | TODAY'S CHECKLIST | CHAINED TO A HOTEL | "2"-SQUARE CROSSWORD CLUES | THE OUTBACK | BLOOMIN' NON-ONIONS |
|
$200
[3]
Miranda Lambert is married to this fellow country star
Blake Shelton
Candice
|
$200
[1]
Check my own one of these from Equifax or Experian; 700? C'mon, 700?
a credit score
Shane
|
$200
[9]
This word of solace precedes "Inn & Suites" on Ann Arbor's State Street & at Sea-Tac Airport
Comfort
Candice
|
$200
[22]
Riboflavin
B2
|
$200
[16]
These 1st people of Australia & noted Outback dwellers numbered at least 500,000 when Euros arrived in 1788 but only 62,000 by 1921
the Aborigines
Dan
|
$200
[21]
It won't bloom 'til March, but at Christmas my wife tells me to get underneath this parasitic plant & pucker up
mistletoe
Candice
|
|
$400
[4]
This co-star of "The Big Bang Theory" married tennis player Ryan Sweeting on December 31, 2013
Kaley Cuoco
Candice
|
$400
[2]
Lace up my Chuck Taylors, sneakers made by this brand, & take my mad game to Rucker Park to hoop it up
Converse
Candice
|
$400
[12]
The pool on the 8th floor of the Four Seasons in this city overlooks the Public Garden & Beacon Hill
Boston
Dan
|
$400
[23]
Liquid-fueled war rocket that fell on the United Kingdom
the V-2
Shane
|
$400
[17]
There are over 600 vertebrate species in the Outback, but the desert this, a rat-like marsupial, went extinct; Crash must've been sad
a bandicoot
Shane
|
$400
[30]
Theseplants, whose flowers can be one foot across, are Monet, & they don't even know it
water lilies
Candice
|
|
$600
[5]
He met Rita Wilson on the set of "Bosom Buddies"; the pair reconnected making the 1985 movie "Volunteers"
Tom Hanks
Shane
|
$600
[6]
Feed my pet this, a variety of antelope; then I'm off to play the same-named drums
a bongo
Shane
|
$600
[13]
I'm not sure how I managed to solve the Riemann hypothesis, but I did "stay smart" at this "Express" chain last night
Holiday Inn Express
Shane
|
$600
[24]
Rendered with x-axis & y-axis only
2-D
Candice
|
$600
[18]
Firstcrossedby explorer Ernest Giles in 1876, this desert shares its name with localish actor Mel
Gibson
Shane
|
$600
[29]
We'll plant bulbs of this in the fall; come spring, we'll enjoy varieties like Darwin, parrot & triumph
tulips
Shane
|
|
$800
[10]
In 2013 John Legend wed this model & Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover girl
Chrissy Teigen
Candice
|
$800
[7]
Climb this highest mountain in Japan & hope it keeps up its eruption-less streak, intact since 1707
Mount Fuji
Dan
|
$800
[14]
In 2014 new Beijing & Bogota hotels are opening in this letter-perfect chain from Starwood
W
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
Get above it all here, aka Dapsang
K2
Candice
|
$800
[19]
AKA Uluru, this 1,142-foot landmark was sighted in 1872 by explorer Ernest Giles
Ayers Rock
Dan
|
$800
[28]
Don't be shy; name this spring-blooming perennial
a wallflower
|
|
$1,000
[11]
This British actress wore a short Chanel dress for her 2013 wedding to indie rocker James Righton
Keira Knightley
|
$1,000
[8]
Master this artificial international language whose name means "one who hopes"
Esperanto
Shane
|
$1,000
[15]
"Alice" doesn't live in Phoenix anymore, but she did leave this last name on the Regency Hotel
Hyatt
Dan
|
$1,000
[26]
A London arena, or something we literally can't survive without
the O₂
Dan
|
$1,000
[20]
The Great this Desert was named for a queen in 1875 by explorer Ernest Giles, who got around
the Great Victoria Desert
|
$1,000
[27]
When Adam & Eve left the garden, all the plants shrank away--except a tiny blue flower that said these 3 words
forget me not
Dan
|
| 19th CENTURY AMERICANS | 3 STRAIGHT VOWELS | WORLD CITIES | WEIGHTS & MEASURES | "DIRTY" ENTERTAINMENT | WHO WROTE IT? |
|
$400
[21]
Before his 1821 election to the Tennessee legislature, this frontiersman served as a justice of the peace
Davy Crockett
Shane
|
$400
[1]
Kohala is the northernmost of the 5 volcanoes on this "Big Island"
Hawaii
Shane
Dan
|
$400
[6]
Less than half of the people living in this busiest port on Canada's West Coast speak English as their first language
Vancouver
Dan
|
$400
[11]
Term for the notes on a piano from one C to the next C, or one D to the next D, or... so on
an octave
Shane
|
$400
[16]
An Eastwood title role, punk
"Dirty Harry"
Candice
|
$1,200
[28]
"Where I want to start telling is the day I left Pencey Prep"
J.D. Salinger
|
|
$800
[22]
In 1874 he invented the quadruplex telegraph, allowing 4 messages to be sent at a time, 2 in each direction
Thomas Edison
Dan
|
$800
[2]
This adjective describes the "Case of Benjamin Button" on film
curious
Shane
|
$800
[7]
It's the only big city in Uruguay
Montevideo
Dan
|
$800
[12]
In case you were wondering, there are approximately 68 ounces of soda in this size bottle of Coke
a two-liter
Shane
|
$800
[17]
The soundtrack from this Patrick Swayze film topped the album charts in 1987
Dirty Dancing
Dan
|
$1,600
[27]
"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark"
Dante
|
|
$1,200
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Clue reports from Deadwood, South Dakota.) This is what it looks like now, but in 1875, Deadwood was just amining campthat sprung up after this lieutenant colonel & his 7th Cavalry found that the Black Hills were rich in gold
(George Armstrong) Custer
Dan
|
$1,200
[3]
Even without a telescope those with good vision can see the 7 Sisters in this star cluster
the Pleiades
Dan
|
$1,200
[8]
In 2014 this Spanish city honored El Greco on the 400th anniversary of his death with a series of exhibitions & concerts
Toledo
Shane
Dan
Candice
|
$1,200
[13]
This unit, whose symbol is seen here, is used in measuring wavelengths of light
an angstrom
Dan
|
$1,200
[18]
Hit 1967 film about 12 criminals recruited to launch a raid on the Nazis
The Dirty Dozen
Shane
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
"We asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own?"
Virginia Woolf
Dan
|
|
$1,600
[24]
In 1865 he & his brother William built an oil refinery in Cleveland they called Standard Works
John D. Rockefeller
Dan
|
$1,600
[4]
In this outdoor ring toss game, a ringer is usually worth 3 points
quoits
Candice
|
$2,000
[10]
On an evening lantern hike, you can see the ski slopes used in this Austrian city's Olympics
Innsbruck
Shane
|
$1,600
[14]
It measures 164 feet long & 82 feet wide, has 10 lanes & is at least 6 feet 7 inches deep
an Olympic-sized swimming pool
Shane
|
$1,600
[19]
This song mocking the media was Don Henley's first solo hit after splitting from the Eagles
"Dirty Laundry"
Shane
|
$2,000
[26]
"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold"
Robert Frost
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Thispresident was a supporter of the Pendleton Civil Service Act
Chester Arthur
|
$2,000
[5]
This word for merriment is the name of a Dublin theater, the "Grand Old Lady of South King Street"
gaiety
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
Morocco was named for this city known for its centuries-old red clay buildings
Marrakesh
Dan
|
$2,000
[15]
Like a ship's, an aircraft's speed is typically measured in these units
knots
Dan
|
$2,000
[20]
Trying to act tough in a bar in "The Road to Utopia", Bob Hope said, "I'll take lemonade in" one of these
a dirty glass
Shane
|
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Today this company markets more than 100 times the number of products found in a slogan it used in 1896
H.J. Heinz