Sam Heft-Luthy — a college student from Seattle, Washington
Amy Thon — a museum development assistant from Tempe, Arizona
Matthew LaMagna — a digital consultant from Arlington, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew | $6,600 | $11,200 | $16,600 |
$16,000
2-day champion: $33,800 |
$17,400
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amy! | $800 | $2,000 | $5,600 |
$2,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Sam | $1,600 | $1,400 | $8,600 |
$599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
11 R, 3 W |
| 1809 | ADJECTIVES | COLLEGE TEAM NAMES | THE BIG BLANK THEORY | STRIKE A (YOGA) POSE | VOGUE |
|
$200
[21]
On October 11, 1809 this traveling companion of William Clark was found dead at a Tenn. inn called Grinder's Stand
Meriwether Lewis
Amy!
|
$200
[16]
In law this 5-syllable word describes a crime that was planned in advance & carried out willfully
premeditated
Amy!
|
$200
[1]
This team hogs all the glory at the University of Arkansas
the Razorbacks
Matthew
|
$200
[6]
Big ____:London attraction since 1859
Ben
Amy!
|
$200
[26]
This seated pose named for a flower is excellent for meditation
lotus
Amy!
|
$200
[7]
This woman whose song says, "Strike a pose, Vogue" has been on the cover of Vogue 4 times
Madonna
Matthew
|
|
$400
[22]
Enemies kidnapped this country's Gustav IV Adolf & held him in Gripsholm Castle until he abdicated
Sweden
Matthew
|
$400
[17]
While "cervine" means relating to eer, "cervisial" means pertaining to this beverage
beer
Amy!
|
$400
[2]
They roar for Penn State
the Nittany Lions
Matthew
|
$400
[8]
Big ____:Alcor & Mizar are in its handle
Dipper
Matthew
|
$400
[27]
A good all-over stretch is the downward-facing this
dog
Matthew
|
$400
[12]
After a stint as an assistant at Vogue, Lauren Weisberger wrote this 2003 novel about an assistant at a fashion mag
The Devil Wears Prada
Matthew
|
|
$600
[23]
Pope Pius VII excommunicated this French leader, so he had the Pope arrested
Napoleon
|
$600
[18]
Meaning holy or sacred, in the Lord's Prayer it precedes "be thy name"
hallowed
Matthew
|
$600
[3]
This colorful team takes the field for Texas Tech
the Red Raiders
Matthew
|
$600
[9]
Big ____:To Philip Marlowe, it was death
Sleep
Sam
|
$600
[28]
You lie on the floor like, well, a dead body in Savansana, a pose named for this synonym of "dead body"
the corpse pose
Sam
|
$600
[13]
This month was in the title of a documentary chronicling the prep that went into Vogue's 2007 Fall Fashion issue
September
Amy!
|
|
$1,000
[25]
President Madison appointed this future president as United States Minister to Russia
John Quincy Adams
Amy!
Sam
|
$800
[19]
It's the 12-letter adjective meaning characteristic of the comedy of the man seen here
chaplinesque
Amy!
Sam
|
$800
[4]
Don't be chicken, go ahead & cheer for this University of South Carolina team
the Gamecocks
Matthew
|
$800
[10]
Big ____:A Callaway club
Bertha
Matthew
|
$800
[29]
The tree pose, in which you stand on one leg, can help relieve this disorder of the longest nerve
sciatica
Matthew
|
$800
[14]
Sarah Michelle Gellar threatened to cancel her Vogue subscription when this celebrity couple was on the April 2014 cover
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West
Matthew
|
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
In May Mary Dixon Kies became the first American woman to receive one, for a way to weave straw with silk or thread
a patent
Matthew
|
$1,000
[20]
It describes a legislature such as our own or the U.K.'s, made up of 2 houses
bicameral
Matthew
|
$1,000
[5]
They sail for Vanderbilt University
the Commodores
Matthew
|
$1,000
[11]
Big ____:Nazi coinage for propaganda so outrageous it gets believed
Lie
Sam
|
$1,000
[30]
Often used as a warm up & actually a series of 12 dynamic poses is the Surya Namaskar, or this salutation
the Sun Salutation
Sam
|
$1,000
[15]
This London-born fashion icon has been the editor-in-chief of the American edition of Vogue magazine since 1988
Anna Wintour
Matthew
|
| GEOGRAPHUN | WORLD LITERATURE | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE | LIBRARIES | FINISH THE C.P. ABBREV. |
|
$400
[11]
Estonia's beaches are on this sea
Baltic Sea
Amy!
|
$400
[16]
Consisting of 24 books, this ancient poem tells of a homecoming after the fall of Troy
The Odyssey
Matthew
|
$400
[30]
Messman Dorie Millerwas the first African American awarded the Navy Cross for bravery at this place, December 7th, 1941.
Pearl Harbor
Amy!
|
$400
[21]
Larry David's neighbor Kenny Kramer inspired the character who lived in apartment 5B on this sitcom
Seinfeld
Amy!
|
$400
[1]
He gave Cleopatra, as a wedding gift, the Library of Pergamum, which contained about 200,000 scrolls
Antony
Sam
|
$400
[6]
A numbers guy
accountant
Matthew
|
|
DD
$1,200
[12]
7 mini-kingdoms make up this federated nation on the Persian Gulf
the United Arab Emirates
Amy!
|
$800
[17]
In the 1990s a group of women inspired the bestseller "Reading Lolita In" this city
Tehran
Amy!
|
$800
[29]
In 2000 Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire after selling this TV network to Viacom
B.E.T.
Sam
|
$800
[22]
(George Stephanopoulos presents the clue.)It's been said that Sam Seaborn on this TV drama was based on me, but actually, my job was a bit more like Josh Lyman's
The West Wing
Sam
|
$800
[2]
This D.C. school's Moorland-Spingarn Library includes rare works by Phillis Wheatley & Frederick Douglass
Howard University
Matthew
|
$800
[7]
Your computer depends on it
(central processing) unit
Matthew
|
|
$1,200
[13]
The Damrei Mountains, Chaine de l'Elephant in French, extend north in this country from the Gulf of Thailand
Cambodia
Amy!
Sam
|
$1,200
[18]
After publishing this book in 1988, Salman Rushdie was forced into hiding
The Satanic Verses
Matthew
|
$1,200
[28]
In 1950 Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony, for playing Bloody Mary in this musical
South Pacific
|
$1,200
[25]
The Dude who abides in this film was based on film producer Jeff Dowd
The Big Lebowski
Sam
|
$1,600
[4]
In a pun on TGV, the name for a high-speed train, France's new national library is called the TGB--Très Grandethis.
bibliothèque
Sam
|
$1,200
[8]
This restaurant chain is really cookin'
(California Pizza) Kitchen
Matthew
|
|
$1,600
[14]
(Sarah points to a map)Though it's 3,000 miles wide, Chinahas only one time zone. At 2,500 miles wide, Australia hasthree, and the one used in this state Is the same one for all of China.
Western Australia
Amy!
|
$1,600
[19]
Last name of the life-loving Alexis, "the Greek" in a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba
|
$1,600
[27]
Mary Patterson, the first black woman to earn a B.A. degree, graduated in 1862 from this state's Oberlin College
Ohio
Sam
|
$1,600
[24]
Newscaster Mort Crim, who wasn't happy about pairing with Jessica Savitch, inspired this comedic movie character
Ron Burgundy
Matthew
|
$2,000
[5]
Investigators from this state university library created the oral history "Dust, Drought & Dreams Gone Dry"
Oklahoma
Matthew
|
$1,600
[9]
In the Navy, you can sail the 7 seas with this rank
Chief Petty Officer
|
|
$2,000
[15]
This body of water west of England & south of Scotland covers about 40,000 square miles
the Irish Sea
|
$2,000
[20]
His "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" was banned in his native Czechoslovakia until 1989
Milan Kundera
|
$2,000
[26]
Rita Dove was the first African American to serve in this government post, from 1993 to 1995
poet laureate
|
$2,000
[23]
This 1930s cartoon character wasn't based on just any flapper--specifically on singer Helen Kane
Betty Boop
Sam
|
DD
$3,000
[3]
The library of this type of institution in Norfolk, Massachusetts made Malcolm X the thinker & orator we know
a state prison
Matthew
|
$2,000
[10]
It's insurance-speak, so we'll give you the "CPC" (Chartered Property & Casualty) but this "U" is up to you
underwriter
|
Although she has appeared in only 2 Broadway musicals, she got Tony nominations for both, for 1962 & 1964
Barbra Streisand