Todd Coleman — a physics professor from River Falls, Wisconsin
Maggie Schreiter — an artist and stay-at-home mom from Ewing, New Jersey
Will Anderson — a senior legislative aide originally from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will | $-800 | $-1,000 | $1,800 |
$3,599
2-day champion: $23,199 |
$1,800
10 R, 7 W |
| Maggie | $1,400 | $4,000 | $7,400 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Todd | $1,200 | $1,400 | $7,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE BIG PICTURE | SPORTS SHORTS 2014 | JUST FOR THE ELEPHANT | ALL THINGS CONSIDERED | NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | THIS IS N-P-R |
|
$200
[18]
More than 130 feasters feast in "Wedding Feast at Cana"; no wonder it takes up 22 X 82 1/2' in this Paris museum
the Louvre
Todd
|
$200
[15]
This nation took home the most golds at the Sochi Olympics & didn't have to carry them far
Russia
Todd
|
$200
[4]
Elephants are poached for the ivory of these enlarged incisors
tusks
Todd
|
$200
[14]
In 1984 this delivery company "absolutely, positively" began service outside North America
FedEx
Will
|
$200
[3]
Terry Gross has been a breath of this hosting the same-named show since 1975
Fresh Air
Will
|
$200
[2]
Directional term for a drenching bit of weather; don't get caught in a heavy one
downpour
Will
|
|
$400
[19]
This 1495-98 work is 29 feet wide--that's more than 2 feet of elbow room for Jesus & each disciple
The Last Supper
Maggie
|
$400
[26]
They won the World Series
(San Francisco) Giants
Maggie
|
$400
[9]
An elephant's cry has this name, also a brass instrument
trumpet
Maggie
|
$400
[22]
"Much ado" about this Shakespeare woman whose name means "she who blesses" & she blesses Benedick with her presence
Beatrice
Will
|
$400
[8]
Let's discuss this show: No. 1429 was "Click and Clack vs. electric brakes"
Car Talk
Maggie
|
$400
[5]
Boldness in undertaking, or how Jim Kirk boldly got around
enterprise
Will
|
|
$600
[20]
3 is blue, 7,100 is Etruscan puce: the largest painting of this type, 40,000 square feet, was done at a 2013 youth festival
paint by number
Will
Todd
|
— |
$600
[10]
"Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song from this classic film
Dumbo
Maggie
|
$600
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 2011, an Arabic-speaking country lost part of its territory, & this nation, with Dinka as a dominant language, was born
South Sudan
Todd
|
$600
[13]
In 2014 "All Things Considered" considered the primary loss of this house majority leader from Virginia
Eric Cantor
Will
|
$600
[6]
Your digit-al I.D.
fingerprint
Will
|
|
$800
[21]
This Picasso work is 11 1/2 X 25 1/2', big enough to make viewers feel the horrors of war
Guernica
Maggie
|
— |
$800
[11]
One of the first times an elephant symbolized this group was in Harper's weekly Nov. 7, 1874, election time
the Republican Party
Todd
|
$800
[24]
In the Bible, Satan tells the Lord, "touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face"
Job
|
$1,000
[17]
This is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program, or what you say when the answer's on the tip of your tongue
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Maggie
|
$800
[7]
It's an oil-resistant synthetic rubber used as a coating
neoprene
|
|
$1,000
[1]
This17th century work originally 13x16 feet has been cut downto a much more manageable 12x15
The Night Watch
|
— |
$1,000
[12]
Hey, partner, it's the canopied seat in which yourideon an elephant
howdah
Will
|
$1,000
[25]
Quaff this drink, 2 oz. gin &1/2 oz. triple sec, & try to sail around the Cape of Good Hope on the ghost ship of the same name
Flying Dutchman
|
DD
$1,200
[16]
Steve Inskeep and David Greene host this show in the A.M. in D.C.; Renee Montagne, not far from us here in Culver City
Morning Edition
Todd
|
— |
| SPECIAL ED | COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | NOVELS WRITTEN FAST | SUN RECORDS ARTISTS | ANCIENT GREECE | IN THE ATMOSPHERE |
|
$400
[3]
This TV variety show host was also a gossip columnist for the N.Y. Daily News from 1932 to 1974
Ed Sullivan
Todd
|
$400
[8]
In area this city-state is the largest port in southeast Asia
Singapore
Todd
|
$400
[13]
Written in 3 weeks in 1886, "A Study in Scarlet" introduced this character who was later killed off but returned
Sherlock Holmes
Will
Maggie
|
$400
[2]
His 5 Sun singles were released in a 13-month period, the last being "Mystery Train" in August 1955
Elvis Presley
|
$400
[20]
In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury vote of 280-221 of corrupting the youth
Socrates
Will
|
$400
[18]
The prefix geo- is from the Greek for this
earth
Will
Maggie
|
|
$800
[4]
Hewon three terms as New York City mayor
Ed Koch
Todd
|
$800
[9]
The highest peak of this mountainous land is 9,600-foot Coma Pedrosa near the frontier with Catalonia
Andorra
Todd
|
$800
[14]
Jack Kerouac claimed he banged out the first draft of this novel in 3 weeks in April 1951
On the Road
Todd
|
$800
[27]
"Whole lotta" this in Jerry Lee Lewis' Sun release that was the first song played on the national "American Bandstand"
Shakin' Goin' On
Todd
|
$800
[21]
Infantrymen carried a 3'-diameter one of these made of wood or stiff leather faced with bronze
shield
Maggie
|
$800
[19]
If you're a baseball exec, don't do this, negotiate with a player who's under contract to another team
tamper
|
|
$1,200
[5]
I admit it all! Descended from Alfred the Great, this Anglo-Saxon was crowned king in 1042!
Edward the Confessor
|
$1,200
[10]
The strategic importance of this country, located 60 miles south of Sicily, has guaranteed it a turbulent history
Malta
Will
Todd
|
$1,200
[15]
You do not talk about how Chuck Palahniuk drafted his first novel in 3 months
Fight Club
Todd
|
$1,200
[28]
The first artist to release an album with Sun Records; his 1957 release included "Cry, Cry, Cry" & "Folsom Prison Blues"
Johnny Cash
Will
|
DD
$1,000
[22]
In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad
Philip
Maggie
|
$1,200
[1]
Seraglio is another word for this group of women
harem
Will
|
|
$1,600
[6]
Works by this Pulitzer prize-winning playwright include "Three Tall Women" & "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Edward Albee
Maggie
|
$1,600
[11]
The more than 1,200 "islands" of this Pacific nation only add up to about 70 square miles
the Marshall Islands
Maggie
Todd
|
DD
$1,200
[16]
As William Faulkner sat writing, it took him six weeks to come up with this 1930 classic
As I Lay Dying
Todd
|
— |
$1,600
[23]
The thirty tyrants was a Sparta-imposed oligarchy that ruled Athens for a year after this war ended in 404 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
Will
|
$1,600
[24]
A type of high-ranking angel
seraph
Maggie
Todd
|
|
$2,000
[7]
"Silent Theater" is a book of art by this American painter
Edward Hopper
Maggie
|
$2,000
[12]
The Al-Khalifah royal family reigns in this island nation
Bahrain
Will
|
$2,000
[17]
Not knowing when to hold 'em or when to fold 'em, a big-in-debt Dostoevsky began & ended this novel in October 1866
The Gambler
Todd
|
— |
$2,000
[26]
The group will shun you if you don't know this punishment, banishment without losing property
ostracism
|
$2,000
[25]
These 2 units measure electrical current & electrical resistance
amp & ohm
Todd
|
An early TV ad for this candy bar featured a fleur-de-lis flag & a song with the lyrics "fun for all"
3 Musketeers