Ravi Subramanian — a curriculum designer originally from Lexington, Kentucky
Christina McTighe — a library associate from Washington, D.C.
Stephanie Engel — a children's book managing editor from Douglassville, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie | $2,200 | $1,400 | $6,000 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Christina | $3,800 | $6,400 | $10,800 |
$21,600
New champion: $21,600 |
$10,800
20 R, 2 W |
| Ravi | $1,800 | $7,000 | $19,000 |
$16,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$18,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| SEUSSIAN KEYWORDS | VERMONT | TV EATERIES & DRINKERIES | BRAND NAMES AROUND THE WORLD | "S" TO "T" | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS |
|
$200
[9]
"Oom-pahs and boom-pahs" help this title elephant save folks from "Beezle-Nut oil"
Horton
Christina
|
$200
[21]
The French words "vert" & "mont" mean this, giving the state its nickname as well as its name
green & mountain
Christina
|
$200
[4]
The Tropicana Club, later renamed Club Babalu
I Love Lucy
Christina
|
$200
[26]
The crazy Canadians have Kraft Dinner, but we use our noodle & call it this Kraft combo
mac & cheese
Christina
|
$200
[14]
Laura Hillenbrand describes this title subject as "an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse"
Seabiscuit
Stephanie
|
$200
[1]
Norse myth says the Midgard Serpent & this thunder god will kill each other at Ragnarok
Thor
Ravi
|
|
$400
[10]
"A ten-foot beard" & "a sleigh and an elephant" are said to be on this street
Mulberry Street
Ravi
|
$400
[22]
About 8,000 folks living there make this the least-populated state capital
Montpelier
Christina
|
$400
[5]
Melville's Seafood (it's upstairs from the title place)
Cheers
Stephanie
|
$400
[27]
The Dutch have a flavor of these chips called Cool American, which is Cool Ranch to us
Doritos
Christina
|
$400
[15]
It's the liquid-dispensing item seen here
a spigot
Stephanie
|
$400
[2]
In the 13th c., mock battles of armed horsemen called melees began to give way to this related lance-a-lot sport
jousting
Ravi
|
|
$600
[11]
Sylvester McMonkey Mc Be Mc Be Mc Be Mc Be Mc Be Mc Be Mc BeMcBeanltharlyinly" these, who hung out "on the beaches"
the Sneetches
Christina
|
$600
[23]
The Vermont quarter shows a hardy resident holding a bucket to tap 2 of these trees
maple trees
Ravi
|
$600
[6]
Paddy's Irish Pub (in the City of Brotherly Love)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Stephanie
|
$600
[28]
The Germans know this household brand as Meister Proper
Mr. Clean
Christina
|
$600
[16]
From the Latin for "follow", it's a religious body that has separated from a larger denomination
a sect
Ravi
|
$600
[3]
Carl Icahn's bid for CVR Energy was considered this kind of unfriendly "takeover"
hostile
Stephanie
|
|
$800
[12]
"Flupp Flupp Flupp" & "the Father of the Father of Nadd" are found within his "500 Hats"
Bartholomew (Cubbins)
Christina
|
$800
[24]
Naturally, the 400-mile-long Connecticut River forms the boundary between Vermont & this state
New Hampshire
Stephanie
Christina
|
$800
[7]
Phil's, where Candice Bergen & the gang went before or after "F.Y.I."
Murphy Brown
Ravi
|
$800
[29]
If you are in the U.K. or Ireland, you'll find this men's body spray is called Lynx
Axe
Ravi
|
$800
[17]
As a noun, it's a small silvery fish; as a verb, it means to fuse ores to separate the metallic constituents
smelt
|
$1,000
[20]
In August 1940 this Russian got the ice pick of the litter from a Spanish assassin
Trotsky
Ravi
|
|
$1,000
[13]
"Truffula Fruits", "bar-ba-loot suits" & "Humming-Fish" are in the world of this title fella
the Lorax
Christina
|
$1,000
[25]
Time for a shout-out to this ex-Vermont governor
Howard Dean
Ravi
|
$1,000
[8]
Luke's Diner in Stars Hollow, Connecticut
Gilmore Girls
Christina
|
$1,000
[30]
Craving this chain's fried chicken in Iraq? Look for "Texas Chicken"--it sounds less Christian
Church's
|
$1,000
[18]
"The melody" of this Hoagy Carmichael song "haunts my reverie and I am once again with you"
"Stardust"
|
DD
$1,200
[19]
Tensions can arise when a Michigan Wolverine exits the state to go to this capital, home to U-M's traditional archrival
Columbus
Ravi
|
| COMMISSIONED ARTWORKS | MY MOVIES | WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? | OCEANOGRAPHY | NAME CALLING | DAVID MUIR REPORTING |
|
$400
[6]
He tried to refuse Pope Julius II's commission to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling but eventually gave in
Michelangelo
Christina
|
$400
[1]
"My Cousin ____"
Vinny
Ravi
|
$400
[8]
A philatelist
stamps
Ravi
|
$400
[12]
The thermocline, a layer of the ocean from around 660' to 3,000' down, is so-called because this declines rapidly
the temperature
Christina
Ravi
|
$400
[18]
Do something dangerously stupid & I'm liable to call you this, also a Johnny Knoxville movie franchise
a jackass
Christina
|
$400
[27]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) On August 29, 2005 I reported from inside this building where at one point 30,000 people were seeking shelter before the levees even broke
the Superdome
Ravi
|
|
$800
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.) In 1946, Rockwell got an actual lineman to pose at his studio on a pole fitted with cables & anchored to nearby trees for a commission for this phone company
AT&T
Christina
|
$800
[2]
"My Own Private ____"
Idaho
Ravi
|
$800
[9]
A discophile
records
Ravi
|
$800
[13]
Wakame, an invasive form of this brown seaweed, is threatening native species in the San Francisco Bay
kelp
Christina
|
$800
[19]
If someone calls you this, it doesn't mean you're a metal rod used to check a car's oil level; it means you're a jerk!
a dipstick
Ravi
|
$800
[17]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2013, right before nuclear talks, I gained rare access to this Mideast capital to report on the effects of sanctions imposed by the U.S. & its allies
Tehran
Christina
|
|
$1,200
[21]
Titian was commissioned by Philip II of Spain to do 6 large-scale mythological paintings based on this Ovid poem
"Metamorphoses"
Stephanie
|
$1,200
[3]
Lasse Hallstrom's "My Life as a ____"
Dog
Ravi
|
$1,200
[10]
A phillumenist (though restaurants used to make it a lot easier)
matchbooks
|
$1,200
[14]
Research ships used by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in this state included Atlantis & Knorr
Massachusetts
Ravi
|
$1,200
[24]
Archie Bunker had a real beef with son-in-law Mike, whom he called this 8-letter name
"Meathead"
Ravi
|
$1,200
[20]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) In our continuing series on American jobs, economists have told us we could create 200,000 jobs if we all spend $64 a year on items with these 3 words
made in America
Stephanie
|
|
$2,000
[23]
His unfinished "Gates of Hell" bronze doors were commissioned for a museum that was never built
Rodin
Christina
Ravi
|
$1,600
[4]
Starring Judy Davis & set in bygone Australia:"My Brilliant ____"
Career
Stephanie
|
$1,600
[11]
A vexillophile
flags or banners
|
$1,600
[15]
Before he found the Titanic, he discovered hydrothermal vents in the Galapagos Rift
Robert Ballard
|
$1,600
[25]
Call someone a schlimazel or this similar Yiddish word; they both mean "inept" & "unlucky"
a schlemiel
Christina
Ravi
|
$1,600
[29]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2006 I reported from the Middle East on the 34-day war between Israeli forces & this Lebanese Shiite militant group
Hezbollah
Christina
Ravi
|
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
In 1963 he did his first commissioned portrait, "Ethel Scull 36 Times"
(Andy) Warhol
Stephanie
|
$2,000
[5]
A TV movie about the founder of AA:"My Name Is ____ ____"
Bill W
|
DD
$2,000
[28]
A helixophile (he & an oenologist need each other)
a corkscrew
Ravi
|
$2,000
[16]
This deepest part of the Mariana Trench is named for the British survey ship that pinpointed the location in 1951
the Challenger Deep
|
$2,000
[26]
You're rude & irresponsible; you remind me of this boy who's paired with Gallant in Highlights magazine
Goofus
Christina
|
$2,000
[30]
(David Muir delivers the clue.) I still have the radiation contamination detector after reporting from this Japanese prefecture when its Daiichi or "number one" nuclear plant was wrecked by an earthquake & tsunami
Fukushima
Ravi
|
A U.S. No. 1 in 1977, it was performed the night before Carl XVI Gustaf's 1976 wedding to Silvia Sommerlath
"Dancing Queen"