Shannon Gillard — a certified opthalmic assistant from Lake Charles, Louisiana
Jeremy Johnson — a cashier from Pocono Mountain, Pennsylvania
Dava-Leigh Brush — a stay-at-home mom from Arnold, Missouri (whose 2-day cash winnings total $11,501)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dava-Leigh | $3,400 | $5,400 | $20,000 |
$20,000
3-day champion: $31,501 |
$18,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Jeremy | $0 | $2,400 | $5,600 |
$10,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
11 R, 5 W |
| Shannon | $2,600 | $5,000 | $9,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| WHAT'S ON CABLE? | BIOGRAPHY | "T.V." LAND | SPIKE | ANIMAL PLANET | BRAVO |
|
$200
[11]
"The Situation Room with" this anchor on CNN
Wolf Blitzer
Shannon
|
$200
[3]
"Parting the Waters" is volume 1 in Taylor Branch's trilogy about this man's life & the civil rights movement
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jeremy
|
$200
[1]
A narrow point of view named for a confined passageway
tunnel vision
Jeremy
|
$200
[10]
A 2014 study showed a spike in heart attacks during the first week after this goes into effect each March
Daylight Savings Time
Shannon
|
$200
[7]
The screwhorn antelope: this desert
the Sahara
Dava-Leigh
Jeremy
|
$400
[29]
In 1926 this future First Lady started a furniture factory in Hyde Park to help the unemployed
Eleanor Roosevelt
Shannon
|
|
$400
[12]
It's "The Real Housewives of" this city, including Lisa Vanderpump & former child star Kim Richards
Beverly Hills
Jeremy
|
$400
[9]
"Titan: The Life of" this 19th century oil baron gushes with the tale of history's first billionaire
(John D.) Rockefeller
Jeremy
|
$400
[2]
A falling body reaches this when gravity is balanced by retarding forces
terminal velocity
Shannon
|
$400
[18]
From an average of about 2.3 million in the 1930s, births in the U.S. spiked to almost 3.5 million in this 1st baby boom year
1946
Dava-Leigh
|
$400
[8]
The Javan rhinoceros: this country
Indonesia
Shannon
|
$600
[28]
Pat Quinn popularized this phenomenon that increased ALS Society donations tenfold in summer 2014
the Ice Bucket Challenge
Shannon
|
|
$600
[13]
"Extreme RVs" & "Ghost Adventures" on this cable channel
the Travel Channel
Shannon
|
$600
[14]
In 2012 Douglas Brinkley published a biography of this "most trusted man in America"
Walter Cronkite
Dava-Leigh
Jeremy
|
$600
[4]
Another name for a New World buzzard
turkey vulture
Dava-Leigh
|
$600
[20]
In 2013 revelations of NSA domestic spying caused a spike in sales of this novel first published in 1949
1984
Dava-Leigh
|
$600
[23]
The Avalon Hairstreak butterfly: this island, part of Los Angeles County
Catalina Island
Jeremy
|
$800
[27]
In the 1870s he built his own chapels on Molokai
Father Damien
Dava-Leigh
|
|
$800
[16]
This country singer's "Southern Kitchen" on Food Network
Trisha Yearwood
Shannon
|
$800
[15]
"Dark Lover" smolders with "The Life and Death of" this silent-screen legend
Rudolph Valentino
Shannon
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
This part of speech requires an object
transitive verb
Dava-Leigh
|
$800
[21]
Electromagnetic spikes in these 11-year solar cycles can affect radio & telecommunications here on Earth
sunspots
Jeremy
|
$800
[24]
The Banff Springs snail: this country
Canada
Dava-Leigh
Shannon
|
$1,000
[26]
In 1893 this military physician was named a professor of bacteriology at the Army Medical School
Walter Reed
Shannon
|
|
$1,000
[17]
(Hi, I'm Moon Bloodgood from TNT's Falling Skies.) I play Anne Glass, a doctor for the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment, which takes its name from an actual regiment in this early army
the Continental Army
Shannon
|
$1,000
[19]
Written by his son Brian, "Dreamer of Dune" is a chronicle of the life of this sci-fi author
(Frank) Herbert
Dava-Leigh
|
$1,000
[6]
Spinal segments that extend from the seventh cervical to the first lumbar
thoracic vertebrae
Dava-Leigh
|
$1,000
[22]
U.S. mortgage interest rates spiked at 18.5% in 1981 as the Federal Reserve battled to keep this in check
inflation
Shannon
|
$1,000
[25]
The Haast tokoeka kiwi: this country
New Zealand
Jeremy
|
— |
| AMERICAN HISTORY | "I" LOVE SCIENCE | DRAWING A CROWD | RELIGION | 1950s BESTSELLERS | PREFIXES & ROOTS |
|
$400
[6]
The Americans were protesting a tax & a monopoly with this Dec. 16, 1773 event
the (Boston) tea party
Jeremy
|
$400
[1]
This process is used by birds to warm their eggs
incubation
Dava-Leigh
|
$400
[17]
In September 2013 a record crowd of more than 115,000 saw host Michigan beat Notre Dame in this football-crazy city
Ann Arbor
|
$400
[18]
This one of the 7 deadly sins includes excess drinking as well as eating
gluttony
Shannon
|
$400
[11]
"State" this title of James Michener's 1959 epic
Hawaii
Dava-Leigh
|
$400
[16]
Before -factor, -ficiary & -diction, it means "good"
bene-
Shannon
|
|
$800
[7]
Depleted fields, drought & wind created the climate that led to this name for an area of the Great Plains in the 1930s
the Dust Bowl
Jeremy
|
$800
[2]
It's the scientific study of fishes
ichthyology
Jeremy
|
$1,200
[28]
At the first soccer match at this London stadium in 1923, horses were used to control crowds estimated as high as 300,000
Wembley Stadium
Shannon
|
$800
[19]
In 2014 this Islamic holy month of fasting began on June 28 in some countries & on the 29th in others
Ramadan
Dava-Leigh
|
$800
[12]
This Steinbeck novel follows the destinies of 2 generations of California brothers
East of Eden
Dava-Leigh
Jeremy
Shannon
|
$800
[23]
This prefix meaning "water" precedes -plane, -chloric & -electric
hydro-
Shannon
|
|
$1,200
[8]
In 1951 this married couple was tried under the Espionage Act of 1917 & found guilty
the Rosenbergs
Shannon
|
$1,200
[3]
A tooth or a broken bone can be this, meaning fixed or pressed closely together
impacted
|
DD
$2,200
[27]
Attendance was still down some 20%, but 800,000 revelers jammed the streets of this U.S. city in February 2007
New Orleans
Dava-Leigh
|
$1,200
[20]
SBC for short, this large Protestant denomination was organized in Georgia in 1845
the Southern Baptist Convention
Dava-Leigh
|
$1,200
[13]
Grace Metalious shocked America with her novel of secrets, sex & hypocrisy in this fictional N.H. title town
Peyton Place
Shannon
|
$1,200
[24]
In medicine myo- refers to one of these body parts
muscle
Shannon
|
|
$2,000
[10]
After shooting President Garfield, he surrendered to police & said, "I am a Stalwart. Arthur is now president of the United States"
Charles Guiteau
|
$1,600
[4]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a chemical formula on the monitor.) Glucose and fructose have the same formula, but they have different structures, meaning chemically, they are considered these
isomers
Jeremy
|
— |
$1,600
[21]
Daf Yomi is the reading of a page a day from this collection of Jewish law that includes the Mishnah
the Talmud
Dava-Leigh
Jeremy
|
$1,600
[14]
Mac Hyman's comedic book about Air Force life was "No Time for" these
Sergeants
Dava-Leigh
|
$1,600
[25]
In the words androcentric & androgen, andro- means this
man (or male)
Dava-Leigh
|
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
This 1820 agreement said there would be no slavery in the bulk of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30'
the Missouri Compromise
Shannon
|
$2,000
[5]
The magnetosphere is in the outer layer of this
the ionosphere
Jeremy
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
Combining witchcraft & nature worship, this religious movement was first publicized in England in 1954
Wicca
Dava-Leigh
|
$2,000
[15]
"Across the River & Into the Trees" was a 1950 bestseller by this giant of American literature
Ernest Hemingway
|
$2,000
[26]
The dorm- in dormouse & dormitory means this
sleep
Dava-Leigh
Shannon
|
At his term's end, Ronald Reagan took an office in an L.A. high-rise, still a mess from the filming of this 1988 thriller
Die Hard