Ashley Singh — a high school Spanish teacher from Louisville, Kentucky
Dava-Leigh Brush — a stay-at-home mom from Arnold, Missouri
Christina McTighe — a library associate from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $36,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christina | $600 | $-200 | $13,900 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dava-Leigh | $-200 | $3,800 | $11,000 |
$1,500
New champion: $1,500 |
$11,000
20 R, 5 W |
| Ashley | $1,800 | $4,400 | $7,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| NEW YORK TIMES | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER | TELEVISION POP QUIZ | NATIONAL NARRATIVES | SMALL STUFF | BAR SCIENCE |
|
$200
[6]
Its 86th floor observatory is open 8 A.M. to 2 A.M., 365 days a year
the Empire State Building
Dava-Leigh
|
$200
[21]
A spelling competition
a bee
Dava-Leigh
|
$200
[1]
Martin Crane
Frasier
Dava-Leigh
|
$200
[11]
"And Quiet Flows The Don" & "The Gulag Archipelago"
Russia
Ashley
|
$200
[16]
In geologic time it can cover tens of millions of years; on a typewriter key, it only covers a tiny area
period
Christina
Dava-Leigh
|
$600
[28]
(Jon Taffer delivers the clue.) If female guests average over 34, use barstools with backs, as women get sensitive about their own backs with age; under 34, let them spin & interact--that's applying this science, from the Greek for "people" & "writing"
demographics
Dava-Leigh
|
|
$400
[7]
It rings at 9:30 a.m & 4:00 p.m. each trading day
the NASDAQ bell (or the New York Stock Exchange bell)
Christina
|
$400
[22]
One of the bodies of salt water that cover the earth
a sea
Dava-Leigh
|
$400
[2]
Rob Petrie
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dava-Leigh
|
$400
[12]
"The Man Who Planted Trees" & "The Man In The Iron Mask"
France
Ashley
|
$600
[18]
The smallest bird egg comes, of course, from the Vervain one of these
a hummingbird
Dava-Leigh
|
$800
[27]
(Jon Taffer delivers the clue.) A customer needs to get what he asked for, so if the request is for a call drink like "Captain Morgan & Coke", never switch this type of drink named for the area under the bar
well
Ashley
|
|
$600
[8]
On weekdays, this iconic Herald Square department store at 151 West 34th street opens at 9 a.m.
Macy's
Ashley
|
$600
[23]
Starting aid for football & golf
a tee
Dava-Leigh
|
$600
[3]
Dan Conner
Roseanne
Dava-Leigh
|
$600
[13]
"The Tale Of Genji" & "The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion"
Japan
Dava-Leigh
|
$800
[19]
A book about this "merry old soul" is the smallest book in the Library of Congress; it's smaller than a comma
Old King Cole
Ashley
|
$1,000
[26]
(Jon Taffer delivers the clue.) You need a sophisticated, urban crowd to succeed with a bar based on this -ology, the art of crafting cocktails
mixology
Christina
|
|
$800
[9]
The last ferry from Battery Park to these 2 harbor attractions leaves at 3:30 p.m. daily
Ellis Island & the Statue of Liberty
Ashley
|
$800
[24]
Adverb that demands a reason
why
Dava-Leigh
|
$800
[4]
Jason Seaver
Growing Pains
Dava-Leigh
Ashley
|
$800
[14]
"The Settlers" & "Exodus"
Israel
Christina
Dava-Leigh
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
Placed on an insect's leg, the onetime world's smallest ad was fittingly created for this book's website
The Guinness Book of World Records
Christina
|
— |
|
$1,000
[10]
Early risers can nosh on matzoh brei or corned beef & eggs at this spot on 7th Avenue & 55th Street; it opens at 6:30 a.m.
the Carnegie Deli
Dava-Leigh
Ashley
|
$1,000
[25]
Actor's signal
a cue
Ashley
|
$1,000
[5]
Frank Reagan
Blue Bloods
|
$1,000
[15]
"Snow Flower And The Secret Fan" & "The Sand Pebbles"
China
Christina
|
$1,000
[20]
Controlling the stapes in the ear is the stapedius, the smallest of these in the human body
a muscle
Christina
Dava-Leigh
|
— |
| QUEEN VICTORIA | TITLES ON BROADWAY | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES | NONFICTION | AT THE MUSEUM | "GN" |
|
$400
[26]
When this war broke out in 1853, Victoria took an active part in organizing relief efforts for the wounded
the Crimean War
Dava-Leigh
|
$400
[1]
"Thoroughly Modern" her
Millie
Christina
|
$400
[10]
A top film production center & the largest city in western Canada, it's the closest sister city to L.A.
Vancouver
Christina
|
$400
[6]
"The Boys In The Boat" is the true story of the U.S. Crew Team & its quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics in this city
Berlin
Christina
|
$400
[11]
(Alex Trebek reads the clue from the Smithsonian.) Higher than normal counters helped accommodate the 6'2" height of this chef, who used this very kitchen not only privately, but also to achieve television fame--bon appetit !
Julia Child
Christina
|
$400
[17]
In a Maurice Sendak book, the Wild Things roar their terrible roars & do this with their terrible teeth
gnash
Dava-Leigh
|
|
$800
[27]
Not always stuffy, Vicki saw this duo's "The Gondoliers" & beat time to the song "Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen"
Gilbert & Sullivan
Christina
|
$800
[2]
These "Over Broadway"
Bullets
Ashley
|
$800
[22]
Nagoya, which in 1959 became L.A.'s first sister city, has some of the oldest shrines for this Japanese religion
Shinto
Christina
|
$800
[7]
Malcolm Gladwell used this Biblical duo in a title to show how disadvantages can actually work for us
David & Goliath
Christina
Ashley
|
$1,200
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Mass.) The saddle probably belonged to this great Sioux leader who got $50 each time he rode once around the ring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; preferring to die as an Indian rather than live as a white man, he returned to his people & was killed in 1890
Sitting Bull
Dava-Leigh
|
$800
[18]
Travelocity.com has a traveling one as its mascot
a gnome
Dava-Leigh
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Victoria was a carrier of this blood disease that affected many of her descendants throughout Europe
hemophilia
Dava-Leigh
|
$1,200
[3]
By Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal" one of these
Husband
Christina
|
$1,200
[23]
In the early 1700s immigrants from Fukien Province on the Chinese mainland founded this capital not on the mainland
Taipei
Christina
Ashley
|
DD
$1,000
[9]
Sebastian Junger told "a true story of men against the sea" in this bestseller
The Perfect Storm
Ashley
|
$1,600
[14]
A design museum in NYC was founded by industrialist Peter Cooper's 3 granddaughters, who had this last name
Hewitt
Christina
Dava-Leigh
|
$1,200
[19]
To fuss at trifles while ignoring serious matters is to "strain at" one of these "& swallow a camel"
a gnat
Dava-Leigh
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Queen Victoria was buried with a picture of this devoted personal servant & a lock of his hair
John Brown
|
$1,600
[4]
"A Gentleman's Guide to" these two things
Love & Murder
Christina
|
$1,600
[24]
L.A. has 2 sister cities in Africa: Lusaka, Zambia & this pyramid city on the Nile
Giza
Dava-Leigh
|
$1,200
[8]
This Sheryl Sandberg bestseller is subtitled "Women, Work, and the Will to Lead"
Lean In
Ashley
|
$2,000
[15]
The largest T. rex ever found, she's the old gal seenhereat the Field Museum in Chicago
Sue
Christina
|
$1,600
[20]
This type of metamorphic rock has distinct banding
gneiss
|
| — |
$2,000
[5]
"Desire Under" these trees
the Elms
Dava-Leigh
|
$2,000
[25]
On Feb. 23, 2007 Mayor Villaraigosa signed a sister city agreement with Yerevan, capital of this country
Armenia
Ashley
|
$2,000
[16]
John le Carre wrote the afterword to "A Spy Among Friends", about this British spy/Soviet agent
Kim Philby
|
DD
$2,500
[12]
The Ulster Museum in Belfast displays treasures from the Girona & 2 other ships that were part of this famed fleet
the Spanish Armada
Christina
|
$2,000
[21]
It's the name for the raised part of a sundial that casts the shadow
gnomon
|
Describing anything very showy, in architecture it refers to a style using curves like tongues of fire
flamboyant