Jen Jabaily Blackburn — an academic assistant from Northampton, Massachusetts
Mike Ewing — an attorney from Austin, Texas
Rachael Sims — a law school graduate from Sullivan, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachael | $2,200 | $4,600 | $9,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Mike | $600 | $4,600 | $14,400 |
$8,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,800
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Jen | $1,800 | $3,600 | $11,200 |
$19,700
New champion: $19,700 |
$10,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| MARCH MADNESS | FILL OUT YOUR BRACKET | THE SWEET 16 | THE ELITE ATE | THE FINAL 4 | NCAA CHAMPS |
|
$200
[1]
His jubilantletterof March 10, 1876 says, "Articulate speech was transmitted intelligibly this afternoon"
(Alexander Graham) Bell
Rachael
|
$200
[5]
IKEA's Ekby Hensvik product is a bracket for supporting these
bookshelf (or shelf)
Mike
Jen
|
$200
[25]
Moving from high noon to 11:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. is going this way
counterclockwise
Mike
|
$200
[15]
Ludwig Bemelmans said this elegant fish roe appetizer "is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress"
caviar
Mike
|
$200
[8]
"The mome raths outgrabe"
Lewis Carroll
Mike
|
$400
[14]
1984 was the year of the Hoyas & this 7-footer who ended up with the Knicks but should've played for "Dallas"
(Patrick) Ewing
Jen
|
|
$400
[2]
March 1855 saw border ruffians from Missouri invade this state & force the election of a pro-slavery govt.
Kansas
Rachael
|
$400
[6]
In this Army branch that brings out the big guns, bracketing is finding the range between over- & undershooting
artillery
Rachael
|
$600
[27]
Judicial review refers to a court's power to declare laws this
unconstitutional
Mike
|
$400
[19]
Massaging the Wagyu caws with sake & feeding them beer makes for this tender & expensive Japanese beef
Kobe
Mike
|
$400
[9]
"Made all the difference"
Frost
Jen
|
$600
[16]
This man, "Coach K", led Duke to the top in 1991 & '92, & don't worry, we won't make you spell his last name... today
(Mike) Krzyzewski
Mike
|
|
DD
$600
[3]
In March 2001 this space station was intentionally deorbited & crashed into the Pacific Ocean
the Mir
Rachael
|
$600
[13]
Latin for "thus", it often appears in square brackets within a quote to mean "He really said that"
sic
Mike
|
$800
[26]
Dutch speakers are this to me--or, as they say, onbegrijpelijk
incomprehensible
Jen
|
$600
[20]
This dish of lobster tails with bechamel shares its name with a French Revolutionary calendar month
Thermidor
Rachael
|
$600
[10]
"Have crost the bar"
Tennyson
Rachael
|
$800
[17]
Each year from 2011 to 2014, at least one team from this state made the Final Four, winning it all twice
Kentucky
Mike
|
|
$800
[4]
In March 1792 King Gustav III of this nation was fatally shot by a disgruntled army officer
Sweden
Mike
|
$800
[23]
IRS tax brackets are lower if you file as "head of" this than as "married filing jointly"
household
Rachael
|
— |
$800
[21]
The Densuke, a variety of this melon with black rather than green skin, has sold for more than $6,000
a watermelon
Mike
|
$800
[11]
"Death, thou shalt die"
(John) Donne
Jen
|
$1,000
[18]
He "conjured up" the 1979 title for his Spartans, beating Larry Bird & being named Most Outstanding Player
Magic Johnson
Mike
|
|
$1,000
[7]
In March 37 Tiberius lay dying as this successor waited; when Tiberius sat up & asked for food, he had to be smothered
Caligula
Rachael
Mike
|
$1,000
[24]
The word "bracket" comes from braccae, an old form of this "br" word for short trousers
breeches
Jen
|
— |
$1,000
[22]
The most desirable of these are the black ones from France's Perigord & Quercy regions
a truffle
Rachael
|
$1,000
[12]
"O'Leary in the grave"
(William Butler) Yeats
Rachael
|
— |
| PHILOSOPHY | TOP 5 HITMAKERS | DINOSAURS | WHAT A COUNTRY! | THERE B 3 "B"s | THE SCIENCE OF SECURITY |
|
$400
[16]
This word's Greek etymology tells you it's a political system "without a ruling power"
anarchy
Jen
|
$400
[6]
1958:"Sweet Little Sixteen"
Chuck Berry
|
$400
[17]
Mercuriceratops had on the sides of its head 2 structures resembling these, like on the god Mercury's helmet
wings
Mike
|
$400
[11]
On July 1, 1867 this large dominion was established by the British North America Act
Canada
Rachael
|
$400
[1]
To fumble a baseball in an erroneous fashion
bobble
Jen
|
$400
[18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) National security as well as national wealth would be enhanced with safe, boundless energy from this process that powers the Sun; one approach involves a powerful laser working like aspark plug
fusion
Mike
|
|
$800
[25]
It's not just subtraction; it's also a method showing that a conclusion flows from premises assumed to be true
deduction
|
$800
[7]
2006:"Crazy"
Gnarls Barkley
Rachael
Mike
Jen
|
$800
[22]
The triangular plates on the back of this dinosaur genus may have regulated its temperature
Stegosaurus
Jen
|
$800
[12]
In 1821 the American Colonization Society secured the land that became this African country
Liberia
Mike
|
DD
$1,200
[2]
Deeply religious area of the South & Midwest
the Bible Belt
Jen
|
$800
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA .) A new military uniform material under development protects personnel from chemical or biological weapons using CNTs, or these nanotubes, which close up like tiny pores during an attack
carbon
Mike
|
|
$1,200
[26]
Meta-, normative & applied are the 3 main types of this philosophy branch concerned with human conduct & its moral value
ethics
Jen
|
$1,200
[8]
2012:"Lights"
Ellie Goulding
|
$1,200
[23]
In 2013 scientists announced that one specimen of Sinosaurus found in this country had gum disease
China
Mike
|
$1,200
[13]
This W. Hemisphere country is the largest nation in area whose capital city's name begins with the same letter
Brazil
Mike
|
$1,200
[3]
Trying to talk while crying
blubbering
Mike
Jen
|
$1,200
[20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) Keeping satellites safe is the goal of the STARE project, which can predict the orbit of thousands of pieces of space junk to within 100 meters using tiny satellites positioned in "L.E.O.", short for this
low Earth orbit
Mike
|
| — |
$1,600
[9]
1970:"Lookin' Out My Back Door"
Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)
Rachael
|
$1,600
[27]
The 2-legged Struthiomimus was built for speed; its name means "mimic" of this large bird
the ostrich
|
$2,000
[15]
After tensions escalated for years, it fought a short war with Russia in the summer of 2008
Georgia
Rachael
|
$1,600
[5]
From what happens to the tires, it's a 2-word slang term meaning to stomp on the gas
burn rubber
Mike
|
$1,600
[21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) Adeviceto detect radio activity at ports of entry is called Ge Mini--"Mini" for its size & "Ge" for this element, whose semiconducting properties & high atomic number make it a great detector material
germanium
Jen
|
| — |
$2,000
[10]
1984:"Miss Me Blind"
Culture Club
|
$2,000
[28]
This "V"-named dinosaur reached a length of 6 feet & weighed about 100 pounds but was a swift predator
a Velociraptor
Rachael
|
DD
$2,200
[14]
This city-state's entire military consists of Swiss soldiers
Vatican City
Mike
|
$2,000
[4]
Fashion-conscious adolescent teen girl of the 1940s
a bobby soxer
Mike
|
$2,000
[24]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) The lab's high performance computing, with the capacity of 20 quadrillion operations per second, is not just helping to build weapons systems, but to model this, which Sec. of State Kerry in 2014 called directly related to the potential of greater conflict
climate change
|
The first story in which he appeared began, "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at 3 in the morning"
James Bond