Rebecca Press Schwartz — a high school administrator from New York, New York
Austin Roberts — a program analyst originally from Spring, Texas
Laura Lorson — a newscaster and editor from Perry, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura | $1,800 | $4,000 | $18,000 |
$22,000
2-day champion: $33,400 |
$18,000
20 R, 0 W |
| Austin | $3,800 | $9,000 | $11,200 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$18,200
22 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Rebecca | $1,600 | $2,600 | $6,600 |
$3,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| THE BLACK LIST | OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS | THROWING SHADE | UNITS | 1920s SLANG | DISNEY MOVIES |
|
$200
[26]
Diceros bicornis, the black species of this, can charge with up to 3,000 pounds
a rhinoceros
Austin
|
$200
[12]
Carl Heinrich Graun's "Montezuma"
Mexico
Austin
|
$200
[11]
This tree with lobed leaves can live for 400 years, with or without the yellow ribbons of song
an oak tree
Laura
|
$200
[16]
On a calendar it's 10 years; on a rosary it's 10 beads
a decade
Laura
|
$200
[3]
"Bangtails" were these critters--got a hot tip on one?
racehorses
|
$200
[1]
Ruling the box office in 2011 was the re-release of this film with Simba & Mufasa in 3D
The Lion King
Laura
|
|
$400
[27]
AKA "hard coal", it's steel gray to black in color
anthracite
Laura
|
$400
[13]
Verdi's "Aida"
Egypt
Austin
|
$600
[21]
The cause of this disease with a tree in its name was identified in the Netherlands in 1921
Dutch elm disease
Laura
|
$400
[17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents an image on the monitor.) It's time for some quick math as we see a comparison--here's 11 pounds, roughly the equivalent of 5 of these metric units
a kilogram
Rebecca
|
$400
[4]
A "wooden kimono" was to be avoided, considering it was this object
a coffin
Laura
|
$400
[2]
Dane Cook is the voice of Dusty Crophopper in this 2013 release
Planes
Austin
|
|
$600
[28]
This region of fertile dark soil in Alabama & Mississippi sounds like it can break a 2x4 with its bare hands
the Black Belt
Rebecca
|
$600
[14]
Giacomo Meyerbeer's "The Huguenots"
France
Rebecca
|
$800
[22]
I do so enjoy the view of this tree from my Mississippi veranda
the magnolia
Rebecca
|
$600
[18]
A $25,000 a head fundraising dinner may also be described as $25,000 a this; make sure yours gets filled up
a plate
Austin
|
$600
[6]
If you couldn't find your bootlegger, he might have been "under glass", in this place
prison (jail)
Austin
|
$600
[5]
This live-action favorite with versions in 1961 & 1998 was based on a German novel, "Das doppelte Lottchen"
The Parent Trap
Austin
|
|
$800
[29]
Itgets its name from the black inside itsmouth
the black mamba
Austin
Rebecca
|
$800
[24]
Jacques Offenbach's "Die Rheinnixen"
Germany
Austin
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
The 300-foot-tall tree called the coast this lives up to its name: it's rarely found more than 50 miles inland
the coast redwood
Rebecca
|
$800
[19]
It's a Chicago district represented by an alderman
a ward
Austin
|
$800
[7]
Something that was the best could be the ant's pants or this other insect rhyme
the bee's knees
Austin
|
$800
[9]
"Colors of the Wind" from this 1995 film won a Golden Globe for Best Song as well as an Oscar
Pocahontas
Austin
|
|
$1,000
[30]
The so-called "black box" is the cockpit voice recorder plus this, FDR for short
the flight data recorder
Laura
|
$1,000
[25]
Puccini's "Turandot"
China
Austin
|
$1,000
[23]
Soft, or white, types of this tree produce needles in bunches of 5; hard, or yellow, in bundles of 2 or 3
a pine
Austin
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[20]
The "409" in a Beach Boys song referred to the engine displacement in a Chevy, given in these units
cubic inches
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[8]
This phrase for a guy checking out girls at a soda fountain later became a Matt Dillon movie title
drugstore cowboy
|
$1,000
[10]
Back in the day he starred as Dexter Riley in "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" & "The Strongest Man in the World"
Kurt Russell
Laura
|
| THE BLACKLIST | LORD BYRON | STRONG AS AN "UX" | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | MONSTER MANUAL | THE CELEBRITY SPOUSE IN COMMON |
|
$400
[14]
The "Hollywood Ten" were blacklisted in 1947 for refusing to testify before HUAC, this committee
the House Un-American Activities Committee
Laura
|
$400
[12]
In her introduction to this classic, Mary Shelley said it was Byron who suggested, "We will each write a ghost story"
Frankenstein
Austin
|
$400
[9]
Enjoying extravagant living? You're in the lap of this
luxury
Austin
|
$400
[1]
Men, after visiting the Pro Football H.O.F. in this Ohio city, take your own first lady to the nearby First Ladies Historic Site
Canton (Ohio)
Laura
|
$400
[30]
A wyvern is a smaller, 2-legged, 2-winged, usually non-fire-breathing type of this
a dragon
Austin
|
$400
[2]
Tom Cruise, Keith Urban
Nicole Kidman
Rebecca
|
|
$800
[15]
Kirk Douglashelped end the blacklist when he acknowledged Dalton Trumbo as the writer ofthis1960 film
Spartacus
Rebecca
|
$800
[13]
In his poem about this famous lover, Byron wrote, "Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction"
Don Juan
Rebecca
|
$800
[10]
Let me put it in black & white for you: an Armani Classic one goes for $1,995 at Neiman Marcus
a tux
Laura
|
$800
[3]
The Greeneville, Tennessee site honoring this president preserves 2 homes & his tailor shop
Andrew Johnson
Laura
|
$800
[29]
Monsterologists are in debate on how this ugly demon differs from the version with "hob" in front
a goblin
Rebecca
|
$800
[7]
Patricia Arquette, Priscilla Marie Presley
Nicolas Cage
Laura
|
|
$1,200
[16]
Urged on by his priest, Billy Wilkerson of this Variety rival published "Billy's Blacklist" in 1946
The Hollywood Reporter
|
$1,200
[19]
Byron's poem "She Walks in" this was inspired by a lovely lady in a mourning dress
"Beauty"
Laura
|
$1,200
[11]
In the mid-'80s more than a million of these talking bears were sold, many with his buddy Grubby
Teddy Ruxpin
Laura
|
$1,200
[4]
In 1998 the Alabama airfield where these black pilots received their training in WWII became a National Historic Site
Tuskegee (Airmen)
Laura
|
$1,200
[24]
The Orkney & Shetland Islands are where Selkies, creatures that appear as these "s"ea mammals, call home
seals
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[8]
Scarlett Johansson, Blake Lively
Ryan Reynolds
Austin
|
|
$1,600
[20]
"On the Waterfront", in which Brando turns informer, was this director's justification for naming names
Elia Kazan
Laura
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1823 Byron gave 4,000 pounds of his own money to activate this country's fleet in its war against the Turks
Greece
Austin
|
$1,600
[17]
The national motto of this European country is "We want to remain what we are"
Luxembourg
Austin
|
$1,600
[5]
The Old Danish Customs Houseis part of the National Historic Site in Christiansted, in this U.S. territory
the Virgin Islands
|
$1,600
[25]
It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon, get...
a harpy
Austin
|
$1,600
[28]
Cynda Williams, Angelina Jolie
Billy Bob Thornton
Laura
|
|
$2,000
[21]
This alliterative "Threepenny Opera" man dodged the blacklist by fleeing to his native Europe
Bertolt Brecht
Austin
|
$2,000
[23]
Lord Byron got a bit childish & replaced the "W" at the beginning of this "Prelude" poet's name with a "T"
William Wordsworth
|
DD
$4,000
[18]
This word comes from the Latin for "side by side"
juxtaposition
Austin
|
$2,000
[6]
With the Oregon Trail & the Pony Express passing through the post, this Wyoming fort was the center of a nation moving west
Fort Laramie
Laura
|
DD
$3,000
[26]
In "The Once and Future King" this beast is described as "Falco Leonis Serpentis"
the griffin
Austin
|
$2,000
[27]
Jack Cassidy, Marty Ingels
Shirley Jones
Laura
|
She was called a "trailblazer for America's daughters" when she won in 2012, a century after founding an organization
Juliette Gordon Low