Alex Jacob game 7.
Todd Lovell — an engineering manager from Carmel, Indiana
Monica Lott — a college English instructor from Rootstown, Ohio
Alex Jacob — a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois (whose 6-day cash winnings total $149,802)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $4,200 | $9,400 | $26,400 |
$15,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,400
26 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Monica | $1,800 | $2,800 | $9,600 |
$4,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,600
11 R, 2 W |
| Todd | $1,600 | $2,600 | $18,400 |
$26,401
New champion: $26,401 |
$11,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| NATIONAL PARKS | WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLINER? | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN | A ONE-E & A 2-E | THE FIRST PRESIDENT | OBESITY IN AMERICA |
|
$200
[30]
For the lakes of Voyageurs National Park, you can rent one of these; the original voyageurs had birch bark ones
a canoe
Todd
|
$200
[29]
You should begin by knowing that this "royal" term refers to the part of the hat that covers the head
crown
Alex
|
$200
[23]
The Bates Motel was Norman's killing ground in a 1959 Robert Bloch novel made into this 1960 classic
Psycho
Alex
|
$200
[28]
Sushi made with this marine alga goes down easy
seaweed
Alex
|
$200
[27]
...from Virginia
Washington
Alex
|
$200
[26]
Obesity grew as strolling dropped; one countermove is putting these into suburbs like Edina, Minnesota, built without them
sidewalks
Alex
|
|
$400
[3]
(Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) My 2009 film tells the history of many of our country's most prized lands, including Yellowstone, the first National Park, established by this president in 1872
Grant
Alex
|
$400
[12]
Have long silk these on hand for a fez or mortarboard, where one hangs to the right side before graduation
a tassel
Todd
|
$400
[22]
Ed Oxenbould played this title kid who had "The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
Alexander
Monica
|
$400
[21]
Alabama city known for its university (formerly "Institute")
Tuskegee
Alex
|
$400
[25]
...to die in office
William Henry Harrison
Alex
|
$400
[20]
The CDC says scoring 30 on this index makes you obese
body mass index
Alex
|
|
$600
[2]
Sections of sandstone walls collapsed, leaving these formations that give their name to a Utah park
arches
Todd
|
$600
[11]
Obviously, you know that this felt hat got its name in the late 1800s
a fedora
|
$600
[14]
Rita Hayworth's name was in the title of the Stephen King work upon which this prison film was based
The Shawshank Redemption
Alex
|
$600
[8]
Sanguinary name for a section of seats high up in a stadium
nosebleed
Alex
|
$600
[9]
...to live in the White House
Adams
Alex
|
$600
[19]
Bigger kids means more clothes in boys' plus sizes, more tactfully called this 5-letter term
husky
Monica
|
|
$800
[1]
Olympic National Park in this state has tracts of rain forest & rugged Pacific cliffs
Washington
Alex
|
$800
[10]
It's up to you, but the merino & worsted types of this fabric are highly regarded in our trade
wool
Todd
|
$1,000
[16]
"Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen" was the basis for this movie about Stephen & Jane Hawking
The Theory of Everything
Alex
|
$800
[5]
Apogee opposite
perigee
Todd
|
$800
[7]
...to appear on television
Roosevelt
Monica
|
$800
[18]
Being 100 pounds overweight is one criterion for being medically classified as this kind of obese
morbidly
Todd
|
|
$1,000
[17]
Early guide Stephen Bishop called the centerpiece of this Kentucky park a "grand, gloomy and peculiar place"
Mammoth Cave
Alex
|
$1,000
[13]
Naturally, you're familiar withthis5-letter term for the hat-shaping mold seen here
a block
Monica
|
DD
$1,200
[4]
This 2000 holiday film is based on a beloved 1957 children's book
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Alex
|
$1,000
[6]
A thin superficial covering, or one of the layers in plywood
veneer
Alex
|
$1,000
[15]
...to cross the Atlantic while in office, he did it on a big diplomatic trip to France
Woodrow Wilson
Alex
Todd
|
$1,000
[24]
It's a branch of medicine that deals with the control & treatment of obesity
bariatrics
Alex
|
| PROLOGUES | IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT | WATER WORLD | OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA | TV FEMMES FATALES | ANATOMICAL QUOTES |
|
$400
[21]
A 14th century prologue opens with, "Here bygynneth the book of the tales of" this place
Canterbury
Alex
|
$400
[1]
November 4, 1605:Guy Fawkes is caught playing with fireworks under the House of these dukes, earls, etc.
Lords
Todd
|
$400
[26]
It's the controlled application of water for agricultural purposes through manmade systems
irrigation
Todd
|
$400
[28]
Cecil Rhodes is buried near Bulawayo in this country formerly named for him
Zimbabwe
Alex
|
$800
[27]
This 2015 Fox drama about a record label features Taraji P. Henson as fiery ex-wife & ex-con Cookie Lyon
Empire
Alex
|
$800
[22]
Shakespeare's Richard III says, "Let us to it pell-mell, If not to heaven, then" this in this "to hell"
hand in hand
Alex
Monica
|
|
$800
[10]
The preface to this novel says, "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now"
Twilight
Monica
|
$800
[2]
April 18, 1775:Sexton Robert Newman climbs this church's 190-foot steeple
the Old North Church
Monica
|
$800
[25]
This adjective for water safe to consume is from the Latin for "drink"
potable
Todd
|
$800
[23]
The city of Bo is a metropolis of 150,000 in this West African nation with a name from Portuguese
Sierra Leone
Alex
|
$1,200
[24]
On this show Regina, evil queen & mayor of Storybrooke, destroyed a world
Once Upon a Time
Alex
|
$1,200
[7]
At Bunker Hill, William Prescott (or was it Israel Putnam?) told his troops to not fire until they saw these of the enemy
the whites of their eyes
Monica
|
|
$1,200
[8]
The prologue to this novel by Gregory Maguire is called "On the Yellow Brick Road"
Wicked
Monica
|
$1,200
[18]
June 17, 1972:Frank Wills, a guard here, spots tape on a door latch
Watergate
Todd
|
$1,200
[15]
Any smaller river or branch that's a feeder of a larger river or stream
a tributary
Todd
|
$1,200
[12]
The Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-this, after its capital
Brazzaville
Alex
|
$1,600
[3]
With eye shadow & snark, department store co-worker Mimi Bobeck caused grief to the title character on this sitcom
The Drew Carey Show
Alex
|
$1,600
[5]
A song from "My Fair Lady" says, "I've grown accustomed to" this, "she almost makes the day begin"
her face
Monica
|
|
$1,600
[9]
The prologue of this Umberto Eco book promises a true account of certain events of 1327
The Name of the Rose
Todd
|
$2,000
[20]
September 12, 1759:A British force under this general scales the cliffs below the Plains of Abraham
General Wolfe
Monica
|
$1,600
[16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Using pressure & a membrane to remove particulate from seawater is called "reverse osmosis", one method of this process
desalinization
Todd
|
$1,600
[13]
Bimbo in this country is not far from the capital, Bangui
the Central African Republic
Alex
|
$2,000
[4]
Madeleine Stowe plays the wealthy Victoria Grayson, evil queen of the Hamptons, on this soapy series
Revenge
Monica
|
$2,000
[6]
According to the 119th Psalm, "Thy word is a lamp unto" these, & "a light unto my path"
feet
Monica
Todd
|
|
$2,000
[11]
This author said, "'Erewhon took something like ten years in writing, and even so was written with great difficulty"
(Samuel) Butler
Alex
|
DD
$8,600
[19]
April 14, 1865:With tickets starting at 25 cents, some 1,700 people attend a show at this venue
Ford's Theatre
Todd
|
$2,000
[17]
Channels called these "ways" take water around a dam when the reservoir is full
spillways
Todd
|
DD
$12,600
[14]
The name of this South African judicial capital means "fountain of flowers"
Bloemfontein
Alex
|
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