Ashley Alley — an attorney from Alexandria, Virginia
Alex Schraff — a management consultant from Coral Springs, Florida
Michael Brady — a user experience designer from Norwood, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $3,200 | $9,400 | $18,000 |
$18,001
2-day champion: $33,602 |
$17,600
27 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Alex | $1,000 | $2,200 | $7,000 |
$6,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,000
12 R, 4 W |
| Ashley | $-200 | $-1,000 | $3,100 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,400
6 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| AUTHORS: BORN & DIED | BUSINESS HISTORY | THE SPIN-OFF SOURCE | NEW TO THEOED | SOJOURNER | TRUTH |
|
$200
[5]
This master of the techno-thriller was born in Baltimore in 1947 & died there in 2013
Tom Clancy
Michael
|
$200
[12]
This restaurant chain opened in London in 1971; Eric Clapton's guitar became the first piece of memorabilia in 1979
the Hard Rock Cafe
Alex
|
$200
[19]
of "Frasier"
Cheers
Michael
|
$200
[18]
This sad 2-word term uttered by bartenders just before closing time
last call
Michael
|
$200
[3]
Nevada's capital is named for this man who sojourned through the West for 40 years
Kit Carson
Alex
Ashley
|
$200
[24]
John 8:32:"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you" this
free
Ashley
|
|
$400
[6]
Born in 1932 in Boston, she died by her own hand in London in 1963
Sylvia Plath
Michael
|
$400
[11]
Back in 1896, an insurance company started telling us it had the reliability of this landmark
Gibraltar
Alex
|
$400
[20]
of "Better Call Saul"
Breaking Bad
Alex
|
$400
[14]
This symbol that "originated on" & is "chiefly associated with" Twitter
hashtag
Michael
|
$400
[4]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1271, this man left Venice with his dad and uncle & hit what is now Israel & Iran on his way to Shangdu, China, & the summer palace of Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
Michael
|
$400
[25]
Stephen Colbert popularized this, not exactly truth; Merriam-Webster's made it the 2006 Word of the Year
truthiness
Michael
|
|
$600
[7]
This Nobel Prize winner's story began in Colombia in the 1920s & ended in Mexico City in 2014
(Gabriel García) Márquez
Michael
|
$600
[10]
In 1933 W.G. Peacock created this drink consisting of tomatoes, celery, carrots, spinach, watercress, beets, lettuce & parsley
V8
Michael
|
$600
[23]
of "Go, Diego, Go!"
Dora the Explorer
Michael
|
$600
[15]
This funereal 3-word term for the toughest bracket of a sports tournament like the World Cup
group of death
|
$600
[13]
Pedro Paez' 20-year trek through East Africa in the 17th c. included seeing the source of its Blue branch
the Nile
Michael
|
$800
[27]
I can't lie: in 1991 I took over for Lynn Swann as host of this
To Tell the Truth
|
|
$800
[2]
Born in Russia in 1905, she died in capitalist New York in 1982
Ayn Rand
Alex
|
$800
[9]
Ingvar Kamprad was 17 when he founded this company
IKEA
Alex
|
$800
[22]
of "The Lone Gunmen"
The X-Files
Michael
|
$800
[17]
This numerical type of "problem" that might be found in the U.S. or Western Europe but not in India
first-world problem
Michael
|
$800
[30]
Heinrich Harrer was already a champion skier & SS veteran when he tutored the young Dalai Lama in this city
Lhasa
Michael
Alex
|
$1,000
[28]
In an 18th century quotation, these pieces of true information "are stubborn things"
facts
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[1]
Born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he died in 1951 near Rome
Sinclair Lewis
|
$1,000
[8]
In 1917 a cookware salesman began giving customers soapy steel-wool pads, which he later sold under this name
S.O.S pads
Alex
|
$1,000
[21]
of "Melrose Place"
Beverly Hills, 90210
Michael
|
$1,000
[16]
This American Indian "wooden or leather hoop with a webbed centre of threads decorated with feathers, beads, etc."
dreamcatcher
Michael
|
$1,000
[29]
He returned to Lake Victoria without Burton & mapped the region before returning home in 1863
John Speke
Alex
Ashley
|
DD
$2,000
[26]
Latin for "truth", it's Harvard's motto
Veritas
Michael
|
| VOLCANOES | THE 4 SEASONS-ISH | DEDICATIONS | IRISH SONGS | CROSSWORD CLUES "A" | SOJOURNER TRUTH |
|
$400
[20]
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, the volcanic type of this dustlike material formed a 12-mile-high column
ash
Michael
Alex
|
$400
[11]
Someone a bit on the old side is said to be "no" this poultry term
spring chicken
Michael
|
$400
[17]
A 1611 Bible translation was dedicated to this "most dread Sovereign"
King James
Michael
|
$400
[6]
"'Tis like the morn in spring" is a line from this song
"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"
Ashley
|
$400
[1]
Sky blue(5)
azure
Michael
|
$800
[28]
Sojourner Truth never lost her faith, once asking this more agnostic abolitionist, "Frederick, is God dead?"
Frederick Douglass
Alex
|
|
$800
[21]
A Persian legend says this extinct volcano in eastern Turkey is the cradle of the human race
Mount Ararat
Alex
|
$800
[12]
The descent of debris right after a nuclear explosion
fallout
Michael
Ashley
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
Bach dedicated 6 concertos to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of this, who never paid or thanked him
Brandenburg
Michael
|
$800
[5]
This song, which inspired a James Joyce title, tells the tale of a man who "fell from a ladder and he broke his skull"
"Finnegan's Wake"
Michael
|
$800
[7]
Athenian high point(9)
Acropolis
Alex
|
$1,200
[27]
In the 1860s you could buy these of Truth with the caption "I sell the shadow to support the substance"
photographs of Sojourner
|
|
$1,200
[22]
Vesuvius & Etna are part of this mountain chain
the Appenines
Alex
|
$1,200
[13]
"Military" subtitle of the 2014 "Captain America" movie
The Winter Soldier
Michael
|
$1,200
[19]
His Baudelaire kids book dedications to Beatrice include "My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not"
Lemony Snicket
|
$1,200
[4]
It's "the sweetest" & "the dearest flow'r that grows"
my wild Irish Rose
|
$1,200
[8]
Eagle's nest(5)
aerie
Michael
|
$1,600
[10]
Shouting, "I want to ride", Truth helped rid D.C.'s streetcars of the segregated system named for this character
Jim Crow
Michael
|
|
$1,600
[23]
In 1991, this volcano on Luzon spewed millions of tons of sulfur dioxide, causing depletion of the ozone layer
Mount Pinatubo
|
$1,600
[14]
Alliterative term for a repertory company's plays put on in June or July
summer stock
Ashley
|
$1,600
[26]
Shostakovich dedicated his Symphony No. 7 in C to this besieged city where he had lived
Leningrad
Ashley
|
$1,600
[3]
Bing Crosby sang, "Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, that's an Irish" this type of song
a lullaby
Michael
|
$1,600
[29]
Gunpowder or grenades(10)
ammunition
Michael
Alex
|
$2,000
[9]
A speech attributed to Truth declares, "I have plowed, and planted, and... no man could head me, and" these 4 words
ain't I a woman?
|
|
$2,000
[24]
This Antarctic volcano is known for its 40-year-old lava lake that's been dubbed Ray Lake
Mount Erebus
|
DD
$1,700
[15]
This African antelope got its name because it leaps 6 feet in the air when frightened
the springbok
Ashley
|
$2,000
[25]
In Chile this poet was buried next to Matilde Urrutia, to whom he dedicated "100 Love Sonnets"
(Pablo) Neruda
Michael
|
$2,000
[2]
In a George M. Cohan song, he spells his name with a "double R"
Harrigan
|
$2,000
[16]
A "boring" tool(5)
auger
Michael
Ashley
|
— |
This 1883 poem says, "Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman..."
"The New Colossus"