Matt Pressman — a graduate student in history from Somerville, Massachusetts
Donna Normington — an office manager from Mesa, Arizona
Sacha Samotin — a student from Naples, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sacha | $1,400 | $1,000 | $0 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,800
13 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Donna | $1,400 | $2,600 | $3,800 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,800
10 R, 2 W |
| Matt | $5,200 | $13,600 | $18,800 |
$13,800
New champion: $13,800 |
$21,600
27 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| NEW YORK POLITICIANS | DISCOGRAPHIES | 6-LETTER WORDS | TOOLS | LITERARY CHARACTERS | SPOT THE IM‑PASTA |
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$200
[3]
As senator, she was appointed to the Armed Services panel, the first New Yorker to serve on the committee
Hillary Clinton
Sacha
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$200
[17]
"Sonic Highways":This Dave Grohl band
the Foo Fighters
Sacha
|
$200
[22]
Take stock--it's slang for both a watch & your heart
a ticker
Donna
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$200
[26]
The crosscut type of this tool works best at a 45-degree angle using as much of the blade's length as you can
a saw
Sacha
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$200
[2]
Stuck in a trap, this Brer begged Brer Fox to hang, drown or skin him, but not to fling him into a briar patch
Brer Rabbit
Matt
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$200
[1]
Conchiglie, consigliere, cappelletti
consigliere
Donna
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$400
[4]
Charles ishisgiven name, but come on--who calls him "Charles"?
Chuck Schumer (Charles Schumer accepted)
Donna
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$400
[18]
"Private Dancer":This woman who can really move in high heels
Tina Turner
Matt
|
$400
[21]
A pit of slate, or game hunted with hounds
quarry
Matt
|
$400
[27]
Used for cutting grain, it's a hooklike blade on a short handle & was a symbol of the Soviet Union
a sickle
Sacha
Donna
|
$400
[5]
In "The Iliad" he kills the Trojan hero Hector
Achilles
Sacha
|
$400
[9]
Manicotti, mineola, mostaccioli
Mineola
Matt
|
|
$600
[6]
This 19th century man's "ring" plundered NYC of sums estimated between $30 & $200 million
("Boss") Tweed
Matt
|
$600
[19]
"It's the Girls!":This divine singer
Bette Midler
Donna
|
$600
[15]
Canine term for a loudspeaker designed for low-frequency sounds
a woofer
Matt
|
$600
[28]
When referring to coffee or pepper, a "mill" is one of these kitchen tools
a grinder
Sacha
|
$600
[14]
Evil Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter books was originally this Hogwarts student
Tom Riddle
Sacha
|
$600
[10]
Farandole, fideo, farfalloni
farandole
Sacha
Matt
|
|
$800
[7]
A philosophy of Republicans, or the party of Senator James L. Buckley & his brother, losing mayoral candidate William F. Buckley
conservative
Matt
|
$800
[20]
"Houses of the Holy":These rockers
Led Zeppelin
Matt
|
$800
[13]
From the French for "to see", it sounds much classier than its synonym Peeping Tom
voyeur
Donna
|
$800
[29]
It'll mean everything to me if you name this tool used to make little holes
an awl
Matt
|
$1,000
[25]
She's the sister of Holden Caulfield & one of the few people he trusts
Phoebe
Matt
|
$800
[11]
Tortiglioni, tortellini, tortoni
tortoni
Sacha
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Nixon offered this ex-gov. who didn't defeat Truman the chief justice job in 1968, but he passed, saying he was too old
Dewey
Matt
|
$1,000
[23]
"In the Lonely Hour":This neo-soul singer
Sam Smith
Matt
|
$1,000
[16]
Lying on the back, face or front upward
supine
Matt
|
$1,000
[30]
A treasure of the British Museum is a 1.2 million-year-old stone one of these tools found at Olduvai Gorge
an axe (a hatchet accepted)
Sacha
Matt
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
This literary character's father works for Mr. Scrooge
Tiny Tim
Matt
|
$1,000
[12]
Campanelle, cavatelli, calamanco
calamanco
Matt
|
| HISTORICAL FILMS | A WORLD OF ART | ALPHANUMERICS | U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS | LINES IN THE SAND |
|
$400
[5]
Clint Eastwood told the story of a WWII battle from the Japanese viewpoint in "Letters from" here
Iwo Jima
Matt
|
$400
[11]
In the 1970s Australian artist John Olsen painted "Salute to Five Bells", a mural for this Sydney landmark
the Sydney Opera House
Sacha
|
$400
[22]
A young Anakin Skywalker created this droid to help his mother with household chores
C-3PO
Sacha
Matt
|
$400
[1]
Hacienda Buena Vista, a restored 19th c. coffee plantation, is a must-see during a visit to Ponce in this commonwealth
Puerto Rico
Matt
|
$400
[16]
Bisectthesnowflake, & you'll see it has this quality
symmetry
Donna
|
$1,200
[26]
"Like sands through" this, "so are the days of our lives", intoned the voice of MacDonald Carey
the hourglass
Donna
|
|
$800
[6]
Former Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun had a small role in this 1997 film about a mutiny on a slave ship
Amistad
Sacha
|
$800
[12]
The lesser known St. Roderick of Cordobaisdepictedby one of this country's great 17th-century artists
Spain
Matt
|
$800
[19]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) While many cars carry a standard V8 engine, the 1932 all-aluminum Peerless would blow them off the road by generating nearly 175 horsepower with this giant of an engine
a V16
Sacha
|
$800
[2]
The annual carnival on St. Thomas in this territory dates back to 1912 during the Danish occupation
the U.S. Virgin Islands
Matt
|
$800
[17]
A brief outline
a synopsis
Matt
|
$1,600
[27]
In 1924, this pres. of China said the Chinese people didn't have a national spirit but were "just a heap of loose sand"
Sun Yat-sen
Sacha
|
|
$1,200
[8]
"55 Days at Peking", starring Charlton Heston & David Niven, tells the story of this 1900 insurrection
the Boxer Rebellion
Matt
|
$1,200
[13]
The Rockefellers destroyed this Mexican's "Man at the Crossroads" mural for the RCA Building because it featured Lenin
Diego Rivera
Matt
|
$1,200
[20]
This section of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code sets out the requirements for tax exempt status for charities
501(c)(3)
Sacha
|
$1,600
[4]
Jarvis Island is a national wildlife refuge; so though way out in the Pacific, it's administered by this Cabinet dept.
the Department of the Interior
Donna
|
$1,200
[18]
Name shared by a city in central New York & a city in southeast Sicily
Syracuse
Sacha
|
$2,000
[28]
This Shelley poem ends, "Round the decay of that colossal wreck... the lone and level sands stretch far away"
"Ozymandias"
|
|
$1,600
[9]
Paul Scofield won an Oscar for playing this historical role in "A Man for All Seasons"
Thomas More
Matt
|
$1,600
[14]
He began painting "The Falling Angel" in 1923, shortly after emigrating from the Soviet Union; it was completed in 1947
Marc Chagall
|
$2,000
[25]
Trainer Tony Horton created this alphanumeric "Extreme Home Fitness" regimen
P90X
Sacha
Donna
|
$2,000
[7]
In 2010 Eddie Baza Calvo, a Chamorro, was elected governor of this island
Guam
Sacha
|
$1,600
[23]
This person tries to gain an advantage by flattering influential persons
a sycophant
Matt
|
— |
|
$2,000
[10]
In this 1959 film actress Millie Perkins claims, "I still believe... that people are really good at heart"
The Diary of Anne Frank
Donna
|
$2,000
[15]
This Swiss-born artist painted camouflage on German airplanes during World War I
Paul Klee
|
DD
$5,800
[21]
The first swine flu, identified in 1930, was caused by this alphanumeric virus; in 2009 it was back
H1N1
Sacha
|
DD
$4,000
[3]
In 1988 Congress authorized a natl. park in this territory south of the equator to preserve its rain forest
American Samoa
Matt
|
$2,000
[24]
The higher number in 120/80 represents this type of blood pressure
systolic
Donna
|
— |
A standard chessboard has this many perimeter squares
28