Adrian Perez — a music minister from Suwanee, Georgia
Amy Hollis — a freelance editor from Akron, Ohio
Brandon Powell — a contracting officer from Huntsville, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,388)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | $1,200 | $5,000 | $12,400 |
$23,400
2-day champion: $38,788 |
$14,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Amy | $400 | $2,600 | $6,200 |
$12,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
11 R, 4 W |
| Adrian | $3,000 | $5,000 | $11,600 |
$7,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| WHAT'S COOKING ATTHE NEW YORK TIMES | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE | DOCTOR WHO | AMY ADAMS FILM ROLES | OUR MUSICAL PRESIDENTS | "USA"! |
|
$200
[9]
Mark Bittmancooks upsalmon using a four-spice rub of cumin, coriander, ground cloves, & this eggnog spice
nutmeg
Brandon
|
$200
[4]
Under the 6th October Bridge in Cairo
the Nile
Adrian
|
$200
[22]
...is known as "the father of psychoanalysis"
Freud
Adrian
|
$200
[13]
2013:Con woman Sydney Prosser
American Hustle
Adrian
|
$200
[11]
On March 16, 1974 this president played piano at the dedication of the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville
Richard Nixon
Brandon
|
$200
[1]
A religious military expedition
a crusade
Brandon
|
|
$400
[10]
Onevideoshows how to do this to onions, browning them until tender & sweet but not actually turning them into candy
caramelize
Amy
|
$400
[5]
Beneath the Newport pell bridge in Rhode Island (a bay)
Narragansett Bay
Brandon
|
$400
[23]
...abandoned his medical practice after achieving success with his Sherlock Holmes stories
(Arthur Conan) Doyle
Adrian
|
$400
[14]
2010:Charlene Fleming, girlfriend of boxer Micky Ward
The Fighter
Adrian
|
$400
[12]
This saxophonist became a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, an honorary band fraternity
Bill Clinton
Adrian
|
$400
[2]
Adjective for an action that can't be forgiven
inexcusable
|
|
$600
[28]
Using radishes instead of cabbage, Melissa Clark puts her own spin on this spicy pickled Korean dish
kimchi
Adrian
|
$600
[6]
Beneath the Arpad Bridge in Budapest
the Danube
Brandon
|
DD
$400
[26]
...came out of Cornell med school & revolutionized dieting with his high-protein, low-carb system
(Robert) Atkins
Brandon
|
$600
[15]
2008:Sister James, a nun
Doubt
|
$600
[18]
While playing the piano at a Missouri fair, he said, "When I played this, Stalin signed the Potsdam Agreement"
Truman
Amy
|
$600
[3]
Adjective meaning pertaining to marriage
spousal
|
|
$800
[29]
You should learn how to do this to your pie crust to seal it before baking
crimping
Adrian
|
$800
[7]
Under Blackfriars Bridge
the Thames
Adrian
|
$600
[24]
...wrote a book on the Vietnam War as well as the definitive book on "Baby and Child Care"
Spock
Brandon
|
$800
[16]
2014:Painter Margaret Keane
Big Eyes
|
$800
[19]
Thomas Jefferson owned at least 3 of these instruments, one of which may have been an Amati
a violin
Amy
|
$800
[21]
Braunschweiger is a liver type of this
sausage
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[30]
It sounds jarring, butit's putting blanched or steamed veggies in ice water to halt cooking & to enhance color
shocking
Adrian
|
$1,000
[8]
Beneath the Quebec Bridge
the Saint Lawrence
Adrian
|
$800
[25]
...created the inkblot test that's used to assess personality characteristics
Rorschach
Brandon
|
$1,000
[17]
2012:Mickey, daughter of a baseball scout
Trouble with the Curve
Brandon
Adrian
|
$1,000
[20]
Warren G. Harding played in a brass band in college & later organized a cornet band in Marion in this state
Ohio
Brandon
Amy
|
$1,000
[27]
A voluntary withdrawal by a judge
recusal
Amy
|
| THE THEATER | OXYGEN | NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE | SNOW WHITE'S LESSER-KNOWN DWARFS | WHOLE LOTTALOVE BOAT | USA! |
|
$400
[16]
As "A Streetcar Named Desire" opens, this faded Southern belle comes to live with Stanley & Stella Kowalski
Blanche DuBois
Brandon
|
$400
[12]
Oxygen therapy is part of treating COPD, short for chronic obstructive this disease
pulmonary
Brandon
|
$400
[7]
The Battle of Chattanooga
the 1860s
Brandon
|
$400
[1]
With his long hair, groovy headband & love beads, he's still stuck in the 1960s
Hippie
Brandon
|
$400
[18]
On Saturday nights from 1980 to 1984, da boat! da boat! was paired with this other ABC hit
Fantasy Island
Amy
|
$400
[2]
Disneyland may be "the Happiest Place on Earth", but this town in Pennsylvania is "the Sweetest"
Hershey
Adrian
|
|
$800
[22]
2 recent books, "Wonder of Wonders" & "Tradition!", celebrate this show that turned 50 in 2014
Fiddler on the Roof
Adrian
|
$800
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When high-energy ultraviolet rays strike molecules of oxygen--O2--they split into free atoms that collide with other oxygen molecules to form this allotrope
ozone
Brandon
|
$800
[29]
San Francisco's population of 1,000 grows to over 25,000
the 1840s
Amy
Adrian
|
$800
[8]
He was named for his mom's favorite brand of peanut butter that's been around since the 1930s
Skippy
Adrian
|
$800
[19]
Before she was a desperate housewife, she was a Love Boat "mermaid" who danced at the ship's club
Teri Hatcher
|
$800
[3]
Instead of counties, Louisiana is divided into 64 of these, probably each with its own church
parishes
Adrian
|
|
$1,200
[23]
In 2014 "The Winter's Tale" was staged at the "Old" this Shakespearean theater, a San Diego landmark
Globe
Brandon
|
DD
$1,000
[17]
Because the pressure lets the body absorb more oxygen, these decompression chambers can help blue babies
hyperbaric
Brandon
|
DD
$1,000
[27]
Colorado statehood
the 1870s
Adrian
|
$1,200
[9]
This lively guy shares his name with a comic strip pinhead
Zippy
Amy
|
$1,200
[20]
Lauren Tewes played the perky cruise director with this first name
Julie
Amy
|
$1,200
[4]
February 12, 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the ground breaking for this memorial
the Lincoln Memorial
Brandon
|
|
$1,600
[24]
Rosalind Russell originated this role of a wealthy, eccentric flapper who inherits her late brother's son Patrick
(Auntie) Mame
Amy
|
$1,200
[14]
The turboram type of this engine on certain planes mixes liquid oxygen with the fuel to support combustion
a jet engine
|
$1,200
[30]
General Kutuzov evacuates Moscow, which then burns
the 1810s
Amy
|
$1,600
[10]
He gets lots of complaints from his housemates because he's messy, he's untidy, he's this
Sloppy
Amy
|
$1,600
[21]
The 2 adjectives that describe "Love" in the first line of the show's theme song
exciting & new
Brandon
|
$1,600
[5]
Take a sight-seeing cruise on one of the Gateway Arch riverboats named for Tom Sawyer & this girlfriend of his
Becky Thatcher
Adrian
|
|
$2,000
[25]
In 2013 Daniel Craig & Rachel Weisz were in this Pinter play whose title refers to a character's infidelity
Betrayal
|
$1,600
[15]
The basic oxygen process, BOP for short, helps turn this "porcine" material into steel
pig iron
Amy
|
$2,000
[28]
Jack the Ripper makes himself known
the 1880s
Amy
|
$2,000
[11]
This dwarf's name fits him perfectly as he's always a bit chilly & also inclined to bite
Nippy
Brandon
|
$2,000
[26]
This "Melrose Place" mogul was the show's executive producer
Aaron Spelling
Adrian
|
$2,000
[6]
In 2015, President Obama used the Antiquities Act to make the Pullman Historic Districtin this city a national monument
Chicago
|
On January 5, 1939, in a Los Angeles probate court, this national heroine was declared legally dead
Amelia Earhart