Heather Melançon — a program analyst originally from Elk Grove, Illinois
Kathy Riley — a retired college professor from Winter Haven, Florida
Jenny Thorngate — a chemist from Madison, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenny | $1,800 | $600 | $4,200 |
$200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
14 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Kathy | $400 | $1,200 | $7,200 |
$8,401
New champion: $8,401 |
$7,200
12 R, 3 W |
| Heather | $1,800 | $5,000 | $7,400 |
$199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,400
15 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE LIFE OF A NOVELIST | THE 114th CONGRESS | WELCOME TO BOOZETOWN! | 1990s SITCOM SUMMARIES | "V" IS FOR... | VICTORY |
|
$200
[2]
This Mississippian kept taking screenwriting work even after winning the 1949 Nobel Prize
(William) Faulkner
Jenny
|
$200
[6]
From 1967 to 1973 this senator in the 114th Congress was a prisoner of war in Vietnam
(John) McCain
Jenny
|
$200
[1]
Anheuser-Busch is headquartered at One Busch Place in this city
St. Louis
Kathy
Heather
|
$200
[7]
A radio psychiatrist moves back home & lives with his father
Frasier
Heather
|
$200
[13]
This most popular ice cream flavor
vanilla
Kathy
|
$200
[24]
The Duke of Wellington's victory at this 1815 battle brought an end to the Napoleonic era
Waterloo
Jenny
|
|
$400
[4]
Gee, wizard! Before hitting it big, she worked for Amnesty International & lived in Portugal teaching English
J.K. Rowling
Jenny
Kathy
|
$400
[16]
The 12th House district of this woman includes the Presidio, the Mission & Chinatown
Nancy Pelosi
Heather
|
$400
[3]
The Town of Bushmills in County Antrim is renowned for this stuff distilled there
Irish whiskey
Kathy
Heather
|
$400
[8]
A shoe salesman & his family try to survive each other in suburbia
Married... with Children
Heather
|
$400
[14]
This large open porch popular in the south
veranda
Jenny
|
$400
[25]
A decisive victory at this January 1815 battle made Andrew Jackson a national hero
the Battle of New Orleans
Kathy
|
|
$600
[5]
He was appointed surveyor of Salem's custom house in 1846; he lost the gig 3 years later, but things worked out
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heather
|
$600
[17]
It's the 20th & last Congress for Barbara Mikulski of this state, the first Democratic woman to serve in both houses
Maryland
Kathy
|
$600
[11]
Henry Weinhard built a brewery there in 1862, long before it was Microbrewlandia
Portland (Oregon)
Jenny
|
$600
[9]
Edina & Patsy, 2 middle-aged British women, self-medicate with booze & drugs
Absolutely Fabulous
Heather
|
$600
[15]
This Italian word for a masterful musician
virtuoso
Heather
|
$600
[26]
A Soviet victory, the Aug. 1942-Feb. 1943 battle of this Russian city reversed the Nazis' advance on the Eastern Front
Stalingrad
Jenny
|
| — |
$800
[18]
This New Jersey senator played football at Stanford
(Cory) Booker
Kathy
|
$800
[12]
This "White Label" brand was founded in Perth (Scotland, not Australia) in 1846
Dewar's
|
$800
[10]
The domestic affairs of the host of a TV show about domestic repairs
Home Improvement
Jenny
|
$800
[22]
This alma mater of Mary McCarthy & Meryl Streep
Vassar
Heather
|
$1,000
[28]
Victory over Mark Antony in this 31 B.C. naval battle made Octavian the undisputed ruler of Rome
the Battle of Actium
|
| — |
$1,000
[19]
Like Ruben Studdard, Renee Ellmers of this state made Clay Aiken a runner-up
North Carolina
Heather
|
$1,000
[20]
This city's "Big 6" breweries are Augustiner, Hofbrau, Hacker-Pschorr, Lowenbrau, Paulaner & Spaten
Munich
Kathy
|
$1,000
[21]
A kid remembers growing up in the turbulent late '60s & early '70s
The Wonder Years
Heather
|
$1,000
[23]
This orange & black butterfly similar in appearance to a monarch, but smaller
viceroy
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
A turning point of the Civil War was the Union victory in this 1862-1863 campaign in Mississippi
Vicksburg
Jenny
|
| KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES | THE ARTFUL ROGER | COLORFUL PLACES | THAT'S JUST SAD | OLYMPIANS | PAPARAZZ-SEA |
|
$400
[13]
In Exodus, God says he'll bring his people to a land flowing with these 2 things
milk & honey
Heather
|
$400
[12]
British photographer Roger Fenton is known for his extensive images of this 1853-56 peninsular war
the Crimean War
Jenny
|
$400
[3]
As Bart Starr often did, take a hike! in this eastern Wisconsin city
Green Bay
Jenny
|
$400
[1]
Doom's proverbial rhyming partner
gloom
Kathy
|
$400
[19]
In 1996 this former U.S. Olympic boxer lit the flame at the start of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Muhammad Ali
Jenny
|
$400
[7]
Thiscreature got in a fight outside a sand bar & swung its tail upward to inflict its poison, as dangerous as a snake bite
a stingray
Jenny
|
|
$800
[16]
Matthew tells us that "the spirit indeed is willing, but" there's this problem
the flesh is weak
Jenny
|
$800
[14]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a sculpture on the monitor.) "Nydia, the Blind Girl of" this city by Randolph Rogers shows Nydia moving through its ash-lined streets; the broken Corinthiancapitalat her foot represents the city's fall
Pompeii
Kathy
|
$800
[9]
In Chinese, these 2 bodies of water are the Huang He & the Huang Hai
the Yellow River & the Yellow Sea
Heather
|
$800
[2]
It's a 5-letter word meaning "keen distress", Charlie Brown! Good...!
grief
Heather
|
$800
[20]
Losing to a countryman, Yohan Blake of this nation won silver in both the 100 meters & 200 meters in 2012
Jamaica
|
$800
[8]
One fish, two fish, this food fish that can swim in schools that extend for miles was seen hanging out in Nova Scotia
bluefish
Kathy
Heather
|
|
$1,200
[17]
In a list of penalties in Exodus, this exchange precedes "tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot"
an eye for an eye
Kathy
|
$1,200
[15]
Imagist painter Roger Brown also did set design for productions like this composer's "Cosi Fan Tutte"
Mozart
Jenny
|
$1,200
[10]
This section of the Appalachians runs from Carlisle, Pennsylvania to Mount Oglethorpe, Georgia
the Blue Ridge
Heather
|
$1,200
[4]
Dreary, like an 1852 title "House"
bleak
Kathy
|
$1,600
[26]
China's 4'11" Deng Yaping won 4 golds in this racket sport in the 1990s
ping-pong (or table tennis)
Kathy
Heather
|
— |
|
$1,600
[18]
Revelation 1:8: "I am" these 2 things, "the beginning and the ending"
the Alpha & Omega
Heather
|
$1,600
[22]
Roger de la Fresnaye was a pioneer in this early 20th century artistic "ism"
Cubism
|
$1,600
[11]
You won't have a bad day at Pu'u Keka'a, aka this lava formation on Maui's Ka'anapali Beach
Black Rock
|
$1,600
[5]
This sad 10-letter state of mind is from the Greek for "black"
melancholy
Kathy
|
DD
$2,000
[25]
The youngest medalist ever was 10-year-old gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, in his homeland in this year
1896
Heather
|
— |
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
"He is brought as" this phrase, "and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth"
a lamb to the slaughter
Jenny
|
$2,000
[23]
Enamored of Cezanne's work, art critic Roger Fry was credited with coining the term "Post-" this
Impressionism
Heather
|
$2,000
[24]
The Boers formed this in 1854; in 1995 a post-apartheid government kicked a color out of its name
the Orange Free State
|
$2,000
[6]
Like in the old song, "I am a man of constant" this
sorrow
Jenny
|
— | — |
As a word used in Scrabble, this longest-named one of the 6 noble gases would give you the highest score
krypton