Alex Trebek's audio was re-recorded when his voice recovered.
Melissa Hodges — a part-time mechanical engineer and full-time mom from Allen, Texas
Jonathan Marcus — a law clerk from North Hollywood, California
Suzanne Vito — a writer from Albany, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suzanne | $2,800 | $4,000 | $9,600 |
$19,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
16 R, 2 W |
| Jonathan | $2,600 | $1,500 | $10,100 |
$20,200
New champion: $20,200 |
$11,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Melissa | $2,600 | $4,200 | $5,800 |
$5,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| BOND, JAMES BOND | HISTORY SINCE 1950 | DOMAIN EXTENSIONS | "PAY" DAY | YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS | A FISH IS STILL A FISH |
|
$200
[11]
Auric was this villain's first name
Goldfinger
Suzanne
|
$200
[10]
After months on the run, he was captured December 13, 2003 after he was found hiding in a hole near Tikrit
Saddam Hussein
Melissa
|
$200
[26]
The website vanderbilt.this has info to help you get a degree
edu
Melissa
|
$200
[1]
In June 2011 this online transaction service reached 100 million active accounts
PayPal
Jonathan
|
$200
[16]
New Zealanders know this fruit is native to China & has green flesh spattered with tiny, edible black seeds
a kiwi
Jonathan
|
$200
[25]
Though guppies are freshwater fish, add this to their tank to help them build up a protective slime coat
salt
Melissa
|
|
$400
[12]
Later to play an Old West doctor, she was the Bond girl Solitaire in "Live and Let Die"
Jane Seymour
Suzanne
|
$400
[2]
This first African-American Attorney General said he was quitting in 2014 but was still on the job in 2015
Eric Holder
Suzanne
|
$400
[27]
Soldier, remember to type these 3 letters after www.army.
mil
Suzanne
|
$400
[3]
To perform an ovario-hysterectomy on a dog
to spay
Suzanne
|
$400
[18]
The population of this country, the western third of Hispaniola, is almost entirely descended from African slaves
Haiti
Melissa
|
$400
[17]
Slow & nearly defenseless in its normal state, it's intimidating & hard to swallow after doing its thing
blowfish (or pufferfish)
Melissa
|
|
$600
[13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) The massive gun mounted on the back of the Jaguar was pointed at the back of this James Bond actor during a daring car chase over ice in "Die Another Day"
Pierce Brosnan
Suzanne
|
$600
[7]
More than 1,000 rebels captured during this 1961 invasion of Cuba were later freed in exchange for food & medicine
Bay of Pigs
Jonathan
|
$600
[28]
The "com" in .com stands for this, something you see a lot of during the Super Bowl
commercial
Jonathan
|
$600
[4]
This 1-word 1959 scandal enveloped many prominent DJs
payola
Melissa
|
$600
[19]
He was a Democrat in Texas' state House in the 1980s, but a Republican as governor for 14 years
Rick Perry
Melissa
|
$600
[22]
You might say giddyap! to this long-snouted fish (yes, it is a fish) that sucks food into its cylindrical mouth
a seahorse
Jonathan
|
|
$800
[14]
This movie's theme song contains the lyrics "Nobody does it better, makes me feel sad for the rest"
The Spy Who Loved Me
Melissa
|
$800
[8]
In China his Great Leap Forward program took a great leap back, contributing to a famine & millions of deaths
Mao
Jonathan
|
DD
$1,500
[29]
Wikipedia & Craigslist are the most popular sites with this domain suffix
.org
Jonathan
|
$800
[5]
The explosive charge carried by a missile
the payload
Suzanne
|
$800
[20]
In Genesis, this man says, "I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth"
Cain
Suzanne
Jonathan
|
$800
[23]
Fishermen have reeled in over half-ton specimens of the blue type of this
a marlin
Jonathan
|
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1967 not Sean Connery but this British gentleman played Bond in "Casino Royale"
David Niven
Melissa
|
$1,000
[9]
This country's first female leader, Khaleda Zia was prime minister in the 1990s & again from 2001 to 2006
Bangladesh
|
— |
$1,000
[6]
The IRS W-9 form is a polite "request for" this "identification number and certification"
a taxpayer identification number
Jonathan
|
$1,000
[21]
This Ivy League college's Rauner Special Collections Library is home to the Robert Frost collection
Dartmouth
|
$1,000
[24]
You "betta" believe this type of "fighting fish" will even attack its own image in a mirror
a Siamese fighting fish
Jonathan
Melissa
|
| LIT BLITZ | PARISH THE THOUGHT, LOUISIANA | PLAY MS. "T" FOR ME | WORLD UNIVERSITIES | ROMAN CIVICS | 5, 5 |
|
$400
[19]
In 2015 Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" starred as Heidi Holland in a Broadway revival of this Wendy Wasserstein play
The Heidi Chronicles
Suzanne
|
$400
[17]
Parish-wise, there's East this capital city & West this capital city
Baton Rouge
Jonathan
|
$400
[7]
If your lips are movin', you're probably naming this ms. who broke through with "All About That Bass" in 2014
Trainor
Jonathan
|
$400
[6]
Prifysgol Cymru is the university of this U.K. country
Wales
Suzanne
|
$400
[5]
Thermae were complexes designed primarily for this activity, & all classes of Romans mixed there
baths
Melissa
|
$400
[11]
This is unrestricted on much of the German Autobahn
speed limit
Suzanne
|
|
$800
[20]
"Man's disobedience" & "the prime cause of his fall" are the subjects of this 17th century man's most famous poem
(John) Milton
Jonathan
|
$800
[21]
Crawfish field tours in the parish named for this Confederate president run from March to May
Jefferson Davis
Jonathan
|
$800
[8]
She & the Captain had a No. 1 hit with "Love Will Keep Us Together", but ultimately it didn't
(Toni) Tennille
Jonathan
|
DD
$1,000
[18]
From 2009 to 2014 4 alums of this Montreal school won Nobel Prizes
McGill
Jonathan
|
$800
[1]
Every 5 years a Roman citizen had to declare his slaves in this tally, lest he become a slave himself
the census
Jonathan
|
$800
[12]
This dish gets its name from the Turkish for "skewer" & "roast meat"
shish kebab
Jonathan
|
|
$1,200
[23]
The murder & guilt of "Crime and Punishment" play out in this former capital city
Saint Petersburg
Melissa
|
$1,200
[22]
A French soldier of the Revolutionary War shares a name with this parish known for its Cajun folk
Lafayette
Suzanne
|
$1,200
[9]
In 2010 this Canadian country singer divorced the mutt who'd produced her hit albums like "The Woman in Me"
Shania Twain
Jonathan
|
$1,200
[26]
India has universities named for Indira Gandhi & this man, her father
Jawaharlal Nehru
Suzanne
Jonathan
|
$1,200
[2]
If fleeing your home, you'd grab the images of the Penates, or household these, from their shrines
gods
Jonathan
|
$1,600
[15]
It's the type of art chart seen here
a color wheel
Melissa
|
|
$1,600
[24]
In 1895 this author of Polish descent took us to the exotic port of Sambir with his first novel, "Almayer's Folly"
Joseph Conrad
Suzanne
|
— |
$1,600
[10]
This"Big Mama" sang "Hound Dog" before Elvis did
"Big Mama" Thornton
Suzanne
|
$1,600
[27]
In the Times higher education rankings, this city's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is 13th, tops outside the U.S. & U.K.
Zurich
Melissa
|
$1,600
[3]
Passage of the 445 B.C. law known as the Lex Canuleia allowed plebeians to marry this other "P" class of Romans
patricians
Jonathan
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
Milan's La Scala is this type of place
an opera house
Melissa
|
|
$2,000
[25]
In honor of James Joyce, Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath got married on this date in 1956
Bloomsday (or June 16)
|
— |
$2,000
[13]
If you don't have a total eclipse of the brain, you'll name this raspy-voiced lass born Gaynor Hopkins
Bonnie Tyler
Suzanne
|
$2,000
[28]
Mick Jagger may have learned to count his money when he attended the London School of this & Political Science
economics
Suzanne
|
$2,000
[4]
Now a term more familiar from the Olympics, this class of citizens got its name from its former cavalry role
the equestrian order
|
$2,000
[14]
It's the type of guitar heard here
pedal steel
Suzanne
Melissa
|
Blanco is the last name of the main character in "Metástasis", a Colombia-set version of this show
Breaking Bad