Dylan Parson — a student from Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
Mai Kulkarni — an operations manager from Macon, Georgia
Natalie Lips — an office assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska (whose 3-day cash winnings total $57,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natalie | $1,000 | $3,400 | $9,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
15 R, 1 W |
| Mai | $2,200 | $2,200 | $5,000 |
$1,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dylan | $-200 | $2,800 | $11,700 |
$5,399
New champion: $5,399 |
$14,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| ADVENTURE TRAVEL | "B"OOKS | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY | REMEMBER SEPTEMBER | PORTMANTEAU WORDS | ROCKET MAN |
|
$200
[23]
Let's sail up this river 2,300 miles from the Atlantic all the way to the port city of Iquitos in Peru
the Amazon
Dylan
|
$200
[6]
It's the huge 1992 bestseller about a photographer, a farm wife & 4 days in Iowa
Bridges of Madison County
Mai
|
$200
[11]
This media source abbreviated WWD is often called "the fashion bible"
Women's Wear Daily
|
$200
[17]
On September 7 each year, this Western Hemisphere nation celebrates its independence from Portugal
Brazil
Natalie
|
$200
[1]
If buying stuff at the mall is your equivalent of a fifth of booze, you're this
a shopaholic
Natalie
|
$200
[27]
Maurice "Rocket" Richard of this 1950s team's dynasty was the first NHL player to score 500 goals
the Montreal Canadiens
|
|
$400
[22]
Many visitors make the 3-hour hike from the Mexican town of Angagueo to see the winter home of millions of these insects
butterflies
Natalie
|
$600
[8]
The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing
Bel Canto
|
$400
[18]
(Hi, I'm fashion designer Cynthia Rowley.) I got my start in retail when a woman on the "L" train admired my jacket; it turned out she was a buyer for this historic Chicago department store, which bought my first collection
Marshall Field's
Dylan
|
$400
[16]
September is the awareness month for leukemia & this other "L" type of cancer
lymphoma
Natalie
|
$400
[2]
In the late 19th century, new technology made possible this method of capital punishment
electrocution
|
$400
[26]
Matt Campbell coaches football for the Rockets of this university that's in Ohio but sounds like it could be in Spain
Toledo
Natalie
|
|
$600
[21]
We could always follow the little green men to the Intl. UFO Museum & Research Center in this New Mexico city
Roswell
Dylan
|
$800
[9]
Sylvia Plath committed suicide one month after this novel of hers was published
The Bell Jar
Mai
|
— |
$600
[12]
In September 1774 Peyton Randolph was chosen president of the first of these political gatherings
the Continental Congress
Mai
Dylan
|
$600
[3]
Unpack the portmanteau word "bit" & you'll find it's made up of this word & "digit"
binary
Mai
Dylan
|
$600
[15]
This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times
Roger Clemens
|
|
$800
[19]
Don't get too close hiking near the Bardarbungavolcano, part of the Holuhraun lava field in this country
Iceland
Dylan
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods"
Bambi
Mai
|
— |
$800
[13]
The setting for literature's "Cannery Row", this California city also has a hep September jazz festival
Monterey
|
$800
[4]
From a gardening term, it's the way males deal with unwanted body hair
manscaping
Natalie
|
$800
[25]
This NBA center was "The Dream" leading the Houston Rockets to 1994 & 1995 NBA titles
Hakeem Olajuwon
|
|
$1,000
[20]
From November to May, rather than hiking, this how to go hut-to-hut in Colorado's 10th Mountain Division system
skiing
Natalie
|
$1,000
[10]
The French title of this existential work is "L'Etre et le neant"
Being and Nothingness
Mai
|
— |
$1,000
[14]
In September 1980 this historic trade union was founded in Gdansk
Solidarity
Natalie
Dylan
|
$1,000
[5]
It's the word for online clickbait pieces with titles like "14 Ways Ferns Can Change Your Life"
a listicle
Natalie
|
$1,000
[24]
Rod "The Rocket" Laver of this country is tennis' only repeat Grand Slam winner
Australia
Dylan
|
| RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | LOGOS | FRENCH FILM REMAKES | VO"CAB"ULARY | COMPOSER RHYME TIME | ROCKET, MAN |
|
$400
[15]
The king of Sweden had to approve this country'sflag, which includs symbols of the Danish flag
Norway
Dylan
|
$400
[2]
In the early 1960s McDonald's starting using this as its logo--didn't hurt that it looked like an "M"
the Golden Arches
Natalie
|
$400
[1]
Elaine May adapted the Oscar-nominated screenplay of this 1978 French film for Mike Nichols' "The Birdcage"
La Cage aux Folles
Natalie
|
$400
[21]
A strikebreaker
a scab
Natalie
|
$400
[22]
Franz Joseph's Greek water gods
Haydn's Poseidons
Natalie
|
$400
[16]
A separable section of a rocket that is jettisoned, or the thing you're standing on
a stage
Dylan
|
|
$800
[14]
The Olympic flag consists of this number of interlocking rings on a white field
five
Dylan
|
$800
[3]
Starbucks' logo features one of these creatures
a mermaid
Dylan
|
$800
[27]
In "Point of No Return", a remake of this 1990 French film, Bridget Fonda plays an assassin for the government
La Femme Nikita
Mai
|
$800
[20]
Originally meaning a shed or wooden dwelling, it now refers to a nightclub
a cabaret
Natalie
|
$800
[23]
Edvard's fantasy football groups
Grieg's leagues
Dylan
|
$1,200
[8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona.) The Titan II's nosecone, where the warhead sat, was known as the RV, or this vehicle; the missile would go well out of the atmosphere at an altitude of more than 600 miles
re-entry
Dylan
|
|
$1,600
[11]
This small Mediterranean island nation flies a George cross on a white & red field
Malta
Dylan
|
$1,200
[6]
This NFL team's logo features a purple bird's head with a gold letter "B" on it
the Baltimore Ravens
Dylan
|
$1,200
[28]
In "La Femme infidele", Stephanie Audran cheats on Michel Bouquet; in "Unfaithful", it's this actress & Richard Gere
Diane Lane
|
$1,200
[18]
From Latin for "friend", it means "friendly"
amicable
|
$1,200
[24]
Wolfgang's amusement park racing vehicles
Mozart's go-karts
Dylan
|
$1,600
[7]
The ratio of thrust to this is used to evaluate rocket engine performance
weight
Mai
|
|
$2,000
[12]
This country's 1994flagincludes the black, green & yellow of liberation organizations, & red, white & blue of settler flags
South Africa
Dylan
|
$1,600
[5]
The name of this automaker is a Japanese term for the Pleiades, which are represented in the car's logo
Subaru
Natalie
|
$1,600
[29]
It's the English title of the 1983 English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard's classic "A bout de souffle"
Breathless
|
$1,600
[17]
A small body of intriguers
a cabal
Mai
|
$1,600
[25]
What you'll feel against your jaw if you say, "Lousy piano playing, Franz"
a Liszt fist
Natalie
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
"About Combustion Tests", this German's 1934 Ph.D. thesis, dealt with 660-pound-thrust rocket engines
Wernher von Braun
Dylan
|
|
DD
$3,500
[13]
The flag of "the Tar Heel State" has these 2 letters on either side of a white star
NC
Dylan
|
$2,000
[4]
The logo of Papyrus cards & stationery stores includes this type of bird
a hummingbird
Dylan
|
$2,000
[30]
In this 1994 action film based on "La Totale!", agent Arnold Schwarzenegger dances the tango with Tia Carrere
True Lies
Mai
|
$2,000
[19]
A light horse-drawn chaise, or an auto with a folding top; VW & Audi have made them
a cabriolet
Dylan
|
$2,000
[26]
20th century Englishman Benjamin in love
Britten smitten
|
$2,000
[9]
The radio link between the ground & a rocket or missile isn't called television but this tele-word
telemetry
|
The only election year since 1952 in which neither major-party candidate had been president or vice president
2008