Mark Blankenship — an arts editor and reporter from New York, New York
Claudia Corriere — a church musician and homemaker from Kennesaw, Georgia
Tiombi Prince — an advocation support specialist from East Point, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiombi | $2,000 | $2,800 | $3,600 |
$600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
9 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Claudia | $1,200 | $7,200 | $9,800 |
$7,800
New champion: $7,800 |
$12,800
21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mark | $3,200 | $3,400 | $10,200 |
$400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,200
14 R, 1 W |
| BELIZE NAVIDAD | OSCAR NOMINATIONS | TINKERERS | STUPID ANSWERS | AMERICAN HISTORY | POST GAME |
|
$200
[26]
Belizeans enjoy a midnight mass & hearing "They came with haste, and found" these 2 "and the babe lying in a manger"
Mary & Joseph
Claudia
|
$200
[9]
The 77th Oscars saw him nominated as supporting actor ("Collateral") & lead actor ("Ray")
Jamie Foxx
Mark
|
$200
[16]
In 1909 this French engineer built a type of wind tunnel that "to were d" above all others
(Gustave) Eiffel
Claudia
|
$200
[1]
This waterfall is on the Iguacu River at the border of Argentina & Brazil
the Iguaçu waterfall
Tiombi
|
$200
[10]
In 2001 this U.S. energy company's stock fell from over $90 per share to below $1
Enron
Claudia
|
$200
[20]
A long look, or the male bird you're taking along look at
a gander
Claudia
|
|
$400
[27]
Belize celebrates this Dec. 26 holiday, so I'll make a charitable donation & get something nice for Jeeves
Boxing Day
Claudia
|
$400
[8]
Making a comeback, he played an actor making a comeback & was nominated for an Oscar in 2015 for "Birdman"
Michael Keaton
Claudia
|
$400
[17]
At age 16 he got the idea for his revolver observing a ship's wheel on a voyage
(Samuel) Colt
Claudia
|
$400
[2]
"Tropic of Cancer", a book by him, chronicles an American expat named Henry Miller & his friends van Norden & Carl
Henry Miller
Claudia
|
$400
[11]
It was drawn in the 1760s to settle border disputes between Maryland & Pennsylvania
the Mason-Dixon Line
Tiombi
|
$400
[22]
4-letter word for your clothes
gear (or garb)
Mark
|
|
$600
[28]
Christmas dinner may include this banana relative; belize.com reports it's said to be "the local cranberry sauce"
a plantain
Claudia
|
$600
[7]
Out of 10 acting Oscar nominations, this Brit won once for "Hamlet"
Laurence Olivier
Mark
|
$600
[18]
On August 4, 1922 the telephone systems of the U.S. & Canada were silent for 1 minute in tribute to this late inventor
(Alexander Graham) Bell
Claudia
|
$600
[3]
Launched in 1990, this weekly magazine from Time Inc. covers all aspects of the entertainment industry
Entertainment Weekly
Tiombi
|
$600
[12]
In 1947 this TV news show's first guest was former Democratic chairman & FDR campaign manager James A. Farley
Meet the Press
Claudia
Mark
|
$600
[23]
A mature reproductive cell
a gamete
Claudia
|
|
$800
[29]
The "Deer Dance" of this Yucatan civilization is done at Xmas in Belize to show the relationship between humanity & nature
the Mayan
Tiombi
|
$800
[5]
Paul McCartney & Wings got into Bond-age with this 007 theme that earned Sir Paul an Oscar nomination
"Live And Let Die"
Tiombi
|
$800
[19]
While at an auto body shop in the 1920s, 3M engineer Richard Drew came up with the idea for this type of tape to help the painters
masking tape
Mark
|
$800
[4]
The major powers of Europe were involved in this war that lasted the 7 years between 1756 & 1763
the Seven Years' War
Mark
|
$800
[13]
In 2015, scientists displayedremainsof four leaders of this Virginia colony, buried under America's first Protestant church
Jamestown
Claudia
|
$800
[24]
This board helps you get from ship to shore
a gangplank
Claudia
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Time to Christmas shop in this city--it became the capital in 1970, when Belize was still a British dependency
Belmopan
Mark
|
$1,000
[6]
This movie in which Gary Cooper starred as Lou Gehrig got nominations in 2 writing categories
The Pride of the Yankees
Mark
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
In 1899 this man equipped ships with wireless tech so they could report on the America's Cup to a NYC newspaper
(Guglielmo) Marconi
Claudia
|
$1,000
[15]
Nickname of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, meant to evoke an earlier era of classical music
the "Classical Symphony"
|
$1,000
[14]
In 1778 Ohio Shawnee held this frontiersman captive for 5 months
Daniel Boone
|
$1,000
[25]
You're often asked to "mind" this between subway train & platform
the gap
Claudia
|
| LITERARY DIRECTIONS | THE AGE OF MANN | PALINDROMES | "I" TUNES | GOOD CAUSES | THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE |
|
$400
[7]
This 1952 Steinbeck novel tells the stories of 3 generations of the Trask & Hamilton families
East of Eden
Claudia
|
$400
[17]
Lubeck, Germany's Buddenbrookhaus is named after this German author's "Buddenbrooks"
Thomas Mann
Mark
|
$400
[1]
Pertaining to your duties as resident of a municipality
civic
|
$400
[2]
This R. Kelly song was written for Michael Jordan's "Space Jam"
"I Believe I Can Fly"
Mark
|
$400
[13]
"Medical aid where it is needed most. Independent, neutral, impartial" is a slogan of this medical assistance group
Doctors Without Borders
Tiombi
Claudia
|
$400
[22]
The little ice age of 1300 to 1850 followed the MWP, this historical era "warm period"
Medieval
Claudia
|
|
$800
[8]
1884's "Star of the South" was an Africa-set novel in this French sci-fi pioneer's "Extraordinary Voyages" series
(Jules) Verne
Mark
|
$800
[18]
AKA the White Slave Traffic Act, 1910's Mann Act dealt with the transport of women for immoral purposes across these
state lines
Tiombi
|
$800
[9]
This drug treats anxiety disorders
Xanax
Tiombi
|
$800
[3]
This Paul Simon song laments, "I am shielded in my armor, hiding in my room, safe within my womb"
"I Am A Rock"
Mark
|
$800
[14]
This organization that builds & repairs houses for low-income families can be reached at 1-800-the first word in its name
Habitat for Humanity
Claudia
|
$800
[23]
During the coldest part of the LIA, this river that flows from the Cotswolds to London would freeze in winter
the Thames
Tiombi
|
|
$1,200
[10]
Homer Simpson is a character in this author's "The Day of the Locust"
Nathanael West
|
$1,200
[19]
She's appeared in several of the comedies directed by her husband Judd Apatow
Leslie Mann
Claudia
|
$1,200
[20]
It precedes "out" when you get tired or fail
poop
|
$1,200
[4]
Beyonce (not Kilroy) sang this Diane Warren-penned hit for World Humanitarian Day in 2012
"I Was Here"
Mark
|
$1,600
[16]
Improving the quality of life for the blind & visually impaired since 1946, a N.Y. foundation provides these free of charge
seeing eye dogs
Claudia
Mark
|
$1,600
[26]
Temps fell in the 17th century, hurting the North Atlantic fisheries based on this food fish of the genus Gadus
cod
Claudia
|
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
"South" is this explorer's account of his efforts from 1914 to 1917 to become the first man to cross Antarctica
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Tiombi
|
$2,000
[25]
A giant in the field of American public education, he took the congressional seat of John Quincy Adams in 1848
Horace Mann
Claudia
|
— |
$1,600
[5]
"Not even the chair" heard Neil Diamond when he made this title song declaration
"I Am... I Said"
Mark
|
$2,000
[21]
In 1739 Thomas Coram set up a London hospital for orphans called these, like Fielding's Tom Jones
foundlings
Claudia
|
$2,000
[24]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Some scientists think the little ice age in Europe was because of a change in the jet stream, which was caused by the NAO, the North Atlantic this
oscillation
|
|
$2,000
[12]
Robert Frost published the collection "North of" this city in 1914
Boston
|
— | — |
$2,000
[6]
Bob Geldof wrote this song after hearing young Brenda Spencer's motive for a 1979 school shooting
"I Don't Like Mondays"
|
DD
$3,000
[15]
In 2007 he was commemorated on an Australian postage stamp with proceeds going to his Wildlife Warriors charity
Steve Irwin
Claudia
|
— |
Jacques-Germain Soufflot, who designed this Paris landmark, was interred there 49 years after dying
the Panthéon