Alex uses acaneduring the closing credits chat.
Ted Johnson — a job seeker from Shoreview, Minnesota
Theresa Tejada — a project coordinator from Allen Park, Michigan
Liz Quesnelle — a retail store owner from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liz | $4,800 | $5,800 | $14,000 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,000
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Theresa | $3,200 | $5,800 | $17,800 |
$21,599
New champion: $21,599 |
$17,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Ted | $2,000 | $5,000 | $12,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
14 R, 1 W |
| ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES | SILENT KNIGHT | OTHER CHRISTMAS SONGS | THE NEW YORK TIMESPULITZER WINNERS | WE 3 "ING"S |
|
$200
[13]
The chemical element that by definition all organic compounds contain
carbon
Theresa
|
$200
[1]
I heard about "The Farmer In" this small wooded valley
the dell
Liz
|
$200
[16]
This Walter Scott hero, in disguise as the disinherited knight, says nada after Prince John commends him on winning a tourney
Ivanhoe
|
$200
[8]
In 1942 this crooner had a No. 1 hit with "White Christmas"
Bing Crosby
Theresa
|
$400
[20]
(I'm David Barstow.) My Pulitzer-winning story about retired generals co-opted as analysts to sell the Iraq War was headlined this building's "Hidden Hand"
the Pentagon
Theresa
|
$400
[9]
Remember your "ing"s & tell us what this fabled trio is doing--actually, not doing
seeing, speaking or hearing no evil
Liz
|
|
$400
[18]
For the 238 isotope of uranium, this measure of radioactive decay is a mere 4.5 billion years
a half-life
Theresa
|
$400
[2]
Change 1 letter in "cave" to get this sheltered bay
cove
Ted
|
$600
[24]
Not known for verbosity, Gregor Clegane is the hulking "Mountain Who Rides" in these books
A Song of Ice and Fire
Ted
|
$400
[6]
This title line is followed by "underneath the mistletoe last night"
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
Liz
|
$800
[26]
(I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) As part of the Times staff, I won a Pulitzer Prize for our "i Economy" series, which led to Apple improving working conditions for over 1 million people in this country
China
Ted
|
$600
[11]
The EPA's recommended 3 "R" activities are reducing followed by reusing & this
recycling
Theresa
|
|
$600
[21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows atomic diagrams of neon, argon & krypton on the monitor.) Because they have complete outer shells, the gases in this group are largely unreactive
noble gases
Ted
|
$600
[3]
A raised area of flat land; one covers much of Tibet
plateau
Ted
|
$800
[23]
In a Middle English poem, this colorful guy tricks Gawain by staying quiet about his supernatural abilities
the Green Knight
Theresa
|
$600
[7]
His "Christmas Album" of 1957 includes the now classic "Blue Christmas"
Elvis Presley
Theresa
|
$1,000
[25]
(I'm Carolyn Ryan.) In 2009 I was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for breaking news coverage of this New York governor & his stunning fall from grace
(Eliot) Spitzer
Ted
|
$800
[10]
All beginning with "C", the 3 ways to win in rock, paper, scissors are crushing, covering, & this
cutting
Theresa
|
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
The 2 most abundant elements in Earth's crust are oxygen & this one used in making electronic circuits
silicon
Liz
|
$800
[4]
Places of shallow water, like the "muscle" one in "Sweet Home Alabama"
a shoal
Liz
|
$1,000
[22]
In a Keats poem this French lady "Sans Merci" lulls a knight to a none-too-restful sleep
the Belle Dame
|
$800
[12]
It's the alternate title & first line of "The Christmas Song", definitively sung by Nat King Cole
"Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire"
Theresa
|
— |
$1,000
[17]
It becomes between catching & releasing in a zoologist's process to track a wild animal
tagging
Liz
|
|
$1,000
[19]
On the periodic table, the bottom 2 rows are the lanthanides & this row below them
the actinides
Theresa
|
$1,000
[5]
This word describes maple & oak trees & the forests full of them
deciduous (or hardwood)
Liz
Ted
|
— |
$1,000
[14]
In 2014 Bob Geldof re-recorded this 30-year-old song as a fundraiser to fight Ebola
"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Liz
|
— | — |
| ARTS & CULTURE | 8-LETTER WORDS | GRAB BAG | & THE OSCAR DOESN'T GO TO | MARTIN VAN BUREN | DOUBLE UP ON YOUR COUNTRIES |
|
$400
[24]
Shoichi Yabuta was tops in composing in the 2015 music competition held annually in this Swiss city since 1939
Geneva
|
$400
[25]
Type of seat with the best view at the boxing match
ringside
Theresa
|
$400
[8]
Pianist Pinetop Perkins, 94, & guitarist Honeyboy Edwards, 92, took home this 2007 award for Best Blues Album
the Grammy
Ted
|
$400
[26]
The nomination of Nina Rota's music for this 1972 film was retracted because some of it had been used in a 1958 Italian movie
The Godfather
Liz
|
$800
[9]
Van Buren's great-great-great-grandfather came to America from this country's Gelderland province
the Netherlands
Ted
|
$800
[15]
They're the 2 countries where Urdu is mainly spoken
India & Pakistan
Liz
|
|
$800
[10]
This art movement got its name when a group of early 20th century French painters were dubbed "wild beasts"
the Fauvists
Ted
|
$800
[12]
Egg white & sugar pie material
meringue
Theresa
|
$800
[17]
Lorraine Collett wore a red bonnet when she posed for the picture used on packages of this raisin brand
Sun-Maid
Liz
|
$800
[4]
Boy meets operating system in this 2013 Best Picture nominee
Her
Theresa
|
$1,200
[3]
In his 1837 inaugural address, Van Buren opposed the attempt of Congress to abolish this in D.C.
slavery
Theresa
|
$1,600
[21]
Of the 5 nations with compass directions in their names, 3 use "South"; these 2 do not
East Timor & North Korea
Liz
|
|
$1,200
[11]
In 1974 he defected from the USSR & joined ABT, becoming that company's artistic director in the '80s
Baryshnikov
Liz
Ted
|
$1,200
[13]
A pay-to-drive highway
turnpike
Liz
|
$1,200
[18]
Her album "25" sold 3.38 million copies in its first week, the most since direct sales started being tracked in 1991
Adele
Theresa
|
$1,200
[5]
Annette Bening was a 1999 Best Actress nominee for playing the wife of Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey in this film
American Beauty
Ted
|
$1,600
[2]
In 1836 Van Buren won the presidency over this Whig but lost to him in the 1840 rematch
William Henry Harrison
Ted
|
$2,000
[22]
Many countries are made up of archipelagos, but these 2 U.N. members have "Islands" in their names
the Solomon Islands & Marshall Islands
Theresa
|
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
Because it has 6 units called iambs, the poetic line "Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight" is in iambic this
hexameter
Theresa
|
$1,600
[14]
Scary brain operation that won a neurologist a 1949 Nobel Prize
a lobotomy
Theresa
|
$1,600
[19]
John Paul Stevens defended this 1973 landmark ruling as "an integral part of... the basic equality of men and women"
Roe v. Wade
Ted
|
$1,600
[6]
James Dean was nominated for the role of Jett Rink in this big 1956 film
Giant
Liz
|
$2,000
[1]
Although Van Buren was the frontrunner in 1844, this dark horse won the Democratic party nomination
James K. Polk
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
These 2 Mediterranean islands are independent countries
Malta & Cyprus
Liz
|
|
$2,000
[27]
This Bombay-born conductor was the first to lead 2 major North American orchestras at the same time
Zubin Mehta
|
— |
$2,000
[20]
One of the oldest known literary works, the "Epic of" this Mesopotamian hero dates to the 2nd millennium B.C.
Gilgamesh
Ted
|
$2,000
[7]
This director also wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "A Clockwork Orange"
Stanley Kubrick
Theresa
|
— | — |
Dedicated to a female, it's among the few of the 7 Ancient Wonders whose ruins you can visit
the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus