WE ASKED: Actor Josh Gad.A poorly-worded Final Jeopardy! clue disadvantages a challenger, resulting in her being brought back later in the week.Alex uses acaneduring the closing credits chat.
Camille Hooper — an accountant from Port Saint Lucie, Florida
Ashley Wilson — an organization development consultant from Alexandria, Virginia
Patricia Franco — a library assistant from Arlington, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia | $1,000 | $3,000 | $2,600 |
$2,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,600
10 R, 3 W |
| Ashley | $1,600 | $4,200 | $9,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,400
10 R, 0 W |
| Camille | $200 | $-600 | $10,800 |
$2,799
New champion: $2,799 |
$11,200
16 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| TV SETTINGS | 4-LETTER VERBS | HOW NOW, ON THE DOW? | "M"USIC | THEMS | FIGHTIN' WORDS |
|
$200
[9]
"Good Times" & "The Good Wife": very different parts of this city
Chicago
|
$200
[11]
To organize papers, or to administer to one's ragged nails
file
Camille
|
$200
[21]
The website for this company, jnj.com, lists products like Head-To-Toe Fragrance Free Baby Lotion
Johnson & Johnson
Patricia
|
$200
[10]
This mechanical device is used by musicians to keep time
a metronome
Patricia
|
$200
[16]
Greeks thought foreigners talking sounded like "Bar-bar-bar", maybe the origin of this word for uncivilized people
barbarians
Patricia
|
$600
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) A fighter pilot who takes a defensive position behind and to one side of a squadron mate is called this, whether in combat or a singles bar
wingman
Patricia
|
|
$400
[5]
"The Americans" & "Murphy Brown": this city
Washington D.C.
Camille
|
$400
[12]
To heat & sweeten a beverage with spice
mull
Camille
|
$400
[22]
It's last alphabetically on the Dow & first numerically on the Fortune 500
Walmart
|
$400
[1]
A popular folk instrument in Latin America, this variety of xylophone originated in Africa
the marimba
Camille
|
$400
[17]
Cleveland Browns fans aren't fans of this team that has won 6 Super Bowls
the Steelers
Patricia
|
$800
[25]
The USS Mitscher & USS Preble are this type of fast, maneuverable warship; sadly, there's no USS Conan
the destroyer
Camille
|
|
$600
[6]
"Frasier" & the American remake of "The Killing": this city, in very different moods
Seattle
Camille
|
$600
[13]
To plow the soil
till
Ashley
|
$600
[23]
This Dow Jones-listed company offered its own version of a Daily Double, as well as "world famous fries"
McDonald's
|
$800
[3]
In 1826 at just 17 he produced the dazzling "Midsummer Night's Dream" overture
(Felix) Mendelssohn
Patricia
Camille
|
$600
[18]
In experiments, good people can be taught to dehumanize others, an effect named for this angel gone bad
Lucifer
Patricia
|
$1,000
[26]
In WWI & again in WWII, the Allies countered U-boat threats by sailing in these groups, from a word meaning "escort"
convoys
|
|
$800
[7]
"Little House on the Prairie" & "The Mary Tyler Moore Show": this state
Minnesota
Camille
|
$800
[14]
To thin the herd by removing inferior stock
cull
Ashley
|
— |
DD
$1,000
[2]
Type of Renaissance vocal work for multiple voices heard here
madrigal
Camille
|
$800
[19]
A colonial-era stereotype of Native Americans as uncorrupted is called this type of "savage"
a noble savage
Ashley
|
— |
|
$1,000
[8]
"Cold Case" & "thirty something": this city called an elegant but jaded lady
Philadelphia
Ashley
|
$1,000
[15]
To ward off blows, or to take care of oneself
fend
|
— |
$1,000
[4]
This elegant dance for couples dominated aristocratic European ballrooms from about 1650 to 1750
the minuet
|
$1,000
[20]
In a 2012 interview Stephen Hawking, who can easily understand quantum gravity, said these are "a complete mystery"
women
Ashley
|
— |
| THE SCENE IN 1715 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS | ZIMBABWE | WORLD LITERATURE | "EPI"DEMIC | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS |
|
$400
[10]
Sparking a bloody backlash, Yamassee Indians massacred South Carolina colonists on this day, 2 before Easter
Good Friday
Camille
|
$400
[16]
As this "Aladdin" character, Robin Williams did impressions of Groucho Marx, Schwarzenegger & others
the Genie
Camille
|
$400
[27]
This neighbor is Zimbabwe's leading trade partner, accounting for more than 30% of exports & 40% of imports
South Africa
Ashley
|
$400
[11]
In 1703 this "Robinson Crusoe" author offended each side in a religious dispute & was sentenced to Newgate Prison
Daniel Defoe
Camille
|
$400
[2]
An old joke: this outermost layer of skin "is showing!"
the epidermis
Ashley
|
$1,200
[18]
She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1990, the same year as her husband Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Camille
|
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
The Jacobite rebellion tried to put a member of this royal family back on the English throne but failed
the Stuarts
Camille
|
$800
[15]
(Hi, I'm Josh Gad.) In 2014 I won an Annie award--excellence in animation--for my work voicing this adorable character in "Frozen"
Olaf
Camille
|
$800
[23]
A region called the Great Dyke holds vast riches of this silvery precious metal, atomic number 78
platinum
|
$1,200
[7]
"The Girl in the Spider's Web" continues the late Stieg Larsson's "Millennium series" about this hacker
Lisbeth Salander
Patricia
|
$800
[1]
It's from the Greek for "upon a tomb"
epitaph
Patricia
Ashley
Camille
|
$1,600
[19]
"It Happened One Night" in 1986 that this film director was awarded his medal
Frank Capra
Patricia
|
|
$1,200
[17]
In 1715 this country waged war against Russia, Poland & Denmark in the Baltics
Sweden
|
$1,200
[12]
This sultry bombshell from a 1988 hit claimed, "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way"
Jessica Rabbit
Camille
|
$1,200
[24]
In 1987 he became the country's first president; Zimbabweans are still waiting for the second one
Mugabe
Patricia
|
$1,600
[8]
Tolstoy titled a story after these horsemen of the steppes, based on his travels as a soldier
the Cossacks
|
$1,200
[3]
9-letter word meaning pertaining to a bishop
episcopal
Camille
|
$2,000
[20]
This 1996 honoree won 3 Pulitzers for his plays, the first for "A Delicate Balance" in 1967
Edward Albee
Patricia
|
|
$2,000
[22]
France's Louis XV became king at age 5 with his relative Philippe, the duc of this city, serving as regent
Orléans
|
$1,600
[13]
This funny bunny in "Bambi" teaches Bambi how to slide on ice & talk
Thumper
Ashley
|
$1,600
[25]
It's the nation's capital
Harare
Patricia
|
DD
$2,000
[6]
Although best known for their fairy tales, these brothers were pioneers in creating a German dictionary
the Brothers Grimm
Camille
|
$1,600
[4]
It's the embodiment of something
epitome
Camille
|
— |
| — |
$2,000
[14]
This acorn-obsessed squirrel is always in search of the elusive nut in the "Ice Age" films
Scrat
|
$2,000
[26]
In 2015 Zimbabweans & the world mourned this beloved 13-year-old lion, killed for sport
Cecil the lion
Ashley
|
$2,000
[9]
Richard Llewellyn wrote 3 sequels to this 1939 classic; in the third one, Huw Morgan returns to Wales
How Green Was My Valley
|
$2,000
[5]
A gourmand
epicurean (or epicure)
Camille
|
— |
The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier
Collins