Mara Apostol — a criminal defense attorney from Miami, Florida
Phyllis Kidd — a retired teacher from Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Fred Vaughn — an Internet operations technician from Mineral Point, Wisconsin (whose 4-day cash winnings total $65,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred | $2,000 | $3,400 | $11,600 |
$16,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Phyllis | $2,000 | $1,600 | $8,400 |
$11,601
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,400
13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mara | $400 | $7,000 | $10,400 |
$16,801
New champion: $16,801 |
$13,400
18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| COIF MEDICINE | PRESIDENTIAL SURNAMES ON FILM | "O" IN LITERATURE | MATH TERMS | 5-LETTER VERBS | CHICAGO HISTORY |
|
$200
[26]
It may smell weird but the apple cider type of this culinary item can soften your tresses & give them shine
vinegar
Mara
|
$200
[2]
1998:"The ____ Show"
Truman
Fred
|
$200
[6]
Keats wrote one "on a Grecian Urn"
an ode
Mara
|
$200
[7]
It's the term for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
pi
Fred
|
$200
[17]
To make a marriage void
annul
Mara
|
$200
[8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) The museum houses many relics that survived the Great Fire of 1871, including a cowbell that was allegedly worn by this woman's cow, who was once blamed for kicking over a lantern & starting the fire
Mrs. O'Leary
Fred
Mara
|
|
$400
[27]
Sodium bicarbonate, aka this, added to shampoo makes for a deep cleanse
baking soda
Fred
|
$400
[1]
1998:"Patch ____"
Adams
Phyllis
|
$400
[13]
A cycle of plays by Sophocles includes the dramas him "Rex" & him "at Colonus"
Oedipus
Phyllis
|
$400
[10]
We'll meet again, don't know where, but do know this diagram used in math
a Venn diagram
Phyllis
|
$400
[21]
To remove oneself from a failing aircraft
eject
|
$400
[9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) During Prohibition, which saw a rise in criminal activity, copper stills & buckets like these were used at home to make illegal high-proof whiskey known by this lunar name
moonshine
Mara
|
|
$600
[28]
When your blond hair goes green after a dip in a pool with too much of this, a club soda rinse can help
chlorine
Mara
|
$600
[3]
2007:"Charlie ____'s War"
Wilson
Fred
|
$600
[14]
In this memoir Isak Dinesen wrote that her farm was "at the foot of the Ngong Hills"
Out of Africa
Phyllis
|
$600
[18]
For 6 & 10, 30 is the LCM, short for this
the lowest common multiple
Mara
|
$600
[22]
To verbally exaggerate one's own accomplishments
boast
Mara
|
$600
[11]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) Made of wood & originally pulled by a steam locomotive, the car here, which transported passengers from the loop to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 is the last one remaining of Chicago's first fleet of railcars to be called by this nickname
the "El"
Fred
|
|
$800
[29]
The time-saving breakthrough of 2-in-1 products combined shampoo & this in one hair elixir
conditioner
Mara
|
$800
[4]
1995:"Billy ____"
Madison
|
$1,000
[16]
Herman Melville wrote this "Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas"
Omoo
Phyllis
|
$800
[19]
In geometry 2 angles whose sum is 90 degrees are this; thank you, that's sweet of you to say!
complementary
Mara
|
$800
[23]
To vote for more than one party is to do this to a ticket
split
Mara
|
$800
[12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) In 1911, you could actually buy the motorbuggy, the Model P, for $495, by mail order through the catalog of this Chicago merchant
Sears
Fred
Phyllis
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Pyrithione zinc is key to this flake-fighting Procter & Gamble product introduced in 1961
Head & Shoulders
Mara
|
$1,000
[5]
2000:"Get ____"
Carter
Fred
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
This tale includes the line "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?"
The Old Man and the Sea
Phyllis
|
$1,000
[20]
"SOH CAH TOA" helps you remember the meaning of the trig functions sine, cosine & this one
tangent
Mara
|
$1,000
[24]
Also a type of vessel, it means to burst in upon
barge
|
$1,000
[25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) In 1924, in the crime of the century, Chicago teen Bobby Franks was brutally murdered; these glasses found near the body were traced back to this man, who soon confessed, as didaccomplice Richard Loeb
(Nathan) Leopold
Fred
|
| MURPHY! | AS I LIVE & BREATHE | YOU OLD SON OF A GUN MAKER | WHERE YOU BEEN? | LONG TIME | NO C |
|
$400
[8]
The 93rd & last secretary working for this Candice Bergen sitcom character was played by Bette Midler
Murphy Brown
Phyllis
|
$400
[12]
During aerobic respiration, glucose reacts with this inhaled element to produce energy
oxygen
Fred
|
$400
[26]
Gaston J. Glock, son of the company founder, markets accessories like these hearing protectors
earmuffs
Fred
Phyllis
|
$400
[1]
To this city for the inauguration of Argentina's new president
Buenos Aires
Fred
|
$400
[6]
Lin Wang, an Asian one of these animals who carried supplies in World War II, lived until 2003 when he was 86
an elephant
Fred
Phyllis
|
$400
[15]
It's a food that little Miss Muffet was eating on her tuffet
whey
Phyllis
|
|
$800
[9]
5'9" Calvin Murphy's NBA career included the 1980-81 season when he hit 206 of 215 of these; that's 96%!
free throws
Mara
|
$800
[13]
When we breathe this is the main muscle that contracts to draw air into the lungs
the diaphragm
Mara
|
$800
[27]
His child was Marcellus; his brainchild was the Tommy gun
John T. Thompson
|
$800
[2]
On top of old Mt. Godwin Austen, now better known by this alphanumeric moniker
K2
Phyllis
|
$800
[7]
In 1669 the city of Heraklion on Crete fell to Ottoman forces after a 21-year one of these
a siege
|
$800
[16]
In a trademarked phrase, Thomas' English muffins tells you about these in their products
nooks
Fred
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Sing out if you know Ryan Murphy co-created this show featuring Mercedes Jones & Tina Cohen-Chang
Glee
Mara
|
$1,200
[14]
Air enters the lungs through this tube aka the windpipe, then branches into the bronchi
the trachea
Fred
|
$1,200
[28]
Pierce Brosnan knows this last name of Philo & his dad Eliphalet, who of course used steel
Remington
Phyllis
|
$1,200
[3]
I've been mourning the 2,000-year-old Baalshamin Templeat Palmyra in this country, destroyed by militants in 2015
Syria
Fred
|
$1,200
[10]
A terminal at Los Angeles International Airport is named for this 5-term mayor
Tom Bradley
Fred
|
$1,200
[17]
Partner in the title of Elgar's March in D major, Opus 39, Number 1
pomp
Mara
|
|
$1,600
[20]
Wake up! Cillian Murphy played Robert Fischer in this 2010 Christopher Nolan film
Inception
Fred
Mara
|
$2,000
[23]
This respiratory illness spread worldwide from China in 2002, but by mid-2003 everyone was breathing easier
SARS
Mara
|
$1,600
[29]
Uzi Gal designed a gun & had a son after emigrating in 1936 to what's now this country
Israel
Phyllis
|
$1,600
[4]
Visiting Zhoukoudian, China, where the fossils of this "Man" were discovered in 1927
Peking Man
Phyllis
|
$1,600
[24]
This empire that lasted from around 800 to 1800 had an emperor elected by voters & crowned by the pope
the Holy Roman Empire
Phyllis
|
$1,600
[18]
On French water faucets, you have this word in the native tongue
froid
Fred
|
|
$2,000
[21]
In 2015 this star of TV & film was honored with the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Eddie Murphy
Mara
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
The left lung has superior & inferior these parts; the right lung has those & a middle one too
lobes
Mara
|
— |
$2,000
[5]
Sunning myself on St. Kitts, one of the "Lesser" these
Antilles
Fred
|
$2,000
[25]
It's longer than a period or era; the Phanerozoic one started 541 million years ago & is still going on
an eon
Fred
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
Mythological character now left alone in the constellation Gemini
Pollux
Fred
|
A critic said, "I doubt if there is a single joke in" this 1885 work "that fits the Japanese. But all the jokes... fit the English"
The Mikado