Bill Murphy — an emergency physician from Laguna Beach, California
David Bradley — an author from Atlanta, Georgia
Chris Giglio — a naval officer from Virginia Beach, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $-400 | $4,200 | $13,400 |
$26,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| David | $4,400 | $6,600 | $17,000 |
$27,000
New champion: $27,000 |
$17,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Bill | $2,400 | $4,800 | $12,200 |
$10,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| BIG-SCREEN ELVIS | IN THE STATE NICKNAME | GET A HANDLE ON IT | QUIZINE | LITERARY MILITARY | 4-LETTER FRIENDS |
|
$200
[12]
"King Creole", Elvis' favorite of his 31 films, was the first shot on location--the French Quarter in this city
New Orleans
Chris
|
$200
[7]
Pennsylvania--this architectural mainstay
Keystone
Bill
|
$200
[17]
This synonym for a slim briefcase with a handle is also a word for a diplomatic official
an attaché
David
|
$200
[30]
An 1867 appeal to scientists by Napoleon III led to the creation of this butter substitute
margarine
David
|
$200
[1]
In 1968 Richard Hooker published this book subtitled "A Novel About Three Army Doctors"
MASH
David
|
$200
[16]
Musically, Kool had one
a gang
Chris
|
|
$400
[3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Elvis Presley home in Tupelo, MS.) Elvis Presley's Tupelo, Mississippi birthplace park & a local youth center were created with proceeds from a Tupelo concert Elvis played in September 1957, right before the release of this movie in which he goes from prisoner to star
Jailhouse Rock
David
|
$400
[8]
Illinois--this tract of grassland
Prairie
Bill
|
$400
[18]
Perhaps due to a bias against the household chore, this Monopoly token was voted out & replaced by a cat in 2013
the iron
David
|
$400
[29]
From words meaning "outside the work" , it's an appetizer served before a meal
hors d'oeuvre
Bill
|
$400
[2]
The 2014 National Book Award for Fiction went to Iraq vet Phil Klay's book with this title, meaning going back to overseas duty
Redeployment
David
|
$400
[22]
You love your best these, also where flowers spring from
buds
Bill
|
|
$600
[4]
It's the sport Elvis takes up in "Kid Galahad"
boxing
David
|
$600
[9]
Wyoming--this profession
Cowboy
David
|
$600
[19]
This star group in Ursa Major is also called the Plow
the Big Dipper
|
$600
[28]
It's the main course in Norman Rockwell's painting "Freedom from Want"
a turkey
David
|
$600
[13]
Horatio Hornblower came to the big screen with this word, Horatio's job, before his name in the title
captain
Chris
David
|
$600
[23]
Milwaukee's MLB team is sometimes referred to as the "Brew" this
Crew
Bill
|
|
$800
[5]
"Ku-U-I-Po" & "Island of Love" are on the soundtrack of this "colorful" movie, a No. 1 album for 20 weeks
Blue Hawaii
David
|
$800
[10]
Montana--this collection of wealth
Treasure
Bill
|
$800
[20]
This name of a whip used for flogging tells you the number of lines tied to its handle
a cat-o'-nine-tails
David
|
$1,000
[27]
The 2-word name of this dish of large prawns uses an English word & an Italian word that mean the same thing
shrimp scampi
Chris
|
$800
[14]
For refusing to box, Private Prewitt faces harsh treatment in this James Jones novel of pre-WWII Hawaii
From Here to Eternity
David
|
$800
[24]
Rest easy--Tunisia's on our side; in 2015 it was even designated a major non-NATO this
ally
Chris
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Elvis' last feature, with Mary Tyler Moore as a nun, was called "Change of" this--get it?
Habit
Bill
|
$1,000
[11]
South Dakota--this canine
Coyote
Bill
|
$1,000
[21]
Traditional stickball was played with the handle of this cleaning item as the "bat"
a broomstick
Bill
|
DD
$1,600
[26]
This fruit is named for its flower, parts of which are said to resemble Christ's crucifixion
a passion fruit
Chris
|
$1,000
[15]
This Hemingway novel about a G.I. injured in Italy during WWI shares its peaceable title with a 16th c. poem
A Farewell to Arms
Bill
|
$1,000
[25]
This word for a friend can also mean bait to attract sharks
chum
Chris
|
| WIDE WORLD OF PORTS | VICE PRESIDENTS | REPORTAGE | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS | ART & ARTISTS | THE 3 I's HAVE IT |
|
$400
[5]
A cruise to the Bahamas likely includes a stop in this largest city & seaport
Nassau
Chris
|
$400
[6]
(Vice President Joe Biden delivers the clue.) My office in the West Wing of the White House has portraits ofthese2 men, the first 2 vice presidents of the United States
John Adams & Tom Jefferson
David
|
$400
[12]
(I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) In 2015 I reported on the Japanese company Takata's delay investigating why inflators on these in cars were exploding
air bags
Bill
|
$400
[27]
"Bossypants" by this funny lady
Tina Fey
David
|
$400
[30]
Poussin & Leonardo each painted an "Adoration of" the biblical trio known by this 4-letter name
the Magi
David
|
$400
[24]
One lacking in or hostile to culture; I'm talkin' to you, Goliath!
a Philistine
David
|
|
$800
[4]
Home to the Queen Mary, it's one of the busiest ports in the United States
Los Angeles, Long Beach
Chris
|
$800
[7]
Of his VP opponent, he said, "Sen. Edwards got picked for... his great hair... How do you think I got the job?'"
(Dick) Cheney
Bill
|
$800
[11]
James Whitaker, royal reporter for the Daily Mirror, shocked Britain with the news of this woman's eating disorder
Lady Diana (Princess Diana)
Bill
|
$800
[16]
"Life Itself" by this late film critic
Roger Ebert
David
|
$800
[25]
"14th Street at 6th Avenue" was created under the auspices of the WPA, part of this 1930s government program
the New Deal
Chris
|
$800
[20]
Uh oh! The organ affected by this inflammation may burst & cause peritonitis (another 3 "I" word!)
appendicitis
Chris
|
|
$1,200
[3]
France's second-busiest seaport, it was founded under a longer name meaning "haven of grace"
Le Havre
Bill
|
$1,600
[9]
By taking over for a deceased prez, he established a precedent
Tyler
Chris
|
$1,200
[13]
"An age-old journalistic dilemma": getting the story or protecting this "S"-person
a source
Bill
|
$1,200
[17]
"I Am Not Spock" &, then again, "I Am Spock", both by this actor & director
Leonard Nimoy
David
|
$1,200
[26]
German artist Max Ernst married a girl named Peggy who came from this art-loving American family
the Guggenheims
David
Bill
|
$1,200
[21]
This 9-letter word means not perceptible by the eye
invisible
Bill
|
|
$1,600
[2]
In September 1950 a surprise landing at this port changed the course of the Korean War
Incheon
Chris
|
$2,000
[10]
He shares his full name (but probably not much else) with a P-Funk music legend
George Clinton
David
|
$1,600
[14]
The thrilling Zachary Taylor/Lewis Cass contest of 1848 was the first presidential election for this new wire service
the Associated Press
David
|
$1,600
[18]
"Everybody's Got Something" by this "Good Morning America" anchor
Robin Roberts
David
|
$1,600
[28]
In "Santa Maria Della Vittoria", you can see how Bernini depicted not the agony, but this of St. Teresa
the ecstasy
Chris
|
$1,600
[22]
The area around a place, or a synonym for proximity
vicinity
Chris
|
|
$2,000
[1]
This port & year-round resort lies at the southern tip of Israel & at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba
Eilat
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
1 of the 2 20th century VPs who had been governor of New York
Teddy Roosevelt (or Nelson Rockefeller)
Bill
|
$2,000
[15]
The first reporter in space, Japanese journalist Akiyama Toyohiro trained at Star City in this country
Russia
David
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
"Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll" by these 2 sisters
Ann & Nancy Wilson (of Heart)
David
|
$2,000
[29]
He likened crawling Christina Olson, the subject of his famed 1948 painting, to "a crab on a New England shore"
Andrew Wyeth
|
$2,000
[23]
Often found before "value", this adjective means belonging to a thing by its very nature
intrinsic
David
|
This title of a British ceremonial march comes from a line in Shakespeare that continues "of glorious war!"
"Pomp and Circumstance"