Brent Povis — a board game designer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Eric Grebing — an educational researcher from Raleigh, North Carolina
Natasha Gainey — an artist from Decatur, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natasha | $2,400 | $6,200 | $11,400 |
$4,900
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,400
18 R, 3 W |
| Eric | $1,600 | $1,000 | $17,400 |
$9,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Brent | $2,600 | $5,000 | $12,400 |
$24,789
New champion: $24,789 |
$10,800
15 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| OOH, LOOK, SHINY THINGS! | AMERICAN HISTORY | STREET SMARTS | IN TROUBLE WITH THE FCC | LET'S HIT THE "BAR" | DRINKS ARE ON ME! |
|
$200
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a sparkler.) A common component of sparklers is the dust of this element, the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust; when the dirt ignites, it sparkles
aluminum
Eric
Brent
|
$200
[19]
In 1700 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all priests of this faith to hit the road
Catholicism
Brent
|
$200
[6]
You'll find this lightly damaged historical object at 6th & Market in Philly
the Liberty Bell
Brent
|
$200
[25]
A $550,000 fine on CBS for her revealing 2004 Super Bowl halftime show was later overturned
Janet Jackson
Natasha
|
$200
[1]
This livestock fencing has several points to make
barbed wire
Natasha
|
$200
[21]
Stolichinaya, a brand of this alcohol, says it's "The mule that always kicks"
vodka
Brent
|
|
$400
[26]
By making them durable, Herbert Lieberman was the Henry Ford of these shiny disks seen on skaters & Michael Jackson
sequins
Eric
|
$400
[11]
Without the knowledge of Congress, James Madison took possession of West Florida from this country
Spain
Natasha
|
$400
[16]
In "The Blues Brothers", Elwood gives his address as 1060 W. Addison, which turns out to be this sporting venue
Wrigley Field
Natasha
|
$400
[24]
A $500,000 hit for a discussion about Richard Gere was one of many fines for this shock jock; no wonder he went to satellite!
Howard Stern
Natasha
|
$400
[2]
The fruit seenherewas named for this man
(Enoch) Bartlett
Eric
|
$800
[28]
This drink of fermented honey & water goes back to Biblical times
mead
Natasha
|
|
$600
[14]
Referring to its rapid movement & shiny surface, quicksilver is an old name for this liquid metal
mercury
Natasha
|
$600
[8]
It was signed in 1620 to get the Pilgrims to pull together
the Mayflower Compact
Brent
|
$600
[17]
Number 10 this street was first home to a British prime minister in 1735
Downing Street
Natasha
|
$600
[20]
The FCC rebuked NBC for a 1937 radio skit about Adam & Eve by this suggestive "I'm No Angel" blonde
Mae West
Natasha
|
$600
[3]
A savage person, or Robert Howard's "Conan"
a barbarian
Eric
|
$1,000
[27]
A beer with a shot of whiskey is called this, also an occupation
a boilermaker
Brent
|
|
$800
[13]
These artificial gems are named for a European river
rhinestones
|
$800
[7]
At the end of WWI the 2 major unions in this industry were the ACWA & the ILGWU
garment workers
Natasha
|
DD
$600
[10]
Folks from Oscar Wilde to Liza Minnelli have hit Jean Lafitte's Old Absinthe House at this street & Bienville, y'all
Bourbon Street
Brent
|
$800
[22]
On May 17, 1972 this comedian recorded his "7 Dirty Words" bit & the FCC started dealing with that a year later
George Carlin
Natasha
|
$800
[4]
Boyz II Men would be an appropriate choice to play at a party after this synagogue ceremony
a bar mitzvah
Eric
|
— |
|
$1,000
[15]
Small bits of pyrite in this alliterative blue rock give the appearance of gold specks
lapis lazuli
Natasha
|
$1,000
[9]
In 1848 the campaign slogan for this political party included the words "free speech, free labor, free men"
Free Soil
Brent
|
$1,000
[18]
1,800 men live at 1300 Metropolitan in this city in Kansas, though not by choice; they don't get out of the house much
Leavenworth
Brent
|
$1,000
[23]
In 1989 a station was fined $2,000 for playing "Erotic City" by this funky musician
Prince
Eric
|
$1,000
[5]
Associated with stunt flying, it also means to conduct a speaking tour in many small rural towns
barnstorming
Natasha
|
— |
| MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS | 5-LETTER WORDS | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS | THE INDIAN OCEAN | "R" SONG |
|
$400
[21]
The memorial over this sunken battleship is officially part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
the USS Arizona
Eric
|
$400
[1]
Partially melted snow or ice, or a fund used for corrupt purposes such as graft or bribery
slush
Eric
|
$400
[26]
The story of this brave engineer began in Missouri in 1863
Casey Jones
Natasha
Eric
|
$400
[13]
This book that won a Pulitzer in 1961 depicts racial injustice in a small Southern town
To Kill a Mockingbird
Eric
|
$400
[17]
The Indian Ocean's largest island in area, it lies about 250 miles from the African mainland
Madagascar
Brent
|
$400
[5]
For this 1967 Aretha Franklin No. 1 hit, you can say or spell the title
"Respect"
Natasha
|
|
$800
[22]
Here's one of these Depression-era lines as depicted in bronze at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C.
a bread line
Eric
|
$800
[2]
A light brown color, or a type of port wine
tawny
Brent
|
$800
[27]
This manager of the Philadelphia A's from 1901 through 1950 came into the world as Cornelius McGillicuddy in 1862
Connie Mack
|
$800
[9]
In this author's "Lonesome Dove", a motley assortment of heroes, outlaws & more live & die in the title Texas town
(Larry) McMurtry
Eric
Brent
|
$800
[20]
The area north of 10 degrees south latitude is this "zone", for the wet wind system that reverses direction with the seasons
monsoon
Natasha
|
$800
[7]
Adele took home a 2011 Grammy for doing this
"Rolling In The Deep"
Brent
|
|
$1,200
[23]
This monument in St. Louis gets its name from the city's role as one "to the West"
the Gateway Arch
Brent
|
$1,200
[3]
It's the edge of a steep slope, or the point at which something is to begin
the brink
|
$1,200
[28]
"The Age of Innocence" had yet to begin when she was born into New York's high society in 1862
Edith Wharton
Natasha
|
$1,600
[11]
A young woman's passion for a priest drives much of this epic saga of 3 generations of Australian sheep farmers
The Thorn Birds
Brent
|
$1,600
[18]
The Indian Ocean's deepest point, 25,000' down, is in a trench off the coast of this Indonesian island of the same name
Java
Natasha
Eric
|
$1,200
[14]
It was The Clash's title suggestion for livening up the medina
"Rock The Casbah"
Natasha
|
|
$1,600
[25]
(Alex Trebek reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) The inscription "No day shall erase you from the memory of time" is from this work by Virgil about the legendary founder of what would become Rome
the Aeneid
Natasha
|
$1,600
[4]
From the Middle English, it's a small, miserable dwelling
a hovel
|
— |
$2,000
[12]
The title bird is actually an anarchist in Tom Robbins' "Still Life with" this
Woodpecker
Natasha
|
$2,000
[19]
The Indian Ocean is home to the 2 known species of this "fossil fish" first discovered in 1938
a coelacanth
Eric
|
$1,600
[15]
Why you gotta be so this title of a 2014 No. 1 hit by Magic!?
"Rude"
Eric
|
|
$2,000
[24]
A monument of Balto honors the sled dogs that brought a serum for this "d"isease during a 1925 epidemic in Nome
diphtheria
Brent
|
$2,000
[6]
This mechanical device for lifting or hauling has a drum around which a cable is wound
a winch
Eric
|
— |
DD
$4,000
[10]
In this novel, a Tulane law student discovers facts that people will kill for, & if she doesn't get help, she might be next
The Pelican Brief
Eric
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
Northern extensions of the Indian Ocean include the Arabian Sea off India's west coast & this bay to the east
the Bay of Bengal
Brent
|
$2,000
[16]
The Carpenters found the weather & the calendar a drag in this 1971 hit
"Rainy Days And Mondays"
Eric
|
Collective nickname for the group who "formed the crest of the South Bend Cyclone"
the Four Horsemen