Claudia Stucke — a former writer and high school English teacher from Decatur, Georgia
Joshua Wennrich — a U.S. Air Force munitions officer originally from Canton, New York
Melissa Spencer — an adjunct physics instructor and stay-at-home mom from Des Moines, Iowa (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa | $1,000 | $1,800 | $10,500 |
$2,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Joshua | $3,200 | $4,400 | $8,800 |
$800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
17 R, 5 W |
| Claudia | $2,400 | $3,400 | $9,800 |
$18,800
New champion: $18,800 |
$9,800
14 R, 1 W |
| BESTSELLERS BY PARTIAL TITLE | MEDICAL MATTERS | I SING FOR THE TREES | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? | ADJECTIVES OFTHE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS |
|
$200
[9]
A 1988 scientific success, "Brief"
A Brief History of Time
Melissa
|
$200
[25]
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is in the same disease family as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, aka this
mad cow disease
Joshua
|
$200
[12]
Tony Orlando & Dawn urged us to "tie a yellow ribbon around" one of these
the old oak tree
Claudia
|
$200
[1]
In this sport, a googly is a bowled ball that breaks in an unexpected direction
cricket
Joshua
|
$200
[17]
(Gina Tognoni gives the clue as Phyllis from The Young and the Restless.) I will never forgive Sharon for pushing me down those stairs; no matter what she claims, it wasn't this adjective, like the tourist in the title of an Anne Tyler bestseller
accidental
Joshua
|
|
$400
[8]
From Liberated 1973, "Flying"
Fear of Flying
Claudia
|
$400
[15]
On the minus side, it's a type of food poisoning; on the plus, the toxin that causes it can be used to smooth wrinkles
botulism
Claudia
|
$400
[11]
In "The Hunger Games", Jennifer Lawrence sang of this depressing tree where they "strung up a man"
the hanging tree
Melissa
|
$400
[2]
The Sumerians used this system of writing
cuneiform
Melissa
|
$400
[18]
(Peter Bergman gives the clue as Jack from The Young and the Restless.) Being a business mogul, patriarch & all around good guy isn't as easy as it seems, with rivals like Victor Newman, sometimes I want to be angry, bloodthirsty, amoral & this adjective, kind of like a Bible missing the book named for a wife of Boaz
ruthless
Claudia
|
|
$600
[5]
A punctuation manual, "Shoots"
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Claudia
|
$600
[24]
Studying dementia & epilepsy are 2 common subspecialties within this ‑ology
neurology
Joshua
|
$600
[13]
In "Big River" Johnny Cash boasts that he "taught" this alliterative tree "how to cry"
a weeping willow
Joshua
|
$600
[3]
French slang for "friend", this Chevy muscle car can go from 0 to 60 in 5.9 seconds
Camaro
Joshua
|
$600
[19]
(Justin Hartley and Christian LeBlanc give the clue as Adam and Michael from The Young and the Restless.) "I can represent myself, Michael; I'm going to tell the whole truth on the witness stand no matter what""Listen, Adam, I've been on both sides of those prison bars; if you want to avoid years in jail, you'll be this adjective used in the name of a less vocal swan"
mute
Claudia
|
|
$800
[6]
An art-sy 1961 bio, "Ecstasy"
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Claudia
|
$800
[22]
A tick-transmitted infection, it gets its name from a Connecticut town
Lyme disease
Melissa
|
$800
[14]
Radiohead went melancholy with their hit about "fake" these trees
plastic trees
|
$800
[4]
This gap that's near where Kentucky, Virginia & Tennessee meet is named for a son of George II
Cumberland
Joshua
|
$800
[20]
(Mishael Morgan and Bryton James give the clue as Hilary and Devon from The Young and the Restless.) "Devon, please! You're like a teenage boy, we have the whole night to ourselves""I know, Hilary. I'm sorry. It's just that my passion for you, sometimes it's so overwhelming, so undeniable. It's this adjective, from the Latin for 'devour'"
voracious
Joshua
|
|
$1,000
[7]
Mary Karr joined this "Club"
The Liars' Club
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) Here is blood clotting normally at a wound site; here is blood that is missing or has low levels of clotting factor 8, meaning the person has the "A" type of this disease
hemophilia
Melissa
|
$1,000
[16]
Peter, Paul & Mary said the flower of this tree is "sweet" but the fruit, "impossible to eat"
the lemon tree
Melissa
|
$1,000
[10]
Chapter 5 of "Weather for Dummies" covers cloud names & is punningly titled "Getting" this type of cloud
cirrus
Joshua
|
$1,000
[21]
(Eric Braeden and Melody Thomas Scott give the clue as Victor and Nikki from The Young and the Restless.) "You expect me to believe you? Give you yet another chance? Are you serious?""I mean it this time, Victor; I'm off the booze for good. From this day forward I will be these 2 adjectives in the title of a 1988 Michael Keaton film"
clean and sober
Joshua
|
| FOLLOW THE LEADER | DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE! | HOT POTATO | CAPTURE THE FLAG | "TAG", YOU'RE IT | NO MORE GAMES |
|
$400
[30]
As Israeli prime minister: David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, her
Golda Meir
Joshua
|
$400
[29]
It's the alliterative bird doing its thing here
diving duck
Joshua
|
$400
[28]
McDonald's Big Breakfast includes biscuits & these hot potatoes
hash browns
Joshua
|
$400
[1]
A Seminole woman scatters flowers on the flag of this state
Florida
Claudia
|
$400
[2]
Rhyming adjective for a diverse group that gets a job done
ragtag
Claudia
|
$400
[3]
On Sept. 28, 2014 this 40-year-old shortstop played his last MLB game & even though it was in Boston, the crowd cheered him
Derek Jeter
Melissa
|
|
$800
[15]
As British prime minister: Viscount Goderich, the Duke of Wellington, this tea bagger
Earl Grey
Melissa
|
$800
[7]
General term for a male duck, or a specific one for a Canadian rapper, which kinda sounds like a type of duck, too
Drake
Melissa
|
$800
[24]
Shepherd's pie has a traditional crust of this on top
whipped potatoes
Claudia
|
$1,200
[5]
Thisnation covers 130,000 square miles of Nordic Europe
Finland
Joshua
|
$800
[11]
To make someone angry or even make him your enemy
antagonize
Joshua
|
$800
[20]
His last game with the Packers was Jan. 20, 2008; his last with the Vikings, Jan. 2, 2011; then came his final retirement
Brett Favre
Melissa
|
|
$1,200
[14]
In Monaco: Louis II, Rainer III, him
Albert II
Joshua
|
$1,200
[8]
The bar-headed goose's migration includes flying over this mountain range at altitudes exceeding 23,000'
the Himalayas
Joshua
|
$1,200
[25]
The dough for this dish, Italian for "dumplings", is often made with potatoes
gnocchi
Claudia
|
DD
$1,500
[4]
The flag of this Asian democracy depicts a yin-yang symbol in its center
South Korea
Melissa
|
$1,200
[6]
From the Italian for "to cut", it's pasta cut into long, flat strips
tagliatelle
Melissa
Joshua
|
$1,200
[21]
He was 52 on April 11, 1980 when he played his last NHL game
Gordie Howe
Joshua
|
|
$1,600
[13]
In Chile: Salvador Allende, then this dictator
Pinochet
Melissa
|
$1,600
[9]
If you can name one wild duck species, it might be this one, Anas platyrhynchos, with a green head & chestnut breast
mallard
Claudia
|
$1,600
[26]
A mollusk is in the name of this dish, sliced potatoes layered with a creamy sauce
scalloped potatoes
Claudia
|
$1,600
[12]
2 sprigs of sagebrush, the state flower, surround a single star on this state's blue flag
Nevada
Claudia
|
$1,600
[17]
It's the lower house in the German legislative system
Bundestag
Joshua
|
$1,600
[22]
He played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards April 16, 2003
Michael Jordan
Joshua
|
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
As monarch: James IV, James V, her
Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart)
Melissa
|
$2,000
[10]
In 1952 the population of this double-talk Hawaiian goose was about 30 but today it thrives on Kauai
nene
Melissa
|
$2,000
[27]
Yee-ha! I've struck it rich with these potatoes that were developed in Canada and are perfect for boiling
Yukon Gold
Melissa
|
$2,000
[19]
Symbols on the flag of this country come from a flag flown during resistance to French colonialism
Algeria
Claudia
|
$2,000
[18]
They use it to get the point across in Manila
Tagalog
Melissa
|
$2,000
[23]
It was the 4th of October, 1987, so of course this A's, Angels & Yankees star went 2 for 3 with a hit in his final at-bat
Reggie Jackson
Joshua
|
The name of this character who lives in a forest is a shortening of an Italian word for a newborn
Bambi