Jessica Kiefer — a reference librarian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jen Kadzie — a technical service manager from Chicago, Illinois
Claudia Stucke — a former writer and high school English teacher from Decatur, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claudia | $600 | $2,600 | $11,800 |
$11,800
2-day champion: $30,600 |
$12,800
13 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jen | $1,400 | $5,200 | $16,400 |
$9,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$16,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Jessica | $1,000 | $3,400 | $6,200 |
$1,200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
12 R, 4 W |
| OLD TESTAMENT PEEPS | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS | WOMEN ON TV | THE 18th CENTURY | SINGING | FOR YOUR SUPPER |
|
$200
[4]
1 Samuel describes him as "a champion out of the camp of the Philistines... whose height was six cubits and a span"
Goliath
Claudia
|
$200
[23]
Bourbon is one type of this product
whiskey
Jen
|
$200
[1]
(I'm Bellamy Young.) "Scandal isn't my first venture in D.C. TV; in 2004 I played North Carolina lawyer Marylou Meriwether on an episode of this show named for part of the White House
The West Wing
Jen
|
$200
[2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Easter Island.) When Captain Cook reached Easter Island in 1774, he found many of the great statues toppled & the Polynesian population decimated by this type of localized conflict
a civil war
Jessica
|
$200
[13]
A barcarolle is a song traditionally sung by a gondolier of this city
Venice
Jen
|
$200
[16]
Of cheese, seafood, or dessert, it's what you're having if fruits de mer is on the menu
seafood
Jessica
|
|
$400
[5]
Esther was the Jewish wife of the King of this land & saved the Jews there from annihilation
Persia
Jessica
|
$400
[24]
E is represented by this, this, this, this
echo
Jen
|
$400
[9]
Before seeing red on "Orange is the New Black", Kate Mulgrew captained this "Star Trek" vessel
Voyager
Jessica
|
$400
[3]
Heard here is a piece from this German composer's "English Suites" composed around 1715
Bach
Claudia
|
$400
[14]
"Scoobidy zip zip zippidee be bop bo di oh do" is an example of this technique
scat
Claudia
|
$400
[22]
Larb & yum are Thai types of this relatively healthful food preparation, with a lot more than lettuce
salad
Claudia
|
|
$600
[6]
The prophet Elijah was victorious over the priests of this Phoenician god
Baal
Claudia
|
$600
[25]
Check in, check out; H is this
hotel
Jen
|
$600
[10]
Lena Headey took a naked walk of shame! shame! shame!... on this drama; someone will eventually pay! pay! pay!
Game of Thrones
|
$600
[17]
In 1765 he gave a rousing speech in the House of Burgesses to support his legislation against the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
Jessica
|
$800
[20]
This chief singer of the liturgy in Jewish worship is also known as a hazzan
cantor
Claudia
|
$600
[28]
Albondigas is a traditional Mexican this; it's the meatball type, so it's awesome as an entree
soup
Jessica
|
|
$800
[7]
Joshua led the Israelites into this promised land
Canaan
Jessica
|
$800
[26]
F is this dance done in 4/4 time in a slow-quick-quick rhythm
foxtrot
Jen
|
$800
[11]
This actress defending our "homeland" as CIA officer Carrie Mathison
Claire Danes
Jessica
|
$800
[18]
In 1795 the currency unit called the livre tournois was replaced by this
the franc
Claudia
|
DD
$1,000
[15]
The primo uomo is the lead male singer in an opera; this is the lead female singer
prima donna
Claudia
|
$800
[29]
Fans of "Hell's Kitchen" are used to hearing Gordon Ramsay yelling about the status of this dish
Beef Wellington
Jen
|
|
$1,000
[8]
Ruth was a convert to Judaism from these people
the Moabites
|
$1,000
[27]
Take a swing at it--G is this
golf
Jessica
|
$1,000
[12]
Connie Britton said her character on this show was inspired by several country singers including Faith Hill & Reba McEntire
Nashville
Jen
|
$1,000
[19]
In 1737 Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler "irrationally" adopted this Greek letter to use in math notation
pi
Jen
|
$1,000
[21]
Also called overtone-singing, this Asian style involves a single vocalist sounding more than one pitch simultaneously
throat singing
|
$1,000
[30]
A dish of red snapper in a spicy tomato sauce is named for this state in Eastern Mexico
Veracruz
|
| 5-LETTER FILM FEST | RECENT SCIENCE | FELINE LIBRARY | NAMESAKES | THE BALTIC | IT'S A "SHAM" |
|
$400
[5]
1994:Braking banned on Bullock's big bus
Speed
Jen
|
$400
[13]
Using a process powered by the sun, chemists at GWU are capturing this greenhouse gas & turning it into nanofibers
carbon dioxide
Jen
|
$400
[2]
Thing 1 & Thing 2 are characters in this Seussical work about finding something to do on a rainy day
The Cat in the Hat
Jen
|
$400
[3]
(Hi, I'm Ginger Zee of Good Morning America.) My dad grew up in the Netherlands & learned English by watching this sitcom; I'm named for Ginger but I think I'm more of a Mary Ann
Gilligan's Island
Jen
|
$400
[19]
In a 1975 accord signed in this Finnish capital, Baltic nations agreed to take steps to address the sea's pollution
Helsinki
Jen
|
$400
[14]
It can be any of several plants having 3 leaves, such as wood sorrel
shamrock
Jessica
|
|
$800
[6]
1995:Spacey slyly slays city's sinners (sorry, spoiler)
Seven
Jessica
|
$800
[21]
Researchers in Spain have given this character's name to an increase in temperature around the nose when people lie
Pinocchio
Jen
|
$800
[1]
"Did he who made the lamb make thee?" pondered this author in his poem "The Tyger"
William Blake
Jessica
|
$800
[4]
This English nurse was born May 12, 1820 & named for the city of her birth
Florence Nightingale
Claudia
|
$1,600
[27]
For centuries, the port of Gdansk has been known for its artisans of this resin, the "Baltic gold of the north"
amber
Jen
|
$800
[15]
In 1930 Dr. John Breck created what is said to be the world's first pH-balanced one of these
shampoo
Jessica
|
|
$1,200
[7]
1998:Snipes stalks supernatural suckers
Blade
Jen
|
$1,200
[22]
2015 computer simulations suggest a collision between 2 of this planet's moons may have created its "F" ring
Saturn
Jessica
|
$1,200
[10]
Lampedua's "Il Gattopardo", this wild cat, became an epic film starring Burt Lancaster
The Leopard
|
$1,200
[28]
(I'm Elon Musk.) Tesla Motors was named for Nikola Tesla, the early 20th-century visionary behind such ground-breaking ideas as using rotating magnetic fields & this reversing direction electrical flow
AC (alternating current)
|
$2,000
[26]
Until 1948 this "K"anal between the Baltic & North Seas was officially known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal
Kiel Canal
|
$1,200
[16]
A total mess
shambles
Claudia
|
|
DD
$1,400
[8]
2008:Pop's princess pilfered in Paris; purloiner's payback painful, prolonged
Taken
Jen
|
$1,600
[23]
Oxford research finds mammals evolved 10 times faster during this period 145-200 million years ago than any other
Jurassic
|
$1,600
[11]
Winston Churchill is an unfortunate cat run over & buried in an ancient burial ground in this 1983 horror novel
Pet Sematary
Claudia
|
$1,600
[25]
Railroad pioneer Arthur Stillwell gave his name to this Texas city, Janis Joplin's hometown
Port Arthur
|
— |
$1,600
[17]
In the 1960s he & the Pharaohs reached the Top 10 with "Wooly Bully"
Sam the Sham
Claudia
Jessica
|
|
$2,000
[9]
1955:Butcher Borgnine balks at Bronx bachelorhood
Marty
Jessica
|
$2,000
[24]
Chinese scientists captured the first video & spectrum of the elusive ball type of this atmospheric phenomenon
lightning
Jen
|
$2,000
[12]
Joy Adamson wrote "Pippa: The Cheetah and Her Cubs" but is more famous for this 1960 book about raising a lion
Born Free
Claudia
|
DD
$2,200
[20]
A comic strip tiger was named for this author of "Leviathan"
Thomas Hobbes
Jen
|
— |
$2,000
[18]
Seen here is this character from one of many movie versions of a Dickens novel
Miss Havisham
Claudia
|
Russia took out $200 million in insurance, anticipating any damage that might be caused by this in 2001
the crash of the Mir space platform