Ricky Young — a tax accountant originally from Canyonville, Oregon
Kim Rohrer — a web production manager from Ossining, New York
Ken Sansone — an assistant attorney general from Bedford, New Hampshire (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,900)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ken | $2,600 | $2,200 | $1,000 |
$1,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,000
11 R, 5 W |
| Kim | $1,200 | $4,400 | $12,400 |
$22,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ricky | $4,200 | $6,600 | $25,200 |
$25,599
New champion: $25,599 |
$21,800
23 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| BIRD WORDS & PHRASES | U.S. STATES | THEY SING, THEY ACT | THERE'S CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US | 7 UP | BRING YOUR "B" GAME |
|
$200
[26]
The most direct route is straight as this bird flies
the crow
Kim
|
$200
[14]
The coldest on average
Alaska
Ken
|
$200
[2]
"Evergreen","Yentl"
Barbra Streisand
Ken
|
$200
[18]
Chemically, this stimulant is the principal alkaloid of coca leaves
cocaine
Ken
|
$200
[24]
In the 100s B.C. Antipater of Sidon made one of the earliest known references to this group of sites
the Seven Wonders of the World
Kim
|
$200
[10]
Here's the specialized board for this game
backgammon
Ken
|
|
$400
[27]
You might be "happy as" this bird whose name also means a merry, carefree adventure
a lark
Ricky
|
$400
[15]
The northernmost
Alaska
Ricky
|
$400
[6]
"Pump Ya Brakes" (featuring Snoop Dogg),"After Earth"
Will Smith
Ricky
|
$400
[19]
The EPA says it's a problem if water has more of this element than 15 parts per billion; in 2015 Flint, Mich. tested at 27
lead
Kim
|
$400
[23]
At about 3 million square miles, it's the smallest of the world's 7 continents
Australia
Ricky
|
$400
[5]
Each player's fleet includes a submarine & a destroyer in this classic board game
Battleship
Ricky
|
|
$600
[28]
Something that serves as a warning to others is this bird "in a coal mine"
a canary
Kim
|
$600
[13]
The westernmost
Alaska
Kim
|
$600
[7]
"Edge of the Earth","Dallas Buyers Club"
Jared Leto
Ken
Ricky
|
$600
[20]
From 1947 to 1951, after graduating from Oxford, she worked as a research chemist before becoming a world leader
Thatcher
Kim
|
$600
[11]
Play well at "Lucky Seven" on this TV show & you can buy a car for a dollar
The Price Is Right
Ken
|
$600
[1]
Appropriately, the 2015 world championships in this Italian bowling game were held in Rome, Italy
bocce
Kim
|
|
$800
[29]
It's the avian name for the type of compartment seen here
pigeonholes
Ricky
|
$800
[16]
The one with the most coastline
Alaska
Ken
|
$800
[8]
"Dance Again" (featuring Pitbull),"The Wedding Planner"
Jennifer Lopez
Ken
|
$800
[21]
Less than 7 represents acidity on this scale that mostly ranges from 0 to 14
pH
Ricky
|
$800
[12]
The 7 classification groups of these include herding, sporting & working
dogs
Ricky
|
$800
[3]
In the book "Casino Royale", 007's mission is to ruin a Russian operative at this royal casino game
baccarat
Ricky
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In carpentry, it's a type of joint, leading to its other meaning of "fit together harmoniously"
dovetail
Kim
|
$1,000
[17]
The first alphabetically
Alabama
Kim
|
$1,000
[9]
"Naughty Girl","Austin Powers in Goldmember"
Beyoncé
Ricky
|
$1,000
[22]
A boiling dilute acid breaks down starch into a simple sugar called this
glucose
Ken
|
DD
$800
[25]
When the G7 economic group was formed in 1976, this was its only Asian country
Japan
Kim
|
$1,000
[4]
In the movie "Atlantic City", Susan Sarandon played an aspiring dealer of this game
blackjack
Ricky
|
| A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | ME & MY LITERARY ARROW | VILLAINS IN THE COMICS | WORLD LANDMARKS | 19th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION | "GET" GOING |
|
$400
[26]
Carl XVI Gustaf, current king of Sweden, is the great-great-grandson of this British monarch
Queen Victoria
|
$400
[5]
In Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe", the mysterious archer called Locksley turns out to be this legendary bowman
Robin Hood
Kim
|
$400
[8]
Otto Octavius is the real name of this heavily armed Spider-Man villain
Doctor Octopus
Ricky
|
$400
[17]
Worshippers at this Jerusalem holy site insert bits of paper containing written prayers into its cracks
the Wailing Wall
Kim
|
$400
[20]
This author wrote about traveling from Missouri to Nevada on a stagecoach he called a "cradle on wheels"
Mark Twain
Ken
|
$400
[2]
A lump of something, perhaps gold
a nugget
Ken
|
|
$800
[27]
At the 1912 Olympic games, Gustav V told this American, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world"
Jim Thorpe
Kim
|
$800
[6]
The son of King Thranduil, this skilled archer is the elven member of Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Ring"
Legolas
Ricky
|
$800
[9]
No 3-strikes law in Metropolis--Superman first fought this alliterative arch-foe in 1940
Lex Luthor
Ricky
|
$800
[15]
Around 1400 B.C. Thutmose IV ordered a team to dig out the buried front paws of this landmark
the Sphinx
Ricky
|
$800
[19]
This city's Market Street cable railway began running in 1883
San Francisco
Kim
|
$800
[4]
Old-timey word meaning to procreate
to beget
Kim
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Deposed in 1809, Gustav IV Adolf went into exile using this last name, which makes sense as his father was Gustav III
Gustafsson
Ken
|
$1,200
[18]
In "The Inheritors" by William Golding, Lok is one of these humanoids, doomed after meeting bow-&-arrow-toting modern man
a Neanderthal
Ken
Ricky
|
$1,200
[10]
Marvel says this Fantastic Four foe is 6'2", 225 in civvies; 6'7", 415 in armor
Dr. Doom
Ricky
|
$1,200
[13]
The pediment of his memorial contains a sculpture of the 5 members of the Declaration of Independence Drafting Committee
Jefferson
Ricky
|
$1,200
[21]
By 1886 you didn't have to ferry across the Mersey from this city to Birkenhead; you could take a train tunnel
Liverpool
Ricky
|
$1,200
[3]
It's about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg
Gettysburg
Kim
|
|
$1,600
[29]
An amateur botanist, Gustav VI Adolf was an expert on this flower whose name is Greek for "rose tree"
the Rhododendron
|
$1,600
[24]
The story of a band of outlaws during the Wars of the Roses, "The Black Arrow" is an 1888 novel by this Scotsman
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ken
|
$1,600
[11]
This dick sent Benny the Grip to prison in 1955
Dick Tracy
Ken
|
$1,600
[12]
Sainte-Chappelle, with fabulousstained glass windows, stands near the more famous Notre-Dame Cathedral on this island
the Île de la Cité (in Paris)
|
$2,000
[23]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows photos of transports on the monitor.) The disparity in wheel sizes of a tricycle duplicates the differentiated wheel sizes of this adult transport that first rolled upon the world stage in the 1870s
a penny-farthing
Ricky
|
$1,600
[1]
The L.A. art center named for this tycoon opened in 1997
(Paul) Getty
Kim
|
|
$2,000
[30]
A patron of the arts, Gustav III reigned over an intellectual & cultural period of the 18th c. called Sweden's this
Enlightenment
Ken
|
$2,000
[25]
In the "Odyssey", for a chance to marry this woman, you will have to first string her husband Odysseus' bow
Penelope
Kim
|
$2,000
[14]
The Red Skull debuted as Hitler's henchman in the March 1941 first issue of this comic
Captain America
Ricky
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
The El Caracol structure at the ruins of this ancient Mayan city in Mexico served as a 10th century observatory
Chichen Itza
Ricky
|
DD
$4,000
[22]
The first production one of these in the U.S. was 1898's Orient-Aster, preceding the Indian brand by 3 years
motorcycle
Ricky
|
$2,000
[7]
Figuratively, to sip of nepenthe
forget
|
This Major League team has no mascot today, but from 1979 to 1981 used a mustachioed fella named Dandy
the Yankees