Amy Sumner — an attorney from Denver, Colorado
Sam Oglesby — a software support rep from Wilmington, Massachusetts
Kirstin Cutts — a graduate student from Austin, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $41,202)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirstin | $200 | $2,400 | $10,200 |
$8,201
4-day champion: $49,403 |
$10,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Sam | $2,600 | $5,000 | $8,200 |
$4,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
13 R, 1 W |
| Amy | $3,000 | $4,600 | $11,800 |
$3,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| PIZZA | GIMME A SLICE | CEMETERIES | LEAD SINGERS FOR THE BAND | IN ABSENTIA | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE |
|
$200
[3]
The pizza seenheredisplays the colors of the Italian flag with green mainly provided by this herb
basil
Amy
|
$200
[14]
If you divide up a circle like a pie, this is the geometric term for each slice; we've heard of the private one
sector
Kirstin
|
$200
[18]
Over the centuries, 91 popes have been buried in the grottos beneath this Vatican City site
St. Peter's
Sam
|
$200
[4]
David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar, Gary Cherone
Van Halen
Sam
|
$200
[1]
To put your money into a poker pot
bet (or ante)
Kirstin
|
$200
[26]
(Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop
cotton
Sam
|
|
$400
[10]
Made an offer he couldn't refuse, Herman Cain took over this pizza chain in 1986, rescuing it from bankruptcy
Godfather's
Amy
|
$400
[15]
CAT scans use X-ray images taken from many different angles to see this type of hyphenated slice of you
a cross-section
Amy
|
$400
[22]
In 1828 Mary Randolph of Washington, D.C. became the first person buried at what later became this cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
Amy
|
$400
[8]
Stevie Nicks, Peter Green, Bob Welch
Fleetwood Mac
Kirstin
|
$400
[2]
The opposite of mentally deranged
sane
Kirstin
|
$400
[30]
(Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers
the Tuskegee Airmen
Sam
|
|
$600
[11]
(Sarah tosses a pizza dough.) We're using synthetic pizza dough to practice our technique; good hand-tossed pizzas have a lot of this protein in the flour that traps carbon dioxide & helps the dough stretch
gluten
Amy
|
$600
[23]
In a poem, the owl & the pussy-cat "dined on mince & slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible" 1 of these utensils
a spoon
Kirstin
|
$600
[19]
Tourists in Buenos Aires are drawn to its La Recoleta cemetery mostly due to one grave--hers
Eva Perón
Kirstin
|
$600
[5]
Michael Hutchence, Jon Stevens, J.D. Fortune
INXS
Sam
|
$600
[9]
Prejudice
bias
Amy
|
$600
[27]
(Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayedherelikely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831
Nat Turner
Amy
|
|
$800
[12]
A Harris poll found out that this creature of family Engraulidae topped the list of least-favorite pie toppings
anchovy
Amy
|
$800
[24]
3-word term for a realistic depiction of everyday experience in a movie or novel
a slice of life
Sam
|
$800
[20]
This city's Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 has been featured in many of Anne Rice's novels
New Orleans
Sam
|
$800
[6]
Steve Perry, Steve Augeri, Arnel Pineda
Journey
Sam
|
$800
[16]
Fork prongs
tines
Amy
|
$800
[28]
(Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is arailroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s
Jim Crow laws
Amy
|
|
$1,000
[13]
Deep-dish & Sicilian are offerings at Taste Chicago, a Burbank pizza place from this actor & his wife Arlene
Joe Mantegna
Kirstin
|
$1,000
[25]
From the Old French for "slice", it's a pool of debt such as mortgages sold to an investor
a tranche
Amy
|
$1,000
[21]
This Jerusalem mount is the final resting place of Menachem Begin
the Mount of Olives
|
$1,000
[7]
Peter Cetera, Robert Lamm, Terry Kath
Chicago
Sam
|
$1,000
[17]
To help in the commission of a criminal act
abet
Kirstin
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
(Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) On Easter in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes & sang "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial
Marian Anderson
Amy
|
| THE 2016 NOBEL PRIZES | "O"POURRI | GEOLOGY | POETRY & BRIDGES | 4, 4 | TV & MOVIE JENNYS |
|
$400
[9]
For trying to stop a 50-year war with FARC guerrillas, president Juan Manuel Santos of this country won the Peace Prize
Colombia
Amy
|
$400
[6]
In 2015 this product line that makes shoes smell fresher celebrated the 40th anniv. of the Rotten Sneaker contest
Odor Eaters
Kirstin
|
$400
[25]
Tephra is a collective term for all the materials ejected into the air from one of these
a volcano
Amy
|
$400
[1]
In "The Waste Land", "A crowd flowed over" this; good thing it wasn't falling down
London Bridge
Kirstin
|
$400
[4]
Complimentary synonym for the Bible
the Good Book
Amy
|
$1,200
[8]
Movie audiences first took notice of her after she played perfect 10 Jenny Hanley in a 1979 movie
Bo Derek
Amy
|
|
$800
[10]
The Literature Prize went to this American singer & songwriter
Bob Dylan
Kirstin
|
$800
[7]
This craft produced the figures seen here
origami
Sam
|
$800
[24]
If rocks on 2 sides of a fracture have moved away from each other, it's a fault; if not, it's this, like an ankle or knee
a joint
Kirstin
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
A poem about it by its chief engineer says, "To north, the Redwood Empire's gates / To south, a happy playground waits"
the Golden Gate Bridge
Kirstin
|
$800
[5]
In an old joke a horse is asked, "Why" this sign of sadness?
a long face
Kirstin
|
$1,600
[12]
1970 movie that features the lines "Oliver, the problem is more serious than that. Jenny is very sick"
Love Story
Amy
|
|
$1,200
[13]
3 shared the Chemistry Prize for making machines on the scale of these groupings of atoms
molecules
|
$1,200
[19]
It's the largest restaurant chain owned & operated by Bloomin' Brands
Outback Steakhouse
Amy
|
$1,200
[23]
Chrysotile, the fibrous form of serpentine, provides around 95% of this heat-resistant material in commercial use
asbestos
|
$1,200
[3]
This "word"y romantic poet wrote a poem upon Westminster Bridge Sept. 3, 1802
(William) Wordsworth
Amy
|
$1,200
[16]
Colorful name for this creature, still endangered in parts of the United States
a gray wolf
Sam
|
$2,000
[26]
In 2012 Jenny Lee learned a lot about life & birthing babies in 1950s London as "Call" this person debuted on PBS
the Midwife
Kirstin
|
|
DD
$1,600
[14]
2 guys won for work in the theory of these, not just big-money deals for athletes but everyday economic arrangements
contracts
Amy
|
$1,600
[20]
New additions to this in 2015 included hoverboard, backronym & telly addict
the Oxford English Dictionary
Kirstin
|
— |
$1,600
[11]
There's a John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge over the Merrimack River in this, the poet's home state in New England
Massachusetts
Sam
|
$1,600
[17]
Fearfulness about starting something new, like a marriage
cold feet
Sam
|
— |
|
$2,000
[15]
Yoshinori Ohsumi won for studies of this internal cleaning process by cells, from the Greek for "self-eating"
autophagy
|
$2,000
[21]
In an 1869 short story, Bret Harte wrote about these exiles "of Poker Flat"
outcasts
Sam
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
"Bridge, lifting night to cycloramic crest of deepest day" is from his 1930 masterpiece "The Bridge"
Hart Crane
|
$2,000
[18]
The punch seen here, or any severe & painful setback
a body blow
|
— |
In 1942 a Maryland area was named for the Tibetan paradise in "Lost Horizon" but in 1953 was renamed this, for a young boy
Camp David