Holly Stewart — a tax attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
Rebecca Wald — a psychologist from Baltimore, Maryland
Grant McSheffrey — a software developer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (whose 3-day cash winnings total $69,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | $2,000 | $4,000 | $7,200 |
$4,799
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Rebecca | $5,200 | $6,600 | $20,200 |
$31,200
New champion: $31,200 |
$20,200
22 R, 1 W |
| Holly | $1,800 | $1,800 | $15,400 |
$5,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| YOUR IDIOM IS FOREIGN TO ME | WOMEN IN HISTORY | COLLEGE COLLAGE | "I" TUNES | ALSO A ROMAN DEITY | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE |
|
$200
[1]
A German idiom for "a pig in a poke" is "buying" this animal "in a sack"; time to let it "out of the bag"
a cat
Holly
|
$200
[11]
In 1970 Britain's prime minister Edward Heath appointed her secretary for education
Margaret Thatcher
Grant
|
$200
[16]
2 big phrases at this state school: "Til Gabriel blows his horn" & "Hook 'em"
(University of) Texas
Grant
|
$200
[19]
In 1962 Tony Bennett hit the Top 40 with this tune; he's sung it a few times since
"I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
|
$200
[6]
Spock's planet
Vulcan
Grant
|
$200
[18]
In "Lady Windermere's Fan", he wrote, "I can resist everything except temptation"
(Oscar) Wilde
Grant
|
|
$400
[3]
In Spanish, poner las manos en el fuego, or "to put" these "in the fire", means to have 100% faith in someone
your hands
Holly
|
$400
[12]
Before becoming prime minister in 1966, she served as India's minister of information & broadcasting
Indira Gandhi
Rebecca
|
$400
[17]
In 1858 this university went co-ed when it took on the Tallahassee Female Academy
Florida State University
Grant
Holly
|
$1,000
[24]
The Beach Boys were "gettin' bugged drivin' up & down the same old strip" in this 1964 song
"I Get Around"
Rebecca
|
$400
[7]
Rigg, Vreeland or Nyad
Diana
Rebecca
|
$600
[21]
In "Arms and the Man", by him, a fugitive soldier exposes some villagers' romantic ideas about war
George Bernard Shaw
Rebecca
|
|
$600
[2]
You're probably familiar with carpe diem, but the less-used carpe noctem translates to this
seize the night
Grant
|
$600
[13]
In 1770, at age 14, she married Louis XVI by proxy in Vienna; the 2 had never met
Marie Antoinette
Holly
|
$600
[25]
The Walsh School of Foreign Service is part of this D.C. university
Georgetown
Rebecca
Holly
|
— |
$600
[8]
Created in 1932, the U.K. version of this candy bar has chocolate, caramel & nougat
Mars
Holly
|
$800
[22]
In the satiric 1729 "A Modest Proposal", this author suggested dining on poor Irish children to control poverty
Jonathan Swift
Grant
|
|
$800
[4]
Vai a fava, Portuguese for "go to the fava bean", is like our slang "get" this 4-letter word, meaning "go away"
get lost
Rebecca
|
$800
[14]
Dolores Ibárurri, a heroine of the losing side in this 1930s war, remained honorary president of the Communist Party until 1989
the Spanish Civil War
Rebecca
|
$800
[26]
Home to the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, this university is known as the "Harvard of the South"
Tulane
Grant
Rebecca
Holly
|
— |
$800
[9]
If you say this is rising, that means it's getting hotter
mercury
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[23]
'Tis this 3-named Irish poet & Nobel laureate seen here
William Butler Yeats
Holly
|
|
$1,000
[5]
For us, this animal's "years" means a long time; in France, "to jump from the cock to" it is a non-logical conversation
a donkey
Rebecca
|
$1,000
[15]
In 1903 she starred in the play "Hatchetation" & got the chance to smash a saloon in one scene
Carry Nation
Grant
|
$1,000
[27]
This U. is home to its state Writers Hall of Fame; honorees include Joel Chandler Harris & Alice Walker
the University of Georgia
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
The third-stage engine of this type of rocket used for Apollo flights to the moon kicked things to 25,000 MPH
Saturn
Rebecca
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
Spoiler alert: the title character of this absurd 1950s play sends word that he will arrive, but never does
Waiting for Godot
Grant
|
| MOVIE STUDIOS | COLUMBIA | PARAMOUNT | WARNER BROS | UNIVERSAL PICTURES | "M_G_M" |
|
$400
[12]
Before the Weinstein Company, Bob & Harvey founded this film corporation named after their parents--Mom was Miriam
Miramax
Grant
Rebecca
|
$400
[13]
Columbia, Penn. got its name in the hope that Congress would make it this, an effort that missed in 1790 by a few votes
the capital
Holly
|
$400
[18]
The head honchos of the NFL & Major League Baseball share this title
Commissioner
Holly
|
$400
[23]
Glenn Warner, Cornell's 1894 football team captain, go this nickname because he was older than most students
Pop Warner
Rebecca
|
$400
[11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an image of the Milky Way on the monitor.) In a view of the Milky Way's core, the blue haze is light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by the super-massive one of these regions at our galaxy's center
a black hole
Holly
|
$400
[2]
Charisma or personal charm
magnetism
Rebecca
|
|
$800
[27]
United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks and this acting sweetheart
Mary Pickford
|
$1,200
[15]
Columbia Heights is a city on the Mississippi River in this state where the river begins
Minnesota
Grant
|
$800
[19]
The chief administrative officer of the United Nations gets this hyphenated title
Secretary-General
Rebecca
|
$800
[24]
This Vermont regiment led by Seth Warner was crucial in the 1777 Battle of Bennington
the Green Mountain Boys
Grant
|
$800
[10]
A dramatic Hubblephotoshows gigantic columns of dust and gas known as the pillars of this Biblical event
the pillars of creation
|
$800
[1]
It's no. 12 on your periodic table
magnesium
Rebecca
|
|
$1,200
[28]
This man once controlled 1/3 of the world's cinemas; his co. later merged with 20th Century Pictures
(William) Fox
Holly
|
$1,600
[16]
Columbia University in New York City is affiliated with this women's school, one of the Seven Sisters
Barnard
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[20]
Apart from world champion, it's the highest title given by the World Chess Federation
Grandmaster
Rebecca
|
$1,200
[25]
In "The People v. O.J. Simpson", this former "Cosby Show" actor got behind the wheel as Al Cowlings
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[8]
Seen here are two galaxies merging, forming new groups called star these, with thousands of twinklers in each
clusters
Holly
|
$1,200
[3]
A very, very, very small life form
microorganism
Rebecca
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Artist Robert Hunt used his son as the model for the boy-fishing-from-the-moon logo used by this studio
DreamWorks
Holly
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
You can find the 32-mile-long Columbia glacier just west of Valdez in this state
Alaska
Holly
|
$1,600
[21]
The highest order of angels, they're described in Isaiah as each having 6 wings
seraphim
Rebecca
|
$1,600
[26]
This Virginia politician gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2008
Mark Warner
|
$2,000
[6]
You can't refuse our offer to come up with this animal nickname for anebulain the constellation Orion
the Horsehead Nebula
Holly
|
$1,600
[4]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a master of this literary genre
magical realism
Grant
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Walt Disney's son-in-law launched this subsidiary that shares a name with the jester in "As You Like It"
Touchstone Productions
|
$2,000
[17]
Fear not, the Columbia River is unafraid to receive this winding, coiling river, its biggest tributary
the Snake River
Rebecca
|
$2,000
[22]
Once the highest active rank in the U.S. Navy, this type of admiral wore 5 stars
fleet admiral
Holly
|
$2,000
[7]
In a line of succession, husband-wise, this Virginia politician followed Richard Burton & Richard Burton
John Warner
Rebecca
|
DD
$4,000
[9]
Hubble images have helped scientists produce a3-D mapof this unseen stuff that makes up most of the universe's mass
dark matter
Holly
|
$2,000
[5]
Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation should get this every year
a mammogram
Holly
|
William Goldman asked his daughters what he should write about; they said these 2 things, which he combined
The Princess Bride