Jim Hope — a writer and producer from Tustin, California
Elspeth Green — a graduate student from Princeton, New Jersey
Deborah Beams — a certified public accountant from Dallas, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah | $800 | $600 | $4,400 |
$1,300
2-day champion: $23,300 |
$5,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Elspeth | $2,400 | $7,000 | $11,800 |
$599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,800
15 R, 1 W |
| Jim | $3,400 | $6,800 | $12,400 |
$1,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| FENCING | IN THE NEWS | 2-LETTER WORDS | SHALLOW THOUGHTS | MOUNTAINS | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES |
|
$200
[3]
One of the 3 weapons used in fencing, it's also a verb meaning "to hinder"
foil
Elspeth
|
$200
[1]
John Stumpf quit as CEO of this bank with more accounts than customers but fret not; John had $100 mil. in stock
Wells Fargo
Jim
|
$200
[6]
The objective case of I
me
Elspeth
|
$200
[11]
Around 500 B.C. Heraclitus said change is constant, so you can't step into the same one of these twice
river
Jim
|
$200
[19]
Blanketed insnow, it's the fitting name for the highest mountain in the Alps
Mont Blanc
Elspeth
|
$200
[28]
The lowest grade of nobility; the "Red" one became an international figure in his own right
baron
Deborah
|
|
$400
[4]
Safety equipment includes a glove that sometimes goes by this name, like one from knights of old
a gauntlet
Jim
|
$400
[2]
Donald Trump's inaugural address declared, "From this day forward, it's going to be only" this 2-word slogan
America first
|
$400
[7]
It's Down Under slang for Australia itself
Oz
Elspeth
|
$400
[14]
Lord Kelvin built a computer to calculate tables of these in a harbor & predict them for any day & hour
tides
Jim
|
$400
[20]
Hereis one of Hokusai's 36 views of this mountain
Mount Fuji
Elspeth
|
$400
[27]
It's the highest rank of a nation's diplomatic official sent to live abroad as a representative
ambassador
Deborah
|
|
$600
[5]
Excellent, sir! You have accepted my invitation to a contest of thrust & this, meaning "to deflect"
parry
Jim
|
$600
[16]
Imagine flying from Memphis to Dallas in 2014 & seeing this guy, AKA the Duke of Cambridge, sitting next to you in coach
Prince William
Elspeth
|
$600
[8]
A wise movie character told us this, or this not; there is no try
do
Deborah
|
$600
[13]
Shigeru Miyamoto did much of the design of this game, the origin of Mario, in a Nintendo company bathtub
Donkey Kong
Elspeth
|
$600
[21]
It's also known as Mount Horeb & the Mountain of Moses
Sinai
Jim
|
$600
[24]
A nice job title if you can get it; in 2016 Brunei was on its 29th
a sultan
Elspeth
|
|
$800
[29]
On beginning a bout, "Pret? Allez!" (Ready? Go!) often follows this 2-word French phrase
en garde
Elspeth
|
$800
[17]
Curt Schilling made a pitch to voters--before talking with his wife--for a 2018 Senate run from this state
Massachusetts
Deborah
Jim
|
$800
[9]
2-piece martial arts garment
a gi
Deborah
Jim
|
$800
[12]
"Why should we live with such hurry?" asks this, the most famous work ever named for a pond
Walden
Jim
|
DD
$1,000
[22]
Pliny the Younger noted that on the morning of August 24, 79 A.D., a cloud appeared over the summit of this mountain
Vesuvius
Jim
|
$800
[25]
If Otto von Bismarck were alive, he could use this prefix he got in 1871
chancellor
|
|
$1,000
[30]
In "Hamlet" Laertes says "A" this, "I do confess"; today he wouldn't have to, as the electronics would record it
a touch
Elspeth
Jim
|
$1,000
[18]
In October 2016 a coalition force began what was hoped to be a 2-month quest to retake this Iraqi city from ISIS
Mosul
Jim
|
$1,000
[10]
A woman loved by Zeus turned into a heifer
Io
Elspeth
|
$1,000
[15]
Do the "Leaves on a Stream" exercise to get this, defined by Psychology Today as active, open attention on the present
mindfulness
Deborah
|
$1,000
[23]
This flat-topped mountain rises 3,500 feet above Cape Town
Table Mountain
Elspeth
|
$1,000
[26]
Above a earl but below a duke, it is often heard when referring to boxing rules--watch your pronunciation!
a marquess
Jim
|
| FENCING | HISTORY AT SEA | WHAT '80s MOVIE IS THAT SONG FROM? | STARTS WITH "R" | LITERARY CHICAGO | HIDDEN GENIUS |
|
$400
[9]
In Norse myth jotnar are these; the eyebrows of Aurgelmir, father of the race, became the fence around Midgard
the giants
|
$400
[13]
In 1854 the James Baines, this type of graceful sailing ship, "cut" the Atlantic crossing record to 12 days, 6 hrs.
a clipper
Deborah
|
$400
[18]
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life":don't put it in the corner
Dirty Dancing
Jim
|
$400
[1]
From the Old Norse for "house searching", it means to go hurriedly through a place, stealing & wrecking
ransack
Deborah
Elspeth
|
$400
[6]
Mike Royko's "Boss" is a portrait of this Chicago mayor & Democratic party boss
(Richard) Daley
Deborah
|
$400
[8]
In the 1860s you didn't have to go past Europe to see this chemist working at the Sorbonne
Pasteur (in past Eur ope)
|
|
$800
[10]
Minimum distance in feet from home plate to the center field fence at a major league baseball park
400 feet
|
$1,200
[15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) On the return trip during his first voyage, Columbus and the crew of the Niña were almost arrested on Santa Maria Island in this group, because the governor may have thought they were pirates
the Azores
Jim
|
$800
[19]
"Maniac":starring Jennifer Beals
Flashdance
Jim
|
$800
[2]
This type of inferior liquor sounds like what it might do to your insides
rotgut
Jim
|
$800
[7]
His "Chicago Poems" includes the one that calls Chicago "hog butcher for the world"
(Carl) Sandburg
Jim
|
$800
[23]
A great many men delved into the mysteries of genetics before this pea brain did
Mendel (in men del ved)
Jim
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Someone who Tom Sawyers you tricks you into doing his work for him, just as Tom got others to do this
whitewash the fence
Deborah
Jim
|
$1,600
[16]
This legendary British steamship line that included the Queen Mary & the Queen Elizabeth is named for a British baronet
Cunard
Elspeth
|
$1,200
[20]
"Up Where We Belong":Richard Gere tried to live up to the movie's title
Officer and a Gentleman
Jim
|
$1,200
[3]
This kind of disregard, showing malice in publication, is a factor in proving libel
reckless
Deborah
|
$1,200
[26]
Chicago "was the great, mysterious city which was still a magnet for" this Theodore Dreiser title woman
(Sister) Carrie
Deborah
|
$1,200
[24]
This code breaker & computer genius was persecuted for his sexuality; sounds like a non sequitur in Great Britain
(Alan) Turing (in sequi tur in G reat)
Jim
|
|
$1,600
[12]
"Stairway To Heaven" mentions one of these fences formed by a dense line of trees or shrubs
a hedgerow
Deborah
Jim
|
DD
$1,800
[14]
In 1837 Britain's admiralty set up a committee to figure out how to ensure the accuracy of these aboard iron ships
compasses
Deborah
|
$1,600
[21]
"Danger Zone":the movie flew high
Top Gun
Jim
|
$1,600
[4]
"Everybody loves" this old term for clothing, especially fine or decorative garments
raiments
Elspeth
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
This Windy City lawyer sets books like "The Burden of Proof" in Kindle County, a stand-in for the Chicago area
Scott Turow
Deborah
|
$1,600
[25]
You won't make a faux pas calling this Frenchman the inventor of the hydraulic press
Pascal (in pas cal ling)
Deborah
|
| — |
$2,000
[17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of the Lusitaniaon the monitor.) Torpedoed on May 7, 1915, the Lusitaniasank in just 18 minutes, in part because these watertight internal divisions ran longitudinally, confining incoming water to one side and causing a huge list to starboard
the bulkheads
|
$2,000
[22]
"I'm Alright":a Cinderella story
Caddyshack
Jim
|
$2,000
[5]
As a verb, it's the action seen here; as a noun, it's stale material done again in a book or movie
retread
Elspeth
|
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A 2010 study of this country is subtitled "Inside the Land of Milk and Money"
Switzerland