Shannon Crock — a cashier from Mars, Pennsylvania
Heather Hurley — a civil servant from Arlington, Virginia
Brandon Randall — a student from Provo, Utah (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | $5,200 | $8,000 | $14,800 |
$22,001
2-day champion: $42,002 |
$14,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Heather | $1,800 | $3,000 | $11,000 |
$2
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,600
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Shannon | $600 | $2,200 | $8,300 |
$16,595
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| SEUSS SYNOPSIZES HIMSELF | OLD SCHOOL | A BUCKET LIST | WORLD HERITAGE SITES | SYNONYMS FOR COLD | NET FLICKS |
|
$200
[8]
I will eat them with a filbert! I will eat them with Johnny Gilbert! / Sam-I-Am, a deal's a deal! So I will eat this title meal!
green eggs and ham
Heather
|
$200
[16]
Founded before 1200 on a river 50 miles northwest of London
Oxford
Brandon
Heather
|
$200
[17]
Seasoned with a secret blend of 11 herbs & spices, the original recipe at this chain comes in 8-, 12- & 16-piece bucket meals
KFC
Shannon
|
$200
[26]
Taï National Park in Cote d'Ivoire is home to the threatened pygmy species of this amphibious mammal
the hippopotamus
Heather
|
$200
[6]
North of latitude 66 degrees
polar (or arctic)
Brandon
|
$200
[1]
The high school basketball team from Hickory, Indiana is trying to win the state championship in this favorite
Hoosiers
Brandon
|
|
$400
[9]
Holiday mayhem he knows how to do / he'll mistreat a dog! & steal from a Who!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Brandon
|
$400
[22]
Founded 1701 & located in a town just west of East Haven, Connecticut
Yale
Brandon
|
$400
[18]
Donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge funded research that discovered NEK1, a gene linked to this disease
ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease)
Heather
|
$400
[27]
Geghardin Armenia is a spectacular medieval rock-hewn one of these male-centric religious communities
a monastery
Heather
|
$400
[7]
In 7 letters, below the Celsius freezing point
subzero
|
$400
[2]
This title of a 2002 soccer film refers to how Jess needs to kick the ball to score the winning goal
Bend It Like Beckham
Brandon
|
|
$600
[10]
It's the title animal / in a story about socks & Knox & bricks & blocks & ticks & tocks & chicks & clocks
the fox
Brandon
|
$600
[23]
Fondee vers 1257, cette ecole Parisienne
the Sorbonne
Brandon
|
$600
[19]
In this video game you need 3 iron ingots to make a bucket
Minecraft
Shannon
|
$600
[28]
South Korea's Jeju Volcanic Island is home to one of the world's finest systems of these tubes
lava tubes
|
$600
[13]
First name of this animated star with a fondness for pancakes
Chilly (Willy) the Penguin
Shannon
|
$600
[3]
Pro player Paul Bettany falls for a tennis phenom while both are competing at this tournament
Wimbledon
Heather
|
|
$800
[11]
He was anti-Once-ler, he was anti-Thneed / he kinda looked like Wilford Brimley / & spoke out against greed
the Lorax
Brandon
|
$800
[24]
Chartered 1693 by the eponymous pair
William and Mary
Shannon
|
$800
[20]
Google uses "bucket" to mean a basic container for data in this type of storage platform
cloud storage
|
$800
[29]
The historic city of Sucrein this South American country is renowned for its mix of local and European architecture
Bolivia
Brandon
|
$800
[14]
Vanilla or chocolate, it's Wendy's version of a milkshake
a Frosty
Brandon
|
$800
[4]
Basketball hustlers + "Jeopardy!" = this film with Wesley Snipes & Rosie Perez
White Men Can't Jump
Brandon
|
|
$1,000
[12]
A turtle's a turtle king, faithful to the 1% / until a turtle named Mack told him to get bent
Yertle the Turtle
Brandon
|
$1,000
[25]
Founded in 1592, it's also called the University of Dublin
Trinity College
|
$1,000
[21]
1959's "A Bucket of Blood" was one of the movies that made this B-movie director "King of the Drive-Ins"
Roger Corman
|
DD
$1,200
[30]
134,000 square miles of this Australian wonder were added to the list in 1981
the Great Barrier Reef
Brandon
|
$1,000
[15]
This entomological adjective for insects with fangs is found before "midge"
biting
|
$1,000
[5]
Will Ferrell finds he's inherited his dad's bad temper when he coaches kids' soccer in this comedy
Kicking and Screaming
Heather
|
| POKEY, MAN, GO | GENRES | SCOT-POURRI | RELIGION | SCULPTORS & STATUORS | A-M |
|
$400
[3]
This Confederate president was captured on May 10, 1865 & put in the pokey in Fort Monroe, Virginia
(Jefferson) Davis
Heather
|
$400
[12]
Negus is a title of Haile Selassie; Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus pay him homage with songs in this genre
reggae
|
$400
[23]
On Christmas Day 1950 a group of Scottish students "liberated" this rock from Westminster Abbey
the Stone of Scone
|
$400
[10]
This title of a high-ranking Shiite Muslim cleric & spiritual authority means "sign of God"
an Ayatollah
Shannon
|
$400
[21]
At the U.N. you can see a giant bronze one of these with a knot tied in the barrel, by John Lennon's friend Carl Reutersward
a gun
Heather
|
$400
[1]
Scuba, for instance
an acronym
Heather
Shannon
|
|
DD
$500
[11]
After a victory at Acre in 1191, he was imprisoned in Austria on his way home to England & ransomed for 150,000 marks
Richard the Lionheart
Shannon
|
$800
[13]
A TV show about the workings of law enforcement is alliteratively called a "police" this
a procedural
Shannon
|
$800
[24]
"DD" begins the postal code for this eastern Scottish port city & the surrounding region
Dundee
|
$800
[17]
Lumbini, Nepal, is the traditional site of Buddha's birth, and its Maya Devi Templewas named for this woman
Buddha's mother
|
$800
[22]
Hamilton MacCarthy sculpted Samuel de Champlain with his astrolabe upside down in this world capital
Ottawa
Shannon
|
$800
[2]
In 1825 Hans Oersted isolated this silvery-white metal
aluminum
Brandon
|
|
$800
[7]
The longtime prisoner known as this, sent to the Bastille in 1698, actually used black velvet to hide his face
the Man in the Iron Mask
Heather
|
$1,200
[14]
Doom is this 3-word type of video game named for how one sees through a character's eyes while firing
a first-person shooter
Heather
|
$1,200
[28]
Popular as a Christmas tree, this fir was named for a nineteenth-century Scottish botanist
a Douglas fir
Shannon
|
$1,200
[18]
In Judaism, during this 7-day period following burial, mourners may sit on low stools or boxes
shiva
Heather
|
$1,200
[25]
Emmet Sullivan designed the 67' Christ of these mountains in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
the Ozarks
Heather
|
$1,200
[4]
Helen Reddy's empowering hit "I Am Woman" is often described as this type of song
an anthem
Heather
|
|
$1,200
[8]
As one of this "numbered" group, John Howard Lawson went to the pokey in 1948 & was then blacklisted
the Hollywood Ten
Brandon
|
$1,600
[15]
Imagining the England lost WWII, "SS-GB" is a BBC show in this fantasy genre abbreviated A.H.
alternate history
Brandon
|
$1,600
[29]
This king's victory in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 led to Scottish freedom from English rule
Robert the Bruce
Shannon
|
$1,600
[19]
The name of this headdress worn by a Christian bishop is from the Greek for "turban"
a mitre
Shannon
|
DD
$1,600
[26]
Known for 4 giant presidential heads, he also did a now-lost sculpture of Woodrow Wilson
Gutzon Borglum
Heather
|
$1,600
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a picture of the brain.) A stroke can be caused by bleeding into the subarachnoid space that surrounds the brain from the rupture of this--a dilated artery
an aneurysm
Heather
|
|
$1,600
[9]
After getting in trouble with the Church of England in 1661, this pilgrim progressed to jail, where he wrote a lot
(John) Bunyan
Brandon
|
$2,000
[16]
"Siembra" from bandleader Willie Colón was once this genre's bestselling album
salsa
Brandon
|
$2,000
[30]
The last two first ministers of Scotland, both pro-independence, are Alex Salmond and her, also with a fishy surname
(Nicola) Sturgeon
Brandon
|
$2,000
[20]
In the 1820s, according to Mormon belief, this angel visited Joseph Smith many times & 3 other men as well
Moroni
Brandon
|
$2,000
[27]
John Flaxman planned a statue of her to be 80' taller than Lady Liberty & wanted her to "rule" from a London hill
Britannia
Brandon
Shannon
|
$2,000
[6]
The name of this type of place where trees are on display comes from the Latin for "plantation of trees"
arboretum
Heather
|
An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content
451