Nick Hurwitz — a writer from Los Angeles, California
Ruth Payne — a law school career counselor from Charlottesville, Virginia
Scott McFadden — a librarian from Muncie, Indiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $59,602)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $3,400 | $5,400 | $23,000 |
$18,799
3-day champion: $78,401 |
$20,600
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| Ruth | $2,600 | $3,200 | $13,600 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,600
19 R, 2 W |
| Nick | $2,800 | $3,400 | $4,600 |
$3,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,600
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| BIRTH OF A SALESMAN | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES | MULTIPLE A's | HISTORIC LOSERS | TV SHOW ENCYCLOPEDIAS & COMPANIONS | ON THE PLAYGROUND |
|
$200
[11]
Born Oct. 5, 1902, Ray Kroc sold paper cups & blenders before making it big with this fast food chain
McDonald's
Ruth
|
$200
[1]
Host of the 2008 Summer Games, this city is set to host the 2022 Winter Games, becoming the first city to host both
Beijing
Nick
|
$200
[6]
AA is a quality rating for corporate or municipal these
bonds
Nick
|
$200
[26]
Norwegian king Harald Hardrade tried to invade England & failed in this year that the Normans were more successful
1066
Ruth
|
$200
[21]
The trivia guide to this sitcom says, "Penny moved across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon on September 24, 2007"
The Big Bang Theory
Nick
|
$200
[16]
Like a car or plane, a swing set can have these kind of seats for safety--I don't think the car has leg holes, though
bucket seats
Scott
Ruth
|
|
$400
[12]
Clement Stone, b. 1902, began his fortune with cold calls (he called them gold calls) for these policies, the casualty type
insurance
Scott
|
$400
[2]
Appropriately, the modern Olympics began with the 1896 Games in this city
Athens
Ruth
|
$400
[7]
AAM stands for this type of missile, likely shot by a plane at a plane
air-to-air missile
Scott
|
$400
[27]
At the 1862 Battle of Antietam, Lee's army was exposed, but this Union general hesitated, losing a huge opportunity
McClellan
Scott
|
$400
[22]
Author Steven Jay Rubin had the full cooperation of this creator's estate for his "Twilight Zone Encyclopedia"
Rod Serling
Scott
|
$400
[17]
Monkey bars are also known by this tropical name
a jungle gym
Scott
|
|
$600
[13]
Born in 1859 in Mass., Horace Hooper sold dictionaries until a London visit led him to upgrade to this encyclopedia
the Encyclopedia Britannica
Nick
|
$600
[3]
As a 1924 host, Paris was the setting for this film about runners Eric Liddell & Harold Abrahams
Chariots of Fire
Ruth
|
$600
[8]
"We invented the aluminum industry", says this company, AA on the New York Stock Exchange
Alcoa
Ruth
|
— |
$600
[23]
An owners' manual has technical information about the starships with this name, including NX-01 & NCC-1701
the Enterprise
Ruth
Nick
|
$600
[18]
Types of these on playgrounds include roller, straight & spiral
slides
|
|
$800
[14]
Born in 1914 in San Francisco, this fitness marvel & juicing guru swam handcuffed from Fisherman's Wharf to Alcatraz
Jack LaLanne
Scott
|
$800
[4]
The 1976 Summer Games in this Canadian city were boycotted by 22 African nations
Montreal
Nick
|
$800
[9]
No paintbrush needed, A.A. is short for this type of collegiate degree
associate of arts
Scott
|
— |
$800
[24]
Check out "The Art of Ooo", a look behind the scenes of this animated series
Adventure Time
Nick
|
$800
[19]
In "Young Frankenstein", the monster inadvertently turns this into a catapult, sending the girl flying
a seesaw
Ruth
|
|
$1,000
[15]
Operators were standing by to give the news when this Ronco pitchman was born May 3, 1935
(Ron) Popeil
Ruth
|
$1,000
[5]
Lake Placid's hockey arena is now named for this coach who miraculously won gold there
Herb Brooks
|
$1,000
[10]
Blame it on the AAR, meaning average annual this
rainfall (or return or revenue)
Scott
Ruth
Nick
|
— |
DD
$1,000
[25]
Chapter titles in the biography of this classic comedy include "Capri Pants" & "Stumbling"
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Nick
|
$1,000
[20]
Buckminster Fuller estimated that at one time, half of these domes built were part of playground equipment
geodesic domes
Scott
|
| DEATH OF A SALESMAN | FROM THE GREEK | BURNIN' LOVE SONGS | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS | CLOTHING IN THE MIDDLE AGES | TRY "ME" A RIVER |
|
$400
[9]
"Death of a Salesman", which opened in 1949, earned this playwright a Pulitzer Prize & a Tony Award
(Arthur) Miller
Ruth
|
$400
[4]
Greek for "to speak fair" gives us this word for a less distasteful way to say something
a euphemism
Nick
|
$400
[26]
Johnny Cash fell into one in 1963 & topped the country charts for 7 weeks
"Ring Of Fire"
Scott
|
$400
[1]
This is the female equivalent of a peacock
a peahen
Ruth
|
$400
[16]
A gorget was a ring of armor worn here on the body
the neck
|
$400
[20]
The United Nations named a project involving hydroelectricity for this river, but war in 1959 changed plans
the Mekong
Nick
|
|
$800
[10]
One of the play's main themes & Willy's main goals is to achieve this "national" ideal & make it real
the American dream
Ruth
|
$800
[5]
Greek gives us the name of this gem that's surrounded by diamonds in the photo seen here
a sapphire
Ruth
|
$800
[27]
Robby Krieger wrote most of this 1967 classic, but that "mire"/"pyre" rhyme is pure Morrison
"Light My Fire"
Ruth
|
$800
[2]
This flycatcher, genus Sayornis, is named for its call, not a Lisa Kudrow TV character
a phoebe
Ruth
|
$800
[17]
The head covering seen here, it shares its name with a place to house a pup
a kennel
Scott
Ruth
|
$800
[22]
Connecting Liverpool to Birkenhead, the over-2-mile Queensway Tunnel passes under this river
Mersey
Ruth
Nick
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Thisactor, who played the lead in a "Salesman" revival, said he saw it reduce many suit-wearing grown-up men to tears
Brian Dennehy
Scott
|
$1,200
[6]
This fancy word for the hobby of collecting coins comes partly from the Greek for "currency"
numismatics
Scott
|
$1,200
[28]
In a Dolly Parton title, "Old" these "Can't Hold A Candle To You"
flames
Ruth
|
$1,200
[3]
One look at the peepers of the sea duck here& you see why it shares its name with this Pierce Brosnan James Bond film
Goldeneye
Nick
|
$1,200
[18]
This fine, lustrous fabric was from the Middle East, not from Far East Cathay
silk
Scott
|
$1,200
[23]
Flowing from France through Belgium & Holland, it sounds like the perfect waterway for Terpsichore or Erato
the Meuse
Scott
|
|
$1,600
[12]
Characters in the play include Willy's wife Linda & 2 sons, Happy & him, a former high school football star
Biff
Scott
|
$1,600
[7]
Richard Dawkins coined this word for an idea that is easily copied, & said it should rhyme with "cream"
meme
Scott
|
$1,600
[29]
In the title of a 2012 No. 1, Adele pulled off this difficult feat
"Set Fire To The Rain"
|
$1,600
[14]
It may be a myth that the bull type of this bird was named for its thick neck, but that's the guess
the finch
|
$1,600
[19]
A baldric was a wide, decorative belt worn diagonally across the chest to carry one of these at the hip
a sword
Ruth
|
$2,000
[25]
Tasmania has a river named this, also a term for the winding path a river takes
Meander
Ruth
|
|
$2,000
[13]
This actor who starred in "Inherit the Wind" & "The Best Years of Our Lives" played Willy in the 1951 film version
Fredric March
Scott
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
The name of this noble gas is from the Greek for "strange"
xenon
Scott
|
$2,000
[30]
This widow of the Notorious B.I.G. was "Burnin' Up" on a track featuring Missy Elliott
Faith Evans
|
$2,000
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows flamingos eating on the monitor.) The shape of its bill makes more sense when you know that flamingo eats with its head upside-down--the bill resembles the mouths ofbaleen whales, & like those whales, flamingos are this alliterative type of eater
filter feeders
Scott
|
$2,000
[21]
You might have donned this loose, sleeveless garment whose name is from the Latin for "cloak"
a mantle
|
DD
$3,000
[24]
A Civil War ship shares a name with this New Hampshire river
the Merrimack
Scott
|
Researchers in London & Vienna now speculate that his 1791 death was due to a strep infection, not poisoning
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart