Mary Fellman — a retail manager from Los Alamos, New Mexico
Martin Kane — a high school teacher from Martin, Tennessee
Brendan Roach — a policy researcher and advisor from Cambridge, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $58,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan! | $1,200 | $3,800 | $17,800 |
$35,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Martin | $6,400 | $9,000 | $18,600 |
$35,601
New champion: $35,601 |
$16,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Mary | $3,000 | $6,800 | $14,400 |
$400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,400
20 R, 1 W |
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|
$200
[9]
In 2015 Iran's city of Bandar Mahshahr hit a near-record 165 on this index
the heat index
Mary
|
$200
[3]
"The Bad Beginning" is Book One in "A Series of" these
unfortunate events
Mary
|
$200
[28]
Unfortunately, Robert Todd Lincoln was in town for 3 of these--his dad's in 1865, then McKinley's & Garfield's
assassinations
Mary
|
$200
[10]
Oh yes, Captain Kirk worked with Batman when he starred as "Alexander the Great", with Adam West as Cleander
William Shatner
Mary
|
$200
[21]
Any neutral spirit can be infused with blackthorn berries to make sloe this
gin
Martin
|
$200
[11]
Capricorn is one of its 12 divisions
the zodiac
Mary
|
|
$400
[30]
Vermilion, burgundy, scarlet
reds
Brendan!
|
$400
[4]
The first woman to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, Edith Wharton won for this 1920 novel about 1870s New York City
The Age of Innocence
Brendan!
|
$400
[29]
When 67-year-old Dorothy Fletcher had a heart attack on a plane in 2004, she was lucky there were 15 of these specialists aboard
cardiologists
Martin
|
$400
[15]
Every New Year's Day, this rhyming cable channel airs its "Twilight Zone" marathon
Syfy
Mary
|
$400
[20]
Cointreau is considered this 2-word type of orange liqueur, but you wont find it on the label (I checked 3 times!)
triple sec
Mary
|
$400
[12]
General term for an annual publication with sunrise & sunset times
an almanac
Martin
|
|
$600
[1]
Canada has 105 of these lawmakers
senators
Martin
|
$600
[5]
A foreword to this novel says Humbert Humbert died in legal captivity before the start of his trial
Lolita
Martin
|
$600
[22]
John Tierney was among the first to die building this on the Arizona/Nevada border; the last was his son, Patrick
the Hoover Dam
Mary
|
$600
[16]
Ralph Macchio & William Zabka can be seen on YouTube Premium in "Cobra Kai", a continuation of this movie series
The Karate Kid
Brendan!
|
$600
[17]
This brand began mixing whiskey & cream together in Ireland in 1974
Baileys
Brendan!
|
$800
[13]
Dogs of war aside, you "cry" this to warn of danger
havoc
Brendan!
|
|
$800
[2]
In song Gene Autry had these "that jingle jangle jingle"
spurs
Mary
|
$800
[6]
Hunter S. Thompson heads into the desert in this book subtitled "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Martin
|
$800
[27]
Like Molly Brown, Violet Jessop got this 10-letter nickname after surviving disaster on the Britannic, Titanic & Olympic
unsinkable
Mary
|
$800
[23]
Before playing record exec Ray Foster, he dealt with "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a much different way in 1992; no way! Way
Mike Myers
|
$800
[18]
Legend says this Scottish honey liqueur was created for Bonnie Prince Charlie
Drambuie
Mary
|
$1,000
[14]
If we had tactile as well as video clues, we could demonstrate how soft & soapy this mineral feels
talc
Mary
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Moyers, Nye, Pecos
the Bills
Martin
|
$1,000
[7]
"The Fates of Human Societies" is the subtitle of Jared Diamond's book with this trio as its title
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Martin
|
$1,000
[26]
Lewis & Clark needed Shoshone horses & luckily ran into Cameahwait, this person's long-lost brother
Sacajawea
Mary
|
$1,000
[24]
Tweeting kudos to Michael Palin on his knighthood, John Cleese wrote, "He'll have to" say this sound "for the rest of his life now"
ni
Martin
|
$1,000
[19]
Soak lemon zest in alcohol & sugar to make this Italian delight
limoncello
Brendan!
|
DD
$3,000
[8]
In the United States, this type of transport helps half a million people in distress each year
a medevac
Martin
|
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|
$400
[29]
Communist Party wing led by Lenin in 1917
the Bolsheviks
Mary
|
$400
[28]
This group term refers to the 95% of animal species that lack a backbone
invertebrates
Martin
|
$400
[27]
This state capital is south of Ogden & north of Provo
Salt Lake City
Martin
|
$400
[25]
Without this wavy line on top of the "N", uña, "fingernail", becomes una, a form of "one" in Spanish
a tilde
Martin
|
$400
[30]
Kanye West & Jamie Foxx advised getting a prenup before getting involved with this title type of gal
a golddigger
Martin
|
$400
[26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Mercer Museum.) Seen on roofs since ancient Athens, these went beyond the traditional rooster & are prized as folk art, as well as letting people know which way the wind is blowing
weathervanes
Martin
|
|
$800
[21]
Itinerant people once called the Gypsies
the Roma
Mary
|
$800
[22]
What flying squirrels do isn't flying, it's called volplaning, another word for this
gliding
Brendan!
|
$1,200
[1]
In English this California university town would be Saint Louis Bishop
San Luis Obispo
Martin
Mary
|
$800
[7]
A straight line over a vowel is called this, like France's president
a macron
Brendan!
|
$800
[24]
In a 1993 hit Sting walked in these
fields of gold
Brendan!
|
$800
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a device at the Mercer Museum.) In colonial America, practically every homestead had this device to turn apples into the nation's drink of choice, to the tune of 35 gallons per person per year
a cider press
Mary
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Native American nation of Will Rogers
the Cherokee
Brendan!
|
$1,200
[18]
Theaxolotlis a member of this "double-life" class of animals that has more than 6,000 species
amphibians
Mary
|
$1,600
[5]
There's a 4-letter preposition & a river in the name of this historic northern England coal center
Newcastle upon Tyne
Brendan!
|
$1,200
[2]
The German eszett character seenhereis often represented by two of these letters in a row
S's
Martin
|
$1,200
[15]
One Direction, Fitz & the Tantrums & Graham Parker & the Rumour have all recorded songs titled this
"Fool's Gold"
|
$1,200
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a flail at the Mercer Museum.) A flail, which gave us the expression "to flail around" was used to beat the wheat in threshing, the age-old practice of separating it from this
the chaff
Martin
|
|
$1,600
[10]
Mythic warrior women led by Penthesilea
the Amazons
Martin
|
$1,600
[19]
The Amateur Entomologists' Soc. glossary entry "stridulation", making noise with body parts, mentions these creatures
crickets
Brendan!
|
$2,000
[6]
2 towns named this stare at each other across the rapids of the St. Marys River between Michigan & Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie
Mary
|
$1,600
[3]
The field of digging up human artifacts is occasionally spelled with an ash in the middle--these 2 letters mushed together
an A and an E
Brendan!
Martin
|
$1,600
[16]
Neil Young was a miner for this title of a 1972 No. 1 hit
"Heart Of Gold"
Mary
|
$1,600
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a wagon at the Mercer Museum.) This type of pioneer wagoncurvedup at the ends so goods wouldn't fall out on bad roads--it's named for the area where it was developed in southeast Pennsylvania, not far from here
a Conestoga wagon
Brendan!
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Any guerrilla force, like Tito's in Yugoslavia resisting the Nazis
partisans
Martin
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
The norm in mammals & birds is a nictitating membrane, also called the third this--humans are weird in lacking it
an eyelid
Brendan!
|
DD
$6,000
[8]
The full name of this South American city begins with Cidade de Sao Sebastiao do
Rio de Janeiro
Brendan!
|
$2,000
[4]
Pronounced "T-H", the Icelandic thorn is one of these 24 old Viking letters also known as Futhark
runes
Martin
|
$2,000
[17]
Striking it rich in love, Colbie Caillat sings, "Feels like we're sittin' on top of" this "yeah, our love is" this
a goldmine
|
$2,000
[14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a trade figure at the Mercer Museum.) Trade figures were designed to draw attention to stores; a popular one was this character every kid knew from puppet shows
Punch
Mary
|
The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line "He had the wrong dreams"
Death of a Salesman