Christine Whelchel game 3.
Theresa Donohoe — an inventory planning analyst from Waltham, Massachusetts
Max Fronek — a creative director from West Hollywood, California
Christine Whelchel — a piano teacher and church organist from Spring Hill, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine | $4,600 | $3,100 | $11,500 |
$15,001
3-day champion: $59,601 |
$16,000
20 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Max | $2,600 | $3,400 | $15,000 |
$6,999
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Theresa | $400 | $600 | $7,400 |
$14,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
9 R, 2 W |
| BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY | COMMON COMMODITIES | THE DISNEY LADY SINGS | KINDS OF CARE | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT |
|
$200
[29]
The Hawkeyes' home is this 2-word town
Iowa City
Max
|
$200
[26]
It hit an all-time high in August 2020, when it was trading at more than $2,000 an ounce
gold
Max
|
$200
[1]
"Belle", performed by Paige O'Hara
Beauty and the Beast
Max
|
$200
[19]
In 2021 a staffing shortage at these places led to a wider labor shortfall as parents of babies & toddlers had to stay home
daycare facilities
Max
|
$200
[9]
In addition to a shade of red, it can refer to a holy man, a bird or a number
cardinal
Theresa
|
$200
[22]
Act II of this play ends, "My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm"
King Lear
Theresa
|
|
$400
[4]
This Illinois city was originally called West Urbana; here's to it, so say we all!
Champaign
Christine
|
$400
[25]
In 2011 trading ended in these "bellies", a symbol in pop culture of Chicago's arcane commodities trading world
pork bellies
Christine
|
$400
[5]
"Someday My Prince Will Come", performed by Adriana Caselotti
Snow White ( and the Seven Dwarfs )
Christine
Theresa
|
$400
[14]
It's when you tend to you; goop.com ran a piece on it "For the Cubicle-Bound"
self-care
Christine
|
$400
[10]
This 3-letter word follows "golden" in a lustrous type of paper
rod
Christine
|
$600
[16]
Act I of this play concludes with, "The motion's good indeed and be it so, Petruchio, I shall be your Ben Venuto"
The Taming of the Shrew
Christine
|
|
$600
[2]
They'rethe westernmost & the easternmost Big Ten Schools; the westerners are 5-0 in the football rivalry
Nebraska & Rutgers
Max
|
$600
[24]
NG on your ticker stands for this, a nonrenewable hydrocarbon
natural gas
Max
|
$600
[6]
"How Far I'll Go", performed by Auli'i Cravalho
Moana
Christine
|
$600
[15]
Respite care gives short-term relief to primary these, a word that begins with "care"
caregivers
Theresa
|
$600
[11]
Aubergine means eggplant or something of this color
purple
Christine
|
$800
[17]
Fortinbras ends act V & this play with "Go, bid the soldiers shoot"
Hamlet
|
|
$800
[3]
Named for an explorer, this Big Ten capital city is at the junction of the Olentangy & Scioto rivers
Columbus
|
$800
[27]
Brazil is the leading producer of these legumes, a top commodity that's exported to China
soybeans
Christine
|
$800
[7]
"Once Upon A Dream", performed by Mary Costa
Sleeping Beauty
Christine
|
$800
[20]
Opened by emergency physicians starting in the 1970s, in the U.S. these clinics now number more than 10,000
urgent care clinics
Christine
|
$800
[12]
Also the name of a big brown potato variety, this 6-letter word refers to a brownish color
russet
Max
|
$1,000
[23]
Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way"
Caliban
|
|
$1,000
[28]
Home to a Big Ten school, this state capital was named for a president who died in the year of its founding, 1836
Madison, Wisconsin
|
$1,000
[30]
On the periodic table Hg stands for mercury, but in commodities HG stands for this, a good conductor of electricity
copper
|
$1,000
[8]
"When Will My Life Begin?", performed by Mandy Moore
Tangled
Christine
|
$1,000
[21]
An HMO is a type of MCO, short for this organization concerned with keeping costs down
managed care organizations
|
$1,000
[13]
Inheraldry, this word means "silver" or simply "white" & is the color of the unicorn here
argent
Max
|
DD
$2,500
[18]
This title character declares, "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt"
Cleopatra
Christine
|
| AFRICAN EMPIRES | THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC | BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY | HOW PUNGENT! | TV CATCHPHRASES | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS |
|
$400
[30]
From the 200s to the 800s, the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum dominated the southwest coast of this "colorful" sea
the Red Sea
Max
|
$400
[28]
In may 1958 an electronics tinkerer & a doctor kept a dog's heart going with a gizmo they called tiknik & this device was born
a pacemaker
Christine
|
$400
[10]
She was the first woman to become a partner at the prestigious Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas
Hillary Rodham
Max
|
$400
[8]
A ferocious X-Man would be less cool if we knew him as "Skunk Bear", this mammal with a nasty odor
wolverine
Christine
|
$400
[24]
Oft spoken on this series: "The tribe has spoken"
Survivor
Max
|
$400
[20]
To dig beneath, or to subvert via nefarious activity
undermine
Max
|
|
$800
[29]
Legend says the Shonacapital of Great Zimbabwe was once the home of this biblical queen
the Queen of Sheba
Christine
|
$800
[11]
Jack Cover read about a man who survived walking into an electric fence & as a result, police use these devices
tasers
Max
|
$1,200
[21]
In Missouri, where she grew up, she was an accomplished athlete, excelling in several sports including tennis
Bess Truman
Christine
|
$800
[5]
Indonesians call the titan arum "bunga bangkai", meaning this dead body "flower"; it can grow 6 fragrant inches a day
a corpse
Theresa
|
$800
[16]
On "Game of Thrones", Ygritte told this character, "You know nothing"
Jon Snow
Max
|
$800
[3]
"Mission: Impossible" often said the secretary might do this, deny knowledge of the team's actions
disavow
Max
|
|
$1,200
[27]
The Punic Wars were punitive to this North African empire, destroyed in 146 B.C.
Carthage
Theresa
|
$1,600
[13]
In 1859 Gaston Planté developed "the accumulator", a world-changing one of these found in many cars today
a battery
|
$1,600
[22]
Prior to her marriageshewas a teacher & school librarian in Texas
Laura Bush
Christine
|
$1,200
[6]
John Goodman's Sulley gives Mike his choice of odorants--old dumpster, smelly garbage or wet dog--in this film
Monsters, Inc.
Theresa
|
$1,200
[15]
On "Star Trek: The Next Generation", this group warned, "Resistance is futile"
the Borg
Christine
|
$1,200
[1]
The Latin for "speak against" gives us this verb of refutation
contradict
Theresa
|
|
$1,600
[25]
This fabled trading city of the medieval Malian Empire was home to 25,000 Islamic scholars
Timbuktu
Max
|
$2,000
[14]
In the 1830s Joseph Henry invented this 5-letter device used in telegraphs; he used it to send lunch orders from his lab to his home
the relay
|
DD
$2,000
[9]
She appeared on Broadway in "Lute Song" with Yul Brynner & Mary Martin
Nancy Davis (Reagan)
Christine
|
$1,600
[7]
That rotten egg smell can happen when sulfur, this biblical substance used to torment sinners, combines with hydrogen
brimstone
Christine
|
$1,600
[4]
This 3-word catchphrase gives audience members the chance to play on "The Price Is Right"
"Come on down"
Christine
|
$1,600
[2]
In electronics, it means to increase the current or voltage of something; it can also mean to make anything stronger
amplify
Christine
Theresa
|
|
$2,000
[26]
In ancient times, Nubia had this 4-letter name & it's an easy job to remember it
Kush
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
The advocacy of John Counsell, who suffered a spinal injury in the 1942 Dieppe Raid, led to the 1st electric one in the 1950s
a wheelchair
Max
|
$2,000
[23]
His wife, the former Lou Henry, was one of the first women in the U.S. to earn a geology degree
Herbert Hoover
|
$2,000
[18]
Ig Nobel prize-winning work showed that a malaria mosquito was drawn to the smell of this German cheese & human feet, equally
Limburger
Max
|
$2,000
[17]
Urkel's catchphrase on "Family Matters" was this question
Did I do that?
Theresa
|
$2,000
[19]
This word that ends with violence means to rid of misguided notions
disabuse
Theresa
|
These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast
the Hugo Awards