Meri-Jane Rochelson — a college professor from Miami, Florida
Rishi Bhandari — a first-year law student from New York City, New York
Jason Karpf — a realtor from Thousand Oaks, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $19,999)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $1,000 | $3,600 | $15,400 |
$16,000
3-day champion: $35,999 |
$14,600
35 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Rishi | $200 | $500 | $-1,500 |
$-1,500
3rd place: Nokia wireless phone |
$-1,500
4 R, 5 W |
| Meri-Jane | $300 | $2,300 | $7,300 |
$6,600
2nd place: Intel AllPoint home network |
$7,300
17 R, 2 W |
| THE PASSOVER SEDER | SMITH & JONES | IT AIN'T ENGLISH | LITERARY LAST WORDS | ASSUME THE POSITION | I'M SUCH A FUNGI |
|
$100
[6]
Someone has to open this during the seder in order to allow the prophet Elijah to enter
front door
Jason
|
$100
[13]
David Cassidy's stepmom, she also played his mom on TV
Shirley Jones
Meri-Jane
|
$100
[14]
Nom de plume
pen name
Meri-Jane
|
$100
[18]
"...Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before..."
Huckleberry Finn
Jason
Rishi
|
$100
[1]
The mask, chest protector, etc. of this baseball position are called the "tools of ignorance"
catcher
Jason
|
$100
[27]
To leaven your bread, add this fungus to it
yeast
Jason
|
|
$200
[7]
The main meal begins with a hard-boiled one of these dipped into salt water
egg
Rishi
|
$200
[19]
He's often called the "Father of the American Navy"
John Paul Jones
Jason
|
$200
[9]
Hasta manana
see you tomorrow
Jason
|
$200
[22]
"Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!"
Little Women
Rishi
Meri-Jane
|
$200
[2]
These soccer players are positioned between the forwards & the defenders
midfielders
Jason
|
$200
[28]
Take a look: Fungal amphibian furniture seen here
toadstool
Rishi
|
|
$300
[10]
Maror, the bitter herbs, are there to remind us how slavery in this country embittered the lives of the Jews
Egypt
Jason
|
$300
[20]
He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992, 6 years before Tammy Wynette
George Jones
Jason
|
$300
[15]
Terra incognita
(unknown, uncharted) unfamiliar territory
Jason
|
$300
[24]
"It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"
A Tale of Two Cities
Meri-Jane
|
$300
[3]
Gordie Howe was a right one as well as a Red one
wing
Jason
|
$300
[30]
Expensive chocolates are made to look like these edible underground fungi
truffles
Jason
|
|
$400
[11]
The middle piece of the stack of 3 of these on the table is broken in 2 & the larger piece is hidden for the kids to find
matzah
Jason
|
$400
[8]
"From Here to Eternity" & "The Thin Red Line" are part of a WWII trilogy by this author
James Jones
Meri-Jane
|
$400
[16]
Arigato
thank you
Jason
|
$400
[25]
"Such were the funeral rites of Hector, tamer of horses"
The Iliad
Meri-Jane
|
$400
[4]
(Hi, I'm Wesley Walls of the Carolina Panthers. The answer is...) As a tight end, I'm usually less than a yard from this player on the offensive line
tackle
Jason
|
$400
[29]
From the Greek for "sowing", these are a fungus' "seeds"
spores
Jason
|
|
$500
[12]
Number of glasses of wine you drink during the seder, or number of "questions" asked by the children
4
Meri-Jane
|
$500
[21]
This esteemed British "Dame" played the mother superior in the 2 "Sister Act" movies
Maggie Smith
Jason
|
$500
[17]
Tovarich
comrade
Meri-Jane
|
$500
[26]
"Yes I said yes I will yes"
Ulysses
Meri-Jane
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
Insert 1 letter into the name of a comic book hero to get this cricket player
batsman
Jason
|
$500
[23]
This "dry" fungal disease turns timber into powder
dry rot
Meri-Jane
|
| THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE | CANDYGRAM! | MEDICAL CENTER | ROCK ALL OVER | STILL THE I | LET'S "PAL" AROUND |
|
$200
[2]
At over 500' below sea level, Africa's Lake Assal is 2nd only to this "sea" as the lowest point on the earth's surface
Dead Sea
Meri-Jane
|
$200
[3]
To Louis (STOP) D'Artagnan joining (STOP) send new uniform size 40R (STOP) signed: this title group
The Three Musketeers
Jason
|
$200
[30]
Found in the name of a medical journal, a lancet is a type of this
blade
Rishi
|
$200
[7]
This campy rock movie musical starred Little Nell, Richard O'Brien & Barry Bostwick, among others
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jason
|
$200
[16]
It was her navy that defeated the Spanish Armada
Elizabeth I
Meri-Jane
|
$200
[17]
A fast or irregular heartbeat
palpitation
Meri-Jane
|
|
$400
[1]
The small European portion of this country, including the city of Istanbul, lies in a region called Thrace
Turkey
Jason
|
$400
[12]
Come to this klub (STOP) it's hosting "Cabaret" (STOP)
Kit Kat
Jason
|
$400
[29]
Serology focuses on the serum portion of this
blood
Jason
|
$400
[8]
This singer tried to change his carnivorous habits in the 1978 hit "Cheeseburger in Paradise"
Jimmy Buffett
Jason
|
$400
[22]
As Albino Luciani, he was patriarch of Venice from 1969 until being elected pope in 1978
John Paul I
Jason
|
$400
[18]
A makeshift bed, or a platform for moving goods
pallet
Meri-Jane
|
|
$600
[4]
This river provides part of the border between France & Germany
Rhine
Jason
|
$800
[14]
Produced Madonna's "Immaculate Colleciton" (STOP) signed: this man
Jellybean (Benitez)
|
$800
[27]
Endodontic concerns itself with the treatment of the pulp center of these
teeth
Jason
|
$600
[9]
"The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" focused on this punk band's rise & fall
The Sex Pistols
Jason
|
$600
[23]
He became king of Jordan in 1952, after his father Talal was declared unfit
King Hussein
Jason
|
$600
[19]
An example of this type of wordplay in Spanish is "ojo rojo"
palindrome
Meri-Jane
|
|
$800
[5]
This 1300-mile-long mountain range forms a drainage dividing line in Russia for waters flowing to the east & west
Urals
Meri-Jane
|
$1,000
[15]
No one could bar me from becoming prime minister in 1970 (STOP) signed: Edward this
Heath
Jason
|
DD
$1,000
[28]
Also called an abdominal thrust, it's the name given the procedure of dislodging an object stuck in the trachea
the Heimlich
Jason
|
$800
[10]
In an internatonal novelty hit, Rolf Harris asked us to tie this animal down, sport
kangaroo
Jason
|
$800
[24]
This Russian emperor died during the Crimean War
Nicholas I
Rishi
Meri-Jane
|
$800
[20]
Once meaning a discussion between European explorers & natives, it now means idle chatter intended to charm
palaver
Meri-Jane
|
|
$1,000
[6]
The Strait of Malacca separates peninsular Malaysia from this Indonesia island
Sumatra
Jason
|
DD
$2,000
[13]
My dad Grover was a sweet president (STOP) signed: this girl
Baby Ruth
Jason
|
$1,000
[26]
By the name of the specialty, an ENT treats these 3 body parts
ear, nose, throat
Rishi
|
$1,000
[11]
With Gwen Dickey's vocals, Rose Royce "cleaned up" with this No. 1 hit song in 1976
"Car Wash"
Jason
|
$1,000
[25]
As founder of the Hapsburg Dynasty in Austria, he knows reign, dear
Rudolf
Jason
Rishi
|
$1,000
[21]
Italian name for a large, imposing building such as a museum or an official residence
palazzo
Jason
Rishi
Meri-Jane
|
In 1998 Bill Surgi helped locate the sunken aircraft carrier Yorktown, a ship he last saw during this WWII battle
Midway