Tom Nissley game 7.
Dennis Loo — a tutor from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ester Murdukhayeva — a law student originally from Queens, New York
Tom Nissley — an online books editor from Seattle, Washington (whose 6-day cash winnings total $184,203)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | $2,200 | $5,000 | $19,800 |
$26,801
7-day champion: $211,004 |
$19,800
24 R, 0 W |
| Ester | $2,200 | $3,600 | $4,800 |
$9,599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Dennis | $1,600 | $5,600 | $13,400 |
$13,400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$18,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| JOYCE TO THE WORLD | HOLIDAY ALBUMS | GATHER 'ROUND THE "TRE" | OH BOY! PRESENTS! | ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS | IN DEFENSE OF FRUITCAKE |
|
$200
[1]
Joyce Hall co-founded this greeting card company
Hallmark
Dennis
|
$200
[10]
Vince Guaraldi's LP from a 1965 TV special about this title animated boy featured "Christmas Time Is Here"
Charlie Brown
Tom
|
$200
[30]
It's the crime of undermining one's own government
treason
Tom
|
$200
[21]
Aspiring rockers will love banging away on the sound percussion pro 5-piece set of these, cymbals included
a drum set
Dennis
|
$200
[8]
In 1982 Time magazine named this machine its "man of the year"
the computer
Tom
|
$200
[3]
In The Bahamas not only is the fruitcake drenched in this potent potable, the ingredients are as well
rum
Tom
|
|
$400
[12]
Familiar to TV viewers as a talk show guest, this psychologist received her Ph.D. from Columbia University
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Tom
|
$400
[11]
This crooner's 1955 album "White Christmas" consisted of 10 songs recorded in 1945
Bing Crosby
Ester
|
$400
[6]
It's where you'll find a baby in a bough-borne cradle in a popular lullaby
the tree tops
|
$400
[14]
Fore! How about a Wham-O equipment set for playing "golf" with mini versions of this flying disc
a frisbee
Tom
|
$400
[7]
In Los Angeles in 1966, this African-American holiday was celebrated for the first time
Kwanzaa
Tom
|
$400
[2]
In "Martin Chuzzlewit", this author called fruitcake "a geological homemade cake"
Dickens
Tom
|
|
$600
[13]
This "Trees" poet was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre
(Joyce) Kilmer
Dennis
|
$600
[16]
This saxophonist's "Miracles: The Holiday Album" is said to be the bestselling Christmas album of all time
Kenny G
Ester
|
$600
[29]
Korean War General Oliver Smith said, "we are not" doing this, but "advancing in a different direction"
retreating
Ester
|
$600
[28]
For folks living in inclement climes, Senz makes these built to withstand 70 mph winds without turning inside out
umbrellas
Ester
|
$800
[23]
In 1792 this man's trial began in Paris
Louis XVI
Ester
|
$600
[4]
A spicy fruitcake from Italy, panforte means "strong" this
bread
|
|
$800
[15]
His 1901 essay "The Day of the Rabblement" attacked the Irish Literary Theatre for catering to popular taste
James Joyce
Ester
|
$800
[17]
"All I Want For Christmas Is You" from her "Merry Christmas" CD was the first holiday song to sell 1 million downloads
Mariah Carey
Tom
|
$800
[27]
You might "desire" this urban vehicle that runs on rails & is often powered by electricity
a streetcar
Dennis
|
$800
[20]
Maybe someone on your list would like a Bjursta dining table from this retailer (while you're there, pick up some meatballs)
IKEA
Tom
|
$1,000
[22]
In 1776 George Washington & the continental army defeated the Hessians at the battle of this New Jersey city
Trenton
Ester
|
$800
[5]
Gugelhupf, a German fruitcake also called turban cake, may date from the effort of these people to conquer the region
the Ottomans (or the Turks)
Dennis
|
|
$1,000
[19]
You heard it here: Anglo-Irish writer Joyce Cary wrote the comic novel "The Horse's" this
Mouth
Dennis
|
$1,000
[18]
This brother-sister duo's 1978 million-selling LP "Christmas Portrait" featured "Merry Christmas, Darling"
the Carpenters
Tom
Ester
|
$1,000
[26]
The metropolitan area of this Canadian city of 3.6 million spills off its main island
Montreal
Dennis
|
$1,000
[25]
Fans of this comedienne's 1970s variety show might enjoy a copy of her best-selling memoir "This Time Together"
(Carol) Burnett
Dennis
|
DD
$1,200
[24]
In 1944 this man's Third Army tanks broke through the German lines surrounding Allied forces at Bastogne
General Patton
Ester
|
$1,000
[9]
In theirs, the ancient Romans used pine nuts, barley mash & seeds from this red fruit associated with Persephone
the pomegranate
Ester
|
| CELEBRITY MEMOIRS | LITERARY CANINES & FELINES | COMMON BONDS | LIFE IS SHORT | "PP"s ON EARTH | MOLECULES |
|
$400
[10]
This actress & reality TV star moved into "Uncharted Territori" with her 2010 memoir
Tori Spelling
Tom
|
$400
[5]
In a poem by Edward Lear, the pussy-cat proposes to this bird
the owl
Dennis
|
$400
[20]
A battery, a claim, a checkers piece
things you jump
|
$400
[1]
Being only 4'11'' tall didn't stop this artist from paintingposterslike 1895's"La Revue Blanche"
Toulouse-Lautrec
Tom
|
$400
[8]
To go to a higher court to try & reverse a legal judgment
to appeal
Tom
|
$800
[3]
Molecules of this substance, from the Latin for "wipe away", are part water-soluble & part water-insoluble
a detergent
Dennis
|
|
$800
[11]
In 2010 you could go-go to the bookstore to buy this lead singer's memoir "Lips Unsealed"
Belinda Carlisle
Tom
|
$800
[4]
After being sold, this Eric Knight collie trekked 400 miles across Scotland to get back to her young master
Lassie
Tom
|
$800
[19]
Spanish punctuation, pineapple cake, people owing $400,000 on a home now worth $300,000
upside-down
Tom
|
$800
[2]
With works like the one heard here, this 5'1" Norwegian to were d over his 19th c. contemporaries
(Edvard) Grieg
Dennis
|
$800
[6]
A student who habitually fails to attend class, or the captain of a naval vessel
a skipper
Dennis
|
$1,200
[29]
In 2008 scientists discovered an unusual molecule, with 2 hydrogen bonds, that may clean up this toxic precipitation
acid rain
Tom
|
|
$1,200
[12]
This rocker hit readers with her best shot in 2010: a memoir called "Between a Heart and a Rock Place"
Pat Benatar
Tom
|
$1,200
[28]
In "Macbeth", a witch is summoned by a familiar named not purplemalkin or greenmalkin but this
greymalkin
Dennis
|
$1,200
[21]
ICE, DARPA, NIST
acronyms (of U.S. Government Agencies)
Dennis
|
$1,200
[15]
Only 4'6''hewas the first full-blooded Native American President of Mexico
Benito Juárez
|
$1,200
[9]
A quantity like extra vitamins, added to make up for a deficiency
a supplement
Ester
|
$1,600
[22]
Molecular geneticists practice the "isolation" of this, extracting it from cells in pure form
DNA
Dennis
|
|
$1,600
[13]
Turning 70, this fabulous star of "One Million Years B.C." took readers "Beyond the Cleavage"
Raquel Welch
Tom
|
$1,600
[24]
The "white shaggy dog" in "Oliver Twist" was as mean as his master, this brutal burglar who was brought up in Fagin's gang
(Bill) Sikes
Dennis
|
$2,000
[27]
Pork bellies, talented teenagers, verb tenses
(things with) futures
Tom
|
$1,600
[16]
Now a professor at Berkeley all 4'10'' ofhimserved as Clinton's first Labor Secretary
Robert Reich
Tom
|
$1,600
[7]
German word for a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its counterpart
a doppelgänger
Tom
|
DD
$7,000
[23]
A 1988 Nobel Prize was for unraveling a key molecule in this "most important chemical reaction in the biosphere"
photosynthesis
Dennis
|
|
$2,000
[14]
"Growing Up Again", this TV star's memoir, is subtitled "Life, Loves, and oh yeah, Diabetes"
Mary Tyler Moore
|
$2,000
[25]
One Eye, a wolf, was the father of this Jack London canine; his mother was half-wolf, half-dog
White Fang
Dennis
|
DD
$10,000
[26]
The Beastie Boys, a Chrysler model, Pauline Kael's workplace
New Yorkers
Dennis
|
$2,000
[17]
This German epistemological philosopher who lived from 1724 to 1804 was categorically, exactly 5' tall
(Immanuel) Kant
Tom
|
$2,000
[18]
Beastly title of a Hermann Hesse novel
Steppenwolf
Dennis
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The day after the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st Afr. American to do this under its provisions
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