Margie Cohen — a litigator from Houston, Texas
Mithun Kamath — a law student originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
Dennis Wright — a welder from Council Grove, Kansas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dennis | $2,200 | $6,000 | $9,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,200
19 R, 2 W |
| Mithun | $1,200 | $4,000 | $4,000 |
$1
2nd place: $2,000 |
$3,800
6 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Margie | $3,400 | $3,800 | $12,800 |
$6,199
New champion: $6,199 |
$15,800
19 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| ARCHITECTURAL TERMS | BODY PARTS BY PREFIX | WEDDING SONGS | A "NON" CATEGORY | IT'S 1985 | LITTLE BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU |
|
$200
[4]
Foliation can refer to a plant producing these or to carved decorations in the shapes of these
leaves
Dennis
|
$200
[22]
Naso-
the nose
Margie
|
$200
[21]
Michael Feinstein has couples swaying to his version of this classic from "Casablanca"
"As Time Goes By"
Margie
|
$200
[9]
It's also called skim milk
nonfat milk
Mithun
|
$200
[1]
In January he was sworn in for a second term as president
Ronald Reagan
Mithun
|
$200
[14]
Charles Wesley fell out with this big brother & co-founder of Methodism over (what else?) a woman
John Wesley
Dennis
|
|
$400
[5]
A mihrab, a prayer niche in the wall of a mosque, faces this holy city
Mecca
Margie
|
$400
[23]
Pulmo-
the lung
Dennis
|
$400
[27]
"I see trees of green, red roses too" & couples slow-dancing to this Louis Armstrong tune
"What A Wonderful World"
Dennis
Margie
|
$400
[10]
In the Army an NCO is this type of officer
noncommissioned
Dennis
|
$400
[2]
In February this nation finished the first phase of a troop withdrawal from Lebanon
Israel
Dennis
|
$400
[15]
Warren Beatty is this actress' little brother
Shirley MacLaine
Dennis
|
|
$600
[6]
It's the vertical member at either side of a doorframe; the hinge is attached to it
the jamb
Dennis
|
$600
[24]
Opto-
the eye
Margie
|
$600
[28]
This Percy Sledge No. 1 hit is a perennial favorite at weddings
"When A Man Loves A Woman"
Dennis
|
$600
[11]
In 1922 Gandhi called this "the first article of" his faith
nonviolence
Margie
|
$600
[3]
In April this iconic American drink changed its formula, leading to an overwhelmingly negative reaction
Coca-Cola
Margie
|
$600
[18]
Outlaw siblings James, John & Little Bob were these brothers--by last name & also in relation to Cole
(the) Younger (Brothers)
Dennis
|
|
$800
[7]
The arrangement & design of these in a building is called fenestration
windows
Margie
|
$800
[25]
Gastro-
the stomach
Margie
|
$800
[29]
Perfect for a dance with a parent is this show tune that begins, "Is this the little girl I carried"
"Sunrise, Sunset"
Dennis
|
$800
[12]
It's Latin for "it does not follow", so I'd better get out my umbrella
non sequitur
Mithun
|
$800
[16]
In November this comic strip about the adventures of a young boy & his stuffed animal debuted
Calvin & Hobbes
Mithun
|
$800
[19]
Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII was her little brother
Cleopatra
Mithun
|
|
$1,000
[8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural animation on the monitor.) A properly constructed roof will include rafters that give the roof its shape, & these horizontal beams that provide structural support, from the old French for "to lie"
joists
|
$1,000
[26]
Chiro-
the hand
Dennis
Margie
|
$1,000
[30]
With the party under way, it's time to "celebrate good times, come on" with an R&B favorite from this group
Kool & The Gang
Dennis
|
$1,000
[13]
Geometry that doesn't follow the parallel postulate of an ancient Greek mathematician is called this
non-Euclidean
Margie
|
$1,000
[17]
In June this iconic U.S. highway was decommissioned & its familiar markers taken down
Route 66
Dennis
|
DD
$1,200
[20]
This little brother was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in December 1984
Prince Harry
Mithun
|
| NONFICTION | FAMOUS MENUS | AMBASSADORS | BHUTAN LINES | MOVIES BASED ON SHAKESPEARE | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT |
|
$400
[9]
"Hellhound on His Trail" tells of "The Stalking of" this civil rights leader & "the International Hunt for His Assassin"
Martin Luther King
Dennis
|
$400
[6]
A Delmonico's menu from 1899 offers 4 varieties of this: ruddy, red-head, canvas-back & mallard
duck
Dennis
|
$400
[17]
In 2011 the U.S. envoy to Mexico quit over remarks in the diplomatic messages known by this old-fashioned name
embassy cables
|
$400
[1]
Nyingma & Kagyu are the major Bhutanese sects of this religion practiced by about 75% of the population
Buddhism
Dennis
|
$400
[13]
"West Side Story"
Romeo and Juliet
Margie
|
$400
[15]
Hagiolatry is the worship of these, maybe of Peter, Paul & Agatha
saints
Margie
|
|
$800
[10]
Piper Kerman chronicles her year in prison in this color "is the New Black"
Orange
|
$800
[7]
A Christmas 1926 British army menu lists the food in small black type & this 4-letter beverage in much larger red type
beer
Margie
|
$800
[25]
Last name of the USA's current U.N. ambassador; it was also the last name of a Bush Secretary of State
Rice
Margie
|
$800
[2]
Unified in 1907, Bhutan didn't ratify one of these until 2008
a constitution
Dennis
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
"Throne of Blood"
Macbeth
Margie
|
$1,200
[18]
Oddly, this term for a native-born Israeli comes from a Hebrew word for "prickly pear"
sabra
Margie
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Daniel Yergin won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Prize", about "The Epic Quest" for this commodity
oil
Margie
|
$1,200
[8]
The August 23, 1941 menu from this Hollywood eatery named for a colored hat offered a 95-cent tenderloin steak
the Brown Derby
Dennis
|
$1,200
[26]
Admiral Raymond Spruance won the 1944 battle of the sea named for this island country to which he was later ambassador
the Philippines
|
$1,200
[3]
Bhutan's big event of 2011 came when the king took this--just one, unlike his father, who had 4
a wife
Margie
|
$1,200
[23]
"Forbidden Planet"
The Tempest
|
$1,600
[19]
Something campaniform is shaped like this noise-making object
a bell
|
|
$1,600
[12]
She covered the aftermath of her husband's death in "The Year of Magical Thinking" & of her daughter's in "Blue Nights"
Joan Didion
|
$1,600
[20]
In 1906 this San Francisco hotel fed the birds--to the customers, that is; chicken & squab were on the menu
the St. Francis Hotel
|
$1,600
[27]
Duff Cooper mediated between Churchill & de Gaulle as Britain's representative to the free French in this N. African city
Algiers
|
$1,600
[4]
The ngultrum, which is subdivided into chetrums, is the national this
currency
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[16]
It's a device used in threshing grain as well as a verb meaning to wave your arms wildly & uselessly
a flail
Margie
|
|
$2,000
[24]
Richard Dawkins hit the bestseller list with the pro-atheism book called "The God" this
Delusion
Margie
|
$2,000
[21]
In 1945 this ex-heavyweight champ's NYC restaurant offered a $1.75 roast prime sirloin dinner
Jack Dempsey
Dennis
|
$2,000
[28]
Anatoly Dobryninheld this job from 1962 to 1986, & knew how to get along with all kinds of people
Russian Ambassador to the United States
Dennis
|
$2,000
[5]
Bhutan is divided into 3 major regions, the Duars Plain & the Great & Lesser these
Himalayas
Margie
|
— |
$2,000
[22]
In medicine, it's the 4-letter term for the craving or ingestion of such non-food items as dirt, chalk or paint chips
pica
Margie
|
At 22 square miles, it's the world's smallest island with a population exceeding 1 million, a figure it reached by 1880
Manhattan