Eric Maitland — a telecommunications supply attendant from San Diego, California
John Kimball — a software consultant from Parkville, Missouri
Matt Noble — a math professor originally from Mobile, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,390)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $3,200 | $5,400 | $14,200 |
$15,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
16 R, 1 W |
| John | $4,800 | $7,000 | $12,600 |
$12,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Eric | $1,200 | $5,200 | $20,300 |
$28,401
New champion: $28,401 |
$17,600
23 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| HAVING FUN AROUND THE WORLD | WEIRD HISTORY | "U" KNOW IT | I HAVE A PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS | A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU | LIAM NEESON |
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$200
[2]
Strolling on Salisbury Plain, near this monument
Stonehenge
Eric
|
$200
[16]
A 1954 act of Congress added these 2 words to the Pledge of Allegiance
under God
John
|
$200
[1]
Alligators in the NYC sewers are said to be this kind of "legend"
urban
Eric
|
$200
[21]
The act of parachuting into a forest fire gives this job its name
smokejumper (or firejumper)
John
Eric
|
$200
[26]
You're ready for the final ascent of K2, but where are your canisters of this third-most abundant element in the universe?
oxygen
Matt
|
$200
[11]
Hail Maggie, full of this last name, the actress who was Liam's daughter who got "Taken"
Grace
Eric
|
|
$400
[3]
Climbing this sacred mountain of Japan in Shizuoka Prefecture
Mount Fuji
John
|
$400
[17]
Civil War opponents Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee fought on the same side in this war
Mexican-American War
Eric
|
$400
[7]
The name of this instrument is Hawaiian for "flea"
ukulele
John
|
$400
[22]
These people at places like Sotheby's don't just talk fast but use a call & response rhythm to get you to bid
auctioneers
Matt
|
$400
[27]
You're heading home to watch the big game, but this honeycombed tank at the front of your engine is overheating!
radiator
Eric
|
$400
[12]
In this 1993 film Liam said, "Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy"
Schindler's List
Matt
|
|
$600
[4]
Enjoying a musical performance at this venue
the Sydney Opera House
John
|
$600
[18]
Part of this former dictator of Uganda's official title was "lord of all the beasts of the Earth & fishes of the sea"
Idi Amin
John
|
$600
[8]
A violent change in a society, or a geographic term relating to the repositioning of the Earth's crust
upheaval
John
|
$600
[23]
Shut the door--I feel someone in this job, who converts designs into drawings and blueprints
drafter
John
|
$600
[28]
Today's the big audition, but you've come down with this inflammation of the voice box!
laryngitis
John
|
$600
[13]
In 1986 Liam guested on the "When Irish Eyes are Crying" episode of this Don Johnson cop show
Miami Vice
Eric
|
|
DD
$1,000
[5]
Visiting the "Anne of Green Gables" house in this smallest Canadian province
Prince Edward Island
John
|
$800
[19]
In the 1700s, Peter the Great imposed a 100-ruble tax on nobles who wore one of these & a 1-kopeck tax on commoners
beard
|
$800
[9]
Omnipresent--it has not one, not 2 but 3 U's!
ubiquitous
Matt
|
$800
[24]
In this job, Scott Boras used his skills to get big bucks for A-Rod
agent
Matt
|
$800
[29]
Your vintage T-shirt of this Black Francis - Kim Deal band shrank 3 sizes in the wash!
the Pixies
Matt
|
$800
[14]
If you want a Kraken released, Liam is just the guy to give the command, as he did as this character in 2010
Zeus
John
|
|
$1,000
[6]
Exploring this "long-lost" resort in the Bahamas that includes a casino, a water park & a 14-acre dolphin habitat
Atlantis
John
|
$1,000
[20]
Once bodyguard to Alexander the Great, he founded an Egyptian dynasty that lasted 300 years, until Cleopatra
Ptolemy
Eric
|
$1,000
[10]
Hey, Babs! This hangs from the middle of the soft palate
uvula
Matt
|
$1,000
[25]
A xylographer is one who engraves on this substance or prints with blocks made from it
wood
Eric
|
$1,000
[30]
You're ready for the giant annual August food fight in Bunol, Spain that uses these but just found out you're allergic!
tomatoes
Eric
|
$1,000
[15]
In this role, Liam's overall decision to train Anakin Skywalker to become a Jedi is, to be charitable, questionable
Qui-Gon Jinn
Matt
|
| APOLLO 11 | YOU SIX-Y THING | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED | A CASE OF A_D_D | TV TIME | VIOLIN MUSIC |
|
$400
[30]
All 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes & 35 seconds of Apollo 11's mission took place in this month & year
July, 1969
John
|
$400
[6]
On a baseball scorecard, "6" refers to this position
shortstop
John
|
$400
[10]
Born June 2, 1840 in England; went far from the madding crowd Jan. 11, 1928
Hardy
Eric
|
$400
[17]
Deserted, like a building
abandoned
Eric
|
$400
[1]
On a British series, Highclere Castle plays this title house
Downton Abbey
Matt
|
$400
[18]
This fast type of piece is named for Taranto, Italy; some say the wild dance cured the bite of a spider
tarantella
Eric
|
|
$800
[9]
Apollo 11's crew brought back to Earth the first samples of these, 3.7 billion-year-old basalts
Moon rocks
Eric
|
$800
[7]
In the "12 Days Of Christmas", you get this fowl on the 6th day
geese
John
|
$800
[11]
Born in Russia in 1920; died some 500 books & 72 years later in New York City
Isaac Asimov
Matt
Eric
|
$800
[23]
Title adjective for Fred MacMurray's "Professor"
absent-minded
Eric
|
$800
[2]
Nick Offerman, seen here, plays Ron Swanson on this sitcom
Parks & Recreation
Eric
|
$800
[19]
The violin repertoire brings in many cultures; Ravel's Tzigane represents the music of this wandering people
Gypsies
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an image of the Moon on a monitor.) Despite its name, this landing area does have craters; Neil Armstrong had to manually pilot the lunar module to a spot four miles from the original landing site
the Sea of Tranquility
Matt
|
$1,200
[8]
These subatomic particles can be up, down, top, bottom, charm or strange
quarks
Matt
|
$1,600
[13]
Born in Scotland in 1850; died in Samoa in 1894
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
$1,200
[27]
An automaton, or a type of cell phone
an android
Matt
|
$1,200
[3]
Jonny Lee Miller & Benedict Cumberbatch both play this sleuth
Sherlock Holmes
Matt
|
$1,200
[24]
Berceuse is French for this soothing type of song; Faure wrote one for a tiny little girl named Dolly
a lullaby
Eric
|
|
$1,600
[21]
Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy aboard one of these mighty rockets
a Saturn V
Matt
Eric
|
$1,600
[15]
Miss Moneypenny could tell you this other name for Great Britain's SIS, Secret Intelligence Service
MI6
Eric
|
$2,000
[14]
Born in 1913 in Algeria; died in a car accident in France in 1960
(Albert) Camus
Matt
|
$1,600
[28]
Accepted without opposition; it can precede "by the rules"
abided
|
$1,600
[4]
In 2013 Jillian Michaels returned as a trainer to this series
The Biggest Loser
Eric
|
$2,000
[26]
Bariolage, "an odd mixture", is playing with fingered strings along with this, a string not touched with the left hand
an open string
|
|
$2,000
[22]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a rocket on a monitor.) The Apollo 11 spacecraft consisted of the lunar module Eagle & this module named Columbia
the command module
John
|
$2,000
[16]
A sextant, which gets its name from the Latin for "six", is so-called because it spans 1/6 of one of these
a circle
John
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
Born in 1917 in England; died in 2008 (not 2001) in Sri Lanka
(Arthur C.) Clarke
Eric
|
$2,000
[29]
Renounced the throne
abdicated
Eric
|
$2,000
[5]
Lena Dunham stars in this HBO series about 4 females in their 20s
Girls
Eric
|
DD
$2,500
[25]
This style of violin playing with short strokes of the bow follows "Hora" in the title of a famous piece
staccato
Eric
|
Of nations in the World Almanac, 3 are not U.N. members: Taiwan, Vatican City & this European one that gained independence in 2008
Kosovo