Cal Mason — a lawyer from Arlington, Massachusetts
Alan Baltis — a software developer and consultant from Lakewood, Ohio
Berek Marcus — a video game quality assurance tester from Northborough, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $25,199)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berek | $1,400 | $4,000 | $8,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
12 R, 2 W |
| Alan | $3,400 | $4,800 | $9,900 |
$2,199
New champion: $2,199 |
$14,800
22 R, 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Cal | $400 | $800 | $3,600 |
$2,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,600
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| LESSER-KNOWN NAMES | WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | SURVEY SAYS...! | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY | AS THEMSELVES ON TV | "A", BABY! |
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$200
[14]
We can all thank Herb Peterson for coming up with this McDonald's breakfast staple in 1972
Egg McMuffin
Cal
|
$200
[26]
Poultry in Greece
hens
Cal
|
$200
[11]
Pew research reports these people have gone from 4 hours of household chores a week in 1965 to 10 hours today
husbands
Alan
|
$200
[6]
Relict is a rather unkind-sounding term for this grieving person
widow
Cal
|
$200
[21]
On the 2012 season finale of "Two Broke Girls", the girls managed to pitch their cupcakes to this lifestyle maven
Martha Stewart
Alan
|
$200
[1]
An indigenous Australian
Aborigine
Cal
|
|
$400
[15]
So that certain letters wouldn't jam, Christopher Sholes came up with the typewriter keyboard layout called this
QWERTY
Cal
|
$400
[27]
A prohibition in Thailand
ban
Alan
|
$400
[12]
A 14-country, 33-city survey by the Institute of Food Technologists found this beer really does taste better in Ireland
Guinness
Berek
|
$600
[8]
This term for a family tree comes from the Latin for "crane's foot" due to the appearance of the chart lines
pedigree
|
$400
[22]
This physicist played cards (as a hologram) on "Star Trek: TNG" & saw the universe get destroyed on "Futurama"
Stephen Hawking
Alan
|
$400
[2]
To refrain from boozing or voting
abstain
Berek
|
|
$600
[16]
20 years before Robert Fulton & his Clermont, John Fitch built an operable one of these
steamboat
Cal
|
$600
[28]
A container in Australia
can
Alan
|
$600
[13]
A 2013 survey said unlike the CEO of Yahoo!, 65% believe working from home, aka this word, is productive
telecommuting
Alan
|
$800
[9]
2 couples out for the evening, or a genealogical reference using both the Gregorian & Julian calendars
double date
Alan
|
$600
[23]
In the 2011 finale of this always celeb-filled series, Mike Ditka turned up to point out Ari was a mess
Entourage
Alan
|
$600
[3]
Singer Cheryl Cole's regional British one got her booted from "The X Factor"
accent
Berek
|
|
$800
[17]
In 1928 Arctic explorer Louise Boyd led an expedition in search of this missing Norwegian
(Roald) Amundsen
Berek
Alan
|
$800
[29]
A journey in Libya
trip
Berek
|
$800
[19]
Oh, I'm a this & that's not OK says a careercast.com 2012 worst jobs list with this outdoor gig worst of all
lumberjack
Berek
Alan
|
DD
$1,000
[7]
Also a zodiac sign, in English marriage records this term referred to unmarried women
virgo
Cal
|
$800
[24]
This "wizard" of a young actor got a painful lesson in grammar from Dame Diana Rigg on "Extras"
Daniel Radcliffe
Berek
Alan
|
$800
[4]
A charm worn to protect against evil
amulet
Alan
|
|
$1,000
[18]
Harriet Laneacted as First Lady for this president, her uncle
James Buchanan
Alan
|
$1,000
[30]
A bad kid in Slovakia
brat
|
$1,000
[20]
In 2012 Travel + Leisure readers found La Guardia the nation's worst major airport; this one, MSP, was crowned best
Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Alan
Cal
|
$1,000
[10]
A PAF, or personal ancestral file, is software from this church that's very into genealogy
the Church of Latter-Day Saints
Alan
|
$1,000
[25]
"Garry called me up & asked if I would write his theme song" was an actual theme song lyric to his 1980s "show"
Garry Shandling
Berek
|
$1,000
[5]
This rock seen here lent its name to a type of shooting marble
agate
Cal
|
| WHAT'S YOUR POLICY? | BEST ACTOR OSCARS | THE APPLE STORE | KIDDY LIT CHARACTERS | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP | A "TELL"-ALL CATEGORY |
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$400
[11]
An early 20th century U.S. policy was called this type of "Diplomacy" that substituted money for bullets
Dollar Diplomacy
|
$400
[6]
1984:F. Murray Abraham as composer Antonio Salieri
Amadeus
Alan
|
$400
[13]
The apple bred in the 1880s as this has "red" added to its name a few decades later
red delicious
Cal
|
$400
[21]
This Roald Dahl boy gets 1 chocolate bar a year on his birthday but makes it last a month
Charlie
Berek
|
$400
[1]
South Africa renamed a province in 1995, dropping this color that once preceded "Free State"
Orange
Cal
|
$400
[26]
This adjective means "revealing something that was intended to be secret"
tell-tale
|
|
$800
[12]
In WWII, in the face of the German advance, the retreating Soviet army adopted this policy, literally burning crops
scorched earth
Berek
Alan
|
$800
[7]
2007:Daniel Day-Lewis as prospector Daniel Plainview
There Will Be Blood
Berek
|
$800
[17]
For a computer introduced in 1984, Apple Inc. added an "A" to the name of this all-purpose apple
MacIntosh
Alan
|
$800
[22]
Chapter 17 of "Peter Pan" is "When" this girl "Grew Up"
Wendy
Cal
|
$800
[2]
From 1925 to 1961 Volgograd had this name, after a dictator
Stalingrad
Berek
Alan
|
$800
[27]
To predict
foretell
Alan
|
|
$1,200
[14]
Intervention was an essential part of TR's policy in Latin America, nicknamed this after a favorite saying of his
Big Stick
Alan
|
$1,200
[8]
1995:Nicolas Cage as alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson
Leaving Las Vegas
Alan
|
$1,200
[18]
The Beatles used this green apple variety from Australia as the logo of Apple Records
Granny Smith
Alan
|
$1,200
[23]
He's the peaceable character seen here
Ferdinand The Bull
Alan
|
$1,200
[3]
Because it was the end of a railroad line, Atlanta had this original name, Latin for "end"
Terminus
Alan
|
$2,000
[28]
It's the IP in WIPO, a world organization protecting copyrights & such
intellectual property
Alan
Cal
|
|
$1,600
[15]
An essential part of this policy of FDR's toward Latin America was nonintervention, either with the U.S. Army or advice
Good Neighbor Policy
|
$1,600
[9]
1961:Maximilian Schell as German defense attorney Hans Rolfe
Judgment At Nuremberg
Berek
|
$1,600
[19]
The fruit of choice for baked apples is this "beauty"
the Rome Beauty
Cal
|
$1,600
[24]
His father, Raff, fell off a scaffold while working on the dikes & lost his memory
Hans Brinker
Cal
|
$2,000
[5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Built by August Henri Vildieu, Vietnam's Presidential Palace was originally the headquarters of the governor general of this now-defunct French region
Indochina
|
— |
|
DD
$2,300
[16]
On Sept. 25, 1980 the Chinese Communist Party called on all its members to adhere to this policy
the One Child Policy
Alan
|
$2,000
[10]
1945:Ray Milland as alcoholic Don Birnam
The Lost Weekend
Berek
|
$2,000
[20]
The Royal Gala & Braeburn were crossed to get this apple variety with a musical name
the Jazz
|
$2,000
[25]
In 2011's "I Want My Hat Back", he questions his fellow forest dwellers as to the whereabouts of his "red pointy hat"
Bear
|
DD
$2,600
[4]
In 2003, this name was abandoned in favor of Serbia & Montenegro, which went their separate ways in 2006
Yugoslavia
Alan
|
— |
Its first line is "A green hunting cap squeezed on the top of the fleshy balloon of a head"
A Confederacy Of Dunces