Loni Geerlings — an editor from Redwood City, California
Neal Pollack — a writer from Austin, Texas
Matt Volk — a financial analyst from Cedar Rapids, Iowa (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $2,800 | $6,800 | $12,800 |
$25,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
19 R, 1 W |
| Neal | $1,600 | $600 | $14,000 |
$26,000
New champion: $26,000 |
$11,000
11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Loni | $1,700 | $8,300 | $12,000 |
$24,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| NON-POTENT POTABLES | NOVEL WIVES | OH, "G"! | THE LEAGUE-LEADING STAT | APPS | CNN ENVIRONMENT |
|
$200
[11]
Mix ginger ale & grenadine & garnish with fruit & you get the alcohol-free cocktail named for this child star
Shirley Temple
Loni
|
$200
[6]
"The Emancipator's Wife" is a fictionalized account of her, both as First Lady & widow
Mary Todd Lincoln
Loni
|
$200
[13]
Don't "bear" these lingering resentments
grudges
Matt
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$200
[1]
1981-82:Wayne Gretzky, with 92
goals
Matt
|
$200
[15]
Red Laser turns the phone's camera into a scanner of these so you can check prices & comparison shop
barcodes
Matt
|
$200
[20]
(Sumnima Udas of CNN gives the clue from a boat in a river.) The pollution level of Delhi's Yamuna River more than doubled from 1993 to 2005; among the main culprits are these chemicals from the abundant agricultural land upriver
pesticides
Loni
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|
$400
[12]
A daiquiri made without liquor is this type, like a chaste young woman
a virgin
Matt
|
$400
[7]
"Above All Things" begins with wife Ruth asking husband George Mallory, "Tell me the story of" this mountain
Everest
Loni
|
$400
[14]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a satellite around the Earth.) Many satellites are in this type of orbit, in which they're at a fixed point moving at the same speed as Earth's rotation
geostationary (or geosynchronous)
Loni
|
$400
[2]
1984:Eric Dickerson, with 2,105
rushing yards
Matt
|
$400
[16]
Who can remember all his login names & these, which we are told to change constantly? An app called Lock Box saves them for you
passwords
Loni
|
$400
[21]
(Anna Coren of CNN gives the clue from a hazy Beijing.) Beijing's air pollution has been somewhat improved thanks to more modern cars in the city, where a study has found a near doubling in ratio of carbon dioxide to this toxic product of inefficient combustion
carbon monoxide
Loni
|
|
$600
[28]
Ariel Blanc is a nonalcoholic type of this; I'll have the nonnonalcoholic type
wine
Matt
|
DD
$500
[10]
"Z" by Therese Anne Fowler is a novel about this real literary wife
Zelda Fitzgerald
Loni
|
$600
[25]
With both a hard & a soft G, this word means to eat gluttonously
to gorge
Loni
|
$600
[3]
2010-11:Kevin Durant, with 27.7
points per game
Matt
|
$600
[17]
"Fast beautiful photo sharing", promises this app
Instagram
Loni
|
$600
[22]
A "Planet in Peril" CNN special hailed the reintroduction of wolves into this national park as an environmental success story
Yellowstone
Matt
|
|
$800
[29]
O'Douls is a brand of this with only 0.4% alcohol
beer
Matt
|
$600
[8]
"The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B." ends with Josephine's marriage to him
Napoleon
Neal
|
$800
[26]
Nirvana is part of this Pacific Northwest school of rock
grunge
Loni
|
$800
[4]
2012:Justin Verlander, with 239
strikeouts
Matt
|
$800
[18]
Alec Baldwin was willing to get kicked off a flight rather than stop playing this game that's much like Scrabble
Words with Friends
Loni
|
$800
[23]
(Ivan Watson of CNN gives the clue from Istanbul.) Overfishing & industrial phosphates from the Danube are 2 of the problems facing this sea; as the location of its only outflow Istanbul houses the headquarters of the commission to protect it against pollution
the Black Sea
Loni
|
|
$1,000
[30]
This drink that shares its name with a small firework is made with grenadine, citrus soda & maraschinos
a cherry bomb
Loni
|
$800
[9]
Sofya Andreyevna, wife of this great Russian novelist, is a narrator of "The Last Station", about his final year
Tolstoy
Loni
|
$1,000
[27]
Have a heart & name this worldly vegetable seen here
a globe artichoke
Neal
Loni
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$1,000
[5]
1931:Lou Gehrig, with 184
RBIs
Neal
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$1,000
[19]
This service used to identify a song has been around since 2002 & is also used as a verb meaning to identify a song
Shazam
Matt
|
$1,000
[24]
(Jim Bittermann of CNN gives the clue from Paris.) Here in Paris, technicians are drilling miles beneath the Earth's crust searching for hot water, which can be converted to this kind of energy to cleanly heat hundreds of homes
geothermal
Matt
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| WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT | MOVIE VILLAINS | TYPES OF FISHING | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | ASTRONOMY | HEAVENLY LANGUAGE |
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$400
[11]
The first non-food item rationed was this; citizens were asked to turn in hoses, raincoats & bathing caps for recycling
rubber
Loni
|
$400
[1]
No nose was good nose for this 2011 Ralph Fiennes character; you can say his name
Voldemort
Matt
|
$400
[24]
A saw is an important piece of equipment in this winter activity
ice fishing
Neal
|
$400
[2]
It's the gateway to California's "Wine Trail"
Napa
Loni
|
$400
[12]
The 2 horns of this bovine sign of the zodiac are represented by the stars El Nath & Al Hecka
Taurus
Loni
|
$400
[14]
Something unexpected comes "out of" this, a feature of a beautiful day
the blue (or clear blue sky)
Neal
|
|
$800
[15]
This Disney feature opened Aug. 13, 1942, & the mother's death couldn't have soothed many war-worried kids
Bambi
Matt
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$800
[3]
In "The Avengers", he says, "I am a god, you dull creature!"
Loki
Matt
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$800
[25]
Angling takes its name from methods of fishing using an "angul", originally a word for one of these
a hook
Matt
|
$800
[4]
If you've "bean" watching, you know that on "Glee" McKinley High is located in this Ohio city
Lima
Neal
|
$800
[13]
In November 2014 a spacecraft named Rosetta is scheduled to orbit the nucleus of 67P, one of these
a comet
Matt
Loni
|
$800
[21]
If your reputation is shadowed by disgrace or suspicion, you're said to be "under" this
a cloud
Neal
|
|
$1,200
[16]
A 1942 Supreme Court decision involving divorces granted in this state made a divorce in any state valid in all
Nevada
Neal
|
$1,200
[5]
Dr. Evil said this character "fits easily into most overhead storage bins"
Mini-Me
Matt
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$1,200
[28]
Grouper are often caught using this method of slowly pulling a lure on a line behind a boat
trolling
Matt
|
$1,200
[8]
One of Pennsylvania's largest cities, it's also the state's only Great Lake port
Erie
Loni
|
$1,200
[26]
Spock would be proud! This suggestion won a 2013 online poll to name a moon of Pluto
Vulcan
Neal
|
DD
$1,500
[20]
This word found in the first chapter of the King James Bible means the vault of heaven
the firmament
Loni
|
|
$1,600
[17]
In 1943 kids were enjoying Esther Forbes' novel about this title Johnny & the Revolutionary War
Johnny Tremain
Matt
|
$1,600
[6]
In an itsy bitsy teeny weeny metal bikini, Princess Leia chokes this no-good alien to death
Jabba the Hutt
Loni
|
— |
$1,600
[9]
It's located where the Colorado River meets the Gila River in southwestern Arizona
Yuma
Neal
|
$1,600
[27]
This gap between Saturn's A & B rings is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon Mimas, which clears it of particles
the Cassini division
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$1,600
[22]
The distant upper seats in a theater are sometimes called these beings
the gods
|
|
$2,000
[18]
To reduce demand for commercial produce during the war, millions of people did their part byplanting these gardens
victory gardens
Loni
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$2,000
[7]
The villain in "Galaxy Quest" was named this in dishonor of film critic Andrew
Sarris
Neal
|
— |
DD
$5,000
[10]
It's the biggest city on the "Big Island"
Hilo
Neal
|
$2,000
[19]
Named for an astronomer, these gleams are formed by sunlight shining through lunar valleys during solar eclipses
Baily's beads
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$2,000
[23]
Benjamin Disraeli coined the phrase "I am on the side of" these, now meaning supporting the good
the angels
|
On July 23, 2013 this bestselling British tabloid re-spelled its name on its masthead to honor big British news
The Sun