Eric Winschel — a roofing contractor from Pasadena, California
Kamal Foreman — an attorney from Smyrna, Georgia
Neal Pollack — a writer from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neal | $2,600 | $3,000 | $10,000 |
$19,999
2-day champion: $45,999 |
$17,000
19 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Kamal | $3,200 | $4,800 | $15,200 |
$10,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,200
18 R, 1 W |
| Eric | $3,000 | $7,000 | $9,400 |
$400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| I SAW IT ON BUZZFEED | STRATEGY GAMES | THE BIBLE | THE TALES OF HASSELHOFF, MAN | ONE NATION | IN DIVISIBLE |
|
$200
[22]
Scrunchingupthe face of a celeb is a meme named for this lazy arboreal mammal; Kristen Bell approves
a sloth
Kamal
|
$200
[1]
(I'm Anderson Cooper.) I trick you not, one of my ancestors, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, is known for creating the "contract" type of this game
bridge
Neal
|
$200
[6]
The Bible attributes more than 3,000 proverbs to this monarch
(King) Solomon
Neal
Eric
|
$200
[7]
David Hasselhoff reprised his role as Mitch but was now a detective in a spinoff from this beach-y keen show
Baywatch
Neal
|
$200
[12]
26 states, including Amazonas & Maranhao
Brazil
Eric
|
$200
[17]
Jar covering
lid
Neal
|
|
$400
[23]
A monkey in a coat became an Internet star after it was left at this Swedish furnishings store
IKEA
Eric
|
$400
[2]
A Canadian computer scientist showed that, with best play, this game also called draughts will end in a draw
checkers
Neal
|
$400
[18]
At age 187 he had a son named Lamech & went on to live another 782 years
Methuselah
Kamal
|
$400
[8]
Soup up a Pontiac Trans-Am to go 300 mph, install a peevish voice & David Hasselhoff & you get this '80s show
Knight Rider
Eric
|
$600
[14]
9 provinces & 7 metropolitan cities, including Inch'on-Gwangyoksi
South Korea
Eric
|
$600
[28]
Thin covering favored by Salome
a veil
Neal
|
|
$600
[29]
Buzz Feed loves thebaby memenamed for this word that can mean either making a face or assaulting with intent to rob
mugging
|
$600
[3]
Also called "bones", these game pieces each have 0 to 6 pips on each end
dominoes
Kamal
|
$600
[19]
Dating from the 300s A.D., one of the oldest bibles is a codex that's been in this library since at least 1481
the Vatican Library
Kamal
Eric
|
$600
[9]
Before Howard Stern there was Hasselhoff, one of the 3 original judges on this NBC show
America's Got Talent
Neal
|
$800
[15]
11 provinces, including Shirak & Yerevan
Armenia
Kamal
|
$800
[27]
Shorthand for the mallet instrument mastered by Lionel Hampton
the vibes
|
|
$800
[25]
Buzz Feed went viral with a post on the best (& worst) parodies of this Macklemore-Ryan Lewis song about a store
"Thrift Shop"
Kamal
|
$800
[4]
You can use the Chinese, Japanese or American rules in this game of tiles with dots, craks & bams
mah-jongg
Eric
|
$800
[20]
Mentioned in Revelation 6, they are sometimes named as Conquest, Slaughter, Famine & Death
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Kamal
|
$800
[10]
In 2011 Hasselhoff guested as an ex-adult film star named Dondo on this FX biker show
Sons of Anarchy
Kamal
|
$1,000
[16]
7 divisions, including Chittagong & Dhaka
Bangladesh
Eric
|
$1,000
[26]
Discolored, or very angry
livid
|
|
$1,000
[24]
Buzz Feed did an expose on the surly feline, real name Tardar Sauce, known as this meme
Grumpy Cat
Eric
|
$1,000
[5]
Aztecs, Romans & Ottomans are all part of the fifth iteration of this Sid Meier computer game
Civilization
Kamal
|
$1,000
[21]
New Testament authors love this O.T. prophet, like when Matthew 1 references his "a virgin shall conceive"
Isaiah
Eric
|
$1,000
[11]
In a 1998 TV movie, the Hoff played "Nick Fury: Agent of" this organization that got its own TV show in 2013
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Neal
|
DD
$1,200
[13]
21 counties, including Gavleborg & Vastmanland
Sweden
Eric
|
— |
| WE PROTEST! | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS | MOVIE ENDING LINE OF THE DECADE | FLOWERS | POLITICAL BEFORE & AFTER | STARTS WITH AN ANTONYM OF... |
|
$400
[16]
Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, spent 19 months in prison for his role in the June 1989 protests at this site
Tiananmen Square
Neal
|
$400
[5]
Henry James once thought that this "Jungle Book" author "contained the seeds of an English Balzac"
(Rudyard) Kipling
Neal
|
$400
[6]
1940s:"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
Casablanca
Kamal
|
$400
[21]
Used by the Aztecs to treat epilepsy, it was named for Swedish botanist Anders Dahl
a dahlia
Eric
|
$400
[15]
An actress who starred in "Grease" becomes the one Republicans want as Speaker of the House
Olivia Newton-John Boehner
Kamal
|
$400
[30]
Small:This person with more than one spouse
a bigamist
Neal
|
|
$800
[17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A 1930 march against Britain's salt tax spanning 240 miles from an ashram at Sabarmati to the town of Dandion the Arabian Sea was a nonviolent protest led by this man
Gandhi
Kamal
|
$800
[4]
E.M. Forster called this "Lord Jim" author "misty in the middle as well as at the edges"
(Joseph) Conrad
Neal
|
$800
[7]
1930s:"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast"
King Kong
Kamal
|
$800
[22]
Carolus Clusius of the University of Leiden was the chief founder of this flower's bulb culture in the Netherlands
the tulip
Kamal
|
$800
[14]
California's governor gets delicious as a "feminine" dessert made with apples & bread crumbs
Jerry Brown Betty
Kamal
|
$800
[29]
Skinny:Tiredness
fatigue
Neal
|
|
$1,200
[18]
In 1970 an anti-Vietnam War protest at this state school in Ohio led to the deaths of 4 students
Kent State
Eric
|
$1,200
[3]
This horror master didn't sugarcoat it: "(J.K.) Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn"
(Stephen) King
Kamal
|
$1,200
[8]
1970s:"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off"
Alien
Kamal
|
$1,200
[23]
Also called a sword lily, this garden flower grows from bulb-like stems called corms
a gladiola
Eric
|
$1,200
[13]
An "Atlas Shrugged" author turns into a Kentucky senator who loves him some "Atlas Shrugged"
Ayn Rand Paul
Eric
|
$1,200
[28]
Good:To harass or pester
badger
Neal
|
|
$1,600
[19]
He wrote a play called "Protest" before becoming the interim president of Czechoslovakia
Václav Havel
Neal
|
$1,600
[2]
F. Scott Fitzgerald said this author's "inclination is toward megalomania and mine toward melancholy"
Hemingway
Neal
|
$1,600
[9]
1960s:"You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you... all to hell!"
Planet of the Apes
Neal
|
$1,600
[24]
As you might suspect from its name, blue dawn is a variety of this climbing flower
morning glory
Neal
Eric
|
$1,600
[12]
A South Carolina senator becomes an integral part of a s'more
Lindsey Graham cracker
Neal
|
$1,600
[27]
Slow:Excessively particular
fastidious
Neal
|
|
$2,000
[20]
This painting by Picasso was his protest at the bombing of an undefended town during the Spanish Civil War
Guernica
Kamal
|
DD
$3,000
[1]
Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Raft" said this author "in white stands gleaming like a pillar of the night"
Mark Twain
Neal
|
DD
$4,000
[10]
1950s:"I now pronounce you men & wives"
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Neal
|
$2,000
[25]
Found in many different colors, this popular variety of orchid is known by its Latin genus name
the Cymbidium
|
$2,000
[11]
A Will Ferrell racer who liked to go fast speeds in as governor of Louisiana
Ricky Bobby Jindal
Neal
|
$2,000
[26]
Near:A former coin of Great Britain
a farthing
Kamal
|
Since his 1988 death, he's been inducted into the U.S. Hockey, World Figure Skating & National Inventors Halls of Fame
Zamboni