Chris Gaiman — a post-production coordinator originally from Slatington, Pennsylvania
Loren Gianini — a clinical psychology research fellow originally from West Hartford, Connecticut
Greg Buzzard — an organizing fellow originally from Warrensburg, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg | $3,200 | $2,800 | $14,400 |
$7,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Loren | $-400 | $1,600 | $4,800 |
$800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,800
15 R, 6 W |
| Chris | $3,300 | $4,500 | $9,700 |
$14,401
New champion: $14,401 |
$10,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| CURRENT EVENTS | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS | AGRICULTURE | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | EX-WORLD LEADERS | THE USO |
|
$200
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Alaska.) Flotsam ranging from small toysto a 200-foot squid trawler began washing up on Alaska's shoresmonths after this March 2011 event
the Japanese earthquake (or tsunami)
Greg
|
$200
[9]
If an animal eats both plants & animals, it's classified as one of these
an omnivore
Greg
Chris
|
$200
[23]
Since 1970 annual production of this per cow has grown from around 10,000 pounds to around 20,000
milk
Loren
Chris
|
$200
[17]
Sheedy, Walker,McBeal
Ally
Loren
|
$200
[1]
He entered the Venezuelan military academy (class of 1975) because it had a strong baseball team
(Hugo) Chavez
Greg
|
$200
[6]
In 2009 this Comedy Central "pundit" worked with the USO to film his show in a combat zone--Baghdad
(Stephen) Colbert
Greg
|
|
$400
[8]
A carcass that washed ashore in New Zealand in 2013 resembling some prehistoric sea monster was this, aka a killer whale
an orca
Loren
|
$400
[13]
Pair, pare, pere & pear are these, from the Greek for "sound"
homophones
Chris
|
$400
[24]
A rich protein substitute, as well as an oil source, these legumesare grown onmore than 75 million U.S. Acres
soybeans
Loren
|
$400
[18]
Davis, Coverdale, Standish
Miles
Chris
|
$400
[2]
In 1972 he expelled more than 40,000 Asians from Uganda, leading to a breakdown of the economy
Idi Amin
Chris
|
$400
[22]
During a 2012-13 tour, the cheerleading squad from this Tony Romo team got to shake Djibouti
the (Dallas) Cowboys
Loren
|
|
DD
$500
[11]
In 2012 a Scottish skipper found one of these, also a song by the Police; it had been adrift for 97 years & 309 days
a message in a bottle
Chris
|
$600
[14]
Violent disorder or commotion; rough winds may lead to some during a flight
turbulence
Chris
|
$600
[25]
Calif.'s leading forage crop, it's human food too, in the form of a sprout associated with a healthy lifestyle
alfalfa
Loren
|
$600
[19]
Pollock, de Govia, Browne
Jackson
Loren
|
$600
[3]
In 2011 France extradited this man back to Panama, where he began serving time for crimes committed when in power
(Manuel) Noriega
Greg
|
$600
[28]
On my 2012 USO tour, I got to know the troops & the equipment, like this vehicle, whose full name includes "high mobility"
a humvee
Greg
|
|
$600
[10]
This Norwegian explorer was carried across the Atlantic by ocean currents in his reed boat Ra II
Thor Heyerdahl
Chris
|
$800
[15]
Following "intestinal", it means "courage"
fortitude
Loren
|
$800
[26]
Thistype for grass, used for pasture, shares its name with a disciple of Saint Paul
Timothy grass
|
$800
[20]
Montessori, Callas, Shriver
Maria
Loren
|
$800
[4]
In 1964 he was exiled from Iran; in 1979 he became the country's political & religious leader for life
Ayatollah Khomeini
Greg
Loren
|
— |
|
$1,000
[12]
In 1835 this French engineer described the effect named for him, which influences the direction of ocean currents
Coriolis
Greg
|
$1,000
[16]
7 letters, 3 syllables: the power to endure fatigue--show some!
stamina
Greg
Loren
|
$1,000
[27]
Growing faster than any other poultry, including turkeys, they can weigh 7 pounds in 7 weeks
duck
|
$1,000
[21]
Bridges, Biden, Brummell
Beau
Loren
Chris
|
$1,000
[5]
He was chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990, then of just plain Germany until 1998
Helmut Kohl
Chris
|
— |
| LITERATURE | A JUDI DENCH FILM FESTIVAL | ZOOLOGY | STATE THE STATE UNIVERSITY | "BOY"s WILL BE BOYS | THE U.S. OWES |
|
$400
[13]
This youngest sister in "Little Women" was based on the author's sister May--note the anagram
Amy
Chris
|
$400
[6]
Judi played Queen Elizabeth I in a brief but Oscar-winning performance in this film
Shakespeare in Love
Chris
|
$400
[26]
Now extinct, the huge, flightless Aepyornis maximus was called this "bird", like the one born in "Horton Hatches the Egg"
the elephant bird
Loren
|
$400
[12]
In 1855 this East Lansing school opened as the first agricultural college in the United States
Michigan State
Loren
|
$400
[1]
The magazine Boys' Life has been published by this organization since 1911
the Boy Scouts
Loren
|
$400
[3]
The first Treasury Secretary, he said, "the United States debt, foreign & domestic, was the price of liberty"
(Alexander) Hamilton
Greg
|
|
$800
[18]
Tolstoy thought the masterpiece of this fellow countryman was the 1860s work "The House of the Dead"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
|
$800
[7]
In "Golden Eye" Ms. Dench took her first run at this role
M
Loren
|
$800
[27]
Just 3/10 inch long, the world's smallest amphibian is a species of this found on New Guinea
a frog
Greg
|
$800
[15]
This university's college of medicine is located at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Penn State
Greg
Loren
|
$800
[2]
The young man seen here, or anyone known to bemoral & innocent
a choir boy
Greg
|
$800
[4]
19th century decade that saw the U.S. debt grow from $65 million to $2.7 billion
the 1860s
Greg
|
|
$1,200
[19]
The 2012 book "Portrait of a Novel" is about "Henry James & the Making of" this "American masterpiece"
Portrait of a Lady
Loren
|
$1,200
[14]
In 2011 Judi was Annie Hoover, a doting mother in this biopic
J. Edgar
Greg
|
$2,000
[28]
2 basic substances in snake venom are neurotoxins & these, a word for poisons that damage blood vessels
hemotoxins
|
$1,200
[16]
In 1858 this university was founded as Corvallis College; it was soon sold to the Methodist church
Oregon State
Greg
|
$1,200
[8]
Schlitz introduced this 24-ounce can in 1956 & has brought it back in a 16-ounce version
the tallboy
|
$1,200
[5]
First offered on March 1, 1935, the sale of these helped to manage the USA's growing public debt
savings bonds
Greg
Chris
|
|
$1,600
[20]
The daydreams of this James Thurber character include being a surgeon & the world's greatest pistol shot
Walter Mitty
Chris
|
$1,600
[21]
In 2011 Dame Judi was Dame Sybil Thorndike opposite Michelle Williams as this actress
Marilyn Monroe
Chris
|
— |
$1,600
[17]
Marion, Lima & Newark (not that one!) are branches of this university whose main campus is in the state capital
Ohio State
Loren
|
$1,600
[9]
A scapegoat, perhaps tied to a post
a whipping boy
Greg
|
DD
$1,200
[10]
This country owns around 8% of all U.S. public debt, more than any other
China
Greg
|
|
$2,000
[23]
In a Goethe novel "The Sorrows of" this man include the fact that Lotte is engaged
Werther
Loren
|
$2,000
[22]
Judi is a widow giving India a go in the film about this hotel that bills itself as "the best"
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Chris
|
— |
$2,000
[24]
Located in Manhattan (not that one!), it has the wheat genetics resource center & a nuclear reactor
Kansas State
Greg
|
$2,000
[25]
Not far from L.A., Mrs. Knott's restaurant has been serving these pies since 1934
boysenberry pies
Loren
|
$2,000
[11]
The White House says $1.4 trillion of the debt is from recent wars & $800 billion from the 2009 recovery act, aka this
the Stimulus
Greg
Chris
|
In area, it's the largest former Soviet republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean
Kazakhstan