Marge Lindblom — a lawyer from Larchmont, New York
Sean Kram — a barista from Edmonds, Washington
Molly Kossoff — a beauty-industry magazine editor from West Hills, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Molly | $2,600 | $4,600 | $14,200 |
$26,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,200
20 R, 1 W |
| Sean | $2,000 | $7,400 | $16,700 |
$28,401
New champion: $28,401 |
$15,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Marge | $1,400 | $3,400 | $11,000 |
$7,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,000
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS | FAST FOOD PLACES | "UGA" | CHUCK A... | I CAN'T STOP THIS FEELING | DEEP INSIDE OF ME |
|
$200
[30]
We wonder if it was a difficult decision to name this William Styron novel the 1980 hardcover fiction winner
Sophie's Choice
Molly
|
$200
[22]
Its menu has both a Daily Double & a McDouble
McDonald's
Sean
|
$200
[6]
A miser would claim this adjective with pride
frugal
Molly
|
$200
[4]
Chuck a weapon called this, used by Aborigines; a good throw can send one 550 feet before it begins its return to sender
a boomerang
Molly
|
$200
[10]
I have a craving for this unleavened bread traditionally eaten during Passover
matza
Molly
|
$200
[17]
Oddly, the "small" one of these organs is 25 feet long, the "large" one only 5
the intestine
Sean
|
|
$400
[7]
(I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) Katherine Boo's reportage in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" captures life's inequalities in the slums of this Indian city & commerical center
Mumbai
Molly
|
$400
[23]
It got flak when its footlong sandwiches measured only 11 inches
Subway
Sean
|
$400
[5]
The Carnival cruise with this name, for older women & younger men, only sailed once
the Cougar Cruise
Marge
|
$400
[12]
Hurl a baseball well & you'll have a good WHIP, a newer stat short for these & hits per innings pitched
walks
Sean
|
$400
[11]
I'm really in the mood to play this board game that features the Chocolate Swamp & Gumdrop Mountain
Candy Land
Sean
|
$400
[18]
If these 2 external veins in your neck are bulging, it may not be anger but heart disease
the jugular
Marge
|
|
$600
[8]
He had "The Right Stuff" to win for his book about Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard & others
Tom Wolfe
|
$600
[24]
You can get a Crown Card from this chain
Burger King
Marge
|
$600
[1]
This country had an Armada too, but an English fleet defeated it in 1615
Portugal
Molly
|
$600
[13]
Heave a 16-pound sphere called this 74 feet & you'll have an Olympic record
a shotput
Molly
Sean
|
$600
[15]
For a pet, I want this marsupial named for an island state, but its diet of roadkill & dead sheep ain't at Petco
a Tasmanian devil
Sean
|
$600
[19]
Located at the back of the heel, it is the thickest & most powerful tendon in the body
the Achilles tendon
Sean
|
|
$800
[9]
"Master of the Senate", volume 3 in Robert Caro's massive bio of this man, covers the 1950s
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Marge
|
$800
[28]
Its headquarters are on a street named for its founder, a 15-minute drive from Churchill Downs
KFC
Sean
|
$800
[2]
9-letter word meaning to present a pill or bad news so it's easier to swallow
sugarcoat
Molly
|
$800
[14]
Toss a heavy wooden pole called a caber at these "Games" held in Inverness, Scotland every summer
the Highland Games
Molly
Marge
|
$800
[25]
I have to visit this world capital, though its name is Malay for "muddy estuary"
Kuala Lumpur
Molly
|
$1,000
[21]
Yawning or swallowing opens this tube that extends down from the middle ear
the Eustachian tube
Sean
|
|
$1,000
[27]
He has won for "Sabbath's Theater" & "Goodbye, Columbus"
Philip Roth
Marge
|
$1,000
[29]
"Under the Roof" is a trademark of this pizzeria
Pizza Hut
Molly
|
$1,000
[3]
It's known as a fictitious force, meaning it's only apparent within a specific frame of reference, like a spinning carousel
centrifugal
Marge
|
$1,000
[16]
Chuck a sporting item called this; a "leaner" against a stake counts for 1 point
a horseshoe
Sean
|
$1,000
[26]
I gotta wear this brand of pants--the stripes are slimming, right?
Zubaz
|
DD
$1,200
[20]
About 80% of this organ can be removed without creating an insufficiency of the insulin it produces
the pancreas
Sean
|
| GNOME, SWEET GNOME | MANNED SPACE FLIGHT | THE NEW YORK TIMESALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK | RIDING ON THE METRO | PLANT THE FLAG | STRANGE RHYMES |
|
$400
[18]
Like Eskimos, gnomes show affection by doing this
rubbing noses
Molly
|
$400
[21]
The last Saturn V rocket was launched on May 14, 1973 to lift this first U.S. space station into orbit
Skylab
|
$400
[1]
(I'm Frank Bruni.) My 2013 blog post titles "'I Do' & the ACLU" points out that the number of states allowing this doubled from 6 to 12 in about a year
gay marriage
Sean
|
$400
[13]
Chicago's metro is better known by this single letter
the "L"
Molly
|
$400
[8]
In an early design, the single leaf on this country's flag was green
Canada
Sean
|
$400
[7]
An oven in a kitchen
a range
Marge
|
|
$800
[19]
The roaming gnome seenhereis the mascot of this online company
Travelocity
Molly
|
$800
[22]
The monument seenhereat pad 14 at Cape Canaveral honors the men of this program
the Mercury program (the Mercury seven accepted)
Sean
Marge
|
$800
[2]
(I'm David Carr.) On the "Media Decoder" blog I've been following this Netflix series that shows Washington officials & yes, even a few journalists, in a harsh light
House of Cards
Molly
|
$800
[14]
Universal City & Pershing Square are stops on this metro's red line
Los Angeles
Sean
|
$800
[9]
This nation's flag was changed after the removal of Baby Doc Duvalier but still includes a palm tree in the coat of arms
Haiti
Molly
|
$800
[3]
To make someone insane, or to throw a situation into great confusion
derange
Molly
|
|
$1,200
[20]
Shakespeare got a credit on this 2011 animated movie
Gnomeo and Juliet
Sean
|
$1,600
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the Earth, Moon & a spacecraft.) 205,000 miles away from Earth, an explosion forced a free return trajectory around the Moon for this Apollo flight, landing in the Pacific 4 terrifying days later
Apollo 13
Sean
|
$1,200
[26]
(I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) I founded Deal Book, a Times Financial blog that covers stories like this company's aquisition of Tumblr, which we called "putting the exclamation point back in the company name"
Yahoo!
Molly
|
$1,200
[15]
This name for the San Francisco area's metro system is an acronym, not a "Simpsons" tribute
the BART
Molly
|
$1,200
[10]
The flag of this Indian Ocean island nation has 4 leaves of the bodhi tree
Sri Lanka
Marge
|
$1,200
[4]
Chronic canine skin disease caused by mites
mange
Molly
|
|
$1,600
[28]
A road trip to redwood forests inspired this author of "The Jungle" to write "The Gnomobile"
(Upton) Sinclair
Sean
|
$2,000
[25]
Her main qualifications for her June 1963 flight were being a parachutist & a good Communist
Valentina Tereshkova
|
$2,000
[29]
(I'm legal columnist Linda Greenhouse.) In a multimedia feature, I gave a tour of the papers of this Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade & about whom I've also written a book
Harry Blackmun
Marge
|
$1,600
[16]
Known to locals as the "T", this New England Metro Area's metro was immortalized in the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A."
Boston
Marge
|
$1,600
[11]
The flag of this Central American country shows a mahogany tree & 2 men; the Union Jack was removed
Belize
Marge
|
$1,600
[5]
A "PX" on a military base
a post exchange
Marge
|
|
$2,000
[27]
Grow your own pet gnome, or at least its beard, with one of these planter kits from Joseph Enterprises
Chia Pets
Molly
|
DD
$2,500
[23]
This Lunar Excursion Module used by Armstrong & Aldrin was left in orbit & has crash-landed
the Eagle
Sean
|
— |
DD
$2,000
[17]
Duke Ellington knew this NYC metro line that runs from Manhattan to Far Rockaway
the "A" train
Marge
|
$2,000
[12]
An eagle sits on a flowering nopal cactus in the center of the flag of this country
Mexico
|
$2,000
[6]
This farmers' organization was founded in 1867
the Grange
Marge
|
The hero of this 1993 comedy says he's "been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted & burned"
Groundhog Day