Rani Peffer game 5.
James Kosmatka — a theater manager from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Johnna Mahoney — a medical student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Rani Peffer — a corporate finance manager from Crittenden, Kentucky (whose 4-day cash winnings total $56,712)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rani | $1,200 | $3,200 | $14,600 |
$11,989
5-day champion: $68,701 |
$13,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Johnna | $2,400 | $4,600 | $8,600 |
$1,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,600
11 R, 1 W |
| James | $3,200 | $2,400 | $5,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,400
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| 4-LETTER EDIBLES | BLAME IT ON THE RAIN | PIGGYBACKING | ALL YOU NEED IS "OVE" | TV PHYSICIAN | HEAL THYSELF |
|
$200
[13]
The seed of this herb is often used in the mix to cure pickles
dill
Rani
|
$200
[8]
Dangerous gushes that occur suddenly in canyons or gulches are known by this alliterative term
flash floods
James
|
$200
[14]
Piggybacking on a 747, Space Shuttle Endeavour says goodbye to this, its old launch facility
the Kennedy Space Center
Rani
|
$200
[1]
Bird of the Columbidae family
a dove
James
|
$200
[16]
In 2013 TV shows on CBS & the BBC respectively, Lucy Liu & Martin Freeman played doctors with this surname
Watson
Johnna
James
|
$200
[6]
If you're applying a Band-Aid to your scuffed knee, you can thank this company that makes the brand
Johnson & Johnson
Johnna
James
|
|
$400
[15]
Basmati & jasmine are types of this
rice
Johnna
|
$400
[9]
Paris looked like Venicein the winter of 1910, when this river overflowed its banks & flooded the city
the Seine
James
|
$400
[19]
This place in Omaha, whose logo is seen here, traces its roots to the efforts of Father Edward J. Flanagan
Boys Town
Rani
|
$400
[2]
A hitter wears them on his hands
batting glove
Johnna
|
$400
[17]
Before movies like "Crimson Tide" & "Flight", he played Dr. Philip Chandler on "St. Elsewhere"
Denzel Washington
|
$400
[7]
You give me fever, so hand me 2 of these acetylsalicylic acid tablets & a glass of water
aspirin
Rani
|
|
$600
[25]
It's the 4-letter name for the dessert seenheretopped with raspberries
flan
Johnna
|
$600
[10]
September 2013 flooding in 17 counties of this state wrecked thousands of homes & cut off entire towns
Colorado
James
|
$600
[20]
Princeton Delivery Systems manufactures the Piggyback line of these trucks that raise loads with a pair of tongs
forklifts
Rani
|
$600
[3]
To desire something that belongs to someone else
covet
Johnna
|
$600
[18]
Maggie Siff as Dr. Tara Knowles tries to help out Jax & the Samcro Motorcycle Club on this FX show
Sons of Anarchy
Rani
|
$600
[24]
Used to relieve allergy symptoms, diphenhydramine is one of these drugs named for what they counteract
an antihistamine
Rani
|
|
$800
[26]
A Greek specialty similar to shawarma, lamb roasted on a spit, shaved off & put in a pita has this 4-letter name
a gyro
Johnna
|
$800
[11]
Rome's Pantheon was surrounded by water 12 feet deep after this river overflowed its banks on Christmas Eve 1598
the Tiber
Rani
|
DD
$1,000
[21]
No longer on the Catholic calendar, this saint is often shown carrying the Christ child on his back
Saint Christopher
Rani
|
$800
[4]
To linger around a particular place
hover
Johnna
|
$800
[23]
On Adult Swim's "Childrens Hospital", Dr. Blake Downs uses makeup to look like one of these
a clown
Rani
|
— |
|
$1,000
[27]
Vegans love this veggie that's basically a primitive cabbage
kale
James
|
$1,000
[12]
Heavy rains swelled the Allegheny & Monongahela in March 1936, inundating this city
Pittsburgh
James
|
$1,000
[22]
In the piggyback type of this hospital setup, a secondary line adds intermittent doses of a new medication
an IV line
Johnna
|
$1,000
[5]
To aim a gun directly at someone
cover
James
|
— | — |
| HUSBANDS & WIVES | "me"TUNES | POTENT POE‑TABLES | I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE | ALL SYSTEMS GO | NEWSPAPERS |
|
$400
[19]
His second wife was the former Nancy Davis
Ronald Reagan
Rani
|
$400
[14]
Considering the title of this Wham! song, the lyric "don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo" had to happen
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
Johnna
|
$400
[9]
"The Bells" features golden wedding bells & sledges with bells of this metal (might make a good Christmas carol)
silver
James
|
$400
[5]
It's the letter seenherein American Sign Language
L
Rani
|
$1,200
[21]
This emperor's early 19th century blockade called the Continental System hurt British commerce for a few years
Napoleon
Rani
|
$800
[27]
In April 2013 the Chicago Sun-Times announced the death of this man who reviewed movies for the paper for 46 years
(Roger) Ebert
Rani
|
|
$800
[20]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) Nelson Mandela wrote, after his years of confinement,"That night, I returned with herto number 8115 here in Soweto. I knew in my heart that I had left prison"
Winnie Mandela
Rani
|
$800
[15]
"Cover me with kisses, baby, cover me with love" is a line in this Blondie song
"Call Me"
Rani
|
$800
[10]
This poem includes the line "much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly"
"The Raven"
James
|
$800
[6]
A Roman numeral, or a symbol for a kiss
X
James
|
$1,600
[22]
In 1601 the Banner System organized armies to conquer China & create this dynasty aka the Qing
the Manchu Dynasty
|
$1,200
[26]
Ohio's largest newspapers include The Blade of Toledo & this city's Beacon journal
Akron
Rani
James
|
|
$1,200
[3]
When he divorced first wife Mileva in 1919, he promised to give her the money if he ever won a Nobel Prize (he won & paid)
Albert Einstein
|
$1,200
[16]
Carly Rae Jepsen personally okayed Holden Nowell as the co-star of the video for this song
"Call Me Maybe"
James
|
$1,200
[11]
"And this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful" her
Annabel Lee
James
|
$1,200
[7]
Notation for the least valuable chessman
P
|
$2,000
[23]
In the 1960s the British ditched this system that used feet & pounds
the Imperial System
James
|
$2,000
[24]
This media company owns over 80 newspapers, including USA Today & the Des Moines Register
Gannett
|
|
$1,600
[2]
He met Mary Godwin in 1812, but they didn't wed until 1816 because he was still married to his first wife, Harriet
Percy Shelley
|
$1,600
[17]
Back off! In 1981 The Police had proximity issues with this Top 10 hit
"Don't Stand So Close To Me"
Johnna
|
$1,600
[12]
The violent killings of an old woman & her daughter are the title crimes of this detective story
(The) Murders in the Rue Morgue
Rani
James
|
$1,600
[8]
It's the 4th tone in the scale of C major
F
Rani
|
DD
$3,000
[28]
Largely gone since the 14th century is this system in which a fief holder took an oath in a ceremony called homage
the feudal system
Rani
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
In 2013 this paper won a Pulitzer for its breaking news coverage of the Aurora theater shooting
The Denver Post
James
|
|
$2,000
[1]
In an HBO movie, Nicole Kidman played this war correspondent, Hemingway's third wife
Martha Gellhorn
|
$2,000
[18]
This No. 1 hit by Pink begins, "Right from the start you were a thief, you stole my heart"
"Just Give Me A Reason"
Rani
|
$2,000
[13]
The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" hears a low, dull sound--"such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in" this
cotton
|
$2,000
[4]
Chemically, it's the symbol for tungsten
W
Johnna
|
— | — |
The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner from this country was under arrest at the time of the award
Myanmar