Meredith Larson — an attorney from Washington, D.C.
Phil Lowe — a process automation engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina
Craig Cornish, Jr. — a graduate student of history from Welcome, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig | $1,200 | $6,000 | $11,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Phil | $2,000 | $2,800 | $8,400 |
$6,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,400
16 R, 2 W |
| Meredith | $3,800 | $7,200 | $21,900 |
$19,900
New champion: $19,900 |
$20,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| YOU FLOOR ME! | SEND IN THE MARINES | "N" THE ATLAS | CONTROL | ALT | DELETE |
|
$200
[26]
An upper floor in a barn to store hay, or an upper floor in a warehouse converted into an apartment
a loft
Phil
|
$200
[21]
Pima Indian Ira Hayes joined the Marines in 1942 & was part of a famous photo taken here in February 1945
Iwo Jima
Phil
|
$200
[1]
The Paillon River divides this French Riviera resort into Old Town & Modern Town
Nice
Phil
|
$200
[2]
The agents of CONTROL managed to defeat the agents of KAOS on this '60s sitcom
Get Smart
Meredith
|
$200
[7]
This "numeric" Trent Reznor act keeps hammering away, hitting the 2013 Billboard Alt Charts with "Came Back Haunted"
Nine Inch Nails
Meredith
|
$200
[12]
...a letter from "country" & it becomes this smaller district
county
Phil
|
|
$400
[27]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of theater seating on the monitor.) From the Italian for "middle", it can be an intermediate floor between two main ones or thelowest balconyin a theater
Mezzanine
Phil
|
$400
[22]
Histestimony before Congress in 1987 was anything but uniform
Oliver North
Meredith
|
$400
[17]
Formerly called Charles Town, this Bahamian city was renamed in 1695 for the royal house of King William III
Nassau
Craig
|
$400
[3]
This patriotic song says, "Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law"
"America The Beautiful"
Meredith
|
$400
[8]
The 2003, '05 & '07 Grammys for Best Alternative Album went to this Detroit duo
The White Stripes
Craig
|
$400
[13]
...a letter from "brainy" & you get this, salty
briny
Phil
|
|
$600
[28]
Derek Jeter lived for a decade in this type of top-floor pad in the Trump Tower
a penthouse
Meredith
|
$600
[23]
This former Marine guided Bill Clinton to the presidency & Mary Matalin to the altar
James Carville
Meredith
|
$800
[19]
The Israelis irrigate this desert with water brought from the Sea of Galilee via a system of canals, pipelines & tunnels
the Negev
Craig
|
$600
[4]
This therapy gets its name because data on your body are "returned" to you via sensors so you can control your functions
biofeedback
Meredith
|
$600
[9]
The punnily titled "Diane Young" is a 2013 alt hit for this "undead" band
Vampire Weekend
Phil
|
$600
[14]
...a letter from "asteroid" & it becomes this type of chemical compound
steroid
Meredith
|
|
$800
[29]
Stay with me: Brits call the second floor the first floor & what we call the first floor they call this
the ground floor
|
$800
[24]
This "Exodus" author drew on his experiences as a Marine in WWII for his first novel, "Battle Cry"
(Leon) Uris
Meredith
|
$1,000
[20]
This 8-square-mile island northeast of Australia is the world's smallest republic
Nauru
|
$800
[5]
In terms of arms-control negotiations between the U.S. & the USSR, SALT was succeeded by this 5-letter acronym
START
Meredith
|
$800
[10]
Thisout-there Parisian electronica duo gave us the 2013 hit "Get Lucky"
Daft Punk
Phil
|
$800
[15]
...a letter from "eaglet" to get this metal tip at the end of a shoelace
aglet
Craig
|
|
$1,000
[30]
Famous Filene's floor of bargains that closed in 2011 to the grief of Boston shoppers
Basement
Meredith
|
$1,000
[25]
A program to give canes to wounded warriors is called this, the film that made Marine & sheriff Buford Pusser famous
Walking Tall
|
DD
$2,600
[18]
This largest Central American lake is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the 12-mile-wide Rivas Isthmus
Lake Nicaragua
Craig
|
$1,000
[6]
In 1916 she opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States
Margaret Sanger
Meredith
|
$1,000
[11]
The video for "Glosoli" by Sigur Ros included some of the hot springs of this island, their home country
Iceland
Phil
|
$1,000
[16]
...a letter in "bacteria" & you're left with this ancient country
Bactria
Craig
|
| 1963 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE DOME | GUARDS | FILE UNDER "Q" | LITERARY QUOTES | SCIENTIFIC EUROPEAN |
|
$400
[16]
On April 16, he began a letter, "My dear fellow clergymen, while confined here in the Birmingham City Jail..."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Phil
|
$400
[17]
In 1978 Ali beat Spinks & Dallas won the Super Bowl at this New Orleans venue, but not on the same night!
the Superdome
Craig
|
$400
[24]
According to Arthurian legend, this cup was guarded by the Fisher King
the Holy Grail
Meredith
|
$400
[1]
The 4-sided center area of a college campus
quad
Phil
|
$400
[11]
"One day" this Daniel Defoe title character "was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's... foot on the shore"
Robinson Crusoe
Phil
|
$400
[6]
In 1705 he published "A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets", detailing 24 that had been observed from 1337 to 1698
(Edmond) Halley
Craig
|
|
$800
[18]
Coca-Cola introduced its first diet soda, this classic with a 3-letter name
TaB
Phil
|
$800
[19]
In 2010 snow on the inflatable Teflon roof of this NFL team's Metrodomeleft the structure less-inflated
the Minnesota Vikings
Craig
|
$800
[25]
Its official date of birth is January 22, 1506, when 150 soldiers from Canton Uri entered the Vatican
the Swiss Guard
Meredith
|
$800
[2]
It's Australia's "Sunshine State"
Queensland
Craig
|
$800
[12]
Harry Potter's best friend, he's described as "tall, thin and gangling, with freckles, big hands and feet, and a long nose"
Ron Weasley
Phil
|
$800
[7]
This Pole's "Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs" was published in 1543, the year of his death
Copernicus
Craig
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Until Harvey Gantt entered Clemson, this was the only state that hadn't integrated any public education
South Carolina
Phil
|
$1,600
[21]
Boasting the first fully retractable roof, which can close in 20 mins., the dome formerly known as Sky is in this city, eh
Toronto
Craig
|
$1,200
[26]
In the 1990s this co-star of "The Green Mile" served as a bodyguard to Will Smith & Jamie Foxx
Michael Clarke Duncan
Craig
|
$1,200
[3]
It's a bon mot
quip
Craig
|
$1,200
[13]
Emily Bronte said it was "the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling"
Wuthering Heights
Phil
|
$1,200
[8]
In the 1850s this Swede worked for John Ericsson, builder of the ironclad Monitor; later, boom went his dynamite
Nobel
Meredith
|
|
$1,600
[29]
This Taylor-Burton epic was a box-office bust in 1963 but was restored for Cannes & Blu-ray in 2013
Cleopatra
Craig
|
$2,000
[22]
Built in 1975 for $55.7 million, the Pontiac Silverdome, home to this NFL team, was sold in 2009 for $583,000
the Detroit Lions
Craig
|
$1,600
[27]
A state or federal prison guard may be called a C.O., short for this
corrections officer
Phil
Meredith
|
$1,600
[4]
2-word phrase for an abrupt, large increase, especially in knowledge
quantum leap
Meredith
|
$1,600
[14]
Chapter 15 of this novel reports that one day Lara "went out and did not come back. She... probably died somewhere"
Doctor Zhivago
Meredith
|
$2,000
[10]
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42... wait, those aren't numbers in this guy's "sequence"! 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34... there we go
Fibonacci
Phil
|
|
$2,000
[30]
In July most of Skopje, then part of this country, was destroyed by an earthquake
Yugoslavia
Craig
|
DD
$5,000
[20]
In an April 9, 1965 exhibition game, Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in this "8th Wonder of the World"
the Houston Astrodome
Craig
|
$2,000
[28]
In 312 A.D. Constantine the Great disbanded this group for supporting Roman Emperor Maxentius
the Praetorian Guard
Meredith
|
$2,000
[5]
Around 1970 this British fashion designer made hot pants popular
Mary Quant
|
$2,000
[15]
Kurt Vonnegut begins this 1969 novel by writing, "All this happened, more or less"
Slaughterhouse-Five
Meredith
|
DD
$3,500
[9]
In 1943 he fled from Copenhagen to escape the Nazis & later went to Los Alamos to advise scientists working on the A-bomb
(Niels) Bohr
Meredith
|
It's the Southern city in which the building seenhereis located; counting thepanelsmay help
Austin