Jon Choi — a law student originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Greg Munda — a computer technician from Glendale, California
Varun Shekhar — a graduate student in engineering and law from Northville, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $18,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varun | $1,100 | $2,700 | $6,700 |
$6,700
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,400
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Greg | $2,200 | $2,200 | $11,800 |
$399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,800
11 R, 2 W |
| Jon | $2,000 | $5,800 | $11,600 |
$11,900
New champion: $11,900 |
$14,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICASAYS SO | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS | LITERATURE | 2013 CDs | HERBS & SPICES | ____ING THE ____ |
|
$200
[16]
"Its '57 varieties' slogan was devised in 1896, but today the company markets more than 5,700 products"
Heinz
Varun
|
$200
[1]
Streets in this state capital include Roger Street, Williams Street & Friendship Street
Providence (Rhode Island)
Varun
Jon
|
$200
[6]
Estate Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title paramour in this D.H. Lawrence novel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Jon
|
$200
[22]
This tween idol double-dipped, having 2 CDs on the same chart with "Believe" & "Believe: Acoustic"
(Justin) Bieber
Greg
|
$200
[21]
Looking for an anti-inflammatory? Try a few quills of this spice
cinnamon
|
$200
[11]
A dad may find himself doing this in the delivery room & again 30 years later when he's ending financial support
cutting the cord
|
|
$400
[17]
"Institution of higher learning in Durham, N.C. ... affiliated with but not controlled by the United Methodist Church"
Duke (University)
Jon
|
$400
[2]
Bank vaults beneath this Swiss city's Bahnhofstrasse are said to be crammed with gold & silver
Zurich
Varun
|
$400
[7]
Inspector Porfiry Petrovich is on the case in this 1866 novel
Crime & Punishment
Jon
|
$400
[23]
"Based on a True Story..." was from this man, "The Voice" of country music
(Blake) Shelton
Varun
|
$400
[24]
They're often teamed with sour cream, as seen here
chives
Varun
|
$400
[12]
Before it means dating several people at a time, it meant betting on all the racehorses
playing the field
Varun
|
|
$600
[18]
"Born... 1990" in Kentucky, "actress who by ... 22 had been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actress"
Jennifer Lawrence
Jon
|
$600
[3]
On its 2,500-mile course to the Pacific, this road passed through the state capitals of Springfield & Oklahoma City
Route 66
Greg
|
$600
[8]
The line "no country for old men" comes from this Irishman's poem "Sailing To Byzantium"
(William Butler) Yeats
Jon
|
$600
[28]
Being dead since 1970 didn't stop this guitar legend from charting with "People, Hell And Angels"
Jimi Hendrix
|
$600
[25]
A prized black pepper comes from the Malabar Coast of this nation
India
Varun
|
$600
[13]
Passing through a crisis safely, or navigating your way 90 degrees from Hollywood to Vine
turning the corner
Greg
|
|
$800
[19]
"A series of intl. treaties... between 1864 & 1949 for... ameliorating the effects of war on soldiers and civilians"
the Geneva Conventions
Jon
|
$800
[4]
The location of offices like the Defence Ministry HQ, this London street has become a synonym for the government
Whitehall
|
$800
[9]
Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this African-American writer put out "Notes Of A Native Son"
James Baldwin
|
$800
[29]
This singer for Hootie & The Blowfish had a hit with his third solo country album, "True Believers"
(Darius) Rucker
Greg
|
$800
[26]
The nail-shaped buds of this spice used to alleviate a toothache gives us its name, from the Latin for "nail"
cloves
|
DD
$700
[15]
This African custom seen at many weddings of African Americans symbolizes sweeping away the old
jumping the broom
Varun
|
|
$1,000
[20]
This French artist portrayed "the personalities and facets of Parisian nightlife and... entertainment in the 1890s"
Toulouse-Lautrec
Jon
|
$1,000
[5]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Grand Central Terminal in New York.) New Yorkers have loved oysters going back to the Indians who have left piles of shells 4 feet deep. One pile gave this Lower Manhattan street its precious name
Pearl Street
Jon
|
$1,000
[10]
He wrote that "naked lunch" means "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on... every fork"
(William S.) Burroughs
Greg
|
$1,000
[30]
His "Unorthodox Jukebox" was quite popular; did he "planet" that way?
Bruno Mars
|
$1,000
[27]
To keep prices high in the 1760s, the Dutch burned warehouses of this spice whose seed covering supplies mace
nutmeg
Greg
Jon
|
$800
[14]
Going to sleep, not punching dried grass, as you might think
hitting the hay
Varun
|
| CONVERSATIONAL GERMAN | PHYSICAL SCIENCE | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS | IT'S SNOWING | "MERRY" | CHRISTMAS |
|
$400
[24]
The Avery Brewing Co. likes to quote this Kaiser (II): "Give me a woman who loves beer & I will conquer the world"
Wilhelm
Jon
|
$400
[7]
Also a kind of tooth, the sum of the atomic masses in a molecule is called this mass
molar mass
Varun
|
$400
[16]
"Just for the taste of it", Demi Moore crawled onto a ledge to get a can of this beverage & plummeted off (but survived)
Diet Coke
Greg
|
$400
[6]
To break a world record, on Feb. 17, 2007 almost 9,000 people lay on the ground in Bismarck, N.D. & made these
snow angels
Varun
|
$400
[21]
Here's the spin: it's also known as a carousel
merry-go-round
Jon
|
$400
[1]
Some scholars say the Basilica of St. Anastasia in this imperial city was the site of the first Dec. 25 Xmas celebration
Rome
Greg
|
| — |
$800
[8]
One of the EPA's "six common air pollutants" is SO2, this highly reactive gas
sulfur dioxide
Varun
|
$800
[17]
Before he entered "The Matrix", he helped us choose Kellogg's Corn Flakes
Keanu Reeves
Varun
|
$800
[11]
In skiing, this basic method of turning or stopping is also called the wedge
snowplow
Jon
|
$800
[22]
In a nursery rhyme Old King Cole was one of these
merry old soul
Jon
|
$800
[2]
Composer Irving Berlin wrote this classic song introduced to the world on Dec. 25, 1941 by Bing Crosby on his radio show
"White Christmas"
Jon
|
| — |
$1,200
[9]
Shorter than radio waves, this type of useful radiation has a frequency of about 1 to 300 gigahertz
microwave
Jon
|
$1,200
[18]
Shirtless surfer dude Brad Pitt had "the fever for the flavor of" this canned potato chip brand
Pringles
Jon
|
$1,200
[12]
At the Vienna museum devoted to these keepsakes, you probably can't pick up the exhibits & shake them
snow globes
Jon
|
$1,200
[23]
A comedy in 5 acts, it centers on the romantic misadventures of Falstaff
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Varun
|
$1,200
[3]
Neil Papworth approved & sent the first one of these in December 1992, typing, "Merry Christmas"
text message
Varun
|
| — |
$2,000
[15]
A liquid in an enclosed jar may be in a dynamic equilibrium between the processes of this -ation & condensation
evaporation (or vaporization)
Greg
|
$1,600
[19]
"30 Rock" was far in her future when she suggested we go to Mutual Savings Bank
Tina Fey
Varun
|
$1,600
[13]
Salt Lake City Olympic mascots included Powder, a snowshoe one of these critters
rabbit (or hare)
Greg
|
$1,600
[26]
After Oliver Cromwell, it's not difficult to understand this nickname of England's King Charles II
The Merry Monarch
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
With peace on earth on their minds, Israel's Menachem Begin & this leader met in Egypt on Christmas Day 1977
(Anwar) Sadat
Jon
|
| — |
DD
$3,000
[10]
Nothing's final, it's all in this, also the name for magnetic lines that run from pole to pole forming magnetic fields
flux
Jon
|
$2,000
[20]
With no pandas, kung fu or otherwise, in sight, he hawked "Pitfall" for the Atari 2600 (in a pith helmet!)
Jack Black
Greg
|
$2,000
[14]
This Tibetan mountain climber & guide more than earned his autobiography's title "Tiger of the Snows"
(Tenzing) Norgay
Greg
|
$2,000
[25]
This good-time phrase is what the rich fool says in a New Testament parable
eat, drink and be merry
Greg
|
$2,000
[5]
Alfred Anderson was the last survivor of the Christmas truce of this year, when front line troops exchanged gifts
1914
|
The writer who named this U.S. movement said the term referred to supreme blessedness, not exhaustion
the Beat movement