Seth Tribble — a statistician from New York, New York
Marika Kuspa — a graduate student of biology from South Bend, Indiana
Dinu Nesan — a postdoctoral fellow and university lecturer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinu | $-1,000 | $1,600 | $2,800 |
$2,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,800
9 R, 5 W |
| Marika | $2,200 | $2,800 | $13,200 |
$5,601
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,200
18 R, 1 W |
| Seth | $4,400 | $9,100 | $17,600 |
$26,488
New champion: $26,488 |
$14,000
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE LADY OF SHALLOTS | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS | FUNNY TV | PARKS | RECREATION |
|
$200
[16]
Among the ingredients in Julia Child's "basic" this: vinegar (duh), olive oil, shallots & Dijon mustard
vinaigrette
Dinu
|
$200
[11]
Gracias is Spanish for "thank you" & this phrase means "thank you very much"
muchas gracias
Dinu
|
$200
[21]
Willie "cemetery" Poteat is best known for being this president's caddy at Augusta national in the 1950s
Eisenhower
Seth
|
$200
[1]
This "Daily Show" host: "I heard Dennis Kucinich", say, 'when I'm president', & I just wanted to stop him & say, 'Dude'"
Jon Stewart
Marika
|
$200
[23]
Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields in this park & on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Central Park
Marika
|
$200
[24]
Time to hit the street on this piece of equipment & do a Caballerial, a fakie 360 ollie (fakie means backwards)
skateboard
Marika
|
|
$400
[17]
Even real men will eat Martha Stewart's shallot-mushroom version of this egg dish, down to the crust
quiche
Dinu
|
$400
[12]
In Japanese tani is valley; yama is this
mountain
Marika
|
$400
[29]
(Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) Here in my ceremonial office in this old executive office building, I use a desk made in 1902 for this president & used by every vice president since LBJ
Teddy Roosevelt
Marika
|
$400
[2]
It got harder & harder for the main character to keep saying Vitameatavegamin in a TV commercial on this show
I Love Lucy
|
$400
[22]
You might find a gator or 2 in this subtropical national park established in 1947
Everglades
Marika
|
$400
[25]
Let's practice this type of tennis & win Wimbledon like Daniel Nestor & Kristina Mladenovic did in 2013
mixed doubles
Seth
|
|
$600
[18]
Cat Cora's chicken version of this dish named for a Russian count has shallots, sour cream & tarragon
Chicken Stroganoff
Marika
|
$600
[13]
In Portuguese these 2 antonyms are cedo & tarde
early & late
Marika
|
$800
[28]
Like his boss, this VP started at Yale; unlike his boss, he didn't finish there, graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1965
Dick Cheney
Seth
|
$600
[3]
Trace Beaulieu doled out cheesy movie torture as Dr. Forrester & took it as Crow T. Robot on this ter-riff-ic show
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Seth
|
$600
[4]
FDR should have been familiar with this 350-acre patch of London, formerly a royal hunting preserve
Hyde Park
Seth
|
$600
[7]
Team, let's get together & practice the old "bump, set," this play on the volleyball court
spike
Seth
|
|
$800
[19]
Giada De Laurentiis puts shallots in a pilaf made not with rice, but rather with this graingrown high in the Andes
quinoa
Seth
|
$800
[14]
Afrikaaners can tell you this is Dutch for "farmer"
boer
Dinu
|
$1,000
[30]
This VP under Lincoln was born in Paris--Paris, Maine
Hannibal Hamlin
Seth
|
$800
[10]
On "SCTV" his characters included Tip O'Neill & Stan Shmenge
John Candy
Dinu
|
$800
[5]
Lonely Planet says this landmark, also a title of a novel, "is one of the most festive places in Moscow"
Gorky Park
Dinu
Seth
|
$800
[8]
I'm gonna climb this alphanumeric mountain, despite the book about a 1953 expedition subtitled "The Savage Mountain"
K2
Seth
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In "Joy of Cooking", Irma Rombauer doesn't use shallots for these Rockefeller, but does for them Casino
oysters
Dinu
|
$1,000
[15]
The ability to say or do the right thing with grace, it's French for "to know how to do"
savoir-faire
Dinu
|
DD
$2,500
[27]
Bill Clinton said authorizing a special counsel for this 1994 investigation "was the worst mistake of my presidency"
Whitewater
Seth
|
$1,000
[26]
Bret & Jemaine rapped as the rhymenoceros & hiphopopotamus (whose lyrics were bottomless) on this HBO show
Flight of the Conchords
Seth
|
$1,000
[6]
It's not a bridge too far to visit this 1,000-acre San Francisco destination; 13 million folks do that every year
Golden Gate Park
Seth
|
$1,000
[9]
I know Core Align is a registered piece of equipment for this program to help improve posture, balance & movement
pilates
Marika
|
| KIDDY LIT | COMPLETES THE BROADWAY SHOW TITLE | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS | REDUNDANT SOUNDING NAMES | CROSSWORD CLUES "1" | AFRICAN RIVERS |
|
$400
[13]
Celeste is the queen of this king of the elephants
Babar
Dinu
|
$400
[21]
A satire of corporate America:"How to Succeed in Business ____ ____ ____"
Without Really Trying
Marika
|
$400
[1]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an atomic animation on the monitor.) Absorbing a neutron causes fission in one atom, leading to fission in more and more atoms, creating this process that's usually controlled by nuclear reactors
chain reaction
Marika
|
$400
[6]
Last name of American general Arthur, father of American general Douglas
MacArthur
Seth
|
$400
[7]
This steak sauce is first-class(2 squares)
A.1.
Marika
|
DD
$700
[25]
The Vanderkloof Dam on this "colorful" river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa
Orange River
Seth
|
|
$800
[14]
The stepmother of this pale beauty tries to poison her twice, first with a comb & then with an apple
Snow White
Marika
|
$800
[22]
A Tony-winning musical set in a certain section of Manhattan:"In the ____"
Heights
Seth
|
$800
[2]
A deficiency of an intestinal enzyme usually causes this problem digesting dairy products
lactose intolerance
Marika
|
$800
[12]
He recently tweeted, "At 50 yrs old and the governor of NJ, I'm still trying to win over my mother-in-law"
Chris Christie
Marika
|
$800
[8]
"Rock docs" home(3 squares)
VH1
Seth
|
$800
[26]
2 southern parts of this river are known as Victoria & Albert
the Nile
Seth
|
|
$1,200
[15]
In the first draft of "Peter Pan", this little fairy was called Tippytoe
Tinker Bell
Dinu
|
DD
$3,600
[23]
American soldiers in Iraq:"A Bengal Tiger at the ____ Zoo"
Baghdad
Seth
|
$1,200
[3]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a magnet.) Science teachers love to use these, tiny bits of a certain metal, to demonstrate magnetism
iron filings
Dinu
|
$1,200
[18]
"The World from the Side of the Moon" is the debut album by this "American Idol" winner
Phillip Phillips
Seth
|
$1,200
[9]
Vitamin that prevents beriberi(2 squares)
B1
Marika
|
$1,600
[24]
The Draa River, Morocco's longest, marks part of the boundary between Morocco & this eastern neighbor
Algeria
Dinu
Seth
|
|
$1,600
[16]
This Morgan Rice series tells the tales of Thorgrin, a 14-year-old who strives to become a warrior in the Kingdom of the Ring
The Sorcerer's Ring
|
— |
$1,600
[4]
This theory formulated in the 1960s says earth's outer layer is broken up into shifting pieces of dinnerware
plate tectonics
Dinu
|
$1,600
[19]
This doctor-poet was the son of William George Williams; his mother was Raquel from Puerto Rico
William Carlos Williams
Marika
|
$1,600
[10]
Criminal atop the wanted list(18 squares)
public enemy number 1
Dinu
|
— |
|
$2,000
[17]
While spending his school days at Rugby, this title student is harassed by Flashman, the school bully
Tom Brown
|
— |
$2,000
[5]
When all the frequencies in the visible spectrum combine, they produce this
white light
Marika
|
$2,000
[20]
"Parade's End", a series of novels by this redundantly named Brit, became an HBO miniseries
Ford Madox Ford
|
$2,000
[11]
Standard WWII U.S. Army rifle(2 squares)
M1
Marika
|
— |
This title, launched in early 1930, seemed at odds with the Great Depression in subject & $1 cover price
Fortune