Cameron Yahr — a university administrator from Encinitas, California
Thad McCollum — a door person from Orlando, Florida
Matt Kish — a high school history teacher from Brunswick, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $2,200 | $4,400 | $12,800 |
$1,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Thad | $1,200 | $5,200 | $14,400 |
$2,400
New champion: $2,400 |
$14,400
22 R, 2 W |
| Cameron | $2,200 | $6,200 | $11,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| CONTEMPORARIES | BILLIARDS SHOTS | CELEBS CELEBRATING | OH, "SNAP" | POTPOURRI | CLOSE QUARTERS |
|
$200
[7]
In 1852 Dickens started publishing "Bleak House" & he was finishing the text of The "Ring" Cycle
(Richard) Wagner
Cameron
|
$200
[26]
The shot that hits a full rack of balls to start a game
the break
Thad
|
$200
[1]
On a Beverly Hills roof in 2011, he feted his firing from "Two And A Half Men" holding a machete & saying, "Free at last!"
Charlie Sheen
Thad
|
$200
[6]
A Kodachrome or Polaroid
a snapshot
Matt
Thad
|
$200
[16]
Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of this microblogging site, sent its first message March 21, 2006
Twitter
Thad
|
$200
[21]
There's a "1959" above the sashimi-lovinggrizzlyon this state'squarter
Alaska
Matt
|
|
$400
[8]
Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Younger was born in 1564, as was this mathematician & astronomer from Pisa
Galileo
Thad
|
$400
[27]
It's any shot where the object ball bounces off a side cushion
a bank
Thad
|
$400
[2]
In 2012 this "Titanic" superstar celebrated his 38th birthday with a party that raised $500,000 for the Red Cross
DiCaprio
Matt
|
$400
[12]
Don't you dare be a young one of these impertinent people (or an old one either)
a whippersnapper
Matt
|
$400
[17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a formula on the monitor.) The old rule was to multiply this pet's age by 7 to get its age in human years; today, there's an updatedformulathat depends on what kind of breed, but it often comes out to be about the same
dogs
Matt
|
$400
[22]
You had to figure there would be alakefor this state
Minnesota
Cameron
|
|
$600
[9]
Amundsen reached the South Pole in December 1911, a few days after she received her second Nobel Prize
Marie Curie
Thad
Cameron
|
$600
[28]
To hit the cue ball into the 6 ball into the 9 ball, all on purpose, is this kind of shot that can also open a safe
a combination
Matt
|
$600
[3]
After winning the Super Bowl in 2012, this Giants QB continued the "I'm going to Disney World!" thing Phil Simms began in 1987
Eli Manning
Matt
|
$600
[13]
This beverage brand's "Real Fact #464":"Cows do not have upper front teeth"
Snapple
Cameron
|
$600
[18]
This deodorant that's "strong enough for a man, made for a woman" was introduced in 1956
Secret
Thad
|
$600
[23]
Hey, it's John Muir, so it's gotta be this state
California
Cameron
|
|
$800
[10]
In 1916 Carl Sandburg published his "Chicago Poems" & this Brit became a liaison officer to Faisal's army
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Cameron
|
$800
[29]
When a player designates in advance the ball to be made & the pocket into which it will go, it's this type of shot
a called shot
Thad
|
$800
[4]
These 2 music giants generated some controversy in 2013 by celebrating 5th wedding anniv. in Cuba
Beyonce & Jay-Z
Cameron
|
$800
[14]
It's a thin, brittle cookie sweetened with molasses & spiced
a ginger snap
Cameron
|
$800
[19]
He used Bag End, the name of his Aunt Jane's farm in Worcestershire, for the home of some of his characters
Tolkien
Thad
|
$1,000
[25]
Thisstate's quarter isbasedon "Arbor Day", by native son Grant Wood
Iowa
Cameron
|
|
$1,000
[11]
In 1741 Jonathan Edwards gave his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon & this Prussian king conquered Silesia
Frederick the Great
|
$1,000
[30]
This shot where you hit the cue ball low so that it rises off the table shares its name with a basketball shot
a jump shot
Thad
|
$1,000
[5]
After winning an Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby", she headed off to a local burger joint, still in her gown
Hilary Swank
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
The flesh of this popular food fish, Lutjanus campechanus, is actually white
red snapper
Thad
|
$1,000
[20]
A Northerner who opposed the Union cause in the Civil War was called this, after a snake that strikes without warning
a Copperhead
Matt
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
Getrevvedup & tell us the name of this state
Indiana
Cameron
|
| PONY EXPRESSIONS | BASEBALL TEAMS | MORE THAN ONE MEANING | REVOLUTIONARY COUNTRIES | "P"SCIENTISTS | CLOSE QUARTERS |
|
$400
[23]
He "came to town riding on a pony"; he also stuck a feather in his hat & called it macaroni
Yankee Doodle
Thad
|
$400
[1]
In 2013 this team added a new jersey, putting the name of the city, not the team, under 2 red birds perched on a bat
the St. Louis Cardinals
Thad
|
$400
[11]
A victim of ridicule, or to ram with the head
butt
Thad
|
$400
[6]
The Cultural Revolution (1966)
China
Cameron
|
$400
[16]
The process named for him exposes food (like yogurt) to an elevated temperature to destroy some microorganisms
(Louis) Pasteur
Matt
|
$400
[17]
Each year, throngs line up outside retail giants on Black Friday, the day after this holiday
Thanksgiving
Thad
|
|
$800
[24]
In Shakespeare he says, "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
Richard III
Cameron
|
$800
[2]
This Midwest team's campaign to support the environment is called "Our Tribe Is Green"
the Cleveland Indians
Thad
|
$800
[12]
To try & extract information from a suspect, or a device for raising water to ground level
pump
Thad
|
$800
[7]
The Glorious Revolution (1688)
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Matt
|
$800
[22]
This physiologist developed the concept of conditioned reflex
Pavlov
Thad
|
$800
[18]
Keep your friends close in this Hasbro game that features a mat with red, blue, yellow & green dots
Twister
Cameron
|
|
$1,200
[25]
"Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death" comes from this New Testament book
Revelation
Matt
|
$1,200
[3]
PNC Park is the home stadium for this team
the Pittsburgh Pirates
Matt
|
$1,200
[13]
To secure a boat to a dock, or a stretch of open land covered with heather & moss
moor
Cameron
|
$1,200
[8]
The October Revolution (1917)
Russia
Thad
|
$1,200
[26]
This American chemist is the only person to have won 2 unshared Nobel prizes
Linus Pauling
|
$1,200
[19]
A 13-mile & often 45-minute stretch of I-405 in this California city has been identified as the USA's most congested highway
Los Angeles
Matt
|
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
A nursery rhyme says, "I had a little pony, his name was" this; "I lent him to a lady to ride a mile away"
Dapple Gray
Matt
|
$1,600
[4]
This team's mailing address is 1500 South Capitol Street SE
the Washington Nationals
Matt
|
$1,600
[14]
An adjective meaning healthy, or a body of water larger than a bay
sound
Thad
|
$1,600
[9]
The Cedar Revolution (2005)
Lebanon
Matt
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1774 this British chemist discovered a gas he called "dephlogisticated air", what we now call oxygen
Joseph Priestley
Matt
|
$1,600
[20]
There are 37 million people in this capital's metro area, making it the world's largest
Tokyo
Thad
Cameron
|
|
$2,000
[28]
Freud wrote, "The ego's relation to" this "might be compared with that of a rider to his horse"
the id
Thad
|
DD
$4,000
[5]
In 1869 a club based in this, now a National League city, became the first all-professional baseball team
Cincinnati
Matt
|
$2,000
[15]
A basin for baptismal water, or a complete set of type
font
Cameron
|
$2,000
[10]
The Orange Revolution (2004)
the Ukraine
Matt
|
$2,000
[30]
The average size of a string in string theory is about 10‑33centimeters, known as this German physicist's "length"
(Max) Planck
Thad
|
$2,000
[21]
Thousands of Sunni Muslims are seenherein Mecca celebrating this fifth pillar of Islam
the hajj
Matt
Cameron
|
He was nominated for Oscars in 5 consecutive decades; the last nod was for his 1978 role as a Nazi hunter
Sir Laurence Olivier