Christi Esterle — a librarian and stay-at-home mom from Colorado Springs, Colorado
Matthew Harney — a research assistant and student originally from Springfield, Illinois
Howard Ray — a laser applications engineer from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $30,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard | $3,600 | $4,400 | $9,000 |
$2,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,000
20 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matthew | $2,000 | $1,400 | $3,800 |
$300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$3,400
10 R (including 1 DD), 5 W |
| Christi | $2,600 | $5,000 | $15,000 |
$11,999
New champion: $11,999 |
$15,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| LET'S PLAY BALL! | BIBLE BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS | A HISTORY LESSON | COOKING TERMS | MODES OF TRANSPORT | THE SPANISH JOB |
|
$200
[29]
To execute one of these, a batter squares his body to the pitcher & makes contact with the top half of the ball
a bunt
Matthew
|
$200
[10]
Major divisions of plays, made up of scenes
acts
Matthew
|
$200
[12]
Scotland acquired these islands known for their pony in 1472 when a Norse king didn't pay his daughter's dowry to James III
the Shetlands
Howard
|
$200
[9]
This 4-letter verb means to sprinkle food with a powdery ingredient like confectioner's sugar or cocoa
dust
Christi
|
$200
[19]
Ahoy, Ringo:"Yellow ____"
Submarine
Christi
|
$200
[1]
My name is Alex & I'll be your camarero, this job
waiter
Howard
Matthew
Christi
|
|
$400
[28]
If you're on third base, take your lead in this territory; you won't be out if you get hit by a batted ball
foul territory
Howard
|
$400
[17]
1958 Leon Uris bestseller
Exodus
Howard
|
$400
[11]
Wellington defeated the French in 1813 at Vitoria, Spain in the Peninsular War, the peninsula being this one
the Iberian
Christi
|
$400
[13]
To bias-slice carrots, cut them crosswise at this numerical angle
45 degrees
Howard
|
$400
[18]
On the Thanksgiving dinner table:Gravy ____
boat
Christi
|
$400
[2]
To bring out my inner artiste, I might strive to be an escultor, this specialty
sculptor
Howard
|
|
$600
[27]
To play this position, you'll need the gear somewhat unfairly called "the tools of ignorance"
catcher
Howard
|
$600
[23]
Last name of record-setting hurdler & San Francisco 49er Renaldo
Nehemiah
|
$800
[8]
In 1185 Minamoto Yoritomo defeated the Taira clan in Japan & later was given this title meaning "great general"
shogun
Howard
|
$600
[14]
Meuniere is a French style of cooking in which fish is dipped in flour & sauteed in this--note we said a French style
butter
Howard
|
$600
[20]
Thanks, Euclid:____ geometry
Plane
Christi
|
$600
[3]
It adds up--a contador is one of these professionals
an accountant
Christi
|
|
$800
[25]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a baseball.) To throw this pitch that brought fame to Carl Hubbell & Tug McGraw, gripthe ball with two fingers, then turnyour wrist in a corkscrew motion so it breaks the opposite way from a curveball
a screwball
Howard
Matthew
Christi
|
$800
[24]
Daughter of president Cleveland & putative candy bar namesake
Ruth
Matthew
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
The FSA & NYA were part of the "alphabet soup" of this 1930s U.S. government program
the New Deal
Matthew
|
$800
[15]
This verb meaning to make a decorative edge in a pie crust shares its name with a woodwind
flute
Christi
|
$800
[21]
A Jerry Seinfeld web series:"Comedians in ____ Getting Coffee"
Cars
Howard
Matthew
|
$800
[4]
An abogado advocates for you, because he is one of these
a lawyer
Christi
|
|
$1,000
[26]
On a hit to right with a runner on second, the first baseman moves into the middle of the infield to become this "man"
the cutoff man
Howard
|
$1,000
[30]
A dramatic disclosure or discovery
Revelation
Christi
|
$1,000
[7]
In 1795 most of Lithuania came under Russia's rule after the third partition of this country
Poland
Howard
|
$1,000
[16]
It sounds like to pamper eggs, but it means to cook them in water just below the boiling point
to coddle
Christi
|
$1,000
[22]
A charitable movement, B4H 4 short:____ for Humanity
Bicycles
|
$1,000
[5]
After what he did to the hedges, I might call my gardener a carnicero, one of these
a butcher
Matthew
|
| FINAL RESTING PLACES | LITERARY QUOTES | "SH"! | IM-PASTORS | MOB MOVIES | WISE GUYS |
|
$400
[11]
Notable graves in this cemetery include those of Joe Louis, Audie Murphy & John J. Pershing
Arlington
Christi
|
$400
[8]
In this story, Uncle Henry stood up & told his wife, "There's a cyclone coming, Em"
The Wizard of Oz
Christi
|
$400
[5]
This title comes from the Arabic for "old man"
sheikh
Howard
Matthew
|
$400
[15]
The Vatican didn't like it when Judy Lee said she was a priest, so they did this exclusionary act to her
excommunicate
Matthew
|
$400
[26]
In "Casino" Robert de Niro played not Jack Rothstein or King Rothstein but him
Ace Rothstein
|
$400
[6]
This ancient Chinese thinker said, "The superior man does not, even for... a single meal, act contrary to virtue"
Confucius
Howard
|
|
$800
[10]
Frank Sinatra rests at Desert Memorial Park just east of this California resort city
Palm Springs
Matthew
|
$800
[9]
In 1896 Ernest Dowson wrote, "They are not long, the days of" these 2 things (never imagining it as a film title)
wine & roses
Howard
|
$800
[4]
As a verb, it's what's being done to the rail car seen here; as a noun, it's a tube that diverts blood
a shunt
Matthew
|
$800
[19]
Matthew McConaughey dresses up like a priest while trying to score HIV drugs in this 2013 film
The Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew
|
$800
[27]
Add an "S" to the title of this 1931 mob movie & you get a great place for some pizza, pizza
Little Caesar
Howard
|
$800
[7]
An oracle said no one was wiser than this ancient Greek, who said, if so it's because I know how little I know
Socrates
Christi
|
|
$1,200
[16]
Samuel Gompers, Walter Chrysler & Washington Irving are among those "snoozing" at this cemetery north of NYC
Sleepy Hollow
Matthew
|
$1,200
[12]
This Hemingway novel begins, "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton"
The Sun Also Rises
|
$1,200
[1]
It's the most abundant of the sedimentary rocks
shale
Howard
|
$1,200
[20]
Aries Spears & Darrell Hammond have impersonated this reverend & 1984 & 1988 presidential candidate
Jesse Jackson
Howard
|
$1,200
[28]
"Get Shorty", about mobsters in L.A., was based on a novel by this crime fiction legend who died in 2013
Elmore Leonard
Howard
|
$1,200
[21]
Hillel regularly whups Shammai in debate in this compilation of Jewish teachings, from Hebrew for "learning"
the Talmud
Matthew
Christi
|
|
$1,600
[17]
Begun in 1906, this L.A.-area cemetery is the final resting place of Elizabeth Taylor & Jimmy Stewart
Forest Lawn
Christi
|
$1,600
[13]
This Elizabethan dramatist & poet requested, "Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove"
Christopher Marlowe
Howard
|
$1,600
[2]
It's the breed of the cute little toy seen here
a shih tzu
Howard
|
$1,600
[24]
Mr. Eko was a thug in priest's clothing on this J.J. Abrams TV show
Lost
Christi
|
$1,600
[29]
Sean Penn played a sleazy mob lawyer in "Carlito's Way" & kingpin Mickey Cohen in this 2013 movie
Gangster Squad
|
$1,600
[22]
William of Ockham used the logical "principle of economy" so effectively, it's known as Ockham's this tool
razor
Howard
|
|
$2,000
[18]
6,188 union Civil War soldiers are buried at Poplar Grove National Cemetery in Petersburg in this state
Virginia
|
DD
$2,000
[14]
This Edgar Allan Poe short story ends, "The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
Christi
|
$2,000
[3]
Pomelo is another name for this large relative of the grapefruit
shaddock
|
$2,000
[25]
In this Shakespeare play, Viola dresses as a man & Feste masquerades as clergyman Sir Topas
Twelfth Night
Christi
|
DD
$3,000
[30]
These 2 men, Best Actor Oscar winners for 2000 & 2001, square off in "American Gangster"
Russell Crowe & Denzel Washington
Howard
|
$2,000
[23]
English statesman & philosopher Francis Bacon warned, "it is impossible" to do this "and to be wise"
to love
|
2 places called Point Udall, referred to as the USA's easternmost & westernmost points, are in these 2 territories
Guam & the Virgin Islands