Casey LaPlante — a high school media specialist from Enfield, Connecticut
Conor Sullivan — a Jesuit volunteer and gym teacher from Hingham, Massachusetts
Ryan Alley — a patent attorney from Alexandria, Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $56,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan | $4,200 | $1,600 | $-2,400 |
$-2,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$-200
13 R, 7 W (including 1 DD) |
| Conor | $1,200 | $2,600 | $6,600 |
$2,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,600
10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| Casey | $0 | $1,000 | $6,500 |
$5,000
New champion: $5,000 |
$7,000
10 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| THAT'S BANANAS! | TROPHIES | THE ART OF DEATH | ALSO AN ASTEROID | WHAT A WONDERFUL "WORLD" | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARYSAYS... |
|
$200
[25]
In this dessert the banana is prepared with 3 ice cream scoops, syrups, whipped cream & a cherry
banana split
Ryan
|
$200
[12]
Tony Dorsett, Bo Jackson & Carson Palmer are among winners of this football trophy
the Heisman Trophy
Ryan
Conor
|
$200
[13]
In the artwork seen here, this composer is directing his "Requiem" on his deathbed
Mozart
Ryan
Casey
|
$200
[4]
The son who flew too near the Sun
Icarus
Ryan
|
$200
[6]
Line that begins Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" speech from "As You Like It"
All the world's a stage
Ryan
|
$200
[1]
This is "the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which one owes allegiance"
treason
Conor
Casey
|
|
$1,000
[24]
At Brennan's in New Orleans, the recipe for this banana dish says, "tip the pan slightly to ignite the rum"
Bananas Foster
Casey
|
$800
[23]
First played in 1903, this event got an official piece of hardware, the Commissioner's Trophy, in 1967
Major League Baseball's World Series
|
$400
[14]
Known for his historic realism, Paul Delaroche depicted events like the 1603endof this queen's 45-year reign
Queen Elizabeth I
Ryan
|
$400
[5]
"Flowery" part of the eye
the Iris
Casey
|
$400
[18]
The song "We Are Young" by fun. uses this idiom meaning to do great deeds & gain fame
set the world on fire
|
$400
[2]
Any "serious crime... punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death... examples include burglary"
felony
Ryan
|
| — |
$1,000
[22]
For 7 of the Maple Leafs' Stanley Cups, this man was manager; the playoff MVP trophy is now named for him
Conn Smythe
|
$600
[15]
"Death of Socrates" exemplifies this master's neoclassicalstyle
Jacques-Louis David
Ryan
|
$600
[9]
The greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War
Achilles
Ryan
|
$600
[19]
Cory & Topanga from a 1990s sitcom have a daughter in this 2014 show from Disney
Girl Meets World
Ryan
Conor
|
$600
[3]
An "aider" assists in a crime; this is "an instigator... who promotes... a crime to be committed"
abettor
Conor
|
| — | — |
$1,000
[17]
"Tod und Leben", "Death and Life" by this Austrian, showshis Art Nouveau tendencies
(Gustav) Klimt
Casey
|
$800
[10]
This voluptuous horror movie hostess who was more bare than scare
Elvira
Ryan
|
$800
[20]
"My DVR only records 2 shows at a time" is one of these, including a phrase for the industrialized countries
a first world problem
Conor
|
$800
[7]
I proclaim it is "The act by which one who was unfree... is rendered free, or set at liberty and made his own master"
emancipation
Ryan
|
| — | — |
DD
$2,200
[16]
Daniel MacLise painted the death of this naval commander 60 years afterhisheroic passing
Lord Horatio Nelson
Ryan
|
$1,000
[11]
It's paired with Guadalupe in the name of a Mexico City neighborhood
Hidalgo
Conor
|
$1,000
[21]
The 2 words that follow "BBC" in the name of a global radio network
World Service
Casey
|
$1,000
[8]
It is "a knowing misrepresentation of the truth... to induce another to act to his or her detriment"
fraud
Ryan
|
| NOVELS | AROUND AFRICA | ROPE | THE PSILENT LETTER | C.I.A. DIRECTORS | FBI DIRECTORS |
|
$400
[1]
The prologue of this novel is called "The Bite of the Raptor"
Jurassic Park
Conor
|
$400
[2]
In French, this nation is Afrique du Sud
South Africa
Casey
|
$400
[7]
Muhammad Ali used this strategy by leaning against the ropes while George Foreman got tired punching him
rope-a-dope
Ryan
|
$400
[9]
J.K. Rowling's is Robert Galbraith
a pseudonym
Conor
|
$400
[20]
This brother of John Foster Dulles resigned as C.I.A. director in 1961 after the Bay of Pigs failure
Allen Dulles
|
$400
[23]
"Catch Me If You Can"
(Steven) Spielberg
Casey
|
|
$800
[3]
He narrates "The Catcher in the Rye"
Holden Caulfield
Conor
|
$800
[4]
While this empire controlled Libya, it was part of the region known as Africa Nova
the Roman Empire
Ryan
|
$800
[17]
The first synthetic fiber rope was made of this & used for glider tow ropes & parachute cords in World War II
nylon
Casey
|
$800
[10]
Here's the drill; this adjective is associated with tires or pertains to air, gases or wind
pneumatic
Casey
|
DD
$500
[29]
Appointed by Gerald Ford, he's the only man to serve as both C.I.A. director & U.S. president
George H.W. Bush
Casey
|
$800
[24]
"American Hustle"
David O. Russell
Conor
|
|
$1,200
[11]
He wrote "I, the Jury" in less than 3 weeks & introduced us all to Mike Hammer
Mickey Spillane
|
$1,600
[6]
It's the second-largest desert in Africa
the Kalahari
Ryan
|
$1,200
[18]
The name of this largest island in the Ryukyus is Japanese for "rope in the sea", referring to its shape
Okinawa
Casey
|
$1,200
[13]
Time to deal with the heartbreak of this skin disease marked by scaly patches
psoriasis
Casey
|
$800
[22]
Once President Clinton's Chief of Staff, heserved as Secretary of Defense & C.I.A. director in the Obama administration
Leon Panetta
|
$1,200
[25]
"The Silence of the Lambs"
Jonathan Demme
|
|
$1,600
[12]
This 1961 novel is about an Air Force bombardier named Yossarian
Catch-22
Conor
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
Gazing from space at Victoria Falls, we'relookingat the border of these two nations that start with the same letter
Zambia & Zimbabwe
Conor
|
$1,600
[19]
The Dutch gave us this word meaning a mop made of rope or yarn that's used for cleaning a ship's deck
a swab
Conor
|
$1,600
[15]
The state bird of Alaska, the willow this, has feathers on its feet
a ptarmigan
Casey
|
$1,200
[28]
This general resigned as director in 2012 after a little bit of hanky panky came to light in the press
David Petraeus
|
$1,600
[26]
"Face/Off"
John Woo
|
|
$2,000
[14]
John Galt stops the motor of the world in this Ayn Rand novel
Atlas Shrugged
Ryan
|
$2,000
[8]
Governing for the Ottoman sultan, the khedive was the title of the ruler of this North African nation until 1914
Egypt
Conor
|
$2,000
[21]
From the abaca plant in the Philippines, the natural fiber most often used in ropes is called this type of "hemp"
Manila hemp
|
$2,000
[16]
What's now called food poisoning was once named for this stinky substance made by bacteria during putrefaction
ptomaine
Ryan
|
$2,000
[30]
An Air Force base on California's Central Coast is named for this general & 1940s C.I.A. director
Hoyt Vandenberg
Ryan
|
$2,000
[27]
"Dog Day Afternoon"
(Sidney) Lumet
Casey
|
Accepting his 1922 Nobel Prize in Stockholm, he spoke of "the intellectual solidarity" in the Scandinavian countries
Niels Bohr