Gautam Mukunda — a professor from Boston, Massachusetts
Cindy Garner — a tax accountant from Omaha, Nebraska
Alex Navissi — a business development associate originally from Katy, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,901)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | $0 | $2,200 | $6,200 |
$12,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
12 R, 1 W |
| Cindy | $-1,200 | $-2,600 | $12,200 |
$5,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$12,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Gautam | $4,000 | $7,400 | $18,800 |
$24,401
New champion: $24,401 |
$18,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| WHAT A TV DRAMA QUEEN! | ASTROLOGY | EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT THEM | U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS | THE ELEMENTS OF "TILE" | HEALTHY COOKING WITH MICHELLE OBAMA |
|
$200
[17]
"What a wonderful time for women on television", she said on accepting her 2014 Emmy for "The Good Wife"
Julianna Margulies
Cindy
|
$200
[20]
A planet in the zodiac with retrograde motion appears to be moving this way
in reverse (or backwards)
Gautam
|
$200
[14]
George Foreman called him "the most intelligent, pure boxer I'd ever fought"; he "let the dope throw his explosives"
Ali
Gautam
|
$200
[19]
O'Hare
Chicago
Gautam
|
$200
[3]
An object shot or thrown as a weapon
a projectile
Cindy
|
$200
[1]
(First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) We should make half our plate fruits & vegetables; when using canned vegetables, read the label & opt for ones low in this element that's tied to high blood pressure; or remove some by rinsing them in water first
sodium
Alex
|
|
$400
[18]
Oh, Anna Bates (Joanne Froggatt) on this PBS drama, will you ever be happy in this title home?
Downton Abbey
Gautam
|
$400
[21]
The 12 divisions of the heavens as seen from Earth are called these, & no realtors were involved
houses
Cindy
|
$400
[15]
E.L. Doctorow:"To... the public he appeared as some... German sexologist"
Freud
Cindy
|
$400
[23]
Louis Armstrong International
New Orleans
Alex
|
$400
[4]
Puerile or immature
infantile
Cindy
Gautam
|
$400
[2]
(First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) Punch up your lasagna with layers of red & orange vegetables such as butternut squash, which helps eye health with this pigment
beta -carotene
|
|
$600
[5]
A real mystery: how she did not win an Emmy as Jessica Fletcher despite being up for one every year from 1985 to '96
Angela Lansbury
Alex
|
$600
[22]
Sometimes Sagittarius is considered a human sign, but usually they're Virgo, Aquarius, Libra & this
Gemini
Alex
Cindy
|
$600
[16]
Stonewall Jackson:He "is the only man I would follow blindfold"
(Robert E.) Lee
Gautam
|
$600
[24]
Logan
Boston
Alex
|
$600
[11]
Producing no result
futile
Gautam
|
$600
[28]
(First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) You can find it in a variety of dishes & foods like canned salmon; because it contains tiny edible bones, 4 ounces provides 25% of the daily recommended amount of this mineral
calcium
Alex
|
|
$800
[6]
Tea Leoni plays a former CIA analyst who joins the president's Cabinet on this TV drama
Madam Secretary
Alex
Gautam
|
$800
[27]
This 4-letter term refers to one born on the border of 2 signs
the cusp
Cindy
|
$800
[9]
William Dean Howells called him "sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature"
Mark Twain
Cindy
Gautam
|
$800
[25]
George Bush International
Houston
Cindy
Gautam
|
$800
[12]
A ranking on a 1-100 scale
percentile
Gautam
|
$800
[29]
(First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) Don't wait for Thanksgiving to make sweet potatoes; just one provides you with nearly 40% of your daily requirement for vitamin C & over 400% of this vitamin
vitamin A
Cindy
|
|
$1,000
[8]
On "The West Wing" this Allison Janney character got promoted from press secretary to chief of staff
C.J. Cregg
Gautam
|
$1,000
[7]
To know your horoscope, an astrologer needs your place & time as well as date of birth so he can cast this
your astrological chart
Cindy
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
A 1953 newspaper column called this Wisc. man the only politican "who can be labelled 'liar' without fear of libel"
(Senator Joseph) McCarthy
Gautam
|
$1,000
[26]
14 miles from Manhattan, Liberty International
Newark
Gautam
|
$1,000
[13]
Quality of metal like copper, meaning drawn out into wire or thread
ductile
Gautam
|
$1,000
[30]
(First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) Good for any meal, one of the winning recipes in the Kids 2014 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was for mini ones of these--Italian omelettes made with egg whites in a muffin tin--with veggies added for flavor, color & nutrition
frittatas
Cindy
|
| HANNIBAL LECTURE | DOG STARS | LETTER-WORD | BRITISH LITERATURE | NEWSPAPER TERMS | TURNING OVER A NEW REEF |
|
$400
[22]
Born in 247 B.C., Hannibal became the greatest general of this North African city
Carthage
Gautam
|
$400
[1]
This terrier got frequent-flier miles with Judy Garland
Toto
Alex
|
$400
[11]
In 2003 American Airlines announced it was only going to issue these to let you board domestic flights
an e-ticket
Alex
|
$400
[6]
In this H.G. Wells novel, a character is hurtled into the year 802,701
The Time Machine
Alex
|
$1,200
[17]
This 4-letter type of story comes from AP or Reuters rather than being written in-house
a wire
Gautam
|
$1,200
[25]
Coral polyps have skeletons of calcium carbonate, so in effect they build this sedimentary rock
limestone
Gautam
|
|
$800
[23]
In his crossing of the Alps, Hannibal lost all but 1 of his 37 of these, the only Asian one
elephants
Gautam
|
$800
[2]
Dogue de Bordeaux partnered with Tom Hanks
Hooch
Alex
|
$800
[12]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents an animation on the monitor.) A 2013 report showed doctors remove these letter-perfect white blood cells that fight infections, genetically modified them to recognize & attack cancer cells, then put them back in
T-cells
Alex
|
$800
[7]
His 1786 "Account of Corsica" gained him fame; "The Life of Samuel Johnson" cemented it
Boswell
Gautam
|
$1,600
[16]
The "inverted" this refers to the structure of a story, revealing facts in decreasing importance
a pyramid
Cindy
|
DD
$1,800
[24]
This 2-word theory that explains the movements of Earth's outer shell also explains the development of mid-ocean reefs
plate tectonics
Gautam
|
|
$1,200
[19]
Hannibal came pretty darn close to winning the second of these wars against Rome
Punic
Gautam
|
$1,200
[3]
A St. Bernard, joining Charles Grodin's litter
Beethoven
Alex
|
$1,200
[13]
The excellence of a roller coaster may be judged by these it inflicts on riders
g-forces
Cindy
|
$1,200
[9]
There are 7 books in the Harry Potter series, including this latest one
The Deathly Hallows
Cindy
|
$2,000
[21]
A newspaper that makes readers pony up to view articles online has put its content behind this
paywall
Gautam
|
$2,000
[26]
Animals that need reefs for habitat include the hawksbill type of this reptile, which has a beaky mouth & 2-clawed flippers
the turtle
Cindy
|
|
$1,600
[18]
Hannibal lost the sight in one eye in a crossing of this main river of Tuscany
the Arno
|
$1,600
[4]
In this movie Jack Nicholson has to take care of Verdell, Greg Kinnear's Brussels Griffon
As Good as It Gets
Cindy
|
$1,600
[14]
This term for the shape of the skirt seenheredates from the '50s
A-line
Cindy
|
$1,600
[8]
3-letter name of the narrator of Dickens' "Great Expectations"
Pip
Cindy
|
— | — |
|
$2,000
[20]
Hannibal specialized in killing these chief magistrates of Rome; he later got the equivalent office back home
consul
|
$2,000
[5]
This German shepherd's first role was in 1922's "The Man from Hell's River"
Rin Tin Tin
Cindy
|
$2,000
[15]
Yeah, decided to go here, take courses in entrepreneurial finance & marketing strategy, graduate & make a few mil
B-school
Gautam
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
"Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth" are paired 1979 plays by this Bard-loving Brit
Tom Stoppard
Cindy
|
— | — |
"Chaste women remain fresher" was the reason he made a mother look barely older than her son
Michelangelo