Tim Hague — a tech support retiree from Flower Mound, Texas
Jacqueline Hawkins — an English professor from Louisville, Kentucky
Gautam Mukunda — a professor from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gautam | $1,400 | $3,600 | $11,600 |
$17,001
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,800
13 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Jacqueline | $2,200 | $3,000 | $17,000 |
$23,300
New champion: $23,300 |
$17,000
23 R, 4 W |
| Tim | $1,800 | $2,400 | $10,000 |
$19,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
14 R, 2 W |
| THERE'S NO STOPPING THEM | WHO'S THE MAMA? | MOON WALKING | YOU ARE HERE | WEIGHT, WEIGHT | DON'T L ME |
|
$200
[11]
On Nov. 15, 1864 this general's unstoppable March to the Sea began as he left Atlanta for Savannah with 62,000 troops
(William) Sherman
Jacqueline
|
$200
[6]
Chaz (formerly Chastity) Bono
Cher
Tim
|
$200
[5]
In 1972 Eugene Cernan needed to tape the fender back onto his lunar rover; of course, he used this type of tape
duct tape
Jacqueline
|
$200
[16]
Getting to know the locals, all 96 million, in this country's Shandong province
China
Gautam
|
$200
[26]
Tritium is the heaviest naturally occurring isotope of this element
hydrogen
Jacqueline
|
$200
[21]
It's a possible response in a T or F quiz
true
Gautam
|
|
$400
[12]
These 2 words precede "machine" in a hypothetical device that can continuously produce work with no energy input
perpetual motion
Tim
|
$400
[7]
Alexa Ray Joel
Christie Brinkley
Tim
|
$400
[4]
This "giant leap" taker had previously performed the first docking of 2 vehicles in space
Neil Armstrong
Tim
|
$400
[17]
In this city whose metro area has half the population of British Columbia
Vancouver
Jacqueline
|
$400
[27]
Guinness says the heaviest commercial one of these (including propellant) was Terre Star-1
a satellite
Gautam
|
$400
[22]
This party has more than 50 seats in the U.K.'s House of Commons
the Tories
Jacqueline
|
|
$600
[13]
In 1977 this band hit No. 3 singing, "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow"
Fleetwood Mac
Tim
|
$600
[8]
Ben Stiller
Anne Meara
Tim
|
$600
[3]
If I had one of these, I'd drop it on the Moon with a feather like Dave Scott did in August 1971 to test a Galileo theory
a hammer
Gautam
Tim
|
$600
[18]
In this Olympic city, in the Gothic Quarter known as Barri Gotic in the region's Catalan language
Barcelona
Tim
|
$600
[28]
One of the heaviest reptiles is the saltwater species of this creature; it can drown water buffalo
a crocodile
Jacqueline
|
$600
[23]
It's a call an umpire can make regarding a ball hit down the line
fair
Gautam
|
|
$800
[14]
This poet who could not stop for death also noted, "We passed the fields of gazing grain--we passed the setting sun"
(Emily) Dickinson
Jacqueline
|
$800
[9]
Melanie Griffith
Tippi Hedren
Tim
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
The second Moon-landing mission, this Apollo flight got hit by lightning about 36 seconds after launching
Apollo 12
Gautam
|
$800
[19]
Thank goodness, leaving Africa's Namib Desert--oh bleep, it merges right into this larger one
the Kalahari
Gautam
Jacqueline
|
$800
[29]
Weight of the heaviest standard bowling ball
16 lbs.
Jacqueline
|
$800
[24]
It's a color on Israel's flag
white
Jacqueline
|
|
$1,000
[15]
This Archbishop of Canterbury didn't stop taking on Henry II about royal domination of the Church; that ended badly
Thomas à Becket
Jacqueline
|
$1,000
[10]
Jason Schwartzman (Yo! This actress)
Talia Shire
Tim
|
$1,000
[2]
This first American in space was also the first man touse a 6-iron on the Moon; he said "The ball went miles & miles"
(Alan) Shepard
Gautam
|
$1,000
[20]
In this "holy" city on New Zealand's South Island, home to 350,000 & built largely on flat land that was once a swamp
Christchurch
|
$1,000
[30]
This 80-ton plant-eating "arm lizard" was a heavyweight even among dinosaurs
the Brachiosaurus
|
$1,000
[25]
A basic 4-letter category of food mentioned in 1 Corinthians 3:2
meat
|
| BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER | READING RAINBOW | ANTS | MORTAL MATTERS | UPRISINGS | THE GRAMMYS |
|
$400
[3]
Granny or half hitch
a knot
Gautam
|
$400
[13]
In the Bible we read that God told him, I will show you a rainbow "for a token of a covenant"
Noah
Jacqueline
|
$400
[9]
The ant's chief sense organs, they can touch, smell & taste
antennae
Gautam
|
$400
[18]
On July 14, 1881 he entered a dark room & asked in Spanish, "Who is it?"; Pat Garrett responded with 2 fatal shots
William Bonney (Billy the Kid)
Jacqueline
Tim
|
$400
[1]
This uprising started with the Great Fear of July 1789
the French Revolution
Gautam
|
$400
[26]
This performer of "Billie Jean" also won a Grammy as a composer of the song
Michael Jackson
Jacqueline
|
|
$800
[6]
Bite or chew, as a dog does to a bone
gnaw
Jacqueline
|
$800
[14]
This author's "Rainbow Six" refers to the leader of an anti-terrorist strike force
Tom Clancy
Tim
|
$800
[23]
When you buy one of these, it will most likely be filled with western harvester ants because they are great tunnelers
an ant farm
Jacqueline
|
$800
[20]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam.) Ho Chi Minh wanted cremation, but when he died in '69, the war was raging & Communist Party chiefs felt morale would be helped by preserving his body via this process & encasing it in a mausoleum
embalming
Tim
|
$800
[11]
It happened in Ireland in April 1916
the Easter Uprising
Jacqueline
|
$800
[27]
In 2013 this American Idol won Best Pop Vocal Album for her CD including the song "Mr. Know It All"
Kelly Clarkson
Jacqueline
|
|
$1,200
[7]
To subject someone to a severe trial or ordeal is to "put him through" this laundry device
the wringer
Jacqueline
|
$1,200
[15]
The Rainbow Guard is Renly Baratheon's variant of the Kingsguard in these books
A Song of Ice and Fire
Jacqueline
|
$1,200
[22]
After the mating flight, the male wanders off & dies; the queen removes these because they are no longer needed
her wings
Jacqueline
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
This explorer left his heart buried under a tree in Chitambo, Zambia; the rest of him is buried in Westminster Abbey
Livingstone
Gautam
|
$1,200
[12]
June 1846 was a banner time for this California revolt against Mexican rule
the Bear Flag Revolt
|
$1,200
[28]
Completes the title of the 2014 Best Country Album, Kacey Musgraves' "Same Trailer..."
Different Park
Jacqueline
|
|
$1,600
[5]
A czarina is the wife of a czar; this is the eldest son
a czarevich
Jacqueline
|
$1,600
[16]
Tyrone Slothrop is the G.I. main character of this vast novel by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Jacqueline
|
$1,600
[2]
These ants with a burning sting arrived in the U.S. from South America via Mobile, Ala. early in the 20th century
fire ants
Jacqueline
|
$1,200
[19]
Funeral songs or hymns; "we sang" them "in the dark, the day the music died"
dirges
Jacqueline
|
$2,000
[25]
Alternate name of the 1857 Indian Mutiny
the Sepoy Rebellion
Gautam
|
$1,600
[29]
His 2009 Grammy at age 83 for Best Traditional Blues Album was this guitarist's 15th
B.B. King
Tim
|
|
$2,000
[8]
For fiber, a Dr. Oz smoothie recipe includes these powdered husks
psyllium
Tim
|
$2,000
[17]
It completes the title of a Ntozake Shange work, "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when..."
the rainbow is enuf
|
$2,000
[24]
This type of ant usually nests in rotting tree stumps & logs but may invade the wooden framework of a house
a carpenter ant
Jacqueline
|
$2,000
[21]
Since 1584 the Dutch royal family has been buried at the Nieuwe Kerk, or New Church, in this city better known for its pottery
Delft
Tim
|
DD
$3,800
[10]
This country's 2010 Jasmine Revolution kicked off the Arab Spring
Tunisia
Gautam
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1978 there was a tie for Song of the Year: "You Light Up My Life" & this Streisand love theme from "A Star is Born"
"Evergreen"
|
For playing a legal assistant in a 2000 film, she became the first actress to crash the $20 million salary barrier
Julia Roberts