Gordon Marx — a software architect from Somerville, Massachusetts
Melissa Lake — a special education teacher from Reading, Pennsylvania
Choyon Manjrekar — an urban planner from Providence, Rhode Island (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choyon | $3,000 | $6,100 | $18,900 |
$18,900
2-day champion: $42,700 |
$19,200
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Melissa | $2,000 | $3,200 | $8,800 |
$1
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Gordon | $1,600 | $3,800 | $4,600 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,600
14 R, 4 W |
| SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA | COMMON BONDS | THE PATRIOT ACT | SURGICAL TERMS | FAMOUS NAMES | ENDS IN "TH" |
|
$200
[3]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) The deluxe 14 incher!--used for this hopeful activity, like at Big Thunder nearby in the 1890s
gold prospecting
Choyon
|
$200
[19]
Business, padded, manila
envelopes
Melissa
|
$200
[25]
Yo, Lexington! Sylvester Stallone voiced this man in "Midnight Ride", an episode of the animated series "Liberty's Kids"
Paul Revere
Choyon
|
$200
[7]
It can be a road allowing drivers to detour around a city or a surgically created passage that diverts blood
a bypass
Gordon
|
$200
[9]
Once named the "youngest billionaire bachelor", in 2012 he changed his status & married Priscilla Chan
Mark Zuckerberg
Gordon
|
$200
[2]
Gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
mirth
Melissa
|
|
$400
[16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) A few of South Dakota's most recognizable animals!--you could have your own one of these prairie dog colonies, that early explorers called by this name of human settlements
towns
Melissa
|
$400
[21]
Mediterranean, South Beach, paleo
diets
Gordon
|
$400
[30]
The HBO miniseries starring him as "John Adams" won 13 Emmys & 4 Golden Globes
(Paul) Giamatti
Choyon
|
$400
[8]
In a medical lab an autoclave is designed to do this to the surgical instruments
sterilize them
Melissa
|
$400
[13]
Passing away in 2014, he may be gone, but hisvoicewill never be forgotten
(Casey) Kasem
Choyon
|
$400
[1]
A mass of bubbles on top of hot chocolate
froth
Gordon
|
|
$600
[17]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from outside Wall Drug in South Dakota.) A stuffed replica of this fabled creature that seems part hare, part deer!--I think I just saw one!
a jackalope
Choyon
|
$600
[22]
Accent, Adirondack, office
types of chairs
Choyon
|
$600
[26]
Jeff's older brother, he voiced Sam Adams, John's older cousin, for the 2000 documentary "Founding Fathers"
Beau Bridges
Melissa
|
$600
[10]
It's the removal of tissue samples, especially of tumors, for diagnostic purposes
biopsy
Gordon
|
$600
[14]
He was the first pope to take 2 names, combining those of the 2 previous popes
John Paul I
Choyon
|
$600
[4]
A scarce supply, or a shortage of food
dearth
Melissa
|
|
$800
[20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) All-natur also apmade right here in South Dakota with Salvia officinalis, this native aromatic herb that wise men know grows wild on the prairie
sage
Gordon
|
$800
[23]
Strawberries, the planet Mars, a Radio Flyer wagon
things that are red
Choyon
|
$800
[28]
Thandie Newton co-starred when this actor was "Jefferson in Paris"
Nick Nolte
|
$800
[11]
This 10-letter adjective & noun is from words meaning "under the skin"
hypodermic
Gordon
|
$800
[15]
In 2014 children young & old celebrated the 98th birthday of this author & creator of Ramona Quimby
Beverly Cleary
Melissa
|
$800
[5]
This type of bomber is designed to prevent detection by radar
stealth
Choyon
|
|
$1,000
[27]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) Book ends made ofagate, the state gemstone!--it's a banded type of this common silica mineral
quartz
Choyon
|
$1,000
[24]
Vinegar, the element mercury, some assets
liquid
Gordon
|
DD
$1,500
[29]
Dean Norris is Ben Franklin in the miniseries titled after this group of 1760s radicals
the Sons of Liberty
Choyon
|
$1,000
[12]
It can mean to stitch or sew up a wound, or the thread used to do it
a suture
Choyon
|
$1,000
[18]
This engineer & inventor gave his name to a form of carbon composed of hollow geodesic spherical molecules
(Buckminster) Fuller
Choyon
|
$1,000
[6]
"To" this "degree" means to a large but inexact extent
the n th degree
Gordon
|
| THE MUSICAL TYPOGRAPHICAL MARK | GREEN BOOKS | POTPOUR"P" | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER | WORLD WAR I |
|
$400
[1]
...following the 3-letter name of the group that sings "We Are Young"
a period
Gordon
|
$400
[26]
A nature trail in Van Cortlandt Park is named for John Kieran, author of "A Natural History of" this metropolis
New York
Gordon
|
$400
[11]
This old-timey word for a sitting room comes from the Latin for "to speak"
parlor
Choyon
|
$400
[18]
The Libyan Desert forms the northeastern part of this larger desert
the Sahara
Choyon
Gordon
|
$400
[2]
Humanity's home &a human pump
Earth & heart
Gordon
|
DD
$400
[25]
British general Sir Ian Hamilton's amphibious assault on this peninsula in April of 1915 ended in a bloody 8-month stalemate
Gallipoli
Melissa
|
|
$800
[29]
...sported by the woman behind "I Am Sasha Fierce"
an accent
Melissa
|
$800
[19]
Actress Tracy Pollan's brother, he tells how our food choices affect the world in "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
Michael Pollan
Melissa
|
$800
[10]
Thislaboratory aid is often home to a world of microorganisms
Petri dish
Choyon
|
$800
[17]
Maseru is the capital of this kingdom that's completely surrounded by South Africa
Lesotho
Gordon
|
$800
[3]
An Ohio "Rubber Capital" &a sacred religious text
Akron & Koran
Choyon
|
$800
[24]
One of these on the front lines was typically 6 to 8 feet deep & wide enough for 2 men to pass
a trench
Melissa
|
|
$1,200
[21]
...that's been dropped from the name of the singer of "Tik Tok"
the dollar sign
Choyon
|
$1,200
[20]
In 1935 this novelist delved into nonfiction, writing about a safari he took in "Green Hills of Africa"
Hemingway
Melissa
Gordon
|
$1,200
[9]
Louisiana's nickname includes this bird
pelican
Choyon
|
$1,200
[15]
2 of Africa's deepest lakes, Tanganyika & Nyasa, lie in this 4,500-mile-long valley system
the (Great) Rift Valley
Melissa
|
$1,600
[5]
Unaccompanied confinement &a supporter of a king like George III
solitary & royalist
|
$1,600
[28]
This British prime minister negotiated the Treaty of Versailles for his nation
David Lloyd George
Gordon
|
|
$1,600
[13]
...you can't shake from the guys who sang "You Shook Me All Night Long"
a slash
Gordon
|
$1,600
[22]
Peter Matthiessen's "The Cloud Forest" describes the tropical mountain wilderness of this continent
South America
|
$1,600
[7]
If you borrow a Brit's car, he might ask for a favour--put a few litres of this in the tank
petrol
Choyon
|
$1,600
[12]
At the Gulf of Guinea, this 2,600-mile-long West African river forms a roughly 14,000-square-mile delta
the Niger
Melissa
|
$2,000
[6]
A farm animal &an item of ancient apparel
goat & toga
|
$2,000
[27]
In early 1918 this French general was named Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces on the Western Front
General Foch
Gordon
|
|
$2,000
[14]
...in the name of the "Paradise City" group
an apostrophe
Melissa
|
$2,000
[23]
Frank Chapman's 1895 "Handbook of" these critters "of Eastern North America" is a must-have for any naturalist
birds
|
$2,000
[8]
The very best of these sparkling Italian wines are labeled "Superiore di Cartizze"
Prosecco
Choyon
|
$2,000
[16]
Once called the Cape of Storms, this southern cape was given its present name by King John II of Portugal
the Cape of Good Hope
Choyon
|
DD
$2,400
[4]
A former Yugoslav republic &a deadly, contagious canine disease
Serbia & rabies
Choyon
|
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In a recent British poll, the 1926 book about this title character was named the favorite children's book of the past 150 years
Winnie the Pooh