Pat DeVane — a graduate student originally from Wheaton, Illinois
Shayna Kravetz — an educator and writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Matt Pressman — a graduate student in history from Somerville, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $2,400 | $4,600 | $15,200 |
$22,200
2-day champion: $36,000 |
$18,200
24 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Shayna | $2,800 | $6,700 | $18,700 |
$22,198
2nd place: $2,000 |
$15,800
17 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Pat | $2,000 | $3,800 | $8,200 |
$16,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,200
12 R, 2 W |
| LOVE THOSE ANNELIDS! | THE BUSINESS OF TECH | A HOST OF TV HOSTS | SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY "G" | GET UP & DANCE! | ANAGRAMMED WORLD |
|
$200
[6]
You're "engaged" if you know that annelids, or segmented worms, are divided into annulations, these shapes
rings
Matt
|
$200
[7]
Based in Connecticut, this company had $21.4 billion in revenue in fiscal 2013; copy that!
Xerox
Matt
|
$200
[22]
(I'm NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson.) I got a crash course in working with a teleprompter in 2013, when I became the first athlete to co-host this ESPN flagship program
SportsCenter
Pat
|
$200
[11]
A 6-letter synonym for peanut
goober
Shayna
|
$200
[17]
This intricate Spanish favorite with sudden pauses & sharp turns is also the name of a 1928 Ravel composition
bolero
Shayna
|
$200
[1]
The trees on this Mediterranean island nation are downright sprucy
Cyprus (from sprucy)
Shayna
|
|
$400
[27]
Crikey! An Australian type of this common garden annelid can grow to 13 feet in length
an earthworm
Shayna
|
$400
[8]
Last name of Michael, who in 1984 with $1,000 began a co. called PC's Limited; in 2014 Michael was worth $21.9 billion
Dell
Pat
|
$400
[23]
In 2014 she not only co-hosted the Golden Globe Awards, she also won for "Parks and Recreation"
Amy Poehler
Matt
|
$400
[12]
One who receives a present, 6 letters
giftee
Matt
|
$400
[18]
Kick up your heels to this Baroque dance in 3/4 time
a minuet
Matt
|
$400
[2]
They say McGrath's Fish House in this state capital has good meals
Salem (from meals)
Matt
|
|
$600
[28]
Sure, they're creepy & crawly, but many annelids are also bio-this, capable of producing light
bioluminescent
Matt
|
$600
[9]
In 2014 The Economist said this company was "burying the Hachette" over e-book prices
Amazon
Matt
|
$600
[24]
Spend part of "Today" with these ladies
Kathie Lee Gifford & Hoda Kotb
Matt
|
$600
[13]
A social blunder, 5 letters
gaffe
Shayna
|
$800
[20]
Thisdance's name is today a synonym for something easily accomplished
the cakewalk
Shayna
|
$600
[3]
To get to this mountainous Asian country, take a plane
Nepal (from plane)
Matt
|
|
$800
[29]
The giant Amazon type of this annelid uses its 6-inch proboscis as a needle to suck blood from its host
a leech
Pat
|
$800
[10]
Hold the phone! This began as a small export company in Korea in 1938; electronics fired up in 1969
Samsung
Pat
|
$800
[25]
This Brit hosts "Last Week Tonight" on HBO
John Oliver
Pat
|
$800
[14]
Between gavotte & gaze, this 4-letter word for to stare stupidly
gawk
Pat
|
$1,000
[21]
This dance may have been a "drag", but it was all the rage on college campuses in the late '20s
the varsity drag
|
$800
[4]
Many in this peninsular country are priests, but most are members of the laity
Italy (from laity)
Shayna
|
| — |
$1,000
[16]
Norton Security Services are part of this company that sounds like it means "related to meaning"
Symantec
Shayna
|
$1,000
[26]
"Loveline" featured Adam Carolla, Diane Farr & this Doctor who also helped on "Celebrity Rehab"
Dr. Drew
Matt
|
$1,000
[15]
It's an 8-letter adverb meaning "in a spherical way"
globally
|
DD
$1,500
[19]
Swing dances include the Lindy Hop & this frenetic one whose name means "a nervous person"
the jitterbug
Shayna
|
$1,000
[5]
We kissed at this river's source in the Czech Republic & I'd like a redo
Oder (from redo)
Shayna
|
| BASKETBALL: SCREEN & ROLE | A BIT ABOUT AUTHORS | IT'S HYPHENATED | MOVING FORWARD IN SCIENCE | I LEFT MY HEART | IN SAN FRANCISCO |
|
$400
[6]
"They needed a second chance to finish first" was a tagline for this 1986 Gene Hackman film
Hoosiers
Matt
|
$400
[11]
This author of "The Hotel New Hampshire" was born in New Hampshire in 1942
John Irving
Shayna
|
$400
[1]
Turn 180 degrees from the position of attention!
about-face
Pat
|
$400
[19]
Positive, negative or zero, the electric type of this is a basic property of elementary particles
charge
Matt
|
$400
[16]
...in Poland, where I was born in 1810; the rest of me is de-composing in Paris
Chopin
Matt
|
$400
[20]
At Market & Powell Streets, you'll find the southern turntable for these conveyances
cable cars
Matt
|
|
$800
[7]
Michael Jordan & other NBA stars teamed with Looney Tunes characters to defeat aliens in this 1996 film
Space Jam
Matt
|
$800
[12]
Her uncle was president of Chile from 1970 to 1973
Isabel Allende
Matt
|
$800
[2]
One of these by Leonardo da Vinci is seen here
a self-portrait
Matt
|
$800
[27]
In medicine, depressants are the opposite of these, which include adrenaline & caffeine
stimulants
Matt
|
$800
[17]
...in this ancient Greek town, far from the rest of me in Lausanne; I am ancient-games reviver Pierre de Coubertin
Olympia
Matt
Shayna
|
$800
[21]
The Giants' home base is at 24 this plaza named for the beloved No. 24
Willie Mays
Pat
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Former NBA player Bob Lanier was hired to coach Woody Harrelson & Wesley Snipes for this 1992 film
White Men Can't Jump
Matt
|
$1,200
[13]
Tales of bounty hunters chasing down escaped slaves inspired her to write "Beloved"
Toni Morrison
Pat
|
$1,600
[4]
Making no net contribution to the amount of CO2in the atmosphere
carbon-neutral
Matt
|
$1,200
[28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some video on the monitor.) At lift-off, the Space Shuttle's 4 million-pound solid rocket boosters provided 71% of this propulsive force; the main engines provided the rest
thrust
Pat
|
$1,200
[18]
...in Rouen in 1199; hear it roar for the royal rest of me
Richard the Lionheart
Shayna
|
$1,200
[22]
The 1960s home of the Grateful Dead was 710 this street, near the intersection with Haight
Ashbury
Pat
|
|
$1,600
[9]
This Bucks, Celtics & Heat sharpshooter played a high school phenom in Spike Lee's "He Got Game"
Ray Allen
Matt
|
$1,600
[14]
He was a staff writer for The New Yorker before writing novels like "Rabbit, Run"
John Updike
Matt
|
$2,000
[5]
This alliterative 1941 act allocated $7 billion in military credits to Britain
the Lend-Lease Act
Pat
|
$1,600
[29]
Arthur Eddington used the image of this object, a weapon & indicator, to explore why time only goes forward
the arrow
Shayna
|
$1,600
[25]
...in my beloved Wessex; the ashes of the rest of me were interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner
(Thomas) Hardy
Shayna
|
$1,600
[23]
Thisfamously crooked street winds down Russian Hill
Lombard Street
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[10]
In a 1978 pilot, coach Ken Howard: "I'll be behind you every step of the way"; Kevin Hooks: "Yeah, like a" this title phrase
a white shadow
Shayna
|
$2,000
[15]
For refusing to testify against fellow Communists, this "Maltese Falcon" author spent 5 months in prison
Dashiell Hammett
Pat
|
DD
$3,000
[3]
It's a synonym for Old English, spoken before about 1150
Anglo-Saxon
Matt
|
DD
$4,000
[30]
This verb can mean "to cause to happen" or "to fall from the sky", the way snow does
precipitate
Shayna
|
$2,000
[26]
...in a Swiss churchyard; the rest of me went to Poland 40 years after it helped free the American colonies
Kosciuszko
Shayna
Pat
|
$2,000
[24]
These "Heights" are home to classic Victorian homes, one of which Michael Keaton moves into in a 1990 thriller
Pacific Heights
Matt
|
In 2014 CNN declared Zambia's Guy Scott the first white president in Sub-Saharan Africa since this man in 1994
F.W. de Klerk