Matt Akridge — a program analyst originally from Hardinsburg, Kentucky
Zelda Pulliam — an income tax specialist from Chicago, Illinois
Josh Silverman — a graduate student from Miami, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh! | $2,600 | $4,200 | $20,000 |
$13,599
2-day champion: $34,800 |
$19,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Zelda | $3,000 | $6,000 | $9,600 |
$1,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
12 R, 0 W |
| Matt | $1,000 | $4,800 | $13,200 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,200
17 R, 1 W |
| PICTURE THIS | ON BROADWAY | THE BEAT OF THE DRUM | TOM, TOM | SYMBOLS | LIQUOR BY THE BRAND |
|
$200
[12]
Hereis one of the earliest photographs of this politician
Lincoln
Matt
|
$200
[3]
This mane event of all musicals that opened in 1997 is Disney's longest-running show on Broadway
The Lion King
Josh!
|
$200
[20]
Similar to congas, it's a pair of Afro-Cuban drums, one slightly smaller than the other
a bongo drum
Zelda
|
$200
[24]
Here's this character from the first edition of the book about him in 1876
Tom Sawyer
Josh!
|
$200
[2]
Used when cross referencing, this symbol can also call attention to a listing, like a questionable home run total
an asterisk
Zelda
|
$600
[7]
Gordon's, Hendrick's, Citadelle
gin
Zelda
|
|
$400
[13]
Taken without a stick or iPhone, Robert Cornelius'portrait of himselfhas been called the first-ever one of these photos
a selfie
Josh!
|
$400
[8]
(Hi, I'm Josh Gad.) I played Elder Cunningham, who had a strange trip to Uganda, in this Tony Award-winning musical
The Book of Mormon
Zelda
|
$400
[19]
Actually a type of tuned gong, they're made traditionally by hammering metal shipping containers
steel drums
Matt
|
$400
[25]
At the beginning of "The Grapes of Wrath", he's just been released from state prison
Tom Joad
Matt
|
$400
[15]
A "lazy eight" is a nickname for the symbol that denotes this mathematical quantity
infinity
Josh!
|
$800
[6]
Havana Club, Tanduay,McDowell's No. I Celebration
rum
Matt
|
|
$600
[21]
Thisauthor is telling his grandchildren a story, but probably not "War and Peace"
Tolstoy
Matt
|
$600
[9]
This musical about a silent screen star eager for a comeback was based on a Billy Wilder film
Sunset Boulevard
|
$600
[18]
Oscar winner J.K. Simmons has some suggestions about Miles Teller's drumming in this 2014 film
Whiplash
Josh!
|
$600
[26]
His full name anagrams to "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT"
Tom Riddle
Matt
|
$600
[14]
From the Latin for "title", it's the little line over certain N's in Spanish to indicate a nasalized pronunciation
a tilde
Josh!
|
$1,000
[5]
Cardenal Mendoza, Dreher,McDowell's
brandy
Matt
|
|
$800
[22]
Named for the northern polar region it inhabits, it's the critter seenherein its warm winter coat
an Arctic fox
Josh!
|
$800
[10]
Bradley Cooper won rave reviews for his recent portrayal of the severely deformed John Merrick in this drama
The Elephant Man
Zelda
|
$800
[17]
Also a 2002 movie title, this high-energy musical style takes its name from the arrangement of its multiple players
drumline
Matt
|
$800
[27]
In this play Tom Wingfield brings home a gentleman caller for his sister Laura
The Glass Menagerie ( A Glass Menagerie accepted)
Zelda
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
This punctuation mark can also be called a screamer or a bang
an exclamation point
Josh!
|
— |
|
$1,000
[23]
If you have Russian music in soul, you know name of this instrument
a balalaika
Zelda
|
$1,000
[11]
Ruth Gordon played Nora Helmer in this play in 1938; Liv Ullmann played her in 1975
A Doll's House
Zelda
|
$1,000
[16]
This patriotic World War I song by George M. Cohan contains the lyric "The Yanks are coming, the drums rum-tumming"
"Over There"
Zelda
|
$1,000
[28]
In Chapter 7 of "The Great Gatsby", Gatsby tells him, "Daisy's leaving you"
Tom Buchanan
Matt
|
$1,000
[1]
A writer can indicate a lingering or unfinished thought using this symbol... represented by... 3 dots...
ellipses
Matt
|
— |
| ARCHITECTS | SPANISH CITIES | SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS | GRAMMY-WINNING MUSIC VIDEOS | HISTORICAL QUOTES | "CAT"EGORICAL |
|
$400
[30]
Architect Bertrand Goldberg changed this city's skyline with the twin towers of Marina Cityon State Street
Chicago
Zelda
|
$400
[9]
Spain's Cortes, or parliament, meets in this city
Madrid
Matt
|
$400
[16]
In 1986 Dr. Alec Jeffreys became the first scientist to use this genetic material to identify suspected criminals
DNA
Josh!
|
$400
[25]
1991:"Losing My Religion"
R.E.M.
Josh!
|
$400
[10]
When told of a new theory, this Macedonian wept, "When the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one"
Alexander the Great
Matt
|
$400
[3]
A larval butterfly
a caterpillar
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Renzo Piano designed the Manhattan building that in 2007 became the new home of this over 150-year-old newspaper
The New York Times
Josh!
|
$800
[20]
According to legend, this second-largest city was founded by Hamilcar Barca around 230 B.C.
Barcelona
Josh!
|
$800
[15]
This ancient scientist worked out the principles of the lever & other simple machines around 250 B.C.
Archimedes
Josh!
|
$800
[24]
2009:"Boom Boom Pow"
the Black Eyed Peas
Josh!
|
$800
[13]
One quote from him is "We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia"
Lenin
Matt
|
$800
[4]
These launch devices on Navy aircraft carriers share their name with ancient military machines
catapults
Josh!
|
|
$1,600
[27]
In 1949 he built his famous "Glass House" in New Canaan, Conn., a simple rectangle in the Modernist style
Philip Johnson
|
$1,200
[19]
No bull! This city's first bishop was San Fermin
Pamplona
Josh!
|
$1,200
[8]
Fossil finds in Africa by this husband & wife established Homo habilis as an ancestor of modern man
the Leakeys
Zelda
|
$1,200
[23]
1997:"Got 'Til It's Gone"
Janet Jackson
|
$1,200
[11]
This former slave once told Frederick Douglass that in all her journeys she "never lost a single passenger"
Harriet Tubman
Josh!
|
$1,200
[5]
Some versions of this 2-hulled sailboat of Polynesia can be 100 feet long
catamarans
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[26]
The Iowa courthouse seenherewas designed by George Elmslie, a follower of Frank Lloyd Wright, in this flatland style
Prairie Style
Zelda
|
$1,600
[18]
A 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct serves as a symbol of this city that shares its name with a famous guitarist
Segovia
|
$1,600
[2]
Physicist Wolfgang Pauli's 1925 exclusion principle states that no 2 of these can be in the same quantum state
electrons
Matt
|
$1,600
[22]
2007:"God's Gonna Cut You Down"(a country legend)
Johnny Cash
Matt
|
$2,000
[14]
This 19th century "Iron Chancellor" predicted a European war started by some "foolish thing in the Balkans"
Bismarck
Matt
|
$1,600
[6]
From the Greek for "wash down", it's a sudden, catastrophic natural event
a cataclysm
Josh!
|
|
DD
$2,800
[29]
In 1982 he completed his first project in his native China, the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing
I.M. Pei
Josh!
|
$2,000
[17]
This home of El Greco is famous for its fine steel swords
Toledo
Josh!
|
$2,000
[1]
In the 17th century John Napier was all about that base, inventing these quantities that simplify calculations
logarithms
Josh!
|
$2,000
[21]
2000:"Learn To Fly"
the Foo Fighters
Josh!
|
DD
$4,600
[12]
In one of his notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci wrote that this family "created and destroyed me"
the Medicis
Josh!
|
$2,000
[7]
Anatomical term for a person used to serve the purposes of another
a cat's-paw
Josh!
|
When translated, the full name of this Major League Baseball team gets you a double redundancy
the Los Angeles Angels