Dean Meyer — a scientific editor from Winder, Georgia
Martin Schmidt — a consultant from Media, Pennsylvania
Josh Silverman — a graduate student from Miami, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $34,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh! | $4,000 | $4,400 | $8,400 |
$3,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Martin | $2,200 | $4,400 | $9,200 |
$2,599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,200
14 R, 3 W |
| Dean | $1,200 | $2,000 | $15,700 |
$18,700
New champion: $18,700 |
$12,000
15 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
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|
$200
[2]
Debbie Matenopoulos shares her "Family's Century-Old Recipes" in "It's All" this "to Me"
Greek
Martin
|
$200
[9]
Must we tell you over & over again that this day, February 2, is partly based on ancient weather signs?
Groundhog's Day
Josh!
|
$200
[25]
Martin Luther went before the Diet of Worms in 1521, the same year Hernando Cortes conquered this empire
the Aztecs
Josh!
|
$200
[21]
Paul Sperry created this nonslip boat shoe in 1935; it's still a favorite on deck today
Top-Siders
Josh!
Martin
|
$200
[12]
A newspaper
a gazette
Martin
|
$200
[16]
This deformed Stevenson "Mr." tramples a girl, among other misdeeds
Mr. Hyde
Dean
|
|
$400
[3]
Tony Danza & his son offer up family recipes in "Don't Fill Up On" this Italian appetizer course
antipasto
Martin
Dean
|
$400
[8]
This holy day is observed as the anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus
Good Friday
Martin
|
$400
[26]
In 1859 Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" & Daniel Decatur Emmett wrote this, the Confederacy's unofficial anthem
"Dixie"
|
$400
[22]
Heidi Klum created a limited edition line of these German sandals & clogs, once a favorite of hippies
Birkenstocks
Josh!
|
$400
[13]
Players of this game long for that 35:1 payout
roulette
Josh!
|
$400
[17]
In the "Illiad" the gods are chided for not saving Hector's corpse & instead helping this "brute... devoid of pity"
Achilles
Dean
|
|
$600
[4]
"Joanne's Cereal" & "Sundance's Salsa Steak in a Sack" are among the recipes in his "Own Cookbook"
Paul Newman
Dean
|
$600
[7]
If you're curious, George, Feb. 8, 2016 is Chinese New Year & the year of this animal
the monkey
Josh!
Dean
|
$600
[27]
His play "The Misanthrope" premiered around the time Newton, across the channel, figured out gravitation
Molière
Martin
|
— |
$600
[14]
A salad dressing
vinaigrette
Dean
|
$600
[18]
In this book, Lisbeth gets back at her tormentor Nils by tattooing "I'm a sadistic pig... and a rapist" on his stomach
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Martin
|
|
$800
[5]
"Estefan Kitchen" is Gloria & Emilio's offering of authentic recipes from this country
Cuba
Josh!
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970, appropriately the same year of the debut of this annual April event
Earth Day
Josh!
|
$800
[24]
In 1807 when J.M.W. Turner became a professor at the Royal Academy, he was testing his steamboat on the Hudson River
(Robert) Fulton
Martin
|
— |
$800
[11]
Early 20th century activists seen here
suffragettes
Martin
|
$800
[19]
In "Oliver Twist" this heavy beats his dog & bludgeons Nancy to death
Bill Sikes
Dean
|
|
$1,000
[15]
"If It Makes You Healthy" features recipes from this "If It Makes You Happy" singer & chef Chuck White
Sheryl Crow
Dean
|
$1,000
[1]
October 24 is this international organization's day, commemorating the effective date of its charter in 1945
the United Nations
Martin
|
$1,000
[23]
In 1721 Bach dedicated his "Brandenburg Concertos" & this czar got the title "Emperor of all the Russians"
Peter the Great
Dean
|
— |
$1,000
[10]
A dark profile
a silhouette
Josh!
|
$1,000
[20]
"We Need to Talk About" this title Lionel Shriver kid, who blinds his sister in one eye & uses a crossbow inappropiately
Kevin
|
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$400
[1]
It's basically a cone, but tornado-producing clouds aren't called cone clouds but these
funnels
Josh!
Dean
|
$400
[22]
Seen here is the logo of this university, whose hoopsters won their fifth national title in 2015
Duke
Martin
|
$400
[24]
This Danish capital's Christiansborg Palace lies on the ruins of a fort built on Slotsholmen Isle
Copenhagen
Dean
|
$400
[26]
She was 14 when she married the future King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Josh!
|
$400
[19]
With a verdict of not guilty, you've received this
acquittal
Josh!
|
$2,000
[20]
When this "Lean On Me" singer warned he was going off teleprompter, Stevie Wonder, who inducted him, said, "I didn't use it"
Bill Withers
|
|
$800
[3]
The first electric light was an arc lamp with two rods of this element
carbon
Josh!
Martin
Dean
|
$800
[21]
Robert Frost taught on & off for over 40 years at this Mass. college located in Emily Dickinson's home town
Amherst
Josh!
Dean
|
$800
[23]
Since 1991 this isle in the Gulf of Naples has hosted an international film festival
the Isle of Capri
|
$800
[25]
In 1774 Joseph Priestley showed that candles burn brightly in this then newly discovered gas
oxygen
Dean
|
$800
[18]
A big name in romance, or a comic character in Commedia dell'arte
Harlequin
Dean
|
— |
|
$1,200
[5]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) Two batteries connected in a simple series circuit combine their voltage to produce a bright light; when they're connected in this type of circuit with a geometric name, they have a longer life but produce a dimmer light
parallel
Martin
|
$1,200
[8]
The southernmost University of California campus bears the name of this city
San Diego
Martin
|
$1,200
[10]
2 terriers were developed on this isle off Scotland's NW coast: the cairn & this one named for the isle
the Isle of Skye
Martin
|
$1,600
[16]
Assurance of our salvation was a doctrine of John Wesley in founding this faith
Methodist
Dean
|
$1,200
[11]
Watery term for the ease with which assets can be converted into cash
liquidity (liquid accepted)
Josh!
|
— |
|
$1,600
[4]
Scientists use triangulation to locate this, the point on the Earth's surface right above a seismic event
the epicenter
Josh!
|
$1,600
[6]
The Jesuit educational heritage is alive & well at this West Coast school, LMU for short
Loyola Marymount
Josh!
|
$1,600
[9]
This isle in Lake Superior, a national park since 1940, has been designated an international biosphere reserve
Isle Royale
|
$2,000
[12]
Many of West Point's original fortifications were designed in 1778 by this Polish general who helped the Colonial Army
Kosciuszko
Dean
|
$2,000
[14]
Past due
delinquent
Martin
|
— |
|
$2,000
[2]
The ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun among constellations, is aka a "great" this
a circle
Martin
|
$2,000
[7]
This historically African-American institution was originally founded as the Atlanta Baptist female seminary in 1881
Spelman College
Dean
|
$2,000
[15]
Lord Mountbatten was governor, then lord lieutenant, of this isle off England's southern coast
the Isle of Wight
|
DD
$3,000
[17]
This classic 1726 satire was originally titled "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World"
Gulliver's Travels
Dean
|
DD
$3,500
[13]
An estimated 200,000 of them live on the French side of the Pyrenees
the Basques
Dean
|
— |
The first 2 Spanish actors to win acting Academy Awards, they got married soon after they both had won
Penélope Cruz & Javier Bardem