Lisa Price — a recent college graduate from Columbus, Ohio
Ryan Mewett — a naval officer originally from Plano, Texas
Marcus Lewis — a tutor from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,399)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus | $3,000 | $3,800 | $14,400 |
$28,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,400
19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ryan | $1,000 | $3,000 | $19,200 |
$28,801
New champion: $28,801 |
$11,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W |
| Lisa | $800 | $2,400 | $2,000 |
$3,998
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,000
7 R, 2 W |
| THE CIVIL WAR | COUNTRY BORDERS | D.C. TV | MARY, MARY | QUITE CONTRARY | WHAT DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? |
|
$200
[7]
Not a single person was killed in the April 1861 battle over this fort, but it did launch the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Lisa
|
$200
[14]
On its north, Denmark; on its south, Switzerland
Germany
Ryan
|
$200
[1]
In the first episode of this series, Red Reddington, "the Concierge of Crime", surrenders at FBI headquarters
The Blacklist
Marcus
|
$200
[20]
As a character on "The Knick", this infamous disease carrier is cleared of blame by an ignorant judge
Typhoid Mary
Ryan
|
$200
[21]
Lawyers grudgingly call this "witness" who isn't violent, just unfriendly to the case
hostile
Marcus
|
$600
[28]
Amaize, Golden Bantam, Illini Xtra Sweet
corns
Marcus
|
|
$400
[10]
2 half brothers of this First Lady died fighting for the Confederacy
Mary Todd Lincoln
Marcus
|
$400
[15]
On its north, Egypt; on its southeast, Ethiopia
Sudan
Ryan
|
$400
[2]
White House party crasher Michaele Salahi was on the D.C. version of this Bravo reality series
Real Housewives
Marcus
|
$400
[6]
Though "Queen of" another people, this 16th c. royal was brought up at the French court of Catherine de Medicis
Mary, Queen of Scots
Ryan
|
$400
[22]
This adjective for anyone who stubbornly refuses to go along could apply to the Minotaur
bullish (or bull-headed)
Ryan
|
$800
[27]
Banana, spaghetti, ambercup
squash
Lisa
|
|
$600
[11]
In mid-1861 Montgomery, Alabama was out & this city was in as capital of the Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia
Marcus
|
$600
[16]
On its northwest, Croatia; on its southeast, Bulgaria
Serbia
Ryan
|
$600
[3]
Agent 86 & Agent 99 worked for the Washington-based intelligence agency CONTROL on this spy sitcom
Get Smart
Ryan
Lisa
|
$600
[8]
This Democratic senator from Louisiana lost a 2014 runoff election to Bill Cassidy
Mary Landrieu
Marcus
|
$600
[23]
Activist Hu Jia is not popular with China's brass & is considered one of these, from the Latin for "to sit apart"
a dissident
|
$1,000
[26]
Big Daddy, Tokyo Long White, Walla Walla Sweet
onions
Ryan
|
|
$800
[12]
A favorite of Lee, this general actually favored preservation of the Union but went with Virginia after secession
Stonewall Jackson
Ryan
|
$800
[17]
On its west, Guatemala; on its northwest, Mexico
Belize
Ryan
Lisa
|
$800
[4]
Emily Deschanel plays a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in D.C. on this Fox series
Bones
Marcus
|
$800
[9]
She was the first American to win the Olympic women's gymnastics individual all-around title
Mary Lou Retton
Ryan
|
$800
[24]
This long word is found before "opposed" to refer to contrary opinions, or the 2 geometric pointsseen here
diametrically
Ryan
|
— |
|
$1,000
[13]
In November 1861 this Union man became general in chief of all armies; by March 1862, he lost the gig
George McClellan
Ryan
|
$1,000
[18]
On its northwest, Ecuador; on its southeast, Bolivia
Peru
Ryan
|
$1,000
[5]
4 Republican senators live together in this Amazon series created by Garry Trudeau
Alpha House
|
DD
$1,800
[19]
One of the first sci-fi writers; her novels include 1826's "The Last Man", about a world destroyed by plague
Mary Shelley
Ryan
|
$1,000
[25]
13-letter word for an English Protestant not in the Church of England, or one who eschews customs or fads
nonconformist
Ryan
|
— |
| ADVENTURE & EXPLORATION | MUSICAL QUOTES | CEREMONIES | SHORT STORIES | SHOW "TIME" | ONOMATOPOEIA |
|
$400
[23]
Between 1979 & 1982 Ranulph Fiennes led the first expedition to do this on a north-south route, along the Greenwich meridian
circumnavigate the globe
Marcus
|
$400
[12]
Eugene Ormandy puzzled orchestra musicians with lines like "Why do you (play) when I'm trying to" do this, baton in hand
conduct
Marcus
|
$400
[9]
Each year hundreds of recruits raise their right hands at this hyphenated type of ceremony to join the NYPD
swearing-in
Ryan
|
$400
[8]
This jumping Twain creature ends up putting on a lot of weight--he goes about "five pound!" & that ain't right
the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County
|
$400
[1]
Valerie Bertinelli & Mackenzie Phillips took things as they came on this '70s sitcom
One Day at a Time
Lisa
|
$800
[21]
This double-talk word can be heard medically in the heart
a murmur
|
|
$1,200
[22]
In 1694 Joliet explored in this "dogged" region of northeast Canada between Hudson Bay & the Atlantic
Labrador
Marcus
Ryan
Lisa
|
$800
[13]
Oliver Herford said "The Irish gave" this instrument "to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet"
the bagpipes
Ryan
|
$800
[10]
During the relay carrying it to the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, this traveled under the surface of Lake Baikal
the Olympic torch
Ryan
|
$800
[7]
In the last paragraph, this James Thurber guy goes from smoking by a drugstore to bravely facing a firing squad
Walter Mitty
Ryan
|
$800
[2]
Bill Maher keeps it legit on this HBO show
Real Time with Bill Maher
Lisa
|
$1,200
[19]
Lonely Planet says in Japan, it's "OK, even expected" to do this when eating noodles
slurp
Marcus
|
|
$1,600
[24]
"Deepsea Challenge 3D" puts this director in front of the camera, documenting his descent to 7 miles under the Pacific
James Cameron
Marcus
|
$1,200
[14]
John Philip Sousa said this kind of work "should make a man with a wooden leg step out"
a march
Ryan
|
$1,200
[11]
150,000, including the First Lady, attended the 1931 christening of the USS Akron, an ill-fated one of these aircraft
a Zeppelin (or an airship)
Marcus
|
$1,600
[26]
This Annie Proulx story about 2 "drop-out country boys with no prospects" was in The New Yorker's Oct. 13, 1997 issue
"Brokeback Mountain"
Lisa
|
$1,200
[3]
More than just SpongeBob, Tom Kenny voices the Ice King, Magic Man & Gunter on this other 'toon
Adventure Time
Marcus
|
$1,600
[20]
The jazz style introduced in the 1940s by Dizzy Gillespie & others
bop (or bebop)
Marcus
|
|
$2,000
[28]
Sputnik 2 carried the first living thing to go into orbit, a dog named this
Laika
Ryan
|
$1,600
[15]
John Lennon said that after this manager "died, we collapsed"
(Brian) Epstein
Marcus
|
$2,000
[18]
Healing ceremonies in some Native American tribes include drinking a tea made of this mescaline-containing cactus
peyote
Marcus
Ryan
Lisa
|
$2,000
[25]
This creepy W.W. Jacobs object had "a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it"
the monkey's paw
|
$1,600
[4]
John Cleese & Sean Connery were in on this 1981 Terry Gilliam caper
Time Bandits
Marcus
|
$2,000
[27]
Now it can mean a brief setback as well as a brief spasm
hiccup
|
| — |
$2,000
[16]
On being told he played the wrong notes, Thelonious Monk said this instrument "ain't got any wrong notes"
a piano
Ryan
|
DD
$9,000
[17]
For almost 1,000 years, this official has presided over the coronation of a British sovereign
the archbishop of Canterbury
Ryan
|
DD
$3,000
[6]
This title critter nearly drowns at the beginning of his tale but ends up taking down Nag, a nasty cobra
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Marcus
|
$2,000
[5]
This Charlie Chaplin satire of the Machine Age is always up to date
Modern Times
Marcus
|
— |
In 1915 he dropped bomb-shaped cardboard leaflets on Seattle to promote military aviation
Boeing