2015 Tournament of Champions final game 1.
Kerry Greene — a volunteer CASA guardian ad litem from Manchester, New Hampshire
Alex Jacob — a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois
Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $2,000 | $4,000 | $14,600 | $3,000 |
$11,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Alex | $10,600 | $12,400 | $29,600 | $29,600 |
$12,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Kerry | $0 | $-200 | $8,200 | $3,400 |
$8,200
11 R, 2 W |
| WORDS IN FLOWERS | WEBSITES | THEIR MAIN INSTRUMENT | "ANT" MAN | RECENT BESTSELLERS | THE TUDORS |
|
$200
[26]
Have a knish at this type of restaurant
deli (in dan deli on)
Matt
|
$200
[12]
The name of this video-sharing website is an anagram of "movie"
Vimeo
Alex
|
$200
[27]
Charlie "Bird" Parker
the saxophone
Matt
|
$200
[28]
A person who secretly reports facts to the police as part of an investigation
informant
Alex
|
$200
[29]
It's the title of David McCullough's biography of 2 bicycle mechanics from Ohio
The Wright Brothers
Alex
|
$200
[30]
At the time of her coronation in 1533, Anne Boleyn was pregnant with this future queen of England
Elizabeth I
Matt
|
|
$400
[25]
Step up to this raised platform
dais (in dais y)
Kerry
|
$400
[23]
In 2012 & 2013 this online bulletin board/scrapbook won Webby Awards for Best Social Media
Pinterest
Alex
|
$400
[22]
Tre Cool
the drums
Matt
|
$400
[21]
One who claims to see the future by supernatural means
clairvoyant
Matt
|
$400
[13]
In the title of a bestseller by Jesse Andrews, this name comes between "Me" & "the Dying Girl"
Earl
Alex
|
$400
[20]
An enduring nickname of Lady Jane Grey comes from the length of her reign in 1553, this many days
9
Matt
|
|
$600
[1]
Don't give me any of your this body part
lip (in tu lip )
Kerry
|
$600
[15]
Getting off to a rocky start in 2013, it's the official Obamacare enrollment site
HealthCare.gov
Matt
|
$600
[5]
Lang Lang
piano
Alex
|
$600
[19]
From the Old French for "wandering", it's a person of no fixed address
vagrant
Matt
Kerry
|
$600
[9]
Astronaut Mark Watney accidentally ends up alone on the Red Planet in this Andy Weir novel
The Martian
Matt
|
$600
[8]
The Great House of Easement at the Tudors' Hampton Court Palace was this type of room
a bathroom
Kerry
|
|
$800
[2]
Thisother word for a country is in bloom
nation (in car nation )
Alex
|
$800
[14]
This man started his "Report" in 1995; 10 years later the Huffington Post was launched largely as a liberal alternative
Drudge
Matt
|
$800
[4]
Joe Bonamassa
the guitar
|
$800
[18]
Someone who fawns over the powerful & important to gain advantage
sycophant
Matt
|
$800
[10]
Ashlee Vance's bio of this tech titan delves into his experiences with SpaceX & Tesla Motors
(Elon) Musk
Alex
|
$800
[6]
Henry VII ended the Wars of the Roses & married Elizabeth of this house, foes of Lancaster
York
Alex
|
|
$1,000
[24]
Take a sip of this sudsy potent potable
ale (in az ale a)
|
$1,000
[16]
Deriving its name from the Latin for "book", this site has used the slogan "Books you thought you'd never find"
Alibris
|
$1,000
[3]
Charles Mingus
the (double) bass
Alex
|
$1,000
[17]
A person who whips himself as a religious penance
flagellant
Alex
|
DD
$5,000
[11]
A noted children's author, she hit the bestseller list in 2015 with "In the Unlikely Event", her first book for adults in 17 years
(Judy) Blume
Alex
|
$1,000
[7]
Seen here is a self-portrait by this prolific Tudor court painter
(Hans) Holbein
Alex
|
| RIGHT NOW SCIENCE | "NORTH" & "SOUTH" AMERICA | SNLALUMNI | AUTOLOGICAL WORDS | MUSEUMS | THE TUTORS |
|
$400
[30]
A study suggests these chimp parts are more evolved than ours, but let's see them play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
fingers (or hands)
Kerry
|
$400
[29]
This location of Santa's Workshop has a ZIP code, 12997
North Pole
Kerry
|
$400
[18]
Friends including David Spade remember this late funnyman in a 2015 documentary called "I Am" him
(Chris) Farley
Alex
|
$400
[28]
This word describing Greek culture is from the Greek, of course
Hellenic
Matt
|
$400
[27]
The new museum named for this Athens hill was built in part to house the Elgin marbles, if they're ever returned
the Acropolis
Kerry
|
$400
[26]
Around the year 1115, he became Heloise's tutor--& more
Peter Abélard
Alex
|
|
$800
[23]
Astronomers geared up for fireworks when the enormous gas cloud G2 passed Sagittarius A*, one of these
a black hole
|
$800
[17]
This Florida playground for the rich & beautiful is aka "So Be"
South Beach
Kerry
|
$800
[1]
One reviewer called her "Bossypants" memoir, "short, messy and impossibly funny"
Tina Fey
Kerry
|
$800
[20]
Adjective for a word that you say by passing air through your schnozz
nasal
Matt
|
$800
[14]
The name of this Amsterdam landmark is Dutch for "state museum"
the Rijksmuseum
Alex
|
$800
[24]
She had been an art tutor to Louis XVI's sister before escaping to London in 1802 & starting new waxworks there
Madame Tussaud
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[7]
Scientists at the LHC, this, recently found proof of the pentaquark, a subatomic particle sought for decades
the Large Hadron Collider
Matt
|
$1,200
[15]
You'll find the world's biggest railyard in this Nebraska city named for the river that runs through it
North Platte
Kerry
|
$1,200
[2]
SNL's first African-American cast member, he became a regular on "2 Broke Girls"
(Garrett) Morris
Alex
|
$1,200
[21]
This word specifically means having 5 syllables
pentasyllabic
Alex
|
$1,200
[6]
The Menshikov Palace, a part of this museum complex, is home to early 18th century Russian cultural artifacts
the Hermitage
Kerry
|
$1,200
[3]
At 14 he tutored Brooklyn schoolmates for 25 cents an hour; later he founded a test prep empire
(Stanley) Kaplan
Kerry
|
|
$1,600
[8]
This spacecraft did a flyby of Pluto within 8,000 miles of the surface, showing it as never before
New Horizons
Matt
|
$2,000
[16]
This urban area, Barack Obama's old neighborhood, is "the baddest part of town" in song
the South Side of Chicago
Kerry
|
$1,600
[4]
This former "Weekend Update" anchor now delivers the news that KFC is "Finger Lickin' Good"
(Norm) Macdonald
Alex
|
$1,600
[22]
It's a divided word, but without that little line or dash used to connect
unhyphenated
|
$1,600
[10]
South Kensington has a science museum, a natural history museum & a famed decorative arts museum named for this pair
Victoria & Albert
Alex
|
$2,000
[13]
This man whose name is from the Latin for "old" was tutor to the emperor Nero, who later had him commit suicide
Seneca
Alex
|
|
$2,000
[9]
Research suggests Joseph "The Elephant Man" Merrick's illness was this syndrome named for a shape-changing god
the Proteus syndrome
Alex
|
DD
$15,200
[5]
Louie's Backyard is a party spot in this Texas spring break destination
South Padre Island
Alex
|
$2,000
[19]
A two-time Tony winner, she also got big laughs as boozy cougar Carol on TBS's "Sullivan & Son"
Christine Ebersole
|
$2,000
[25]
Also a man's first name, it means brief, maybe to the point of rudeness
curt
Matt
Alex
|
$2,000
[11]
Frank Gehry designed this Spanish museum, the counterpart of one in New York City
the Guggenheim Bilbao
Matt
|
DD
$5,000
[12]
Around 343 B.C. he was summoned by Philip II to be tutor to his son
Aristotle
Matt
|
He "looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and... been unable to recover the... complexion of the living"
the Count of Monte Cristo