2015 Tournament of Champions final game 2.
Kerry Greene — a volunteer CASA guardian ad litem from Manchester, New Hampshire (subtotal of $3,400)
Alex Jacob — a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois (subtotal of $29,600)
Matt Jackson — a paralegal from Washington, D.C. (subtotal of $3,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $3,200 | $5,600 | $7,200 | $7,200 |
$17,200
21 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Alex | $6,400 | $8,600 | $18,700 | $18,700 |
$17,800
23 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Kerry | $1,800 | $3,200 | $3,200 | $4,700 |
$3,200
9 R, 2 W |
| WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS | CABLE SHOWS | LESSER-KNOWN SUPERHEROES | BODIES OF WATER | FIT BITS | HOW MANY MILES? |
|
$200
[30]
Ezra Pound was a friend & mentor to him, arranging for the serialization of his "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
James Joyce
Kerry
|
$200
[29]
In 2015 there was something fishy on Syfy--No. 3 of this franchise, "Oh Hell No!"
Sharknado
Alex
|
$200
[28]
He tried to wash away the bad guys' sins by immersing them in water
Baptizer
Alex
|
$200
[27]
Sharing a country's name, this largest Central American lake drains into the Caribbean via the Rio San Juan
Lake Nicaragua
Kerry
|
$200
[26]
Exercise that strengthens the heart & lungs is called cardio or this, referring to the presence of oxygen
aerobic
Alex
|
$200
[16]
In 1924 the Olympic marathon was standardized at this many miles & 385 yards
26
Alex
|
|
$400
[14]
This writer of "J'Accuse" was friends with Paul Cezanne & encouraged him to pursue his art studies in Paris
(Émile) Zola
Alex
|
$400
[4]
He's the host of CNN's "360"
Anderson Cooper
Matt
|
$400
[15]
He could put the bad guys in a trance with a swing of his pocket watch, which actually sounds pretty nifty
Hypnotizer
Alex
|
$400
[25]
Iran's Bandar-e Abbas is a port on this strategic strait
Hormuz
Alex
|
$400
[23]
Regular exercise can boost this, the sum of the chemical processes in the body whose name is from the Greek for "change"
metabolism
Kerry
|
$400
[17]
To Lao Tzu "a journey of" this many miles, like from Beijing to Irkutsk, "begins with a single step"
1,000
Matt
|
|
$600
[11]
In "A Moveable Feast", he says Gertrude Stein had been very cordial & friendly to him
Hemingway
Matt
|
$600
[1]
This bloke's shows on Discovery have included "Man vs. Wild" & "Escape from Hell"
(Bear) Grylls
Alex
|
$600
[10]
This guy has a way of making any situation seem unimportant & trifling
Minimizer (or Trivializer)
Matt
|
$600
[6]
Thisgulf that borders two countries is named for the capital of one
the Gulf of Riga
Matt
|
$600
[12]
Push ups & jumping jacks are these 12-letter exercises that use only your body weight
calisthenics
Alex
|
$600
[18]
Distance in miles from Middletown, Pennsylvania that gave the state's most famous nuclear plant its name
3
Kerry
|
|
$800
[2]
Charles Dickens & this "Vanity Fair" author were 19th century frenemies
Thackeray
Alex
|
$800
[5]
This HBO docu-series helped bring down Robert Durst after he seemingly confessed to murder in the finale
The Jinx
Alex
|
$800
[21]
When it comes to cutting expenses & finding deals to stay under budget, this superhero saves the day
Economizer
Matt
|
$800
[3]
This river that flows between the Great Slave Lake & the Arctic Ocean is called the Deh Cho, or "big river", by the Dene people
the Mackenzie
Kerry
|
$800
[24]
Strength-training exercises can help prevent fractures caused by this condition, aka thinning bones
osteoporosis
Matt
|
$1,000
[19]
The Encyclopedia of Detroit refers to it as a "de-facto psychological and cultural boundary for the region"
8 Mile
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Though close with this novelist, Edith Wharton said, "Don't ask me what I think of 'The Wings of the Dove"'
Henry James
Kerry
|
$1,000
[8]
Dorian Gray & Dr. Frankenstein are among the characters who have stepped off the page & into this drama on Showtime
Penny Dreadful
|
$1,000
[20]
He has a unique power--everything he touches turns to rust
Oxidizer
Matt
|
$1,000
[7]
When Syria built the Tabaqah Dam on this river in 1973, it created a reservoir called Lake Assad
the Euphrates
Matt
|
$1,000
[22]
Short bursts of intense effort are alternated with less strenuous activity in this type of training like fartlek
interval training
Alex
|
DD
$2,800
[13]
One lap of the Daytona 500 is this many miles
2 1/2
Alex
|
| HOW THE EAST WAS WON | 13-LETTER WORDS | THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH | THE PERIODIC TABLE | MYTHOLO"G" | MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE |
|
DD
$100
[5]
Russian caravans got access to Beijing in a 1689 treaty with this dynasty that gave its name to a region
Manchu
Alex
|
$400
[29]
This adjective means having one color
monochromatic
Alex
|
$400
[28]
OMB! It's the Office of Management & this
Budget
Alex
|
$400
[27]
This element that burns with a suffocating odor is also known as brimstone
sulfur
Alex
|
$400
[26]
This valuable sheepskin was hung in the garden of Ares & guarded by a dragon
the Golden Fleece
Matt
|
$400
[20]
This actor, in a 2006 film: "I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane"
Samuel L. Jackson
Matt
|
|
$400
[30]
Ivan Moskvitin led the first overland group in Russia to reach this around 1639, 166 years before Lewis & Clark did
the Pacific Ocean
Kerry
|
$800
[24]
I'm taking a survey--please fill out this list of queries
questionnaire
Kerry
|
$800
[23]
Andrew Jackson is quoted as saying, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him" do this, the exec. branch's job
enforce it
Matt
|
$800
[22]
Here's the periodic table as he laid it out
Mendeleev
Matt
|
$800
[21]
This Hindu deity is often honored at the start of a new venture
Ganesh
Matt
|
$800
[19]
In a big moment in an action movie franchise, this actor let loose with, "Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon"
(Bruce) Willis
Alex
|
|
$800
[25]
Musket-toting Cossacksoutgunthe locals in aworkdepicting the 1580s conquest of this vast eastern region
Siberia
Matt
|
$1,200
[12]
This process gives rubber greater strength & durability
vulcanization
Matt
|
$1,200
[10]
James Clapper tells the President about moles & dead drops as National Director of this
Intelligence
Matt
Kerry
|
$1,200
[1]
The 3 naturally occurring magnetic elements are cobalt, nickel & this one
iron
Alex
|
$1,200
[3]
He wrestles with Enkidu, they become buddies, then he turns down a tryst with Ishtar
Gilgamesh
Matt
|
$1,200
[18]
Getting busted on bogus charges, this "Beverly Hills Cop" says, "This is bozo, man"
Axel Foley (or Eddie Murphy)
Alex
|
|
$1,600
[14]
In the 1700s, Russia overcame resistance from the native Koryak & annexed this peninsula
the Kamchatka Peninsula
Matt
|
$1,600
[13]
Existing in the space between, say, the Milky Way & Andromeda
intergalactic
Matt
|
$2,000
[9]
An executive action delayed deportation for people brought to the U.S. as kids, known by this hopeful term
the Dreamers
|
$1,600
[6]
Appropriately, it was Lord Rayleigh & Sir William Ramsay who discovered most of these gases in the 1890s
the noble gases
Matt
|
$1,600
[2]
Hercules labored to get one of these belts from the queen of the Amazons
a girdle
Matt
|
$1,600
[17]
We don't think this "Jackie Brown" director had "Freeze, moldy fingers!" or "my mutual funded money" in his script
Tarantino
Alex
|
|
$2,000
[15]
Asian nomads had a "beef" with this wealthy merchant family that colonized the steppes in the 1500s & 1600s
the Stroganoffs
Kerry
|
$2,000
[11]
The name of the muse of dancing spins & twists into adjective form as this word
terpsichorean
Kerry
|
DD
$10,000
[8]
Overseeing the FDA is one job of this Cabinet department
Health and Human Services
Matt
|
$2,000
[7]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Livermore, CA and shows an animation.) Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory collaborated on the discovery of element number 116, which was even named livermorium; it was created by smashing atoms of curium, atomic number 96, with atoms of this element
calcium
|
$2,000
[4]
Zeus took the form of an eagle to abduct this youth & make him his cupbearer
Ganymede
Alex
|
$2,000
[16]
For the love of Keyser Soze! One guy in this title police lineup: "Hand me the keys, you fairy godmother"
The Usual Suspects
Alex
|
His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went
Søren Kierkegaard