Rami Fakhouri — an attorney originally from Cockeysville, Maryland
Tiombi Prince — an advocation support specialist from East Point, Georgia
Sam McLinn — a retiree from Independence, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | $800 | $1,200 | $800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,400
10 R, 8 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Tiombi | $1,400 | $5,200 | $15,600 |
$14,200
New champion: $14,200 |
$15,600
21 R, 3 W |
| Rami | $4,800 | $7,000 | $4,200 |
$6,600
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| IT WAS THE '60s | FIRST LINES | IT'S A LIE | CAROLS | "S_N_L" | THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM |
|
$200
[1]
Tired of delays on the 1961 launch of this program, Alan Shepard snapped, "Why don't you fix your... problem & light this candle?"
Mercury
Tiombi
Rami
|
$200
[7]
A classic: "'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents', grumbled Jo, lying on the rug"
Little Women
Tiombi
|
$200
[22]
Ethelred, Ethelfred & Edred were all kings of England
Ethelfred
Sam
Tiombi
|
$200
[17]
The second verse of this "quiet" tune rhymingly says, "Shepherds quake at the sight"
"Silent Night"
Tiombi
|
$200
[12]
Open-top shoe fastened with straps
a sandal
Tiombi
|
$400
[6]
100-199: works on this subject from guys like Aquinas & Schopenhauer
philosophy
Tiombi
|
|
$400
[2]
In 1969 Alain Poher stepped in for this French president, who said au revoir after a referendum didn't go his way
(Charles) de Gaulle
Sam
Tiombi
|
$400
[8]
A kids' classic: "Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot"
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Sam
Tiombi
|
$400
[23]
Delaware, Maryland & Rhode Island are the 3 smallest U.S. states in area
Maryland
Tiombi
|
$400
[18]
This title precedes "the Lord is come" & "the Savior reigns"
"Joy To The World"
Rami
|
$400
[13]
A notorious circumstance or event
a scandal
Sam
|
$600
[29]
200-299: these, including Baha'i
religion
Tiombi
|
|
$600
[3]
On Feb. 21, 1965 he was assassinated as he delivered a lecture at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem
Malcolm X
Rami
|
$600
[9]
A Rand-om novel: "Who is John Galt?"
Atlas Shrugged
Sam
Rami
|
$600
[24]
French cheeses include Haricot, Tarentais & Le Vachard
haricot
Sam
|
$600
[19]
Thistune takes us back 2,000 years
"The First Noel"
Tiombi
|
$600
[14]
Like someone who's been canonized
saintly
Rami
|
$800
[27]
300-399: this alliterative term for fields like economics & anthropology
social studies
Tiombi
|
|
DD
$1,000
[4]
An Oct. 13, 1960 New York Times headline read that this world leader "bangs his shoe on desk"
Khrushchev
Rami
|
$800
[10]
From the 1990s: "Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth..."
Fight Club
Tiombi
|
$800
[25]
European capital cities include Vaduz, Bucharest & Zurich
Zurich
Tiombi
Rami
|
$800
[20]
"On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me" these musicians--we need to re-examine our relationship
12 drummers
Sam
Tiombi
|
$800
[15]
Pertaining to the backbone
spinal
Rami
|
$1,000
[28]
800-899: Columbia has a department of English & comparative this
literature
Rami
|
|
$1,000
[5]
On Aug. 7, 1964 the House reacted to reports of North Vietnamese aggression & passed this resolution, 414-0
Tonkin Gulf resolution
Sam
|
$1,000
[11]
By Joseph Conrad: "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails..."
Heart of Darkness
Rami
|
$1,000
[26]
The Cane Corso, the Papillon & the Devon Rex are all American Kennel Club recognized dog breeds
the Devon Rex
Sam
|
$1,000
[21]
This song title precedes "bearing gifts we traverse afar"
"We Three Kings (Of Orient Are)" or "We Three Kings From Orient Are"
Sam
|
$1,000
[16]
Wicked or corrupt
sinful
Tiombi
|
— |
| THE DEWAR'S DECIMAL SYSTEM | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS | DIARIES & JOURNALS | BAD GRAMMER | MED. ABBREV. | THE SEA "B"s |
|
$400
[9]
I have a bottle of Dewar's 12 Year that is 86 proof or this much alcohol by volume as a decimal fraction
43%
Rami
|
$400
[14]
French for "handsome", he's a girl's boyfriend
a beau
Rami
|
$400
[6]
This naturalist wrote his 1830s voyage was to "survey the shores of Chile, Peru and of some islands in the Pacific"
Darwin
Rami
|
$400
[1]
Kelsey Grammer, voicing this TV villain: "Attempted murder?...Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?"
Sideshow Bob
Tiombi
|
$1,200
[15]
L&D it has to do with childbirth
labor and delivery
Tiombi
|
$1,200
[22]
It stretches from Cape Olyutor to the Seward Peninsula
the Bering Sea
Sam
|
|
$800
[10]
1.5 ounces of Dewar's product plus .5 ounces Schweppes product over ice makes this alliterative cocktail
scotch and soda
|
$800
[16]
Arborescens&veraare just two of the hundreds of species in this plant genus
aloe
Tiombi
|
$800
[7]
The journals of their 1803-1806 expedition mention Sacagawea, not always by name & not always spelled the same
Lewis & Clark
Rami
|
$800
[2]
Kelsey scared his daughter the first time she saw him in makeup as this character in "A Christmas Carol: The Musical"
Ebenezer Scrooge
Tiombi
|
$1,600
[8]
FBS is this type of test done after a patient hasn't eaten for at least 8 hours
fasting blood sugar
Tiombi
Rami
|
DD
$2,000
[20]
From the mid-1880s to 1914, this sea east of New Guinea was under German control
the Bismarck Sea
Sam
|
|
$1,200
[11]
Dewar's was the 1st Scotch of this type to be a royal supplier; 40 single malts go into it, an average of .025 of the whole
blend
Sam
|
$1,200
[17]
Shalom in Rome
ciao
Sam
|
$2,000
[19]
Some erasures & calculations in his 1926 notebook have cast doubt on whether he was the first to fly over the North Pole
Richard Byrd
Sam
|
$1,200
[3]
Kelsey sends hired help after Mark Wahlberg's daughter in the "Age of Extinction" installment of this series
Transformers
|
$2,000
[25]
AAA is not the auto club but an abdominal aortic this event
aneurysm
Rami
|
$2,000
[21]
It's not easy to "scale" this Arctic sea named for a British admiral; it's under ice most of the year
the Beaufort Sea
Rami
|
|
$1,600
[12]
A fifth of Dewar's is .2 gallons, so this much of a quart
4/5
Rami
|
$1,600
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Easter Island.) Their lips pursed in silence on Easter Island, the statues that the locals refer to by this four-letter term shed little light on their mysterious origins
Moai
Sam
|
DD
$3,600
[18]
A 1666 entry in his diary read, "The churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once"
Samuel Pepys
Sam
|
$1,600
[4]
"No hand-me-down cowboy doll is going to mess things up" for this stinky prospector in "Toy Story 2"
Prospector Pete
Tiombi
Rami
|
— | — |
|
$2,000
[13]
The .02 of each barrel a year lost to evaporation as Dewar's ages is known as these heavenly beings' share
the angels' share
Tiombi
|
$2,000
[24]
A 3-pronged tip called a point d'arret was once attached to the tip of its blade to aid in producing touches
an épée
Sam
|
— |
$2,000
[5]
On "Medium" Kelsey was death personified, haunting the visions of Allison DuBois, played by this blonde
Patricia Arquette
Tiombi
|
— | — |
The author of his own dystopian classic in 1932, this man taught a young George Orwell at Eton
Aldous Huxley