Zach Binney — a Ph.D. student and football analyst from Atlanta, Georgia
Manisha Parekh — a clinical psychologist from Charlotte, North Carolina
Chris Becker — a bus driver and trainer from Orlando, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,798)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris | $2,400 | $3,600 | $14,800 |
$25,201
3-day champion: $52,999 |
$14,800
18 R, 2 W |
| Manisha | $2,200 | $4,000 | $8,500 |
$13,500
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Zach | $0 | $5,800 | $12,600 |
$17,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| THE LOWER 48 | YACHTS | SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS | BILLBOARDALBUM CHART DEBUTS | SURNAMES | HISTORY |
|
$200
[8]
This state's Point Roberts lies isolated at the tip of Canada's Tsawwassen Peninsula south of Vancouver
Washington
Zach
|
$200
[1]
In 1986 Malcolm Forbes had his new yacht Highlander painted this color (to represent money, of course)
green
Zach
|
$200
[3]
A house for birds &a house for bees
aviary & apiary
Chris
|
$200
[4]
1975:"Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J."
Bruce Springsteen
Chris
|
$400
[12]
You don't have to be a scientist to know that it's German for "one stone"
Einstein
Chris
|
$400
[20]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A stop at Dr. Samuel Mudd's home, landing mistakenly in Maryland, & dying a few days later near Bowling Green were part of his ill-fated 1865 escape route
John Wilkes Booth
Chris
|
|
$400
[2]
Marco Rubio announced for president at the Freedom Towerin this city, once a center to help Cuban migrants
Miami
Manisha
|
$400
[14]
When he became president, he renamed the presidential yacht the Honey Fitz, for his maternal grandfather
John Kennedy
Chris
|
$400
[16]
The lesson taught by a fable &the emotional condition of a group of people
moral & morale
Zach
|
$400
[5]
1970:"Sweet Baby James"
James Taylor
Chris
|
$600
[17]
Halperin was the original surname of this original "Let's Make a Deal" host
(Monty) Hall
Zach
|
$600
[22]
An international force seized Beijing on August 14, 1900, crushing this rebellion
the Boxer Rebellion
Zach
|
|
$600
[7]
This Mississippi capital was known as "Chimneyville" after it was reduced to ashes by Sherman's troops in 1863
Jackson
Chris
|
$600
[15]
If you are as rich as this guitarist born David Evans, "U2" might be able to own a 160-foot yacht like his Cyan
The Edge
Chris
|
$600
[21]
Limits or guidelines &the outer boundaries of polygons
perimeters & parameters
Zach
|
$600
[6]
1995:"Jagged Little Pill"
Alanis Morissette
Zach
|
$800
[18]
An estimated 40% of this country's people have the last name Nguyen
Vietnam
Chris
|
$800
[23]
In 1869 the tracks of the Union Pacific & the Central Pacific Railroad were joined at Promontory in this state
Utah
Manisha
|
|
$800
[9]
The USA's most populous island, it's home to about 40% of the people in New York State
Long Island
Manisha
|
$800
[27]
This "Firing Line" host & National Review founder enjoyed the good life aboard Cyrano
(William) Buckley (Jr.)
Zach
|
$1,000
[26]
Really mean or spiteful &really thick & sticky
vicious & viscous
|
$800
[10]
2009:"I Dreamed a Dream"
Susan Boyle
|
$1,000
[19]
Alex of sports & Robert of film could tell you it's the USA's most common Hispanic surname ending in -ez
Rodriguez
Manisha
|
$1,000
[24]
Name of the king who after beating Rome at Asculum but taking heavy casualties, said one more such win would undo him
Pyrrhus
Zach
|
|
$1,000
[13]
The highest points in both Pennsylvania & West Virginia lie in this range of the Appalachians
the Alleghenies
Zach
|
— |
DD
$1,800
[25]
The flower seen here&a metalloid on the periodic table
germanium & geranium
Zach
|
$1,000
[11]
1982:"Rio"
Duran Duran
Manisha
|
— | — |
| SIR NAMES | WOMEN IN POETRY | JAPANESE POP CULTURE | UNITS OF MEASURE | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS | HOW "OD" |
|
$400
[21]
When he was knighted in 1997, he told reporters it was a long way from Liverpool
Paul McCartney
Chris
|
$400
[18]
In Robert Browning's "Two in the Campagna", she's the other one
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Zach
|
$400
[10]
Pachinko is a variety of this arcade game that one might find in a Tokyo parlor
pinball
Chris
|
$400
[6]
A synodic month, on average 29.53059 days, is based primarily on the movement of this
the Moon
Manisha
|
$400
[14]
This country's flightless Auckland Island & Campbell Island teals are among the rarest ducks in the world
New Zealand
Chris
|
$400
[1]
Wildly successful electronics product introduced in October 2001
the iPod
Chris
|
|
$800
[22]
In 1535 this author & statesman lost his head, literally, after refusing to accept Henry VIII as head of the church
Sir Thomas More
Manisha
|
$1,200
[28]
Poe wrote that he laid "down by the side" of this maiden "in her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea"
Annabel Lee
Zach
|
$800
[8]
If you're eating a bento bako meal, you're eating something in this type of container
a bento box
Manisha
|
$800
[7]
In 1832 this measure was defined as the distance between lines 27 & 63 on a certain metallic bar
a yard
Chris
|
$800
[15]
This largest penguin breeds in the coldest environment of any bird
the emperor
Manisha
|
$800
[2]
A scrod is a young one of this Atlantic fish
a cod
Manisha
|
|
$1,200
[23]
This courtier was imprisoned in the Tower of London when he wrote his 1614 "History of the World"
Sir Walter Raleigh
|
DD
$1,500
[17]
This 1852 book inspired John Greenleaf Whittier to write his poem "Eva"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Manisha
|
$1,200
[9]
On the New York Times bestseller list, this Japanese word has its own category
manga
Manisha
|
$1,200
[11]
This liquor measure is twice the actual alcohol content by volume
proof
Chris
|
$1,600
[19]
This largest Australian bird adds pebbles to its diet to help digest the plant material that it eats
an emu
Zach
|
$1,200
[3]
Natty British rockers The Jam exemplified this fashion style
mod
Zach
|
|
$1,600
[24]
For his discovery of penicillin, he received a Nobel Prize & in 1944, a knighthood
Fleming
Manisha
|
$1,600
[29]
Her last name was Bellefontaine & the Longfellow poem about her details her search for lost love Gabriel Lajeunesse
Evangeline
Manisha
Zach
|
$1,600
[26]
To mark the launch of Pokemon, Kansas' capital was renamed this for a day in 1998
ToPikachu
|
$1,600
[12]
When a soldier refers to something being a "klick" away, he means this metric distance
a kilometer
Chris
|
DD
$2,000
[16]
It's the fastest of all flightless birds
the ostrich
Manisha
|
$1,600
[4]
2-syllable word meaning sloppy or careless
slipshod
Chris
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Last name of naval officer & explorer Sir James Clark, who gave his name to a sea, an island & an ice shelf
Ross
Zach
|
$2,000
[30]
In a Tennyson poem, she lives in a castle on an island in a river that rhymingly flows "down to Camelot"
the Lady of Shalott
|
$2,000
[27]
Japanese name of the city-stomping creature who first appeared in a 1954 Japanese film
Gojira
Zach
|
$2,000
[13]
This measure of wood is equal to 128 cubic feet
a cord
Chris
|
$2,000
[20]
This large bird of New Guinea has a casque, or helmet, made of a spongelike material covered with keratin
a cassowary
Chris
|
$2,000
[5]
The man seenhereis a carrier of this brick container
a hod
Chris
|
Exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, it was the centerpiece in a 1999 exhibition called "Cracking Codes"
the Rosetta Stone