Maresha Mead — a high school English teacher from Alexandria, Virginia
David Gatewood — a Ph.D. student from Knoxville, Tennessee
Nora Rowaily — a scoring director from Cincinnati, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,600)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nora | $1,200 | $7,600 | $12,200 |
$1,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,000
18 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| David | $1,800 | $3,400 | $11,600 |
$21,600
New champion: $21,600 |
$14,600
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Maresha | $3,600 | $5,800 | $10,200 |
$20,398
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,200
23 R, 4 W |
| RHYMES WITH A BEATLE'S FIRST NAME | AN ECO-CATEGORY | PUERTO RICAN HISTORY | JESSICA | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE | HIT THE GYM |
|
$200
[12]
To create an illegal imitation of official papers
forge
Nora
|
$200
[30]
"Flora" refers to the plants of an ecosystem; this word often paired with it refers to the animals
fauna
Maresha
|
$200
[13]
Puerto Rico was originally the name of just the first port & this capital's name was applied to the whole island
San Juan
Nora
Maresha
|
$200
[19]
When quarterback Tony Romo played badly while dating this singer, some Cowboy fans called her "Yoko Romo"
Jessica Simpson
Maresha
|
$200
[3]
In Genesis 1 it's described as the "lesser light to rule the night"
the moon
Maresha
|
$200
[1]
Yogalates is a fusion of yoga & this exercise
Pilates
Nora
|
|
$400
[8]
It can precede tennis or mower
lawn
Maresha
|
$400
[28]
A warming Earth threatens the glory of the Montana national park named for these formations
glaciers
Nora
David
|
$400
[24]
Puerto Rico became part of the U.S. as part of the terms ending this 19th century conflict
the Spanish-American War
Maresha
|
$400
[18]
She's the versatile actress seen here
Jessica Chastain
Maresha
|
$400
[4]
God confounded "the language of all the Earth" there
Babel
Maresha
|
$400
[2]
The name of this ballet handrail follows "cardio" in the name of an exercise class enjoyed by celebs like Elle Fanning
the barre
Maresha
|
|
$600
[11]
An early American form of this game was called Beano
bingo
Maresha
|
$600
[27]
An eco-friendly way to deodorize a garbage disposal is to use baking soda & the distilled white type of this
vinegar
David
|
$600
[25]
To improve its financial situation, on July 1, 2015 Puerto Rico raised this to 11.5%, the highest in the U.S.
sales tax
Nora
Maresha
|
$600
[16]
Before she was one of "The Fantastic Four", she was nominated for a Golden Globe as a TV "Dark Angel" in 2001
Jessica Alba
David
|
$600
[5]
Jesus told the tempter, "Man shall not live by" this "alone"
bread
Maresha
|
$600
[17]
Squats work the glutes, hamstrings & these muscles at the front of the thigh
the quadriceps
Maresha
|
|
$800
[10]
Worshippers show love for the Torah by touching it with the prayer type of this, which they then kiss
a shawl
David
Maresha
|
$800
[22]
The Carolyn Dorothy is cutting pollution as the first hybrid one of these towing vessels
a tugboat
Nora
|
$800
[26]
In 1509 this youth-seeking man became the first colonial governor of Puerto Rico
Ponce de León
David
|
$800
[14]
By the time she left "7th Heaven" in 2006 after 10 years on the TV show, it was safe to say this actress brought sexy back
Jessica Biel
Maresha
|
$800
[6]
Death rides this ashen horse in Revelation
the pale horse
Maresha
|
$800
[20]
Here's the side variation on this core strengthening exercise
a plank
Nora
|
|
$1,000
[9]
You could be wading in an east African lake as this, Phoeniconaias minor
a flamingo
|
DD
$2,800
[23]
From the Greek & Latin for "life" & "turning", this word refers to the healthy mix of wildlife in a region
biodiversity
Nora
|
$1,000
[29]
In 1951 Puerto Rico voted to become one of these as part of the U.S.; in 1967 & 1993, it voted to stay one
a commonwealth
Nora
|
$1,000
[15]
In 2009 this actress won an Emmy for her role in "Grey Gardens"
Jessica Lange
Nora
|
$1,000
[7]
The shortest Bible verse, it's John 11:35
"Jesus wept"
David
|
$1,000
[21]
Greg Glassman created this fitness regimen known for its WOD (workout of the day)
CrossFit
Maresha
|
| MARITIME FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE | AWARDS & HONORS | "E"ASY DOES IT | VAUDEVILLE | A LIBERAL LIBRARY | COMMA SYMPATHIZERS |
|
$400
[21]
F.O.C. offer fewer regs & lower fees; on paper, the Marshall Islands in this ocean has one of the world's largest fleets
the Pacific
Maresha
|
$400
[15]
The New York Tribune won the first of these prizes in the category of Editorial Writing
Pulitzers
Maresha
|
$400
[2]
It's the process by which a compound converts from aliquidstate to agaseousone
evaporation
Maresha
|
$400
[22]
Term for the performer often the butt of a comedian's jokes; there would be "Three" popular ones in film later
a stooge
Nora
|
$400
[16]
"A Fighting Chance" is the story of Elizabeth Warren's journey from small town mom to U.S. senator from this state
Massachusetts
Nora
|
$400
[3]
E.L. Doctorow said he "liked commas" but "detested" these punctuation marks, a word he hyphenated
a semicolon
Maresha
|
|
$800
[23]
Moldova justifies its F.O.C. registry with its tiny frontage along this long European river that ends in the Black Sea
the Danube
Nora
|
$800
[1]
Paul Cohen's work on set theory earned him a Fields Medal, AKA the Nobel of this area of study
mathematics
Nora
|
$800
[5]
Someone who was there & saw what happened
an eyewitness
David
Maresha
|
$800
[28]
Known for playing George M. Cohan on film, he said, "Everything I know I learned in vaudeville"
James Cagney
|
$800
[17]
The biography "Notorious RBG" is subtitled "The Life and Times of" this Supreme Court justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Nora
|
$800
[4]
This "Earnest" wit on editing one of his poems: "I took out a comma" but "on mature reflection I put back the comma"
Oscar Wilde
Nora
|
|
$1,200
[24]
The actual flag of convenience is not the national flag, but an ensign; the Bahamas' ensignbears the cross of this saint
St. George
Nora
Maresha
|
$1,600
[13]
(I'm Senator Al Franken.) The 2003 audio version of my bestseller "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" won the Grammy in the category Best this type of album
spoken word
Nora
David
|
$1,200
[6]
From the Latin for "boiling", it means joyously unrestrained
ebullient
Nora
|
$1,200
[25]
Dialogue to this Abbott & Costello routine was donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956
"Who's On First?"
Maresha
|
$1,200
[18]
Thisformer White House staffer and now big-city mayor penned "The Plan: Big Ideas for America"
Rahm Emanuel
Nora
|
$1,200
[9]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a sentence on the monitor.) Our sentence here may seem confusing to the reader, so let's add these rial comma, also known as this school's comma
the Oxford comma
David
|
|
$1,600
[29]
This western Mediterranean island, one of the smallest countries of Europe, is top 10 in world ship registration
Malta
Maresha
|
$2,000
[14]
These theater awards were created in 1955 at the suggestion of Jerry Tallmer, an editor at the Village Voice
the Obie Awards
Nora
|
$1,600
[7]
This word has the same first 2 & last 3 letters as exculpate & means the same thing
exonerate
David
|
$1,600
[26]
The Great Stone Face, henoticed early on "the more serious I turned, the bigger laugh I got"
Buster Keaton
Maresha
|
$2,000
[20]
"The History of a Dangerous Idea" is the subtitle of a study of this policy of severely reducing govt. spending
austerity
|
$1,600
[10]
E.B. White said this magazine he worked for used commas "with the precision of knives in a circus act"
The New Yorker
|
|
$2,000
[30]
The relative calm in this West African country after the fall of Charles Taylor has made it a popular F.O.C. nation once more
Liberia
Maresha
|
DD
$3,000
[12]
Japan's highest order is the order of this flower
the chrysanthemum
David
|
$2,000
[8]
Anything that exists or is used for a short time; to historians, it means documents like ads & pamphlets
ephemera
David
|
$2,000
[27]
Will Rogers got into vaudeville after showing his prowess with one of these inanimate objects
a rope (or lasso)
David
|
DD
$3,000
[19]
"Wait! Don't Move to" this country is the title of a book about liberal ideas "to Win Back America"
Canada
Nora
|
$2,000
[11]
Even this punctuation-averse author of "Blood Meridian" admits to the "occasional comma"
Cormac McCarthy
David
|
Old circuses like "Gentry's Equine & Canine Paradox" gave rise to this idiom referring to any elaborate presentation
a dog and pony show