Byron Merrill — a network engineer from Lincoln, Nebraska
Patrick Theobald — a product manager from Nashville, Tennessee
Anand Kandaswamy — an economist from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anand | $2,800 | $3,200 | $21,000 |
$22,000
3-day champion: $57,001 |
$18,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Patrick | $1,800 | $5,800 | $7,800 |
$14,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Byron | $2,000 | $3,200 | $6,800 |
$7,801
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,800
12 R, 0 W |
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|
$200
[16]
On December 17, 1992, this agreement was signed by theleadersof three countries
NAFTA
Byron
|
$200
[3]
Retailer:____ & Fitch
Abercrombie
Patrick
|
$200
[6]
Members of this religion make up about 60% of Utah's population
Mormon
Patrick
|
$200
[26]
Viewing the sunrise from the summit of this peak has a special Japanese name, goraiko
Mount Fuji
Anand
|
$200
[11]
In the foreword to the oral history of this show, Jon Stewart says, "I don't miss the grind. I miss my friends"
The Daily Show
Patrick
|
$200
[21]
Another term for trailers in the cinema are these "attractions"
coming attractions
Patrick
Byron
|
|
$400
[17]
On Halloween 2012 the New York Stock Exchange reopened after being closed for 2 days due to this weather event
Hurricane Sandy
Patrick
|
$400
[1]
Always in fashion:Dolce & ____
Gabbana
Patrick
|
$400
[7]
Anatomically speaking, while narrower than the large one, the small one of these is 17 feet longer
the intestine
Byron
|
$400
[27]
Soon after this volcano erupted in 1980, the city of Spokane was plunged into darkness due to the ash
Mount St. Helens
Anand
|
$400
[12]
Charles Schulz wrote about this strip, "I like the thin little arms on Calvin & his shoes that look like dinner rolls"
Calvin and Hobbes
Anand
|
$400
[22]
Get fancy & use this French word for "after", especially if you've just gone skiing
après
Patrick
|
|
$800
[19]
On February 8, 1587 it was off with her head at Fotheringhay Castle after 19 years of imprisonment
Mary, Queen of Scots
Byron
|
$600
[2]
Sparkling wine producer:Martini & ____
Rossi
Byron
|
$600
[8]
Japan has about 1,500 of these a year but the one at 2:46 P.M. March 11, 2011 was the country's largest ever
an earthquake
Patrick
|
$600
[28]
Many of the tourists flocking to this country NW of Panama visit the national park named for Irazu volcano
Costa Rica
Patrick
|
$600
[13]
Ang Lee writes that in this film Heath Ledger "makes the audience feel the emotions that his character cannot express"
Brokeback Mountain
Anand
Patrick
|
$600
[23]
urbandictionary.com defines this 4-letter word meaning "in the near future" as "when we feel like it"
soon
|
|
$1,000
[20]
In 1810 Napoleon, divorced from Josephine, married this archduchess with whom he would have a son
Marie-Louise
Anand
|
$800
[4]
Sons of guns who partnered up in 1852:Smith & ____
Wesson
Patrick
|
$800
[9]
Thanks to 25 million donors, over $3 billion has been raised via this website for various personal causes
GoFundMe
Patrick
|
$800
[29]
The only volcano to have erupted on Europe's mainland in the last 100 years; its slopes once gave refuge to Spartacus
Vesuvius
Anand
|
$800
[14]
In a foreword to "The Big Bands", this legendary singer said, "My greatest teacher was...Tommy Dorsey...on the trombone"
Frank Sinatra
Anand
Patrick
|
$800
[24]
This 2-word Latin phrase translates as "after this" but is generally used to mean "done with hindsight"
post hoc
|
|
DD
$1,800
[18]
Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, it got a big demotion in 2006
Pluto
Patrick
|
$1,000
[5]
"Purveyors of fine food":____ & DeLuca
Dean
|
$1,000
[10]
It extends for more than 1,300 miles & is home to over 1,500 species of fish & 3,000 types of mollusks
the Great Barrier Reef
Byron
|
$1,000
[30]
Almost a perfect cone, Mount Mayonon this largest Philippine island is the nation's most active volcano
Luzon
Patrick
|
$1,000
[15]
In the foreword to "The Long Run", this CEO remarked about how writer Mishka Shubaly was helped by Kindle Singles
Jeff Bezos
Anand
|
$1,000
[25]
Without a direct object, this verb can mean "to win"; with one, it can mean "to replace someone in a position"
succeed
|
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|
$400
[24]
Charles Darwin became famous when he let people read his diary--of his voyage aboard this craft
the Beagle
Anand
|
$400
[18]
The snack calledtostonesis double-fried green these banana relatives
plantains
Byron
|
$400
[10]
Ponder this--"Le Penseur" is the French name for this famous sculpture
The Thinker
Anand
|
$400
[13]
Happening once in one trip around the sun
yearly
Byron
|
$400
[3]
"Walk, Don't Run", Cary Grant's last film, is set in Tokyo in 1964 during this quadrennial sporting event
the Olympics
Byron
|
$400
[23]
This woman overcame blindness & deafness to be nominated 4 times in the 1950s
Helen Keller
Byron
|
|
$800
[28]
1632's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" gothimin trouble with the Catholic church
Galileo
Anand
|
$800
[19]
Legend says a toast celebrating the end of the Spanish-American war gave this rum & Coke drink its name
a Cuba libre
|
$800
[6]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In one of his Vatican palace frescoes, called "Parnassus", Raphael celebrated poets both ancient and more recent, with Apollo and the Musesin the center, and in the group here, Dante and Virgil, behind the back of this blind bard
Homer
Anand
|
$800
[14]
Leslie Patricelli teaches kids about opposites with the board book "Yummy" this adjective
yucky
Byron
|
$800
[1]
The inspiration for this 1969 film was a photograph Peter Fonda saw of himself & Bruce Dern riding a motorcycle
Easy Rider
Anand
|
$800
[11]
This Italian educator received nominations in each of the 3 years before her 1952 death
Montessori
Anand
|
|
$1,200
[27]
Written around 350 B.C., this Greek's work "Physics" held sway over science for 2,000 years
Aristotle
Anand
|
$1,200
[20]
One of Cuba's most popular cocktails, it of course uses rum, the national drink, along with lime juice, sugar & mint leaves
a mojito
Anand
|
$1,600
[8]
Though he appears more to be smiling, the man in the Frans Halspaintingis portrayed as this cavalier
The Laughing Cavalier
|
$1,200
[15]
It's memorably used by "cowboy" Bruce Willis in "Die Hard"
yippee-ki-yay
Patrick
|
$1,200
[2]
Voice actors of this Disney film included Phil Harris as Baloo & Louis Prima as King Louie of the apes
Jungle Book
Byron
|
$1,200
[12]
The World Association for this new language received more than 100 nominations in the '50s & '60s, but it never won
Esperanto
Patrick
|
|
$1,600
[26]
Richard Dawkins changed evolutionary biology with "The Selfish" this
gene
Anand
|
— |
$2,000
[9]
One of this British sculptor's large reclining figures can be seen in a reflecting pool at Lincoln Center
Henry Moore
|
$1,600
[16]
Undesirable "off-flavors" in brewing beer include grassy, skunky, & this adjective
yeasty
Patrick
|
$1,600
[4]
British pop singer Lulu had a small role in this 1967 film & also sang the title song
To Sir, With Love
|
$2,000
[22]
More than a dozen people, including Albert Schweitzer, nominated this cellist
Pablo Casals
Patrick
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Named for a goddess mother, this 1979 work laid out the idea of Earth as a single, interconnected unit
Gaea
Anand
|
— |
DD
$3,200
[7]
In 2013 one of his black-&-white paintings of a Coca-Cola bottle sold at auction for over $57 million
Andy Warhol
Anand
|
$2,000
[17]
This word is in the title of Garson Kanin's play about Billie Dawn, the seemingly dumb blonde mistress of a junk tycoon
yesterday
|
$2,000
[5]
A casino heist was the focus of this film starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr.
Ocean's 11
Anand
|
DD
$2,600
[21]
Many attempts to get this man the award for creating the Boy Scouts were unsuccessful
(Lord Baden-)Powell
Anand
|
George Eastman called it "a strong, incisive sort of letter"
K