Lisa Kristina — a freelance musician from Chicago Heights, Illinois
Lily Gebrenegus — an accounting manager from Seattle, Washington
Matt Preston — an assets protection leader from Harvest, Alabama (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,998)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $3,000 | $3,400 | $7,800 |
$5,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
16 R, 4 W |
| Lily | $600 | $1,000 | $5,000 |
$5,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,000
10 R, 4 W |
| Lisa | $0 | $2,800 | $15,800 |
$15,900
New champion: $15,900 |
$17,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN | HISTORICAL FICTION | NEW ENGLAND | SOME CHOICE WORDS | IN THEIR LEAGUE | "C" IN COOKING |
|
$200
[26]
When this giant of retail died in 1992, his heirs split up more than $20 billion
Sam Walton
Matt
|
$200
[16]
This 1936 novel was inspired by an aunt's scrapbook of the Civil War & its aftermath
Gone With the Wind
|
$200
[21]
The only home on Boston's Freedom Trail belonged to this silversmith
Paul Revere
Lisa
|
$200
[11]
The spread of those inherited traits that help creatures produce more creatures is "natural" this
selection
Matt
|
$200
[1]
The Arizona Cardinals
the NFL
Matt
|
$200
[6]
It's Spanish for meat; when followed by "asada", it means it's been roasted
carne
Lily
|
|
$800
[28]
After his 1906 death, the Chicago Board of Trade shut down to remember this merchant
Marshall Field
Lisa
|
$400
[17]
This classic began in 1844 as a serial for the magazine Le Siecle but later became a book, one for all of them
The Three Musketeers
Lily
|
$400
[22]
Until the 1600s this tribe lived & fished on the bay that bears their name with no idea they were in Rhode Island
the Narragansett
|
$400
[12]
To unsubscribe from an e-mail list, you can this "out"
opt
Matt
|
$400
[2]
The St. Louis Cardinals
the National League
Matt
Lily
|
$400
[7]
This yellow-skinned melon is named for the Turkish town that exported it
Casaba
Lisa
|
|
$1,000
[27]
One estimate said this man's wealth near his 1937 death would be the equivalent of four times Bill Gates' wealth
(John D.) Rockefeller
Matt
|
$600
[18]
This Philipp Meyer novel about the Texas frontier came to AMC with Pierce Brosnan as the powerful Eli McCullough
The Son
|
$600
[23]
In 2003, after years of erosion, this state's iconic Old Man of the Mountain crumbled to the ground
New Hampshire
|
$600
[13]
A court or boxing judgment
a decision
Matt
Lisa
|
$600
[3]
The BC Lions
the Canadian Football League (or CFL)
Matt
|
$600
[8]
It's the plural French word for an appetizer of raw vegetables; it just means "rawness"
crudites
Lisa
|
| — |
$800
[19]
"Flight of the Sparrow" recounts the real tale of a Puritan woman from this colony captured by Indians in 1676
the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Matt
|
$800
[24]
In 1883 he settled at Prouts Neck, on the coast of Maine, where he would paint many of his seascapes
(Winslow) Homer
Lisa
|
$800
[14]
12-letter adjective for excellent "treatment"
preferential
|
$800
[4]
The Stanford Cardinal (in this case, a conference)
the Pac-12
Matt
|
$800
[9]
Plural name of the versatile feta product seen here
crumbles
Lily
|
| — |
$1,000
[20]
A young woman steps aside so her sister can marry a king in this Philippa Gregory novel
The Other Boleyn Girl
Lisa
|
$1,000
[25]
This English explorer & captain gave New England its name after exploring the region in the 1600s
Captain John Smith
|
DD
$1,600
[15]
What a parent does to a better-loved child, or what a person limping is doing to the bad leg
favoring
Lisa
|
$1,000
[5]
The Minnesota Lynx
the WNBA
Matt
|
$1,000
[10]
Copra is the dried meat of this
coconut
|
| JOHNNY GILBERT, TOUGH GUY | CEREMONIES | THE HUMAN BODY | "K"9 | MOZART | IN THE JUNGLE |
|
$400
[1]
"Let's talk about something important. Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only"
Glengarry Glen Ross
Lily
|
$400
[26]
This other name for a graduation ceremony implies that it's the start, not the end, of something
a commencement
Matt
|
$400
[16]
This main male hormone affects the development of characteristics like facial & body hair, as well as a deep voice
testosterone
Lisa
|
$400
[6]
It's equal to about .62 miles
a kilometer
Matt
|
$400
[8]
The joyful quality of this serenade makes it a favorite
"A Little Night Music"
Lisa
|
$400
[21]
The Ituri forest in the Congo is home to a tribe of these people whose males grow no more than 60 inches
pygmies
Lily
|
|
$800
[2]
"I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"
There Will Be Blood
|
$800
[27]
In June 2013 Kate Middleton smashed a big bottle of champagne at this type of ceremony to name & launch a ship
a christening
Matt
|
$800
[17]
The heart comes in its own pouch--this membranous sac
the pericardium
|
$800
[7]
A person who has the power to influence the selection of someone for higher office
a kingmaker
Lisa
|
$800
[9]
Mozart was born in this city in 1756; his birthplace has been a museum there since 1880
Salzburg
Matt
Lisa
|
$800
[22]
This jungle helmet is made from the heartwood of the sola plant, hence the name
a pith helmet
Lily
|
|
$1,200
[3]
"In this country... when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women"
Scarface
Matt
|
$1,200
[28]
The Dogon people of Mali have a ceremony every 60 years called Sigui, when this dog star appears between 2 mountain peaks
Sirius
Lisa
|
$1,200
[18]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an illustration of the upper airway.)Tissue like the soft palate in the upper airway cancollapseduring sleep, causing snoring as well as this disorder, from the Greek for "without breath"
apnea
Lisa
|
$1,200
[13]
In this movie Jean-Claude Van Damme learns Thai martial arts to avenge his brother
Kickboxer
Lily
|
$1,200
[10]
Mozart wrote 41 symphonies, just 2 in this type of key that tends to connote sadness & seriousness
a minor key
Lisa
|
$1,200
[23]
A rainforest recently explored in this 4th-most populous country revealed new & unknown species of kangaroos
Indonesia
Matt
Lily
|
|
$1,600
[4]
"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you & hear the lamentation of their women!"
Conan the Barbarian
Lily
|
DD
$1,400
[29]
In an African-American wedding tradition, the bride & groom do this to symbolically sweep away the past
jump the broom
Lisa
|
$1,600
[19]
This lowermost portion of the brainstem is responsible for regulating both heart rate & respiration
the medulla oblongata
Matt
|
$1,600
[14]
Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than" this (he had a lot of both)
knowledge
Matt
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
Count Almaviva invites everyone to a wedding banquet at the end of Act III of this comic opera
The Marriage of Figaro
Lisa
|
$1,600
[24]
We've high hopes for the ficus elastica, this jungle tree, whose latex was once a valuable commodity
a rubber tree
Lisa
|
|
$2,000
[5]
"What I do have are a very particular set of skills... skills that make me a nightmare for people like you"
Taken
Lily
|
$2,000
[30]
Chabana is the style of flower arrangement used during this ceremony
a Japanese tea ceremony
Lily
|
$2,000
[20]
T cells, part of the immune system, are so named for being derived from this gland
the thymus gland
Matt
Lily
|
$2,000
[15]
Literally "coiled", this concept envisions latent energy coiled at the base of the spine until activated by yoga
Kundalini
Lily
|
$2,000
[12]
Thisscholar put together the most complete catalog of Mozart's work in chronological order, the source of the K. numbers
Köchel
Lisa
|
$2,000
[25]
Hawaii's forests have many types of these, including the apapane & the honeycreeper
birds
|
The central image on the flag of this nation is a symbol of strength in Psalm 92 & a prized building material in I Kings 5
Lebanon