Kimberly Kist — a retired teacher from Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Matthias Clark — a financial software consultant from River Forest, Illinois
Kyle Becker — a research scientist from Nashville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle | $600 | $-600 | $12,200 |
$11,999
2-day champion: $30,400 |
$11,000
15 R (including 3 DDs), 5 W |
| Matthias | $2,200 | $2,200 | $6,200 |
$400
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,200
17 R, 7 W |
| Kimberly | $1,400 | $2,200 | $5,400 |
$400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$5,400
7 R, 3 W |
| HALLS OF FAME | COOKBOOKS | WAR IS OVER | 9-LETTER WORDS | "U" LOVE MUSIC | A TRIP TO ITALY |
|
$200
[18]
Wade Boggs, Satchel Paige
baseball
Matthias
|
$200
[23]
4-time Olympian Shalane Flanagan provides nourishing recipes for athletes in "Run Fast. Eat" this way
Run Fast. Eat Slow.
|
$200
[1]
Syria agrees to a cease-fire, June 1967
the Six Days War
Kyle
Kimberly
|
$200
[11]
It's the old-timey mustache seen here
a handlebar
Matthias
|
$200
[6]
"Jesus, Take The Wheel" drove this woman all the way to No. 1 on the country charts
Carrie Underwood
Matthias
|
$200
[16]
Italy's longest river, the Po flows 405 miles east to this sea
the Adriatic
Kyle
Matthias
Kimberly
|
|
$400
[19]
Samuel Morse, Elisha Otis
inventors
Matthias
|
$400
[24]
Part cookbook, part travel guide, "Rice, Noodle, Fish" is Matt Goulding's experience of the food culture of this country
Japan
|
$400
[2]
George H.W. Bush calls a halt on February 28, 1991
the Gulf War
Matthias
|
$400
[12]
Got milk? One of Wisconsin's nicknames is "America's" this
Dairyland
Kyle
|
$400
[7]
"Don't believe me just watch"--there's an exclamation point on the title of this 2015 smash hit
"Uptown Funk!"
Matthias
|
$400
[17]
On Via Port'Alba in Naples you can visit this type of restaurant that opened in 1830--the ovens are still going
a pizzeria
Kyle
|
|
$600
[20]
Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell
blues
Matthias
|
$600
[28]
For her fans, this actress wrote "My Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Frontier Food From My Little House to Yours"
Melissa Gilbert
Kyle
|
$600
[3]
To some historians--Gen. E. Kirby Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Department
the U.S. Civil War
|
$800
[14]
A crime similar to kidnapping, or, medically, the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body
abduction
Matthias
Kimberly
|
$600
[8]
Made for the category, this R&B singer gave us "U Remind Me", "U Got It Bad" & "U Don't Have To Call"
Usher
|
$600
[25]
2.8 million Romans make Rome Italy's most populous city; this northern city is second with about 1.4 million
Milan
Matthias
|
|
$800
[21]
Jacks, stick
the Toy Hall of Fame
Matthias
|
— |
$800
[4]
Bordeaux falls to the French, 1453
the Hundred Years' War
Matthias
|
DD
$1,000
[13]
It's the branch of astronomy that studies the origin & structure of the universe
cosmology
Kyle
|
$800
[9]
This '60s hit tells us, "On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be"
"Under The Boardwalk"
Kimberly
|
$800
[26]
Lists of the great builders of history leave out Giovanni di Simone, chief engineer of this structure in the 1270s
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Kyle
Matthias
|
|
$1,000
[22]
Abigail Adams, Dorothea Dix
the Women's Hall of Fame
|
— |
$1,000
[5]
A treaty is signed March 30, 1856
the Crimean War
Kyle
|
$1,000
[15]
According to Genesis, on the second day God created this, which he called heaven
the firmament
|
$1,000
[10]
This '80s reggae group took their name from a British unemployment form & now you got them, babe
UB40
Matthias
|
$1,000
[27]
You'll do lots of climbing just walking the streets of Positanoon this coast on the Gulf of Salerno
Amalfi
Kimberly
|
| HALLS OF FAME | FEELING YOUR OATHS | THE ELEMENT NAMED FOR... | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE | "G" STRING | POP CULTURE 2000 |
|
$400
[16]
J.C. Hall co-founded this greeting card company that has a Hall of Fame all its own
Hallmark
Matthias
|
$400
[21]
It mentions that the swearer will "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"
the president of the United States (or presidential oath)
Kimberly
|
$400
[1]
The seventh planet from the sun
uranium
Kyle
Matthias
|
$400
[11]
Named by UNESCO in 2004, this city is the literary & literal capital of Scotland
Edinburgh
Kyle
|
$400
[6]
An alphabetical list of terms from one specific field of knowledge
a glossary
Matthias
|
$800
[29]
(I'm Neil de Grasse Tyson.) I was flattered to be named "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive" by this magazine back in 2000, but I'm inclined to wonder, who was I up against?
People
Kyle
|
|
$800
[17]
It's automatic--19th c. physiologist Marshall Hall explained these responses to stimuli
reflexes
|
$800
[22]
"On my honor" this oath says to "help other people at all times"
the Boy Scout Oath
Kyle
|
$800
[2]
A married couple with some Nobel Prizes between them
curium
Kyle
|
$800
[12]
This major city is recognized for its excellence in publishing both Spanish & Catalan literature
Barcelona
Matthias
|
$800
[7]
The width of the business end of a firearm; a shotgun's might be 12
gauge
Kyle
|
$1,200
[28]
This primetime game show was the USA's most watched TV program
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Matthias
|
|
$1,200
[18]
Electronic music and animal rights are among the passions of Richard Melville Hall, better known as this
Moby
Kimberly
|
$1,200
[23]
In 1920 those taking this oath vowed "a spirit of chivalry for the honor of our country & for the glory of sport"
the Olympic Oath
Kyle
|
$1,200
[3]
The sun
helium
Kyle
|
$1,200
[13]
Thanks to its pioneering writers' program, the only American city honored is in this Midwest state
Iowa
Kyle
|
$1,200
[8]
An embarrassing mistake made in public
a gaffe
Matthias
|
$1,600
[27]
Long before he took us to "Manchester by the Sea", he made his feature directing debut with "You Can Count on Me"
Kenneth Lonergan
Matthias
|
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1976 Gus Hall, General Secretary of the CPUSA, this party, got nearly 60,000 votes for president
the Communist Party
Matthias
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
This oath involves swearing to "Asclepius, Hygieia, Panacea & all the gods & goddesses"
the Hippocratic Oath
Kyle
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
An Italian-American physicist
fermium
Kyle
|
$1,600
[14]
Literature about this Pampas cowboy helped get Montevideo recognized
the gaucho
Matthias
|
$1,600
[9]
A butcher may trim away this unpleasantly chewy part of meat
gristle
Kimberly
|
$2,000
[26]
Heracclaimed album "Mama's Gun" featured the protest song "A.D. 2000"
Erykah Badu
|
|
$2,000
[20]
James Norman Hall from the Midwest moved to Tahiti & co-wrote the book about this British ship that sailed to Tahiti
the Bounty
Kimberly
|
$2,000
[25]
Financial advisors may take this type of oath that also starts with "fi" stating they will act in good faith
fiduciary
Matthias
|
$2,000
[5]
The rainbow
iridium
Kyle
|
$2,000
[15]
Thomas Bracken & Janet Frame are 2 authors from Dunedin in this country who bring that city to the forefront
New Zealand
|
$2,000
[10]
There are about 20 different varieties of this large, Australian monitor
goanna
Kimberly
|
— |
This 1814-1815 gathering of leaders prompted Beethoven to compose the cantata "The Glorious Moment"
the Congress of Vienna