Jonathan Fisher game 5.
Connie Smith — a mechanical engineer from Oviedo, Florida
Nima Aghili — a lawyer and legal recruiter from Overland Park, Kansas
Jonathan Fisher — an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida (whose 4-day cash winnings total $94,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan | $3,000 | $4,000 | $24,100 |
$23,700
5-day champion: $117,700 |
$22,800
28 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Nima | $1,800 | $1,400 | $7,800 |
$4,399
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
10 R, 2 W |
| Connie | $2,000 | $5,200 | $11,200 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| "EYE" | STATE YOUR NAME | DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR | GRAZE ANATOMY | FINISH THE LINE | NOW READ THIS! |
|
$200
[26]
It's a late or overnight airplane flight
a red eye
Jonathan
|
$200
[19]
Virginia Wade won 55 tennis singles titles, including this major in 1977, the last Englishwoman to do so
Wimbledon
Jonathan
|
$200
[16]
I swear by him; he swears by himself in the book of Jeremiah
God
|
$200
[25]
Sheep don't have any upper front these, using a dental pad instead
teeth
Jonathan
|
$200
[14]
Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind": "Frankly, my dear..."
I don't give a damn
Nima
|
$200
[12]
Mia Thermopolis finds out that her dad is the crown prince of Genovia in this book, the first of a series
The Princess Diaries
Jonathan
|
|
$400
[20]
This avian outlook refers to a viewpoint from a high angle
a bird's-eye view
Nima
|
$400
[17]
Appearing in the novel "The Hustler", Minnesota Fats was a legendary player of this game
pool
Jonathan
|
$400
[27]
I swear on this so you know I'm telling the truth
a stack of Bibles
Jonathan
Connie
|
$400
[24]
The rumen, the omasum & the reticulum are parts of this organ for a cow
the stomach
Connie
|
$400
[13]
Dr. Seuss' Sam-I-Am: "Would you like them in a house? Would you like them..."
with a mouse
Connie
|
$600
[1]
He wrote the 1936 self-help book "How to Win Friends & Influence People"
Dale Carnegie
Connie
|
|
$600
[3]
It's a building that is unpleasant to look at
an eyesore
Jonathan
|
$600
[9]
1920s nightclub hostess Texas Guinan was arrested several times for operating these illegal "quiet" establishments
speakeasies
Jonathan
|
$600
[28]
I swear to this map co-invented by Harry Potter's father
the Marauder's Map
Jonathan
|
$600
[21]
Llamas are sure-footed grazers because of their padded feet, which have these on their toes instead of hooves
nails
Connie
|
$600
[4]
Oscar Wilde wrote, "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is" these 4 words
not being talked about
Nima
|
$800
[2]
"Golden Girl" & "28 Summers" are Nantucket-set novels by this woman, "The Queen of Beach Reads"
Elin Hilderbrand
Connie
|
|
$800
[5]
A 2003 study said a dog with a problem will make this with a human to try & get help; a wolf with a problem probably won't
eye contact
Jonathan
|
$800
[15]
Stately first name of Mr. Tuxedo, a cartoon penguin voiced by Don Adams
Tennessee
Connie
|
$800
[29]
Swear on this weapon, as the Vikings did & as Horatio does in "Hamlet"
sword
Connie
|
$800
[22]
Camels' humps store nutrients from grazing as this substance, also called adipose tissue
fat
Jonathan
Nima
|
$800
[6]
In T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men": "This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a" this
whimper
Jonathan
|
DD
$1,000
[11]
Howard Roark is to "The Fountainhead" as John Galt is to this 1,100-page tome
Atlas Shrugged
Connie
|
|
$1,000
[8]
As seen here, a Bloody Mary is one of these when served at breakfast
an eye opener
Connie
|
$1,000
[18]
This state comes before the names of blues musicians John Hurt & Fred McDowell
Mississippi
Connie
|
$1,000
[30]
You can swear by the Sun, using this Greek name, as in Euripides' "Medea"
Helios
Nima
|
$1,000
[23]
Thismanatee relative grazes on the sea floor with its tough lips
a dugong
Jonathan
Nima
|
$1,000
[7]
John F. Kennedy: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men..."
to do nothing
Nima
|
$1,000
[10]
Stella Kowalski's sister is this play character who has always depended on the kindness of strangers
Blanche DuBois
Connie
|
| MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES | HISTORIC POTPOURRI | LIBRARIES | THE IMPASSABLE DREAM | HIGH/LOW | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS |
|
$400
[5]
Care to dance withthis2010 thriller?
Black Swan
Connie
|
$400
[6]
The Risorgimento was the 19th century movement to unify this country
Italy
Jonathan
|
$400
[28]
The ancient library in this North African city was founded by the Ptolemaic Dynasty around the 3rd century B.C.
Alexandria
Jonathan
|
$400
[29]
Dams & other barriers to migration have reduced the Atlantic species of this food fish to a fraction of historic numbers
salmon
Connie
|
$400
[23]
Working with the firm Webb & Knapp, I.M. Pei designed the Mile High Center in this city in the mid-1950s
Denver
Nima
|
$400
[14]
Let's catch a ride with this German word that uses an umlaut & can mean "upon" or "beyond"
über
Jonathan
|
|
$800
[1]
"The Asner" isthis2009 animated film
Up
Connie
|
$800
[9]
One of Asia's first European-Native treaties was made in 1565 in the Philippines; drops of this mixed in wine sealed the deal
blood
Jonathan
|
$800
[27]
Begun in 1800 with an appropriation of $5,000, it's one of the largest libraries in the world, with over 160 million works
the Library of Congress
Jonathan
|
$800
[30]
In October 1962 the U.S. put a naval this, an 8-letter word meaning obstruction, around Cuba
blockade
Jonathan
|
$800
[22]
It's alphabetically first of the Low Countries
Belgium
Jonathan
|
$800
[11]
This word for the feast of Christmas can have a dieresis over the E
Noël
Jonathan
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Here's this 1994 British comedy distilled to its essence
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Jonathan
|
$1,200
[7]
Sultan Yusuf I, responsible for the decoration of this palace in Granada, was assassinated in a mosque at age 36
the Alhambra
Jonathan
Connie
|
$1,200
[18]
Barack Obama & Scott Turow have studied at the world's largest academic law library, at this school
Harvard
Nima
|
$1,200
[20]
In 1611 this English navigator sought the Northwest Passage but ended up trapped in the bay that would bear his name
(Henry) Hudson
Jonathan
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$1,600
[16]
Lower Merion Township is one of the Main Line suburbs of this city
Philadelphia
Nima
|
$1,200
[13]
A huge fan of the dieresis, The New Yorker uses one for this 5-letter word meaning gullible, simple or unjaded
naïve
Connie
|
|
$1,600
[4]
Let's get down to business--it's the 2013 film broken down here
The Wolf of Wall Street
Nima
|
$1,600
[8]
They're the Russian words for Mikhail Gorbachev's 2 policies of openness & restructuring
perestroika & glasnost
Jonathan
|
$1,600
[19]
Some 1,800 scrolls at a library in this city between Pompeii & Naples were uniquely preserved because Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.
Herculaneum
Jonathan
|
$1,600
[24]
When you swallow, this flap covers the larynx to keep food out of the respiratory tract
epiglottis
Nima
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
Mount Whitney is the highest point in what's known as the "High" this
the High Sierras
Jonathan
|
$1,600
[12]
This northern sky constellation whose name may derive from a Greek word for "ox driver" does not sound like tiny tot footwear
Boötes
|
|
$2,000
[3]
Thisperiod piece from 2000 had some Ang-st
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Jonathan
|
DD
$2,500
[10]
Also known as Deutscher Orden, this order of knights went to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade
the Teutonic Knights
Jonathan
|
$2,000
[26]
Seen here, the Long Room at this Irish school's library dates back to the 1700s, while the library itself was founded in 1592
Trinity College
Connie
|
$2,000
[25]
This90-mile stretch of California south of Monterey is known for its scenichighwaythat sometimes does become impassble
Big Sur
Jonathan
|
$2,000
[17]
The Aswan High Dam created a reservoir or "Lake" that was named for this Egyptian president
Gamal Abdel Nasser
|
$2,000
[15]
This German word literally means the "twilight of the gods"
Götterdämmerung
Jonathan
|
These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time
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