The finalists were chosen from a pool of 835 titles submitted by 198 publishers.
The winner, Wopo Holup, was chosen from a pool of 75 artists.
A six-person jury will be chosen from a pool of 75 people.
Days later, they were chosen from a pool of 100 jurors to be on the panel.
Emily Laber-Warren, the executive editor for features at Popular Science, said Dr. Svoboda was chosen from a pool of about 10 neuroscientists.
A Selectica spokeswoman said her company was chosen from a pool of 30 competitors after a rigorous competition that lasted almost a year.
After a national search, Mr. Thakkar was chosen from a pool of more than 40 candidates to be the first executive director of the Connecticut Criminal Justice Information System.
Eighteen potential jurors were chosen from a pool of around 60, and a final panel is due to be sworn in on Thursday.
The four other Olympic members, and up to three alternates, will be chosen from a pool of 10 at a training camp July 20.
It is so civil that the original 12 (chosen from a pool of 10,000) high-five one another after their turns behind the desk.
