Tessa Fleming — a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California
Bill Cossen — a Ph.D. candidate in history originally from Lexington, South Carolina
Elizabeth Williams — a business research librarian from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth | $1,600 | $3,200 | $1,400 |
$2,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,000
14 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Bill | $1,600 | $5,800 | $15,000 |
$15,000
New champion: $15,000 |
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Tessa | $1,000 | $800 | $2,800 |
$2,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$2,800
9 R, 3 W |
| BRAND NAMES | "B" + 3 | GHOSTBUSTERS | ANAGRAMMED BODIES OF WATER | PLASTIC SURGERY | SHE'S HAD SOME WORK DONE |
|
$200
[4]
This company offers crop insurance as well as it signature green & yellow tractors
John Deere
Elizabeth
|
$200
[9]
A slang term for a party, it can also mean to criticize harshly
bash
Elizabeth
|
$200
[1]
Dan Aykroyd called Slimerthe ghost of this friend of his who was supposed to be in the first film but died in 1982
(John) Belushi
Tessa
|
$200
[26]
A big lake:Prior use
Superior
Bill
|
$200
[14]
Karl Ferdinand von Grafe described reconstructing these in his 1818 work "Rhinoplastik"
noses
Tessa
|
$200
[2]
The house is toastier since she had the Batt type of this installed in the attic
insulation
|
|
$400
[6]
This candy brand invites you to "taste the rainbow"
Skittles
Bill
|
$400
[10]
A source of fiber, it's the outer layer of a grain
bran
Bill
|
$400
[3]
When Sigourney Weaver says it's time to do this to her baby, Bill Murray starts with "You're short"
put him down
|
$400
[27]
A sea:RABBI CANE
the Caribbean
Elizabeth
|
$400
[15]
A building or website can also get this, an operation to reduce sagging of the jowls & neck
a facelift
Elizabeth
|
$400
[19]
She made her living room less noisy with these ceiling tiles, from the Greek for "hear"
acoustic tiles
Bill
|
|
$600
[16]
This brand of cleaning product is represented by the cute little guy seen here
Scrubbing Bubbles
Elizabeth
|
$600
[11]
This rope with weights attached is used in South America to catch cattle by entangling their legs
a bola
|
$600
[5]
When asked to choose the form of the Traveler, Ray chooses the Stay Puft Man, who's made of this foodstuff
marshmallow
Tessa
|
$600
[28]
An Italian River:COIN RUB
the Rubicon
Elizabeth
|
$600
[22]
widesmiles.org is a resource for people who may be looking to have plastic surgery for this type of "palate" or "lip"
cleft
Bill
|
$600
[20]
Grandma can now shower with ease since the bathroom became compliant with this act, the ADA
the Americans with Disabilities Act
Bill
|
|
$800
[17]
Treat your itchy eyes with this brand of antihistamine first marketed back in 1946
Benadryl
Bill
|
$800
[12]
In a 1916 interview, Henry Ford said, "History is more or less" this
bunk
Elizabeth
|
$800
[7]
This man who passed away in 2014 directed "Groundhog Day" after acting in & writing "Ghostbusters"
Harold Ramis
Bill
|
$800
[29]
A big bay:FAN FIB
Baffin
Bill
|
DD
$1,000
[23]
This alliterative procedure is also called abdominoplasty
tummy tuck
Bill
|
$800
[21]
This "troubling" technique of fabricating nicks & scratches on her furniture gives the lounge a homey feel
distressing
Tessa
|
|
$1,000
[18]
A military parachute duffle inspired this brand of nylon totes with a French-sounding name
LeSportsac
Tessa
|
$1,000
[13]
A Scottish hillside
brae
|
$1,000
[8]
(Here's Sarah to wrap up the category.) Dan Aykroyd wanted it to be black, but because of all the night scenes, the 1959 Cadillac known as this-1 was painted white instead & the rest is history
Ecto
|
$1,000
[30]
A gulf:SPIN EAR
Persian
|
$1,000
[24]
Trichloroacetic acid, phenol & alphahydroxy acids are used to improve your skin in a "chemical" this
a peel
Bill
|
$1,000
[25]
For illumination inside & out, she added arc lamps & this other type of light that Noah would know well
a floodlight
|
| WHAT ARE YOU READING? | BETTER KNOWN BY ONE NAME | AFRICAN HISTORY | WORD ORIGINS | POP MUSIC | WHO LET THE GODS OUT? |
|
$400
[15]
Susan Orlean's biography of this movie star dog
Rin Tin Tin
Elizabeth
|
$400
[23]
Nigeria actually called a cease-fire in its civil war in 1967 to see this soccer star play
Pelé
Elizabeth
|
$400
[19]
Egypt's president throughout the 1970's he tried to open up the economy & and reached out in foreign affairs
(Anwar) Sadat
Bill
|
$400
[10]
This profession is from the Greek for "star sailor"
astronaut
|
$400
[1]
"I'm in trouble deep", Madonna tells her dad in this 1986 hit
"Papa Don't Preach"
Tessa
|
$400
[4]
Su-En, the Mesopotamian god of this celestial body, was represented by a crescent
the moon
Bill
|
|
$800
[16]
This Cormac McCarthy novel with the cattle gun-wielding Chigurh
No Country for Old Men
Bill
|
$800
[24]
The Academy, one of Greece's first schools that met regularly in a set place, was founded by him
Plato
Bill
Tessa
|
$800
[20]
In the 1820's Hugh Clapperton crossed the Sahara from the shores of this Libyan port to Lake Chad
Tripoli
Tessa
|
$800
[11]
This light brown candy may take its name from the Arabic kurat al milh, meaning "ball of sweet salt"
caramel
Elizabeth
|
$800
[2]
This group's 1972 no. 1 hit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" isn't about Mick or Keith
the Temptations
Tessa
|
$800
[5]
Like his Norse counterpart Thor, Perun was the Slavic god of this weather phenomenon
thunder and lightning
Tessa
|
|
$1,200
[17]
"Duty", the 2014 memoir of this former Secretary of Defense
(Robert) Gates
Bill
|
$1,200
[25]
This young Kiwi singer put an "E" at the end of her stage name to make it more feminine
Lorde
Bill
|
DD
$1,000
[30]
This capital of South Africa's Northern Cape was founded after an 1871 diamond find; today it's a name for baby girls
Kimberley
Elizabeth
|
$1,600
[13]
Partly from the Greek for "all", it once meant a complete set of arms & armor but now refers to a striking array
panoply
Elizabeth
Tessa
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1965 we learned from him that Papa had acquired a "Brand New Bag"; in 1974, that he "Don't Take No Mess"
James Brown
Elizabeth
|
$1,200
[7]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Cambodia.) Now called Ta Reach, or "royal ancestor", & found in the main entrance shrine, a statue of this god to whom Angkor Wat was originally dedicated may have once been located in the central shrine at the very top
Vishnu
Bill
|
|
$1,600
[18]
"Dark Places", by this author of "Gone Girl"
Gillian Flynn
|
$1,600
[26]
One half of this duo has the last name Jilette; the other has the (silent) first name Raymond
Penn & Teller
Tessa
|
$1,200
[28]
In 2014, 5 African nations made an alliance against this Islamist group notorious for kidnapping girls in Nigeria
Boko Haram
Elizabeth
|
$2,000
[14]
This word for an autocratic leader is from the Greek for "lord, master"
tyrant
|
$1,600
[6]
"I'm gonna be like you, Dad / You know I'm gonna be like you", he sang in the 1974 hit "Cat's In The Cradle"
Harry Chapin
Bill
|
$1,600
[8]
Itzli was this culture's god of stone knives associated with sacrifices; he was a busy guy
the Aztec
Elizabeth
Bill
|
|
$2,000
[22]
"The Mermaid Chair", by this 3-named author
Sue Monk Kidd
|
$2,000
[27]
This Pulitizer-winning editorial cartoonist drew up indictments of some powerful people
Herblock
|
$1,600
[29]
In the 15th century the Mossi people established their capital at Ouagadougou on the upper reaches of this river
the Volta
|
DD
$5,600
[12]
It was coined by George Orwell & means the capacity to accept 2 contradictory ideas at the same time
doublethink
Elizabeth
|
$2,000
[21]
This group had some words for absentee dads:"Father of mine, tell me where have you been/You know I just close my eyes, my whole world disappeared..."
Everclear
Elizabeth
|
$2,000
[9]
The Inuit god of the bear shares his name with this "of the North" documentary title character
Nanook
Elizabeth
|
At 200 miles, this capital of just over a million people is the continental capital closest to London
Brussels