Hillary Huttenhower — a materials engineer from Manchester, Connecticut
Aric Wiest — a curator from Kansas City, Missouri
Caitlin Malcuit — a writer and editor from North Reading, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caitlin | $1,200 | $3,400 | $1,400 |
$2,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,400
7 R, 2 W |
| Aric | $1,600 | $4,500 | $9,900 |
$16,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Hillary | $4,600 | $5,000 | $16,200 |
$19,801
New champion: $19,801 |
$16,200
21 R, 1 W |
| EYEBROW-BEATING YOU | TV | "I" LAND HOPPING | LITERARY TERMS | RHYME TIME | TASTY ITALIANS |
|
$200
[19]
This Muppet loves pigeons & bottlecaps & shares a fashionable "Sesame Street" address
Bert
Caitlin
|
$200
[1]
Kevin Spacey plays a manipulative politician on this series from Netflix
House of Cards
Hillary
|
$200
[6]
Its ruling monarchy was chased out in 1979
Iran
Caitlin
|
$200
[8]
A trite or stereotyped phrase, it's literally French for "stereotype", a printing term
cliché
Caitlin
|
$200
[12]
A command to the Lone Ranger's companion to move quickly
"Pronto, Tonto"
Hillary
|
$200
[17]
First name of 20th c. cardinal Ottaviani, or a rich butter & cream sauce
Alfredo
Aric
|
|
$400
[20]
This'30s movie star said, "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it"
Groucho Marx
Caitlin
|
$400
[2]
Fans of this soapy series are called Gladiators
Scandal
Hillary
|
$400
[7]
It's about 650 miles west of Norway
Iceland
Hillary
|
$400
[22]
Using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning
irony
Aric
|
$400
[13]
An Athenian computer nerd
a Greek geek
Hillary
|
$400
[18]
Fittingly, Luca Spaghetti is one of the people Elizabeth Gilbert meets in the first section of this 3-word book
Eat, Pray, Love
Hillary
|
|
$600
[21]
Seen here are the brows of this sage of Sunday night television
Andy Rooney
|
$600
[3]
On "The Americans" she stars as Elizabeth Jennings, just your KGB spy next door
Keri Russell
Hillary
|
$600
[9]
About 6,000 of its more than 17,000 islands are inhabited
Indonesia
Hillary
|
$600
[26]
Dude, that was so this! A long narrative poem that tells of the deeds & adventures of a hero
epic
Aric
|
$600
[14]
Home for a king in the "Big D"
a Dallas palace
Aric
|
$600
[23]
Mario Cipollini ("Mario Wild Onions") is a famed sprinter in this beloved Euro-sport
cycling
|
|
$800
[24]
The Coyoacan house of this Mexican artist is now a museum bearing her name
Frida Kahlo
Caitlin
|
$800
[4]
Hugh Dancy is criminal profiler Will Graham, trying to track down serial killers on this drama
Hannibal
Hillary
|
$800
[10]
Some 250 million of its people are ethnically Dravidian
India
Aric
|
$1,000
[28]
It's the usual lit crit term for prefiguring or hinting what is to come later in a story
foreshadowing
Aric
|
$800
[15]
A pleasant-smelling tramp or rover
a fragrant vagrant
Caitlin
Aric
|
$800
[29]
Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, reputedly a gunman in this 1929 slaughter, died aged 86 in 1992
the Valentine's Day Massacre
Caitlin
|
|
$1,000
[25]
In 1976, hewas made Marshall of the U.S.S.R., the only party leader after Stalin to hold the highest military rank
Brezhnev
Aric
|
$1,000
[5]
"24: Live Another Day" was shot in & is set in this city
London
Hillary
|
$1,000
[11]
It was created from 3 Ottoman provinces shortly after World War I
Iraq
|
DD
$1,300
[27]
Parody makes fun of a literary style; this other 6-letter term makes fun of human weaknesses
satire
Aric
|
$1,000
[16]
The sense that the science of plants is getting repetitive, day in & day out
botany monotony
Aric
|
$1,000
[30]
The last name of 18th century composer Pietro was the word for these dumplings
gnocchi
Aric
|
| WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD | FILMS OF THE 1950s | HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | BALLET | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | HEY, "DJ" |
|
$400
[11]
The novel "Snow Crash" popularized this word from Hinduism to mean an online representation
an avatar
Aric
|
$400
[1]
In the 1950s Grace Kelly starred in 2 "High" films: "High Society" & this one
High Noon
|
$400
[10]
In a 1500 letter, he wrote, "I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people"
Columbus
Hillary
|
$400
[16]
Standing on the balls of the feet is being on demi-this
pointe
Hillary
|
$400
[8]
Arizona's Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site has over 170 woven Navajo ones
rugs
Aric
|
$400
[3]
Lying near, close or contiguous
adjoining (or adjacent)
Hillary
|
|
$800
[12]
Someone lacking in information may be described as being low this measure of data transmission
bandwidth
Hillary
|
$800
[2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.) Alfred Hitchcock always wanted to do a chase scene across the faces of Mount Rushmore; that chase scene became theclimaxof this 1959 thriller
North by Northwest
Hillary
|
$800
[22]
At Fort Donelson, Tennessee, in 1862, heuttered his demand for unconditional & immediate surrender
(Ulysses) Grant
Aric
|
$800
[17]
Let's make Odile & stage this "avian" ballet
Swan Lake
Hillary
|
$800
[9]
Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park includes some of this desert in the northeastern part of the state
the Painted Desert
Caitlin
Aric
|
$800
[4]
It's the "A" in the type of mortgage abbreviated "ARM"
adjustable
Aric
|
|
$1,200
[19]
There's a preposition in this word for a solution that circumvents a problem without fixing it
a workaround
Aric
Hillary
|
$1,200
[13]
In order to play this big band leader in a 1954 biopic, Jimmy Stewart hired a trombone tutor
Glenn Miller
Hillary
|
$1,600
[24]
"The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed", wrote this man in a 1920 editorial
Mussolini
Aric
|
$1,200
[18]
Thislate flamboyant defector from the U.S.S.R. sharedhislast name with a czar
Alexander Godunov
Caitlin
|
$2,000
[26]
The only national parks now in theoriginal 13 statesare one each in North & South Carolina, &this beautiful park in Virginia
Shenandoah
Hillary
|
$1,200
[5]
A large sailing ship often used for what's been described as a "seagoing dude ranch"
a windjammer
|
|
$1,600
[20]
Add 4 letters to a term for messing with a computer to get this word for streamlining your daily existence
life hacking
Aric
|
$1,600
[14]
"The Caddy" stars this duo as a golf pro & his caddy/manager; they duet on "That's Amore" & end up in show biz
Dean Martin and (Jerry) Lewis
Hillary
|
DD
$2,000
[23]
In 1170 Henry II asked, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", the priest being this man
Thomas Becket
Aric
|
$1,600
[28]
This 1832 ballet may get its French title from the Latin silva, "forest"
La sylphide
|
— |
$1,600
[6]
It's the small strategically located country seen here
Djibouti
Aric
|
|
DD
$3,000
[21]
This verb for what a computer does when it networks with another is used in office jargon to mean "meet & talk"
interface
Aric
|
$2,000
[15]
Bob Hope & Bing Crosby had cameos in this 1952 Cecil B. Demille film as spectators munching popcorn under the big top
The Greatest Show on Earth
Hillary
|
$2,000
[25]
This Greek leader said, "Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial" (it also helps if you build the Parthenon)
Pericles
|
$2,000
[27]
Soloists are backed up by the ensemble known by this 3-word French term
the corps de ballet
Hillary
|
— |
$2,000
[7]
It's the small strategically located city seen here
Bemidji
|
Illustrationsby this man show why his name has become thestandardfor children's book artistry
(Randolph) Caldecott