Amanda Mough — a sales associate from McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Brandon Powell — a contracting officer from Huntsville, Alabama
Ankoor Bagchi — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankoor | $2,600 | $3,800 | $4,200 |
$4,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$4,200
11 R, 4 W |
| Brandon | $4,200 | $4,400 | $15,400 |
$15,388
New champion: $15,388 |
$19,800
27 R, 4 W (including 3 DDs) |
| Amanda | $1,200 | $2,800 | $7,600 |
$99
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,600
9 R, 0 W |
| PENGUIN CLASSICS COVERS | THAT WAS ON TV | GET PICKLED | STAMPS | X2: NOT UNITED | LET'S VISIT SAO TOME & PRINCIPE |
|
$200
[6]
Stephen Cranemasterpiece
The Red Badge of Courage
Brandon
|
$200
[11]
Rosie was the maid with a heart of gold & a body of other metals on this futuristic '60s cartoon series
The Jetsons
Brandon
|
$200
[21]
Pickling brine is basically this sour liquid plus water & salt
vinegar
Brandon
|
$200
[16]
A 2015 stamp is a heart formed by the letters of this word, also used by the USPS to mean the lasting value of a stamp
forever
Amanda
|
$200
[1]
Rhyming style of cooking in the Southwestern United States
Tex-Mex
Brandon
|
$200
[26]
Mainly 2 small islands, Sao Tome & Principe is one of this continent's smallest nations
Africa
Ankoor
Brandon
|
|
$400
[7]
Tom Painetalks straight
Common Sense
Amanda
|
$400
[12]
I'm Dan Rather.I'm Meredith Viera.I'm Steve Kroft.We've all reported over the years on this show
60 Minutes
Ankoor
|
$400
[22]
Equal to about 2 gallons, it's the quantity of pickled peppers picked by Peter Piper
a peck
Brandon
|
$400
[17]
That's amythical goddess of the hunton thestampthat raises funds to research a cure for this disease
breast cancer
Ankoor
|
$400
[2]
The IRS has a website where you can verify that a certain church or charity has this status
tax-exempt
Ankoor
|
$400
[27]
The official language is this tongue of the islands' former colonial masters
Portuguese
Brandon
|
|
$600
[8]
Intriguein London & Paris
A Tale of Two Cities
Brandon
|
$600
[13]
Last name of the sitcom character who led "Heroes" & a reality TV dad who "knows best"--OK, knew best
Hogan
Brandon
|
$600
[23]
In his teens, this Pittsburgh "pickle king" was running a business to supply grocers with fresh produce
(Henry) Heinz
Ankoor
Amanda
|
$600
[18]
A holiday stamp depicts this colorful Christmas plant considered a symbol of purity by the Aztecs
a poinsettia
Ankoor
|
$600
[3]
A pharmacist invented this chocolaty product as a more palatable alternative to castor oil
Ex-Lax
Brandon
|
$600
[28]
This sweet stuff, the country's longtime main crop & export, is grown on plantations called rocas
cocoa
Brandon
|
|
$800
[9]
Twomigrant worker buddies
Of Mice and Men
Amanda
|
$800
[14]
In the theme to this '90s sitcom, "I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 & I yelled to the cabbie, "Yo, Homes, smell ya later!"
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Ankoor
|
$800
[24]
Tommy Pickles is one of these Nickelodeon title tots
the Rugrats
Amanda
|
$800
[19]
Asher Durand's "Summer Afternoon" is on a stamp celebrating the school of artists named for this New York river
the Hudson River
|
$800
[4]
Defeats like Platea in 479 B.C. ended the hopes of this Persian king to conquer Greece
Xerxes
Brandon
|
$1,000
[30]
One listing gives Sao Tome & Principe the dubious distinction of receiving the greatest amount of this, 75%, as a percentage of GDP
foreign aid
Ankoor
|
|
$1,000
[10]
(Cough, cough!) It's the lady of these flowers
La dame aux camlias ( The Lady of the Camellias )
|
$1,000
[15]
A modern update of this ABC show about the Westons & Steadmans could be called "sixty something"
thirtysomething
Brandon
|
$1,000
[25]
Veal piccata is often garnished with these pickled flower buds
capers
|
$1,000
[20]
A vintage circus poster stamp features a roaring tiger & this slogan of the Barnum & Bailey Circus
"The Greatest Show on Earth"
Brandon
|
$1,000
[5]
Specifically, it's a woman named in a decedent's will to carry out the will's provisions
an executrix
Ankoor
|
DD
$1,400
[29]
Sao Tome & Principe is an important nesting site for the hawksbill variety of this marine creature
a turtle
Brandon
|
| THE WAR OF 1912 | DESERT PLANTS | THE APOLLO MISSIONS | THE KIDS ARE SINGING IT | "STA" WITH ME | YOU'RE ALL I NEED |
|
$400
[7]
In the first of the wars named for this peninsula, Montenegro & its allies declared war on Turkey in 1912
the Balkan
Brandon
|
$400
[26]
Also known as Russian thistle, it can dispense up to 250,000 seeds as it rolls down desert roads
a tumbleweed
Brandon
|
$400
[8]
Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt collected moon rocks as the first scientist on the Moon; his Ph.D. is in this science
geology
Brandon
|
$400
[1]
Taylor Swift reminded us that "Haters gonna hate", but she's just gonna do this, the title of the song
"Shake It Off"
Brandon
|
$400
[2]
I just won this type of showdown because you blinked
a staring contest
Ankoor
|
$400
[13]
I'm making a Black Russian & I've got the Kahlua; all I need is this spirit; ah, the heck with the Kahlua!
vodka
Brandon
|
|
$800
[15]
The Greeks captured Salonika under this future king who shared his name with the namesake of ancient Istanbul
Constantine
Brandon
|
$800
[27]
The Nez Perce would use the ponderosa type of this tree to make their dugout canoes
a pine
Amanda
|
$800
[9]
The rocket with this "planetary" name used 560,000 gallons of propellants in the first 3 minutes of flight
Saturn
Brandon
|
$800
[17]
This hit by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars says, "Girls hit your hallelujah (whoo)"
"Uptown Funk"
Ankoor
|
$800
[3]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows videos on the monitor.) If the video your friend took is hard to watch because the camera moves around, it can be improved by using an editing effect known as motion this
stabilization
Brandon
|
$800
[14]
If you don't have a Get Out of Jail Free card in Monopoly, you can escape by paying a fine or rolling this on the next 3 turns
doubles
Ankoor
|
|
$1,600
[18]
At war's end in 1913, this country on the Adriatic achieved independence from Turkey after 4 centuries
Albania
Ankoor
|
$1,200
[28]
Also a city in Dallas County, the bush used in barbecues may extend roots 70 feet below the desert surface
mesquite
Amanda
|
$1,200
[10]
Apollo 11 landed in this sea on July 20, 1969
the Sea of Tranquility
Brandon
|
$1,200
[21]
Stevie Wonder sang of "Basie, Miller, Satchmo and the king of all", this title bandleader (these kids are the older kind)
"Sir Duke" (Duke Ellington)
|
$1,200
[4]
Before "off", it means to push away
to stave
Brandon
|
$1,200
[20]
"Annie Hall" ends with a joke--a man doesn't turn in his crazy brother who thinks himself a chicken, because "I need" these
the eggs
Amanda
|
|
DD
$1,800
[16]
An armistice ended when Turkey's government was overthrown by this "youthful" nationalist group
the Young Turks
Brandon
|
— |
$1,600
[11]
During Apollo 14's time on the lunar surface, this commander hit a golf ball over 200 yards
Alan Shepard
Brandon
|
$1,600
[22]
A Maroon 5 song says "All the roads you took came back to me, so I'm following" this "that leads to you"
a map
Amanda
|
DD
$1,200
[5]
Rarely used word for one who sells writing paper
a stationer
Brandon
|
$1,600
[24]
In what Oxford Reference calls a detection method "trinity" you need means, motive & this
opportunity
Brandon
|
|
$2,000
[19]
Serbia won the Battle of Kumanovo in this region, now a republic also called FYROM
Macedonia
|
— |
$2,000
[12]
Apollo 12's crew collected parts from a lunar probe with this "cartographic" name that had been there for 2 years
Surveyor
|
$2,000
[23]
This title command by Hozier precedes the line "I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies"
"Take Me To Church"
Brandon
|
$2,000
[6]
Lincoln said Henry Clay had "a power and influence, which belonged to no other" this of his age
a statesman
Ankoor
|
$2,000
[25]
With the maximum number of House members present, all John Boehner needs is at least this many votes to pass a bill
218
Ankoor
Brandon
|
One summer day in 1797 this British poet fell asleep reading a book that adapted the writings of Marco Polo
Samuel Taylor Coleridge