Tina Uihlein — a table game dealer originally from Ballwin, Missouri
Eric Matheis — a lecturer from New York, New York
Natalie Lips — an office assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natalie | $2,600 | $5,100 | $22,700 |
$23,200
2-day champion: $36,400 |
$22,600
22 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Eric | $-800 | $2,800 | $10,400 |
$13,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,400
13 R, 1 W |
| Tina | $3,200 | $3,400 | $6,600 |
$8,600
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,600
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE OED SAYS... | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS | THE ____ OF ____ | RATERS GONNA RATE | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | TALK LIKE A PIRATE |
|
$200
[1]
It's "that which points the way", especially "a piece of evidence useful in the detection of a crime"
clue
|
$200
[5]
In "Everything to Gain", he & his wife touched upon their later lives & Habitat for Humanity
Jimmy Carter
Natalie
|
$200
[16]
This Washington, D.C. landmark's Thomas Jefferson building houses its main reading room
the Library of Congress
Tina
|
$200
[26]
It's the top grade in the system of rating securities used by Moody's
AAA
Eric
|
$200
[21]
Nearly all of Botswana's 225,000 square miles is made up of this desert
the Kalahari
Eric
|
$200
[9]
"And you can buy an eye what actually fits & is made of glass" is spoken in this movie franchise
Pirates of the Caribbean
Tina
|
|
$400
[2]
It's "a title of respect given" especially "to a Jewish scholar or teacher"
rabbi
Tina
|
$400
[6]
While serving as president, he wrote "Between Hope and History"
Bill Clinton
|
$400
[17]
This 389,000-square-mile body of water laps at the western shores of Honshu
the Sea of Japan
Natalie
|
$400
[27]
Agreen splat icondenotes a bad review on this movie & TV rating site
Rotten Tomatoes
Natalie
|
$400
[22]
Dating back to the 700s B.C., the ruins of this ancient city can be found outside Tunis
Carthage
Eric
|
$400
[10]
In this film Cary Elwes as the Dread Pirate Roberts calls Chris Sarandon a "warthog-faced buffoon"
The Princess Bride
Tina
|
|
$600
[3]
It's "to walk or march vigorously", or "an increase (in prices, wages, etc.)"
hike
Natalie
|
$600
[7]
Frederic Remington illustrated this future president's 1888 book "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail"
Teddy Roosevelt
Tina
|
$600
[18]
It's the subtitle of the first "Anchorman" movie
the Legend of Ron Burgundy
Natalie
|
— |
DD
$500
[24]
Isn't it romantic? After flowing over Murchison Falls, waters from this lake eventually reach Lake Albert
Lake Victoria
Natalie
|
$600
[11]
"It is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king", says a song from this Gilbert & Sullivan show
Pirates of Penzance
Tina
|
|
$800
[4]
It's "the name given by Guido D'Arezzo to the sixth note in his hexachords"
La
Eric
|
$800
[14]
In 1884 Mark Twain offered him a $50,000 advance for his "Personal Memoirs", which he finished just prior to his death
Ulysses Grant
|
$800
[19]
Joseph Smith said this text, written on gold plates, was delivered to him
the Book of Mormon
Eric
|
— |
$600
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a world map on a monitor.) The continent of Africa, as well as its surrounding oceanic crusts, are part of the African oneof these rigid pieces that make up the Earth's surface
continental plate
Natalie
|
$800
[12]
This Steven Spielberg title pirate is described by Smee as being "so deep he's almost unfathomable"
Captain Hook
Natalie
|
|
$1,000
[8]
This 3-letter guy "is foolishly attentive to and vain of his appearance, dress, or manners; a dandy"
fop
Tina
|
$1,000
[15]
The beginning of the Interstate Highway System was one of the stories told in his "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends"
Dwight Eisenhower
Natalie
|
$1,000
[20]
(Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) Even before you go through thefront doorat the Norton Simon Museum, you walk past a number ofmasterpiecesby August Rodin, including this one, which depicts 6townsmenwho were willing to sacrifice their lives to help end the siege of their city by the English army
The Burghers of Calais
Eric
|
— |
$1,000
[25]
The Blue Nile & the White Nile meet just north of this capital city
Khartoum
Eric
|
$1,000
[13]
"It's the world against us & us against the world", says Errol Flynn as this sanguine title pirate
Captain Blood
|
| SMART PEOPLE | POP | ALL IN A "ROW" | LAND IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM | DYSTOPIAN LIT | THE DETERGENT SERIES |
|
$400
[1]
Christoph Scheiner said sunspots were satellites; this Italian armed with a telescope said, uh, no
Galileo
Natalie
|
$400
[12]
This singer & judge on TV's "The Voice" was People Magazine's 2013 "Sexiest Man Alive"
Adam Levine
Tina
|
$400
[7]
In a famous song it's "always a day away"
tomorrow
Eric
|
$400
[20]
Olympus Mons
Mars
Natalie
|
$400
[2]
This novel is Aldous Huxley's 1932 take on genetic engineering
Brave New World
Eric
|
$400
[23]
Resurgent:Adman James Jordan revived sluggish Wisk sales with the slogan "Ring around" this
the collar
Tina
|
|
$800
[8]
In 1603 Francis Bacon wrote a treatise supporting the union of these 2 kingdoms, an idea King James liked
England & Scotland
Eric
|
$800
[13]
Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, she won the 4th season of "American Idol" in 2005
Carrie Underwood
Tina
|
$800
[17]
Until 1966 it was known as London Airport
Heathrow
Natalie
|
$800
[21]
Gagarin Crater
the Moon
Tina
|
$800
[3]
This 2008 novel is set in Panem, "the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America"
Hunger Games
Tina
|
$800
[24]
Belligerent:Era is advertised as having 3x this-fighting power
stain fighting
Eric
|
|
$1,200
[9]
A 2004 book collected these by Antonin Scalia, opinions where he was in the minority
dissenting opinions (or dissents)
Natalie
Tina
|
$1,200
[14]
Before the gaudy excesses of albums like "The Fame" & "Artpop", she was an extra on "The Sopranos"
Lady Gaga
Natalie
|
$1,200
[18]
Go jimmy something open with this implement
a crowbar
Natalie
|
DD
$2,000
[29]
Huge cliffs called lobate scarps, discovered by MESSENGER
Mercury
Natalie
|
$1,200
[4]
A state-sponsored program conditions Alex to abhor violence in this satire of British life
A Clockwork Orange
Natalie
|
$1,200
[25]
Omnipresent:"Everything" is a synonym for the name of this Sun Products brand
All
Tina
|
|
$1,600
[10]
Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter & moved on to this "geometric" mobile payment company
Square
Tina
|
$1,600
[15]
This band Wentzed to No. 1 with the album "American Beauty/American Psycho" in 2015
Fall Out Boy
Natalie
|
$1,600
[19]
For many people the best part of osso buco is this rich, fatty tissue inside the bone
marrow
Eric
|
$2,000
[28]
Maxwell Montes, discovered by cloud-penetrating radar
Venus
Natalie
|
$1,600
[5]
This novel by Margaret Atwood is narrated by Offred, one of the unfortunate women of Gilead
The Handmaid's Tale ( A Handmaid's Tale accepted)
Eric
|
$1,600
[26]
Emergent:Now there's "H.E. Turbo" Tide, H.E. short for this type of washer
high-efficiency
Natalie
|
|
DD
$2,000
[11]
The "test" of A.I. named for him is whether a computer can make a person think it's a person
Alan Turing
Tina
|
$2,000
[16]
In 2010 Shakira had a world smash hit with this double-talk song that sounds like something Fozzie Bear says
Waka Waka
Tina
|
$2,000
[22]
As an adjective, it describes a cow that isn't pregnant; as a noun, it's a litter of pigs
farrow
Eric
|
— |
$2,000
[6]
Jonas is chosen as the receiver of memory in this Lois Lowry book, often cited as the original Y.A. dystopian novel
The Giver
Natalie
|
$2,000
[27]
Beneficent:This detergent designed to make babies' clothes soft & fresh was introduced in 1933
Dreft
Natalie
|
It's the only letter of the Greek alphabet whose English spelling could also be identified as a number in Roman numerals
Xi