Dana Desprois — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
Josh Silverman — a graduate student from Miami, Florida
Michael Baker — a travel media editor from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,201)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | $1,600 | $4,200 | $10,600 |
$5,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$7,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Josh! | $3,800 | $5,000 | $15,200 |
$21,201
New champion: $21,201 |
$13,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Dana | $1,000 | $3,400 | $3,800 |
$800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$2,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS | BIOGRAPHIES | STARTS WITH "D" | REORDERING THE NOTED PAIR | THE WORLD FACTBOOK SAYS... | OLYMPIC DEMONSTRATION SPORTS |
|
$200
[9]
Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film
the Mummy
Dana
|
$200
[16]
George Weigel's biography of this onetime archbishop of Krakow is titled "Witness to Hope"
Pope John Paul II
Josh!
|
$200
[20]
German name for a badger dog
Dachshund
Dana
|
$200
[24]
Smucker's blackberry & Jif's extra crunchy, in that order
jelly & peanut butter
Dana
|
$200
[1]
"Democracy returned" to this country "after a failed bid to seize the Falkland Islands"
Argentina
Michael
|
$600
[17]
Mike Tyson would've been down for racing these birds, which was on the demonstration docket in 1900
pigeons
Michael
|
|
$400
[10]
Why not dress up as this Barrie character, the boy who would not grow up
Peter Pan
Michael
|
$400
[18]
"A Covert Affair" serves up a spicy account of this TV chef & her work as a government agent during WWII
Julia Child
Josh!
|
$400
[19]
Refresh yourself with the banana type of this rum drink
daiquiri
Dana
|
$400
[25]
We rewrite Shakespeare! It's now lady first, please, in this nifty new title of a 1597 tragedy
Juliet and Romeo
Michael
|
$400
[2]
It "is the third largest of the world's five oceans"
the Indian Ocean
Josh!
|
$800
[15]
This sport, aka boardsailing, was a demonstration sport in 1984
windsurfing
Josh!
Dana
|
|
$600
[11]
Roll up the sleeves of a blue denim workshirt, put a red bandana in your hair & you can be this feminist WWII icon
Rosie the Riveter
Josh!
|
$800
[22]
"Wanted!" The real story of these 2 outlaw brothers in a 1981 biography of them
the James Brothers (Frank & Jesse)
Michael
|
$600
[8]
Stand & say this verb that can mean to set free or to hand over
deliver
Michael
|
$600
[26]
In 1779 a certain college became the first in the U.S. to offer pro training in law; in 2015, we led with the queen & renamed it this
Mary & William
Josh!
|
$600
[3]
It "was attacked and overrun by Iraq on 2 August 1990"
Kuwait
Michael
|
$1,000
[14]
Rusty Kanokogi threw herself into making this martial art a demonstration sport in Seoul
judo
Michael
|
|
$800
[12]
A costume for 2: this double-crossing pair from Mad magazine, one in black & one in white, created by Antonio Prohias
Spy vs. Spy
Josh!
|
$1,000
[23]
Arianna Huffington's biography of this painter was the basis for a 1996 film starring Anthony Hopkins
Pablo Picasso
Dana
|
$800
[7]
Nautical word for a hunky guy
dreamboat
Michael
|
$800
[27]
Time to give the climbing aspect top billing in this classic kids' game from Hasbro; the sliding part slides to the back end
Ladders & Chutes
Michael
|
$800
[4]
The colors on its flag "were those of William I, Prince of Orange"
the Netherlands
Josh!
|
— |
|
$1,000
[13]
If the guys are gangsters, wear fringed dresses & be these '20s gals found in a Fitzgerald title
flappers
|
DD
$1,600
[21]
"Neither Shaken Nor Stirred" is the subtitle of Andrew Yule's biography of this actor
Sean Connery
Dana
|
$1,000
[6]
A clergy job ranking just below priest
deacon
Josh!
|
$1,000
[28]
We turn the fashion world upside down as D&G becomes G&D, this new brand; sorry, Domenico, Stefano is now No. 1
Gabbana & Dolce
Dana
|
$1,000
[5]
This West Indies British dependency has "transformed itself into a significant offshore financial center"
the Cayman Islands
Josh!
|
— |
| 1965 | DANCE IDIOMS | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE | SCIENCE & NATURE | "ON" TV | OLYMPIC DEMON-STRATION SPORTS |
|
$400
[1]
This "Roof of the World" became an autonomous region of China in 1965 & the Chinese took over many of the local govt. jobs
Tibet
Josh!
|
$400
[20]
To cleave a floor covering
cut a rug
Josh!
|
$400
[24]
Lucan dropped Jupiter & Juno in the "Pharsalia", the rare ancient epic without these beings
gods
Michael
|
$400
[18]
I'm gonna say hi to this animal. Its Angora type comes from Turkey & gives mohair. Say hi to your mother for me
a goat
Josh!
Dana
|
$400
[6]
Title place where Michael Landon & Melissa Gilbert lived
the Little House on the Prairie
Michael
|
$400
[10]
In the games Abaddon is adept at throwing these, just like the one being held by the man in "American Gothic"
a pitchfork
Josh!
|
|
$1,600
[26]
This U.N. ambassador & former Democratic presidential nominee died in July & Arthur Goldberg succeeded him
Adlai Stevenson
Dana
|
$800
[22]
To steal an item, perhaps in Vienna, likely in triple meter
waltz away with
Michael
|
$800
[21]
"De Oratore" by this greatest Roman orator gives his views on using language effectively
Cicero
Michael
|
$800
[5]
A Mormon cricket is a long-horned type of this insect; if we could jump like them, we could leap about 120 feet in the air
a grasshopper
Michael
|
$800
[7]
From 2005 to 2010, "Kathy Griffin" was followed by this subtitle
My Life on the D-List
Michael
Dana
|
$800
[11]
Sadly, Zabulon got disqualified from his wrestling match after going outside the border of this symbol
a pentacle (or pentagram)
Dana
|
|
DD
$4,000
[27]
On March 23 this space project launched its first mission with Gus Grissom & John Young as commander & pilot
Gemini
Michael
|
$1,200
[23]
Vibrate that plunder, pirate
shake your booty
Josh!
|
$1,200
[17]
Better known name of Titus Livius, author of a history of Rome from its founding to 9 B.C.
Livy
Michael
|
$1,600
[3]
The scientific name for the common this plant is Ficus elastica
the rubber plant
|
$1,200
[8]
In the title of a long-running Richard Belzer series, it follows "Homicide"
Life on the Street
Michael
|
$1,200
[12]
Pazuzu "owns" "competitive demonic" this sport; his record is hopping into 42 bodies in 10 minutes
possession
Josh!
|
| — |
$1,600
[25]
With multiple alliteration, it means that both entities have to be willing
it takes two to tango
|
$1,600
[16]
Dating from the 2nd century, this Roman emperor's "Meditations" is a classic of stoic philosophy
Marcus Aurelius
|
$2,000
[2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) It's summer now, but during their winter sleep, bears don't eat, drink, or urinate; how their kidneys remove toxins from the blood is unknown, but if it could be replicated in humans, it would eliminate the need for this process for patients with kidney failure
dialysis
Josh!
|
$1,600
[9]
This AMC Western is about railroads & revenge
Hell on Wheels
|
$1,600
[13]
"The truth is discovered": Lilith had this Squeeze hit as podium music after getting the most innocents to eat forbidden fruit
"Tempted"
|
| — | — |
$2,000
[15]
Julius Caesar described his victories in the 50s B.C. in what's now France in his "Commentaries on" these "Wars"
the Gallic Wars
Josh!
|
DD
$3,000
[4]
A national park near Twentynine Palms is named for this treeseen here
a Joshua tree
Josh!
|
$2,000
[19]
We can't look away from this PBS series subtitled "America's Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1985"
Eyes on the Prize
|
$2,000
[14]
Mastering Akkadian, Coptic & Gullah, Legion really came together in this competition, aka glossolalia
the ability to speak in tongues
|
With an area of 4,000 square miles, it's the only primarily Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East that has no desert
Lebanon