Saadia Mather — a freelance education writer from Playa del Rey, California
Ricky Hudson — a physical therapist from New York, New York
Julie Adair — a virtual assistant from Panama City, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julie | $1,200 | $3,600 | $4,600 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,600
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Ricky | $3,600 | $4,200 | $13,800 |
$17,199
New champion: $17,199 |
$13,800
16 R, 0 W |
| Saadia | $800 | $2,000 | $5,200 |
$9,201
2nd place: $2,000 |
$5,200
10 R, 3 W |
| "TOO" WORDS | ANIMAL SUPERLATIVES | SO YOU WANT TO BE A TALK SHOW HOST | NOTABLE NAMES | QUOTES OF 2015 | ASK THE NEAREST HIPPIE |
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$200
[4]
To bend down on the small porch of the same name
stoop
Julie
|
$200
[10]
Not surprisingly this largest animal on Earth also gives birth to the largest baby, up to 26 feet long
a blue whale
Ricky
Saadia
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$200
[16]
Whether they laugh or not, throw "You're a great audience" into this, from the Greek for "alone" & "speech"
a monologue
Ricky
|
$200
[21]
This former haberdasher was Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1945 & 1948
Harry Truman
|
$200
[23]
South Carolina's governor said, "150 years after the end of the Civil War, the time has come" to take this down
the Confederate flag
Julie
|
$200
[1]
Have you & your teenagers Mao & Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents & kids?
the generation gap
Julie
|
|
$400
[7]
Originally this 2-word bird term meant a decoy; it came to mean an informer, ya lousy mug
stool pigeon
Ricky
|
$400
[11]
The wandering albatross holds the record for this, up to 11 1/2 feet
wingspan
Saadia
|
$400
[17]
With the help of today's headlines, make your jokes this word, like ointment
topical
Ricky
|
$400
[22]
In 73 B.C. this former gladiator led a slave revolt that threatened Rome
Spartacus
|
$400
[24]
Pharrell said "There was no infringement" of this late singer: "You can't own feelings... can't own emotions"
Marvin Gaye
Saadia
|
$400
[2]
I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?
the VW Bus
|
|
$600
[8]
A noisy type of pet parrot of the Australasian region
cockatoo
Saadia
|
$600
[12]
With a face only its humans could love, the competitor seenherewon the 2015 title of the World's this
Ugliest Dog
Ricky
|
$600
[18]
Get a good niche, not so goofy, not so serious, say a combination of Jimmy Fallon & this PBS/"CBS This Morning" man
Charlie Rose
Julie
|
— |
$600
[25]
3 words completing George W. Bush's commencement speech line "C students, you too..."
can be president
Julie
|
$600
[3]
Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s?
Cheech & Chong
Ricky
|
|
$800
[9]
A cuspidor
spittoon
|
$800
[13]
This wild ox of Asia is the highest-living large mammal in the world; talk among yourselves
a yak
Ricky
|
$800
[19]
Have handy notes that say things like "angry cat" & "airport mixup", each to elicit this 8-letter personal story
anecdote
Saadia
|
— |
$800
[26]
"An affront to the Mexican state", said Mexico's president of a prison escape by Joaquin Guzman, aka this
El Chapo
|
$800
[5]
Moving to Oregon? Does that have anything to do with the passage of measure 91 on the legalization of this?
marijuana
Julie
|
|
$1,000
[15]
It's a boat used as a support for a temporary bridge over a river
pontoon
Ricky
|
$1,000
[14]
Less than 2 inches in length, the bumblebee species of this is the world's smallest mammal
a bat
|
$1,000
[20]
Get loyal sidekicks like this man, Johnny Carson's main bandleader for 25 years
Doc Severinsen
Julie
|
— |
$1,000
[27]
California's natural resources secretary said, "Everybody is a soldier in" this fight
the fight against the big drought
|
$1,000
[6]
Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965?
flower power
|
| 2 WORDS | REMEMBER NOVEMBER | U.S. MOUNTAINS | WE'RE MAGIC! | A NOVEL CATEGORY | WITHIN THE FICTIONAL PLANET |
|
$400
[1]
2-word equivalent of the German word danke
thank you
Ricky
|
$400
[10]
November 1807 saw this empire's royal family hightail it to Rio de Janeiro
Portugal
Julie
|
$400
[26]
Little Tahoma Peak, a satellite of this highest Washington mountain, is itself the state's third-highest peak
Mount Rainier
Julie
|
$400
[6]
In his fourth TV special, this illusionist "vanished a jet airplane"
David Copperfield
Julie
|
$400
[14]
This James Joyce novel could be called "A Day in the Life of Leopold & Molly Bloom & Stephen Dedalus"
Ulysses
Saadia
|
$400
[19]
A container in the name of Spock's home world
can (in Vul can )
Julie
|
|
$800
[2]
Per the OED this 2-word term for websites & apps that allow users to network dates back only to 2004
social media
Ricky
|
$800
[11]
The 1st commercial radio broadcast aired on Nov. 2, 1920, when Pittsburgh's KDKA announced the results of this
the presidential election
Ricky
|
$800
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a view of Mount Misery at Valley Forge Nat'l Historic Park.) Mount Misery & Mount Joy, which make Valley Forge's valley, are said to have gotten their name from a miserable night this Quaker & state founder spent lost surveying the area, & the joyful next day where he could see his way
William Penn
Ricky
|
$800
[7]
You can buy a Mindfreak Platinum magic kit from his website
Criss Angel
Julie
|
$800
[15]
Before he's lobotomized, Randle P. McMurphy attacks Nurse Ratched in this novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Saadia
|
$800
[20]
A conjunction in the name of the planet Mork is from
or (in Or k)
Julie
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The 2012 celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 60 years as queen
diamond jubilee
Saadia
|
$1,200
[12]
This duo won the Best New Artist Grammy in February 1990, then had the award taken away in November
Milli Vanilli
Saadia
|
$1,200
[28]
The top of Nevada's Tikaboo Peak provides a vantage point for viewing this military "Area"
Area 51
Ricky
Saadia
|
$1,200
[8]
(Hi, I'm Penn Jillette.) One of my greatest influences is this "Amazing" magician & author of "Flim-Flam!" who's devoted himself to exposing fakery & the so-called paranormal
James Randi
Julie
|
$1,200
[16]
The main character of this Yann Martel novel is named for a swimming pool
Life of Pi
Saadia
|
$1,200
[21]
A French number or article in the planet also called Arrakis
un (or une) (in D une )
|
|
$1,600
[4]
It sounds like a quick jog without breaking a sweat, but it means a practice exercise
dry run
Ricky
|
$1,600
[13]
In November 1939 congress passed a new act named for this stance; now, though not at war, we could sell weapons
the Neutrality Act
|
— |
$1,600
[9]
This mustached Canadian was credited with reviving the public's interest in magic in the 1970s & '80s
Doug Henning
|
$1,600
[17]
This Pulitzer winner from Jeffrey Eugenides is narrated by Cal, who until adolescence was raised as Calliope
Middlesex
Saadia
|
$2,000
[23]
A flightless bird in the Coneheads' planet
emu (in R emu lak)
|
|
$2,000
[5]
The dexterous capuchin monkey is traditionally used to collect money for this type of street musician
organ grinder
Ricky
|
$2,000
[24]
This Virginia slave revolt leader was tried & convicted on Nov. 5, 1831 & executed on Nov. 11
Nat Turner
Ricky
Saadia
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
Until 2010, you could seehimdo his magic at the theater named for him at the Monte Carlo
Lance Burton
Julie
|
$2,000
[18]
Set in her beloved Baltimore, "A Spool of Blue Thread" is this author's 20th novel
Anne Tyler
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
Insolence in the "Doctor Who" planet
gall (in Gall ifrey)
Julie
|
To the ancient Greeks, this day of the week was Hemera Aphrodites
Friday