Bianca Benincasa — a software engineer from Silver Spring, Maryland
Darin Brown — a trademark attorney from Louisville, Colorado
Rob Russell — a tutoring and testing director from Johnson City, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rob | $-400 | $2,600 | $11,400 |
$22,800
2-day champion: $43,600 |
$11,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Darin | $2,400 | $5,000 | $7,800 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,800
16 R, 2 W |
| Bianca | $2,800 | $3,800 | $16,000 |
$9,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$17,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| FEMALE NOVELISTS | IN WHICH STATE? | TYPES OF COMEDY | "ET"YMOLOGY | DEVICES | RICK ROLLED |
|
$200
[1]
She wrote 6 romance novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott but is better known for her many mysteries
Agatha Christie
Bianca
|
$200
[11]
The 29-acre pentagon
Virginia
Darin
|
$200
[16]
(Hi. I'm Neil Flynn of The Middle.) I go off script as a member of Beer Shark Mice, a group of comedians who get together to perform this type of extemporaneous live theater
improv
Bianca
|
$200
[2]
Mind your manners & tell us this word from French for "prescribed behavior"
etiquette
Rob
|
$200
[10]
An instrument for drawing circles & a navigational device are both called this
a compass
Darin
|
$200
[27]
In 1967 the National Wildlife Federation started publishing this children's nature magazine
Ranger Rick
Bianca
|
|
$400
[3]
In a 2015 bestseller, she retold "Fifty Shades of Grey" from Christian's viewpoint
E.L. James
|
$400
[12]
The Mayo Clinic Gonda Vascular Center
Minnesota
Rob
|
$400
[17]
"Bringing Up Baby" is a prime example of this type of comedy that shares its name with a baseball pitch
screwball
Darin
|
$400
[6]
There's no beginning or end of this adjective from Latin for "age"
eternal
Bianca
|
$400
[20]
(Hi. I'm ABC meteorologist Ginger Zee.) Forecasters use this device invented in 1643 to detect changes in air pressure & predict weather; climbers can also use it to determine altitude because air pressure decreases as altitude increases
a barometer
Rob
Darin
|
$400
[28]
Rick Rubin, founder of Def Jam, produced this artist's album "Future Sex/Love Sounds"
Justin Timberlake
Darin
|
|
$600
[4]
Tracy Chevalier's historical novels include this one, whose front cover shows the artwork seen here
The Girl with a Pearl Earring
Darin
|
$600
[13]
Claremont McKenna College
California
Darin
|
$600
[18]
Thistype of comedic drawing is ludicrously exaggerated
a caricature
Darin
|
$600
[7]
This type of engraving using a corrosive on a surface is from old German for "to be eaten"
etching
Bianca
|
$600
[19]
These 2 communications devices were in the original name of AT&T
telephone & telegraph
Bianca
|
$600
[25]
"Blue Collar Conservatives" is a book by this Pennsylvanian 2012 & 2016 presidential candidate
(Rick) Santorum
Darin
|
|
$800
[5]
This bestselling Jacqueline Susann novel from 1966 was based in part on her struggles as a Broadway starlet
Valley of the Dolls
Bianca
|
$800
[14]
Grand Teton National Park
Wyoming
Darin
|
$800
[23]
7-letter style of comedy mastered by the straight-faced Buster Keaton & the monotone Steven Wright
deadpan
Rob
|
$800
[8]
Darn you if you can't come up with the Latin-derived name of this ancient people of Italy
the Etruscans
Bianca
|
$800
[29]
Computer input & output devices, like mice & printers, are also known as computer these, referring to their outside placement
peripherals
Bianca
|
$800
[26]
Between 1979 & 1991 Rick Mears won this race 4 times
the Indianapolis 500
Rob
|
|
$1,000
[21]
This "Silas Marner" novelist also penned the politically charged novel "Felix Holt, the Radical"
George Eliot
Rob
|
$1,000
[15]
The geographic center of North America, in Pierce County, just south of Rugby
North Dakota
Rob
Bianca
|
$1,000
[24]
Named for a structure used in executions, this type of humor treats serious subjects in a light way
gallows humor
Darin
|
$1,000
[9]
If you studied Chopin, you'll probably come up with this word, French for "study"
étude
Bianca
|
DD
$800
[30]
This tech product got its name because its buttons were said to resemble little bumps on a certain fruit
a BlackBerry
Bianca
|
$1,000
[22]
He delivered the invocation at Barack Obama's first inauguration
Rick Warren
|
| THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION | COMPOUND WORDS | BEAUTY | "IT" IS A SONG | ABOUT THAT FAR | AS THE CROW FLIES |
|
$400
[1]
Although this Pennsylvanian submitted a draft, the one accepted was prepared by John Dickinson in 1777
(Ben) Franklin
Darin
|
$400
[13]
A varial 720 is a trick on this wheeled device
a skateboard
Darin
|
$400
[19]
Bertrand Russell said this field of numbers & symbols has "supreme beauty"
mathematics
Rob
Bianca
|
$400
[9]
Paul McCartney was going through his own "hour of darkness" when he penned this song
"Let It Be"
Rob
|
$400
[6]
From Times Square to this, MSG:13 blocks
Madison Square Garden
Darin
|
$400
[24]
Crows belong to the genus Corvus, as does this larger, thicker-billed bird, C. corax
a raven
Darin
|
|
$800
[2]
Some books of "Amazing History Trivia!!!" call John Hanson the first of these due to his executive position under the articles
the president of the United States
Rob
|
$800
[12]
A loop of leather that helps you pull on your Tony Lamas
a bootstrap
Bianca
|
$800
[20]
The 100th anniversary ofherbirth in Sweden was celebrated by movie lovers in 2015
Ingrid Bergman
Rob
|
$800
[10]
Title in common to Nicki Minaj & Devo
"Whip It"
Rob
|
$800
[7]
From the front of the pitcher's rubber to the back of home plate in MLB:Exactly this far
60 feet, 6 inches
Darin
|
$800
[25]
Once common on the slopes of volcanoes, the 'alala, the crow of this state, is now extinct in the wild
Hawaii
Darin
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The TL in the group USTL that promotes citizen legislators, they were in the Articles but not in the Constitution
term limits
|
$1,200
[14]
Bing Crosby sang, "Would you like to swing on a star, carry" these "home in a jar"
moonbeams
Bianca
|
$1,200
[21]
Ancient Greeks were smitten by 1:1.6. the ratio called this "precious" mean
the golden mean
Bianca
|
$1,200
[11]
Real gang members were featured in the video for this Michael Jackson hit
"Beat It"
Darin
|
DD
$1,000
[29]
From Sacramento to this closest other state capital:About 100 miles
Carson City (Nevada)
Bianca
|
$1,200
[28]
This pathogen named for an African river reached the U.S. in 1999 & decimated crow populations
the West Nile virus
|
|
DD
$2,000
[4]
Article VI stated, "Every state shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined" one of these, "sufficiently armed"
a militia
Rob
|
$1,600
[15]
In 2010 the History Channel's Rick Harrison received the top award from the Natl. Association of these
Pawnbrokers
|
$1,600
[22]
Edmund Burke's 1757 work "On the Sublime and Beautiful" is a landmark in this, the philosophy of beauty
aesthetics
Rob
|
$1,600
[16]
It was the lead single off Taylor Swift's album "1989"
"Shake It Off"
Bianca
|
$1,200
[8]
From the ground to the apex of this St. Louis swoosh:630 feet
the (Gateway) Arch
Bianca
|
$1,600
[27]
A word for dead animal flesh is in the alliterative name of this crow
carrion
Bianca
|
|
$2,000
[5]
Signers of the articles from this state included Elbridge Gerry
Massachusetts
|
$2,000
[18]
Nonsense, or a pippin stewed to a pulp, sweetened & spiced
applesauce
|
$2,000
[23]
Thisdouble curve, known by a 4-letter name, has been called "the line of beauty"
an ogee
Bianca
|
$2,000
[17]
Snoop Dogg recorded a new version of this song in 2012 to promote Hot Pockets
"Drop It Like It's Hot"
Bianca
|
— |
$2,000
[26]
In winter, crows gather in groups of thousands; a little creepy if you remember this deadly term for a flock
a murder
Rob
|
In 1990 he said, "I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own"
John Grisham