Bill Patschak — a trivia writer from Frederick, Maryland
Katrina Mundinger — a musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Annie Moriondo — a bookseller from Somerville, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annie | $3,000 | $3,800 | $10,200 |
$200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Katrina | $400 | $1,800 | $11,400 |
$7,400
New champion: $7,400 |
$11,400
13 R, 3 W |
| Bill | $4,400 | $6,000 | $5,200 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$15,200
25 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs) |
| WORD PUZZLES | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER | AMERICAN LITERATURE | LIKE A BOSS | THE MARCH OF TIME | AKA |
|
$200
[9]
I'll have mine with vanilla ice cream
a banana split
Bill
|
$200
[15]
We'll never enjoy fava beans & a nice Chianti the same way ever again
Silence of the Lambs
Katrina
|
$200
[14]
In this novel Holden Caulfield has an older brother named D.B. & a little sister named Phoebe
The Catcher in the Rye
Bill
|
$200
[12]
Cornell's Tech Campus on New York's Roosevelt Island got a $100 million donation from thisex-mayor, now back in business
Bloomberg
|
$200
[16]
March 9, 1959:The American Toy Fair is the coming-out party for this 11.5-inch blonde
Barbie
Bill
|
$200
[18]
An artwork:La Gioconda
the Mona Lisa
Bill
|
|
$400
[21]
Frequency of ararity
once in a blue moon
Bill
|
$400
[8]
Mumbai's the word; (& much more importantly) going on a game show can make all your dreams come true!
Slumdog Millionaire
Katrina
|
$400
[4]
"Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light" is a description of her in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
(Blanche) DuBois
Bill
|
$400
[13]
After Hewlett-Packard parted ways with this woman in 2005, she got paid like a boss, with a $21 million severance
(Carly) Fiorina
Bill
|
$400
[30]
March 6, 1899:This German company patents aspirin
Bayer
Bill
|
$400
[28]
A Candide man:Francois-Marie Arouet
Voltaire
Annie
|
|
$600
[20]
With this phrase, there's not a lot of progress being made
one step forward, two steps back
Annie
Bill
|
$600
[7]
Johnny's not so friendly; what's up, dockworkers? more than a contender for Best Picture
On the Waterfront
Bill
|
$800
[2]
"The Luck of" this noisy-sounding "Camp" is a not-so-cheery story by Bret Harte
Roaring
Bill
|
$600
[23]
Running up the score before halftime, Amazon's strong 2nd quarter in 2015 helped put an extra $16.5 bil. in this CEO's pocket
(Jeff) Bezos
Bill
|
$600
[29]
March 21, 1980:This show ends with a cliffhanger that lasts until November; spoiler alert! J.R.'s mistress did it
Dallas
Katrina
|
$600
[27]
An NFL stadium:The Razor
Gillette
Bill
|
|
$800
[11]
Tell your child not to go out alone; remind him or her of this
there's safety in numbers
Katrina
|
$800
[6]
Let's playhouse; the Bard fiddles with Viola
Shakespeare in Love
Bill
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
This book begins, "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte"
Roots
Annie
|
$800
[19]
NPR fans know Harvard Business Review listed the CEO of Novo this as 2015's best-performing CEO in the world
Nordisk
|
$800
[24]
March 26, 1950:This man publicly accuses an innocent professor of being a Soviet spy
McCarthy
Katrina
|
$800
[25]
A threatened species:Ursus maritimus
the polar bear
Bill
|
|
$1,000
[10]
In 1986, itwas a hit for the Rolling Stones
the "Harlem Shuffle"
Annie
Katrina
|
$1,000
[5]
Winter, spring, summer & fall, it was Paul Scofield as Thomas More
A Man for All Seasons
Bill
|
$1,000
[3]
The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Annie
|
$1,000
[22]
In 2015 this ex-Microsoft man & L.A. Clippers owner was the richest sports team owner in the U.S., with $21.6 billion
Steve Ballmer
Katrina
Bill
|
$1,000
[17]
March 3, 1861:Czar Alexander II issues a manifesto freeing these peasants
the serfs
Katrina
|
$1,000
[26]
A confrontation:First Manassas
First Bull Run
Annie
|
| THE ALGORITHM METHOD | CITY NICKNAMES | MY EX-WIVES & ME | POLISH HISTORY | MAMMALS | "TOUR"ISM |
|
$400
[23]
IBM made the Lucifer algorithm in 1974 for the NSA to help with this, from the Greek for "hidden writing"
cryptography
Bill
|
$400
[1]
Agadir, Morocco is "the City of Blue Men", for the uniform of the drivers of these animals
camels
Bill
|
$400
[8]
Ex-wife Madonna showed up with him at the 2016 benefit for his Haitian relief organization
(Sean) Penn
Bill
|
$400
[7]
Since 1989 Poland's GDP has grown about twice as fast as the rest of this organization that it joined in 2004
the E.U. (the European Union)
Annie
Katrina
|
$400
[12]
Here's the banded type of this pest controller
a mongoose
Katrina
|
$400
[18]
A temporary route when the usual one is blocked
a detour
Annie
|
|
$800
[24]
In 2015 Time magazine told of this website's News Feed algorithm that helped personalize content
Facebook
Katrina
|
$800
[5]
This English university city is "the City of Dreaming Spires"
Oxford
Bill
|
$800
[16]
Breaking (up) news... this longtime CNN host & wife No. 6, Julie Alexander
Larry King
|
$800
[11]
In 966 Duke Mieszko joined the club & bent the knee, bringing this faith to his people
Christianity
Annie
|
$800
[13]
The "mule" this stubbornly migrates 300 miles round trip, the farthest of any land mammal in the lower 48
a deer
Annie
|
$800
[19]
Group that follows an important person around attending to his needs; where's my foot masseuse?
an entourage
Annie
|
|
$1,200
[25]
Dealing with the function of markets, the Gale-Shapley algorithm was part of a Nobel Prize in this field
economics
Bill
|
$1,600
[2]
This most populous New Zealand city is known as "the City of Sails"
Auckland
Bill
|
$1,200
[10]
In 2015 this TV grill master found his union with TV Assistant D.A. Stephanie March was done
Bobby Flay
Katrina
|
$1,600
[29]
Ignace Jan Paderewski, used to flattery in this profession, failed as PM in 1919 & lived in exile his last 22 years
a pianist (or a musician)
Katrina
|
$1,200
[14]
Oh, dear--this South American animal has been known to eat monkeys
an ocelot
Bill
|
$1,200
[20]
Give a spectacular acting performance & your reviews might use this 3-word French term
a tour de force
Annie
|
|
$1,600
[26]
Euclidean algorithms are used by mathematicians to find the GCD, this
the greatest common denominator
Bill
|
$2,000
[3]
The unofficial capital of Flemish-speaking Belgium, it's "the City of the Madonnas"
Antwerp
|
$1,600
[9]
He & wife No. 5, Angelina Jolie, were bound by blood--for a while
(Billy Bob) Thornton
Bill
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
Poland lost its independence in 1795 when Austria & these 2 rhyming countries partitioned the commonwealth
Russia & Prussia
Bill
|
$1,600
[28]
A member of the raccoon family, the coati is also known by this longer name
coatimundi
Annie
|
$1,600
[21]
The name of this small roundish slice of beef is from the French for "turn" & "back"
a tournedos
Annie
|
|
$2,000
[27]
An algorithm can be a set of steps for a computer; one type covers this process of packing data into files such as mp3s
a compression algorithm
Annie
|
DD
$8,000
[4]
Ratnapura in this Asian island country is "the City of Gems" & that's what its name means in Sinhalese
Sri Lanka
Bill
|
$2,000
[6]
His third wife was Mia Farrow, but she made a brand new start of it
(Frank) Sinatra
Katrina
Bill
|
$2,000
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1569, a jointly elected sovereign was a feature of the Union of Lublin, which merged Polandwith this country, whose modern borders are seen here
Lithuania
Bill
|
$2,000
[17]
Grant's this, Equus quagga boehmi of Africa, doesn't neigh, it barks
a zebra
Katrina
|
$2,000
[22]
2-word name for an extended trip through Europe formerly taken by young aristocrats to complete their education
a Grand Tour
Katrina
|
Shelley subtitled a poem named for this famous geographic feature "Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni"
Mont Blanc