Sean Cauley — a purchasing manager from Louisville, Kentucky
Kristen Bancroft — a compliance executive from New York, New York
Philip Tiu — an educator from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,198)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip | $600 | $5,200 | $38,600 |
$49,900
2-day champion: $71,098 |
$15,600
14 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W |
| Kristen | $2,400 | $3,200 | $4,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,000
9 R, 3 W |
| Sean | $3,200 | $4,800 | $13,600 |
$19,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$13,600
22 R, 4 W |
| WOMEN ONLY | GEOLOGY | TV TIME | POETRY | THE NAVY ASHORE | "R" & "R" |
|
$200
[12]
At age 16 in 1921 Margaret Gorman was crowned the first winner of this national beauty contest
Miss America
Sean
|
$200
[26]
This mountain system was formed by the Eurasian & Indian tectonic plates ramming into each other
the Himalayas
Philip
|
$200
[4]
In Seattle network prime time starts at this hour on weekdays
8 PM
Sean
|
$200
[18]
In "The Lesson for Today", Robert Frost wrote, "I had a lover's" this "with the world"
quarrel
Kristen
|
$600
[22]
A Navy footrace held annually in Millington, Tennessee covering 11.8061 miles is called the 10 these units race
nautical miles
Sean
|
$600
[11]
London levies a charge for driving into the city center; the boundary is known as this circular thoroughfare
the ring road
Kristen
|
|
$400
[13]
Women-only sports in the Olympics include this, once called water ballet
synchronized swimming
Sean
|
$400
[25]
We lava this molten material from which igneous rock is formed
magma
Sean
|
$400
[5]
To the nearest half hour, when "Saturday Night Live" goes live in Chicago
10:30
Sean
|
$400
[19]
In a 1916 poem Edgar Guest wrote, "It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it" one of these
a home
Philip
|
$1,000
[20]
2,300 miles up the Amazon in Peru, a Navy lab tracks Malaria & this mosquito-borne fever caused by the DEN-1 virus
dengue fever
Philip
|
$800
[9]
It's the naturally formed Colorado amphitheatre seen here
Red Rocks
Sean
|
|
$600
[14]
The women of the WCTU areseenheredisposing of liquor, as the "T" stood for this sober quality
temperance
Sean
|
$600
[17]
This Mideast country has around 16% of all the world's oil reserves, with an estimated 268 billion barrels
Saudi Arabia
Kristen
|
$600
[6]
Barring NFL nuttiness, "60 Minutes" begins at this hour on the East Coast
7:00
Sean
|
$600
[1]
This phrase concludes Keats' line "A thing of beauty is..."
a joy forever
Philip
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
A base at China Lake, Calif. claims the creation of glow sticks, urinal cakes & this missile with the same name as a rattlesnake
a Sidewinder
Philip
|
$1,000
[10]
This 2-item ratio helps you decide whether the upside of buying a stock is worth the downside
risk-reward (or risk-return)
Sean
|
|
$800
[15]
In 1888 2 students at Boston University founded this this this sorority
Delta Delta Delta
Kristen
|
$800
[24]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a geological diagram on the monitor.) Oceanic islands like Hawaii rise to the surface from the ocean floor; continental islands, like New Guinea, are simply unsubmerged parts of these shallow terraces at the edge of a continent
the continental shelf
Sean
|
$800
[7]
Chris Hardwick starts this show with "It's 11:59 & 59 seconds"
@midnight
Sean
|
$800
[2]
In a Tennyson poem, this legendary monster sleeps "far, far beneath in the abysmal sea"
the Kraken
Sean
|
— | — |
|
$1,000
[16]
In 2014 Jillian Michaels teamed up with this chain of fitness centers for women
Curves
Sean
|
$1,000
[23]
There are various North Poles; some scientists believe this one may move from Canada to Siberia within the next 50 years
the magnetic North Pole
Philip
|
$1,000
[8]
Your "Late Night with David Letterman" began in 1982 at this time, Eastern
12:30 AM
Sean
|
$1,000
[3]
Emily Dickinson called it "the thing with feathers--that perches in the soul"
hope
Kristen
|
— | — |
| JILL & JACK | DRINK & FOOD | ROLE & ROCK | EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | COUNTRY & TOWN | AFTER & BEFORE |
|
$400
[18]
Raised in Manhattan, Jill Abramson was the first female executive editor of this newspaper
The New York Times
Sean
|
$400
[1]
Sensibly enough, English breakfast is Twinings' most popular type of this
tea
Kristen
|
$400
[8]
A review of "Freejack" said this Rolling Stone had "the enviable... task of stalking and trying to kill Emilio Estevez"
Mick Jagger
Sean
|
$400
[12]
In 1812 one of these caused a fluvial tsunami in the Mississippi River, causing it to flow backwards
an earthquake
Sean
|
$1,600
[22]
The 160' African Renaissance monument overlooks this capital of Senegal
Dakar
Philip
|
$1,200
[3]
Defined as the next in order, it was also the title of a Fox TV show about a serial killer & his cult
The Following
Sean
|
|
$800
[17]
Thisproud military mom is also an English professor
Jill Biden
Kristen
|
$800
[2]
The classic way to make Swedish these is to use a plett pan, a griddle that has 7 round shallow indentations
pancakes
Philip
Kristen
|
$800
[9]
In 1976 he was "The Man Who Fell to Earth"; that inspired "Lazarus", a musical he completed before he passed in 2016
David Bowie
Sean
|
$800
[13]
Fitzgerald's "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is about a man who does this backwards
ages
Philip
|
$2,000
[23]
Good Lord Almaty, a city name that may mean "father of apples", refers to the orchards in this nation
Kazakhstan
Philip
|
— |
|
$1,200
[19]
He wrote "On the Road" on 120 feet of paper taped together & fed into a typewriter to keep a fast pace
Jack Kerouac
Sean
|
$1,200
[5]
This Mexican dish is kind of a taco with a flat instead of a curved shell
a tostada
Kristen
|
$1,200
[10]
In 2001 this pop diva played Billie Frank in "Glitter", a movie that has a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
Mariah Carey
Sean
|
$1,200
[16]
Rascal Flatts says if you play this backwards, you get your "house back... dog back... truck back"
a country song
Sean
|
DD
$19,000
[24]
The country's busiest port, this southwestern Canadian city is about 15 miles from the U.S. border
Vancouver
Philip
|
— |
|
$1,600
[20]
In 2000 engineer Jack Kilby won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the integrated one of these
a circuit
Philip
|
$1,600
[6]
Kirschwasser is a German brandy made from the sour Morello type of this fruit
cherry
Kristen
Sean
|
$1,600
[11]
The many acting credits of this lead singer of Hole include Ms. Harrison on "Sons of Anarchy"
Courtney Love
Sean
|
$1,600
[15]
Neptune's moon Triton is one of the few in the solar system with this type of "walking backwards" orbit
retrograde
Philip
|
— | — |
|
$2,000
[21]
Kevin Bacon portrayed this astronaut in "Apollo 13"
Jack Swigert
Sean
|
$2,000
[7]
For a rich accompaniment to fish, try a figaro sauce--tomato puree & minced parsley added to this egg yolk sauce
Hollandaise
Kristen
|
$2,000
[4]
As Sean Parker in "The Social Network", he says, "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool"--a billion dollars
(Justin) Timberlake
Kristen
|
DD
$6,000
[14]
101 is called this type of prime number because it reads the same backwards
palindromic
Philip
|
— | — |
In July it replaced Toyota as the world's largest automaker; in September its stock price fell by one-third
Volkswagen