Elena Gray-Blanc — an editor originally from Santa Barbara, California
Geoff Mitelman — a rabbi from Westchester County, New York
Philip Tiu — an educator from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $71,098)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip | $0 | $2,800 | $23,800 |
$25,500
3-day champion: $96,598 |
$16,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Geoff | $4,400 | $7,400 | $11,000 |
$11,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,000
18 R, 2 W |
| Elena | $1,600 | $1,200 | $1,200 |
$2,399
3rd place: $1,000 |
$1,200
5 R, 3 W |
| 19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE | I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU | BEHAVIOR & PSYCHOLOGY | GET | A GRIP ON IT | THE NATIONAL ROAD |
|
$200
[15]
"I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a crucifix--and so seal up the door of the tomb"
Dracula
Philip
|
$200
[9]
These 2 prepositions are absolutely critical in a crossword puzzle
across & down
Geoff
Elena
|
$400
[2]
A treatment called exposure & response prevention tries to ease this type of behavior, the "C" in OCD
compulsive
Philip
|
$400
[20]
Get a Nokia 6350, this type of old-school item named for how it opens
a flip phone
Geoff
|
$400
[10]
The chance to be chief construction grip on 1990's Part III of this was an offer Louis Petraglia couldn't refuse
The Godfather
Geoff
|
$600
[5]
In 1838 the section in this state from Centerville to Terre Haute was completed at a cost of $1,136,000
Indiana
Philip
|
|
$600
[4]
"...fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!"
The Scarlet Letter
Geoff
|
$400
[18]
As a noun, it's your rear; as a preposition, it means toward the rear
behind
Geoff
|
$600
[12]
Sleepwalking is also called this -ism
somnambulism
Geoff
|
$600
[17]
Try the fettuccine with this butter, cream & cheese sauce named for an Italian restaurateur
Alfredo sauce
Elena
|
$600
[25]
As key grip on this AMC series from 2007 to 2015, Pat O'Mara helped light up 1960s Manhattan
Mad Men
Geoff
|
$800
[11]
The road first spanned the Ohio River in 1849 when a bridge at Wheeling was built in what's now this state; it is still in use
West Virginia
Geoff
|
|
$800
[3]
"She was only beginning to realize... she was... on her way home to grandfather, and would see the mountains"
Heidi
Philip
|
$600
[19]
It means against, whether in a legal action or a sports contest
versus
Geoff
|
$800
[13]
From the Greek for "self law", it's the ability of an individual to be have independently of others' control
autonomy
Geoff
|
$800
[21]
Pick up a pair of Jack Purcell Signature sneakers from this All Star brand
Converse
Philip
|
$800
[24]
Filming this Selznick classic, grip Fred Williams turned on a radio & the crew learned Britain & Germany were at war
Gone with the Wind
Philip
|
$1,000
[23]
Much of the National Road was built using small stones & a method developed by this Scottish engineer
Macadam
Philip
|
|
$1,000
[1]
"'Jarndyce of'" this residence, "said Mr. Kenge. 'A dreary name', said the Lord Chancellor"
Bleak House
Geoff
|
$800
[8]
Meaning "more distant than", it also follows "the great" to denote the afterlife
beyond
Elena
|
$1,000
[14]
Dr. Abraham Maslow worked to understand human behavior by relating it to his "hierarchy of" these
needs
Elena
|
$1,000
[22]
Get a 500 sport model with alloy wheels & red brake calipers from this brand founded in Turin in 1899
Fiat
Elena
|
$1,000
[16]
As key grip on this 1998 blockbuster, Jim Kwiatkowski helped make Ireland's coast look like Omaha Beach
Saving Private Ryan
Geoff
|
— |
|
DD
$1,800
[6]
"'That's a fine death!' said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkonsky"
War and Peace
Philip
|
$1,000
[7]
You "go" this "to get" this to make a social situation go smoothly
along
|
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| THIS IS MY PEOPLE | WORLD CITIES | TULIP MANIA | 9-LETTER WORDS | THE WRIGHT BROTHERS | MUSICIANS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES |
|
$400
[15]
Nanook, real name Allakariallak
the Inuit
Elena
|
$400
[16]
This capital on the Vltava River was once the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia
Prague
Philip
|
$400
[25]
A white tulip is said to represent forgiveness; this color stands for perfect love
red
Geoff
|
$400
[1]
This canvas or polyethylene item is used to cover athletic fields as protection from the rain
tarpaulin
Philip
|
$400
[19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial.) Seeking a place for test flights with strong winds, privacy & sand for soft landings, the Wrights wrote a letter to the U.S. weather bureau & received a list of possible locations; this small fishing village on North Carolina's Outer Banks was just perfect
Kitty Hawk
Philip
|
$2,000
[21]
"Out of Sync"(2007)
Lance Bass
Geoff
|
|
$800
[11]
WWII code talker John Brown Jr.
the Navajo
Geoff
|
$800
[17]
This most populous city of India was built on what were originally 7 islands, including Colaba & Parel
Mumbai
Philip
Geoff
|
$800
[3]
Since 1980 the tulip has served as the symbol of this disease also known as shaking palsy
Parkinson's
Geoff
|
$800
[2]
To render beautiful or add fictitious details to a story
embellish
Geoff
|
$800
[22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) Frustrated with the data then available concerning wing & propeller designs, the Wrights built their own wind tunnel & tested dozens of models to see what shapes produced the most lift & the least of this force--the resistance to forward motion
drag
Philip
|
— |
|
$1,200
[12]
Crazy Horse
the Sioux
Philip
|
$1,200
[10]
An 18th century tobacco factory made famous in "Carmen" is now home to this city's university
Seville
Philip
|
$1,200
[4]
The tulip's name is derived from a Turkish word for this, a headdress consisting of one long piece of cloth
turban
Philip
|
$1,200
[7]
In 2015 Denis Mikhaylov set a world record by running 80.53 miles in 12 hours on this
treadmill
Philip
|
$1,200
[23]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) To provide more thrust, the Wrights used two propellers driven by a bicycle chain & sprocket; the laminated spruce propellers were carved by hand & mounted so they'd rotate in opposite directions, canceling out this twisting force
torque
Philip
|
— |
|
$2,000
[13]
33 high-steel workers killed in the 1907 Quebec Bridge collapse
Mohawk
|
$1,600
[9]
This city is the center of Nigeria's thriving motion picture industry, often called Nollywood
Lagos
Geoff
|
$1,600
[20]
The tulip tree, named for its tulip-like flowers, is also known by this "widely liked" name
poplar
|
$1,600
[6]
From the Greek for "2 sounds", it's the name of the transition sound like that made by the "O-I" in "boil"
diphthong
Philip
|
$1,600
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) A device called an elevator was placed on the front of the Wrights' plane for more efficiency & to protect the pilot in case of a crash; operated by a lever, it adjusted this upward and downward motion of the plane's nose
pitch
Elena
|
— |
|
DD
$11,000
[14]
Cochise & Geronimo
the Apache
Philip
|
$2,000
[8]
The Confederation Chamber in Province House in this capital of P.E.I. is called the "Birthplace of Canada"
Charlottetown
Philip
|
$2,000
[18]
The tulip is the national flower of this country where it originated in the Pamir & Hindukush Mountains
Afghanistan
Philip
Geoff
Elena
|
$2,000
[5]
A punny riddle
conundrum
Philip
|
— | — |
The last prisoner moved before the Bastille was stormed, this nobleman left behind the manuscript for his most infamous work
the Marquis de Sade