Bill Burns — a management consultant from Carrollton, Texas
Megan Selva — a content manager from Woodbridge, Virginia
Todd Giese — a hotel front desk manager from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 1-day cash winnings total $31,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Todd | $1,600 | $4,000 | $16,600 |
$20,801
2-day champion: $52,402 |
$15,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| Megan | $1,000 | $0 | $10,400 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,400
18 R, 8 W |
| Bill | $1,400 | $3,600 | $6,000 |
$7,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,000
11 R, 1 W |
| HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS | WORD ORIGINS | TASTY ADS & JINGLES | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | DEALER'S CHOICE | "LITTLE" MOVIES |
|
$200
[4]
The Great River Road features many scenic sites along this river in 10 states, including Iowa & Minnesota
the Mississippi
Megan
|
$200
[1]
From the Latin for "last", it's a final demand
an ultimatum
Megan
|
$200
[20]
"Finger lickin' good"
KFC
Bill
|
$200
[25]
The 1534 Act of Supremacy established this church with Henry VIII at its head
the Church of England
Megan
|
$200
[30]
Wilhelm Roentgen won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of these rays
X-Rays
Todd
|
$200
[17]
A tagline to this Disney film was "Somewhere under the sea and beyond your imagination is an adventure in fantasy"
The Little Mermaid
Bill
|
|
$400
[6]
Along the route of this city's Via Dolorosa are the Stations of the Cross, each associated with an event in Jesus' life
Jerusalem
Megan
Bill
|
$400
[11]
The first "nerd" was probably the creature seen here, named by this author in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo"
Dr. Seuss
Todd
|
$400
[3]
"Eat Fresh"
Subway
Bill
|
$400
[21]
In 1948 this organization proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
the United Nations
Bill
|
$400
[29]
The Vulcans play for U.H. Hilo, this school with an active volcano next door
the University of Hawaii
Todd
|
$400
[16]
Mon dieu! A recent animated version of this tale of a boy from another world cost 60 million euros
The Little Prince
Megan
|
|
$600
[7]
You'll find the Winter Garden theatre at 1634 this street
Broadway
|
$600
[12]
The Latin for "footprint" is related to this word in the name of a federal bureau
investigation
|
$600
[14]
Revived in 2013, "Pardon me, would you have any..."
Grey Poupon
Todd
|
$600
[22]
14 pages & hundreds of names long, this title subject of an Oscar-winning film was put on eBay in 2013
Schindler's list
Todd
|
$600
[26]
The 1932 Bela Lugosi classic "White Zombie" is set in this traditional Caribbean zombie homeland
Haiti
Megan
Bill
|
$600
[2]
In a 2006 film Abigail Breslin & her family take a road trip so she can compete in this beauty pageant
Little Miss Sunshine
Todd
|
|
$800
[8]
Carl Fisher pushed the development of the coast-to-coast Lincoln Highway & in 1909 opened this Midwest facility with faster traffic
Indianapolis (Motor) Speedway
|
$800
[13]
A wealthy person who controls a government, it comes from the Greek for "wealth", not a dwarf planet
plutocrat
Megan
Bill
|
$800
[15]
"Obey Your Thirst"
Sprite
Megan
|
$1,000
[24]
Watery charter of mutual support & postwar cooperation jointly declared by Churchill & Roosevelt in 1941
Atlantic Charter
Todd
|
$800
[27]
Pablo Picasso said that "the genius of" this man "leads to Hiroshima"
(Albert) Einstein
Bill
|
$800
[5]
Classic gangster film in which Edward G. Robinson has the dying line "Mother of mercy! Is this the end of Rico?"
Little Caesar
Bill
|
|
$1,000
[9]
Called the "Queen of Roads" in antiquity, it stretched from Rome to Brindisi on the Adriatic
the Appian Way
Todd
Megan
|
$1,000
[18]
In 1630 Governor William Bradford gave this group a name meaning "strangers"; it came into common use much later
the Pilgrims
Megan
|
$1,000
[19]
"I put that" $%@! "on everything"
Frank's RedHot
|
DD
$2,200
[23]
One of the oldest known legal codes is this Babylonian one from around 1760 B.C.
the Hammurabi code
Todd
|
$1,000
[28]
A journalist's source who wants to remain anonymous may speak "on" this, or even "on deep" this
background
|
$1,000
[10]
Lillian Hellman wrote the screenplay for this film based on her play of the same name
The Little Foxes
Todd
Bill
|
| SENSORY LIT | 2 FIRST NAMES? | INVENTION & INNOVATION | VIDEO GAMES | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS | AFTER IMAGE |
|
$400
[10]
Pew is a blind pirate in this Robert Louis Stevenson tale
Treasure Island
Todd
|
$400
[15]
After dramatic hearings & a close Senate vote, in 1991 he replaced Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas
Todd
Megan
|
$400
[5]
This car innovation was introduced in 1940 by GM with the slogan "No clutch to press! No gears to shift!"
automatic transmission
Todd
|
$400
[1]
Spreading the jam is a goal in the "soda" version of this sweet game you can play on your smartphone
Candy Crush
Megan
|
$400
[26]
The foundation stone of Washington's National Cathedral came from a field near this birthplace of Jesus
Bethlehem
Todd
Megan
|
$400
[21]
Large-screen movie format
IMAX
Todd
|
|
$800
[11]
In this Carson McCullers novel, a deaf-mute becomes a perfect confidant for others in a small Georgia town
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Todd
Megan
|
$1,200
[17]
This portrayer of Professor Xavier was awarded a knighthood in 2009
(Sir) Patrick Stewart
Megan
|
$800
[6]
University of Calgary grad James Gosling created this computer language for Sun Microsystems
Java
Bill
|
$800
[2]
Nintendo released a dual game in 1995 that paired "centipede" with this similar creature
the Millipede
Todd
|
$800
[28]
Built over the grave of St. Olaf, Nidaros Cathedral is this country's national sanctuary & once the site for its coronations
Norway
Todd
Megan
|
$800
[22]
To drink
imbibe
Megan
|
|
$1,200
[12]
A satire of mass culture & consumer overload, this Don DeLillo novel was a National Book Award winner
White Noise
Todd
|
$1,600
[18]
Contemporaries of this 19th-century Senator for Illinois gave him the nickname "Little Giant"
Stephen Douglas
Megan
|
$1,200
[7]
In 1895 the Westinghouse Company built a hydroelectric power station at this New York site
Niagara Falls
Megan
|
$1,600
[4]
This video game featured a dog that laughed when you missed a shot
Duck Hunt
Bill
|
$1,200
[27]
Mozart's "Coronation Mass" was written for this city's cathedral where he was baptized
Salzburg
Todd
Megan
|
$1,200
[23]
Mosque man
imam
Megan
|
|
$1,600
[13]
The fates of an aging film actress & a young hustler take flight in this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth"
(Tennessee) Williams
Todd
|
$2,000
[19]
This "Waverley" writer was offered the Poet Laureateship, but he refused, thinking the office silly
Walter Scott
Megan
|
$1,600
[9]
Men typically resharpened & reused the same razor blade for life before an invention by this man around 1895
(King) Gillette
Todd
|
DD
$2,000
[3]
Sharing a name with a type of ship, this game was made for Windows by Windows & was first playable in 1990
Minesweeper
Todd
|
$1,600
[29]
In 1420 Filippo Brunelleschi won a competition to design the dome of this city's Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral
Florence
Megan
|
$1,600
[24]
Let's not get into one of these complicated disputes, Italian for "entanglement"
imbroglio
Megan
|
|
$2,000
[14]
"Fatal Vision" & "Blind Faith" are true crime books by this McWriter
Joe McGinniss
|
DD
$3,000
[16]
Born 26 years apart, these 2 heavyweights of the Protestant Reformation fit the category
Martin Luther and John Calvin
Todd
|
$2,000
[20]
Named for this multi-talented 18th-century American, the stove seenhereoften went in the middle of the room
(Benjamin) Franklin
Todd
|
$2,000
[8]
The spirit of Tom Clancy hovers over the games about this title group & grizzled agent Sam Fisher
Splinter Cell
Megan
|
$2,000
[30]
This basilica seenhereserved as the doge's chapel until 1807, when it became the seat of the archbishop
St. Mark's
Megan
|
$2,000
[25]
Ancient Egyptian who's the first physician known by name
Imhotep
Todd
|
On his death in 2015, his New York Times obit said he "built his stardom 90 percent on skill and half on wit"
Yogi Berra