Robert Wood — a teacher originally from Twentynine Palms, California
Malavika Jagannathan — a marketing writer from Seattle, Washington
Stew Latwin — a Navy pilot originally from Rye, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,400)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stew | $1,800 | $3,000 | $14,800 |
$29,201
2-day champion: $42,601 |
$11,400
17 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W |
| Malavika | $1,000 | $1,000 | $8,200 |
$15,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,200
15 R, 5 W |
| Robert! | $1,400 | $5,400 | $14,600 |
$100
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| HALL OF FAME CATCHERS | ABBREV. | A STATE OF WAR | A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING | "BEAUTY" | THE BEAST |
|
$200
[6]
Ray Schalk was one of only 3 regulars on this team who didn't conspire to throw the 1919 World Series
the Chicago White Sox
Robert!
|
$200
[11]
Stabilizes exchange rates:IMF
International Monetary Fund
Malavika
|
$200
[1]
The Battle of Germantown,1777
Pennsylvania
Malavika
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$200
[16]
In a 1916 speech President Wilson said that "America cannot be" one of these "with its head in the sand"
an ostrich
Malavika
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$200
[21]
This fairy tale character's 40 winks lasts 100 years
Sleeping Beauty
Malavika
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$200
[26]
It can be African or Asian & can weigh more than 14,000 pounds
an elephant
Robert!
|
|
$400
[7]
In 1969 this Reds catcher received a baseball from Ted Williams inscribed, "A Hall of Famer for sure"
Johnny Bench
Robert!
|
$400
[12]
For clocks at longitude 0 degrees:GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
Robert!
|
$400
[2]
The Battle of Stones River, aka the Battle of Murfreesboro,1862-63
Tennessee
Stew
|
$400
[17]
It's the "S" in OSHA, for what it maintains in the workplace
Safety
Robert!
|
$400
[22]
More flattering term for a benign melanocytic nevus
a beauty mark
Robert!
|
$400
[27]
One of the 2 counties in Nebraska named after animals; they both once roamed free there
Buffalo (or Antelope)
Stew
|
|
$600
[8]
As a Dodger, 1948-57, he set the career record for catchers, throwing out 57% of runners who tried to steal a base on him
(Roy) Campanella
Stew
Robert!
|
$800
[14]
A crude but effective weapon:IED
improvised explosive device
Malavika
|
$600
[3]
The Battle of White Plains,1776
New York
Malavika
|
$600
[18]
This town, home to the University of North Carolina, is named for a place of worship that was once there
Chapel Hill
Malavika
|
$600
[23]
It's subtitled "The Autobiography of a Horse"
Black Beauty
Robert!
|
$600
[28]
As on the coat of arms of Scotland, when an animal like a lion in heraldry is "rampant", it means it's doing this
standing or rearing
Robert!
|
|
$800
[9]
This Negro Leaguer known for his titanic home runs died aged 35, 3 months before the major leagues were integrated
Josh Gibson
Malavika
Robert!
|
$1,000
[15]
Created by the Banking Act of 1933:FDIC
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Stew
Robert!
|
$800
[4]
The Battle of Chancellorsville,1863
Virginia
Stew
|
$800
[19]
The USA's first successful brand of automatic drip coffee makers, it was introduced to home users in the early 1970s
Mr. Coffee
Stew
|
$800
[24]
This hybrid is the official flower of Washington, D.C.
the American Beauty rose
|
$800
[29]
A borzoi ballet would be a dance by these dogs, bred in Russia to hunt
wolfhounds
Robert!
|
|
$1,000
[10]
On June 13, 2005 the left field foul pole at Fenway Park was named for this Hall of Fame catcher
Carlton Fisk
Stew
Robert!
|
DD
$1,200
[13]
After a joint injury, you might have less:ROM
range of motion
Robert!
|
$1,000
[5]
The Battle of San Patricio,1836
Texas
Robert!
|
$1,000
[20]
This Russia peninsula lies between the Sea of Okhotsk & the Bering Sea
Kamchatka
Stew
|
$1,000
[25]
Independent pocketed coil design is the secret of this mattress line from Simmons
Beautyrest
Robert!
|
$1,000
[30]
Accurate adjective in the name of this communal rodent
naked
Stew
Malavika
|
| FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY | BAYS & GULFS | THEATRE TO THEATER | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS | MUSEUMS | THE PHONE |
|
$400
[11]
"The doctrine or science of the structure of the... terraqueous globe, and of the substances which compose it"
geology
Stew
|
$400
[1]
You'll find Bay City in this state near Saginaw Bay
Michigan
Malavika
|
$400
[26]
Terrence Mann played Javert in the 1987 Broadway opening of this show, made into a film in 2012
Les Mis
Malavika
|
$400
[6]
1914:"Dubliners"
James Joyce
Stew
|
$400
[16]
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. has displayed needlework from Mary English, accused of this in 1692
witchcraft
Stew
|
$400
[24]
Marshmallow is the name of the 6.0 version of this operating system that powers millions of smartphones
Android
Malavika
Robert!
|
|
$800
[12]
"Quicksilver... extensively used as medicines. The preparation called calomel, is a most efficacious deobstruent"
mercury
Stew
|
$800
[2]
Conanicut Island, part of Rhode Island, divides this bay in two
Narragansett Bay
Robert!
|
$800
[27]
Phyllida Lloyd directed the 2001 Broadway opening of this show & ABBA-cadabra! got to helm the 2008 film, too
Mamma Mia!
Stew
|
$800
[7]
1951:"The Illustrated Man"
Ray Bradbury
Robert!
|
$800
[17]
At the Egyptian Museum, you can see the present condition of many ancient rulers in the room named for these
(royal) mummies
Stew
Robert!
|
$800
[22]
E.T. would enjoy the USO program called Operation this 2-word phrase, giving intl. calling cards to service members
Phone Home
Malavika
Robert!
|
|
$1,600
[14]
"A species of aquatic worm, which is used in the medical art for topical bleeding"
leeches
Malavika
|
$1,200
[3]
This bay between Spain & France gets its name from the Basques who live along the shore
(Bay of) Biscay
Robert!
|
$1,200
[28]
On Broadway in 1975, Billy Flynn was played by Jerry Orbach, but this show got into Gere on the silver screen in 2002
Chicago
Malavika
|
$1,200
[8]
First published in 1837, this New Englander's "Twice-Told Tales"
Hawthorne
Stew
Malavika
|
$1,200
[18]
Astatueof King Olav V greets visitors to the Holmenkollen Ski Museum in this capital
Oslo
Stew
|
$1,200
[21]
Jamie Fuller created an app called this "Dialer" that lets you reach out & touch someone like it was the '70s
the rotary telephone
|
|
$2,000
[15]
"The doctrine, science, or art of sailing in the air, by means of a balloon"
aeronautics
|
$1,600
[4]
Barataria Bay in Louisiana was a base for pirates & smugglers led by this Frenchman
Jean Lafitte
Stew
|
$1,600
[29]
John Lloyd Young made his Broadway debut in 2005 as Frankie Valli in this show & got the movie gig in 2014
Jersey Boys
Robert!
|
$1,600
[9]
2015:"Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances" by this British author & comic book writer
Neil Gaiman
Malavika
|
$2,000
[20]
L.A.'s Museum of Tolerance is an arm of the center named for this Holocaust survivor & Nazi hunter
Wiesenthal
Malavika
|
$1,600
[25]
In "Pillow Talk" Doris Day & Rock Hudson share this kind of multi-user line & romantic confusion ensues
a party line
Robert!
|
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
"One versed in the science of government and the art of governing"; also "a man of artifice or deep contrivance"
a politician
Stew
|
$2,000
[5]
This gulf between Sweden & Finland is the largest arm of the Baltic Sea
the Gulf of Bothnia
|
$2,000
[30]
A rough night at George & Martha's, this 1962 Broadway drama went 2-dimensional in '66
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Malavika
|
$2,000
[10]
1968:"Welcome to the Monkey House"
Kurt Vonnegut
Robert!
|
DD
$3,200
[19]
The Bradbury Science Museum in this New Mexico city displays replicas of the 2 atomic bombs used in WWII
Los Alamos
Stew
|
$2,000
[23]
In 1878 George Coy used teapot lids to build the first of these panels used by operators & soon they were "lighting up"
a switchboard
Stew
Malavika
|
An authentic Bell H-13 Sioux air ambulance was used in the opening credits of this television series
M*A*S*H