Valerie Ryan — a Country Western dance instructor from Austin, Texas
Zach Klitzman — a public historian from Washington, D.C.
Shyamlee Patel — an office manager and student from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,401)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shyamlee | $200 | $4,600 | $18,800 |
$31,001
2nd place: $2,000 |
$19,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Zach | $6,200 | $9,800 | $21,000 |
$37,601
New champion: $37,601 |
$20,200
28 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Valerie | $-400 | $0 | $4,800 |
$8,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$4,800
8 R, 2 W |
| MOVIE MISTAKES | LETTER PERFECT | WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN I DIED? | "CON"CENTRATION | BRAND NAMES | THE UNITED STATES OF KENTUCKY |
|
$200
[16]
A white car makes a very surprise appearance in a battle scene in this Mel Gibson Scottish history pic
Braveheart
Zach
|
$200
[21]
It comes before chromosome, factor & box 360
X
Zach
|
$200
[4]
Nelson Mandela
Barack Obama
Shyamlee
|
$200
[1]
A prize given not because you won, but to make you feel better
consolation
Zach
|
$200
[22]
Kellogg's makes these "Famous" chocolate chip cookies with a rhyming name
Famous Amos
Shyamlee
|
$200
[10]
The shoreline of this state includes 50 miles along Sandusky Bay
Ohio
Zach
|
|
$400
[17]
(I'm Neil de Grasse Tyson.) After I pointed out an astronomical inaccuracy in this film, James Cameron changed the star pattern viewed in the sky by Rose
Titanic
Valerie
|
$400
[23]
Instead of a middle name, Harry Truman's parents gave him just this middle initial
S
Zach
|
$400
[6]
Princess Diana
Clinton
Zach
|
$400
[5]
Gymnosperms like yews & cypresses
conifers
Zach
|
$400
[27]
Suck it up & name this vacuum maker that shares its name with FDR's predecessor
Hoover
Zach
|
$400
[11]
It was one of the original 13 colonies
Virginia
Shyamlee
Zach
|
|
$600
[18]
A young extra puts his fingers in his ears moments before a gun fires at Cary Grant in this "directional" Hitchcock film
North by Northwest
Shyamlee
|
$600
[24]
The songs "It Sucks To Be Me" & "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" are featured in the musical "Avenue" this
Q
Shyamlee
|
$600
[7]
Martin Luther King Jr.
Lyndon Johnson
Shyamlee
|
$600
[8]
"The Analects" is a collection of this ancient thinker's doctrines & beliefs
Confucius
Valerie
|
$600
[28]
In 1986 the first store opened with "Kids" after the name of this clothing company
Gap
|
$600
[13]
Montauk Springs in the Ozarks of this state has a daily flow of about 50 million gallons
Missouri
Zach
|
|
$800
[19]
Ben Stiller simply repeated "But why male models?" to David Duchovny because Ben had forgotten his next line in this movie
Zoolander
Zach
|
$800
[25]
This letter denotes a member of the Grand Old Party
R
Zach
|
$1,000
[2]
Elvis Presley
Carter
Shyamlee
Zach
|
$800
[9]
Someone you trust & can share your most private feelings & secrets with
a confidant
Zach
|
$800
[29]
Harry Burt was the "Man" who founded this ice cream company & its fleet of vending trucks
Good Humor
Zach
|
$800
[14]
Huntington & Martinsburg are at opposite ends of this state
West Virginia
Zach
|
|
$1,000
[20]
What a rare gift! In 2015 "The Boy Next Door" gave this actress a first edition of "The Iliad"
Jennifer Lopez
Shyamlee
|
$1,000
[26]
The Greek roots of "ceramic" gave us an alternate spelling & pronunciation that starts with this letter
K
Shyamlee
|
DD
$1,200
[3]
James Dean
Eisenhower
Zach
|
$1,000
[12]
A person used to transmit information, or a structure containing electrical wiring
a conduit
Zach
|
$1,000
[30]
In the early 1970s Aris created this stretchable brand of leather-trimmed gloves
Isotoners
Shyamlee
|
$1,000
[15]
Edgar Lee Masters anthologized & immortalized the Spoon River in this state
Illinois
Valerie
|
| SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS | NONFICTION | RECENT POP CULTURE | WORDS IN JEOPARDY | DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME | NICE LONG DANES |
|
$400
[11]
This country's philharmonic was founded in 1936 as the Palestine Orchestra
Israel
Valerie
|
$400
[27]
Nathaniel Philbrick's account of this 1620 voyage is subtitled "A Story of Courage, Community & War"
the Mayflower
Valerie
|
$400
[14]
Accepting a Golden Globe, he said, "I want to thank my imaginary friend Rocky Balboa for being the best friend I ever had"
Stallone
Zach
|
$400
[2]
Highly esteemed or regarded, it's often used in the salutation of a letter
dear
Zach
|
$400
[18]
Daylight Saving Time is sometimes called this, like a song from "Porgy and Bess"
summertime
Zach
|
$400
[1]
Gangly at 6'1", this19th-century writer was considered one ugly duckling himself
Hans Christian Andersen
Shyamlee
|
|
$800
[7]
In 1962, after 70 years in Carnegie Hall, this orchestra moved to its new home in Lincoln Center
the New York Philharmonic
Shyamlee
|
$800
[26]
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies" is a scientific "Biography" of this disease
cancer
Shyamlee
|
$800
[21]
Though officially 0-0 as interim coach, Luke Walton was an NBA coach of the month for Oct./Nov. 2015, as this team was 19-0
the (Golden State) Warriors
Zach
|
$800
[5]
This youngest Disney dwarf can't talk because he has never tried
Dopey
Zach
|
$800
[28]
The U.S. experimented with year-round Daylight Saving Time during the energy crisis of this decade
the 1970s
Zach
|
$800
[12]
In 1012 Danish marauders under Thorkell the Tall seized England's Archbishop of this & brutally beat him with steak bones
Canterbury
Valerie
|
|
$1,200
[6]
In 1926 this symphony that hatched the Pops became the first to play live on the radio
Boston
Valerie
|
DD
$1,000
[25]
"Prague Winter" is this Secretary of State's memoir of her life as a child in Czechoslovakia during WWII
Madeleine Albright
Shyamlee
|
$1,200
[19]
T.J. Miller has a less-than-flattering review of Ryan Reynolds' new face in this 2016 film
Deadpool
Zach
|
$1,200
[8]
Cover or decorate with cloth in loose folds
drape
Shyamlee
|
$1,200
[30]
In 2007 Daylight Saving Time was changed in the U.S. so that the end date was moved to the first Sunday in this month
November
Zach
|
$1,200
[13]
Eva Bang uses her 5'11" to good advantage in this sandy sport
beach volleyball
Shyamlee
|
|
$1,600
[3]
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has 2 homes: the Walt Disney Concert Hall & this outdoor venue
the Hollywood Bowl
Zach
|
$1,200
[20]
Thanks to a 2009 film, Julia Child's 48-year-old "Mastering the Art of" this reentered the bestseller lists
French Cooking
Shyamlee
|
$1,600
[23]
Marty & Mick (Scorsese & Jagger) bring us the '70s music scene on this HBO show
Vinyl
Shyamlee
|
$1,600
[9]
Verily, in the King James Bible, the 23rd Psalm says this word, "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death"
yea
|
$1,600
[29]
When Daylight Saving Time began in 1918, Maricopa County in this state refused to use it & the state still doesn't
Arizona
Zach
|
DD
$2,000
[15]
In 1990 6'2" Dane Peter Martins succeeded Jerome Robbins as boss of this Big Apple artistic organization
the New York City Ballet
Zach
|
|
$2,000
[4]
In 2015 this capital's symphony appointed Sir Simon Rattle its new music director effective September 2017
London
Shyamlee
|
$2,000
[22]
In this author's analysis, the effects of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" are vital to "the Fates of Human Societies"
Jared Diamond
Shyamlee
|
$2,000
[24]
This R&B queen, who ought to team up with Jack Johnson or Jack Jones, had a No. 1 album with "Woman"
Jill Scott
Valerie
|
$2,000
[10]
"50 Shades of Chicken", a cookbook with 50 chicken recipes, is a literary example of one of these
parody
Shyamlee
|
$2,000
[16]
A request to Congress to change a state's DST status should be for the "convenience of" this other "C" word
commerce
Valerie
|
$2,000
[17]
King Christian Xstood tall versus Nazi occupiers, though it's sadly a myth that he wore this in sympathy with Denmark's Jews
the (yellow) Star of David
Valerie
|
An 1860 ad for this business that only lasted 19 months sought "ten or a dozen men, familiar with the management of horses"
the Pony Express