Last game of Season 32.
Courtney Paulson — a graduate assistant from Los Angeles, California
Jim Lebbos — a legal consultant from Charlotte, North Carolina
Barbra Resnick — a social worker from Altamonte Springs, Florida (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,799)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbra | $200 | $1,600 | $5,800 |
$199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,800
15 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs) |
| Jim | $600 | $2,200 | $3,600 |
$823
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
11 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Courtney | $4,200 | $3,000 | $11,400 |
$11,700
New champion: $11,700 |
$11,400
16 R, 3 W |
| STATE OF THE TV SHOW | U.S. CODE TALKING | WOMEN AUTHORS | WE'LL BE GRILLIN' & CHILLIN' | "C-U" | IN SEPTEMBER |
|
$200
[4]
"Grey's Anatomy"
Washington
Barbra
|
$200
[25]
Title 4, Section 8: this "should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free"
the flag
Courtney
|
$200
[1]
A manuscript by this "Good Earth" author was lost for 40 years, found in a storage unit in Texas & published in 2013
(Pearl) Buck
Barbra
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$200
[16]
The HPBA recons Memorial Day, Fourth of July & this holiday as the 3 biggest steak-grilling days in the USA
Labor Day
Barbra
|
$200
[10]
It's a person in charge of a museum collection; Margaret Mead was one at the American Museum of Natural History
a curator
Barbra
|
$200
[15]
A September 1666 fire destroyed much of this capital city, including its cathedral
London
Jim
|
|
$400
[5]
"Big Love"
Utah
Jim
|
$400
[26]
Title 13, Sec. 141: "The Secretary shall, in the year 1980 and every 10 years thereafter, take a decennial" one of these
a census
Barbra
|
$400
[2]
She made a splash with her 1970 young adult novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?"
(Judy) Blume
Courtney
|
$400
[17]
Named for an insect, the preparation for grilling involves splitting meat down the middle
butterflying
Jim
|
$400
[11]
He'sthe Stooge in the middle
Curly
Barbra
|
$400
[21]
September in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of this month in the north
March
Barbra
|
|
$600
[6]
"Northern Exposure" & "Men in Trees"
Alaska
Courtney
|
$600
[28]
Title 2, Sec. 4901: "A person shall not serve as" one of these "of the Senate before he has attained the age of 16 years"
a page
Jim
Courtney
|
$600
[3]
In "The Mill on the Floss", she wrote, "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history"
George Eliot
|
$600
[18]
This sizzling Mexican dish consists of strips of grilled beef or chicken sauteed with onions & peppers
fajitas
Barbra
|
$600
[12]
The name of this movement came from a derisive 1908 review about Georges Braque
Cubism
Courtney
|
$800
[23]
Tajikistan, Armenia & Latvia all gained independence in September of this tumultuous year
1991
Jim
|
|
$800
[7]
"Royal Pains"
New York
Courtney
|
$800
[29]
Title 6, Section 291: "Abolishment of INS", this service of the Justice Department
Immigration and Naturalization
Jim
Courtney
|
$800
[9]
The 10th novel in Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders" fantasy series is titled "The Renegades of" this planet
Pern
|
$800
[19]
Grown in Georgia, the Vidalia type of these are in season during summer & are great on burgers or skewered
onions
Barbra
|
$800
[13]
(Hi, I'm Al Roker.) You can expect heavy rain, lightning & thunder from this type of cloud that's recognized by its anvil-shaped top
cumulonimbus
Barbra
Courtney
|
$1,000
[24]
Make a donation on September 27, the feast day of this saint "de Paul", the patron saint of charities
St. Vincent de Paul
Jim
|
|
$1,000
[8]
"The Middle"
Indiana
Courtney
|
$1,000
[30]
Title 3, Section 102: "The President shall receive...compensation in the aggregate amount of _____ a year"
$400,000 a year
|
$1,000
[27]
A towering tale of the old west, "Cimarron" by this "Show Boat" author was the No. 1 book of 1930
Edna Ferber
|
$1,000
[20]
Texas based Genghis Grill specializes in this assemble-it-yourself style of barbecue grilling
Mongolian barbecue
Barbra
|
$1,000
[14]
The name of this resort city about 40 miles south of Mexico city translates to "horn of the cow"
Cuernavaca
|
DD
$2,000
[22]
On September 9 (not in spring) Japan observes Choyo No Sekku, a festival celebrating this flower
the chrysanthemum
Barbra
|
| SCARY-SOUNDING ANIMALS | SPELL THE FIRST NAME | WORKING WITH A BEATLE | BATTLESHIPS | WORD ORIGINS | TRAVEL IRELAND |
|
$400
[7]
Also known as sand crab, this type of crab gets its name for how it blends into beaches & dunes--I'm calling that one Casper
a ghost crab
Courtney
|
$400
[1]
Supreme Court judge Sotomayor
S-O-N-I-A
Barbra
|
$400
[3]
In a 1995 Pizza Hut ad, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork & Davy Jones welcomed Ringo as this band's new drummer
the Monkees
Courtney
|
$400
[22]
On February 15, 1898, just hours after the photo seenherewas taken, this battleship exploded
the Maine
Jim
|
$800
[11]
Today meaning a buyer or seller of stocks, it may have come from one who opened casks of wine
a broker
Barbra
|
$400
[15]
To kiss this, visitors once had to be held by their ankles & lowered head first; today, just lie down & lean backward
the Blarney Stone
Courtney
|
|
$800
[8]
A literary character gave his name to this fish discovered in 2009--we want you to notice its fangs
Dracula
Barbra
|
$800
[2]
The recent Oscars host known as NPH
N-E-I-L
Jim
|
$800
[18]
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", a 1971 No. 1, is credited to Paul and this woman
Linda Eastman (McCartney)
Jim
|
$800
[23]
Robert Ballard found the remains of this WWII German battleship in 1989; it appeared to have been scuttled, not sunk
the Bismarck
Jim
Courtney
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
The word for this part of speech is from the Latin for "word"
verb
Barbra
|
$800
[16]
Over 1.5 million annually visit the shrine in the town of Knock, where visions of Joseph, St. John & her were seen in 1879
the Virgin Mary
Courtney
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Hey, you old bag of bones--this type of shrimp, also known as the praying mantis of the sea, hangs out with us in So Cal
skeleton shrimp
|
$1,200
[4]
Donald Trump's current wife
M-E-L-A-N-I-A
Courtney
|
$1,200
[19]
In 1997 Ringo said, "Baby, I Love Your Way" & had this ex-Humble Pie guy in the All-Starr Band
Peter Frampton
|
$1,200
[24]
Built in the 1940s in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, this battleship known as "Mighty Mo" saw action in the Persian Gulf War
the U.S.S. Missouri
|
$1,200
[12]
Now meaning "really great", this adjective is from the Latin for "frightening"
terrific
Courtney
|
$1,200
[17]
There once was a city in Ireland... this one that's home to the Munster National Steeplechase horse race
Limerick
Barbra
|
|
$1,600
[29]
You may recognize the death's-head hawk this from its star turn in "The Silence of the Lambs"
a moth
Courtney
|
$1,600
[5]
Tom Cruise's daughter with Katie Holmes
S-U-R-I
Courtney
|
$1,600
[20]
"Handle with Care"! Along with George, this '80s group featured Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty & Bob Dylan
the Traveling Wilburys
Jim
|
$2,000
[26]
This British warship launched in 1906 lent its name to a class of big-gun battleships
the Dreadnought
|
$1,600
[13]
Person comes from "persona", one of these donned by a Roman actor to play a different character
a mask
Courtney
|
$1,600
[27]
This town is known for the great trout fishing in the Blackwater River &, of course, the Abbey & its famous "Book"
Kells
|
| — |
$2,000
[6]
Secretary of Homeland Security Mr. Johnson
J-E-H
|
$2,000
[21]
On Thanksgiving 1974, John joined this man at Madison Square Garden to perform "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
Elton John
|
DD
$3,000
[25]
A classic Eisenstein film recounts the drama of a real naval mutiny aboard this Russian battleship
the battleship Potemkin
Jim
|
$2,000
[14]
French for "raw", it's the 4-letter name of a light grayish-yellowish-brown
ecru
Barbra
|
$2,000
[28]
A statue of this cockle & mussel seller on Grafton Street is known by Dubliners as the "Tart with the Cart"
Molly Malone
|
This Catholic university gets its name from the Latin for “new” & “house” & was in the news in Spring 2016
Villanova