First game of Season 33.New title graphics.New Jeopardy! Round dollar value loading sound effect."Jeopardy!" bug replaced with "#Jeopardy!"
Annie Busiek — a copywriter from Chicago, Illinois
David Gottdenker — a technology consulting manager from Marlboro, New Jersey
Courtney Paulson — a graduate assistant from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,700)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Courtney | $4,600 | $3,800 | $5,100 |
$1,300
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| David | $-400 | $0 | $9,600 |
$7,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,600
14 R, 2 W |
| Annie | $1,400 | $3,000 | $10,800 |
$21,100
New champion: $21,100 |
$11,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS | "BEST" WISHES | COLLEGE FOOTBALL | THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE | I LIKE YOUR COLÓN | IT'S INTOXICATING |
|
$200
[1]
For a brief time in 1789, it was known as the Department of Foreign Affairs
the Department of State
Courtney
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$200
[6]
In this "scenario", you look at the most favorable possibility
the best-case scenario
David
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$200
[11]
With the addition of Nebraska in 2011, this conference had 12 teams but no name change
the Big Ten
Annie
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$200
[12]
August 30 B.C.in Alexandria
Cleopatra
Courtney
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$200
[22]
Descendants of those who worked on a big dig are the main populace of Colón, this country's major port
Panama
|
$200
[17]
It's the main alcoholic ingredient in a Highland Sling
scotch
Annie
|
|
$400
[2]
The shield seenhereofficially represents this department
the Department of Energy
Courtney
|
$400
[7]
This consumer electronics corporation has annual sales of more than $40 billion
Best Buy
Annie
|
$400
[24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) After 27 years without a mate, Wilbur the Arizona Wildcat got married to Wilma before the 1986 version of the Duel in the Desert, Arizona's football game against this rival school
Arizona State
Courtney
|
$400
[13]
October 16, 1793in Paris
Marie Antoinette
David
|
$400
[23]
Currency traders know the "CRC" on their computer screens is this country's colón
Costa Rica
Courtney
|
$400
[18]
You don't have to live like a monk to enjoy a $399 bottle of this brand of champagne from 1998
Dom Perignon
Courtney
|
|
$800
[4]
The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office is a jointly staffed office within this cabinet department
Homeland Security
Courtney
|
$600
[8]
A lyric by One Direction reminisces, "And we danced all night to" this
"the best song ever"
Courtney
|
$600
[25]
In 2013 the Military Bowl moved from Washington, D.C. to the home field of this nearby military academy
the Naval Academy
David
|
$600
[14]
November 26, 1504in Medina del Campo, Spain
Isabella
Courtney
|
$600
[28]
El Día de Colón is a Spanish name for a U.S. holiday in this month
October
|
$600
[19]
Applejack is a type of this liquor made from apples; Slivovitz is one made from plums
brandy
Annie
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
Its mission is “to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan”
the Department of Veterans Affairs
Courtney
|
$800
[9]
BFFL in texting slang
"best friends for life"
Courtney
|
$800
[26]
(Dan Patrick delivers the clue as Will Ferrell does some sportscasting.) Will Ferrell appeared on my show in character as Ron Burgundy to re-create some of the great calls in sports history, including Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass..."Oh, he got it!Did he get it?He got it!Touchdown! Touchdown!Touchdown! Touchdown!"...that won the game for this school over Miami in 1984
Boston College
David
|
$800
[15]
January 22, 1901in the British Isles
Victoria
Annie
|
— |
$800
[20]
Named for a region in Tuscany, this red table wine was once recognized by its fiasco, a straw-covered bottle
Chianti
Annie
|
|
$1,000
[5]
Frances Perkins was the first woman to head this department; Hilda Solis was the most recent
the Department of Labor
Courtney
David
|
$1,000
[10]
They're the opening 12 words of "A Tale of Two Cities"
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
Courtney
|
$1,000
[27]
In January 2011 this SEC team's Tigers defeated the Oregon Ducks to win the BCS championship
Auburn
Courtney
David
|
$1,000
[16]
March 20, 2004in Baarn, the Netherlands
Queen Juliana
|
— |
$1,000
[21]
A tweet in 2016 "fixed the typo" on a can of this beer from "America" to "Belgium", the actual home of its parent company
Budweiser
Courtney
|
| NATIONAL MEMORIALS | COMPLETE THE ORIGINALSTAR WARSLINE | BRITISH POETS | BEFORE & AFTER | IT'S A PROCESS | COMMUNI"K"ATION |
|
$400
[26]
At their national memorial in North Carolina, kids can see a kite-building demonstration & learn about flight
the Wright Brothers
Courtney
|
$400
[1]
"Hey, Luke, may the ____ be with you"
Force
Courtney
|
$400
[6]
Lines meant for her husband Robert say, "If thou must love me, let it be for nought except for love's sake only"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
David
|
$400
[17]
A French landmark becomes a Biblical spot where language comprehension breaks down
the Eiffel Tower of Babel
Courtney
David
|
$400
[16]
Mucho me than e is released from this process of injecting high-pressure fluid into underground rock to free gas & oil
fracking
Courtney
|
$400
[7]
AM radio broadcast frequencies are measured in these, 1000s of cycles per second
kilohertz
David
|
|
$800
[27]
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, overlooks this river
the Potomac
David
|
$800
[2]
"Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good ____ at your side"
blaster
David
|
$800
[12]
At the time of his death in October 1400, he was living in a leased house in the garden of Westminster Abbey
Geoffrey Chaucer
|
$800
[19]
A New Jersey governor tries a modeling career & marries Billy Joel (for a while)
Chris Christie Brinkley
Annie
|
$800
[18]
John Paul II emphasized beatification & this, & soon after his death, the process was fast-tracked for him
canonization
Annie
|
$800
[8]
With a smartphone you have access to a million apps; you want this kind that slays the others
a killer app
David
|
|
$1,200
[28]
Completed in 1941 during WWII, this Black Hills memorial wasn't formally dedicated until 1991 by George H.W. Bush
Mount Rushmore
Annie
|
$1,200
[3]
"Let the ____ win"
Wookiee
David
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
Sylvia Plath encouraged him to enter his first book, "The Hawk in the Rain", into a contest & he won first prize
Ted Hughes
Annie
|
$1,200
[20]
Laughing Green Giant exclamation to the first president of Vietnam
Ho, ho, Ho Chi Minh
David
|
$1,200
[23]
As well as a bathroom fixture, it can mean the process of grooming & dressing oneself
toilet
|
$1,200
[9]
Before videotape, TV shows were preserved via this process, filming directly from a TV monitor
kinescope
|
|
$1,600
[30]
This word follows "Johnstown" in the name of a Pennsylvania national memorial
Flood
|
$1,600
[4]
"That's no moon, it's a ____ ____"
space station
David
Annie
|
$1,200
[13]
As a teenager in the 1930s, he served as a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post
Dylan Thomas
|
$1,600
[21]
James Joyce's last novel goes back to school at a university in Winston-Salem
Finnegans Wake Forest
|
DD
$1,500
[24]
The collodion process, involving an iodide & a glass plate, was an 1851 innovation in this then-new field
photography
Courtney
|
$1,600
[10]
It's the amount of space between 2 printed letters
kerning
Annie
|
|
$2,000
[29]
A park in the heart of Providence houses the memorial to this early champion of religious freedom
Roger Williams
Annie
|
$2,000
[5]
"Aren't you a little short for a ____"
stormtrooper
Annie
|
$2,000
[15]
It's not Wolverine but this Victorian poet who wrote "Dover Beach"
Matthew Arnold
|
$2,000
[22]
Founding father Patrick Henry's "choice" quote leads into the 1949 Tony-winning Best Play
"Give me liberty or give me Death of a Salesman "
Courtney
|
$2,000
[25]
U.S. military meals ready to eat are heated by this process, which is basically rusting
oxidation
David
|
$2,000
[11]
5-letter term for a Chinese ideograph used in Japanese writing
kanji
|
Phuket, the largest island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004
Thailand