WE ASKED: Louis C.K.
Amy Ramsay — a program director from Medford, Massachusetts
Siddharth Hariharan — a student from Herndon, Virginia
Scott Bateman — a filmmaker and author from Beacon, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | $3,400 | $5,000 | $19,000 |
$9,599
2nd place: $2,000 |
$18,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Siddharth | $2,200 | $5,800 | $14,200 |
$21,601
New champion: $21,601 |
$11,400
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W |
| Amy | $800 | $3,600 | $10,800 |
$50
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,800
16 R, 2 W |
| ENTERTAINING REDHEADS | SCANDINAVIA | LUCK OF THE DRAW | IN EXPLICABLE | I'M HERE TO SEE HERBERT HOOVER | STATE YOUR BUSINESS |
|
$200
[27]
(Hi, I'm Louis C.K.) I got my big break in 1993 when I became a writer on "Late Night" with this other redhead; I was also the first to do stand-up on his show
Conan O'Brien
Scott
|
$200
[1]
In winter, some places receive no sunlight for up to 2 months in this northernmost Scandinavian nation
Norway
Scott
|
$200
[11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a walk cycle on the monitor.) From the Latin for "instill with life", it's the creation of a motion picture from a series ofstill images
animation
Scott
|
$200
[18]
A proverb says "look before you" do this
leap
Siddharth
|
$200
[28]
The half-inch of rain in D.C. on the day of Hoover'sinauguralin this year did not bode well
1929
Scott
|
$200
[6]
Disney &Mattel
California
Amy
|
|
$400
[26]
In a Disney film, Jodi Benson voiced this title character, daughter of King Triton
the Little Mermaid (Ariel)
Scott
Amy
|
$400
[2]
In Denmark you are a pepper man or a pepper maid if you are not this by age 30
married
Amy
|
$400
[12]
A prehistoric drawing on stone can be called a petroglyph or this, like art sometimes seen as an urban nuisance
graffiti
Amy
|
$400
[21]
A man wears a boutonniere on this part of his jacket
the lapel
Siddharth
|
$400
[29]
See Herbertwith this athlete who had popularity any politician would crave
Babe Ruth
Siddharth
|
$400
[7]
Caterpillar &Sears Holdings
Illinois
Scott
|
|
$600
[15]
Redheads from books include Anne of Green Gables & this boy, the sixth in his family to go to Hogwarts
Ron Weasley
Amy
|
$600
[3]
The 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme on a street in this city has never been solved
Stockholm
|
$600
[13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates by drawing a bird.) To draw in this liberated style means without support or the guidance of instruments
freehand
Siddharth
|
$600
[22]
A color or the fragrant flower seen here
lilac
Amy
|
$600
[20]
Herbert is seen here with this non-relative
J. Edgar Hoover
Scott
|
$600
[8]
Hershey
Pennsylvania
Siddharth
|
|
$800
[16]
Redheaded Jessicas include the animated Jessica Rabbit & this co-star of "The Help" & "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jessica Chastain
Siddharth
|
$800
[4]
Some authorities include this "land of a thousand lakes" nation in Scandinavia, but others do not
Finland
|
$800
[14]
From the name of an 18th century man, it's a profile portrait drawn in black
a silhouette
Amy
|
$800
[23]
Another word for vertex or summit
apex
Siddharth
|
$800
[19]
Here's Herbert with thefootball teamof this then-new California university; he was manager for its first intercollegiate game
Stanford
Amy
|
$1,000
[9]
Land O'Lakes
Minnesota
Scott
|
|
$1,000
[25]
This redhead won a Grammy for her comedy album "Calm Down Gurrl"
Kathy Griffin
Siddharth
|
$1,000
[5]
Ragnar Lothbrok, a warrior of these Scandinavians, is the main character of the History Channel series named for them
Vikings
Siddharth
|
$1,000
[24]
To draw with the aid of rulers, scales & compasses is this precise kind of technical drawing
drafting
|
$1,000
[17]
Thiswild goatsports quite a pair of horns
the ibex
Scott
|
$1,000
[30]
Mr. Hooveris with hisdog; not a German shepherd, but a shepherd from this country Hoover helped feed during World War I
Belgium
Amy
|
DD
$1,600
[10]
Berkshire Hathaway
Nebraska
Scott
|
| WOMEN AUTHORS | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE | TAKE ME TO COURT | ASTRONOMY | HISTORIC PLACES | CATCH SOME DOUBLE "Z"s |
|
$400
[14]
"Little House in the Big Woods" was her first novel about her family's life in the late 1800s
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Amy
|
$400
[15]
"Over The Rainbow"(1939)
The Wizard of Oz
Amy
|
$400
[20]
In California this type of court has no jury & is where you go to sue someone for less than $10,000
small claims court
Scott
|
$400
[6]
On May 31, 2013 a 1.9-mile-wide one of these skimmed by the Earth at a distance of 3.6 million miles
an asteroid
Siddharth
|
$400
[1]
Before Yalta, FDR, Churchill & Stalin met in this Mideast capital where they were hosted by the Shah
Tehran
Scott
|
$400
[30]
To burrow lovingly into your neck with the snout, like a puppy does
nuzzle
Amy
|
|
$800
[13]
To play this author in "The Hours", Nicole Kidman donned a fake nose
Virginia Woolf
Scott
|
$800
[16]
"Lose Yourself"(2002)
8 Mile
Siddharth
|
$800
[21]
From the Latin for "prove", this type of court is where the validity of a will is proven
probate
Scott
|
$800
[7]
The Sombrero Galaxy is classified by astronomers as this type of galaxy having a pinwheel shape
a spiral galaxy
Siddharth
|
$800
[2]
This 1815 battle was actually fought 3 miles south of the village, itself 9 miles south of Brussels
the Battle of Waterloo
|
$800
[29]
People are this "with excitement", a word that starts with the first 2 letters of the alphabet
abuzz
Scott
|
|
$1,200
[12]
She's had the "metal" to sell 650 million copies of her books, like 2016's "Property of a Noblewoman"
(Danielle) Steel
Scott
|
$1,200
[17]
"When You Wish Upon A Star"(1940)
Pinocchio
Amy
|
$1,200
[22]
Actually, don't take me to this animal-named improper or even farcical court
a kangaroo court
Scott
|
$1,200
[26]
A 1990photoof Earth taken by this space probe prompted Carl Sagan to call planet Earth a "pale blue dot"
Voyager 1
Siddharth
|
$1,200
[3]
This temple was intact until the 5th century when Phidias' giant statue of Athena was removed
the Parthenon
Amy
|
$1,200
[28]
Calm down, don't work yourself into this excited state
a tizzy
Scott
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Enid Bagnold wrote this 1935 tale of a young woman who wins a prestigious race on a horse she won in a raffle
National Velvet
Amy
|
$1,600
[18]
Heard here is a song from this 1979 film
Hair
Scott
|
$1,600
[23]
This state's Supreme Court has been fighting governor Sam Brownback over school funding levels
Kansas
Amy
|
$1,600
[8]
These extremely hot eruptions in the Sun's atmosphere can cause communications problems on Earth
solar flares
Siddharth
|
$1,600
[4]
Tradition says a door of the Schlosskirche, aka Castle Church, is the site where these were posted in 1517
Martin Luther's (95) theses
Scott
|
$2,000
[27]
In music it precedes "forte" in a term literally meaning "half loud"
mezzo
Amy
|
|
DD
$3,000
[10]
Known for her sharp wit, in the 1920s, shewrote articles for Vanity Fair & The New Yorker
Dorothy Parker
Siddharth
|
$2,000
[19]
"Puttin' On The Ritz"(1974)
Young Frankenstein
Scott
|
$2,000
[24]
FICA is a line on your pay stub; this law set up a special court to approve national security warrants
FISA
|
$2,000
[25]
The 2 brightest stars in Orion are Betelgeuse in the shoulder & this 5-letter one in his foot
Rigel
Amy
|
$2,000
[5]
On Aug. 31,1901 Leon Czolgosz arrived in this city, where he would shoot Pres. McKinley
Buffalo
Scott
|
DD
$3,000
[9]
You can get years in prison for this crime of a major theft of property
embezzlement
Siddharth
|
During the journey, Dante encounters Homer, Socrates & Cicero, who bide their time in the first circle, aka this
limbo