Christine Schreck — a writer from Berkeley, California
Brandon Barnes — a stock analyst from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Siddharth Hariharan — a student from Herndon, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,601)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siddharth | $800 | $2,200 | $6,600 |
$6,534
2-day champion: $28,135 |
$6,600
9 R, 3 W |
| Brandon | $3,600 | $7,800 | $15,400 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$14,000
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Christine | $2,000 | $2,400 | $16,800 |
$2,799
2nd place: $2,000 |
$14,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| 1999 | LITTLE RED CORVETTE | SIGN O' THE TIMES | BAT DANCE | "U" GOT THE LOOK | MY NAME IS PRINCE |
|
$200
[17]
It was equal to about $1.15 & wasn't circulating as cash yet when it went into effect on January 1
the euro
Christine
|
$200
[18]
The 2004 C5 Chevy Corvette was one of the last cars released with pop-up these
headlights
Brandon
Christine
|
$200
[8]
In Catholicism it's made by touching the forehead, the chest, the left shoulder & then the right
the sign of the cross
Christine
|
$200
[1]
A protein dubbed draculin, found in this secretion of vampire bats, acts as an anticoagulant
saliva
Siddharth
|
$200
[3]
When signing in to a website, it's often paired with password
username
Christine
|
$200
[23]
During a downpour in Florida in 2007, Prince closed the Super Bowl halftime show with this aptly titled tune
"Purple Rain"
Siddharth
|
|
$400
[16]
The world debated & awaited the consequences of this bug & its possible effect on computing
Y2K
Brandon
|
$400
[19]
At the end of "Mr. Deeds", this actor buys a bunch of red Corvettes for his friends
(Adam) Sandler
Brandon
|
$400
[9]
One of these "in the cloud" was God's sign to Noah that he would never again flood the earth
a rainbow
Christine
|
$400
[2]
Townsend's & Ozark are 2 types of a bat named for the large size of these organs; makes sense for echolocation
ears
Siddharth
Christine
|
$400
[4]
A fork, knife or spoon
utensil
Christine
|
$400
[24]
Of this title object, Prince sang, "and if it was warm, she wouldn't wear much more"
a raspberry beret
Christine
|
|
$600
[13]
Serbian forces drove ethnic Albanians out of this now country; after NATO bombing, welcome back, Albanians
Kosovo
Brandon
Christine
|
$600
[20]
Soon after he got lucky as Luke, this actor was behind the wheel of a sweet ride in "Corvette Summer"
(Mark) Hamill
Siddharth
Brandon
Christine
|
$600
[10]
If you see someone displaying the sign of distress seen here, be prepared to perform this maneuver
the Heimlich
Siddharth
|
$600
[30]
In 2014 Guinea banned the consumption of bat soup & grilled bat to combat this deadly virus disease
Ebola
Brandon
|
$600
[5]
Especially at Passover, matzo is described as this type of bread
unleavened
Brandon
|
$600
[25]
This Irish lass' No. 1 hit "Nothing Compares 2 U" was written by Prince
Sinead O'Connor
Christine
|
|
$1,000
[15]
This 5-year-old moppet who reached Florida from Cuba made international headlines
Elián González
Brandon
|
$800
[21]
Myron Scott suggested the name Corvette, which in the dictionary was one of these
a warship
|
$800
[11]
Add a vertical line to the bottom half of a Mercedes logo & you'll have this familiar symbol
a peace sign
Brandon
|
$800
[29]
While bats have mostly rods in their eyes for night vision, some have a few of these receptors to see in daylight
cones
Siddharth
|
$800
[6]
It's an 8-letter synonym for citify
urbanize
Siddharth
|
$800
[26]
It's the alliterative name of Prince's label, as well as his home & studios outside Minneapolis
Paisley Park
|
|
DD
$1,800
[14]
Setting in motion a legal battle over digital music rights, this file-sharing service debuted
Napster
Brandon
|
$1,000
[22]
At the 2005 Indy 500, Colin Powell drove ared Corvettethat served this pre-contest function
a pace car
Brandon
|
$1,000
[12]
Groovy, man; the pair ofstreet signsmarks an iconic intersection is this city
San Francisco
Brandon
|
$1,000
[28]
With a wingspan of over 5 feet, one of the largest bats is the giant golden-crowned type of this alliterative bat
the flying fox bat
|
$1,000
[7]
Referring to its weight, it's the type of recreational aircraft seen here
ultralight
Christine
|
$1,000
[27]
Prince converted to this religion in 2001 & went door-to-door to discuss his faith, surprising many a homeowner
Jehovah's Witness
Siddharth
|
| SOUNDS LIKE A COLOR | EXPLORERS | VEGAS-SET TV SHOWS | THEATRE TITLE DUOS | THERE IT IS | DOUBLE TALK |
|
$400
[19]
Perused the words in a periodical
read
Brandon
|
$400
[26]
Ludovico di Varthema learned enough Arabic to pass himself off as a Muslim & was able to enter this holy city in 1503
Mecca
Brandon
|
$400
[1]
This show about a forensics team in the Las Vegas Police Dept.'s Criminalistics Bureau premiered in 2000
CSI
Brandon
|
$400
[9]
A dice game argument leaves one dead on Catfish Row & intrigue aplenty for this Gershwin pair
Porgy & Bess
Siddharth
|
$400
[14]
The Ubangi River:this continent
Africa
Brandon
|
$400
[24]
In a nursery rhyme it precedes "Pumpkin Eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her"
Peter, Peter
Christine
|
|
$800
[21]
On a spreadsheet columns go up & down; these run horizontally
rows
Siddharth
|
$800
[28]
In 1969 his autobiography of 57 years earlier was republished as "A Black Explorer at the North Pole"
Matthew Henson
|
$800
[2]
"Mindfreak" episodes with this magician included "Car Wreck Vanish", "SUV Nail Bed" & "Naked Jail Escape"
Criss Angel
Brandon
|
$800
[10]
Anna Leonowens is half of the title duo of this Rodgers & Hammerstein show
The King and I
Christine
|
$800
[15]
The Zocalo, once the center of Tenochtitlan:this capital
Mexico City
Christine
|
$800
[25]
It's the name of the darlings' nursemaid/dog in "Peter Pan", or what you might call your grandmother
Nana
Christine
|
|
$1,200
[22]
She was married in Berlin April 29, 1945 but never got a honeymoon
(Eva) Braun
Christine
|
$1,200
[29]
In 1848 German missionary Johannes Rebmann became the first European to sight this snowclad equatorial peak
Kilimanjaro
Siddharth
|
$1,200
[3]
On TV in "Las Vegas", he had his eyes on you in the casino as Ed Deline; on film he cashed in his chips at a tollbooth
(James) Caan
Brandon
|
$1,200
[11]
In a Sean O'Casey play, Juno is the wife of Captain Boyle, who is nicknamed this due to his gait
the Paycock
Christine
|
$1,200
[16]
12,000-foot Gunnbjorn Mountain:this 840,000-square-mile island
Greenland
Brandon
|
$1,200
[6]
In 2015 these '80s legends released "Paper Gods", their 14th studio album
Duran Duran
Brandon
|
|
$1,600
[20]
A trigonometric function, for short
tan
Christine
|
DD
$2,000
[27]
Around 1000 A.D. he sailed west to seek North America, which Bjarni Herjolfsson had sighted
Leif Erikson
Brandon
|
$1,600
[4]
Before starring in NBC's "The Player", this actor had "a word of advice" about roulette in a movie--"Always bet on black"
Wesley Snipes
|
$2,000
[13]
In a Peter Weiss play, the Marquis de Sade leads inmates in a re-creation of the assassination of this other title guy
Marat
|
$1,600
[17]
Sumter National Forest:this state
South Carolina
Brandon
|
$1,600
[7]
This Washington city famous for its sweet onions has been described as "the town so nice they named it twice"
Walla Walla
Christine
|
|
$2,000
[23]
A couple of hours from Londonby car and ferry, it's the holidayisleshown here
the Isle of Wight
Christine
|
$2,000
[30]
In 1697 Cossack Vladimir Atlasov claimed this peninsula for Russia
the Kamchatka Peninsula
Siddharth
Brandon
|
$2,000
[5]
The cast of "The Surreal Life: Fame Games" included Pepa (but hold the salt), brigitte Nielsen & this "Mini-Me" actor
(Verne) Troyer
Brandon
|
DD
$4,000
[12]
The last line of the 1966 play about this pair is spoken by Horatio
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Christine
|
$2,000
[18]
Nido de Condores Plateau:this mountain
Aconcagua
Christine
|
$2,000
[8]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) Born in 2015, the newest member of the panda family at the Smithsonian's National Zoo was given this name which actually means "precious treasure", not newborn
Bei Bei
Brandon
Christine
|
In a 2011 slate.com survey of movie credits, of the top 25 most adapted writers, this novelist is the only one living
Stephen King