Pidge Meade — a technical writer and actress from Pacifica, California
Charlie Olsky — a film publicist from Brooklyn, New York
Nate Ross — a systems engineer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nate | $2,800 | $8,200 | $8,800 |
$17,598
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Charlie | $2,000 | $3,000 | $7,800 |
$11,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$9,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Pidge | $2,400 | $3,800 | $11,000 |
$17,601
New champion: $17,601 |
$11,000
15 R, 1 W |
| WORLD AIRPORTS | WHERE DO YOU WEAR IT? | HEALTH ISSUES | OBVIOUS BROADWAY | LATE WORDS | THAT'S A FACT |
|
$200
[1]
Long layover? No problem at this Finnish capital's airport, which offers sleep pods, a spa & more
Helsinki
Pidge
|
$200
[11]
Slingback
on your feet
Nate
|
$200
[14]
Regular brushing can help prevent this inflammation of the gums
gingivitis
Pidge
|
$200
[2]
This show's "Six Merry Murderesses" do the "Cell Block Tango" in Chicago's Cook County Jail"They had it coming (They had it coming) / They had it coming (They had it coming) / They had it coming all along..."
Chicago
Charlie
|
$200
[19]
You'll find "late" in the middle of this word you use when you wish someone happy birthday the day after
belated
Charlie
|
$400
[29]
The highest & lowest points in the 48 contiguous states are within 100 miles of each other in this state
California
Charlie
|
|
$600
[4]
A British airport renamed for him in 2001 also adopted the slogan "Above us only sky"
John Lennon
Pidge
|
$400
[12]
Kid, as in a familiar expression
on your hands
Nate
|
$400
[15]
During a 1721 epidemic in Boston, Zabdiel Boylston gave the 1st Amer. inoculations against this now-eradicated disease
smallpox
Charlie
|
$400
[5]
"My Boyfriend's Back" is one of the songs in this show that begins in New Jersey in 1962
Jersey Boys
Nate
|
$400
[20]
Many schools have policies against being this 5-letter late word
tardy
Charlie
|
$600
[28]
Some mammals, like cattle, can sleep standing up but can only do this, from the Old English for "joy", lying down
dream
|
|
$800
[9]
Resembling a bird about to take off, theterminalat Bilbao airport is nicknamed "La Paloma", Spanish for this
a dove
Nate
|
$600
[13]
Money--Rick Steves never travels without one
your waist
Nate
Charlie
Pidge
|
$600
[16]
Coumadin & heparin are in this class of drugs whose name means that they thin your blood
anticoagulants
|
$600
[6]
Sara Bareilles wrote the music for this 2016 show seen here; note the women's uniforms"...keep racing / Let's make mistakes / Let us say, "So what?" and make worse what was..."
Waitress
Nate
|
$600
[21]
It's the usual adjective for a library book that's not been returned on time
overdue
Pidge
|
$800
[27]
The Peruvian part of this lake covers more than 1,900 square miles but even more importantly, it's funny to say
Titicaca
Pidge
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
The Tenzing-Hillary airport in this country is 9,200 feet above sea level
Nepal
Charlie
|
$800
[24]
Tennis, so named because Chris Evert wore one
the wrist
Nate
|
$800
[17]
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the human form of this "beastly" affliction
mad cow disease
Nate
|
$800
[7]
It's the plural title of the 2016 revival that combines "The March of the Falsettos" & "Falsettoland"
Falsettos
Pidge
|
$800
[22]
Just like former House Majority Leader Tom's last name, you could have been beset by one of these
delay
Nate
|
$1,000
[26]
In 1642 this Frenchman whose name became a computer language built a machine that could add & subtract
Pascal
Nate
|
|
$1,000
[10]
You can still see one of Air France's Concorde jets outside the Paris airport named for him
Charles de Gaulle
Nate
|
$1,000
[25]
Four-in-hand
your neck
Nate
|
$1,000
[18]
Bright's disease is an inflammation in these organs
your kidneys
|
$1,000
[8]
This2015 Tony winner is set in a funeral home, given a slightly shorter nickname by the family's children"...right clothes you're wearing / Your short hair and your dungarees / And your lace-up boots..."
Fun Home
Charlie
|
$1,000
[23]
A restaurant worker who's falling behind is said to be "in" these garden annoyances
the weeds
Nate
|
— |
| CARRIE-OKE | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE | U.S. RIVERS | LIT-POURRI | VERY CLEVER | "L"8 WORDS |
|
$400
[7]
Her album "Storyteller" dominated country album sales in 2015
Carrie Underwood
Nate
|
$400
[26]
In the late 1400s Ottoman slaves of this religion were forced to convert to Islam & serve in an infantry called the Janissaries
Christianity
Charlie
|
$400
[6]
7-foot, 100-pound sturgeon have returned to the St. Louis River, Minnesota's largest tributary of this Great Lake
Superior
Nate
|
$400
[1]
In "Lord of the Rings", Frodo is a hobbit & Gimli is one of these
a dwarf
Nate
|
$400
[12]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a bent Jackson.)Bending a $20 billat precise places can make Andrew's face appear tosmileorfrown, an effective one of these 2-word tricks
an optical illusion
Nate
|
$400
[18]
It's the fetching dog seen here
a Labrador
Pidge
|
|
$800
[8]
This actress sang a song about Life Day, "a day of peace", in the 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special"
Carrie Fisher
Charlie
|
$800
[27]
In 1457 this city became capital of the Ottoman Empire & 60 years later the seat of the caliph
Istanbul (or Constantinople)
Charlie
|
$800
[16]
Way down upon this river, the old folks (& everyone else) can see Florida's largest whitewater rapids
the Suwannee
Pidge
|
$800
[2]
In "Paradise Lost" this character disguises himself as a cherub to sneak into the Garden of Eden
Satan
Pidge
|
$800
[13]
The browser ploy with this Agatha Christie-esque name keeps users at a website by disabling the back button
a mouse trap
Pidge
|
$800
[19]
In the original Iroquois version of this sport, goals were miles apart, & games had hundreds of players
lacrosse
Charlie
|
|
$1,200
[9]
Carrie Brownstein & Corin Tucker named this hyphenated alt rock band after a road in Lacey, Washington
Sleater-Kinney
Charlie
|
$1,200
[28]
Capturing Mesopotamia in 1534 gave the Ottomans access to this large gulf to the south
the Persian Gulf
Nate
|
$1,200
[23]
This river that runs east-west, bisecting Alaska, is known for the Chinook salmon that spawn in its creeks
the Yukon River
|
$1,200
[3]
Not Fog nor Cloud, but this is Lolita's last name in Nabokov's lecherous classic
Haze
Charlie
|
$1,200
[14]
Change 1 letter in "rube" to get this, which a rube might fall for
a ruse
Nate
|
$1,200
[20]
For the song "The Lady Is A Tramp", it was Lorenz Hart
a lyricist
Pidge
|
|
$1,600
[10]
When Graham Nash wrote about this singer he was too shy to use her 1st name so he chose one that rhymed: "Carrie Ann"
Marianne Faithfull
Pidge
|
— |
$1,600
[24]
There's a maritime museum named for this river near its mouth in Astoria, Oregon
the Columbia
Pidge
|
$1,600
[4]
This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was based on an ancient Greek myth recounted by Ovid
Pygmalion
Charlie
|
$2,000
[17]
In a 12th century French beast epic, Bruin the bear was outfoxed by this fox
Reynard
|
$1,600
[21]
To suffer hardship; many are said to do it in prison
languish
Nate
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show's "Carry Me, Carrie" & "Cover Of The Rolling Stone" were penned by this poet & author
Shel Silverstein
Pidge
|
— |
$2,000
[25]
This river named for a state rises in the Sawatch Range of the Rockies & flows 1,460 miles southeast to the Mississippi River
the Arkansas River
Nate
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
In "Gulliver's Travels" a race of talking horses called Houyhnhnms have enslaved humanlike beings called these
Yahoos
Charlie
|
DD
$3,000
[15]
Supposedly an offering to Athena, it was built by the master carpenter Epeius
the Trojan Horse
Nate
|
$2,000
[22]
It's the word for the type of musician seen here
a lutenist
Pidge
|
One of his addresses used the term "security shield" about international affairs as well as "golden years"
President Ronald Reagan