Susan Cole — a legislative librarian from Bowie, Maryland
Russ Williams — a retired Army officer from Alexandria, Virginia
Pidge Meade — a technical writer and actress from Pacifica, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pidge | $1,600 | $3,000 | $10,200 |
$7,900
2nd place: $2,000 |
$10,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Russ | $2,800 | $4,600 | $6,200 |
$2,199
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,200
14 R, 5 W |
| Susan | $1,000 | $1,400 | $22,600 |
$20,600
New champion: $20,600 |
$18,600
18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| WINNER, WINNER | CHICKEN DINNER | TRAVELING THROUGH TIME | IN CONCLUSION | @_FloridaMan | MONEY SLANG |
|
$200
[17]
In the 2000s he won Best Acting Oscars for "Mystic River" & "Milk"
Sean Penn
Russ
|
$200
[1]
As you might expect, it's the fruity element in Key West chicken
Key lime
Susan
|
$200
[6]
A '70s ABA player, on departing this "Bluegrass State" at 8 & landing in St. Louis at 7:59: "I ain't goin' on no time machine"
Kentucky
Pidge
|
$200
[11]
She died without issue in 1603, making her the last Tudor monarch
Elizabeth I
Pidge
|
$200
[16]
"Florida Man Steals" this "ultimate driving machine" "After He's Told He Can't Buy It With Food Stamps"
a BMW
Pidge
|
$600
[28]
A few male deer
bucks
Pidge
|
|
$400
[18]
In 2012 & 2015 these celebrity twins won Womenswear Designer of the Year awards for their label The Row
Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen
Susan
|
$400
[2]
For beer can chicken, Bobby Flay likes to use this 5-letter type of strong, dark beer
stout
Pidge
|
$400
[7]
OK... our train left France at 5; the trip to England through this feature took 35 minutes, so now it's 4:35
the Chunnel
Russ
|
$400
[12]
"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen", reads the last verse of the Bible, in chapter 22 of this book
Revelation
Russ
Susan
|
$400
[22]
Fla. man "Ordered to Stay Away From Animals After Throwing Live" this state reptile "Through Wendy's Drive-Thru Window"
an alligator
Russ
|
$800
[27]
I can think of a thousand ways to say it means stately or majestic
grand
|
|
$600
[19]
With a "Voice" like his, it's no wonder he was the CMA's Male Vocalist of the Year 5 years in a row beginning in 2010
Blake Shelton
Russ
|
$600
[3]
You deserve a ribbon if you know it's the stuffed chicken dish seen here
cordon bleu
Susan
|
$600
[8]
Leave Pecos, Texas at 10, drive north for an hour & 1/2 & you'll pull into Carlsbad in this state at 10:30
New Mexico
Susan
|
$600
[13]
The last man to visit here was Eugene Cernan in 1972
the Moon
Pidge
|
$600
[23]
On this wrestler & his lawsuit against Gawker--"Florida Man Shows up to Court in 'Formal Bandana'"
Hulk Hogan
Russ
|
$1,000
[26]
To pocket the cue ball
scratch
Russ
|
|
$800
[20]
In 2016 Terrence Howard & Taraji P. Henson both won NAACP Image Awards for their roles on this series
Empire
Pidge
|
$800
[4]
The name of this spicy Chinese chicken & peanut dish is believed to derive from a Sichuan official
Kung Pao chicken
Pidge
|
$800
[9]
A new time zone was created on Aug. 15, 2015--this world capital "time", set 30 minutes behind South Korea
Pyongyang
Russ
Susan
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
The last day these could be advertised on U.S. TV was January 1, 1971
cigarettes
Pidge
|
$800
[25]
"Florida Man Tells Police He's So Drunk He'll Blow Up" this measuring device
the Breathalyzer
Pidge
|
— |
|
$1,000
[21]
He's won more Tony Awards than any other composer, including ones for "Company" & "Into the Woods"
(Stephen) Sondheim
Pidge
|
$1,000
[5]
A New York Times recipe for this dish calls for 6 small boneless breasts that get wrapped around 12 tablespoons of butter
Chicken Kiev
Russ
|
$1,000
[10]
Fly from Oklahoma City to this other capital city & you'llcover650 miles, but arrive just 45 minutes after you left
Denver
Russ
|
$1,000
[15]
On Sept. 1, 1914 Martha, the last known living bird of this species, died at the Cincinnati Zoo
a passenger pigeon
Pidge
Russ
Susan
|
$1,000
[24]
"Florida Man Slashes 88-Year-Old Woman's Tires With Ice Pick For Sitting in His... Seat" during this 5-letter game
bingo
Pidge
Susan
|
— |
| HORRIBLE HISTORY | LANGUAGE LAB | LITERARY LONDON | NEWS TERMINOLOGY | FROM DAWN TIL DUSK | COMING SUBTRACTIONS |
|
$400
[6]
On Feb. 14, 1929 7 members of Bugs Moran's gang became the victims in this event
the Valentine's Day Massacre
Pidge
|
$400
[1]
In most languages with Latin origins, Tuesday is named for this Roman god
Mars
Susan
|
$400
[11]
This 1891 Oscar Wilde novel paints quite a "Picture" of artistic London
Picture of Dorian Gray
Russ
|
$400
[21]
Audio term for a succinct extract from a recorded interview that encapsulates a story in just a few seconds
a sound bite
Pidge
Russ
|
$400
[16]
You may feel one in the room, but we're talking about military conscription
a draft
Russ
|
$1,200
[28]
A steamy movie with William Hurt & Kathleen Turner & one word shorter, a shoot-'em-up pairing de Niro & Pacino
Body Heat & Heat
Russ
|
|
$800
[7]
This woman worked as a cook in New York, spreading deadly disease to more than 50 people between 1900 & 1915
Typhoid Mary
Pidge
|
$800
[2]
In Spanish "y" is this part of speech
a conjunction
Russ
Susan
|
$800
[12]
Alan Moore's graphic novel "From Hell" speculated on the identity & motives of this deadly Londoner
Jack the Ripper
Pidge
|
$800
[22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads while text scrolls at the bottom of the screen.) As its name implies, the feature seenhereat the bottom of the screen has to go slowly enough to be readable
a crawl
Susan
|
$800
[17]
It's them easureof cream atop the brownie
a dollop
Susan
|
$1,600
[27]
Subtract 1 1/2 from a Fellini title to get a 1990s movie shocker
8 1/2 & Seven
Susan
|
|
$1,200
[8]
Barely 20 minutes after a torpedo struck in 1915, it disappeared beneath the waves taking more than 1,000 souls with it
Lusitania
Russ
|
$1,600
[4]
These 2 South Asian languages, sometimes jointly abbreviated Hirdu, have few structural differences
Hindi & Urdu
Russ
|
$1,200
[13]
In a conversation with James Boswell, he remarked, "I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross"
(Samuel) Johnson
Susan
|
$1,200
[23]
In reporting on human foibles, newswriters are careful to avoid this, from Latin for "source of offense"
slander
|
$1,200
[18]
The nature of a deity; some universities have a "school" for it
divinity
Pidge
|
$2,000
[26]
A "numeric" zombie film from Danny Boyle loses a word & becomes a Sandra Bullock recovery story
28 Days Later & 28 Days
Russ
Susan
|
|
$1,600
[9]
In 48 B.C. Caesar looted scrolls from this Egyptian institution, later destroyed
the Library at Alexandria
Susan
|
DD
$1,800
[3]
From words meaning "through" & "speak", it's a regional form of a language often with its own words
dialect
Susan
|
$2,000
[15]
After this author's 1722 "Journal of the Plague Year", he might have wanted to escape to a desert island
(Daniel) Defoe
Susan
|
$1,600
[24]
Alphabetic name for video footage used to accompany a TV news story as a reporter talks over it
B-roll
|
$1,600
[19]
A sheriff in the Old West might do this to someone, making him part of law enforcement
deputize
Pidge
|
— |
|
$2,000
[10]
The 1857-1858 mutiny named for these native soldiers in India was marked by brutality by both Indians & Britons
the Sepoy
Susan
|
$2,000
[5]
The word "robot" comes from a word meaning "servitude" in this language
Czech
Susan
|
DD
$5,000
[14]
Zadie Smith's novel "White Teeth" is about 2 immigrant families in London: 1 from Bangladesh & 1 from this Caribbean nation
Jamaica
Susan
|
$2,000
[25]
A broadcaster who hasn't seen the wire copy until he speaks it aloud is said to do this "and read"
rip
|
$2,000
[20]
This name for a free-for-all fight comes from an Irish fair known for its rioting
a donnybrook
Pidge
|
— |
The first line of its state song, "Eight stars of gold on a field of blue", refers to the star group on its flag
Alaska