Norm Burnosky — a corporate tax analyst from Reston, Virginia
Susan Logan — a stay-at-home mom from Glenview, Illinois
Lani Gonzalez — a managing director of an art bazaar from Austin, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lani | $5,000 | $5,600 | $18,800 |
$18,800
2-day champion: $35,600 |
$17,200
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Susan | $2,000 | $4,200 | $6,600 |
$13,199
2nd place: $2,000 |
$6,600
11 R, 2 W |
| Norm | $1,000 | $3,200 | $6,800 |
$200
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
10 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| THE GIG ECONOMY | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | SCENE IT | ETIQUETTE | IN COGNITO | ISLANDS |
|
$200
[24]
Smaller than its cousins, the Shuffle model of this music player only has 2 gigs of memory, but does come in pink
an iPod
Lani
|
$200
[4]
This classic is subtitled "The Tale of a Puppet"
Pinocchio
Lani
|
$200
[1]
1975:Chrissie picks a bad time to go skinny dipping near Amity Island
Jaws
Norm
|
$200
[9]
Although some use "regrets only" with invitations, this 4-letter abbreviated request is still common
RSVP
Norm
|
$200
[22]
Gimme a gin & this mixer, light on the mixer
tonic
Lani
|
$400
[29]
New York City's highest natural point is Todt Hill, on this island reachable by ferry
Staten Island
Susan
|
|
$400
[25]
In 1995 this type of disc debuted; it looked like a CD but could store 4.7 gigs of digital video
a DVD
Lani
Susan
|
$400
[5]
His "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" begins when he wakes up with gum in his hair
Alexander
Lani
|
$400
[3]
1979:John Hurt has an extraterrestrial tummyache
Alien
Susan
|
$400
[15]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a place setting.) Set silverware on the table in the order of use--first course fork on the far left, the knife on the right, the spoon on the right of the knife, & utensils for thisgo horizontally above the plate
dessert
Lani
|
$400
[21]
In sum it precedes "ergo"
cogito
Susan
|
$600
[23]
Logically, it's the main island of Canada's second-biggest metropolis
Montreal Island
|
|
$600
[28]
One commandment that applies to its Galaxy S2 tablet: thou canst upgrade to 128 gigs with a micro SD expansion
Samsung
Susan
|
$600
[6]
The man in this identifying piece of headwear brings Curious George over from Africa
the yellow hat
Lani
|
$600
[11]
1959:Cary Grant gets his crop dusted
North by Northwest
Norm
|
$600
[17]
Business Mag Inc. says to limit this punctuation mark to 1 per email or you appear childish & unprofessional
an exclamation point
Norm
|
$600
[2]
This hockey heavy
a goon
Lani
|
$1,000
[12]
The musical "Hamilton" has increased tourism to this Caribbean island of Alexander's birth
Nevis
Lani
|
|
$800
[26]
The Bolt DVR from this video recording pioneer unifies your TV watching with its minimum 500 GB hard drive
TiVo
|
$800
[7]
The title of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book refers to Sara Crewe, who goes from privileged to pauper
A Little Princess ( The Little Princess accepted)
Lani
|
$800
[10]
2010:Natalie Portman flips the dark bird
Black Swan
Susan
|
$800
[14]
This young boy usually enters a wedding ceremony along with the flower girl
the ring bearer
Susan
|
$800
[19]
This bar of gold
an ingot
Lani
|
DD
$1,600
[18]
Theseislandswere uninhabited when Portugal claimed them in 1431; they are now home to a quarter of a million people
the Azores
Norm
|
|
$1,000
[27]
Here's the "deal"--NVIDIA's Ge Force GTX TITAN Z, one of these, has 12 gigs of memory & is billed as a "gaming monster"
a graphics card
|
$1,000
[8]
She is "exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf... through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage"
Tinker Bell
|
$1,000
[13]
1964:President Muffley makes an emergency call to Premier Kissoff
Dr. Strangelove
Lani
|
$1,000
[16]
At a funeral the honorary ones of these leave the church ahead of the casket & the not-honorary ones
pallbearers
Susan
|
$1,000
[20]
Thishybrid offspring of two big cats
a tigon
Lani
Susan
|
— |
| THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION | THE SOPRANOS | HOUSE OF CARDS | VEEP | THE "AMERICAN"S | BREAKING BAD |
|
$400
[3]
This period drama had Maggie Smith say, "Don't be defeatist, dear. It's very middle class"
Downton Abbey
Lani
|
$400
[10]
Jessye Norman is among the famed sopranos to sing this title Verdi role, a slave to the Egyptian princess Amneris
Aida
Lani
|
$400
[24]
In live casinos the most popular poker game to play is this one with a stately name
Texas hold'em
Norm
|
$400
[12]
In 1962, astronaut John Glenn & his wife went for aride with this vice president
LBJ
Susan
|
$400
[26]
Adapted by Thomas Gallaudet, it's ASL for short
American Sign Language
Norm
|
$400
[17]
The small bone break called a stress fracture is aka this type of "fracture" that's not "receding"
a hairline fracture
Susan
|
|
$800
[4]
Characters on this series included Sally Draper & office manager Joan Holloway
Mad Men
Susan
|
$1,200
[29]
Born in Laurel, Mississippi, shebroke ground as one of the first African Americans to achieve world fame in opera
Leontyne Price
Lani
|
$800
[23]
From the layout of the cards, it's the name of the solitaire game seen here
pyramid solitaire
Norm
|
$800
[13]
Anwar Sadat is seenhereriding in 1981 with this vice president of his, who would succeed him later that day
(Hosni) Mubarak
Lani
Norm
|
$800
[25]
Espresso topped off with hot water
an americano
Norm
|
$800
[18]
This 8-letter process slowly realigns a broken bone using weights & pulleys
traction
Susan
|
|
$1,200
[5]
The cast of this gritty show included Idris Elba as drug kingpin Stringer Bell
The Wire
Lani
|
$1,600
[28]
Dame Joan Sutherland was acclaimed for her roles in this trilling style, from the Italian for "coloring"
coloratura
Lani
|
$1,200
[22]
This kids' card game may be derived from an Italian gambling game called andare a piscere
go fish
Lani
|
$1,200
[14]
Seen here are GOP rivals--Vice President Nixon &this future '70s veep
Nelson Rockefeller
|
$1,200
[11]
In December 2015 Arkansas tight end Hunter Henry was named a consensus one
an All-American
Lani
|
$1,200
[19]
In 1985 this Redskin QB's career came to a gruesome end when he broke his leg on "Monday Night Football"
Joe Theismann
|
|
$1,600
[6]
Nicholas Brody gave intel that led to the death of terrorist leader Abu Nazir on this drama
Homeland
Lani
|
DD
$2,000
[30]
Kathleen Battle excelled in Mozart operas like this one where she was Susanna, whose wedding is alluded to in the title
The Marriage of Figaro
Lani
|
$1,600
[9]
Chemin de Fer & punto banco are related to this card game whose magic number is 9, & you can take that to its bank
baccarat
|
$1,600
[15]
She'sseen here with hubby Juan, shortly before becoming his V.P. in 1973, & his successor in 1974
Isabel Perón
Lani
|
DD
$2,000
[8]
James Truslow Adams popularized this phrase, a hope for life "richer and fuller... with opportunity for each"
the American dream
Lani
|
$1,600
[20]
This body part is loaded with bones, including the tarsals, so fractures there are unfortunately common
the foot
Lani
|
|
$2,000
[7]
She's breaking boundaries as Litchfield prisoner Sophia Burset on "Orange Is the New Black"
Laverne Cox
|
$2,000
[27]
This Down Under diva with a Maori name had an over 30-year career on the opera stage
Kiri Te Kanawa
|
$2,000
[1]
Its name meaning "a thousand milestones", this French racing game was introduced in the U.S. by Parker Brothers
Mille Bornes
Norm
|
$2,000
[16]
President Truman&this veep of his, a former Kentucky senator, are all smiles on inauguration day
Alben Barkley
|
$2,000
[2]
This term for an arrogant Yankee overseas originally was a positive term about selfless U.S. aid workers
an ugly American
Lani
|
$2,000
[21]
When the bone breaks only on one side, it gets this "colorful" name that's fit for the forest
greenstick
|
In Greek myth she was a half-serpent & mother of the Sphinx; in zoology it's a weird mammal that lays eggs
Echidna