Cindy Stowell game 5.
Kristin Szuhany — a graduate student in clinical psychology from New York, New York
Jonathan Bill — a high school teacher from Gig Harbor, Washington
Cindy Stowell — a science content developer from Austin, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $62,001)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cindy! | $-200 | $-800 | $11,600 |
$18,001
5-day champion: $80,002 |
$9,200
14 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Jonathan | $1,600 | $5,400 | $9,000 |
$5,500
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Kristin | $5,400 | $5,400 | $6,200 |
$5,201
3rd place: $1,000 |
$8,200
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE | LETTER-WORD | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY | DECK THE "HALL" | DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS | TONY BENNETT |
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$200
[1]
Little Susie loves science, so the Omano OM117L was a great choice; it's 2 of these in one--dissecting & compound
a microscope
Cindy!
|
$200
[6]
These cotton swabs were invented in 1923
Q-Tips
Cindy!
|
$200
[11]
George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy, founded the U.S. Naval Academy in this city
Annapolis
Jonathan
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$200
[16]
This company's Hall of Fame first came to TV on Christmas Eve 1951
Hallmark
Jonathan
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$200
[21]
The St. Louis Post-...
Dispatch
Jonathan
|
$200
[26]
(Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In September 2014 I became the oldest artist, at age 88, to have the No. 1 album on the Billboard charts when "Cheek to Cheek", my duet album with this pop star, debuted at the top spot
Lady Gaga
Cindy!
|
|
$400
[2]
I got this Amazon hands-free speaker I control with my voice! I got this Amazon hands-free speaker I control with my voice!
an Echo
Kristin
|
$400
[7]
Walther Schwieger was the captain of this type of vessel that torpedoed the Lusitania
a U-boat
Cindy!
|
DD
$600
[12]
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney said no when French agents asked for a bribe in this 1797 "Affair"
the XYZ Affair
Jonathan
|
$400
[17]
The space south of the Capitol Rotunda full of famous folks in marble
Statuary Hall
Jonathan
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$400
[22]
The Omaha World-...
Herald
|
$400
[27]
(Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In November 1990 I appeared in"Dancin' Homer", an episode of this long-running animated series & became the firstperformerto guest-star as himself on the show
The Simpsons
Kristin
|
|
$600
[3]
Like Wile E. Coyote, I got this company's doom weapon crate, including kukri, mace & tomahawk
Acme
Kristin
|
$600
[8]
It's the opening in the violin seen here
an F-hole
Jonathan
Kristin
|
$600
[13]
Gerald Ford succeeded him as vice president of the United States
Agnew
Kristin
|
$600
[18]
In 1992 Bill Clinton played sax on this man's late night show
Arsenio Hall
Jonathan
Kristin
|
$600
[23]
The Atlanta Journal-...
Constitution
Jonathan
|
$600
[28]
(Tony Bennett gives the clue.) On October 1, 1962 I joined Joan Crawford & Mel Brooks as the guests on this man's very first night as the host of the "Tonight" show
Johnny Carson
Jonathan
|
|
$800
[4]
Perfectly timed, the first of my monthly boxes from this "arboreal" makeup mailer made it under the tree
Birchbox
Kristin
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$800
[9]
It's a type of ruler used in mechanical drawing to create right angles
a T-square
Jonathan
Kristin
|
$800
[14]
He was inaugurated the president of the Republic of Texas on October 22, 1836
Houston
Kristin
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$800
[19]
"Royal" music venue in South Kensington, London
the Royal Albert Hall
Jonathan
|
$800
[24]
The San Diego Union- or the Minneapolis Star...
Tribune
Cindy!
Jonathan
|
$800
[29]
(Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In 1951 I recorded a cover version of "Cold, Cold Heart"; when it became a huge hit, this legendary country artist called me & jokingly asked, "What's the idea of ruining my song?"
Hank Williams Sr.
Jonathan
|
|
$1,000
[5]
"Only one in every 10,000 casks" gets to become a Blue Label bottle of this Scotch, & you put one under the tree for me
Johnnie Walker
Kristin
|
$1,000
[10]
The movie "Awakenings" depicts the use of this drug, usually for Parkinson's, on catatonic patients
L-dopa
Kristin
|
$1,000
[15]
This great orator gave a 3 1/2-hour speech in favor of the Compromise of 1850; his fellow New Englanders didn't like that
Daniel Webster
Cindy!
Jonathan
|
$1,000
[20]
2009 novel by Hilary Mantel about the court of Henry VIII
Wolf Hall
|
$1,000
[25]
The Louisville Courier- or the Akron Beacon...
Journal
|
$1,000
[30]
(Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In 2015 the 20th edition of this Las Vegas galadoubled as my birthday party; with the same name as a Celine Dion love song, it has raised over $100 million in its history; wow!
"The Power of Love"
Kristin
|
| LANDLOCKED AFRICAN COUNTRIES | SCIENCE NEWS | A NOVEL CATEGORY | POP CULTURE | THEY SAID IT | FROM TO N TO N |
|
$400
[2]
After the 1993 secession of Eritrea, this other "E" nation became landlocked
Ethiopia
Cindy!
|
$400
[6]
Soak this in: a minivan-sized one of these multicellular aquatic creatures was found off the coast of Hawaii
a sponge
Jonathan
Kristin
|
$400
[18]
Though "Gone with the Wind" says she "was not beautiful", it does mention her "arresting face"
Scarlett O'Hara
Cindy!
|
$400
[11]
David Tennant & Matt Smith have traveled through time & space as the main character on this British TV series
Doctor Who
Kristin
|
$400
[16]
"The lady's not for turning", she said in 1980 to those who thought she'd shift away from Tory inflation policy
(Margaret) Thatcher
Kristin
|
$400
[24]
The Kids' Choice Awards are handed out by this cable TV channel
Nickelodeon
Cindy!
|
|
$1,200
[1]
This country became independent in 2011 (yay!) but in the process lost coastal access to the Red Sea (bummer)
South Sudan
Jonathan
|
$800
[7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some aquatic images on the monitor.) Using a multistep process that isolates dolphins sounds on specific objects, researchers have created a3-D imagethat simulates how dolphins see ahumanusing this process
echolocation
Cindy!
|
$800
[20]
2016's "End of Watch" completed his trilogy that began with "Mr. Mercedes"
Stephen King
|
$800
[12]
This rapper co-founded Roc-A-Fella records, which released his 1996 debut "Reasonable Doubt"
Jay-Z
Cindy!
|
$800
[21]
Henry Ford said Model T customers can have any color they want "so long as it's" this
black
Jonathan
|
$800
[25]
William the Conqueror, by birth
Norman
Jonathan
|
|
$1,600
[3]
Algeria is on the northern border of this 4-letter nation
Mali
Cindy!
|
$1,200
[8]
The New Horizons probe showed glaciers on Pluto made of this element that's 4/5 of Earth's atmosphere
nitrogen
Jonathan
|
$1,600
[19]
Sweden's Fredrik Backman became an overnight sensation with his novel about an old curmudgeon, "A Man Called" this
Ove
|
$1,200
[13]
Sarah Paulson got rave reviews for playing this prosecutor in "The People v. O.J. Simpson"
Marcia Clark
Kristin
|
$1,200
[22]
"Do. Or do not. There is no try" were words of wisdom form this fictional trainer
Yoda
Cindy!
Kristin
|
— |
|
$2,000
[4]
This 2-word nation whose name means "Land of Honorable People" is landlocked like its neighbor Niger
Burkina Faso
Cindy!
|
$1,600
[9]
During the Industrial Rev., peppered moths evolved from light to black due to this 4-letter carbon residue
soot
Cindy!
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
Khaled Hosseini dedicated "The Kite Runner" in part "to the children of" this country
Afghanistan
Kristin
|
$1,600
[14]
LL Cool J hosts this series on Spike TV, "LSB" for short
Lip Sync Battle
Kristin
|
$2,000
[23]
This poet said that when "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" came out, "I awoke one morning and found myself famous"
Lord Byron
|
— |
|
DD
$3,200
[5]
If you turned in 175 quadrillion of this country's old currency in 2015, you would get 5 U.S. dollars
Zimbabwe
Cindy!
|
$2,000
[10]
The observatory Ligo has detected 2 of these cosmic objects with souped-up gravity coalescing into one
black holes
|
— |
$2,000
[15]
Jerry Seinfeld drove around the White House in a 1963 Stingray with Pres. Obama on an episode of this web series
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
|
— | — |
Found in a 1970 Tom Wolfe book title, it's a chemistry term, a math quantity & a drastic word in politics
radical